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Welcome & Terms of Service

Our practices involve looking at and being intimate with the structures of one’s personal reality, including how we make sense of experience, individually and collectively. Carrying over assumptions from other practices can lead to misunderstandings. Read over the following statements to determine whether or not our practice will be a good fit for you.

Self-Responsibility
We see you as a free agent capable of honest self-assessment and responsible choice. This is an invitation to take responsibility for yourself and your experience, including a willingness to set and maintain appropriate boundaries. By attending our events you take responsibility for your own safety and comfort, choosing to leave the practice or participate in any given moment. 

Not Psychotherapy
We do not follow a therapeutic model of diagnosis and treatment. Our method is educational. Our emphasis is relating. Our facilitators and coaches are guides. Our practices are practices of connection and meditation whose aim is to reveal more presence. We do not prescribe choices or actions. We are not psychotherapists; we do not see you as being in a therapeutic relationship with our facilitators. Participants are welcome to speak and explore developmental intentions such as “getting somewhere,” growing, and evolving, but we do not presume these are the drivers of experience. We work in the present moment, assuming wholeness moving to greater wholeness. 

The Expectations of Leadership
Our facilitators act in service of better relating through bringing more presence to what’s happening in the here and now. This may not follow typical expectations of a “group leader,” such as telling people the “right way” to act or making sure everyone gets along. We include the internal experiences of the leaders as part of the process. We invite you to listen to your own inner direction for leadership, and consider others’ responses as feedback to you in the context of the moment.

Is this Right for You?
Our workshops can be intense. We explore the unknown, the volatile, the ambiguous, as well as welcome emotions many deem as “negative” or “inappropriate” such as feelings of inadequacy, anger, sexuality, and joy. We often explore multiple sides of seeming opposites at once, and believe this can reveal an underlying unity of the immediacy of experience. We see bringing awareness to intense feelings as distinct from acting upon these feelings—we may ask you to pause or leave if we determine certain expressions risk leaving the practice of relational presence.

If the above description of our workshops sounds potentially overwhelming or destabilizing for you, if you have mental illness or significant emotional challenges that you feel may be exacerbated by this type of transformational environment, or if you are not sure that you can be self-directed in taking care of your needs during the event, then we advise you not to enroll. Finally, you must be at least 18 years old to attend.

By participating you acknowledge that you have read and agree to abide by these Terms of Service.




LA Relateful Flow Immersion with Michael Blas - September 2025

 

📅 Date & Time:
Friday, September 26 – 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Saturday & Sunday, September 27 & 28 – 10 AM to 6 PM
 
📍 Location:
Los Angeles, TBD
 
 
I’m coming away from 10 weeks in Europe: Relatefully flowing, being gay, and learning about love. I’m keeping the energy alive. I'm partnering this time with the local Relatefulness leaders in Los Angeles for a weekend of Flow and what I’m calling, “Radiance”.
 
Beauty and seeing beauty for too long have been relegated to an “opinion”. I’ve come to learn that Beauty is a form of Truth that collapses amidst litigation and is sidelined when seen as an opinion. We’re going to allow Beauty to be a truth in the room and weave this occurrence of Radiance into our practice of Relatefulness. So many things can be beautiful that I think we go numb, especially in a world that mostly honors things that justify themselves. Where the Radiance, an occurence of Beauty, arises, we will hold it as solid and worthful, as much as any other sensation, feeling, thought, or action. 
 
We’re going to spend a Friday night and all day Saturday and Sunday building a culture of Relatefulness together. There will be one specific injunction: “If something strikes you as beautiful, you can choose to name it and it will be solid and stand on its own”. This was always true in Relatefulness but I’m highlighting it now. Truth and Love are our watchwords in this practice as we Flow and Focus and Beauty is what I’m calling for now. 
 
We will oscillate between challenge and nourishment through the weekend in order to both grow and support what we’re building. I love everything that has come before and now I’m calling for something new. In this changing world we need to be on the edge of good living.
 
In service of that I must note, this is NOT a safe space. This will always be a brave space. If there is care there it will be because we bring it. It will not be because it’s supposed to be there. We are the building blocks of what we’re building. I’ve just been to my first burn and Radical Self Reliance is a good compass for whether we should attend. Everyone is included and that inclusion will be most felt as we participate. Silence will count as participation. Gifts will be given but we will not make exchange wrong between us. We will be with the sobriety that sometimes gratitude is needed to make further motion toward what we’re building survivable.
 
I thank you already for the openness in reading this and, like Aya, implore you to come if you already felt implored to come before reading this. I trust you to know what’s right for you.
 
We’re excited to see you. It’s best if you’ve had some experience of Relatefulness or related practices and I recommend attending some LA events if you’re not sure what any of this means.
 
Thanks,
Mike Blas
 
PS: We’ll have a 90 minute lunch and breaks when we feel we need them.
 
 
📩 Questions? Contact Mike at [email protected]