Christian de la Huerta
Discover how to stop playing small, transform your relationship with your ego and power, and cultivate a life of conscious choice, purpose, and fulfilling connections.
What does it mean to live heroically in the 21st century, where most of the actual dragons and demons to slay are the ones within, in the form of unprocessed trauma and acting out of old patterns that no longer serve you?
Many of us struggle to adopt the word “hero” for ourselves. We tend to associate it with great warriors or first responders — people who place their lives at risk for the sake of others, or a greater cause.
What about the rest of us?
If you’re feeling less fulfilled than you’d like to be… if you’re feeling stagnant or as if something more rewarding is missing… or if your challenges are even greater than that…
… know that you do deserve to be the hero of your own life.
For 30 years, author, teacher, and transformational leader Christian de la Huerta has encouraged himself and thousands of others to become such heroes — working with leading-edge contemplative practices, breathwork, and a number of transformational tools to understand the issues in your life that strip you of your truest, precious power, which he calls Soulful Power.
According to Christian, you have the capacity to embody an expanded version of heroism to include everyday challenges that lead to your own personal transformation and spiritual awakening — ultimately even in service to humanity’s evolution.
In doing so, you don’t necessarily place yourself at risk of physical survival in the way a warrior hero does — yet living in this world with calmness, clarity, emotional regulation, a capacity to love deeply, and an ability to embrace a life of purpose is no less heroic.
In this profoundly empowering course, Christian will guide you in gentle and practical ways to discover your ego mind’s delusions and its need for controlling power, so you can understand and manage its influence over you.
When you learn how to cultivate a perspective that’s wider than your ego, you develop choice and personal agency over your life — and reclaim all that has been lost to misguided ways of thinking and feeling.
Many people, for example, give their power away in relationships of all kinds — but nobody has the power to make you happy. Realizing your own happiness involves doing the deep inner work that will help you identify and address the subconscious ways that you sabotage relationships. Doing so frees you up to have more conscious relationships, either with a romantic partner or with family, friends, colleagues, or members of your community.
During this soul-empowering journey, you’ll:
- Learn guided meditations to connect with the hero within — to step fully into these acts of tremendous courage and selflessness that are truly the stuff of heroes
- Explore how to heal from your wounds and transcend past traumas by turning your gaze inward to your greatest challenge — your own core beliefs
- Stop playing small by learning how to prevent your ego mind from being stuck in a self-made prison of fear and limitation or selling out for the illusion of security
- Discover that there truly is a hero inside of you!
- Develop your power of forgiveness — refusing to be stuck in victim consciousness in adversarial relationships with others and to life
- Realize that true growth does not happen while you’re in your comfort zone — you can break free from the old, tired, and boring pattern of react and regret when you move yourself onto the hero path
- Explore what it means to have conscious relationships — in which both people are doing the work to create more harmony between you
- Learn some of your basic relationship patterns that might have you giving your power away and settling for less
- Answer the questions for yourself: Now what? What will I do with all this? How will I express my unique human potential, my inner hero, in the world?
- And much more…
Are you ready to live into the sense of playful freedom that your life can be? Evolve your self-confidence? Realize inner peace? Understand and release limiting beliefs and patterns that have been holding you back in life? Feel enlivened and energized?
It’s time to think and feel in fresh ways — to become a new person — delving deeply within, confronting your false ego’s toxic stories, and returning with a healed perspective on your past. It’s only from this new place that you can meaningfully engage with yourself through inner dialogue — and develop a powerful foundation from which to extend yourself to the world through conscious relationships.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational intensive, Christian de la Huerta will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully heal and integrate the aspects of yourself that challenge your inner peace, clarity, and core sense of worth.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Christian and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of his transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Weekly Sessions Thursdays at 9:00am Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive training sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Christian. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to confront and vanquish the unintegrated aspects of yourself that challenge your inner peace, clarity, and core sense of worth.
Module 1: Invoke Your Inner Hero — Reframe Your “Struggles” as Opportunities to Live a Conscious, Empowered & Expressive Life (March 2)
It’s time to dig deeper than the storybook and cinematic narratives of high adventure in lands, spaces, and dimensions far, far away — redefining heroism and what it can mean for you to live a truly heroic life in the 21st century. This is the first step in response to an inspirational inner call to shift how you think about yourself — and begin to see yourself as a hero!
It can be unpleasant to investigate the hidden parts of yourself. Framing it as heroic gives it a workable and accurate context. This is your opportunity to explore ways of thinking and living that are nothing less than heroic — and get to the bottom of why you do what you do. Only then can you make the changes necessary for the betterment of yourself and your life.
In this module, you’ll:
- Experience a guided meditation to connect with the hero within — to step fully into these acts of tremendous courage and selflessness that are truly the stuff of heroes
- Explore how to heal from your wounds and transcend past traumas by turning your gaze within to find and challenge the real monsters in your life — your core beliefs
- Begin to free yourself from your conditioning, managing your fears for the sake of personal growth, spiritual evolution, and to be a reliable resource to your family and friends
- Learn how overriding defensiveness and embodying the power of vulnerability with mindful, conscious self-observation facilitates being able to take the high road in interpersonal conflict
- Discover that there truly is a hero inside of you!
Module 2: Understand the True Nature of Your Ego to Release Its Toxic Grip Over Your Consciousness — So You Can Be the Real You (March 9)
If you want to be free, you have to understand your prison keeper — your EGO! Why do you take things so personally? Why do you engage in cycles of react/regret? Taking on attitudes of victimhood, holding judgments, and projecting are all governed by the ego. It’s complicated because it’s also not entirely bad.
There is much confusion in the world about what the ego is. Many will likely think it means arrogance or an otherwise inflated sense of self importance. The ego is that, yes, yet it’s so much more. Because there’s an abundance of confusion about this, it’s critically important to understand this unique aspect of our minds if we want to understand why we do the things we do — and consequently free ourselves from subconscious and self-defeating behavior patterns.
In this module, you’ll explore fresh, insightful ways of understanding your ego that will shift the way you see yourself. This will help you:
- Refuse to allow your ego to keep you playing small, stuck in a self-made prison of fear and limitation
- Free yourself from the past by realizing the power of forgiveness — refusing to be stuck in victim consciousness, in an adversarial relationship to others and to life
- Realize that true growth does not happen while you’re in your comfort zone — you can break free from the old, tired, and boring pattern of react and regret when you move yourself onto the hero path
- Push through laziness, risk aversion, and the desire for comfort and safety in order to step into your authentic life’s purpose
- Take on personal accountability for all our actions and responsibility for all situations in our lives
Module 3: Embody Your Soulful Power to Thrive With the Fullness of All Your Energy (March 16)
Many have been conditioned to mistrust power and avoid claiming it for ourselves… Have you ever said yes when inside you really felt no? We’ve all at times overridden our true beliefs, desires, preferences, and even dreams to avoid conflict or not rock the boat too much.
What if there were different ways of looking at power? What if there was a way to step into your personal power in a way that was not about hierarchy, abuse, fear, force, and domination?
This module will transform your relationship to power. It will help you see more clearly how we have been conditioned to think of power as dangerous, or bad, a source of abuse and a corrupting influence — and help you develop a strong practice of self advocacy.
In this module, you’ll:
- Understand the difference between worldly vs. soulful power in a way that will make it easier for you to deeply cultivate your personal power
- Explore practices to own all parts of your rejected self — reclaiming your energies back into your center
- Become aware of why you give your power away and get stuck in power struggles — resulting in making better relationship choices
- Experience a greater sense of confidence and self empowerment
- Discover how to reclaim your power and express it in the world authentically — no longer settling for less and able to access many more opportunities
Module 4: Deepen Into Your Soulful Power to Ground in Sovereign Presence for Greater Self-Worth & Confidence (March 23)
What are your personal triggers? In which relationships and situations do you tend to give your power away? Once you understand these concepts, you can discover your patterns — then you can go through life more aware and make different choices about how you are and who you become in relationships.
We dive even deeper into the themes of the previous module regarding issues of power — investigating your personal patterns and how they reveal your shadows and fallibilities in the context of relationships with family, friends, lovers, spouses, colleagues, community members, and others.
In this session, you’ll:
- Become better equipped to create healthy boundaries
- Discover some of your basic relationship patterns that might have you giving your power away and settling for less
- Become more aware about situations and relationships that have you selling out on your power
- Understand how you’ll be able to bring choice back into the equation by becoming more clear about your triggers and patterns
- Begin to notice a much deeper sense of self worth and expanded levels of self-confidence
Module 5: Step Fully Into Conscious Relationships of All Kinds for Deeper Partnership, Healing & Evolution (March 30)
Most people give their power away in relationships of all kinds — but you and your partner can actually use the container of relationship to heal yourselves.
As Ram Dass often shared, “relationships are the yoga of the West.” Doing it unconsciously is about using the relationship to fill a perceived lack, such as thinking, “If I have you, I’ll be happy” — but nobody can really make you happy if you’re not fundamentally resourced with happiness on your own.
Besides gaining fresh ways of framing relationships — like thinking of the relationship as a garden, one you’re both responsible for — you’ll also identify some of the subconscious ways in which we can sabotage our relationships and keep love at bay.
And you’ll better understand why it is that sometimes relationships feel like an old and tired movie rerun: same drama, same issues, same patterns — only with a different co-lead.
And, while this module focuses on romantic, intimate relationships, the wisdom gained will impact all types of relationships, in every area of your life.
In this session, you’ll:
- Discover how to have relationships that have a chance of working
- Explore what it means to have a conscious relationship — with both people doing the work to make the relationship a harmonious container
- Learn the various levels of conscious relationships
- Understand why we get stuck in patterns of relationships that sometimes feel like we’re in the same boring movie — and explore how to alter those patterns
- Discuss how to release obstacles to love, asking a very important question: What is love, really?
Week 6: Discover & Embody Your Purpose to Find Fulfillment in Self Expression & Service (April 6)
Getting clear about your purpose is a critical part of the ever-evolving process of being human — we all have a unique fingerprint of personal impact that we’re meant to express upon everything we touch.
But what does it mean to have purpose, and how can you discover yours? In this module, we’ll look at a variety of ways we can find and express it and gauge ourselves in terms of how fully we are 1) aware of our purpose, and 2) expressing it.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover why it’s important to know your purpose — to find and follow your bliss (and sometimes bliss-ters!)
- Engage in compassionate inner inquiry, going into the fears that hold you back
- Understand how to stop playing small — confronting that part of you who sells out for the illusion of security that a biweekly paycheck provides — and give expression to the unique human potential alive in you
- Explore the spectrum of purpose and conscious leadership
- Experience a practice to help reveal your true purpose
Week 7: Unleash Your Inner Hero to Bless Yourself, Your Family, Your Community & Our World (April 13)
Now you’re empowered — now what? You don’t need any more information. What’s needed is transformation! That comes from continuing on with this set of teachings, integrating them, and applying them to your life.
In this final module, it’s time to make an action plan so that this experience doesn’t stay just at the level of “good information” — it’ll provide you with tools and focus to continue developing your heroic nature for ongoing healing and evolution.
In this final session, you’ll:
- Look at why goals and resolutions tend to fall short — and learn to dive deeper and discover why you want what you want (and if that reason is ultimately good enough)
- Learn to identify sources of fear and potential obstacles — to navigate resistance and prevent self-sabotage, getting to a place of understanding core motivators
- Create an action plan that is doable, manageable, and self-rewarding — to use all the knowledge, wisdom, and understanding to do something real, actionable, and consequential in the world
- Experience a guided practice to help you get to the core drivers and motivators of your life
- Answer the questions for yourself: Now what? What will I do with all this? How will I express my unique human potential, my inner hero, in the world?
The Soulful Power Bonus Offering
In addition to Christian’s transformative 7-week virtual course, you’ll receive these special bonuses with leading visionaries and teachers to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Power Practices
PDF From Christian de la Huerta
Power practices integrate into your daily life to support power, presence, connection, confidence, and authenticity. Time- and field-tested by Christian over 30 years, they’re a culmination of practices and exercises that have transformed his life and the lives of his clients — and take on challenges, such as identifying who your heroes are… understanding and healing your ego… coming to terms with your beliefs about power… paths to Soulful Power… and much more. To make effective use of these practices, you’ll want to find a quiet place to sit down with a journal or digital writing tablet. Take on a couple of practices at a time, and keep repeating that process until they become second nature.
Awakening the Soul of Power, Chapter 2: “The Empire of the Ego”
PDF From Christian de la Huerta
If we are to truly heal, it’s necessary to first understand “the ego” — that subset of “you” that’s fabricated purely out of your mental activity and operates with a different set of priorities than those held by the deeper and wiser You that is your eternal divine nature. This chapter from Christian’s most recent book, Awakening the Soul of Power, will help you understand the ego and identify the areas of your life where it’s been running the show for way too long!
What People Are Saying About Christian de la Huerta…
— Skip Sams: “Christian Has Helped Me Recognize Where My Fear Is Coming From So I Can Replace It With Courage”
— Leticia Gimeno: “Everyone Should Know How to Feel This Way About Themselves”
— Catherine Howard: “I Wouldn’t Have the Life I Have Today If It Wasn’t for Christian”
— Mark Lipman: “Christian Has Helped Me to Face Life and Embrace Life”
— Bob Watts: “Christian Did Such a Great Job of Creating a Safe Container Where You Felt Comfortable Opening Up”
— Ignacio Mancisidor: “I Was Very Surprised at the Level of Empathy That Christian Had”
“Be ready for [Christian’s workshop] to change you for the better.”
If you have not gifted yourself the experience of one of Christian's workshops or retreats, I highly recommend that you do. I have now attended at least 10 and have loved each experience. Connection, personal healing, support, and accountability, and always a truly beautiful group of souls converging together with this magnificent man, brother, and friend. It was the best gift I've given myself over the last five years. Be ready for it to change you for the better.
— Eric Sletteland
“Yesterday I thought I would break and open thousands of times more.”
All my love and deep gratitude for holding that Sacred Masculine where I can trust and open more to love. You hold a space of deep integrity and trust. Yesterday I thought I would break and open thousands of times more. Love is so amazing and sweet.
— Adriana Rodriguez
“You changed my fear to trust!”
I am blessed by your presence in my life. You changed my fear to trust!
— Kathleen Kennedy
“... the work [Christian] does is so deep that you never really sense it fading — even years afterward.”
I can’t really say enough about Christian’s individual work and about the value of his retreats. I’ve attended one of his Soulful Power retreats. His work has always inspired me to get in touch with — and stay in touch with — my deeper, more-grounded “internal self.” His dedication to his fellow women and men is profoundly inspirational and his deep compassion is awesome; not just to observe — but to actually feel. The incredible thing is that the work he does is so deep that you never really sense it fading — even years afterward. That’s probably because his methods help you to find your actual “path” — and once you’re on that path, he encourages you to stay on it once and for all.
— Michael Walker
“[Christian’s retreat] saved my marriage!”
The best decision I’ve ever made was coming to a retreat! It changed my life forever! It saved my marriage! So so grateful!!!
— Fernanda
Join the Global Community
Soulful Power offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Christian de la Huerta will share in this powerful training.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Christian de la Huerta
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from author, teacher, and retreat facilitator Christian de la Huerta, founder of Soulful Power — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to integrate aspects of yourself that challenge your inner peace, clarity, and core sense of worth. Course sessions are on Thursdays at 9:00am Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the digital video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are available for live attendance only and are not recorded for playback. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
The Soulful Power Bonus Offering
- Power Practices
PDF From Christian de la Huerta - Awakening the Soul of Power, Chapter 2: “The Empire of the Ego”
PDF From Christian de la Huerta
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Training, Soulful Power
We feel honored that Christian de la Huerta has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with the founder of Soulful Power whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about freeing yourself from the past and embodying Soulful Power, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE Soulful Power — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before March 16, 2023 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for Christian de la Huerta…
“I found it to be an introspective work that is a balm for the soul of anyone searching for truth and answers to life’s difficult questions…”
It is a rare occurrence indeed when a book not only delivers on its message but also gives you practical, straightforward, and incredibly wise ways in which to apply the teachings put forth in “Awakening the Soul of Power.” I found it to be an introspective work that is a balm for the soul of anyone searching for truth and answers to life’s difficult questions, and I truly look forward to the rest of Christian de la Huerta’s amazing Calling All Heroes series. It inspired me to purchase his previous book, “Coming Out Spiritually: The Next Step.”
— Gloria Estefan, singer, songwriter, multiple Grammy award–winner
“Christian de la Huerta has been one of those visionaries that I believe to have a real understanding of what is called upon within each of us to make change.”
Christian de la Huerta has been one of those visionaries that I believe to have a real understanding of what is called upon within each of us to make change. In his new book, “Awakening the Soul of Power,” he has created a blueprint for self-awareness that will make each of us a hero or heroine in the battle to not only change personally but in the process change the planet. Another remarkable book from a remarkable man.
— David Mixner, civil rights activist and author of Stranger Among Friends
“[Christian’s] is a voice worth heeding in this time of the dark night of our species.”
I have had the privilege of knowing Christian for over 30 years and have come to respect and admire his integrity that shines through in all that he does and attempts to do (including his breathwork, which I have profited richly from). In this book he talks about our becoming the “heroes” we are called to be. The theological word for hero is saint. The teachings and practices he lays out here are lessons appropriate to discovering holiness once again—not only our capacity for it but everyone’s capacity for it. Is it time for holiness? For courage, creativity, and adventure? Christian thinks so, and he offers a useful and tried map forward based on his own inner work and decades of focused retreat gatherings where life stories rise, and hearts catch fire. His is a voice worth heeding in this time of the dark night of our species.
— Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing and The Tao of Thomas Aquinas
About Christian de la Huerta
With over 30 years of experience, Christian de la Huerta is a sought-after spiritual teacher, personal transformation coach, and leading voice in the LGBTQ and breathwork communities. An award-winning author, retreat facilitator, and relationships expert, Christian’s unique self-development programs are featured around the world in university lecture halls, retreat centers, corporate boardrooms, houses of worship, and the TEDx stage.
Christian’s programs, including his virtual group coaching program, Adventures in Transformation, all share a single mission: to create profound personal transformation. His retreats, workshops, and other events are known for their life-changing effects, offering inspiring and transformative exploration of our innate human potential. They are designed to help people get free and step into their authentic power in order to enjoy lives of meaning and purpose and relationships that work.
Christian’s award-winning book, Coming Out Spiritually, was chosen by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the 10 best religion books of its year and was widely regarded critically as a trend-setting accomplishment in its field. His newest book, Awakening the Soul of Power, the first in the 3-book series Calling All Heroes, inspires readers to engage power in new ways that transform their relationship to power, generating deeper levels of fulfillment and personal freedom.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What’s a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live and pre-recorded teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a computer, mobile device, or telephone. If there’s more than one person in your household taking the course, you’ll each need your own connection. We use Zoom video conferencing to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
There’s no additional charge for connecting to Zoom with your computer or mobile device. Please note that dialing Zoom from your telephone is a toll call; your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. International access numbers are available.
“I’ve never seen a course so well put together ever...”
I had never participated before in an online course. The packaging, presentation, inclusion, and Facebook postings created a wonderful, safe cocoon within which to participate. I’ve never seen a course so well put together ever — not in all the years of taking college classes — and I had my doubts about doing an online course. The wealth of organization and ease of learning materials and support made this fun as well.
— Claudia F., Medford, Massachusetts
Can I still benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can stream the recordings and download the transcripts of all course sessions, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage with the full community and leaders in our private online community group.
Q: Can you tell me about the private online community group?
A: We’ll have a private online community group for all course participants on Facebook that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, and completing homework assignments that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, for those who otherwise would not be able to enroll at the regular rate. If you’d like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What’s your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is March 16, 2023. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Qualifying refunds will be processed within five business days and an email confirming the refund will be sent. However, we’d love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there’s something we can assist you with, please email us at support@theshiftnetwork.com and we’ll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
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