Programs
Two ways into the work
The New Mysteries offers two programs, each its own container with its own intention. The Myesis is the foundational daily practice. The Anabasis is a six-week guided cohort, combining daily sacrament and journaling work with weekly breathwork alongside Mark.
Who this is for
You will recognize yourself
These programs are for people who have done well and still feel wrongly cast. You do not need a crisis to belong here, only the honest sense that something older than this morning is choosing your reactions for you.
- You react in ways you regret and cannot fully explain, especially with the people closest to you.
- You have read the books and done the workshops, and the pattern is still there.
- You are drawn to deeper work, and you want it held safely, with structure and a guide.
- You are willing to practice daily. Not perfectly. Daily.
Program one
The Myesis
There is an old story: a teacher pours a student a cup of tea until it overflows, and keeps pouring. Nothing more will go in, the teacher says, because your cup is already full. The Myesis is the practice of clearing what was poured into you before you could choose, so there is room for the life you actually want — the middle movement is even named for it: Empty the Cup.
It is the foundational daily practice at the heart of the mysteries, worked on your own over about ninety days. It moves through three movements, illumination, extrication, and elevation, each building on the one before, until the old vow loosens its grip and finally lets go.
- A ninety-day daily practice, morning and night
- Three movements: illumination, extrication, and elevation
- Disavowal and forgiveness practice, with support for resistance
- A foundation you can walk on your own or carry into The Anabasis
The practice
Three movements, walked in order
The Myesis moves through three movements, always in order, because release only holds when the vow has first been named. You walk them on your own, a little each day, over about ninety days.
- Movement 1:
Illumination
The practice begins with seeing. Each day you trace a present-day trigger back through body sensation and memory, gently and without force, until the old vow underneath it can be named. Most people meet a promise they made before they were seven years old.
- The daily seeing practice
- Body-based tracing of triggers to their origin
- The naming of your primary vow
- Movement 2:
Extrication
Naming is not enough; a vow this old must be released. This movement is Empty the Cup: daily disavowal, honest processing of the resistance that rises, and forgiveness, worked through the three cups of physical, mental, and spiritual release.
- The daily three-cup practice
- Support for resistance when it rises
- Forgiveness practice, for others and for yourself
- Movement 3:
Elevation
What fills the space a vow leaves behind? A new practice. Elevation stabilizes a daily rhythm of conscious living, so that response and choice take the place of automatic reaction, and the work keeps holding long after the ninety days end.
- A daily practice you keep
- New responses in place of old reactions
- A rhythm designed to outlast the ninety days
Program two
The Anabasis
Anabasis means the journey up and inward, the ascent. It is the guided, held course of The New Mysteries: a six-week sacramental practice, walked daily on your own and held together weekly by breathwork with Mark and a small circle, inside a sacred container. Its own arc — threshold, intention, revelation, shadow, expansion, and return.
Where The Myesis is a practice you can take up alone, The Anabasis is a container. It is held as sacred and ministerial, with clear agreements and, for those it is offered to, a sacrament received only within that container and only with informed consent. It arrives with physical objects made to sit on your table and hold the daily work.
- A guided multi-week passage, threshold to return
- Walked with Mark and a small circle of fellow travelers
- The printed Anabasis and the Calyx, sent to your door
- Held as a sacred container, with consent at every step
The objects
What arrives with The Anabasis
The guided course is anchored in physical objects, made to sit on your table and hold the daily practice.
The Anabasis
Your printed companion for the whole passage: the map of the three movements, the daily practices, and the pages where your own journey gets written.
The Calyx
The vessel of the daily practice. A physical anchor for the work of emptying, kept where you will see it every day.
A daily companion
A guided app accompanies the course: each day's practice, capture for what arises, and a private record of the path you are walking. Built to serve the work, never to distract from it.
Held with care
Read this before you join
Deep work deserves honest ground rules. Three matter most.
Ministerial, not medical
Participation is an act of voluntary religious engagement within a registered church, held in a pastoral capacity. It is not clinical treatment, and it does not create a provider-patient relationship of any kind.
The sacrament is sacred and optional
Where a sacrament is part of a program, it is offered exclusively within the church's religious container, with informed consent, screening, and full contraindication guidance before the program begins.
Breathwork asks something of the body
Some techniques involve deep rhythmic breathing that can trigger intense physical and emotional release. If you are pregnant or have cardiovascular disease, severe asthma, epilepsy, or a severe psychiatric condition, consult a licensed healthcare professional before participating.
The full disclaimer and important notices are published openly, and we ask every participant to read them before enrolling.
Questions
Asked often, answered honestly
What is the difference between The Myesis and The Anabasis?
The Myesis is the foundational daily practice: the three movements, illumination, extrication, and elevation, worked on your own over about ninety days. The Anabasis is a separate six-week program with its own arc — a daily sacrament and journaling practice, held together by weekly breathwork with Mark and a small circle, with physical objects like the Calyx and a sacred container. Many people begin with The Myesis and continue into The Anabasis, but the two are not the same journey.
Do I need to believe anything to do this work?
No. The New Mysteries is agnostic by design. We welcome people of every religious and secular background. The practices are offered as experiments to run for yourself, and your own experience is the only authority we appeal to.
Is this therapy?
No. These are religious and pastoral offerings of the church, not clinical services. Mark does not act as a medical provider within these programs, and the work is not a substitute for medical or psychological care. Many participants walk alongside their own therapist.
What is the time commitment?
The Myesis is a daily practice most people hold in 20 to 40 minutes, morning and night, across about ninety days. The Anabasis runs six weeks: a daily sacrament and journaling practice on your own, plus a weekly group breathwork session with Mark and your small circle. The daily rhythm is the point: the work holds because you show up for it every day.
What is the sacrament?
The Anabasis includes a sacrament, provided to enrolled members as an act of religious practice within the church's ministerial context. It is never recreational, participation is always a choice made with informed consent, and full contraindication guidance is provided to accepted participants before the container begins.
How do I join?
Both programs run in small cohorts so every traveler is genuinely held. Join the waitlist below, and Mark will reach out with dates and a conversation before anything else. There is no pressure at any point; the door simply opens when the next circle forms.
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Tell us a little about where you are, and which program calls to you. Mark reads every one of these.