Dyads are a form of self inquiry done with a partner, designed to bring about direct experience of your true nature (also known as kensho, samadhi, or awakening)

Developed by Charles Berner in the 1960s, these dyads are a core component of the Enlightenment Intensive workshops, which aim to help participants achieve a direct, non-verbal experience of their true nature or consciousness. The “I AM” app incorporates and is in alignment with the self inquiry of Ramana Maharshi, the Zen traditions, and owes a great debt to the Charles Berner Self inquiry method, as well as the dyad techniques used in modern psychology.

A self inquiry intensive is the most powerful tool that we know of for awakening. It may be the perfect catalyst for awakening at a certain point on your evolutionary journey, but it is not for everyone. One may have physical or psychological healing that needs to happen before doing one of these retreats. Please contact us and arrange a zoom call for more information.

Although we have designed the app as a teaching tool and endeavored to convey the technique in the teachings, we still recommend that you come to an intensive to learn the technique and to work with live facilitators. It often takes days of “unknowing” at an intensive to enter into a don’t-know mind and it is something that is difficult to navigate on one’s own. The online retreat is a place where you can ask questions about the technique and anything that is coming up in your practice.

When we usually speak of knowing something, we are speaking about information received from the mind and senses in the form of experience. It is the conditioned self or personality that experiences and knows through the mind and senses. Direct knowledge of your true nature is not mediated by the mind and senses. It is akin to waking up from the dream character that you have been experiencing or identified with, where one “just knows” that one is awake. It is not learned, or conditioned knowledge; it is something intrinsic to our being at a much deeper or more fundamental level. It is a realization of the timeless, eternal, primordial awareness that you are, beyond name and form.

Once you have experienced the benefits of the technique and know who you are, it is natural to want to share and facilitate others. We have a free training program for those with this calling. Please reach out to us at [email protected].

When you enter into a dyad, you are entering into an agreement to respect the privacy of those in the dyads. Anything shared within a dyads may not be recorded, shared or repeated outside of the dyad in any way.

Yes, the facilitator's will have their available times and dates in the calendar section of the app.

Yes, the web application will work on any device. We recommend a laptop or desktop computer for the optimal experience, but other devices will work.

If you're experiencing issues with the IAM App, we've prepared a comprehensive troubleshooting guide covering the most common problems, solutions, and recommended steps. You can access the full document at the following link: Troubleshooting IAM APP.