Thresholds
Totality
Stand in the two minutes when the day stops, the birds go quiet, and the sky shows you something it usually hides.
Totality asks you to stand still for two minutes while the day goes quiet and the birds stop singing. You watch the sky reveal what it usually hides and let the shadows arrive.
The session spends its time on that moment of darkness and the stillness that comes with it.
The day simply stops for two minutes while the birds become entirely still. You stand on the ground and watch the sky show you something it usually keeps hidden.
Nothing is required of you here other than to stay in place and look up.
What’s in it
Two minutes of quiet day, still birds, and a sky revealed in its totality.
Why do it
A moment of silence and stillness can offer a fresh perspective, opening your mind to new insights.
- Category
- Thresholds
- Depths
- ShortMediumLongUltra
- Lengths
- about 5m12m22m40m
- Ends
- Calm and present
- Stages
- 4
- Written
- For Intropi, originally
Timeline: Start to Finish
The standard-length build, block by block — the real sequence the app assembles, described rather than spoken.
3 of the 4 stages are named techniques with a published origin, credited under each.
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InductionStage 16 min
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
A classic head-to-toe relaxation. Tense and release, or simply soften, each muscle group in sequence.
After Edmund Jacobson PMR (1929); Dave Elman Hypnotherapy · what progressive muscle relaxation is
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DeepenerStage 23 min
Staircase Descent
Visualized stairs descending into a deeper level of trance. Each step takes you down.
After Ledochowski, Deep Trance Training Manual
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JourneyStage 3about 12 min
Totality
Stand in the two minutes when the day stops, the birds go quiet, and the sky shows you something it usually hides.
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AwakeningStage 42 min
Calm Alert Awakening
Awake and present, but calm rather than energized. Good for evening or pre-meeting use.
After Yapko, Trancework
Where it sits
Liminal places that carry their own rhythm: a night train, the deep ocean, one bell fading, the middle of a crossing.
Why going here does anything
A sudden change in the light is enough to make anybody look, and that looking is the whole point. When the birds become entirely still there is very little else to hold in your head.
The sky gives attention a single wide thing to settle on, and that takes up the space usually filled with everything else.
Before you press play
- 18+. Age floor set in the catalogue, not by us on the day.
Hypnosis is not for everyone. If you have epilepsy, a psychotic illness, or you are under psychiatric care, talk to your clinician before using this — here or anywhere.
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