God's Divine Gift - Unplugged

For most of human history we squatted in order to move our bowels.

That is, until Queen Elizabeth I’s ‘saucy’ godson, Sir John Harington, invented the toilet in 1596. The new porcelain technology, The John, allowed fecal matter to ‘disappear’ at the click of a button. Which meant a) no more ‘chamber pots of waste’ tossed out the window into the streets; and b) humans could now sit down, relax, disengage our quadriceps and surf the internet while dropping a two-zie.

Butt what happens when a benign technology has unintended consequences? Consequences like a) removing nitrogen from the soil we need to grow our food; and b) altering our anatomical alignment as we shit, kinking our colon, hindering a proper bowel movement.

What happens when a well-intended innovation is out of alignment with the hardwiring of what it means to be human? Well, along come folks like Bobby Edwards who’s mother, Judy, was having a tough time with said sacred ritual. Fortunately for ole Jude, her son was a designer and birthed one of god’s divine gifts to this world: the Squatty Potty.

For those of us living under a rock, the Squatty Potty is a ‘poop stool’ that raises one’s knees as they drop a deuce, hence, removing the kink in the descending colon and returning our sacred porcelain ritual back into alignment with the very nature of our anatomy. The Squatty Potty is the scaffolding between industrial scale technology and the undeniable genetic realities of homo sapiens.

Bobby Edwards, the absolute legend that he is, had the courage to acknowledge reality while simultaneously seeing that things need to be better. He didn’t work to go back in time, or deny what is. He accepted the simple fact that toilets aren’t serving the defecatory needs of us human beings. Then introduced to the world the antidote, the savior, the tool to help humans reorient with the physiological realities of what we are.

At risk of being too on the nose, and at risk of being too grandiose, hidden in the story of Sir John Harrington and Bobby Edwards therein lies the foundational building blocks that birthed the passion project that is Unplugged.

We have some date changes for our upcoming events. The MLK Misogi is now pushed back to Presidents Day weekend (2/15 - 2/19). And Trip Darkness is pushed back to March 20th - 24th and hence is renamed ‘Spring Break’. Deets below.

Spring Break (3/20 - 3/24)

This trip is designed to be regenerative, introspective, and fun as hell. We’ll travel between 8 and 15 miles per day leaving lots of room for side explorations and monkeying around on rock features. Each day will also feature life skills workshops led by members of the group. The goal of these workshops is to dive deeper into a selection of topics and habits that are aimed at helping us live in better alignment with the modern hominids that we are.

MISOGI: A Mission In Radical (2/15 - 2/19)

What happens when you don't know if you can keep going? How much capacity do you actually have? If a part of you feels excited about these kinds of questions, well then this might be a trip for you. Your conditioning will tell you that you've met your limit. But you're in the middle of the wilderness and the only way out is through. This is an opportunity to at least get a glimpse at how deep your capacity actually is.

A small band of humans will cross a huge stretch of desert canyon wilderness in the name of exploring the versions of ourselves that show up when we willingly undertake something unreasonably difficult.

This is a trip designed to radically explore our inner landscape as much as the outer. It's about experiencing the layers of our perceived physical and mental capacities and benefiting from the hard earned resilience that only comes on the other side of such a deep challenge. We'll travel together and support each other in what will be among the most difficult endeavors many of us have undertaken. If you don't go, you won't know.

For most of human history we squatted in order to move our bowels.

That is, until Queen Elizabeth I’s ‘saucy’ godson, Sir John Harington, invented the toilet in 1596. The new porcelain technology, The John, allowed fecal matter to ‘disappear’ at the click of a button. Which meant a) no more ‘chamber pots of waste’ tossed out the window into the streets; and b) humans could now sit down, relax, disengage our quadriceps and surf the internet while dropping a two-zie.

Butt what happens when a benign technology has unintended consequences? Consequences like a) removing nitrogen from the soil we need to grow our food; and b) altering our anatomical alignment as we shit, kinking our colon, hindering a proper bowel movement.

What happens when a well-intended innovation is out of alignment with the hardwiring of what it means to be human? Well, along come folks like Bobby Edwards who’s mother, Judy, was having a tough time with said sacred ritual. Fortunately for ole Jude, her son was a designer and birthed one of god’s divine gifts to this world: the Squatty Potty.

For those of us living under a rock, the Squatty Potty is a ‘poop stool’ that raises one’s knees as they drop a deuce, hence, removing the kink in the descending colon and returning our sacred porcelain ritual back into alignment with the very nature of our anatomy. The Squatty Potty is the scaffolding between industrial scale technology and the undeniable genetic realities of homo sapiens.

Bobby Edwards, the absolute legend that he is, had the courage to acknowledge reality while simultaneously seeing that things need to be better. He didn’t work to go back in time, or deny what is. He accepted the simple fact that toilets aren’t serving the defecatory needs of us human beings. Then introduced to the world the antidote, the savior, the tool to help humans reorient with the physiological realities of what we are.

At risk of being too on the nose, and at risk of being too grandiose, hidden in the story of Sir John Harrington and Bobby Edwards therein lies the foundational building blocks that birthed the passion project that is Unplugged.

We have some date changes for our upcoming events. The MLK Misogi is now pushed back to Presidents Day weekend (2/15 - 2/19). And Trip Darkness is pushed back to March 20th - 24th and hence is renamed ‘Spring Break’. Deets below.

Spring Break (3/20 - 3/24)

This trip is designed to be regenerative, introspective, and fun as hell. We’ll travel between 8 and 15 miles per day leaving lots of room for side explorations and monkeying around on rock features. Each day will also feature life skills workshops led by members of the group. The goal of these workshops is to dive deeper into a selection of topics and habits that are aimed at helping us live in better alignment with the modern hominids that we are.

MISOGI: A Mission In Radical (2/15 - 2/19)

What happens when you don't know if you can keep going? How much capacity do you actually have? If a part of you feels excited about these kinds of questions, well then this might be a trip for you. Your conditioning will tell you that you've met your limit. But you're in the middle of the wilderness and the only way out is through. This is an opportunity to at least get a glimpse at how deep your capacity actually is.

A small band of humans will cross a huge stretch of desert canyon wilderness in the name of exploring the versions of ourselves that show up when we willingly undertake something unreasonably difficult.

This is a trip designed to radically explore our inner landscape as much as the outer. It's about experiencing the layers of our perceived physical and mental capacities and benefiting from the hard earned resilience that only comes on the other side of such a deep challenge. We'll travel together and support each other in what will be among the most difficult endeavors many of us have undertaken. If you don't go, you won't know.

For most of human history we squatted in order to move our bowels.

That is, until Queen Elizabeth I’s ‘saucy’ godson, Sir John Harington, invented the toilet in 1596. The new porcelain technology, The John, allowed fecal matter to ‘disappear’ at the click of a button. Which meant a) no more ‘chamber pots of waste’ tossed out the window into the streets; and b) humans could now sit down, relax, disengage our quadriceps and surf the internet while dropping a two-zie.

Butt what happens when a benign technology has unintended consequences? Consequences like a) removing nitrogen from the soil we need to grow our food; and b) altering our anatomical alignment as we shit, kinking our colon, hindering a proper bowel movement.

What happens when a well-intended innovation is out of alignment with the hardwiring of what it means to be human? Well, along come folks like Bobby Edwards who’s mother, Judy, was having a tough time with said sacred ritual. Fortunately for ole Jude, her son was a designer and birthed one of god’s divine gifts to this world: the Squatty Potty.

For those of us living under a rock, the Squatty Potty is a ‘poop stool’ that raises one’s knees as they drop a deuce, hence, removing the kink in the descending colon and returning our sacred porcelain ritual back into alignment with the very nature of our anatomy. The Squatty Potty is the scaffolding between industrial scale technology and the undeniable genetic realities of homo sapiens.

Bobby Edwards, the absolute legend that he is, had the courage to acknowledge reality while simultaneously seeing that things need to be better. He didn’t work to go back in time, or deny what is. He accepted the simple fact that toilets aren’t serving the defecatory needs of us human beings. Then introduced to the world the antidote, the savior, the tool to help humans reorient with the physiological realities of what we are.

At risk of being too on the nose, and at risk of being too grandiose, hidden in the story of Sir John Harrington and Bobby Edwards therein lies the foundational building blocks that birthed the passion project that is Unplugged.

We have some date changes for our upcoming events. The MLK Misogi is now pushed back to Presidents Day weekend (2/15 - 2/19). And Trip Darkness is pushed back to March 20th - 24th and hence is renamed ‘Spring Break’. Deets below.

Spring Break (3/20 - 3/24)

This trip is designed to be regenerative, introspective, and fun as hell. We’ll travel between 8 and 15 miles per day leaving lots of room for side explorations and monkeying around on rock features. Each day will also feature life skills workshops led by members of the group. The goal of these workshops is to dive deeper into a selection of topics and habits that are aimed at helping us live in better alignment with the modern hominids that we are.

MISOGI: A Mission In Radical (2/15 - 2/19)

What happens when you don't know if you can keep going? How much capacity do you actually have? If a part of you feels excited about these kinds of questions, well then this might be a trip for you. Your conditioning will tell you that you've met your limit. But you're in the middle of the wilderness and the only way out is through. This is an opportunity to at least get a glimpse at how deep your capacity actually is.

A small band of humans will cross a huge stretch of desert canyon wilderness in the name of exploring the versions of ourselves that show up when we willingly undertake something unreasonably difficult.

This is a trip designed to radically explore our inner landscape as much as the outer. It's about experiencing the layers of our perceived physical and mental capacities and benefiting from the hard earned resilience that only comes on the other side of such a deep challenge. We'll travel together and support each other in what will be among the most difficult endeavors many of us have undertaken. If you don't go, you won't know.

For most of human history we squatted in order to move our bowels.

That is, until Queen Elizabeth I’s ‘saucy’ godson, Sir John Harington, invented the toilet in 1596. The new porcelain technology, The John, allowed fecal matter to ‘disappear’ at the click of a button. Which meant a) no more ‘chamber pots of waste’ tossed out the window into the streets; and b) humans could now sit down, relax, disengage our quadriceps and surf the internet while dropping a two-zie.

Butt what happens when a benign technology has unintended consequences? Consequences like a) removing nitrogen from the soil we need to grow our food; and b) altering our anatomical alignment as we shit, kinking our colon, hindering a proper bowel movement.

What happens when a well-intended innovation is out of alignment with the hardwiring of what it means to be human? Well, along come folks like Bobby Edwards who’s mother, Judy, was having a tough time with said sacred ritual. Fortunately for ole Jude, her son was a designer and birthed one of god’s divine gifts to this world: the Squatty Potty.

For those of us living under a rock, the Squatty Potty is a ‘poop stool’ that raises one’s knees as they drop a deuce, hence, removing the kink in the descending colon and returning our sacred porcelain ritual back into alignment with the very nature of our anatomy. The Squatty Potty is the scaffolding between industrial scale technology and the undeniable genetic realities of homo sapiens.

Bobby Edwards, the absolute legend that he is, had the courage to acknowledge reality while simultaneously seeing that things need to be better. He didn’t work to go back in time, or deny what is. He accepted the simple fact that toilets aren’t serving the defecatory needs of us human beings. Then introduced to the world the antidote, the savior, the tool to help humans reorient with the physiological realities of what we are.

At risk of being too on the nose, and at risk of being too grandiose, hidden in the story of Sir John Harrington and Bobby Edwards therein lies the foundational building blocks that birthed the passion project that is Unplugged.

We have some date changes for our upcoming events. The MLK Misogi is now pushed back to Presidents Day weekend (2/15 - 2/19). And Trip Darkness is pushed back to March 20th - 24th and hence is renamed ‘Spring Break’. Deets below.

Spring Break (3/20 - 3/24)

This trip is designed to be regenerative, introspective, and fun as hell. We’ll travel between 8 and 15 miles per day leaving lots of room for side explorations and monkeying around on rock features. Each day will also feature life skills workshops led by members of the group. The goal of these workshops is to dive deeper into a selection of topics and habits that are aimed at helping us live in better alignment with the modern hominids that we are.

MISOGI: A Mission In Radical (2/15 - 2/19)

What happens when you don't know if you can keep going? How much capacity do you actually have? If a part of you feels excited about these kinds of questions, well then this might be a trip for you. Your conditioning will tell you that you've met your limit. But you're in the middle of the wilderness and the only way out is through. This is an opportunity to at least get a glimpse at how deep your capacity actually is.

A small band of humans will cross a huge stretch of desert canyon wilderness in the name of exploring the versions of ourselves that show up when we willingly undertake something unreasonably difficult.

This is a trip designed to radically explore our inner landscape as much as the outer. It's about experiencing the layers of our perceived physical and mental capacities and benefiting from the hard earned resilience that only comes on the other side of such a deep challenge. We'll travel together and support each other in what will be among the most difficult endeavors many of us have undertaken. If you don't go, you won't know.