Restoring Altadena’s Earth Wisdom
May 9-12 2026
Join Make Conscious for a multi-day immersion, weaving together receptive listening, embodied yoga practice, site visits, professional dialogue, and collective analysis with hands-on geopuncture!
Each day builds upon the last, moving from inner attunement to direct application—all in service of restoring the living wisdom of Altadena and beyond.
You are welcome to attend one, several, or all days. Together, they form a complete arc of earth wisdom restoration.
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Healing Center Altadena | May 9 | 10am-12pm
Practice Altadena | May 9 | 4pm-6pm
We invite you to a day of Restoring Altadena's Earth Wisdom—two deep, hands-on offerings at the intersection of inner practice and land relationship. One works directly with the land through receptive listening. The other works through your body to embody that same listening. Together, they form a pathway into reciprocal relationship with Altadena herself.
First: Phenomenal Land Listening – a two-hour Land listening workshop at the Healing Center Altadena. This session opens the door to the realm of possibilities—what becomes available when we truly listen to the land and how that transforms the design process. Sliding Scale $25-108
Then: Earth Listening Yoga – a two-hour follow-up at Practice Altadena. Returning to the original intent of asana, we will ground and activate the feet through asana and pranayama and then apply that grounded awareness to land divination for Altadena. Sliding Scale $25-108
Both workshops stand alone, but together they offer a powerful arc within the larger theme of Restoring Altadena's Earth Wisdom—from learning to listen phenomenally to the land, to embodying that listening through your own body.
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May 10–11 – Site Visits (Have Us Visit Your Site)
90 minutes per visit | $1,000 per visit
These immersive 90-minute field sessions bring phenomenal land listening directly to your property or project site. Each visit includes:
· Guided on-site session
· The site's energetic and ancestral story – what the land carries, what it remembers, and what it is asking for
· Follow-up notes documenting observations and energetic impressions
· Initial maps of the site's energetic patterns
· Recommendations for further work, including potential geopuncture, design interventions, or ongoing land listening practices
If you have lost your home and need sponsorship, please fill out the registration form. The organizers are actively working to raise funding for those affected by displacement. -
Claret Cup Studio | May 11 | 5:30–7:30 PM
Description
What happens when we bring phenomenal land listening—deep, embodied, intuitive perception of the land's energetic reality—into professional design practice?
This evening is a conversation between Claret Cup and Make Conscious, using the firms' current projects and Make Conscious's Altadena maps as a jumping-off point. Together, they will explore how phenomenal land listening, earth divination, and related techniques are being implemented in real-time on active design work—not as abstract theory, but as applied practice.FREE, Registration required, space limited
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A culminating immersion in advanced phenomenal land practice. This event begins with witnessing two Geopuncture sessions at 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM—precision energy work that applies acupuncture-like points to the land itself, releasing stagnation and restoring flow to a specific site in Altadena.
From 5:00–8:00 PM, we move into a Phenomenal Site Analysis Workshop at the Atheneum, a collective deep-dive where participants learn to read the energetic signatures of a landscape, identify areas of distress or coherence, and synthesize observations into a living map of the land's wisdom. This is part classroom, part field investigation, part sacred circle—a rare opportunity to witness and participate in professional-grade phenomenal site analysis. A tea ceremony and delicious dinner will also be served!
Schedule:
3:00 PM – Geopuncture Session I
4:00 PM – Geopuncture Session II
5:00–8:00 PM – Phenomenal Site Analysis @ The Athenaeum (includes dinner and tea ceremony)Sliding Scale $250-$500
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Full Immersion
Sliding Scale $300-$700
Full Immersion with Site Visit
Sliding Scale $1000-$1700Workshop only
Sliding Scale $25-$108 per workshopGeopuncture and The Athenaeum
$250-$500
We honor land, culture, spirit, history, and human creativity in equal measure. Our multi-disciplinary approach to design and earth acupuncture weaves together the spirit of the land with the spirit of innovation and technology, harmonizing human development with ecological and cultural well-being for future generations.
We work by bearing witness. We bring meaning back to making. We make it conscious together, when site and sight become insight.
The Phenomenal Design Process is a architectural design and land development approach that integrates spiritual, energetic, and historical awareness into the design process. Unlike traditional architectural projects, which prioritize construction without deep engagement with the land, the Make Conscious approach ensures a harmonious and healing relationship between human development and the earth.
What makes it phenomenal?
When engaging with the phenomena of the world as a participant rather than an observer, the world itself becomes phenomenal. This engaged worldview leads to the transformation of site and sight into insight. Ultimately, the phenomenal world arrives when the alchemy of perception generates the reintegration of self and world.
What is a phenomenal data set?
Illuminating the phenomenal world through the phenomenal design process is to make the visible invisible, the invisible visible, the audible inaudible, the inaudible audible, or moving the yin and yang energies. What is considered “relevant” data in current fields of western dominated science and engineering only reveals the visible dimensions of the life cycles of ecologies. What is visible is what is already a tree, everything that is visible was once invisible, the tree was once a seed. Indigenous wisdom traditions focus on the seed dimension of existence, not the fruit. Extractive traditions of colonization focus on the fruit and not the seed. The purpose of listening and mapping is to generate a phenomenal data set that gives equal weight to seed:fruit balance, thus harmonizing the systems from the very beginning of the project. The result is a bridge between indigenous epistemologies and ontologies, (ways of being and ways of knowing) and contemporary design epistemologies and ontologies.
Mapping Consciousness, an interview with Gong Jie Xi 龔捷西 (Jessica Kung)
Interview by: El Larson Donatella Cusmá Bojána Bányász
‘Why does what I'm building need to exist?’ It's addressing a spiritual theme, it's addressing an existential need. Which, I think if you're not addressing that you really have no business building anything. We have too many buildings. If we're going to build it has to address all of this, otherwise, don't create further. Don't do another demo."
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