Ring of Fire

The circle

No man leaves the story alone.

The ring is heat and light. What no longer serves burns. What is real stays. Brotherhood is the other fuel. Even sitting here by yourself, you sit in a lineage of men who would not look away.

A stone fire circle seen from above at night
The cage has no lock — only the illusion of one.

Who finds their way here

The unlived day. The role that used to fit — provider, achiever, the strong one. Surface success with a quiet disconnect underneath. The fear of dying inside someone else's expectations. Honesty, and a willingness to sit in discomfort.

A sitting

  1. 1

    Opening

    Breath. A name if you want one. The mask can stay by the stones.

  2. 2

    Witness

    Watch thought, heat, and body. The narrator talks. You don't have to go with him.

  3. 3

    Inquiry

    One belief. Why. Where. This breath. Mirrors, not advice.

  4. 4

    Pattern

    The flinch. The chase. The part you judge in other men because it lives in you.

  5. 5

    Emptiness

    Silence long enough for the nervous system to remember it can rest.

  6. 6

    What remains

    One insight, one act, one question. Then life, which is the real ring.

Full spectrum

Sacred and crude. Devotion and emptiness. The provider and the boy. Everything matters and nothing matters. The fire does not ask you to pick. It asks you to look at the lock that isn't there.

Hosts

Silvio Bertling and Chris Vittetoe. A modalities offering — hue man by hue man.

The practice of connection that lives here arrived through a lineage: Jon Young and the 10 Stones, given to him by his mentor. We share it honoring where it came from.

Step into the ringSit in witness