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The Freedom Method

With Michael Mackintosh

What if freedom wasn't something you had to find... but somewhere you could return to, again and again, in any moment of your day? The Freedom Method is a profound yet beautifully simple practice rooted in one truth: you are a spiritual being having a human experience. You come from a world of infinite light, peace, and stillness — and you can access that world right now, with nothing more than your awareness and your breath. In this five-session course, teacher and meditation guide Michael Mackintosh takes you step by step from your first taste of going beyond, all the way to living the Freedom Method as a daily way of life. Drawing on nearly 30 years of practice and study with spiritual masters, Michael shares not just a technique but a complete shift in how you see yourself, your life, and everything in it. You will learn to rise above the noise of daily life, touch a place of infinite stillness, and return carrying that peace with you. You will discover how to use your breath as a portal, how to hold life's challenges from a billion-light-year perspective, and how to wake each morning as what you truly are — an eternal being here for something meaningful. This course is for beginners and experienced meditators alike. No special beliefs are required — only openness and a willingness to explore. The more you practice, the deeper it goes. And the deeper it goes, the freer you feel.

Go beyond the world and return to life feeling free.

5 Days

292 students

5.0 stars

25 min / day

English

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Michael Mackintosh

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Sedona, AZ, USA

Michael Mackintosh has been practicing meditation for nearly 30 years, beginning at 18 when a single session led to a profound and unexpected spiritual awakening that transformed the course of his life. Since then he has studied extensively with spiritual masters across multiple traditions and has guided thousands of students in meditation, consciousness, and inner freedom. Michael teaches from direct experience rather than theory. His approach is practical, accessible, and rooted in the understanding that genuine spiritual freedom is not reserved for monks or mystics — it is available to anyone willing to explore it. He has spent decades distilling these experiences into simple practices that work for both complete beginners and long-term meditators alike. He lives in Sedona, Arizona.

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5 Days

292 students

5.0 stars

25 min / day

English

Lesson 1

There Is A Home Beyond This World — And You Can Go There

What if the key to feeling lighter, freer, and more at peace was already inside you — and only takes a few seconds to access? This opening session is your introduction to the Freedom Method — a practice rooted in one simple but profound truth: you are a spiritual being having a human experience. Not just as an idea, but as something you can actually feel. Michael Mackintosh shares how this practice found him at 18, during a moment of depression and confusion, when a single meditation experience changed the entire course of his life. What followed were nearly 30 years of practice and study — and the quiet discovery that the more we expand our awareness beyond the noise of daily life, the more peaceful, joyful, and free we become. In this session, you will get your first taste of the Freedom Method through a short guided practice — gently floating your awareness up and out, beyond the body, beyond the world, and into a vast space of golden stillness and peace, before returning back to your life feeling refreshed. No prior experience is needed. No special beliefs required. This practice meets you exactly where you are.

Lesson 2

You Are the Avatar — Master Of Two Worlds

Have you ever stepped away from a stressful situation, taken a breath, and come back feeling like you could finally handle it? That simple experience points to something much deeper — and in this session, we explore exactly what it means. In this session Michael Mackintosh introduces one of the most powerful ideas at the heart of the Freedom Method: that we are not here to escape life, but to master it from a higher place. Like an avatar — a being who travels beyond and returns with wisdom, love, and fresh energy — we can learn to move between worlds consciously, bringing peace back with us every time. You will discover the four levels of this practice: knowledge, awareness, experience, and embodiment — and understand why most people stay at the first level, and how to go deeper. Michael shares the moment he sat with a flickering candle, finally let go, and glimpsed eternity with his eyes open. Time stopped. Everything was still. And he came back completely free. This session includes a guided practice taking you gently beyond the body and the world, into the golden light of your spiritual home, and back — so you can begin to feel what it truly means to be a master of two worlds.

Lesson 3

The Magic Breath — Your Portal To Freedom

You are always breathing. What if every breath could be a doorway to infinite peace? In this session Michael Mackintosh shares one of the most practical and beautiful tools in the Freedom Method — the freedom breath. Breathing in, you rise into the golden light. Breathing out, you return, carrying that peace through your whole being. Simple, portable, and endlessly powerful. This means you do not need a meditation cushion, a quiet room, or a spare hour. You can practice going beyond and coming back at your desk, on a walk, between meetings, or lying in bed at night. Thousands of times a day if you wish — and the more you do, the lighter you feel. Michael also shares something quietly profound about the final breath we will all one day take — and why making peace with that reality is one of the most liberating things we can do. This is not a morbid thought. It is an invitation to live more fully, more gratefully, and more freely right now. By the end of this session, you will have a practice you can carry everywhere — a tiny but mighty portal to stillness available in every moment of your day.

Lesson 4

The Deep Freedom Meditation — A Full Journey Beyond The World And Back

This is the heart of the Freedom Method — a deep, unhurried guided journey into the infinite light and home again. In this session there are no concepts to learn and nothing to figure out. You are simply invited to let go — of your body, your thoughts, your worries, your sense of time — and allow yourself to travel beyond the physical world into the vast, golden stillness that has always been your true home. Michael Mackintosh guides you gently upward through the sky, past the earth, through the solar system and the stars, all the way to the edge of the universe and beyond — into a dimension of infinite peace where nothing is missing, nothing needs to change, and you are completely, deeply safe. You will rest there. You will feel what it is to be fully free. And then, carrying all that light and stillness with you, you will return — back into your body, your life, your day — as an avatar who has touched eternity. This meditation can be returned to again and again. Each time you will go a little deeper. Each time you will bring a little more of that freedom back with you.

Lesson 5

Jivan Mukti — Living Free While Fully Alive

Freedom is not a feeling reserved for the meditation cushion. It is a way of life — and this final session shows you exactly how to live it. In this session, Michael Mackintosh introduces the ancient Sanskrit concept of Jivan Mukti — freedom whilst alive. Not freedom from life, but freedom within it. The ability to move through your days with lightness, gratitude, and an unshakeable sense of peace, no matter what is happening around you. You will learn how to carry the Freedom Method into your mornings, your work, your relationships, and even your sleep. How a simple thought upon waking can transform your entire day. How to use challenges as gifts rather than burdens. How to hold any problem from a billion-light-year perspective — and feel it gently soften. This is the session where the practice becomes a life. Where going beyond and coming back is no longer something you do — it is simply who you are. You will leave this course not just with a technique, but with a completely new relationship to being alive. Grateful, expanded, free — and ready to keep going deeper.