Servers that Serve

Servers that Serve

Servers that Serve

I want to update you about recent streamlining improvements in Awake Media’s server management team and process:

1. Shared servers: $8 per month, free with Awake.net membership

  • Wordpess + Divi pre-Installed plus a suite of speed and security plugins carefully tested for compatibility
  • Access to support ticket system
  • Free Updates to WP themes, plugins and core
  • Non-profit rates for those who qualify on other Awake Media services

2. Shared servers for podcast and e-commerce sites $32 per month

  • Wordpess + Divi pre-Installed plus a suite of speed and security plugins carefully tested for compatibility
  • Daily Updates and access to our HUMMING BOARD where we manage your site
  • Priority Access to support ticket system
  • Free Updates to WP themes, plugins and core
  • Non-profit rates for those who qualify on other Awake Media services
  • Free or discounted (depending on complexity and size) rates for migrations of your existing sites to our servers)

3. VPS servers for Membership sites starting at $64 per month

  • Wordpess + Divi + BuddyBoss + Lifter pre-Installed (license fees may apply for software)
  • Daily Updates and access to our HUMMING BOARD where we manage your site
  • VPS management
  • Super-Priority Access to support ticket system
  • Free Updates to WP themes, plugins and core
  • Non-profit rates for those who qualify on other Awake Media services
  • Discounted rate for building a membership site from scratch or redeveloping an existing one
  • Free or discounted (depending on complexity and size) rates for migrations of your existing sites to our servers)

4. Amazon Cloud servers for membership sites that are or have grown to capacity on VPS servers $1000 per month

  • Wordpess + Divi + BuddyBoss + LifterLMS pre-Installed plus a suite of speed and security plugins carefully tested for compatibility (annual license fees may apply for software)
  • ASW3 management by our C-panel admin expert team Paul and Tanya
  • Super-Priority Access to support ticket system
  • Free Updates to WP themes, plugins and core
  • Non-profit rates for those who qualify on other Awake Media services
  • Discounted rate for building a membership site from scratch or redesigning an existing one
  • Free or discounted (depending on complexity and size) rates for migrations of your existing sites to our servers)

We are in pre-launch state and getting ready for the PS2023 conference (see us at BOOTH 747!) by which time these updates will be in place for easy ordering. In the meantime if you would like to access these services please contact us or text Lakshmi at 619-366-7788.

Media Creates Culture: A Blog by the Awake Media Coalition

Media Creates Culture: A Blog by the Awake Media Coalition

I conceived of using media to awaken consciousness while I was witnessing the Twin Towers toppling on TV. At that moment I knew that we as a species were going to need to spiritually awaken to transcend the trauma and turmoil that we have created at this level of consciousness, in it’s materiality. I decided to devote my skills as a designer and communicator to creating media that awakens. For a long time it remained somewhat of a New Age aspiration, without any legs, but now, in 2022, as I witness the unravelling of our culture and species into separate warring tribes, I see that the need for media that awakens has become urgent on many fronts– in transcending trauma, ending addiction, finding purpose, righting relationships, and reconnecting with the divine. Enter entheogens, my preferred word for psychedelics.
From Hosting to Film: A Digital Media Ecosystem for the Transformational Community

From Hosting to Film: A Digital Media Ecosystem for the Transformational Community

From Hosting to Film: A Digital Media Ecosystem for the Transformational Community

Awake Media has evolved from a solo studio into a digital media ecosystem with a renaissance team of media experts who can serve the transformational community to create and send out their awakening messages and teachings quickly and powerfully. Ease of use is a key consideration for us because we find that if the processes have been streamlined, the creativity flows and we can create something great together. In the world of design, this is called Design Thinking, and we apply this to all our work.

SERVICES

  • hosting and domain management
  • wordpress web development
  • transmedia storytelling
  • entheogenic social network
  • books and ebooks
  • web video and animation
  • branding
  • film
  • print design
  • coalition of independent contractors
  • subject matter experts
  • global renaissance team

The Awake Media Ecosystem

We are careful about who we work with and are seeking to “find the others” those others who know in their heart of hearts that “There is no Other.”

We want to harness the power of media for you and with you to create culture and quicken an awakening.

Lakshmi Narayan, Founder, Creative Director, Designer, Writer

Lakshmi Narayan, Founder, Creative Director, Designer, Writer

Lakshmi Narayan

Lakshmi Narayan

Founder, Creative Director, Brand, Web

I'm from India, but I learned Swiss typography during my Master's program at University of Illinois in Chicago, where I also learned design history from a professor who was as passionate about it as myself.

I am a conceptual designer. I understand branding and how to develop an identity imbued with meaning and then extend it across all platforms, online and offline. I understand how to deliver a visual pun, or multiplicity of meanings through the simplification of form in a logo. I understand the power of visual and verbal communications working seamlessly to create a brand and deliver a powerful message or call to action. Why is this important? Because media creates culture.

I have 40 years experience in design and communications. My career and interests have taken me from working with major corporate brands like Arthur Andersen, Encyclopedia Britannica, Schwinn, Allied Van Lines and many Hospital systems, to working more in the counterculture industry of human potential, psychedelic and other plant medicines, healing, and psychospiritual transformation with companies like MAPS, Women's Visionary Congress, Synergetic Press and others.

I founded Awake Media in 2012 as a digital media company offering branding, web design, print design, video production, seo, social media, and film. Awake Media is structured as a coalition of independent media professionals with complementary skills and core competencies.

Rowan Gabrielle, Conferences & Events Producer, Business Coach

Rowan Gabrielle, Conferences & Events Producer, Business Coach

I began my business career at the age of 19 when I started a company importing cutting edge superfoods like Spirulina from the US to UK. This led to my participation and co-founding a variety of different companies in the sustainable living arena culminating in co-owning the Whole Life Expo & Conferences, a large-scale consumer expo in America. I am also the co-author of the book Sacred Commerce. I currently live in the UK.

HIRE ME FOR
Project Management
Large Event Production
Applying Sacred Commerce Principles to Your Business

New Customers book an initial consultation with me.

Jeffrey Detrick, Creative Director, SEO, Ads, Tactics

Jeffrey Detrick, Creative Director, SEO, Ads, Tactics

Jeffrey Detrick

Jeffrey Detrick

Creative Director, Ads, SEO

I love the creative process and enjoy working with entrepreneurs and innovative marketing partners. I am an Award-Winning Creative Director and entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience in creative direction, strategic brand positioning, marketing project management, executive account management, sales management, new business development, and marketing consultation. I have worked in virtually every industry with extensive work in financial, real estate development, luxury, CBD, high-tech, and B2B. I have experience in all major media from traditional to digital marketing with accounts ranging from local to international in scope. I have developed a proprietary strategic branding process called, “SEISMIC BRANDING™”. My process is specifically tailored to match the needs of small to mid-sized businesses looking to position their brands affordably, rapidly, and effectively. 

As a Creative Director and ad agency owner I have provided strategic, creative direction, copywriting, art direction conceptualization, marketing consultation, and implementation of thousands of advertising and marketing projects spanning virtually every industry in both B2B and B2C. The scope of work includes all mediums including 100’s of print and social ads, 100’s of brochures and direct mailers, 100+ radio commercials, and jingles, 50+ television commercials and video productions, 70+ websites, developed strategy and creative for dozens of social media/SEO/PPC and email campaigns.  

Client background includes Anthony Robbins Companies, Macerich Development, Pure Ratios CBD, Armor All Product, Diawa Golf, The San Diego-Union Tribune, The San Diego Film Festival, Pala Casino, Lumenati (The largest luxury retail shopping center collection in North America), Bridge Publications, (the largest book publisher in the U.S.), Bank of Internet, Coca-Cola Company and over a hundred other companies. I find each experience to be valuable from start-ups to multi-million-dollar worldwide initiatives.

Elizabeth Thomas, book designer, painter

Elizabeth Thomas, book designer, painter

Elizabeth Thomas, Goa, India

Elizabeth Thomas, Goa, India

Book Designer, Painter

As a graphic designer, I’ve worked with varied audiences. From symbols and logos, brochures, and books for urban readers, to developing and testing teaching aids for village health workers and exhibitions about women’s struggles in village Panchayats. Worked with a team of designers and editors on quality books for the US and UK markets. In Goa worked with Bookworm, an NGO, teaching children in schools and village communities. Daily Social Media posts for a Dubai based company.

Brand Strategy: The Big Picture Process

Brand Strategy: The Big Picture Process

WHAT'S YOUR STORY?

In the course of an hour-long meeting we will hear the narrative behind what you’re doing whether it’s a personal narrative or a social or cultural or business narrative. The story is going to be different for different people and businesses, but there is always a narrative, and we want you to recount it. Even if this may be something you’ve already translated into a vision or mission statement, a brand or business concept, or if you are just starting and have never shared it before. Either way, we want to hear the genesis of your business. It will help us further understand who you are and help us articulate a narrative that gives people a sense of emotional connection to you or your business. For example, you may have had an epiphany or health breakthrough that caused you to get interested in your field of work. Now, it’s been years, but that root cause still holds true for you, but it’s buried. So we might look for ways to reconnect to that original vitality.

WHO'S YOUR AUDIENCE?

Some people say “Everyone” when asked this question. While that may be an appropriate answer, we still need to divide that audience up into interest groups or segments so that we can communicate in a way that is authentic and engaging. For example, you may have a process that you use with a certain group of people who are your patients, and you may teach that same process to another group of people. These would be two completely different “interest groups” even though they may be in the same age bracket or gender or geography, you obviously have to create two different communications channels.

HOW WILL YOU TELL IT?

This exploration identifies all the mediums and messages that are appropriate for articulating your brand and includes:

Keyword Analysis to develop a list of up to 80 keywords and phrases that relate to your subject matter.

A Channel Checklist of all possible media outlet’s and influencers you can approach, and a further narrowing down of which ones are appropriate for us right now.

Identification of the Minimum Viable Product for your project, or for each phase of your project if more than one.

A Classroom on Your Website

A Classroom on Your Website

The movie The Social Dilemma revealed the extent of the censorship and social manipulation we currently experience on Facebook and other platforms. Building your classroom and student community on your WordPress website gives you 100% ownership, privacy, and an ad-free environment.

Features:

Multimedia Lessons

Appeal to multiple learning styles with video, audio, text, image-based lessons, and more.

Quizzes 

Create dynamic multimedia quizzes to reinforce learning or test competency of the material

Course Builder

Easily build online courses from one screen with the intuitive multi-tier drag and drop course builder

Drip Content

Protect your learner focus and future recurring revenue by making lessons available over time

Prerequisites

Require the successful completion of a specific lesson or even a specific course before another one unlocks

Course Tracks

Offer degree programs or certifications on completion of a group of courses taken in any order

Assignments

Assignments requiring manual grading are coming soon as an advanced add-on

Quiz Timer

Set a maximum time limit for a quiz so students can demonstrate learning within a certain time

Student Dashboard

Front-end student profiles so learners can track their activity and stay organized

Multiple Instructors

Multiple instructors can create and teach a course or courses.

Lesson Downloads

Offer downloadable worksheets, ebooks, PDFs, audios, and other files for offline learning

Course Import

Easily import a course from one site to another for migration, licensing, and more

Course Export

One click export a course from your website for migration, licensing, backups, and more

Discussion Areas

Enjoy multiple discussion areas including lesson comments, forums, private coaching areas, and timelines

Instructional Design

Allow the software to guide you in how to organize and structure the most engaging courses online

Form Integrations

Add form plugins to collect assignments, contact messages, other data, and more

Graphics Pack

Get beautifully designed royalty-free certificate backgrounds, achievement badges, and more

Course Reviews

Increase course sales by collecting testimonials and honest reviews of your courses

Make Money

Our LMS helps you build a strong income generating a teaching business or membership site

Credit Card Payments

Own your platform and revenue with simple conversion-optimized credit card payments

One-Time Payments

You can charge whatever you want for your courses or memberships including simple one-time pricing

Recurring Payments

Create business sustainability and continuous cash flow with flexible recurring payment options

Supported by the Awake Media Team

DIY with Handholding or Done-for-You services by Awake Media

Awake Media offers brand, content, web, print, video, film, seo, and social media services and tutorials.

HOSTED ON OUR 100% GREEN SERVERS

We’ve hosted our websites on GreenGeeks environment-friendly servers for over 10 years. We love working with them!

TURNKEY INSTALLATION

You’ll be ready to build your first course within 7 days after purchase. We’ll need some details from you to activate the free migration if you have an existing site, or if you’re starting a new course site you’ll need to register a domain name and activate hosting after checkout.

Only three one license available at this one-time pilot discount. Regular price $2400. Your cost $1200.

$1200 one-time payment includes design to launch turnkey installation, plus $64 per month ongoing hosting, updates, maintenance and server management costs for a scalable Virtual Private Server. If you’re a current Awake Media hosting client add $32  to your existing hosting costs. $150 per year plugin license renewal fees. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Text Lakshmi at 619-366-7788 if you have questions.

Sacred Commerce

Sacred Commerce

Awake Media creates films, apps, and books about a very important topic: entheogens, a.k.a. psychedelics. I have decided to put the power of my 40 years of experience with branding and design, as well as the power of media itself, wholly to work on communicating and repositioning entheogens in the collective. These amazing molecular magicians, particularly the plant-based ones like cannabis, ayahuasca, iboga/ibogaine, psilocybin, san pedro, and peyote, are psycho-spiritual tools given by nature for self-healing, self-knowledge, and the evolution of one’s own consciousness, no matter what cultural or religious background one might hail from (no faith necessary).

Misunderstood and much maligned for centuries because their power and proper medicinal and religious use did not translate into the mainstream Western mindset, plant-based psychedelics are now experiencing a resurgence of interest in medical and metaphysical circles. They can heal difficult mental problems like anxiety, depression,  PTSD and addiction where Western medicine fails, and offer access to a direct mystical experience. The reason these plants work where other approaches don’t is because they work on all levels—body, mind, and spirit—and can unlock the door to an inner journey that is a greatly enriching part of the human experience, and awaken the inner teacher and healer.

They bring new meaning to the phrase ‘Physician, heal thyself.

I am currently focused on a movie and a movement to spread the word and change the law around iboga, an entheogenic root bark that can help to end the opioid epidemic yet remains illegal in the US.

Our documentary, “Iboga Saves”, is being made in collaboration with Academy Award-nominated cinematographer and founder of Impact Creative, Eric Thiermann; Iboga Directory of Practitioners will be located on our sister site awake.net. 

WATCH THE FIVE-MINUTE TRAILER HERE

If you want to learn more about iboga or entheogens, sign up for our IBOGA SAVES Flood Dose Campaign during the months of November and December 2018 to access videos, podcasts, and posts from experts and experiencers alike.