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Arian Mateo ~ Letting Ourselves Off the Hook
Join us for a transformative spiritual meeting where we will explore the profound freedom that comes from letting ourselves off the hook. You will be guided to release deep-rooted patterns of self-judgment, seeking, striving, and unresolved guilt and shame, allowing you to discover and rest in the simplicity of our true nature. Arian Mateo is the founder of the Awareness Method, where he integrates profound spiritual insights with deep psychological understanding to bring about embodied and lasting liberation. He draws from a wide range of traditions, including Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Diamond Approach, and attachment and trauma healing.
Saturday, April 26, 2025 @ 9:00am - 10:45am (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Ishita Sharma ~ Embodiment Lab – Experiments in Embodying Presence: Relationships
Join us for an experiential exploration of the body as a doorway to presence and aliveness, returning to the ground of being through our own direct experience. In this meeting, we will examine what embodied presence makes possible in relationships, and how we can use the crucible of intimate relationships to deepen as/into unity, using our body’s signals to return to sensate presence. Ishita Sharma serves as a spiritual teacher and Core Energetics Practitioner of body-based psychotherapy. 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, April 27, 2025 @ 9:00am - 10:30am (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Presence: Our Only Refuge (In-Person & Livestream)
Open Circle is hosting an evening Satsang and two DAYLONGS with Marlies Myoku Cocheret in California, USA: * May 2nd (7-9 pm, PT) ~ Berkeley, CA (In-Person & Livestream ~ Open to all) * May 3rd Daylong (11am - 5pm, PT) ~ Fairfax, CA (In-Person & Livestream ~ Open to all) * May 4th Way of the Women Daylong (11am - 5pm, PT) ~ Fairfax, CA (In-Person only - Women only) * These times demand a strong Presence if we are to care as Love for the world right now. So let’s come together in truth and love, to connect as our true nature for ourselves and our world. This brings forward wisdom and compassion. Naturally the right action follows. Marlies Myoku Cocheret is a spiritual teacher, psychologist, Hakomi therapist, and tantric educator. She has been offering satsang and retreats since 2000 when Adyashanti asked her to teach.
Friday, May 2, 2025 @ 7:00pm-9:00pm (Pacific Time) at Northbrae Community Church (& Livestream)Miranda Macpherson ~ Turning everything into the Path of Awakening ~ Bay Area Daylong Retreat
If ever there was a time to stay spiritually connected, so we can remain open-hearted, responsive and awake, it's now. This daylong is for deep spiritual nourishment and community support to help us find calm amidst the chaos, deepen in to our fundamental human unity, and explore what timeless spiritual Truths have to offer us practically in living meaningfully and navigating life from our spiritual depth. Miranda Macpherson is a contemporary spiritual teacher, who leads the Living Grace Global Sangha, and who has been guiding others into direct experience of the sacred for over thirty years internationally. Unapologetically feminine, joyful and down to earth, she is dedicated to loving people all the way back into the freedom and wholeness of our true nature. Miranda is the author of several books and is also a kirtan musician and singer.
Saturday, May 10, 2025 @ 9:30am - 5:00pm (Pacific Time), IN-PERSON at Private country home
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