Living the Extraordinary
Bringing the depth of extraordinary experiences into the way we live.
Tania Fierro and Robyn Irwin are offering a special year-long immersion program in response to a question we hear again and again: how do we bring what opens in ceremony and deep experience home into everyday life?
We have become extraordinarily good at opening the doors. We are only beginning to understand what it takes to walk through them and live our deepest realizations into our everyday life.
The next step is not going deeper into altered states. It is learning how to live differently and profoundly fulfilled because we went there.
Living the Extraordinary is a deep integration training for people with psychedelic and ceremonial experience, and for those who hold space for them.
So the learning can take root
This year-long program is an invitation to deepen your connection with yourself: to listen more closely, trust your inner knowing, and discover the resources within you and around you. With time, practice and the support of a consistent group, we learn to meet our experience with more curiosity, steadiness and care.
We begin and end on the land at Johnsons Landing Retreat Centre. In between, we meet every two weeks, practice weekly with a partner, and receive one-on-one sessions with both Tania and Robyn, so the learning can take root slowly and sustainably.
One container, many ways ‘in’
Through the body: Robyn Irwin
Deeply rooted in trust of the body’s innate wisdom, Robyn creates spaces to listen deeply to the body’s rhythms, tides, and fluid and cosmic anatomies. Drawing on years of teaching and facilitating Continuum Movement, somatic inquiry, and ceremony, she guides one-on-one and group healing work, in the knowing that change that happens in the body tends to stay.
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Robyn is a facilitator, guide and somatic integration practitioner based in Nelson, British Columbia. For more than 25 years she has learned through embodied practice, inquiry, and accompanying and supporting people through deep process in individual and group settings. She is an authorized Continuum Movement teacher, trained in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and studied Continuum Movement with its founder, Emilie Conrad, and Susan Harper. Her background includes pre- and perinatal work, attachment and bonding, Process-Oriented Psychology, parts work and inquiry-based coaching, and training in the ceremonial arts with her maestra Doña Cristina in Peru.
Through inquiry: Tania Fierro
Tania brings decades of experience in inquiry work and a unique and deeply effective process refined over 15 years of leading year-long immersions internationally. Her passion and her way of delivering this work help us step out of patterned ways of seeing, thinking and feeling, and into new territory within our consciousness.
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From Olympic sailing to inner inquiry, Tania Fierro is a philosopher, coach, mother and explorer of consciousness. With a BA and MA in Philosophy and Ethics, she brings together Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Advaita, Internal Family Systems and Inquiry-Based Coaching to support embodied freedom and the dissolving of limiting beliefs.
The main tools and methods we will be exploring combine Inquiry-Based Coaching, parts work (inspired by Internal Family Systems) and Continuum Movement. Robyn and Tania have many other influences and ways that weave through the program to support the group and individual processes. This dynamic team has taught three long-term immersion programs together, each one building on the next. Open to the mystery of what unfolds in and for the unique constellation of beings who show up.
- The inquiry method (Inquiry-Based Coaching with parts work), well enough to practice it with a partner every week
- Parts work: how to recognize, meet and sit with your parts
- Somatic inquiry and Continuum Movement as ways into the body
- Resourcing: how to come back to ground, on your own and with others
- How to hold space for another person’s process
- A year of weekly practice behind you
- Self-leadership in the work: you can take yourself through it
- The beginnings of facilitating others, after practicing with six to eight partners
- Six private sessions, three with Tania and three with Robyn
- A community that has met every two weeks for a year
- Our inner landscape: zerospace and parts
- Resourcing and nervous system regulation
- Self-leadership
- Extraordinary experiences (ceremony, meditative states) and sustaining and integrating them with fluidity
- The three anatomies: Cultural, Primordial and Cosmic
- Holding space for others, individually and in groups
- Creating a community of authenticity, presence and transformation
This is for serious students of life, ready to question their beliefs and reality as they know it, and to show up with courage in a deeply committed community.
Who this is for
- People with psychedelic or ceremonial experiencewho want to bring that wisdom into daily life.
- Space holderswho want to support thorough preparation and deeper integration, for themselves and their clients.
- Anyone askinghow can my wisest parts support the flow of life energy, with all its ups and downs?
You do not need a title or a role. You do need willingness to look at your own material and to give and receive honest feedback.
How the year works
- 14–19 April 2027Opening retreatJohnsons Landing Retreat Centre. Learn the practices and inquiry methods, connect in community, ceremony, inner exploration.
- Twice a monthGroup callsWednesdays, 12:00–1:30 p.m. BC time (UTC-7, year-round). Calls are recorded.
- Every weekPartner practiceA weekly session with a practice partner.
- 1 September to 15 DecemberPrivate sessionsThree with Tania and three with Robyn.
- All yearCommunityA WhatsApp group for questions, support and staying engaged between calls.
- 14–19 April 2028Closing retreatJohnsons Landing Retreat Centre.
If you miss a call, you listen to the recording and report back to the WhatsApp group, so you stay connected to the theme we are exploring. Attending both retreats is required. US and international participants: please check your local time, as BC no longer changes its clocks.
Investment and registration
- Step 1Complete the application formApplications are reviewed before any deposit is accepted.
- Step 2A $1,000 non-refundable depositholds your space.
- Step 3Half of tuition by 15 February 2027is due, and non-refundable.
- Step 4Full payment two weeks before we beginor a commitment to pay in full.
Payment plans may be available. Ask on your application form and we will get back to you. Please put the reference IMMERSION27 and your last name on every payment.
Questions
Do I need experience with Continuum Movement, parts work or inquiry?
No. You only need willingness and consistency.
How much time does this take?
A group call every two weeks, one partner session each week, plus personal practice. Plan on 2–5 hours per week in total.
What if I miss a call?
Listen to the recording and report to the WhatsApp group.
Is this therapy?
No. Tania and Robyn offer facilitation, coaching, education and spaces for personal inquiry. They do not offer psychotherapy, medical care, diagnosis or treatment. Experiences in this work vary, and no particular outcome is promised. If you need medical or mental health care, please work with an appropriately licensed professional.
Apply for a place
Complete the application form. Applications are reviewed before any deposit is accepted.