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Miranda Macpherson ~ Turning Everything Into The Path Of Awakening (In-Person)
If ever there was a time to engage our spiritual practice, so we can stay present, open-hearted, peaceful, loving and wise, it’s now. This daylong with Miranda Macpherson is a day for deep spiritual nourishment and community support to connect more substantially to the luminous presence within, illuminate obstacles one your path, and explore what timeless Truths have to offer practically for living meaningfully and navigating life from our spiritual depth. Both the morning and afternoon sessions will be inspirational and experiential, with meditation, mantra, a rich inquiry practice, plus time for satsang and sharing. Miranda Macpherson is a contemporary spiritual teacher who has been guiding others into direct experience of the sacred for over thirty years. Unapologetically feminine, joyful and down to earth, Miranda is dedicated to loving people all the way home into the freedom and wholeness of our true nature.
Saturday, June 13, 2026 @ 9:30am-5:00pm (Pacific Time) at First Presbyterian Church of San RafaelAjaya Sommers ~ Awake Attachment™ – Intimacy as a Path of Embodiment and Awakening ~ 4 Part Online Series
When the separate self dissolves, what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything. This is not an achievement. It is our original nature. And yet most of us cannot sustain it. Because the nervous system learned, early, that closeness was not always safe. Yet the very places we feel most broken, most defended, most disconnected, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They are the doorway into it. Awakening to our true nature does not automatically resolve the nervous system patterns organized around protection. This series explores that meeting point - where spiritual realization and the living body learn to move together. Ajaya Sommers is a somatic practitioner, teacher, and speaker. Her work lives at the intersection of somatic embodiment, relational intimacy, and non-dual inquiry, helping people reclaim presence, coherence, and deeper connection to themselves, others and Life itself.
Monday, June 15, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00pm (Pacific Time), part of a 4-Part Series, includes June 15, 17, 22 & 24 at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Ishita Sharma ~ The Feminine Mystical Path – Homecoming (women only)
This event is just for women, to explore the fullness of our expression with a group that will invite and receive it as such. The feminine and masculine paths illuminate and engage different aspects of energy, attention and anatomy in remembering Wholeness. Popular wisdom traditions are skewed by a primarily masculine lens. Together we will explore what embodiment beyond awakening entails uniquely for our feminine incarnations, learning from and honoring the female mystics who have walked before us, while mining the gold hidden in our own unique blueprints. Ishita Sharma serves as a spiritual teacher, healing mirror, embodiment partner, and practitioner of body-based psychotherapy. 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.
Thursday, June 18, 2026 @ 10:00am - 11:30am (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ The Healing Power of Embodied Presence
The power to heal lies within the embodied presence of our own Being. That, and only that, can transform and free our fixed and distorted identity that causes our mental and physical health issues. The false identity cannot change itself. True healing comes from something beyond that, but not separate. It is in the meeting of our infinite being and our finite humanness that the alchemy of true healing takes place. Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a seasoned nondual psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, spiritual mentor, and author. Her work is a rare blend of deep spiritual wisdom and skilled therapeutic work with a focus on healing psychological trauma/wounding and embodied awakening.
Friday, June 19, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00pm (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. ~ “Being Absolutely No One and No Thing” (In-Person)
When we know that we are no thing, we are free to be as we are – both as spacious, loving awareness and as unique, individuated being. Through silent and guided meditations, a talk, meditative inquiry, and experiential conversations in community, we will explore seeing and feeling through who we have mis-taken our self to be and discovering what remains. John Prendergast, Ph.D is a spiritual teacher, retired psychotherapist, and retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at CIIS, well known for his pioneering work in integrating non-dual wisdom and psychotherapy. He studied with the European sage Jean Klein for many years, as well as with Adyashanti, who gave him dharma transmission in 2023.
Saturday, June 20, 2026 @ 10:30am-5:00pm (Pacific Time) at First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael
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