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Riyaz Motan, MFT ~ Embodied Presence: Listening and Guiding from Wholeness
coaches, spiritual counselors, holistic practitioners, body/mind workers and other related healers that are interested the therapeutic applications of nondual wisdom. It is an invitation to explore our healing work as a sacred path of embodied awakening. In addition to our training and theoretical understanding, many of us also have our own spiritual practices that support and inform us in our work. Riyaz Motan invites us to more deeply embody and integrate our spiritual realization into our work with clients. In attuning to presence, and listening and relating from our deepest ground, we facilitate the embodiment and expression of our essential qualities of being. This not only transforms our work, it invites us, and our clients, into a deeper discovery of authentic being. Riyaz Motan, MFT is a licensed psychotherapist and has been in practice for over 20 years. He has been a long-time clinical supervisor to students and interns, as well as serving as an adjunct professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. In 2013, Riyaz took over teaching The Art of Listening at CIIS from his mentor, John Prendergast, PhD., who is a seminal figure and pioneer in the nondual approach to psychotherapy. From early on in his career, Riyaz has been interested in the integration of Eastern wisdom traditions with Western Psychology.
Sunday, June 7, 2020 @ 10:00am-12:00noon (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ The Clarity Within Confusion
When we give ourselves the opportunity to leave our busy world behind, we discover a completely different world. This other world is mysterious and filled with the awe of the universe. You will directly experience the simultaneity of the chronic dissociative state and the unfathomable silence that we are. Which is always here. Our busy world is confusion, struggle and endless dissatisfaction. The world of reality is peace, clarity, love and profound truth. Of course you have heard all of this before. The question is, which world do you choose to live in? This day is an invitation to settle into Being. Together we will devote ourselves to the Being that we are. Along the way obstacles like trauma, pain, confusion and pleasure tend to arise. When we wholeheartedly receive them, naturally Being stands out as the only thing there really is. Which is You! Marlies Myoku Cocheret brings a potent invitation into the deep Silence that we are. She helps people to see that freedom and peace lie not in escaping from difficulties, but rather in completely welcoming and receiving all that the Mystery presents. She has been offering satsang and retreat since 2000 when Adyashanti asked her to teach.
Sunday, June 14, 2020 @ 9:00am-3:00pm (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Pamela Wilson ~ From Grumbling to Gratitude: Gratitude returns Life to Grace ~ Online Retreat
The old Celtic, Sanskrit and original peoples' bards sang in praise and gratitude, lifting their hearts and their listeners' to the original natural beingness we call Grace. Of course, the heart is always rhythmically saying thank you for Life, to Life, as Life. All sound sings to Silence, as invocation and celebration. All movement dances for the unmoving. Light honors the Darkness that holds it. And Duality is the two hands of that which holds everything, Oneness. Gratitude as original Grace, is in every cell in all of creation as a hum or vibratory rate, maybe unheard but when it wells up, everything opens and is refreshed. Not to deny protests and aversions and complaining which when met can also return us to our naturalness as they are the opposite of and thus at one with gratitude. Join Pamela and friends in a symphonic satsang to Life, the blessings, the challenges and above all to the Triumph of Being. Pamela evokes through dialogue, inquiry and her very presence the qualities of unconditional love and radical acceptance. She is celebrated for her ability to open the heart and create a space in which long-cherished struggles and notions about one’s identity relax.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 @ 10:00am - 12:00pm (Pacific Time) and continuing on June 18, 23 & 25 at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)