Energetics and Awakening: A Weekend Immersion
When: Saturday and Sunday, April 18-19, 2026
Where: The Iona Center in Washington, D.C.
4125 Albemarle St NW, Tenleytown
What to bring: water bottle, journal and pen, lunch (there are lunch options in walking distance), snacks.
What to wear: comfortable clothing
We are offering a hands-on, weekend immersion on energetics and awakening in which every moment is transmission.
Robert Rhyne and Luciano Melo guide participants into direct contact with energetic presence. Through attunements, movement, sound, breathwork, and other practices, you will recognize, open to, settle in, and become the fundamental energetic flow of awakening.
The immersion works in two arcs. The first is dual: learning to direct, receive, and work with energy as a relational field — connecting with any being, object, or environment. The second arc is nondual: making direct contact with the nibbanic/primordial element, the ground from which all energy and healing arise.
Manuals and certificates of completion are provided. This immersion is the prerequisite for the Level 2 immersion on June 20–21. Space is limited!
LUCIANO MELO
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I bring over 35 years of experience exploring consciousness in all its manifestations. My journey has spanned work in both Brazil and the United States as a practitioner, researcher, teacher, and mentor.
I hold a BA in Communications, an MA i International Relations, and a PhD in Comparative Politics. I'm currently a Visiting Scholar in Contemplative Studies at Penn State University and Co-Principal Investigator in innovative research examining spiritual awakening across contemplative traditions.
I developed Omni-Integration, a comprehensive system merging duality and non-duality designed to help people integrate their multiple awakening developments. I offer online sessions 1-on-1 in English and Portuguese, as well as retreats, workshops, and immersions.
I love languages and terminology, traveling and culture, and finding unity in diversity. I have a collection of over 3,000 objects related to Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights. My intention in to build a museum in the future.
ROBERT RHYNE
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I am a very left-brained logical software developer who learned to integrate the right-brained intuitive and feeling side later in life.
Triggered by general unhappiness and the pandemic in 2020, I went on a journey to end his suffering and finding inner balance. Since then he has been integrating mystic and psychological peak experiences with a logical thinking mind to create a grounded and rational view of awakening that still allows for magic to happen.