Rites of Passage: Forging Your Inner Warrior
A 5 Day Full Immersion Premier Tensegrity® Event
Opatija, Croatia — October 17-21, 2026
Is The World Insurmountable?
Why is it that so many people live their lives full of anxiety, fear and doubt? Why are people having such a difficult time successfully navigating their world… even to the point whereby, for far too many, ending their lives seems to be the only option? Could it be because we seek the easier path?
Today, we seek comfort and shun risk and responsibility. We’ve accepted the false belief that mediocrity is safe, and ambition overrated. We pursue pleasure over purpose; craving quick highs, entertainment, comfort food, cheap distractions; all while being addicted to likes, approval, afraid to stand alone for what we believe.
The reason that we believe that the world is hard… is that it can be. Especially, when we were never taught that obstacles are inherent to life itself, let alone how to overcome them. Every successful person has failed multiple times… and that facing each new obstacle, no matter the outcome, forges our inner strength, fortitude and character.
”Fall down seven times, stand up eight". — Japanese Proverb
“In short, the warrior was, for the shamans of ancient Mexico, a unit of combat so tuned to the fight around him, so extraordinarily alert that in his purest form, he needed nothing superfluous to survive. There was no necessity to make gifts to a warrior, or to prop him up with talk or actions, or to try to give him solace and incentive. All of those things were included in the structure of the warrior itself.”
— Carlos Castaneda
Forging Your Inner Warrior
“You’re being forged like a carbon steel blade” — Carlos Castaneda to his apprentices
Carlos Castaneda’s carbon blade metaphor is apropos. Creating any steel blade; knife, sword, etc., requires taking a lump of raw material, heating it, pounding it into shape, heating again… pounding again until it is in the shape desired. Then it is tempered—hardened, so that it can be sharpened and will hold its shape when in use. It requires time, hard work and expertise in order to produce a tool that will not break or bend under pressure. In order to prepare ourselves for this world, we must be trained; our inner warrior forged into a carbon steel blade.
“At that time, he emphasized to no end the concept of the warrior. He said that the warrior was of course, much more than a mere concept. It was a way of life, and that way of life was the only deterrent to fear, and the only channel which a practitioner could use to let the flow of his activity move on freely. Without the concept of the warrior, the stumbling blocks on the path of knowledge were impossible to overcome.
Don Juan defined the warrior as the fighter par excellence. It was a mood facilitated by the intent of the shamans of antiquity; a mood into which any man could enter. "The intent of those shamans,” don Juan said, “was so keen, so powerful, that it would solidify the structure of the warrior in anyone who tapped it, even though they might not be aware of it.” — Carlos Castaneda
Lost Tradition: Rites Of Passage
"The average man is either victorious or defeated and, depending on that, he becomes a persecutor or a victim. These two conditions are prevalent as long as one does not see. Seeing dispels the illusion of victory, or defeat, or suffering." — Carlos Castaneda
In earlier times and common to many cultures and traditions, this forging took the form of Rites of Passage. They symbolize and facilitate a significant life change—most commonly the shift from childhood to adulthood.
These ceremonies, while important, were only the tip of the iceberg: the part that you see. What is not immediately visible is the progression of ever-increasing challenges the tribe places before the child in order for them to learn from the EXPERIENCE of overcoming obstacles. The result is a self-confidence that can only be obtained through the forging of experience. Without it, we retreat to the facades of self-importance or victim hood.
Self-Importance is a self-generated projection meant to overcompensate for a lack of self-competence. Self-confidence can only be generated through experience—the experience of trying to do something outside of your comfort zone and either succeeding or failing… and if the latter, trying again.
Regardless of your situation, gender, or lineage, your ability to successfully navigate your world is directly related to your internal fortitude—your inner warrior.
Rites of Passage: Forging Your Inner Warrior
A 5 Day Full Immersion Premier Tensegrity® Event
Opatija, Croatia — October 17-21, 2026
Recapitulate Past Rites
The first step along your journey to forging your inner warrior is to recapitulate past rites of passage. We’ve all had them: some we see as helpful, some as hurtful. All of which shape who we are today.
Discover Your Purpose
When your days here are through, what will be written about you and your life? The reason that most of us tend to seek pleasure over purpose is that we have not embraced a path of heart.
Experience New Rites
What are your fears? What remains outside of your comfort zone? Until you overcome these impediments to living your purpose, they will continue to keep you stuck living an ordinary life.
Forge Inner Warrior
“A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of his acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.” — Carlos Castaneda
Rites of Passage: Forging Your Inner Warrior
$997 - Early Bird Price
A 5 Day Full Immersion Premier Tensegrity® Event
Opatija, Croatia — October 17-21, 2026
Workshop Includes:
- Full 5 Day Tensegrity® Immersive Experience
- Carefully Curated Magical Passes®
- Specifically Crafted Theater of Infinity® Experiences
- Recapitulate and Transform Past Rites of Passage
- Discover and Engage Your Purpose—Path of Heart
- Uncover Those Underlying Fears Keeping You Stuck in the Ordinary
- Engage in New Rites of Passage—Overcome the Obstacles in Your Path
- Forge Your Inner Warrior Like A Carbon Steel Blade
- Network & Celebrate with other Tensegrity® Practitioners
- Comprehensive Workbook
Renata Murez, BS, MA
Apprentice of Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar & Carol Tiggs - Students of Don Juan
A Tensegrity® Facilitator and Instructor, and Director at Cleargreen, the company formed by Carlos Castaneda to disseminate the practical aspects of his work, Renata is a member of the original team of Tensegrity® leaders, who, under the direction of the students of don Juan, helped to formulate the modernization of the Magical Passes® and other Tensegrity® practices. She has been leading Tensegrity® workshops and tours worldwide for over twenty-three years.
She holds a Master of Arts degree in English Literature, from California State University at Northridge, where she taught Composition and wrote her Master’s Thesis on the work of Native American author Louise Erdrich. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from UCLA, where she worked with Professor Emeritus Lissy Jarvik, and co-authored a paper with Steven S. Matsuyama, Ph.D. She was a student in the Arica School of Oscar Ichazo, studying enneagram personality types.