The Kiln

You don't find out your real color until you go through the heat.

A year of the real work — the slow, deep kind, in a small circle. The way a beautiful piece comes out of any kiln — slowly, and in fire. The cracks are where the gold goes.

You can feel there's more. You always have.

Maybe you've done the work — the books, the practices, the years of therapy. Maybe you haven't, and you just know, somewhere under the noise, that the life you're living isn't the whole of you.

Either way, the surface only reaches so far. More information, more effort, more understanding — and the deeper thing stays exactly where it is.

Insight isn't what changes you. Heat is.

Clay doesn't set because it understands fire. It sets because it goes through it.

The Kiln is that heat — held, deliberate, survivable. Transformation runs on no calendar. A year isn't the cost of change — it's the room around it.

About the class

What it is

A small cohort. One year. We meet every week.

Together we move through one clear passage: Recognize. Release. Repattern.

This is whole-self work — mind, body, energy, and spirit. There's a great deal to learn, and none of it stays solely in your head. It supports who you're becoming.

The shape of the year

It starts at the center. Put clay on the wheel off-center and you can still try to shape it — it'll just wobble and tear itself apart. Centered, it holds its form even as the wheel spins. The early part of the year is working with your own center, and maintaining it when the wheel speeds up: staying present to what's moving in you, sensing and shifting your own energy, coming back to steady when things get bumpy. You can change anything, anytime — it just holds when you're centered.

But the approach runs the whole year, foundations included:

Recognize — seeing what's actually there, underneath the story.

Release — setting down what was never yours to carry.

Repattern — laying something new, on purpose, and staying with it.

It isn't a sequence, and there's no fixed order — the work falls out as it does, different every time. The weekly circle is where most of it happens, and because the group is small, the tools and pace flex to the people in it.

This is for you if

  • You can feel there's deeper work in you, even if you can't name it yet

  • You're done with surface fixes and ready for the real thing

  • You can commit to a year, and to a small circle who'll be counting on you

  • Something in you said yes before you finished reading this

  • You’re excited for the possibilites

It's not for you if

  • You want a quick fix

  • You want answers handed to you instead of made in you

  • You aren’t willing to be vulnerable in a group that will know you for a year+

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  • A weekly [90-minute] circle on Zoom, plus an optional quarterly in person gathering

  • Cohort — Limited to 13, so every person is actually known

  • Class Begins — early-September

  • Enrollment closes — at capacity or October 1st

  • Apply for the next cohort →

The format

  • Spots are limited and by application. Minimum of 6 people, maximum of

  • The year is [X]—or[X] — or [ X]—or[X/month across N months].

    It starts with a short application; you'll hear back within 48 hours. If it's a fit, a [$X] deposit holds your seat, the balance follows [on the plan], and we begin [START DATE].

Application & Investment

Meet Your Instructor

Caryl Rappaport

I'm Caryl Rappaport, founder of The Still Point Works. I'm not a wellness person who picked up a little tech — I'm a tech person who went all the way into healing. Two decades building products at Fortune 500s and startups, a doctorate in Chinese Energetic Medicine, and training across Buddhist, Huna, and Christian mystic lineage, along with Neuro-linguistic certifications.

The Kiln is where all of it comes together.

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