Aaron Huey
Founder Sabaku-Budo Martial Arts Academy
Co-Founder/Director
FireHawk Facilitation & Fire Mountain Kids

Barbara Gilman
We are living in an incredible time of transformation, and one of the most miraculous occurrences is the burgeoning desire people have for a more spiritually grounded life. There is a deep yearning to understand who they really are and how they fit in to the universal scheme of things. If you are one of these people who feel that there's more to life and you would like to find out what it is, then I recommend attending “The Opening” Intensive. It's like spring cleaning for the mind and heart—once the clutter is out of the way you can start to see what's really there. Then hold on to your seats, because life will never be the same!

Barbara Gilman, author of "The Unofficial Guide for Living Successfully on Planet Earth" and contributing author of “An Indigo Celebration” Barbra Gilman has over thirty years experience as a therapist/coach and was the Director of Family Education for Neale Donald Walsch’s Heartlight Education. A Certified Parent Educator and Trainer with the International Network for Children and Families, Barbra developed, teaches and trains others to facilitate “Conscious Parenting for a New Paradigm”. Barbra served as the Director of the Center for Spiritual Awareness and has hosted her own radio show, “Conscious Choices.”

Jacqueline Wilcox
I feel a deep urge to share with you of the miraculous experience I had at "The Opening" a few weeks ago. This group of amazing individuals took my breath away. The honor, integrity and love from which they operate are beyond anything I could have expected.

I showed up at the Opening a few weeks ago with a good sense of self, knowing my purpose and on the path to fulfilling it. However, to my delight an unexpected miracle occurred. I became integrated with this divine power beyond all the limitations that my mind could argue.

I also discovered on the plane ride home, as I sat in the stillness, that my path also includes being involved in this type of work that Martin and his group so generously offer.

My book is a story of faith, hope and love. It is the hope that we will come to realize that there is but one spirit that connects us all, and the faith that love will prevail.

I am now living my deepest truth one step at a time. Warriors, you must get yourselves to the next Opening. It is a journey that everyone must take, whether in life, or at the time of death, but either way you will know the truth. Why not take it now and live your deepest truth?

With great gratitude and blessings to all.

Jacqueline Blue Butterfly-Dancing Warrior

Alexis Howell
I would first like to thank you and your entire team for such a life changing experience. Prior to taking your program, I had so much anger and hatred towards my mother. I had prayed and asked the God/universe to help me to not only bring up the painful memories of my mother and her abuse, but to release those negative emotions once and for all. After she abused me, I thought that I would never, ever feel love for her again. However, this process helped me to not only bring up the pain and anger, but to release it and find the love that I had buried for her inside of me, the true me. It’s hard to explain the feeling of having such a weight lifted from my soul. Although I do not respect how she treated me, I can say to her now that despite her cruel actions, I still love her.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! Because of sharing your amazing gifts with me, I am able to move on with my life and continue to find and celebrate the real me that was masked by the past!!!! You guys are all Freaking Awesome!!!!!

Alexis Howell (21 years old)

Rachel Skillen
While the Opening was a phenomenal experience, the real treasure was found after living what I discovered when I returned home. Real transformation happens by being and living what has been revealed to you – and the Opening was a fast-track to learning lessons and knowing yourself at a level that it can take philosophers and spiritual seekers lifetimes to reach.

Rachel Skillen

James Peterson
I realized, in Predicament at Enlightened Warrior, how long it had been since I had been a Man. Once, long ago, I was a Man. I climbed mountains when reason and rationality argued against it and nearly died but was alive in every moment. I stepped more than once into the heat of battle, literally, to render aide to my fellow men and killed to protect them, for which I still carry the scars. I fought until I could not fight any more, then fought beyond that until I physically collapsed. I lived on the edge, alive in every moment knowing that at any moment I could die a glorious death, satisfied that I had given 100 percent of what I could and lived in total honor, honesty, and truth.

Then, somehow, I slipped away from being a Man. I found excuses, I didn't follow through, I began to see women as objects rather than goddesses. I lost faith in, and respect for, myself. I slipped from being a Man, to being a man, to being something to vague that it defies definition.

I did not become evil, just complacent. I did not become stupid, just lackadaisical. I did not become cowardly, just 'less adventurous'. My edge became dull, women became less interesting, I became an introvert, living out pitiful fantasies in my head while the world passed me by for more than a decade.

Slowly, painfully, I have begun to awaken. I began to rediscover myself. I saw again the Goddess present in every women and now challenge them to embrace it. I began to expand myself through self-discovery, helped along by Peaks and other courses. I tasted the rich passion of having a Mission! Of having a Goal! Of giving 100% and succeeding or dying in the process. I remembered the glory of being a Man. I remembered the ecstasy of ravaging a goddess with everything I had to give.

The world has shifted. I stand straighter. Friends tell me I am taller now. I laugh and spar with other Men where previously I stuck to the shadows. I am unsettled, but now I realize it is because I am not on a Mission worthy of my abilities and passions. I see the goddess in all women and am powerfully attracted to those who have embraced the goddess within them.

So, to answer your question: I am still breathing, more powerfully with each passing moment, expanding and ever learning. Watching for my Mission. Attacking every problem with passion. Embracing my fellow Men and Women with genuine love and respect. Leaning into the sharp edge of my comfort zone, of my fears, in order to learn and grow. Seeking a true Warrior goddess with whom I can share my passions.

I am still breathing, and I bow to you with eyes open, hands in plain sight, with the utmost respect and gratitude that you awakened the sleeping tiger of my masculinity. Each moment of each day I look for ways to share this gift with the Men and Women in my life.

If I can be of assistance to you in awakening the sleeping Man and Goddess in others, please let me know.

With love, honor and respect.

James Peterson,
Enlightened Warrior, Combat Medic, US Army Airborne, Retired
- Never too old to learn or too young to teach -

Warren White
Through your program what is made possible is love where what might be present is resignation, dissatisfaction and distance! Through your program, the essence of life arises full, complete and perfect such that we know we can take it all on and have the life we want.

Warren White
Boulder, Co

Lisa Tan

Dearest Martin (My Teacher and Inspiration)

Firstly, I need to thank you for all your gifts you shared with us at the recent Opening.

Since we left Estes Park, it's been one moment to another and it's been literally MAD MAD MAD!!!!! And we're still laughing how everything happened for us till now!!

We are both bursting to share with you our experiences and I know you will probably get an equally long email from Lionel soon. But I thought I'd better write my piece before I explode literally!!! - I know you know what I mean! Hahaha!

So we checked in at the airport and as we were going into the waiting lounge, I saw a sign that said 'Messages' ... I got stuck -- rooted to the ground. Lionel asked me if I was having a moment of truth but I said not yet but somehow the word 'Message' struck me and could not go away no matter what I did.

So as we ascended the elevator, Lionel was sharing about the question of Who You Are and I responded that some people I know during the course had the Who and What questions mixed up ..... and as those words flew out of my mouth, I had my enlightenment moment' ... When the question from my heart of 'Tell Me What You
Are' met the answer of 'I am The Message' .... And Thank Goodness I already was seated down because I could not stop sobbing in joy of this truth revealed and I continued to sob and laugh at the same time and I swear, some people thought I was a lunatic and I couldn't help but continue in my moment for the next 10 minutes.

I could not stand or walk and by the time I was steady enough to head for the boarding gate, we were the last to board the flight out of Denver. We almost missed the flight!

I was totally totally grateful that Lionel knew that it was my moment of truth and was there to walk me through it! We realised that it was destined that we attended the Opening together otherwise if either of us got home and we had our moment like I did at home, either he or I would think each other absolute lunatics!


Laughing and Crying all at the same time then collapsing in a heap,
unable to function at all as a human being!

So we are on the flight and somehow time literally stood still for us – so surreal - the flight was 2 hours but felt like only half an hour on it!

I had another moment of truth on the flight .... My senses by now is in overdrive and everything I looked at jumped out at me and I couldn't stop any of it. I tried closing my eyes but the heightened awareness kept being there! So I was trying to breath deeply and relax myself before I 'lose it all' there and then.

So as I closed my eyes, I noticed the word LIFE on a Life Vest
instruction printed on the seat in front of me. And the next breath I drew in stopped suddenly and I could not continue that breath and started to hyperventilate. All of the sudden, the place around me blackened out and I only heard Lionel's voice talking to me. The question 'Tell Me What Life Is' came together with the word BREATH and hit me like a 500 tonne truck without any warning.

My emotions burst like a dam taken down and I could not stop the
moment even if I wanted to. And as my answer of 'Life is BREATH' hit me, I was grateful that the lady sitting next to my left was already asleep or she would be calling the stewardesses to haul me away.

The stewardess came around and asked passengers what they wanted to drink but I was not even aware of it till the moment passed and Lionel told me I didn't hear anything in that moment and he had to ask for a drink on my behalf then. Sigh ....

So that made it two powerful moments of truth within 4 hours! By that time, I was super tired and couldn't think at all and was about the sleep wherever and however I could! My body refused to cooperate at all and frankly, I was too in the moment to know how to function anymore.

Then we landed in Chicago and we hopped into a cab and during the 20 minutes drive to our hotel, I passed billboards - big and clear - and every single billboard message was driving me insane cos each one was like 'speaking to me' and meaning was found in every single one and we must have passed like 20 billboards during the drive.

Lionel had already given by this time and I was totally spaced out and charged and buzzed in every sense of the word. By the time we reached the hotel, I didn't even know how to open the cab doors to get out!! The driver was laughing away and I just laughed till my sides split!

Then this morning, we got back from breakfast and Lionel and I had been speaking about my tendency to be selfless and giving to others first before myself. So I opened up emails and LO AND BEHOLD, I got an email from the Higher Awareness subscription I paid for earlier on in the year and was thinking about canceling it but just didn't get around to doing it. So I read it – and it went like this:

Title: "Selfishness has its place"

"Keeping an asset/deficit balance sheet even for a few days will give you an extremely clear picture of where youčre adding to your energy account, where youčre overdrawing it, and how youčre accomplishing both." -- Doc Childre and Howard Martin

{By this time, my jaw dropped and must have rolled across the floor and I kept reading and it said}:

"Hi LISA,

You may think itčs selfish to focus on your own personal needs and desires. After all, other people need your time and attention, right? Of course they do. But we can only serve others skillfully when we are well nourished and happy ourselves. Looking after yourself is the greatest gift you can give others, because when you genuinely meet your own needs, you can then more genuinely serve them in turn. "

Then I opened up my i-Tunes and the first song that played in my play list was:

" Open the Eyes of my Heart" .... The moment was so magical (sorry I have no other words to describe) ...

What flowed after was me writing a song for The Opening and I recorded it in rawness of the moment and I apologise that the quality isn't great and my singing isn't fantastic at all ... but I had to get it 'out of me' before it drowned me inside ... I think you get my drift!

So here it is and it is as attached with the lyrics. I was thinking if you and maybe you want it as a theme song of some sort for the Opening, I can go back to Singapore and have it professionally done up and recorded and properly done - I have friends to do this ... But that's just the technical side of it - what's important for me is the moment of my heart spoken in the music ... I hope you like it and 'see' what The Opening is for me as you listen to the lyrics and melody ...

Let me know what your heart desires in all this ....

Thanking the Universe for placing you here to teach me in my life ...

With a Heart Opened Wide,
Lisa

Click on the "Moment of Truth" link below to listen to a song inspired by a particpant after taking The Opening.

Moment of Truth

It's hard to stop the noise
From getting to my heart
Too much distractions
Keeping me from myself
Uncertainty abounds
Stuck in a round
Feeling the pressures
Of knowing who I am
{Is there a better way to go
Questions left to answer
Is there a better path to walk
Now I understand}
Chorus:
I'm living in the present
I'm where I belong
Opening up so fully
To every possibility
Making my choices
Speaking as it shows
So thank you
For my Moment of Truth
Bridge:
No need for words
Enough to surrender
Hearts in connection
Now's the time for me to be

Lisa Tan
Singapore