A NEW TIME TO PRACTICE
Get together to practice Carlos Castaneda’s energy passes online, once each Season of the year, with fellow practitioners with whom you share a common goal and intent, for the joy and the boost it brings you.
Join for Free
Join a Global Practice online with Groups of Mexico, USA, Russia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Argentina, England, France, Spain, Italy or Germany, sharing a common intent, through the energy passes, ancient movements and breaths that bring an uplift to your awareness and perception.
The Joining Forces Practice Project follows the dream for freedom by the shamans of ancient Mexico—that humanity may reach critical mass on seeing energy directly as it flows in the universe as the consensus for decisions, instead of hierarchies based on gender, religion or position.
Be Uplifted and Inspired
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Guided by practitioners from countries around the globe demonstrating and guiding the energy passes for everyone to practice along, and hosted by Miles Reid, a physician, shaman-healer, and direct apprentice of Carlos Castaneda.
Miles is featured demonstrating the movements in the book Magic Passes, as well as being one of the leading teachers to Castaneda’s shamanistic practices internationally from its inception to the present.
There is no cost to participate
And you can join one or more regional groups that fit your language and country!
Click here to read the Practice Guidelines
Click here to see the Calendar of Practices
Click here to watch videos of Practices
What others have felt in the practices
‘Silence and strength’ ‘Lightness and perseverance’
‘Feeling more fluid’ ‘More energy and more strength’
‘Inspiration and expansion’ ‘Mental silence’
‘A different perception than my internal dialogue’
Want to know the background story?
The Joining Forces Practice Initiative was founded in 2023 by Miles Reid, with a group of coordinators of 33 senior practitioners from 9 different countries, to help each other and the World gain purpose and support a sustained individual practice of the principles and practices from the legacy of the shamans of ancient Mexico. It aims to move humanity towards freedom, joining forces side by side.
Listen to the story that brought about the Practice project
One of the most cherished projects of Carlos Castaneda during the last years of his life, was the advent of Practice Groups. When he started giving workshops, he was amazed to see the phenomenon of energy mass, when it came to the practice of the passes. How a number of practitioners doing them together, makes everyone much more available to move, to change, both physically and perceptually. He would say that a wave of intent seemed to generate and pass through them.
“This energetic current, which a shaman could easily see, creates a sense of urgency in practitioners. It is like a vibratory wind that sweeps through them and gives them the primary elements of purpose. I have had the privilege of seeing what I considered to be a portentous spectacle: the awakening of purpose, the energetic base of man. Don Juan Matus used to call this unbending intent.”
After the nagual left, we spent a lot of time nurturing and connecting a lot of small practice groups in many different countries, in neighborhoods within large cities or in towns. Over time, the focus shifted away, and many practice groups became inactive.
What would the nagual do today with this dream of practice groups? The individual passion about the passes from so many of you remains inside alive.
The Joining Forces Initiative is an answer to that. A new formulation of that dream, in line with the new conditions that social media and the internet have brought that changed the world since the time he was alive.
This new formulation, a combination of live and mostly online, gives the potential for a greater number of practitioners to share a practice and a relationship of intent, grouped not by the same city or neighborhood location, but by country, world region, or language.
Each regional group is connected through a dedicated WhatsApp group and meets via Zoom. There are also some events broadcast through Instagram Live. Any given practice can be joined from home, or if there are multiple people living in the same city, you can also meet live during practice time and do the practice together.
