Into the Real.
In person, small meditation group | Budleigh Salterton, near Exeter - Devon.
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A 6-week immersive group for people ready to stop performing their life and start living it.
Starting Sep 7th | 6 places only | £450
There is a particular quality of stillness that only arrives when a person makes a choice to move out of “performance” and Into the Real.
I have felt it many times. It has its own texture. Its own temperature.
Something in the air becomes thick with it, the way the air does before the downpour of a storm or the moment just before a long-held and buried truth is finally revealed.
And in this stillness, the most extraordinary thing happens.
People remember themselves.
Not the version they have been carefully presenting to the world. Not the one shaped by unnatural constraints and compromises. The other one. The one that has been waiting, patient and a little coiled up, underneath all of that.
Helping you uncoil is what I do. This is what these six weeks are all about.
I am not going to tell you who you are. I wouldn't dream of it, and frankly, it isn't my story to tell. What I will do is create the conditions in which you can no longer avoid finding out for yourself. What I will do is help you find the Real in the story of You.
You will leave knowing something you cannot unknow. You will carry it quietly, at first, and then less quietly. And, if my experience of watching this happen again and again is anything to go by, you will wonder what on earth took you so long.
The world is longing for your Truth.
The world is longing for the Real You.
The “real” problem…
You already know what you want.
The problem is you keep talking yourself out of it.
More insight hasn’t fixed it. More content and information haven’t fixed it. You’ve done the reading. You’ve watched and saved the reels.
You understand yourself, intellectually, at least. And yet there’s still a gap between the person you know yourself to be and the life you’re actually living.
That gap isn’t a knowledge problem. It’s a permission problem.
And it doesn’t close by thinking harder.
“There is a version of you that is completely done apologising for what you want.
Into the Real is how you get there.”
What actually shifts…and how
Most people who come to this have already tried the other things.
What they haven't tried is a room where the pretending stops.
The mechanism here is the group field. When a small number of people commit to stillness together, something happens that cannot happen alone. The permission becomes collective.
The silence becomes thick. Your body stops bracing. And in that state, the things you’ve been carrying…the excuses, the self-doubt, the identity you’ve been performing…they all start to come loose.
How the Course works for you.
6×90mins Group Sessions.
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1×90min Solo Session with Oliver.
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Week 1–2: Grounding into the Real.
Getting below thought. Establishing the stillness that makes everything else possible. Learning to stay in the zone of transformation.
Building a Foundation you’ll return to again and again.
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Week 3–4: The "Real" stuff.
Where the excuses surface. Where you meet the version of yourself you’ve been avoiding.
Where fear usually arises.
Where it finally gets good.
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Week 5–6: Walking it out.
Integrating what emerged. Practices for keeping the channel open when life tries to close it back down.
Where you learn how to make your experience of yourself and life your top priority.
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Your 1:1: Just you and Oliver.
A 90-minute session included as part of the course. A very special space completely tailored to what you need.
Think of this almost like an opportunity to mainline your connection to what is Real for you.
The TransformationKnowing what you want but not trusting it
Moving from your own authority
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Logic and desire at war with each other
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What you know and what you want are finally aligned
Performing a version of yourself people find acceptable
Finally done explaining yourself
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Waiting until you feel ready
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Moving even when fear arises
Why Not Just More Fixing?
Why not just more content, more therapy, more trying alone?
If insight were enough, you’d already be there. Therapy is brilliant for understanding the wound. This isn’t that. Books give you the map. This is walking the terrain.
You can meditate alone every morning and still never hit the depth that becomes available when a committed group does it together. The field is the thing. You can’t replicate it solo.
This course is specifically designed to build and create self-trust at the level of felt experience - not concept. You don’t leave with just a framework for staying connected to YOU, you’ll leave with a new relationship to yourself that is already operating differently.
People who have come through this work have left jobs, started businesses, found love, retrained, and begun living with a lightness they hadn’t felt in years. Not because I told them what to do, but because they finally stopped hiding from themselves.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF…
• You can feel the gap between who you are and how you’re living
• You’re genuinely done with the surface-level version of self-work
• You want to be in a room where people are actually going for it
• You’re willing to commit 6 weeks and do the work and online resources in between sessions
• You want to change how you live, not just how you think about it
THIS ISN’T FOR YOU IF…
• You want another thing to learn about yourself without doing anything differently
• You’re hoping someone will tell you what your purpose is
• You want to spectate from a comfortable distance
• You’re not ready to give up the story of why you can’t
• The fear around changing your perception of yourself and your life seems scarier than the excitement of real, lasting improvement in your life.
Testimonials from previous courses…
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“I left a job I’d outgrown, started a business I actually care about, and stopped explaining myself to everyone around me.
None of it was dramatic. It happened because something settled in me.
I stopped fighting myself.”
— G.K. - Exeter.
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“I’ve done therapy, I’ve read everything. What happened in that room was different.
It wasn’t about understanding myself more, I already did that.
It was about finally giving myself permission to act on what I knew.”
J.T. - Budleigh Salterton.
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"I've spent years trying to find this feeling in other places, in therapy, in books, in conversations with people I trust. What I didn't expect was to find it in a room with five strangers and Oliver. The tenderness in that group was unexpected.
The realness I walked out with each week…I haven't found that anywhere else.
H.W. - Exmouh.
The 2 Biggest Objections people have about starting the course and stepping Into the Real.
Q: “What if I change and “blow” everything up?”
A: The people who have come through this work have completely changed their lives. They have left jobs, left relationships, re-trained and started again.
And they have done it without having a breakdown, destabilising themselves, or tearing their lives apart in chaos, precisely because of what we build during the course. You don’t leave unmoored.
You leave with a compass you can actually trust.
Q: “What if I’m scared of what I’ll find?”
A: Good. That fear is information. Ask yourself: is the scary thing going in or is the actually terrifying outcome living another five years carrying the weight of what you haven’t said yes to?
The fear of finally embracing your own direction is far smaller than the cost of ignoring it.
Ultimately the larger part of you, the part that holds your true wisdom, is far more capable that you might know. We learn to get in touch with that place so it can do the heavy lifting.
FORMAT
6 weekly sessions, in person
LENGTH
90 minutes per session
1:1 SESSION
90-minute session with Oliver, included
BETWEEN SESSIONS
Exercises and practices set each week
GROUP SIZE
Maximum 6 people
LOCATION
The Chapel, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, EX9 6HF
STARTS
Tuesday Sep 7th, 2026 @ 7pm.
YOUR GUIDE
Oliver James Jenkin has led this work for years. His approach is not strictly about technique or framework.
It is more about helping people close the gap between who they know themselves to be and how they are actually living. He does this with warmth, directness, and without any spiritual self-help surface-level nonsense.
6 places. Starting Sep 7th. If it’s calling you, that’s not an accident…
Into the Real.
All 6 sessions + your personal 90-min 1:1 with Oliver
Book your place…
A 6-week immersive group for people ready to stop performing their life and start living it.
Starting Sep 7th · 6 places only
Questions before committing? Reach Oliver directly.
Into the Real | In-Person Meditation in Budleigh Salterton, Devon.
Into the Real is a 6-week in-person meditation course held at The Chapel in Budleigh Salterton, East Devon - easily reachable from Exeter, Exmouth, Sidmouth, and across the surrounding area.
Led by Oliver James Jenkin, this small-group course combines guided meditation, somatic practice, and weekly exercises to help you develop genuine self-trust and step into a more authentic way of living.
Unlike drop-in meditation classes or online mindfulness courses, Into the Real is limited to 6 participants and works with the specific energy and commitment of the group. If you are looking for a meditation course in Devon that goes beyond stress reduction and into real personal transformation, this is it.
