Sacred Sanctuary Getaway
THE GIFT AWAKENING™ EXPERIENCE
Have You Noticed That Success No Longer Satisfies?
For those who recognize that certain transformations require physical removal from familiar patterns—creating space for divine remembering that daily life often drowns in noise.
The Whisper Only Success Can Hear
As you’ve climbed higher—secured the position, built the business, expanded your influence, achieved the recognition—a peculiar thing happens:
The louder the world’s applause grows, the more deafening becomes a certain silence within.
This isn’t your imagination. And you’re not alone.
SACRED DISSONANCE:
The Unbearable Tension
What you’re experiencing has a name, though few dare speak it:
Sacred Dissonance: the unbearable tension between who you’ve become and who you were designed to be.
You may have climbed every ladder placed before you, fulfilling external expectations. Or perhaps you’ve wandered from spiritual tradition to tradition, finding fragments of truth but never wholeness. Maybe you’ve left rigid religious structures that confined rather than liberated your spirit.
Yet in the quiet moments—those rare pauses in your seeking—you feel it. A hollow echo where belonging should reside. A spiritual hunger no doctrine or achievement seems to satisfy. This is not merely dissatisfaction. It is sacred disruption. What the world calls “burnout” is often divinity attempting to reclaim its territory. What society labels “anxiety” is frequently the friction between the self you’ve constructed and the self you were designed to be. The very anxiety that exhausts you is actually the internal compass pointing toward your true north.
Your burnout isn’t a sign of weakness but of wisdom—your soul’s refusal to spend its energy on what was never yours to begin with. Your authentic gifts lie dormant, sealed beneath layers of adaptation and expectation. The relentless noise of external demands has silenced the whispers of divine calling that have been speaking since before you had words. For those who’ve left religious structures, your disillusionment isn’t faithlessness—it’s your spirit’s recognition that true divinity cannot be contained in rigid doctrines. For spiritual wanderers, your restless seeking isn’t indecision—it’s your soul’s insistence on finding authentic truth beyond packaged certainties.
Even spiritual communities that promised sanctuary may have unintentionally added another layer of expectation rather than revealing your true design. This isn’t mere career dissatisfaction, spiritual homelessness, or temporary exhaustion. This is sacred dissonance—the unbearable tension between who you’ve become and who you were always meant to be.
A SACRED REVOLUTION: Awakening What Was Never Truly Lost
THE GIFT AWAKENING™ EXPERIENCE exists not to create something new within you, but to unveil what has always been there—waiting beneath the accumulated layers of the world’s expectations and your necessary adaptations. This is a journey of sacred remembrance for all souls seeking to reclaim their authentic design.
Through this divinely crafted experience, you’ll discover that your authentic gifts weren’t lost—they were merely buried, your divine design not abandoned but obscured:
- The veil between your constructed identity and divine design will dissolve through our proprietary Gift Illumination process
- What you’ve experienced as anxiety will be recontextualized as sacred navigation—precise coordinates guiding you back to authentic expression
- Burnout will transform from a condition to be managed into a messenger to be honored—your soul’s refusal to continue living disconnected from purpose
- The bridges between eternal wisdom and your singular gifts will materialize with stunning clarity
- Practical pathways for expressing these awakened gifts will emerge, transforming not just how you see yourself but how you live each day
- You’ll experience authentic community where your questions are honored and your unique gifts celebrated
For spiritual wanderers, you’ll discover why no single tradition could fully satisfy—because your unique spiritual fingerprint requires integration rather than conformity.
For those who’ve left rigid religious structures, you’ll reclaim the sacred essence that dogma obscured, finding divine connection beyond the confines of systems that wounded you.
For the spiritually hungry, you’ll finally taste the nourishment your soul has been seeking—not in external answers, but in remembered wisdom.
This sacred remembrance doesn’t add something missing—it removes what was never truly yours, revealing the luminous gift-being that has been present from the beginning.
WISDOM BEYOND PSYCHOLOGY:
What Spiritual Masters Have Always Known
The recognition that our authentic being must be remembered rather than created resonates through the wisdom of spiritual masters:
“For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.”
Thomas Merton, contemplative monk and writer
“You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.”
Henry David Thoreau, philosopher and naturalist
“Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.”
Henri Nouwen, spiritual writer and priest
These illuminated minds understood what modern psychology often misses: authentic expression requires first a withdrawal from the patterns that maintain fragmentation, creating sacred space where divine remembering becomes possible. Their wisdom affirms what THE GIFT AWAKENING™ EXPERIENCE embodies—that true transformation happens when we create space to encounter our original design, allowing our authentic gifts to emerge and be expressed in community.
THE SACRED JOURNEY:
The Gift Awakening™ Process
DAY 1: RECOGNITION & REVELATION (8:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
Morning: Veil Dissolution In the sacred stillness of morning, the journey begins with gentle yet powerful dissolution of the veils that have separated you from your authentic design:
- The Gift Illumination Assessment reveals patterns of divine design uniquely yours
- Sacred reflection rituals create the precise conditions for inner wisdom to surface
- Guided emergence protocols establish the safety for buried gifts to reveal themselves
Afternoon: Divine Reorientation As the day deepens, what you’ve experienced as struggle transforms into sacred guidance:
- Anxiety and burnout undergo profound recontextualization, revealing their role as divine navigation systems
- Your unique gift constellation emerges with increasing clarity
- The specific patterns of your divine design begin to crystallize in consciousness
- For those carrying wounds from past expectations or judgments, a gentle pathway toward healing opens
Evening: Sacred Integration As day transitions to night, practices deepen the awakening process:
- Communal wisdom circles create the sacred container for gift affirmation
- Contemplative practices strengthen the emerging awareness
- Scripture illumination unveils the spiritual foundations of gift awakening
DAY 2: DISCERNMENT & DIRECTION (8:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
Morning: Language of the Divine The second day brings form to what has been awakened:
- The Gift Articulation Process provides precise language for your unique divine design
- Gift Alignment Mapping reveals where and how your gifts are designed to flow
- Optional Water Baptism offers symbolic immersion for divine gift activation
Afternoon: Sacred Embodiment The journey culminates in practical pathways for living from awakened gifts:
- Divine Expression Protocols establish concrete practices for gift embodiment
- Integration rituals create bridges between retreat awakening and daily living
- Community blessing ceremonies anchor the awakened gifts in sacred witnessing
Throughout THE GIFT AWAKENING™ EXPERIENCE, you’re held in a field of collective awakening—where each person’s remembering illuminates aspects of the divine in others, creating a symphony of mutual revelation impossible in isolation.
FOR THOSE WHO KNOW:
Is This Your Sacred Moment?
This gathering welcomes souls from all walks of life who:
- Sense there is more to their divine design than their current expression allows
- Experience burnout from living disconnected from authentic purpose
- Seek to transform anxiety from problem to sacred guidance
- Desire community that honors questions and celebrates unique gifts
- Feel called to express their authentic design in daily life
- Wish to reclaim their spiritual journey on authentic terms
Whether you come from corporate achievement, mid-career success, specialized technical fields, Filipino-Chinese business communities with generations of wealth, provincial business ownership, or returning from overseas work—all are welcome who seek to remember their original design.
This sacred gathering especially calls to:
- Spiritual Wanderers who have journeyed through multiple traditions finding fragments of truth but never home
- Those Displaced from Rigid Religion who left structures that confined rather than liberated your spirit
- The Spiritually Hungry whose deepest questions have been met with shallow answers
- Intuitive Truth-Seekers who sense divine wisdom beyond conventional teachings
- Those Carrying Religious Wounds seeking healing beyond the systems that caused them
- Spiritual-But-Not-Religious Souls longing for authentic connection without dogmatic constraints
We understand the Filipino concept of “hiya” (shame) and how it impacts spiritual exploration, particularly for those from prominent families or positions. All registrations include our standard confidentiality protocol, with options for executive documentation and complete privacy available upon request.
YOUR SACRED INVESTMENT: ₱15,000 / $250
THE GIFT AWAKENING™ EXPERIENCE includes:
- Complete immersion in our proven divine remembering methodology
- Proprietary Gift Illumination Assessment and alignment tools
- All guided awakening experiences and articulation processes
- Sacred overnight accommodations
- Nourishing meals and refreshments
- Post-retreat integration materials and practices
- Access to our ongoing community of awakening souls
Dates: July 01-02, 2025
Location: Life Place Retreat & Event Center, Alfonso, Cavite
DIVINE REMEMBERING PRACTICES
During registration, you’ll select which awakening practices call to your spirit:
- Sacred scripture illumination (revealing divine gift patterns)
- Contemplative prayer (for gift discernment and clarity)
- Ritual of release (dissolving barriers to authentic expression)
- Water Baptism (symbolic immersion for gift activation)
- Sacred silence (creating space for divine listening)
- Scripture-Based Meditative Practice (connecting with eternal purpose)
- Community wisdom circle (for divine gift witnessing)
- Creation communion (awakening gifts through nature engagement)
SACRED EXCHANGE DETAILS
Bank Transfer:
BDO Account # 00-112-066020-1
Account Name: BERNADETTE PURTO
GCash/Maya:
0917.630.0550
Account Name: BERNADETTE PURTO
Please send confirmation of sacred exchange to [email protected]
with subject line “Gift Awakening – [Your Name]”
Exchange Options:
- Complete offering: ₱15,000 / $250
- Initial offering: ₱7,500 / $125 (remainder due 15 days before gathering)
Sacred Agreement:
- Full return of offering available until June 15, 2025
- After June 15, 2025, your offering becomes committed to the sacred work
- If divine timing shifts, your registration may transfer to another soul or future gathering
THE COST OF WAITING
Each day spent in sacred dissonance extracts a price that no balance sheet can measure:
- The gradual dimming of your unique brilliance
- The slow erosion of your capacity for joy
- The quiet grief of a calling left unanswered
- The subtle deadening to life’s deeper dimensions
Most troubling of all: the longer you wait, the harder it becomes to hear the voice that’s calling you home.
THE DIVINE INVITATION
As Thomas Merton reminds us:
“There is a point of nothingness at the center of our being which is untouched by sin and illusion, a point of pure truth… It is like a pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven. It is in everybody, and if we could see it, we would see these billions of points of light coming together in the face and blaze of a sun.”
This diamond of divine design lies within you now—not waiting to be created, but to be remembered.
Sacred Sanctuary Getaway: THE GIFT AWAKENING™ EXPERIENCE provides the sacred container, proven methodology, and authentic community where this remembering becomes not just possible but inevitable. The veils between who you’ve become and who you were created to be are thinner than you imagine.
The journey of remembrance awaits.
This sacred remembering is your birthright.
