About me

My name is Max Friedstein (which means Peace Stone in German).

I’ve had one wild journey — just like you!

A journey of awakening that began when I experienced two career-ending knee injuries that forced me to leave my life as a dancer in New York and begin a new journey.

A journey within.

A journey that took me around the physical world and down the rabbit-hole of my Self.

“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”

— KRISHNAMURTI

It’s been a fascinating and pain-stakingly long process learning how to describe what it is that I actually do.

If there’s one thing I can boil my services down to — its this:

I help you gracefully (and sometimes not so gracefully!) navigate profound internal and external change. As you’ll see when we work together, the two types of change are truly interconnected. They mirror each other.

Utilizing a holographic perspective of consciousness that I have been studying and embodying for the past seven years, I help you locate and transform limiting and/or negative belief systems and structures within your mind that are being reflected to you through your reality.

I help you gain clarity by helping you recognize patterns and order where there is seeming chaos or disorder.

My strength is in being able to pinpoint the root cause of the issue you are experiencing with laser-like focus and then communicate that insight with compassion and love for the highest good of all.

My creative mind sees solutions where others see problems and synthesis where others see separation.

If you desire clarity, direction, empowerment, and liberation — look no further!

Whether you are looking for a quick reading or are interested in developing your intuitive capacities and senses in a longer-term mentoring course, it would be an honor to work with you.

Summary of Qualifications:

  • Licensed Consultant (Jan 2020-Current), The White Rabbit Reveals, Global

  • B.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2021 - current), Northern Arizona University

  • The Two Year Program (2020 & 2021), The White Rabbit Reveals

  • The AZOTH Key (2018 & 2019), The White Rabbit Reveals

  • Usui Reiki Master Certification (2018), G.N. Meditation Center, Nepal

  • Reiki II Certification (2018), Arati Healing Center, Thailand

  • 200 hr Yoga Teacher Certification (2018), Brahma Yoga, India

  • Shamanic Reiki Certification (2017), The Sanctuary, NY

  • B.F.A. in Dance, minor in Gender Studies (2014-2017), NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NY

My journey has been one of complete redirection.

A total metamorphosis.

I do not recognize myself.

For the first 21 years of my life, everyone around me was telling me I had life figured out. How I was so lucky to have the family that I had, to have the money that I had, to have the boyfriend that I had. How lucky I was to already know who I was and to know what I wanted to do with my life. I don’t say this to sound cocky, in fact I’m trying to insinuate the opposite. What everyone was telling me couldn’t have been further from the truth.

I was swimming in a sea of falseness yet, no one in my life could see the lie I was living. And if no one else could see it, then I mustn't be lying… right?

Not really…

After years of getting swept up into the stream of human ambition and desire, I was blind and deaf to my self. Blinded by my own ego. Blinded by my own superficiality. Blinded by the spotlight. Blinded by the reality I had created.

I had never not had what the world told me I was supposed to have. I supposedly had it all.

And so it seemed…

Until I didn’t. Until, my body stopped doing what I was forcing it to do. Until my relationship was falling apart. Until I had no desire to go to school. Until the pain that was bottled up inside me started to find its way out.

Until I realized the universe had other plans. That maybe my own wants and desires weren’t actually my own. And most importantly, maybe they were not aligned with what my deepest self wished for me. And so began a period of collapse. Of destruction. Chaos. What some people call the midlife crisis — I started having at 21.

Suddenly, all I had… became all I had to lose.

I now see that because I had placed such an extreme emphasis on the material, on the physical, then only naturally I had the same potential to develop an intimate relationship with the immaterial, the non-physical. With spirit.

After years of being immersed in materialism, I had developed enough potential kinetic energy to fling me into the realm of the invisible at the speed of light itself.

My life quickly began to shift faster than anyone in my life could have imagined — mainly myself.

If my journey could be summarized into one sentence it would be this: moving from center-stage to back-stage. In May of 2017, I took my final bow as a dancer and began my journey behind the curtain. Behind the veil.

Down the rabbit hole, I went.

Two knee injuries that Western medicine could not cure, sent me on a hunt for healing. What I thought was just going to be a physical healing process turned into a never ending journey of self-inquiry.

Deep inquiry into the nature of the human condition, into the nature of myself.

I met a woman named Dr. Helen Mosimann Kogan the first few days of my travels in India. I was staying at an Ayurvedic (Indian medicine) clinic in Kovalam… many synchronicities led me to meet Helen and boy, there was no going back once our worlds collided. She was in the middle of running tours around the world with groups of seekers. I didn’t even know I was a seeker yet!

Long story short, I began to work with Helen — traveling with her, signing up for her group course The Azoth Key, and beginning private mentoring work with her.

When I met Helen, I felt like I was meeting my future self.

What inspired me about Helen was this: Her ability to see the interconnectivity of all of all things. I had never seen someone live and practice this truth — in real time.

Her ability to read the symbols of her reality, to make sense out of chaos, to see and speak truth amidst the fog of illusions — this is what inspired me to learn from her.

Seven years later, I am no longer the same person. I have learned that the way Helen lived is something that can be accessed within all of us. It’s not reserved for a small few… however, a small handful of people choose to activate this way of knowing because it requires that we let go of our old definitions of reality — and in turn take full accountability for our lives.

TESTIMONIALS

  • "I just completed TFT with Max...

    I can see now that meeting Max on his travels in South Africa some time ago was no accident. I have never had another person hold space for me in the way it was held during the coursework. With unconditional love and compassion. Without judgment. Up until I began the course, I don’t remember a time feeling that I wasn’t being judged in almost every relationship and interaction. I understand it now as just the opposite, that it was my own judgment I had to work through. The implications of working through this with Max can’t be understated. They have had and are continually unfolding to have an enormous impact on my life.

    I look back on the past year and reflect on how the meaning of the course has changed and evolved throughout. This is another testament to Max and his abilities as a guide/mentor. I am reminded of a short story I listened to about a teacher and his students. The analogy is a long hallway which represents the course, as you veer towards the left wall, a guide’s job is to bring you back to the middle. As you veer towards the right wall, the same is true. I think for me I spent a lot of time leaning on both left and right walls, Max was always there guiding me into the middle. The unexpected was always something to be expected during the coursework and I could never have predicted the things that came up and the things I would work through. It blows my mind to think of it now, and even more so when I think about the Iain at the start of the course and the Iain in this moment now. They are completely different people in a way, but I hold a huge amount of love and compassion for that past version of myself. I would not have been able to hold that love without Max’s help.

    Reflecting as I write this, I realize the biggest testament I can give to this work is that I want to do more, to go deeper. Max and I often spoke about this being a clearing up process, and I am humbled and grateful to be in the position to continue learning and finding out more about myself. In using the world as a mirror for self-reflection and dissolving the separateness that I have been taught throughout my life to see in the world.

    Thank you so much Max, and to Helen and TWRR for making these courses available to the world.”

    • I, Australia

  • “I HAD AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY…

    to embark on the 3-month journey, You with You guidance course, with Max. Words cannot express how profound and transformative this experience was for me. You with You is a personally tailored course that enabled me to reach significant breakthroughs. With Max's guidance, I was able to come back to myself and follow an inner knowing I had always been aware of but overlooked. Through an authentic yet empathetic manner, Max was able to help me connect the dots in where I had not been able to do so previously. He helped me become self-aware of unprocessed emotions and events that continue to impact my present-day experiences. Max provided a supportive space for me to face parts of myself that I was ashamed of and avoided. This course empowered me to become more accepting, compassionate, and loving towards myself. I learned that everything is okay and that it is my birthright to live life freely, without self-judgment and needing to seek external validation. I am not only aware of this freedom, but I am learning how to implement it into my life. Max is an impeccable healer. He has an ample amount of expertise, compassion, and patience. He is gifted, and his perspective on life is quite refreshing. After this course, I feel closer to my authentic self than ever before. I feel a new excitement about my life path and what is yet to unfold. You with You is a course that is worth the investment into one's self and has a profound life-long impact. I have much appreciation for Max, and I look forward to taking more courses in the future.”

    — A, Chicago

  • “Max is a healer in the truest sense…

    He taught me that we grow the most when we are uncomfortable. My sessions with him have been so unexpected and life changing- I cannot urge readers enough to enrich themselves by trying things Max’s way. My perspective has shifted to one that is very aware of my mind and body, and has given me the tools to take care of and listen to both. This is especially important in today’s climate. He offered me the platform and provided me the comfortable environment necessary to open that “can of worms” I would avoid- largely because I was afraid of how messy it would be and the amount of effort required to sift through it. It takes work, reflection, and patience. With Max, I’ve learned that there isn’t a “right way”. Just by showing up we are telling our minds and our bodies that we are open to healing- from the inside out.”

    — R, Chicago

  • "After the last session...

    I was able to surrender to the energy work and feel it thought my body and listen to what it wanted to show me. My mind was no longer a chaotic hive after these sessions and my energy was released throughout my body and allowed me to radiate in a way I never thought I could. I feel free to explore my life in a new way with the lessons I’ve learned and the guides I’ve met.”

    — H, Arizona

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