Here’s what clients have to say about Creative Deconstruction, Escape Plans Unlimited, and Choose Your Own Adventure Consulting:
“It’s nothing like anyone would assume –you and your gifts have been amazing, unexpected, and potent fuel…you really are an escape artist.
“All of my dreams have been LUCID, all of my conversations have been authentic or practical, all of my workouts have been energetic, all of my meals have been gourmet, and all of my efforts have been made with HEART. My mistakes are learned from, laughed at, and turned into gold. All the music is singing to ME and the reason for it all is VITALITY — a vitality I found in myself after being forced to take a CLOSER look… a shocking, horrifying, glorious, passionate, astonishing, familiar, hideous, beautiful, HILARIOUS in-depth look into the infinite yet nonexistent SELF that had been collecting dust for years, ages, millennia… Such a great look– so good I can laugh at the time lost and embrace 20/20 hindsight as a gift that provides a reminder and a reference.
“…As I watch myself develop strength, skills, biceps, new friends, new memories, powerful ideas, poetry, money, bonds, indifference, arrogance, and a louder, bigger laugh, I feel like I’m flying — even when I hit the ground. I’m telling you all of this because you’ve been one of the catalysts…helping me to remember to help myself. And it’s not just because you introduced me to this material but also because you took the chance to TOUCH me and for whatever reason that touch really affected me, is still affecting me now. And it doesn’t have to mean anything — except that the results have spoken and will speak for themselves.”
—Sheila K. CA
“Last night I had this energized meditation session with Garrett. He’s studied with Christopher Hyatt in the lineage of Wilhelm Reich and Israel Regardie. Hyatt calls it “Radical Undoing.”
“I wasn’t sure what to expect—but I was pleasantly surprised by this meditation technique. It started with some face stretching silly-face exercises and different movement/breathing things to let gravity do the work and let your body relax.
“It was really interesting and useful…I sometimes lose track in meditation and fall asleep, … I got so much more out of this coached meditation practice. I would like to do it again.
“All in all, it was really cool; it seems like the sort of practice that could benefit everyone. I felt sooooo relaxed and centered and calm afterward. Almost trance like, without the busy chatter of thoughts that sometimes plague my mind. The night before I was having a rough time falling asleep. I was restless without my partner and lonely and blue. Last night, I didn’t miss him any less, but I just felt more grounded.”
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“I had my second undoing yourself session with Garrett last night…“I am fascinated by the breathing exercises. We did some of the same ones that we’d done in the first session and I felt more comfortable with them… there were moments where it really clicked; I will continue to get more out of them as I get more experience with them……there is such a mind/body connection in illnesses or health issues that gets overlooked by the normal medical establishment…relaxing and learning how to deal with stress and un-actualization in your life can improve your health so greatly; more than almost anything else you can do for yourself.”
—Kate B. Eugene, OR
“I have hired Garrett for a few Undoing sessions. I would hire him again if he still lived nearby. The sessions were excellent! I really felt a difference in my mental and physical well being. I highly recommend his services.”
“I was in a lot of muscle pain when Garrett came to my house in the evening and gave me a massage. The massage was blissful. When I awoke in the morning the pain was gone. Thank you Garrett.”
Ann Stevenson; anjanidevima@gmail.com
Hired Garrett as a massage therapist and Escape Artist in Carlsbad, CA in 2008-9
“While on a self-healing journey, I accepted that I was alone and had the strength to make it through. That is when I met Garrett, the Escape Artist, himself. He held space for me, making me feel safe. He walked me through an energy release and cleansing in which he was simultaneously present and absent. He was not controlling, only gently directive. There was no manipulation – physical, emotional, or otherwise. Garrett has a gentle voice and wonderful laugh. His is a fabulous endeavor and comes with the highest recommendation.”
I know Garrett through his partner, a woman I trusted enough to share an office space with in the past. Trust is very important to me as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. My earliest life history had been buried, repressed for decades. Three and a half years ago it started to surface. At the time, I was already a bodyworker working with Reiki as an energy healer. The surfacing traumas tossed me into crisis and I ended up in a support group at a rape crisis center. I already knew about how energy flowed in the body and that it caused dysfunctions when blocked. It was time to learn about another way to breathe to calm the energy flow.
I learned about belly breathing in a book for sexual abuse survivors. I had been teaching clients about it and received feedback from many of them – they already knew what it was because they “used to know” how to do it. They had learned it as diaphragm breathing (singers, musicians), tactical breathing (police officers, combat soldiers), hara breathing (yoga practitioners). I was enthralled. Life then delivered an opportunity to trade my skills with a breathworker who is also a bodyworker. And as life has the tendency to do, within a few days of the first meeting, things came up, got in the way, and the trade was cancelled. Not a week later, I got a call from Garrett.
Though my abuse was at the will of men and boys, something about Garrett – maybe his passion for what he was offering – made me feel safe. He accepted all of my behaviors. I was embarrassed, I was trying to do things “right,” and I was getting frustrated with myself along the way. All the way through, I heard his voice reassuring me that it was all part of the undoing process and acceptable – it was all coming up because it wanted to be released. There was love in the work.
2. “A” undoing myself means reaching the root of the energy that created the patterns that do not serve my highest good, accepting them through breathing – filling them with the prana of universal life-affirming energy – and letting them go along with the emotions that lived in them. in my rebirth, this also means that the work starts with a guided trip through the energy depositing love everywhere, and then accepting that emotional release and, sometimes memories, are going to be poured out of my Self and into the earth… where it all belongs.
“B” In my experience, “tension” means tightness that is created by my energy body and young, traumatized Self-sensing that something is going to hurt emotionally. Something is being triggered. In the past I would clench and hold on until the tension “passed.” That just meant that I got used to the feeling. These days, I journal it out, scream it out, belly breathe it out, run it out – whatever it takes to release the source of the tension. If there is something to learn from it, clearing out the tension is the only way I know to de-fuzz my intuition – so that the lesson can come through.
“C” I chose Radical Undoing for a number of reasons. It was presented to me at a time when I was all ready to accept someone else’s partnership in breathwork. It was presented to me at a time when I was ready to begin allowing male energy back into my life. It was non-invasive, allowed me to be me without apologies, and it was based on one aspect of what I had begun practicing every day – that I learned all the behaviors and reactions that have caused my energies to clog. It was time to start taking down the roadblocks because I had repaired a sufficient amount of my own road.
“D” From a survivor’s standpoint, functioning as a child of 10 and younger, the answer is simple. I trusted you because I already trusted Meghan. If you were in her life, you had to be worth taking a few bricks down from my wall. It helped immensely that you a) hardly made physical contact with me, b) have a soft, compassionate, deeply respectful tone of voice, and c) allow space for all of my little Katie energy to come out as part of the process (picture me as a 7 year old, drawing a plastic sword – the kind that comes in a mixed drink – with full belief that I can hurt you worse than you hurt me and at the same time being so tired that all I want to do is cry, safely, in a corner where no one sees me).
You have many of the same dreams for helping humanity that I do. I’m not about to pass up the opportunity to interact with you. You help me learn as I help you sharpen your skills. That happens in trade, as well. Perfect situation, really.
Blessings, you.
Katie Custer, Writer, Massage Therapist, Reiki Master,
http://www.chakra-girl.com
“I recommend Escape Plans Unlimited and Garrett Daun as a pioneer in his field. His creative and effective techniques and personal approach to resolution has inspired me and I anticipate using his services again soon. He is honest and trustworthy and has been an asset to my organization. Thank you Garrett for all your help!”
D. Penrose Pen. Inc. Quantitative, Eugene, OR.
Hired Garrett as a Personal Trainer in 2008
“Garrett is fiercely dedicated to seeing that the potential in others is fully realized. In my time of knowing and working with him, I’ve seen him stop at nothing to expand upon his personal skills and abilities and to continually develop new and interesting ways to turn these assets to benefit of his clients.”
Christopher Scott, Consultant. Monmouth, OR.
Worked directly with Garrett at Escape Plans Unlimited
“Garrett Daun’s patience permeated my experience of this awareness, awakening sojourn within my own body. Sometimes emotional and often enlightening, UnDoing with JG helped my Love and I to know each other and ourselves more intimately and proactively. I find the method practical and the results marvelous!”
James McKenzie Kennedy; Eugene, OR. http://www.nowherelove.com
“I was curious and excited to try the undoing experience. I had heard how influential it was for others, so I went into it with openess of having perhaps a more powerful experience. I had little idea of what was going to happen, and I wanted to have few expectations or preconceived ideas about it, and just wanted to experience it moment by moment. I felt very comfortable with Garrett as the practitioner. I know a significant part of it for me was perhaps distracted with the mechanics of the exercise, trying to follow directions and “do it right”, as I found myself having to think about the order of breathing and exhaling. It had been awhile since I was in this type of setting, it made me think of the swimming lessons my partner and I had taken last year, and trying to “do a good job.”
“After that, my next distraction was numbness in my face, which i think was caused by the repeated breathing exercises. I know I do not focus on breathing enough in everyday situations, so i just thought it was my body not being used to taking so many deep breaths. I wanted to stop the breathing part and focus more on what I was experiencing, the sensations. I found myself pretty meditated, in the moment, clear, empty. No distractions, no mental running around, other than my nunbness. But I felt very centered when we began, so that peace was not so much achieved thru the exercise.
“When you were asking me to express my sensations, I felt like there should be more for me to be experiencing than I was, some revelations, or something like that, but I was just calm and “being.”
“Overall I left the experience very centered, in the moment, which is extremely valuable and worthwhile, but I was disappointed in that it really just seemed to me to be one of any number of meditative exercises I could have done, and that there was nothing special, or unique about it. That it was just one of many techniques that could have been done to achieve the same results, or results I experienced.”
A. What does it mean to you to “Undo Yourself”?
“To me, undoing myself means a deconstruction of conditioning, habits, enculturation, and experiences, all in the process of “re-doing” oneself. As their is a cycle of life and death, and each needing each other to continue existence, there is creation out of destruction, and destruction out of creation, both intertwined. Undoing myself is a conscious and intentional process of healing ills and dysfunctions that i have, attempting to get to the root, the cause of the behaviour. It is identifying certain and specific characteristics, acknowledging them, in some cases figuring out their causes, but ultimately attempting to choose another way of existence, undoing the self that was and is, to do a new self.”
B. Describe your experience of the concept, “Tension”
“My experience of tension, in relation to my personal healing process, describes the space of transition before an actualization occurs. There is the mental awareness of the new potential, and yet the hindering, lingering of the emotional conditioning still at play that is yet to be changed. Tension comes from the pull of laziness & habit vs. discipline & desire to change.”
C. Why did you choose to do “Radical Undoing”?
“The title is very suggestive of change, and I know that you do not get into things very deeply if there is not something to it that at least hints at profundity. I chose to do it as I am interested in personal change at a very basic level, and feel aware of the power of basic cultural conditioning that is a struggle to bring forth from the subconscious to awareness to then be able to begin changing it. Your intense interest in the subject lends to its power and validity as a phenomenon worthy of pursuing more knowledge of.”
D. Why did you trust Garrett to coach you through it?“I did not think there was any risk to doing the exercise, so there was little issue of trust to begin with. I know you to be a very thorough student and extremely in depth with what body of knowledge you are currently involved in.”
“I haven’t looked at Hyatt’s website or done other research about it do get a better understanding of it as a whole. I like to know more about things before doing them to have a better understanding of what they’re about. Given that, it is nice to also do the opposite and try something with knowing little about it for a change. I wonder if perhaps I could have used more of a goal, or a topic of focus to center on while we were doing it. Something specific I wanted to undo.”
Andy F. Portland, OR; fosterwildness@yahoo.com
“Garrett was very patient and calming when walking my partner and I through the undoing process together. He helped us be at ease with ourselves and him. It was a refreshing experience. With his instruction we learned some simple exercises that we could do together which are continuing to open up our relationship with ourselves and each other.”
Lana Boles, Eugene, OR. 2008.