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Potluck Dharma ~ with Joryu Myosei & Riyaz Motan (Note: Registration extended until Sunday, November 17th.)
You bring the Wisdom. We’ll bring the Food! This is a fundraiser, co-sponsored by Open Circle, honoring its co-founder Rob Schwartz, and his vision to maintain his home and land as a retreat space for spiritual gatherings. The day is all about sharing – insights, wisdom, and stories – creating a laid-back yet profound forum to explore spiritual truths and life’s deeper questions. After a morning program of meditation, dharma talks, and discussion, we’ll gather in the afternoon with a delicious, farm-to-table, vegetarian meal (included with registration) and equally important in feeding the soul. We’ll close with an herbal tisane and dessert. The day will be hosted by Joryu Myosei, a meditation and inquiry teacher and intuitive healer, and Riyaz Motan a spiritual guide and psychotherapist whose work interweaves Western psychology and Eastern wisdom traditions. We will also be joined by special musical guest, Dan Huebner, who has played at retreats with Adyashanti and Rupert Spira.
Saturday, November 23, 2024 @ 10:00am - 4:00pm, IN-PERSON at Private country homeShakti Caterina Maggi ~ Embodied nonduality
The teaching will be a dive into the heart of non-duality, an open and direct sharing about how our spiritual essence embodies in human experience to wake up to itself. We will explore how suffering is the way through which we can recognize our self-imposed limitations and use it as a trampoline to consciously connect to an unshakeable inner peace. Shakti Caterina Maggi is a spiritual teacher r widely recognized as one of the most authentic and profound voices of contemporary spirituality. Combining the vision of Advaita and non-dual Tantra with a contemporary approach, Shakti offers an inner technology to dissolve the contraction of suffering and access a space of peace and unconditional love towards life.
Saturday, November 23, 2024 @ 10:00am-11:30noon (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Ishita Sharma ~ Embodiment Lab – Experiments in Embodying Presence
We are not thinking beings who sense; we are sensing beings who think. And re-setting that balance is key to joy, to vibrance, and true liberation! Join us for Embodiment Lab, an experiential exploration of the body as a doorway to presence and aliveness, returning to the ground of being through our own direct experience. Ishita Sharma serves as a spiritual teacher, healing mirror, embodiment partner, and Core Energetics Practitioner. Teaching Universal principles of healing and mysticism, she is devoted to supporting healing and awakening in all those committed to living a bright and connected life, sharing their gifts for the good of the Whole.
Sunday, November 24, 2024 @ 10:30am-12:00pm (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Ishtar ~ Flowing Wholeness – Melting into the Heart of Life (In Person: Berkeley, CA & Livestream)
When the mind settles into Silence, the heart opens to the great mystery hidden everywhere in plain sight. The formless takes the form of Love, melting the barrier between self and world, reconnecting us to primordial Wholeness. Every moment of life − sublime or awful − can be experienced as a flowing wholeness. We’ll walk into a few powerful ways of melting into wholeness: effortless mantra practice, heart-engaging appreciation, tuning directly into Silence, and opening to the flow of Shakti. This is the way of praying until we become the prayer. Ishtar is a meditation teacher, mystic, monk, gardener, and head teacher of the School for Awakened Living. At age 13, he experienced a near death experience (NDE ), and fell into Samadhi. The desire to return to Samadhi propelled him on a spiritual path. A meditation practice known as the Ishayas’ Ascension brought him to an Ashram at age 18. Since then, he has been teaching effortless meditation, and helping people relax into Wholeness.
Sunday, December 1, 2024 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm (Pacific Time), IN-PERSON & LIVESTREAM at Northbrae Community Church & Livestream
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