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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 RafaelSarah Taylor ~ The Heart of Awakening (In-Person)
The heart holds a doorway that can help us to embody truth, know the deeper intimacy of non-separation, and open into a clarity that is felt as much as it is seen. What the traditions call divine love is not merely a feeling that arises in awakening. It is the welcoming aliveness of our very nature. In this gathering, Sarah Taylor explores the heart as fulcrum: the place where insight can be found, deepened, and lived; where loving awareness, brought openly to what is here, completes something that clear seeing alone leaves unfinished. Sarah is an awakening trail guide, intuitive energy healer, and mystic whose work explores awakening, embodiment, and the fullness of being. As a former stand-up comedian, she brings warmth, relatability, and a touch of irreverence to the spiritual path.
Sunday, June 28, 2026 @ 3:00pm-5:00pm (Pacific Time) at Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian UniversalistsPamela Wilson ~ The Magic in the Heart Liberates Our Inherent Worth ~ 4 Part Online Retreat
We have been trained to suppress our wisdom, strength and love. And yet, we long to give our gifts, to return to the fullness of presence and the constancy of peace! There is only one idea in the way, the idea that self-respect is not okay, and that self-pride is ugly. When naturalness or presence honors itself, there is a healthy pride, unlike when the deficient sense of self puffs itself up from inferiority to superiority. As we rise and root into being, the depressant habit of making ourselves small returns us to some form of human balance. Pamela Wilson has been a messenger for Truth and Heart wisdom for over 30 years. She 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
Monday, June 29, 2026 @ 10:00am - 12:00pm (Pacific Time), part of a 4-Part Retreat, includes June 29, July 2, 6, 9 at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)
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