An Introduction To Shadow Work
With Meditations By KarlMost people spend their lives being quietly run by parts of themselves they have never properly examined: the reactions that feel too large for the situation, the patterns that repeat regardless of how different the circumstances seem, and the persistent gap between who shows up in public and who exists in the quiet. The Unmanaged Self is a 10-day audio course in shadow work, the Jungian practice of turning toward the parts of yourself you have spent years carefully managing, performing around, and pretending are not there, the parts that show up anyway. This course draws from Jung, the Stoics, Nietzsche, and Frankl, not as names to drop, but as practical tools for understanding why intelligent adults keep doing the things they know better than to do. Over 10 days, you will map the architecture of your shadow, identify the patterns driving your behaviour in daily life, apply a philosophical toolkit drawn from people who understood genuine difficulty, and arrive at a clearer understanding of who you actually are beneath the performance. No prior experience with psychology or shadow work is required.
An introduction to deeply understanding yourself and your reactions.
About this course
Most people spend their lives being quietly run by parts of themselves they have never properly examined: the reactions that feel too large for the situation, the patterns that repeat regardless of how different the circumstances seem, and the persistent gap between who shows up in public and who exists in the quiet. The Unmanaged Self is a 10-day audio course in shadow work, the Jungian practice of turning toward the parts of yourself you have spent years carefully managing, performing around, and pretending are not there, the parts that show up anyway. This course draws from Jung, the Stoics, Nietzsche, and Frankl, not as names to drop, but as practical tools for understanding why intelligent adults keep doing the things they know better than to do. Over 10 days, you will map the architecture of your shadow, identify the patterns driving your behaviour in daily life, apply a philosophical toolkit drawn from people who understood genuine difficulty, and arrive at a clearer understanding of who you actually are beneath the performance. No prior experience with psychology or shadow work is required.
Meet your Teacher
Karl is a professional sound designer and voice artist based in Madrid, Spain, and one of Insight Timer's established teachers under the brand Meditations by Karl. With a background spanning audiobooks, audio drama, and guided meditation production, Karl has spent years working at the intersection of sound and the inner life, understanding, through direct experience, how atmosphere and voice shape what people feel at the deepest level. Shadow Work In 10 Days is not a course Karl observed from a distance and decided to teach. It was built because he needed it. Years of genuine shadow work, navigating addiction, sobriety, and the particular kind of self-examination that comes when the noise finally quiets, produced a body of hard-won understanding that this course is built from. Drawing from Jungian psychology, Stoic philosophy, and thinkers including Nietzsche, Frankl, and Hillman, Karl brings the same precision to this material that he brings to his sound work nothing wasted, nothing performative, every element chosen because it does something real. His voice has been described as grounded, direct, and genuinely warm. The kind that makes you feel the person speaking has actually been where they are asking you to go.