I went to a Joe Dispenza retreat.

This email was originally published on May 21, 2026. I wanted it to be able to live on The Magical Door.

Over the course of the last week, my perspective on Dr. Joe Dispenza has changed. Dramatically.

I entered into this retreat skeptical.

I didn’t really resonate with Dr. Joe’s teachings, but I knew I felt called to the retreat.

The truth of my experience is that this was one of the most transformative weeks of my life.

Let me explain why...

I Healed Through Healing

By far the most incredible part of the whole week was the Coherence Healings.

Imagine 2,000 people in a ballroom focused on feeling love at the exact same time. It was more powerful than anything I’ve personally experienced.

The room was broken down into healers and healees. There were approximately 1,800 healers and 250 healees. Each healee has a pod of 6-8 healers.

How it works is that all the healers are instructed to feel all the love in their heart and then send that love (with their hands) to the healee. It was the most profound feeling of love I’ve ever experienced in my life.

During the first Coherence Healing session (which took place on Day 5), I focused all of my love on the healee. My hands were sweating. I just kept repeating, “I love you.” I felt the power of all the members of my family who have poured love into me over the years.

While doing this, I felt an incredibly powerful energy in my right foot, stomach, and right shoulder. I didn’t think anything of it.

For as long as I can remember, my right foot has typically been slanted to the right. This has caused me to sprain my right ankle while running and had some lower back pain.

I woke up the next day, and as I’m walking to my first session, I noticed that for the first time in a long, long time… my feet were walking in the same direction. Tears immediately came to my eyes as I realized what had occurred. My foot and back had been healed.

Every day prior to this healing (and almost every day for the past six months), I had back pain on my right side. That was completely gone. Every day prior to this healing, I was stretching a lot.

I haven’t stretched for the past week. My feet are still walking completely straight. My back pain is gone. It’s quite remarkable.

In the process of healing another, I healed.

Meeting Dr. Joe

After the retreat was over, I got dinner with some friends. I was going to go to my room. But I saw some friends in the lobby of the hotel.

So the four of us started practicing the Coherence Healing together. We formed a little circle and put our hands together and said, “Let people feel the love in this circle for the next century. Let this be a space of healing and love. Let Dr. Joe walk through this space and feel this love.”

About 10 minutes later, my friend was telling a story about something that happened to her in the week. She mentioned how “two Canadian guys…” and as soon as she did, there they were. The two Canadian guys had appeared right behind her. It was perfectly synchronous.

About 10 minutes later, Dr. Joe came up to us and we had a brief conversation with him. Someone asked him for a photo, and he said he doesn’t usually take them, but he’d make an exception. It was a really special moment.​

One of the Canadian guys said that he quite literally had the vision of the exact scene happening before the retreat started.

The Amount Of Meditation

I’m someone who loves to meditate. But this is next level... It’s basically 35 hours over the course of the week. On average, I spend approximately 20 hours per month meditating. So this was a huge increase for me.

By myself, I close my eyes and see what arises. With Joe, it was more about getting your heart and brain coherent, going to space, and creating what you want.

Spending so much time with myself was a dream come true. Not every meditation was easy, but it was incredibly useful for me to spend so much time with my higher self.

I Noticed The Effects Immediately

When I did the first meditation on the first day, and I instantly felt elevated. I could feel my brain operating differently.

After the second meditation, I was dancing on the way to lunch.

At some point in the first day or two, I was in a state of absolute bliss. I had executed a specific breath that allowed energy go from my perineum to pineal gland that put me in a gamma brainwave state.

In simple terms, I sent energy to my brain and it felt absolutely incredible. Nothing anybody said or did could take me out of this state of peace. It was wonderful.

It Also Brought Up A Lot

I also noticed that it wasn’t just sunshine and rainbows.

I remember during one meditation feeling like I didn’t want to talk to anyone. I ended up discussing what came up outside the cafeteria area with a really kind woman.

I was upset that my desires had changed from one day to the next. This caused me a lot of anger and frustration. Why couldn’t I just be consistent?

This has been a pattern that has played out in my life as well.

This was really useful for me to see in the context of the retreat.

The Synchronicities Were Amazing

1. During one the meditations, I thought about one of my friends. Then after the meditation was over, I get a tap on the shoulder. It was her. I had no idea she was at the retreat.

2. One person I sat next went to the same 149-person retreat I did two years ago (randomly) in Mexico. We were in a group chat together and had no idea.

3. One woman asked me to do a hypnosis in her community. When I opened her homepage, the tagline said, “Helping you come home to yourself”... which is exactly the tagline on my website.

Disclaimer

Prior to this experience, I never resonated with Dr. Joe.

He was too science-y. I felt like whenever he went on podcasts, he didn’t share his personal journey. He would say a bunch of words I didn’t understand, and I assumed it was because he wanted to sound smart. Since mentioning that I went, many people have come up with many criticisms of him…

He is a “doctor” but didn’t get a medical degree. He doesn’t take Q&A. He teaches about kundalini awakenings but doesn’t give people the tools to integrate their experience.

And yet, I cannot deny the truth of my experience. It was profound. It was life changing. And I highly recommend it (if you feel called to it). I am looking forward to going to future retreats and continuing to learn from Dr. Joe.

Also, big thank you to Scott Britton for sharing his experience at the retreat. Scott has introduced me to a number of different people, books, and situations that have altered the course of my life in an extremely positive direction (like David Hawkins). I am extremely grateful for him and he is a brilliant soul.

Feel free to share any questions or your own personal experience with Dr. Joe. I understand that not everybody who attends has the overwhelmingly positive experience I had and am open to learning from others.

Love,

Danny

PS If you’re interested in hearing me (and Tej) talk about this retreat for 3.5 hours, you can listen here.