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Dharma & Resistance — Embodied Masculineā„¢
A Six-Week Initiatory Container

Dharma & Resistance

Fall into the river of your soul's path. Face the force that keeps you from it.

A co-ed container for those who feel stuck on their path and are ready to be midwifed into the next chapter of self-actualization.

Welcome CallThu, Nov 26, 2026
Six SessionsSee Schedule Below
FormatVirtual
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The Container

Two Forces Move Through Every Life.

Something in you is already moving.

Maybe it's a low hum of dissatisfaction you can't quite name. Maybe it's the sense that the life you're living and the life you're meant to live have quietly drifted apart. There are two forces at play. The first is Dharma — not a belief system, but the current beneath your life, the river that was flowing long before you arrived. Your work is not to build the river. Your work is to surrender into it.

The second is Resistance. Steven Pressfield named it in The War of Art: the invisible force that rises the moment we commit to anything connected to our growth, our purpose, our soul's evolution. The more your soul wants something, the more Resistance rises to stop you. It is not a sign you're on the wrong path — it is proof you're on the right one.

Dharma & Resistance is a six-week initiatory container built at the meeting point of these two forces — not to help you eliminate Resistance, but to recognize it, work with it somatically in your body, and fall, again and again, into the river of your own becoming.

Amir Khalighi
A Message From Your Guide
"This container is for the one who feels stuck on their path. The one who has done real work, who knows there is more waiting for them and who is tired of being the only thing standing between themselves and it."

If you're here, I don't believe it's by accident.

Something in you already knows there is another way to live. Perhaps you've caught glimpses of it in moments of stillness, in nature, in love, in heartbreak, or in those rare moments when life seemed to move effortlessly through you. And yet, despite your deepest intentions, you find yourself pulled back into familiar patterns, old identities, and the invisible force that resists meaningful change.

This container is for those ready to stop negotiating with that force.

I often think of this work as midwifery. A midwife does not create life; she serves what is already longing to be born. She brings presence, discernment, steadiness, and care to a process that unfolds according to its own intelligence.

That is my commitment to you.

For six weeks, we will walk side by side as you cultivate the awareness, practices, experiences and courage to recognize Resistance, learn to attune beyond the chatter, and attune yourself to the deeper current of your Dharma.

Together, we will create the conditions for what has always lived within you to emerge more fully into the world.

We begin with a Welcome Call, where we gather as a community, establish and open the container, and set our intentions for the journey ahead.

From there, each week builds upon the last. Through teaching, sacred practices, facing shadows, self-inquiry, accountability, and community, we will move from understanding the forces at work in your life, to recognizing them in your body, to learning how to live in deeper relationship with the quiet intelligence of your soul.

The poet Rumi wrote,
"As you start to walk on the way, the way appears."

For six weeks, we'll put those words to the test.

I look forward to walking beside you.

Amir Khalighi Founder, Embodied Masculineā„¢
The Path

Six Weeks, Six Thresholds

Each session moves you deeper — from naming what's at work in you, to facing it in your body, to living from it daily.

Week 1
Naming Dharma & Resistance

The River and the Rock

We name the two forces that will move through every session — the current that's always tried to carry you home, and the force that rises the instant you turn toward it.

Week 2
Discerning the True Call

The Whisper Beneath the Noise

Learn to hear your dharma's whisper and separate it from the noise of fear dressed up as intuition.

Week 3
Resistance as Guardian of the Threshold

What the Dark Keeps

We turn toward what's been avoided, numbed, or outsourced to distraction — and name the pattern quietly running your life.

Week 4
The Practice of Facing

Turning Toward the Fire

The pivot point. We stop being run by Resistance and turn to face it directly — in ritual, in breath, in the body.

Week 5
The Art of Surrender

Falling Into the River

The disciplined art of releasing control — practicing what it feels like in the body to stop fighting your own life.

Week 6
Becoming the Vessel

Keeper of the Flame

Integration. You become the vessel your dharma moves through — in daily life, not just in ritual space.

Dates & Times

The Full Container, Week by Week

DateTimeSession
Thu, Nov 26, 2026Welcome CallOrientation & opening the circle
Sat, Nov 28, 20264–7 PM PTWeek 1 — The River and the Rock
Sat, Dec 5, 20264–7 PM PTWeek 2 — The Whisper Beneath the Noise
Sat, Dec 12, 20264–7 PM PTWeek 3 — What The Dark Keeps
Sat, Dec 19, 20264–7 PM PTWeek 4 — Turning Toward the Fire
Sat, Dec 26, 20264–7 PM PTWeek 5 — Falling Into the River
Sat, Jan 2, 20274–7 PM PTWeek 6 — Keeper of the Flame
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4-Month Payment Plan

$317.63/mo
$1,270.50 total across 4 months (incl. 10% installment fee)
  • Welcome call + all 6 live sessions
  • Small, intimate group container
  • Shamanic & somatic practice, every week
  • Community & accountability throughout
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