Big thanks to the 49 members who completed our annual member survey. Your detailed feedback will help me give you an even better Awakening Plus experience in 2026!
Before we get into the survey results – and announce our two free session winners – let’s do a quick review of our most dynamic year so far!
Awakening Plus 2025 Milestones
January
- “Ask the Channel” event begins.
- “Law of Attraction” course posted.
February
- “Channeling Class” begins.
- I announce new Awakening Plus membership levels. These include budget options, as well as Bronze, Silver, and Gold premium tiers with extra benefits.
- I announce major improvements to our Archive Events pages, including:
- Each subcategory in our “Best Of” pages now ends with a complete listing of all other events of the same type. This expands the “Best Of” section into a complete archive of all events sorted by type. At the same time, it clearly distinguishes “Best Of” events from the others.
- All best-of events are now marked with an asterisk on the Event Archive landing page.
March
- New “Dream Weaving” events, led by Stephanie Dobranski, begin.
April
- First “Chakra Clearing and Empowerment Invocations” event.
May
- Our Signal group launches.
June
- Two new courses go live: “How to Channel” and “Dream Weaving.”
- To reflect its expanded scope, I change the name of our “Individual and Group Healing” event to “Individual, Group & Global Healing.”
October
- We now have two Signal groups: “Personal Support Only” and “Everything Else.” This ensures that members’ support requests get the prompt attention they need.
- After careful consideration, including two surveys and discussions with many members, I remove an “abrasive” member.
November
- Following the “abrasive” member’s removal, I host the special event, “A Discussion on Inclusion and Safety Within Awakening Plus.” This inspires me to add a paragraph to our Signal information page about being “kind, considerate, and respectful.” I also give fair warning of possible removal from the Signal groups or the membership if a member displays “extreme or repeated unkindness, inconsiderateness, or disrespect.”
December
- The longer final round of “Individual, Group & Global Healing” now includes a group love seat. It can accommodate an unlimited number of members, including those using the archive recording!
2025 was full of positive changes for Awakening Plus. Now let’s look at the changes that will make your membership experience even better in 2026!
Event Ratings
Your event ratings in the annual survey strongly influenced my scheduling decisions. Here are my intentions as we move forward. Everything is always subject to change, since the biggest room in the world is … room for improvement!
The number after each event shows its member rating on a five-point scale. When I schedule a lower-rated event more often, it’s because I think its importance outweighs its popularity.
Weekly
- Individual, Group & Global Healing – 4.6
In our October 2025 survey, 61% of members said this event should remain weekly.
Monthly
- Unconditional Love Immersion – 4.6
- Shamanic Awakening Ceremony – 4.6
- Gentle Group Healing – 4.6
- Divinely Directed – 4.6
- Embody Your Highest Divinity – 4.6
- Chakra Clearing and Empowerment Invocations – 4.6
- New Earth Support Team – 4.3
- Women’s Healing Circle – 3.9
- Office Hours – 3.7
The First Six Events
The first six monthly events tied for first place. The first four are long-time favorites.
“Embody Your Highest Divinity” debuted almost two years ago, while “Chakra Clearing and Empowerment Invocations” has been a hit since it kicked off last April.
Women’s Healing Circle
“Women’s Healing Circle” is in transition. Laura V suggested and started facilitating this event over two years ago. A year later, Angie and Michelle also started facilitating. This event has been on second and fourth Tuesdays, but in February will change to once a month on fourth Tuesdays.
After two years of exemplary service, Laura is stepping away from this event. While I couldn’t witness her WHC work myself (my gender excluded me), I heard many glowing reports of her facilitation. Thanks to Laura’s initiative, many Awakening Plus women have received tremendous benefit from this event.
Angie and Michelle will continue their capable facilitation. And, in our survey, four other women expressed interest in facilitating. I hope to speak with them soon, and look forward to bringing exciting new energy to the WHC!
Office Hours
“Office Hours” has been on first Tuesdays at 12 pm US Eastern Time. Starting in February, it will move to a more convenient time: second Sundays at 3 pm. This should let more members benefit from my one-on-one support.
Every Two Months
- 5D Immersion – 4.5
- Ecstatic Divine Group Consciousness – 4.5
I wish I could schedule these wonderful events every month, but space is limited!
Every Three Months
- Community Support – 3.8
This event has drawn fewer members recently, perhaps because so many are now getting immediate support in our “Support Requests Only” Signal group. But it should still be helpful to meet quarterly on Zoom.
Every Four Months
These events have smaller followings, but offer unique and valuable benefits. So we’ll now do them three times per year.
- Shamanic Breathwork – 4.2
- IFS Love Seat Healing – 4.2
- Astrology Mini-Readings – 4.1
- Invocation Practice – 4.0
- Ask Us Anything – 3.6
Event Times
As usual, the 8 pm weekday start times were overwhelmingly preferred, as was Sunday at 3 pm for weekend events. (US Eastern Time.) So we’ll stick with those event times.
MP3 Downloads
More members than ever are downloading Awakening Plus MP3s, so those will remain available.
Audio Quality
About 90% of members gave high ratings to the video and MP3 audio quality, so everything looks fine there.
New Events
The only new event idea that was repeatedly requested was an astrology class. In addition, nine women expressed interest in becoming Awakening Plus facilitators! (This is in addition to any interest in facilitating the Women’s Healing Circle.)
I’ve emailed each of them with a link to set up a one-to-one Zoom call with me to discuss what kind of event(s) they’d like to do. I’ll follow up with a short survey so you can vote on their new event ideas, as well as the astrology class.
Suggested Changes
As with previous annual surveys, members had lots of ideas for improving the membership. I’m always grateful for this valuable input!
- One request was that I give members a moment to call in their high-vibration divine allies at the start of each event. I used to do this, but somehow fell out of the habit. I’ll resume this valuable practice immediately!
- Several members requested earlier weeknight starting times. That would work better for me too, but the survey clearly showed that 8 pm Eastern was overwhelmingly preferred.
We do have some Sunday events at 3 pm Eastern. And it’s worth remembering that most members don’t do any live events! Many report major benefits working entirely with archive recordings.
- Some members requested shorter sessions. When this was requested on previous annual surveys, I shortened some events to 45 minutes. But I don’t think any group event shorter than that can give as much benefit as I want members to receive.
- One member requested a monthly calendar. I already list Awakening Plus events on AstroShaman.com. And our online events calendar can auto-populate your Google Calendar and other online calendars.
- One member reported a password issue. You can always reset your password with the tiny “Forgot your password?” link on the login page. If you have problems with that, you can always contact me so I can reset your password for you.
Finally, here are some benefits members reported from their Awakening Plus experience:
Benefits
- I feel like my spiritual connection has grown exponentially over the past two years. Utilizing embodied awakening and other invocations in my daily life has helped me tremendously, and doing the group events allows me to experience even more profound/intense spiritual experiences on a regular basis.
I never experienced this on such a consistent basis with any other spiritual practice. I feel so lucky to have found Awakening Plus.
- With each session I experience a deeper awakening to Divine consciousness.
- I continue participating because of the wonderful energy shifts I feel after each program. Often times still feeling it the next day. I also like that we send good energy to others and the world as a whole which I feel is important.
I have referred 4 friends to your programs and they also feel the benefits of the energy we all share. The Awakening Plus events help shift my energy quickly when I need healing.
- I appreciate having several events each week where I can reconnect with my higher self in a more structured manner. I often forget or get so busy that I just don’t remember to do invocations to center myself; the events help so much with this. Set time, known structure, plug in, tune in, bliss! I especially love musical additions — icing on the cake!
- The energy always comes through, streaming or MP3.
- The facilitator is excellent and a great model of an enlightened person! I appreciate the different events and how many there are during the week. I fully take advantage of office hours and IFS events. I feel that there is tremendous value for the courses and numerous live events!
- I am a better person because of this.
- The sense of community is great. I find that during challenging times it’s great to feel like you are not alone. After having read your book, it was great to be able to connect with you and others who are integrating Embodied Awakening in their everyday life.
- The Signal group has been a wonderful addition.
- I enjoy the chance to be in an awakened, embodied state in a strong group field, for my own and others healing and awakening, and to contribute to global awakening with divine assistance.
- I gain more centering, healing, and peacefulness from the live events.
- I love that the method is simple and the focus is on allowing and making space for consciousness to shift. While I can do the practice on my own, I have found that access to the recordings always deepens my experience.
Free Session Winners
Congratulations to our two winners! To ensure fairness, they were selected from qualifying respondents using a random sequence generator.
- Two-hour session: Kathleen Q.
- One-hour session: Nancy S.
I’ve emailed Kathleen and Nancy to let them know they won.
In Closing
Thanks again to the 49 members who completed our annual survey. And remember that you don’t have to wait for a survey. I’m always open to your feedback!
Gratefully,
Benjamin
P.S. To see the PDF of the complete survey results, including lots of charts, click here.
