My Life-Changing Takeaways From Dr. Joe Dispenza’s Advanced Retreat

Advanced retreats provide a unique opportunity to disconnect from the distractions of daily life and focus on your inner growth. In this episode, Jenn Cassetta dives into the transformative insights she gained from a recent seven-day retreat with Dr. Joe Dispenza. Jenn shares her profound experiences with deep meditation, the powerful impact of embracing synchronicity, and the importance of navigating the unknown. She reflects on how the retreat helped her connect deeply with others, explore new dimensions of meditation, and recognize the universe’s language. This episode shows how embracing the unknown leads to powerful transformations in meditation and personal growth.

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My Life-Changing Takeaways From Dr. Joe Dispenza’s Advanced Retreat

The Art Of Badassery Retreat

This is another solo episode, a little boost of badassery for wherever you’re at. I want to help make your day even better and spread some of this really exciting energy that I have as a leftover effect from a retreat I went on, a seven-day retreat with Dr. Joe Dispenza, and that is what I’m going to share with you. The results, the effect, what it was about, and why I’m excited about this work. Before I get into that, I also wanted to share that my very first Art of Badassery retreat is coming up. The dates are October 10th through 13th, 2024, in Montauk, New York.

If you have never heard of Montauk or don’t know where it is, I’m sure you’ve heard of the Hamptons. This is at the end of Long Island, the last town before you sail out into the Atlantic and head towards Europe. It’s out there. It’s nicknamed The End because it’s the end of Long Island, and it’s really one of my favorite places on Earth, truly. It’s beautiful, and the crowds have gone or at least dispersed at that time of year. It’s crisp and cool in the air, yet sometimes the ocean is warm enough to jump in.

It’s going to be a three-night, three-day event filled with martial arts movement. I think both soft and hard styles of martial arts. I want you to experience both of those. The soft is like Tai Chi, with slower movements where you sync your breath to the movements. There are many benefits from this, basically similar to meditation, such as lowering blood pressure, lowering stress levels, reducing stress hormones throughout the body, and downregulating your nervous system.

We are also going to do some sitting meditation as well, but moving meditations will be the majority, and, as I said, that hard style, too. We’ll kick, punch, and get the heart rate going, and I’m going to teach you a little bit of basic self-defense, too, because why not? We have three days, so we might as well. It starts on a Thursday night with a group dinner. All the dinners are going to be at the resort.

The resort is called Sole East. It’s a beautiful place. Check it out online. During these group meals together, we’re going to have guided conversations on different aspects of the Art of Badassery framework. We’ll talk about how we build resilience, share stories about how we bounce back, set boundaries, use our voice powerfully, focus on health and wellness, self-care, talking about our chi and our energy, as well as how we go within and start to trust ourselves more and trust our intuition. Lastly, the black belt level is all about being a black belt leader in this world, in your communities. Really cool conversations. We’ll end with a bang, but I’ll save that surprise for later.

There will be some gifts. I’m curating a cool gift bag, and get this, this is actually a story I wanted to share with you about how it happened. Essentially, I’m having a women-owned biohacking showroom come out to Montauk and do a pop-up for us. They’re going to be bringing biohacking equipment and tools for us to try out after our workouts. People keep asking me, “What is biohacking?” It’s something that I thought everyone knew or had an idea about at this point.

I’m realizing that it is not that commonplace yet. Biohacking could be described as just technology, machines, etc., that do a variety of different things. I would say the main goal of a lot of the biohacking machines out there is for longevity, to help you live a longer, healthier life with a better quality of life, as well as helping you recover quickly from workouts, etc., and to help you heal more quickly from any type of ailments. I had the experience of checking out a biocharger. I feel like I could do a whole new episode on that. Thanks to my new friend, whom I met at the Dr. Joe Dispenza retreat, she hooked me up with a biocharger session here in Santa Monica, which was wild. It was really cool. Anyway, sorry. Let’s get back to the story.

During this retreat, a woman reached out to me after twenty years. I met her in New York City at a program called Ladies Who Launch. We haven’t been in touch since, except through social media. She reached out just to check in and said she likes what I’m doing and wanted to share about her biohacking showroom in Westchester, New York, which is very close to where I grew up. I thought that was so cool. With that said, it turns out that she and her partner, Lindsay O’Neill and Yeli, are going to be coming out to the Montauk retreat, as I said, and doing a pop-up for us.

That was a really beautiful synchronicity, which I’ll be talking about in a little bit, that happened in the last couple of weeks. If you are even interested in learning what biohacking is or if you are just interested in how you can live longer and healthier, come to the retreat. Check this stuff out, or look up Wellness Eternal and head to Lindsay and Yeli’s website so you can check out Wellness Eternal and the biohacking machines and technology they have at their showroom. You could even make an appointment and go there.

That was a little commercial for them. With that said, I’d love to have you at the retreat. I’m about 75% of the way full. I’m recording this on August 13th. It’ll probably come out in September. It might be sold out, but you never know. If you’re interested in the Art of Badassery retreat, make sure you go to my website immediately, JenniferCassetta.com.

Go to the contact page and send me an email as quickly as possible. All of the information, all the details, all the pricing, etc., is on my website as well. Under the blog section, you’ll see the Art of Badassery retreat in Montauk. The dates, again, are October 10th through 13th. Just a little thing to share with you. October 10th is my birthday. I will be sharing it with all of you who come to the retreat. I can’t wait.

Making Friends As An Adult

Back to business. We are about to dive into the biggest takeaways that I had at this truly life-changing event. I attended the Dr. Joe Dispenza seven-day advanced retreat. I came back with a whole new perspective on life. Just to put this out there, I’ve done a lot of work in the self-help and personal development fields, meaning I’ve attended tons of different seminars and had many aha moments and life-changing experiences.

To date, this has been the most incredible, eye-opening, and, not to overuse the word, transformational experience of my life. I can’t emphasize this enough with heartfelt emotion because it’s so true. I’ve even waited to record this podcast for a few weeks since I got home because I’m still processing the information I learned. I’m still processing the experiences I had and putting words to things that are hard to explain to others who haven’t experienced them.

First of all, if you have ever been to a Dr. Joe event, please message me. Please reach out because I love speaking to people who know exactly what I’m talking about. I want to expand my community in that way. The first major takeaway, I actually asked some of my new girlfriends that I met at the retreat what their takeaways were as well. One of them had the same takeaway as me.

The first pretty basic takeaway, you’re going to be like, “But seriously?” This is a big one for a lot of people. You can make new friends as an adult. I’m talking about lifelong friends, deep connections with people. I have just been seeing way too much messaging out there, again, it’s social media. I know everyone has an opinion about something, but I keep seeing how people think it’s so hard to make friends as an adult. I would love anyone out there who has that limiting belief to question it. Share with me, or share out loud. What are you really doing to make friends? Yes, you do have to work at it.

One of the major ways to make new friends is by putting yourself in situations, experiences, locations, and gatherings with like-minded people, people looking for the same things as you, wanting the same experiences, and doing the work, etc. For me, I’m attracted to seekers, people who are looking to self-improve all the time. It wasn’t forced. It was so natural.

The first day I sat next to one woman and we hit it off. Someone sat in between us and the three of us hit it off. The next day, I sat next to another woman and we hit it off. She had a friend that she was doing an experiment with, so had to sit next to her and we hit it off. Next thing you know, there are five of us that all came to this retreat alone, all from different parts of the country, who are now friends. We have a WhatsApp group, and we are still communicating as often as we want. We’re going to set up monthly Zooms so we can keep these conversations going. Believe it or not, I’ve already seen one of the women in person. There’s talk of us all getting together as a group soon as well.

I’d like to put that out there just as inspiration, especially for those of you who feel it’s really hard to make friends as an adult, get yourself out there, and find things you’re interested in. I don’t care if it’s knitting. Find a knitting group and go hang out. Don’t show up once and go, “That didn’t work. I didn’t meet anyone.” You’ve got to keep showing up to these things sometimes.

People like to see that you’re committed to the group. People like consistency, and you’ve got to put yourself out there a little bit. You’ve got to chat people up, have conversations, take that chance. You never know who’s listening. You never know who you can connect with and where that friendship can lead over days, months, years, and decades to come. I’m so excited. I love meeting new people, especially women, like I said, who are like-minded and seekers. I have just such a wonderful group because of that.

Meditation

The second biggest takeaway from the retreat, again, I’m looking for the right words to explain it, is that meditation is the key to experiencing the universe. Meditation is the key, period. Yes, I’ve been meditating for six-ish years, daily practice. I talk about it constantly on this podcast, even with all my guests. I can’t say enough. It’s almost like I’ve doubled down infinity on how important it truly is.

Meditation is the key to experiencing the universe.

This show was really off the cuff. I scribbled down some notes and remembered this quote by Rumi. “Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is inside you.” It really is. During the meditation retreat, I got to experience that firsthand. Where do I even begin? A lot of Dr. Joe’s teachings help you get to a place where you forget about your body.

Think about that, first of all, to get beyond your body and its needs, to sit in meditation, to try and turn off your analytical brain, the thinking part, that’s so difficult. Even just the body. Let’s start with the body. You’re sitting there, and your back might hurt. You have an itch on your face. Your body’s calling, saying, “I need to go to the bathroom. I need to get up. I’m hungry. I want a snack.” All of these things, like our hormones, are really running the show. We have to tame them. That can take time. That takes practice.

Dr. Joe says our body is like an animal, and we have to tame it to sit, to stay, and to overcome it. Overcome the body. We have to overcome our thoughts because we want to get to a place where our minds aren’t running the show. The body’s running the show, the mind’s running the show, the thoughts are going, and we’re thinking about yesterday’s regrets and tomorrow’s anxieties and all the things that we have to get done. No, all of that has to go. The point of his meditations is really to get you to a place where there is no time. You have no body, there is no space, no time, no where. No location. You’re just in blackness, void, space.

If you’ve ever tried his meditations, you’re like, “What is this guy talking about? What is going on?” That is the point, to get you to that place because when you can get to that place, and he goes into all of the science as well, which is one of the biggest bonuses of his work, he combines and teaches you what you’re doing. The science behind it. He’ll bring in data, and he’ll teach you about brainwaves.

One of those other things is getting out of high beta frequency brainwaves, which is a waking state and stress. High beta is stress. You’re running around stressed all day. There’s middle and lower beta as well, which is like a normal waking state. If you can dip down into alpha brainwaves, where they become a bit slower, this is where most people get to in meditation, and it’s where you get to before you drift off to sleep or when you wake up first thing in the morning. Those are also really good times to meditate because naturally, your brainwaves have slowed down.

There’s theta, and that’s a deep level. I, again, believe that a lot of us can reach those levels in his meditations, and I sure did. I think I did, in a lot of those meditations, but I even went beyond that. At the risk of sounding a little nutty, there was a meditation that I experienced where my head started to move on its own, circling, big circles, medium circles, small circles, until it was like vibrating on its own. Kind of like an antenna, getting straighter and straighter and just pointing, directing towards the universe. Who knows? That happened.

My brain itself started to vibrate. I started to feel like the left side of my brain was completely electric. It switched to the right side of my brain, the back of my head, and the lower back of my brain. It happened in three separate sections until all of a sudden, my entire brain, my entire head, literally felt like I plugged it into an electric socket. It sounds so funny saying it out loud. While I was experiencing it, I was just like, “This is amazing. This feels so powerful.”

It’s like what I would read about or hear about when people talk about the third eye opening, and it truly is the connection to the universe, but the only way to get there is within you. I get that quote on a whole new level. A whole new level, that the universe is inside you. With that said, I was able to get back to that place a lot more. Even since I’ve left the retreat, I can still get that buzzy feeling in my head where I just feel super connected to the universe. And look, for those of you out there who are more religious or less religious, it’s all good. Dr. Joe puts it in ways that are scientific. You can call it the universe, you can call it source, you can call it God, you can call it universal consciousness. Your beliefs can still be part of this framework and teachings that I’m learning and so into.

Synchronicity

The other thing I’ll say, the third takeaway that I love so much, trust me, I have so many takeaways that I’m still digesting. The third main one I can talk about is synchronicity. Synchronicity and serendipity are the language of the universe. I loved hearing Dr. Joe say that over and over again, and to help us call that in through these deep meditations. When I say meditations, we do sitting meditations, we do lying down meditations, and we do walking meditations. There are all different types of meditations. If your mind is already going, “My back is going to hurt,” that’s just your body. Those are your limiting thoughts. Try and get beyond that if this is something you want to check out.

Synchronicity. Let’s talk about it a little bit. I have a couple of stories to share quickly about synchronicities that have been happening since I started this work, both during and since the retreat. I said, “I’m only three weeks away, not even two and a half weeks from the retreat ending.” During the retreat, Day 2 or 3, Dr. Joe was talking about frequency, how we can raise our frequency over and over using those words.

We’re at a meditation retreat. We’re doing meditations, at least 3 throughout every single day, and 3 meditations mean about an hour and a half long each one. I get a message on Instagram from a handle that has both of those words in it. I won’t say what it is, but it’s basically that. I’m like, “These are folks that I haven’t spoken to in years.” They reached out to see if they could pitch this show, my show, to some of the major airlines in the world for their in-flight services. I don’t know where it’ll land, but that’s pretty cool.

The whole biohacking pop-up was another one that came up, the woman who reached out to me from twenty years ago. It’s insane how I even got to the retreat in the first place. I feel like I told this story in one of my last podcasts, so I don’t want to overshare it, but essentially, the reason I got into that retreat because it was sold out, was through a total synchronicity.

A woman who heard me speaking, doing a keynote, and sharing Dr. Joe’s quote in it came up to me afterwards, said she knows him, works with him, and could probably help me get off that waiting list and into the retreat. It happened so magically. Dr. Joe says this is how the universe talks to us when we’re open to these things, when we’re open to the unknown. Sitting in the void, sitting in the blackness, sitting in the darkness, and being open and receptive to this language.

Honestly, that lesson, and again, I don’t have the eloquence in my language around it yet, but that lesson made me cry so hard on, I think it was, Day 1 or 2. For years, I feel like I’ve been forcing, trying to force outcomes. I force my way, force my goals, and do all these things. Sometimes, it gets really exhausting. It can also be frustrating when things don’t work out for you. In this new way of being, in this new practice of going so deep into these meditations, maybe I can just be open to how the universe would like to send me that intention.

You have to go in with an intention. It could be broad, like feelings. How do you want to feel? If I want a successful business, what will that make me feel? Will it feel like freedom? Will it feel like an accomplishment? Will it feel joyful? Will I be able to feel generous and share so much with so many people in my life? Those are the things that I really want. That’s the end feeling. That’s the end result. If I go in with that intention versus having the podcast in the top 1%, selling 100,000 books, and having a bestseller, these typical goals that entrepreneurs like me have, it felt so much more freeing. It felt so expansive.

It feels like there’s tons of room for magic. That’s my takeaway for you. Can you have these big, beautiful intentions for your life, set goals, and leave room for the magic? That’s just something. I also want to read someone else’s takeaways. I asked some of my new friends what their takeaways were in our group chat. I’m going to read some of them off. First of all, let’s call her J. All four of us have J names.

You can have these big, beautiful intentions for your life, set goals, and leave room for the magic.

JW says that it was about being able to make friends there. These types of friendships, these deep, connected friendships, which I already covered and went through. JM says, “My biggest takeaway is that there’s so much more unknown than known,” which points back to my last point about lingering in the unknown. I’ve truly been reflecting on that since my return. It’s added this little mysterious sparkle that I’m excited to explore. I love that.

JU, so many Js, wrote as I’m on this show. I’m just going to read it out. “We are multidimensional beings in a multidimensional universe. Landed in a whole new way,” she said. I can go on and on about these multidimensions, the quantum field, things that really blew my mind. I feel like I need to digest it a bit more before I start talking about it on the podcast.

She also says, “Change the information in the field to change matter.” That was one of my biggest takeaways, forcing matter with matter. If we can change the energy in the field, meaning the electromagnetic field that is most of this universe, matter is just a tiny bit of the universe, the rest is this electromagnetic field, energy, and vibration. If we change that, then we can change matter and collapse time, meaning we can attract things into our life much more quickly, much more easily, with ease, with grace, than the old way of being and thinking, which is like forcing.

She said, “Quantum healing is a reality. We can influence the electromagnetic activity of the Earth.” I’m questioning why I don’t spend all day long quantum healing. I’m questioning the same, how much time can I spend in this meditation all day long? Lastly, she says, “Wholeness equals connection and vice versa. Whenever I feel feelings of disconnection, I remind myself it is the illusion of disconnection. The truth is, in the fabric of quantum, we are all connected all the time.” That goes back to that first, that Rumi quote that I had, “Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is within you.”

Healing

How powerful is that? If you made that your mantra, anytime you are feeling lonely or disconnected from people, from sources, from God, or from the universe, just try that on. Go within, try on a meditation, and connect. This last takeaway, this is my number four takeaway, is, and it’s a big doozy here. Again, we are still digesting all this here, but we can heal ourselves. We can heal other people, too. During this retreat, three times, we had the absolute privilege and honor to practice coherence healings.

Meaning there were about 300 selected healies, as they were called, the people with ailments who wanted to be healed. The rest of us were the healers. We were obviously primed all week long, leading up to this beautiful, magical moment where we entered the solemn, sacred room, about seven to eight people per healie.

We meditated, and we raised the collective frequency and energy of the entire room. It was so moving and so beautiful, and then we rubbed our hands together. We felt the energy. That is us, we’re 99.9999999% energy. We held our hands out toward the healies. It was the most profound experience of my life. We got to do that three different times during the week. I still, like I said, don’t have all the words to really explain it, the effect, etc.

I know what you’re thinking. Was anyone healed? We might not know. Obviously, people can have spontaneous healings in the moment, but it could also take time. It could take weeks, or people might need to see their doctors, take tests, get results, etc.

I did hear some rumblings from conversations I was walking by. I will share one that I heard. A woman said that all the negative effects of chemo she felt were gone from her body just in that one healing session. Maybe it was over three, I don’t know, but I heard her on the last day, on the Friday, where she shared that.

I didn’t stop to talk to her. I don’t know what those negative effects of chemo were. Imagine that, and we got to hear testimonials from other folks who have had major healings in their lives, both physical and mental. People with severe anxiety don’t have anxiety anymore. People who were depressed and no longer feel depressed. These are life-changing healings that can take place when we raise our vibration in a collective movement.

Life-changing healings can take place when we raise our vibration in a collective movement.

If you’d like to hear more about this work, go to Dr. Joe Dispenza’s website. I think it’s just DrJoeDispenza.com. Find out more, get involved, listen to his talks. He’s on all the big podcasts. Dr. Joe, I’d love to have you on this show. If you’re reading, I’m putting that out there as a possibility in the quantum field, and mark my words, it’ll happen. He’ll be on here soon. I can bet on it.

Final Thoughts

With that said, I hope I gave you a little burst of badassery because even as someone who, like I said, there’s still so much more to learn. There’s so much more to embrace and to learn. There’s so much more unknown than known, which was one of the takeaways. Anything really is possible for you. If you’re struggling, there are many solutions. Let’s stop being so narrow in our thinking that there’s only one way out or no way out of our situation.

Let’s try to understand the idea that there are unlimited possibilities in the universe. When we go within, when we connect with ourselves, our higher selves, the universe, God, all of it, we will find the answers. I’m going to leave you with that, my friends. Make sure you subscribe to this show, leave a review. If you’re willing, I’d love to hear it.

Hit me up on Instagram at @JennCassetta. Send me a message if you’d like to go to the Montauk Retreat happening on October 10th through the 13th, 2024, in Montauk, New York. We are going to have so much fun and so many great discussions, especially if you’re looking to connect with people and have elevated conversations. I love you all. Thank you so much for listening, and I will see you soon.