8th - 17th August 2025
Price: £1600
Prices include all meals, accommodation and all course materials!
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held by Shivam O'Brien and claire heron
Claire and Shivam, in response to requests are now offering a full master's training. They have together run many Intensives over the last 15 years.
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Shivam has conducted more than 80 in the UK, Ireland, Poland, and India.
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Shivam and Claire teach the original technique and format introduced by Charles Berner over 50 years ago.
This comprehensive 10-day training equips you with everything you need to start running Enlightenment Intensives yourself.
Additionally, it integrates various aspects of leadership and the levels of responsibility required for any pursuit of excellence and mastery.
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Course Requirements
Completion of three Enlightenment Intensives, including at least one with Shivam or Claire.
£500 deposit.
This is an in-depth and thorough training. Participants should be free of outside distractions as much as possible.
There will be practice Intensives as part of the training, providing real opportunities for experiences and insights.
The training encompasses multiple levels, both experiential and theoretical.​
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Shivam O'Brien
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Shivam's journey with Enlightenment Intensives started at the age of twenty-nine in 1987. He participated in as many as possible including three day, two week and six week Intensives. He led his first Intensive in 1989, after training with Jake and Eva Chapman in 1988.
Shivam founded Spirit Horse in 1990 and began a career of offering Intensives and other programs in the wild natural setting of the Welsh valley that became a spirit home for many.
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Shivam's experience with all that might be involved on the path branches out way beyond the world of Intensives, stretching East and West. He draws on decades of experience with Tibetan Lamas, Dzogchen, Satsang masters, Medicine Men and Indian Masters.
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"Without those first Intensives and the Masters Training I would never have been able to steer a ship like Spirit Horse on such a wild voyage."
Claire heron
​​Claire trained as an EI Master with Lawrence Noyes in 2007.
She has supported dozens of Intensives with Shivam, as well running a few of her own.
She has a broad experience of many growth techniques gleaned over the last 40 years, and has settled on the EI as being the most effective.
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"Enlightenment Intensive is the best tool for accessing profound states of awareness. The method is a mixture of structured formula teamed with radical openness, creating a space that welcomes Living Mystery. The Enlightenment Intensive Masters Training not only cultivates the ability to hold and run EIs, but also develops personal sovereignty benefitting all aspects of ones life."
- Claire
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"Claire brings an entirely different, fresh, interpersonal approach to the magic of dyads. She sets the example of a ruthless, compassionate, ecstatic free woman dedicated to truth and life lived for the living"
- Shivam
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The price is all inclusive - shared sleeping accommodation in a heated Roundhouse, Tea, Coffee, food.
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Bring your own bedding or rent some from us (sheet, pillow, duvet) for £45.
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For those who wish to have their own sleeping space yurts are available from £200 for the duration of the training. ​For more information see our rent a yurt page.
Practicalities
Arrival Time: 8th August 3 pm - 5 pm
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Please make sure to arrive on site at the arrival time. We will ferry you and all your gear in our four wheel drive vehicles down the steep mountain road to the village (if you don't fancy the spectacular mountain footpath). This takes only a few minutes to drive but you will have to load everything into our vehicles with our help. Welcome to the Bhutan of Wales. You can have the full Himalayan adventure without ever leaving Britain.
Spirit Horse Mountain Retreat is set amidst 200 acres of wildest Wales. Our charity; Forest of dreams, was set up in 2002, purchasing the land in 2012, so that this valley could remain protected for ever, slowly returning to its original pristine natural state.
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