about todd and the teachings

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The Toltec Wisdom Teachings — sometimes called the Path of Freedom — are not a spiritual system. They’re a dismantling. A stripping away. A remembering of Being. They don’t promise salvation or enlightenment. They offer something far more ruthless and disruptive: truth of BEING. These teachings show you how to see what’s been lying to you, how to listen beneath the noise of your mind, and how to feel the energy behind your thoughts instead of just believing them.

This path isn’t about transcendence. It’s about presence. It doesn’t ask you to ascend, achieve, or perform your worth. It asks you to remove every mask, every identity, every inherited rule that told you you had to earn your freedom. You don’t. You never did. Freedom was always there — buried beneath the noise. You just forgot.

The roots of these teachings come from a lineage of seers, warriors, and Dreamers who didn’t seek to escape reality — they sought to see it clearly. They originate from the Toltec lineage of Don Miguel Ruiz, passed to Don Luis Molinar, and then to me through years of direct apprenticeship. What you find here isn’t a belief system to adopt. It’s a set of tools to unmask distortion. Every practice — stalking the mind, not-doing, controlled folly, intent, dreaming — is meant to help you reclaim the energy you’ve surrendered to illusion and return to the truth of your Being.

But while my foundation is Toltec, what I now teach has expanded beyond any one tradition. At a certain depth, all real paths start to dissolve. Truth becomes universal. What remains is what works — what cuts clean through the confusion and brings you back to yourself.

The Toltec path is not about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering what you already are. It invites you to stop feeding the thoughts and agreements that keep you in suffering. To stop performing your life. To stop trying to manifest someone else’s dream. And to start living from the clarity and resonance of your true feeling tone. The teachings are not meant to be followed like a map. They’re meant to crack something open inside you — something ancient and true.

Domestication taught you who to be. These teachings help you die to that lie. They show you how to drop the performance and meet life from the raw, unmasked core of your Being — not as a role, not as a spiritual identity, but as frequency. As presence. As the Dreamer.

This is not about becoming more spiritual. It’s about becoming more honest. More present. More alive. You don’t have to believe anything. You just have to be willing to see.

In their original structure, the Toltec teachings are organized into three Masteries: Awareness, Transformation, and Dreaming. Together, they walk you out of the trance of suffering and into the peace and joy of freedom. But I don’t teach them as a fixed sequence. In truth, we move through all three at once. You’ll find your own rhythm in the work — and I’ll meet you where you are.

If you work with me, we’ll move through whatever is alive in you. We’ll start where the distortion is loudest. And we’ll keep it simple. Real freedom doesn’t come from adding more practices. It comes from subtracting what’s false. From clearing what is in the way of truth. What I offer is a direct path, one that meets your actual experience, not the one you think you’re supposed to be having.

The teachings on this site are divided into two parts. The first explores knowledge and understanding — how the mind, emotion, and perception shape your reality. The second focuses on tools and practices for shifting your relationship to that reality. For walking out of your personal hell and back into your own clarity and power.

There is also a layer of this path that cannot be taught. It cannot be written. It is the formless — Being itself. It is the silence behind the words. The space between thoughts. The tone that has always been vibrating underneath your seeking. The Toltec path, when stripped to its core, is simply a way to remember that. To return to it. And to begin living from it.

This work is not for everyone. But if you’re done performing, if you’re exhausted by the loop, if something in you is ready to remember — then let’s walk. You won’t be handed a formula. You’ll be handed a mirror. The rest is up to you.

My own path led me through over fifteen years of searching for solace from deep personal pain. Initially, I looked outward as we are all conditioned to do, believing my outer circumstances were the source of my inner pain. After much self-inflicted suffering, I explored numerous spiritual paths, seeking a permanent respite - or as I thought then, enlightenment. While I gained considerable knowledge and experienced temporary relief through various practices, I found myself caught in a recurring cycle of highs followed by a crash back into my own personal hell.

A significant turning point came during a 7-year apprenticeship in the Toltec Wisdom teachings with Don Luis Molinar, one of the early students of Don Miguel Ruiz (author of 'The Four Agreements'). The practical and straightforward nature of the Toltec principles, combined with Don Luis's understanding of how the mind works against us, provided the guidance that moved along my path to Freedom.

I offer guidance, teaching, and mentorship for those seeking to connect and deepen their relationship with awareness and the inner self, not by adding more to who they are, but by helping them remember what’s already there.

What I offer isn’t a program, it’s a way to peel back the false layers you’ve been taught to live from. Through mentorship, I help you see how your mind and emotional reactions are shaped by unhealed beliefs, and how to begin reclaiming the energy you’ve given away. You’ll learn how to stalk your thoughts, disrupt old patterns, and return attention to your inner experience.

The structure of the Toltec Teachings provides a map: Awareness, Transformation, and Dreaming. But I don’t teach them as steps. Together we’ll work where your energy is most entangled and from there, your own clarity will lead the way. Practices and teachings build on one another naturally. Awareness stabilizes first. Then transformation happens. Then dreaming becomes conscious.

I tailor the experience based on your needs, your nervous system, your timing. What I offer is direct, real, and unvarnished. The work is not always easy, but it is honest. If you're ready to stop performing healing and start reclaiming your Being, this is where we begin.