Having taught many courses on the subject of chronic depletion over the years at a variety of institutions (Esalen, Upledger, international venues, and self-organized courses), I will often find people asking me what I mean by chronic depletion. I almost always begin by saying we need to have a bodymind understanding of resilience first before we can start talking about depletion or chronic depletion . . .

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I’ve had some fun experiences teaching in my life, and one of the more unusual ones involved me and group of college students eating wasabi as a way to understand non-typical states of consciousness.

It was a few years back, when I was working at an educational retreat center in administration and education. A group of local college students had created a university club based around studying consciousness. As director of education, they were hoping I would help them arrange a visit onto our campus and have it count as education for their university. We put together a series of bodymindspirit experiences with experienced workshop leaders to provide these students the types of educational experience they were hoping for. As one of the experiences, they asked me to talk to them about non-typical states of consciousness. Of course, I said, “sure!" . . . . .

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