Radical Aliveness Institute

Radical Aliveness Institute When you can engage powerful feelings without the need to control or tame them, that's Radical Aliveness.

Come alive to your authentic self and awaken the radically alive leader within. Radical Aliveness is a transformative process that works with the body's energy and uncensored emotions. In a safe but highly charged group setting, participants achieve cathartic healing and raw, honest connection with each other. Developed by Ann Bradney, this work is a further evolution of Core Energetics. Drawing o

n Core's body-based techniques, Radical Aliveness creates a space where individuals are encouraged to step into their own authority and become influential leaders who are present and involved in the world. We offer professional training, workshops, and community events:

• 2-Year Radical Aliveness Core Energetics Leadership Training Program, led by Ann Bradney and Resident and International Visiting Faculty; meets in Malibu, CA for five modules each year

• 4-Year Radical Aliveness Core Energetics Professional Certification Training Program, led by Ann Bradney and Resident and International Visiting Faculty; meets in Malibu, CA for five modules each year

• Weekend Workshops, led by Ann Bradney in Santa Monica (and occasionally in other cities); those in Santa Monica are offered five times throughout the year with different themes

• Advanced Weekend Workshops, led by Ann Bradney in Santa Monica; offered once or twice a year; open to those who have attended at least two Weekend or Esalen workshops with Ann

• Weekly Process Groups led by Ann Bradney in Santa Monica; meets weekday evenings 7-9pm; ongoing groups with minimum consecutive 12-week time commitment

• Workshop Retreats led by Ann Bradney at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, and at Hollyhock in Cortes Island, British Columbia; offered several times throughout the year; (registration is made through Esalen, Omega and Hollyhock; overnight stay included)

• Introductory Evenings / “Mini-workshops” led by Ann Bradney, Friday nights before Weekend Workshops (formerly at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore in West Hollywood; new times and location TBD)

• Introductory Evenings / “Mini-workshops” led by Faculty member Patricia Haman at Mystic Journey Bookstore in Venice, California; offered throughout the year

• Free Community Evenings led by trained members of the Radical Aliveness Community in Santa Monica; offered once a month

• International Radical Aliveness Trainings, led by Ann Bradney in Israel, Mexico, and the Netherlands; throughout the year

I am finally in Israel, and so happy to be here. My husband and I had plans to spend 3 months here starting in March, bu...
05/04/2026

I am finally in Israel, and so happy to be here.
My husband and I had plans to spend 3 months here starting in March, but the day before our flight, the war with Iran began (it seems every time I plan to bring him here a war breaks out). We were going to come anyway but after they first cancelled and then rescheduled our flights, we showed up at the airport only to be told we wouldn't be allowed in.
Finally, this week I was able to get a flight, and here I am for a month, working with my partners (Silvia and our graduated colleagues) on gathering people and resources for a new program.
Our goal is stronger than ever, especially after our last program. How do we bring people from different perspectives, different belief systems, different cultures, together to meet face to face and in doing so, to learn from each other. And beyond learning from each other- to fight for all of our humanity.
We are learning to walk together. To see that difference is actually something inherently beautiful and enriching about life. It feels like that is an evolution that human consciousness is reaching for. The world is full of difference and always will be. That is part of what makes it so gorgeous and interesting. But It is difference that is often used to tear us apart. I know it doesn't have to be that way. I know there is another path to take and I for one want to be on that path.
It is not a simple project. There are always grumbles and complaints, misunderstanding about the very nature of what we are doing, and that is okay. How could it be otherwise? As humans we know how to fight, to hate, to separate, but to stand together across difference.... that is a whole other endeavor.
This isn't political. It is about life. It is about trying something different than the endless fighting and hatred that seem to be getting worse. If there is another way to be with difference, if we can use it to bring people together, or allow them to live together, then what might the world look like?
We don't pretend to know. We don't strive to be perfect; we strive to keep going. We strive to keep trying. We strive to do our best to do something that is difficult, beautiful, messy, and lifechanging. We strive to be a laboratory that allows something new and unknown to emerge. We have forged a path together, a big group of intrepid humans. Now we want to keep going and bring more people with us, until we are a huge weight of people tipping the scales, changing the direction that the world seems to be moving.
Can we do it? It is just such a worthy cause. We are the keepers of the flame, we are the ones who believe it is worth a try. Travel with us. Come try this path. It is such a profound journey.
Love from this Holy Land.

You’re invited to a conversation on Monday, April 13th, between Ann Bradney, founder of the Radical Aliveness Institute,...
04/12/2026

You’re invited to a conversation on Monday, April 13th, between Ann Bradney, founder of the Radical Aliveness Institute, and Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger, co-founder of Roots and Director of International Relations.
Together, they will introduce a new collaboration between their organizations — one that brings Israelis and Palestinians into deep, transformative work rooted in personal and collective healing. The Zoom event will run from 8:00-9:30pm EDT / 5:00-6:30 PM PDT. Clink Link in Bio to register

I am excited to join Rav Hanan Schlesinger of Roots for this conversation, Join us!!LInk to register is in the comments.
04/03/2026

I am excited to join Rav Hanan Schlesinger of Roots for this conversation, Join us!!

LInk to register is in the comments.

02/27/2026

THANK YOU to whoever donated $500 to our work. I can't see who you are but THANK YOU! It means the world to us.

This e-blast should be easy- but I find my usual flow far away. There are so many mixed feelings: joy, awe, sadness, let...
02/11/2026

This e-blast should be easy- but I find my usual flow far away. There are so many mixed feelings: joy, awe, sadness, letting go, opening to new possibilities, and on and on and on.

We did it. What a simple way to express something so complex, so huge. WE DID IT. We graduated. We finished this part of the work. We had our last meeting as a program.

This first cohort was perfect of course. I really can't imagine having done this with any other group.

We had 5 days together this time. Ending with a beautiful graduation ceremony shared with friends and family, and on zoom, with North Americans who managed to wake up in the middle of the night to celebrate with us.

This time the group truly led the entire week. We had topics (which they didn't know ahead of time) and a lottery for who they would lead with. I smile to think that there was no hesitation in their yesses. Yes, to what they would take responsibility for, yes to who their partner was. We had a week of closure and such creative, meaningful, unique processes each morning and afternoon. We cried, we laughed, we danced, we spoke, and we celebrated each other and this profound time that we as a group traveled together. We acknowledged the reality that we humans are capable of so much more besides hate and violence. We are capable of learning, of staying, of listening and opening our hearts and eyes to other realities than we have known. And in that process, we are capable of creating a new world. REALLY.

I think that I will give you quotes from our speakers, Noa an Israeli Jew, and Sayel, a Palestinian living in the West Bank. And one from the whole group. They say everything that needs to be said.

NOA:
'Being here for three years has been an endless opportunity for discovery.
Some discoveries were difficult and painful; others were moving and profound.
This group agreed to hold my despair, my pain, and my anger — without turning me into “the angry one,” or “the hopeless one,” or attaching any label to my name.

Here, it was possible to be both and and and and — without labels — to be complex, layered, and changing, like life itself.'

'Today, we stand here and say goodbye to our group, to the beloved amoeba that it is. But we know we are not saying goodbye to this great spirit called RA.
A spirit that will scatter the seeds — which are us — throughout the world.
And one day, they will sprout.

At home, in our communities, and in places we may not yet be able to fully imagine. But we promise you: they will sprout — perhaps in places that today look like desert.'

SAYEL:
I arrived carrying more than I could hold, anger that had no place to land, grief that had been pushed aside, and a body that learned to stay silent so I could keep going. I wasn’t disconnected from my emotions — I was simply living above them.

Here, I learned that strength doesn’t lie in constant holding-on, but in the ability to allow confusion without running away. That anger is not an enemy. That grief is not weakness. And that joy doesn’t come from obligation — it comes from safety.

Radical Aliveness didn’t teach me how to change — it taught me how to stop resisting what already exists. How to be with myself without cruelty, and with others without disappearing.

I leave this journey with one thing absolutely clear:
Life is not meant to be managed — it is meant to be experienced.
Presence is a responsibility.
And choosing to be alive is a daily act of courage.

And the group:
For three years and under the shadow of war- there were so many reasons to leave and we stayed. We discovered that we changed in ways that we never could have imagined.

We are finishing a program that at times we thought would never end. Yet we will always be part of the language and of the borderless people brought to life- called Radical Aliveness.

HALLELUJAH!

Thank you to all who have given in all the ways you have.And Thank you to all who donated to the fundraiser.A new year b...
01/06/2026

Thank you to all who have given in all the ways you have.

And Thank you to all who donated to the fundraiser.

A new year begins for those of us who follow the Gregorian calendar. Here in the middle of winter in California (yes, we have winter!) the days have been dark and rainy. But my head knows we are already heading into the light.
Another year has passed.

For those of you who have followed my particular Radical Aliveness journey this year (because there are many happening in lots of places), you know it was a big one. We are coming right up to the finish line in Israel and Palestine. January is the graduation! I am so excited. We will have a shortened module with a big graduation at the end. The participants are planning it. It is going to be such a celebration and a recognition of the hard work, the willingness, the courage, the yes, the YES to life. I feel so grateful for this work. When really embodied it is a yes to life. It is an expansion, an ongoing expansion into wider and deeper knowing. It is a leveling, not on the external where so many hierarchies exist, but on the inner level. Yes. We are here on this journey together. Each of us in the life we have been given. Each of us with an opportunity to be part of this laboratory called life. Each of us has our own work to do, to do our part in this world, each of us is doing our best.

As my dear colleague has said over and over- when we know better, we do better. The goal of Radical Aliveness is to teach people to know better. Because we need a world where we can do our best and give our best. Even when our hearts are breaking. Even when life is so unfair, even when it all feels beyond us. We take our place in the great web and do the best we know.

May this year be one where you recognize the sacred in every moment. May this year be one where you find joy and aliveness. May this year be one where you learn from others because you have learned how to use what is outside of you to come back and find out more about yourself. And as you learn more about who you are- may you walk this world with mercy for all living beings.

This is my prayer; and this is my thank you to all who have supported us over the years. You have supported us by reading these writings, by being engaged in Radical Aliveness in all the places that people are bringing it, by bringing this work out yourself, by embodying the principles, by donating time and money and ideas to keep us going.

Today, at the beginning of this year, I am filled with hope. It is hard not to be filled with hope when I am surrounded by human beings who embrace these teachings and use them to make a difference in life.

THANK YOU is how I want to begin this year. I THANK YOU. love ann

12/31/2025

“I was telling people that if Palesitinans and Israelis and people from the different sides can do work over there, if they can do Radical Aliveness and somatic work, and, you know, connection - if they are able to make it happen there then anybody in the world can do it. Because I think that maybe it is one of the hardest places.”

[Najah, program participant] “You stayed with the group of Palestinians and Israelis together for three days - if you had another chance to return back…”

“Yes! I would love to. All our group, yesterday we had our first call together, and so many people said the same thing - for so many reasons I want to come back.”

Josee, workshop participant
Canadian
Radical Aliveness Leadership Program

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-next-cohort-of-the-peace-leadership-program

12/30/2025

“There was no Arab school. My family was the only Arab family in my city. I remember standing in the Jewish school holding my skirt in my hand and having to sing an Arab song.

I felt such a shame to sing in Arabic. I realize now that I wasn’t just shy. I froze because now everyone knew that I am Arab not Jewish. I am the Other. Not like them

I had no one to hold my hand. I had no one. So I held my skirt.”

Silvia, Program Co-Director
Israeli Palestinian
Radical Aliveness Leadership Program

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-next-cohort-of-the-peace-leadership-program (link in bio)

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