Existential Fear At The Root Of All Anxiety

This course aims to help students understand anxiety as a natural response to awareness and vulnerability, recognize existential fear as a root layer of anxiety, and reduce self-blame and pathologizing interpretations. Students will learn how to stay present with fear rather than immediately trying to eliminate it, while exploring the deeper links between anxiety, love, attachment, and uncertainty.

Students can expect short teaching segments followed by brief embodied meditations, with an emphasis on understanding first and then allowing space for direct experience. The course focuses on presence and one’s relationship to anxiety rather than quick relief, uses trauma-aware and non-pathologizing language, and unfolds at a slow, non-linear pace with permission to return to lessons as needed.

Lección 1: To Be Alive With Awareness Is To Know Anxiety: When Fear Has No Clear Cause

Anxiety does not always have a clear trigger. This lesson explores anxiety that arises simply from being alive with awareness and offers a practice for staying present when fear has no obvious source.

Lección 2: Existential Fear At The Root Of All Anxiety: Staying Present With The Fear Beneath Fear

This lesson explores how anxiety often arises from existential awareness of our impermanence rather than immediate danger and offers a practice for staying present with fear without trying to eliminate it.

Lección 3: Existential Fear And The Cost Of Love: The Anxiety Of Loving What You Can Lose

Love and the experience around it make us vulnerable. This lesson explores anxiety as a natural response to caring deeply and offers a practice for staying present with fear that arises from attachment.

Lección 4: To Live Without Certainty: Presence In The Face Of Existential Anxiety

This final lesson explores embodied presence as the capacity to remain with uncertainty regardless of emotions around circumstance. It also offers a practice for living without the need for resolution or certainty.