Presented by Alex Olshonsky & Aurora
A four-week live course to get out of your head and fully into your life.
Why I made this course3 min
The trouble is that overthinking now passes for being a responsible, informed, together adult.
A decision that should take two minutes can consume an afternoon.
One text from a coworker or lover can derail your sleep.
You think about your work instead of doing your best work, or disappear into an imaginary scenario while someone you love is sitting right in front of you.
Eventually, the habit becomes so familiar that it feels like who you are.
Most of us were simply never taught how to work with it in a practical way.
With practice, you can catch the loop while it is happening, soften the body, and return to what matters most to you.
Over time, you stop being pushed around by every thought that enters your mind.
More of your attention becomes available for the work you care about, the people you love, and the moments of creativity, ease, and flow that make life feel radically alive.
“Even after years of meditation and inner work, I still couldn’t get out of my head. Alex’s workshops changed my relationship to thought and gave me simple practices I use every day. They’ve brought more ease, peace, and flow into my life than anything else I’ve tried.”
The course draws on the three bodies of work that most changed my own relationship with thought.
See the problem clearly, count the cost, take ownership, and begin choosing differently.
Learn to work with the body, not just the mind, so the whole system can loosen its hypervigilant grip.
Use meditation and attentional training to unhook from thought and open to a wider view.
An experiential, practice-heavy container with enough support to make the work embodied and integrated into your life.
One 90-minute teaching session and one 60-minute practice lab session.
A concise online curriculum with guided audio, video, and preparation for the live sessions.
About 20 minutes of self-practice each day, plus small experiments to integrate this into your life.
A private online community space for practice, sharing, and accountability.
A 1:1 session with Alex, with timing and format shaped to the cohort.
Selected sessions with complementary voices in movement, psychology, and lived experience.
This course has one singular aim.
Each catch compounds until the grip of overthinking begins to loosen on its own—and conversation, work, creativity, and life become easier to rejoin.
Learn to catch the moment thought takes over, soften the body beneath it, and return to what matters.
You notice overthinking only after you’ve been lost in it for a while.
Your body stays tense, and the thought feels urgent and hard to put down.
Returning to life takes effort because the thought still feels like it needs solving.
You catch overthinking while it is happening, before the loop completely takes over.
You soften the body, and the thought loosens without needing to solve it.
You return sooner to what matters most, trusting that you don’t need to follow the thought.
Overthinking still happens, but you notice it early and it no longer becomes a problem.
The body softens, and the thought releases naturally with little or no effort.
You return naturally to life and flow, trusting thoughts to come and go on their own.
The curriculum builds a ladder of resources. The body and openness are complementary doors; different doors work for different people and moments.
Catch the loop
Recognize rumination earlier, relax its momentum, and create enough space to return to what matters.
Come back to the body
Learn to collaborate with the body as a grounded resource when thought feels charged or braced.
Open beyond thought
Widen attention through the senses, space, and movement, and learn which doorway fits the moment.
Live the practice
Consolidate the daily practice, strengthen return and trust, and leave with a plan to bring this into your life.
Four weeks of daily practice, fewer inputs, and heartfelt people beside you.
A daily sit, brief morning and evening touchpoints, and catches IRL help returning become a new habit.
A private community and practice sessions give you somewhere to share wins and challenges and stay accountable.
We reduce the inputs that keep the nervous system activated—fewer compulsive inputs, less automatic distraction, and more room for life.
What people have said after attending our workshops.
“It felt like, for a long time, I had forgotten this part of me—and now it was taking the scene again. My thoughts had already lost their grip on my consciousness. They became secondary. They were still with me, but with a very loose grip.”
“Once I let go of that judgment, something just bubbled up by itself. It was so nice to feel real attention, warmth, and presence.”
“My brain wasn’t turned off—it was very instinct-based, with the activity rather than thinking about it or trying to control it. It felt more like a dance between thinking and moving.”
Hi, I’m Alex.This course is the culmination of my life’s work, and my central thesis.
My path here began with a multi-substance addiction that nearly took my life. Recovery sent me headfirst into every modality I could find, then deeper, into somatic psychology and years of intensive contemplative training across numerous traditions.
And what I found is that addiction gets subtler the further you follow it. Once the substances were gone, I had to unhook from the screens, modernity’s drug of choice. Even once I was free of that, as my spiritual practice matured, I realized the final boss was the compulsion to think my way out of uncertainty, discomfort, and life itself.
Relaxing that compulsion has led to the deepest freedom of my life, and helping people do the same is now my mission. It’s taken different forms over the years, whether co-founding Natura Care, a nonprofit for spiritual care in addiction recovery, holding somatic sessions as a Certified Hakomi Practitioner, leading men’s groups and retreats, or coaching executives. These days it centers on teaching and writing about freedom from overthinking, and my essays on the subject have reached hundreds of thousands of readers.
I want to be clear that none of these traditions or practices began with me. I see my work as a bridge, distilling the best of what I’ve found and bringing it to you, for modern life.
I still overthink, by the way. It just releases on its own now and isn’t much of a problem, because something wiser than the voice in my head is running the show. My hope for you with this course is simple: to stop thinking your way through the one life you get and taste just how good it can be to flow with it.
Next cohort expected in early 2027.
Dates to be announced soon.
You’ll receive access to
Interviews and essays for spending more time with the ideas behind the course.
OverthinkingYou’re probably addicted to thinkingOn how to break the deepest habit and live more intuitively.Read ↗
PracticeThe cure for your thinking addictionA guide for unhooking from the voice in your head and stepping into a larger life.Read ↗
AttentionTrain your attention, or something else willA practice for reclaiming attentional agency, perhaps your most underrated freedom.Read ↗
EmbodimentWaking up the right side of your brainBreaking your addiction to thought and coming home to the world.Read ↗
DirectionThe two directions your life can goToward something, or away from everything.Read ↗
Digital lifeLet’s talk about how often we pick up our phonesThe hidden cost of 144 daily phone grabs fragmenting your mind.Read ↗
RecoveryUnderstanding modern addictionA quick primer on the spectrum many of us now live inside.Read ↗
RecoveryAddiction is between you and the worldReciprocal narrowing and opening.Read ↗Everything you need to know before joining. Still have a question? Get in touch with Alex.
Next cohort expected in early 2027. Dates to be announced soon.
This course is built for busy people with full lives. The teaching and main-room practice are recorded, so you can follow asynchronously and stay on track. That said, I encourage you to come live whenever you can — the relational work, practice exercises, and guest speakers are where the course goes deepest, and the small-group breakouts are unrecorded by design. Between sessions, the private community is another place to ask questions, share wins, and stay connected.
Plan on the two live sessions each week, plus about 20 minutes of daily practice, which we'll help you build over the month.
You can't think your way out of overthinking, so the course’s live sessions are deliberately practice-heavy. Brief, focused material will provide guidance and a frame, but most of our time together is spent practicing, applying, troubleshooting, and deepening presence.
Yes to both. If splitting the $949 into two payments would help, email us and we'll set it up. The same goes for scholarships: a small number of reduced-rate spots are set aside for people for whom cost is a prohibitive barrier, in exchange for detailed feedback.
Sometimes you need to experience the course before you can know whether it is right for you. If it does not feel like the right fit during the first week, email us and we will refund your full payment.
No prior experience is required. Readiness and curiosity matter more. The course welcomes first-time practitioners and experienced practitioners who still get caught in this pattern.
Because it works like one. Something uncomfortable arises, and the mind reaches for a thought the same way people reach for an app or a drink. It's a practical lens rather than a clinical diagnosis, meant to be immediately useful in your life. And the frame carries a hopeful promise: people recover.
No. The course is educational and practice-based, and it isn't a replacement for psychotherapy, medical care, or clinical treatment. Plenty of people take this alongside therapy, and the two complement each other well. But if you're navigating something acute, like clinical OCD, severe anxiety, or unprocessed trauma, please work with a specialized clinician or practitioner first.
At its heart, this course trains what I call attentional agency, the ability to notice when thought has taken over and return your attention to the life in front of you.
I believe this capacity will only matter more in the AI age. As machines get better at cognition, we’ll need better access to the parts of our intelligence that are uniquely human. I suspect much of the creativity needed to meet the problems ahead will come from this deeper register. Our ability to enjoy life in such high-voltage times may depend on it, too.
But I’d be underselling the practice if I said that was the sum of my hopes for you. I hope this course also becomes a launching pad for spiritual practice. You come to work on overthinking and get a taste of what becomes possible. Of what you are really capable of.
—Alex
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