Application-Based · Cohort 1 · June through December 2026
The Passage
Seven months. Ten people. A remembering.
YOU ALREADY KNOW
You are tired in a way that sleep does not fix. You are lonely in a way that being around people does not fix. Something in the model you have been given is incomplete. You have sensed it. You are not wrong.
You have done therapy and you sense something deeper remains. The insight was real. The pattern is still running. You understood the wound. You named it. You spoke it aloud in the right rooms. And then life pressed on you and the old shape came back, because naming a thing and being free of it are not the same.
The part of you that keeps searching is not a problem.
It is the most intelligent thing about you.
Community is not the container for healing. Community is the mechanism through which healing completes itself.
THE WOUND IS THE PATH
We are a young civilization. We forget this. Slavery is not ancient history. The dismantling of legalized segregation exists within the lifetime of people still alive. Women could not hold credit cards in their own names until 1974. We are living inside the early stages of collective moral development, and most of us have no framework for understanding that.
And our healing systems have not caught up.
Mental health still organizes largely around diagnosis and symptom management. You walk into a room and you become your symptoms. Anxious. Depressed. Disordered. They give you a label, medication, and treatment plan oriented around making the symptom quieter. But no one asks what the anxiety was protecting. No one maps how your identity organized around what you survived. They treat the signal and leave the structure untouched.
Spiritual culture has its own incompleteness. Much of what passes for healing today is the ego wearing new clothes. The sound bath that asks nothing of you. The love-and-light language that skips over shadow because shadow does not sell. You can collect experiences, retreats, plant medicines, certifications, and never be asked to sit with the thing you have been running from. This is spiritual consumption, not healing. And behind much of it, a deeper absence: guides who have gathered trainings without ever having been broken open by the path themselves. The truth of real healing is that it is slow and it is hard and it will ask you to meet parts of yourself that no breathwork tourism can reach.
Our broader culture compounds all of it. It rewards productivity over introspection. It externalizes power and stigmatizes emotional depth. It confuses certainty with strength and vulnerability with weakness.
This is not a mental health crisis. It is a misorientation crisis. Seven disconnections run through modern life so completely we mistake them for normal: disconnection from body, from truth, from grief, from relationship, from the sacred, from integrity, from creation.
And beneath all of it, a different understanding of the wound itself.
You are not broken. You are organized around what you survived. The anxiety, the people-pleasing, the collapse, the performing. These are not defects. They are intelligent adaptations. Your nervous system did exactly what it needed to do to keep you safe. That protection got you here. But the strategies that protected you at seven or seventeen are still running your life now. Not because something is wrong with you. Because no one ever showed you how to set them down.
Your pain is not an obstacle to your becoming. It is the door. The places where you were most hurt hold the deepest capacity for aliveness, for intimacy, for power that does not need to perform. What you survived is not something to overcome. It is the raw material of your liberation.
The aim is not to become someone new. It is to come home to someone you were before the world taught you to forget.
Most of what we call healing is relief. Relief manages the symptom. Freedom transforms the structure that produces it.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF
You have done deep work alone. And something in you knows that the next layer cannot happen in private. You are looking for a place where healing is witnessed, where your becoming is held by people who are doing the same.
You have been in therapy. It helped you name things. But naming a thing and being free of it are not the same. You sensed the ceiling. The model that could diagnose what was wrong but could not hold the fullness of what you are. You are looking for something that does not ask you to leave parts of yourself at the door.
You have lived on the margins of something. You learned to perform a version of yourself to stay safe, to belong, to survive. You are ready to meet what is underneath the performance.
You have been burned by wellness culture. The empty promises. The price tags that contradict the message. The spiritual language that sounds like liberation but leaves the power dynamics untouched. You need to trust before you enter.
THE WORK
The aim of this work, stated plainly, is to increase capacity.
Capacity to regulate without suppression.
Capacity to feel grief without shutting down.
Capacity to disagree without dehumanizing.
Capacity to hold power without domination.
Capacity to love without abandoning yourself.
Not transcendence. Not optimization.
The capacity to remain present inside life as it actually is.
What was wounded in relationship must heal in relationship.
The shift is quiet. And it changes everything.
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE
You stop needing to know what comes next before you take the step. The uncertainty that used to paralyze you becomes navigable. Not because the path got clearer. Because you found the compass was always inside you. You walk into the unknown and you are not alone. You are home in yourself for the first time.
You stop bracing before you walk into a room. The scanning softens. The performing quiets. Not because you forced it but because the thing underneath the performance finally got met.
You catch the pattern mid-motion. The people-pleasing. The over-functioning. The ego that measures itself against everyone in the room. And instead of shame, you recognize the old protection doing what it was trained to do. You thank it. You choose differently.
You say the true thing instead of the safe thing. Not because you stopped caring. Because you stopped abandoning yourself to control what happens.
This is not a single breakthrough. It is a baseline shift. Quiet. Structural.
It does not reverse.
If something on this page is speaking to you, begin here.
THE SEVEN PATHWAYS
Seven territories of reconnection.
Each pathway is a full-day, in-person intensive. All seven are practiced daily throughout the journey.
Pathway of Embodiment
THE DISCONNECTION FROM THE BODY
You learned to live from the neck up. To override what your body was telling you. To push through, perform, produce. Fight became righteousness. Flight became ambition. Freeze became "I do not know who I am." Fawn became spirituality. This pathway restores the body as the first compass.
My body is my first teacher.
Pathway of Learning & Wisdom
THE DISCONNECTION FROM TRUTH
You have been living by a map you did not draw. Some of it came from your family. Some from your culture. Some you built yourself to make sense of what happened to you. This pathway is the willingness to see what has been running your life without your awareness, and to let the sages and the science both show you where you actually are.
Even in uncertainty, there is light to guide me.
Pathway of Heart
THE DISCONNECTION FROM GRIEF
You learned to keep moving. To swallow the grief. To perform strength when you were breaking. To tell yourself you were fine until you believed it. Can you see yourself fully, the wounded and the wounding, and still stay? Grief avoided becomes ideology, rigidity, numbness. This pathway is the practice of not leaving yourself.
I will not abandon myself.
Pathway of the Collective
THE DISCONNECTION FROM RELATIONSHIP
You learned to perform belonging instead of practicing it. To manage how others see you. To abandon yourself to keep the peace. What was wounded in relationship must heal in relationship. But this is bigger than personal healing. Interdependence is how we were meant to live. It is how we move forward together. The cohort becomes the material.
Here, I belong.
Pathway of Ritual
THE DISCONNECTION FROM THE SACRED
Something in your life stopped feeling sacred. You stopped marking the moments that mattered. You lost connection to the Earth, to your ancestors, to the part of life that cannot be measured or explained but that you know is real. Indigenous wisdom keepers have been tending this territory for thousands of years. This pathway restores ceremony, sacred action, and the courage to make the invisible visible, witnessed by your community.
I am rooted. What I tend to grows.
Pathway of Liberation
THE DISCONNECTION FROM INTEGRITY
You know who you have been pretending to be. You know the version of yourself you assembled to be safe, to be loved, to be enough. It worked. And it is not who you are. Liberation is personal and it is collective. Freedom from the patterns that run your life without your consent. Freedom from the systems that taught you to shrink. This pathway is the practice of setting it all down and finding out who you are without it.
I release what is heavy. I walk in freedom.
Pathway of Creativity
THE DISCONNECTION FROM CREATION
Something is trying to move through you. You have felt it. The pull toward something that does not exist yet. You were taught to distrust it. To wait until you were ready. To let someone else go first. Creation is not a skill. It is a surrender. This pathway is the practice of letting what lives inside you take form. Giving shape to what has been shapeless. Trusting your own becoming enough to let it be witnessed.
What is emerging in me is worth trusting.
You will not fix yourself. You will meet what was shaped by what you survived.
YOUR GUIDE
Drew Wiggins (he/him)
I am spiritually guided first. Everything else I carry serves that.
I grew up in Bakersfield. I left for fifteen years. I came back searching for community and belonging and found that what I was looking for did not exist yet. So I am building it.
I spent three years training at the doctoral level in clinical psychology. Over a thousand supervised clinical hours specializing in trauma, attachment, and identity. I was assessed as one of the strongest clinicians my program had seen in thirty years. And I walked away. Not because I could not do the work. Because the system could hold rigor but not spirit. It could name the symptom but not touch the structure underneath. I needed to build something that held the whole picture.
Before I ever entered a doctoral program, I was inside broken systems learning to read them. I have been leading groups and transformational experiences for over fifteen years. That sight did not come from a textbook. It came from living it.
A registered yoga teacher, advanced meditation and yoga nidra teacher, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner in training. Months of study in India. Nearly a decade in my own depth work and continuing. Every pattern I will name in you, I have met in myself first.
I am a queer man. A reclaiming Xicano. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Someone who spent years performing a smaller version of himself because the full version once attracted harm. I know what it is to hide. I know what it costs. And I know what becomes possible when you stop.
Wayfinding is not something I invented. It is something I remembered.
THE CONTAINER
What the Passage holds.
Seven Full-Day Intensives
Seven Integration Circles
Monthly, in person. Each enters one territory of disconnection through its corresponding pathway. One pathway per intensive. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is crammed. A full day together. In circle. In the body. In conversation with the parts of yourself you have been avoiding. There is teaching, but more than that, there is practice. You will not sit and listen for eight hours. You will move, breathe, speak, be silent, and be seen.
Virtual, between intensives. Each one held by a practitioner drawn from Drew's own teachers, mentors, and healers. Where what was stirred is metabolized before the next threshold.
Daily Practice
Fifteen to twenty minutes. Seven pathways. The spiritual hygiene that makes the container hold and outlasts it.
Full Class Membership
The Closing Ceremony
All weekly Wayfinding embodied classes included. The body builds capacity between intensives.
Something you create from the depth of seven months and offer to your community. Not a graduation. An initiation.
This model does not exist anywhere else. It draws from the yogic tradition and its maps of suffering and liberation. From clinical depth psychology and its precision with trauma, attachment, and identity. From somatic practice and the intelligence of the body. From indigenous wisdom and its unbroken relationship to the sacred. From community as a living practice, not an afterthought. Each tradition is honored in its own right. What is new is that they breathe together here as one integrated developmental path. Seven pathways back to the soul. You do not need to know these frameworks to begin. You will feel them.
THE ARC
THE JOURNEY
Cohort 1 Timeline
All intensives are full-day Saturdays, in person in Bakersfield. Integration circles are held virtually on Sunday between each intensive.
I did not arrive here alone.
The people who hold the integration circles in this container are my own teachers, therapists, mentors, and healers. What I offer is not self-invented. It is received, practiced, and continuing to deepen. These are the people who helped shape the path that became The Passage.
Who Helps Hold This Container
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Christine Guerrera, LMFT, RYT
Chris is where Drew learned that healing begins with telling yourself the truth. Not the comfortable truth. The one underneath it. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified gestalt therapist, EMDR practitioner, interfaith minister, and yoga teacher who co-founded ARC Sacred Center in Connecticut. Thirty years of walking alongside people as they encounter their patterns, their codependency, their survival strategies, and choose to stay in the room anyway. She calls her work a journey toward self-realization, and she means it. Her circle catches what surfaces when you see yourself clearly for the first time and the ground has not yet settled.
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Khushi Malhotra, E-RYT 200, YACEP, MPH/MSW
Khushi showed Drew that the path from suffering to liberation had already been mapped. That the yogic tradition holds a precision the modern world has forgotten. She carries the Tantric Himalayan tradition and the teachings of the Buddha in the same breath. She left a career in trauma recovery to follow a calling into the Himalayas, where she has lived for twelve years. When she teaches, she says it is not her. It is the lineage itself. If you have ever sensed that your spiritual life is missing a foundation, she is the reason this container has one.
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Yonatan Shapira
Yonatan showed Drew what liberation actually costs. A former Israeli Air Force captain who organized twenty-seven pilots to publicly refuse military operations over occupied Palestinian territories. In his words: it was like a birth. We ended one chapter and became freedom activists. Musician. Lifelong organizer for collective liberation. He did not set down the performed self to find comfort. He set it down because the truth demanded it. If you have been living a version of your life that you know is not the real one, his story is the permission to stop.
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Maestra Carolina
Carolina gave Drew permission to accept the initiation from his ancestors. To reclaim his queer Xicano identity in prayer. Medicine woman, song keeper, wild heart guide. Raised in her grandmother's curandera tradition in the mountains of Costa Rica, where they carried fallen birds home and prayed them back to flight. Twenty-five years of carrying ceremony across twenty-four countries. Sacred sound ceremonialist trained at Berklee College of Music. Her circle sits after the Ritual intensive because some thresholds cannot be crossed through conversation. The drum loosens the stones in the riverbed of the heart. If you have ever felt something sacred trying to reach you and did not know how to let it in, this is that room.
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Simon Wolff (they/he)
Simon showed Drew that grief lives in the body long before it finds language. And that what we carry is rarely only ours. Politicized healer, ritualist, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner. A queer, trans, disabled, neuroqueer person of the Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora, trained in ancestral medicine through Dr. Daniel Foor's lineage. They came to this work through their own body, through autoimmunity and chronic illness, and through twenty years inside liberation movements. They work alongside organizers, activists, caregivers, and fellow practitioners, from antizionist and disability justice frames. Their circle sits after the Heart intensive because the exiled parts you meet there carry grief that is partly yours and partly older than you. If you have ever sensed that the personal and the political and the ancestral are not separate inside you, this is the room where the body's knowing finds language.
WHAT BECAME POSSIBLE
Stephanie
"I had no previous experience with therapy and it was difficult to open up about my life and trust someone I had only known for a couple weeks. I am so glad that I did. I had an affair. It was a long 2 year affair that affected my personal and professional life, along with how I connected with various relationships with others and the relationship I had with myself. The most significant thing Drew did for me was help me no longer feel ashamed of myself. He taught me to see that my mistake was only that, a mistake. For so long I thought I was this horrible person that deserved to be judged, punished and full of guilt. He helped me love myself again. Not only did he help me grow back into the person I deserved to be, he guided me towards trusting others again. What I miss most about Drew are his laughter, his willingness to be vulnerable, and never being afraid of what needs to be said. He knew me. He was the perfect person when I needed someone the most."
Josh S.
"In the time that we worked together, I observed that Drew genuinely cares about helping his clients grow through the valleys and peaks of the human experience. He knew, seemingly instinctively, when to assert and push me and when to yield, listen, and hold me up. Drew compassionately guided and supported me through the beginning stages of uncovering my soul from years of codependency, trauma, and shame narratives. I found myself less anxious, less reactive, and more energized in both my professional and personal lives. One thing that I miss most about Drew is his deep compassion. Drew reminds me of the teachers I had in my adolescence, those teachers who truly saw, heard, and valued me. I recommend working with Drew if you are looking for someone who will support and guide you to live and love yourself, others, and life more wholeheartedly."
Nicholas Ejak
"I worked with Drew as a client from May 2021 through June 2023. In that time I experienced a high level of professionalism and empathy for my mental health needs, as well as a genuine care for me as a person. Drew really worked to push me to identify, unpack, and understand how trauma had been affecting my life. He also was instrumental in guiding me to implement positive coping skills and encouraged me to lean more into my relationships.
One thing that I miss is feeling like my sessions were spent with a friend. I recommend working with Drew if you are looking for someone who creates a safe and welcoming space for you to be yourself. He really works relentlessly to meet your individual needs and I can't recommend him enough."
Mitchell H.
"I started off focused on getting help to motivate the teams I managed. It wasn't apparent to me at the time, but I had been allowing learned dysfunction to sabotage my attempts to live my values in every area of my life. Drew helped me through a process of unpacking the origin of my values. We worked in a deep way to understand the environment in which I was raised and the long-lasting psychological impacts I felt from a lack of safety and support as a child. By taking the time to break down parts of my psyche and providing the support to reintegrate my understanding of my place in the world, I felt more secure and began focusing on my relationships with other people. Our work together didn't change me. It actually helped me be who I already was. Kind of like deleting malware instead of uploading new software. My colleagues have told me I seem more at ease and generally happier. I would attribute this shift to the work I did with Drew."
INVESTMENT
Cohort 1 — Founding Rate
The founding rate honors the people who are here first. Cohort 1 participants are not just receiving. They are co-creating the container that holds everyone who comes after.
Early Bird - Ends May 17th
$2,222
Full seven-month container. All intensives, circles, class membership, daily practice, closing ceremony.
Early Bird Payment Plan
$2,444
Deposit: $500; ~$278/month over 7 months
Full Rate
$2,444
Same complete container. Applied after early bird window closes.
Full Rate Payment Plan
$2,666
Deposit: $500; ~$310/month over 7 months
Community Care
$1,555
Trust-based equity rate for BIPOC, queer/trans, immigrants, and those impacted by systemic harm. No documentation required.
Community Care Payment Plan
$1,555
Deposit: $300; ~$179/month over 7 months
Deposit secures your place and is applied toward your total. Non-refundable after 7 days.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Before you apply.
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The Passage is designed for people who are stable enough to do deep work and ready to do it in community. If you are navigating an acute crisis, individual support may be the right first step. The discovery conversation exists so we can explore this together.
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No. It is a developmental container that integrates clinical frameworks with somatic practice, contemplative tradition, and community. Many participants are also in therapy. The two complement each other.
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Yes. The Passage is the communal container. Coaching is the private work. Complementary, not redundant.
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Encouraged, not required. Membership is included. The body builds capacity between intensives.
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The nervous system cannot shift in a weekend. Relational trust takes months. Seven months is spacious enough for the body to catch up to what the mind understands, and sustained enough for the changes to become structural.
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You remain part of the Wayfinding community. The pathways are yours permanently. Advanced containers and leadership development will be shaped by what emerges from Cohort 1.
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Drew will work with you individually. But presence matters. More than one absence significantly impacts your experience and the cohort's.
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That might be the readiness talking. Readiness often disguises itself as hesitation. Apply. The discovery conversation exists so we can explore it together. No one is admitted who is not a good fit. No one is turned away without care.
APPLICATIONS WINDOW APRIL 17th - MAY 31ST, 2026
The part of you that found this page already knows.
Short written application. Twenty to thirty minute conversation with Drew. Not an audition. A mutual exploration. Cohort 1 is limited to ten people.
The Passage is the deepest structured container. It is not the only door.
OTHER WAYS INTO WAYFINDING
Classes
Soul Fair
Weekly practices. Capacity building, one class at a time.
Quarterly gathering. The open door.
Depth Coaching
One-on-one with Drew. The most private layer.