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Chesaray ~ Awakening to Ground
Grounding is the most important foundation for blossoming on the spiritual path. Without grounding one can feel overwhelmed, exhausted, scattered and unable to enjoy the fruits of spiritual realization. In this class, we will bring ground to the various awakenings and energetic openings that can happen on the path through guided meditation, somatic inquiry, and exchanges. Chesaray offers retreats, courses, and classes focused on grounding the magic of spiritual realization into daily life. Chesaray is a gifted healer that is filled with down-to-earth wisdom and loving presence. She invites us to slow down and turn towards our direct experience to discover what we are. For over 15 years she has studied and practiced ancient spiritual traditions, somatic psychology, conscious movement, holistic health, and bodywork. Because she faced tremendous difficulties that eventually opened her into the experience of Divine love, she has a gift for meeting people where they're at and supporting their awakening.
Sunday, February 12, 2023 @ 9:00am-11:00am (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Ellen Emmet ~ The Shrine of Not Knowing: 2-part Online Mini Retreat
We gather, invited to leave our convictions and spiritual beliefs at the door of our shared space. Together we welcome our direct experience and let it gradually reveal its palpable yet un-nameable, source and reality. We will not engage with the singularity of our psychology and history. However, in the immediacy of our inquiry, layers of resistance that keep us trapped in the cage of thinking will surface in the form of raw feelings, sensations, and emotions. Each one of us is invited to fully allow, taste and face these landscapes of exile and separation, which in daily life come in the form of anxiety, addiction, hopelessness, boredom, emptiness, resistance and even despair. Nothing needs to change and the agendas for change are surrendered as they surface. In this sacred process something is touched and shared, the openness is made palpable, the One source of all experience begins to flow through, and we partake in the mystery of our humanity and divinity. There will be guided meditation and conversation.
Friday, February 24, 2023 @ 9:00am-12:00pm (Pacific Time) - Part of 2-part Retreat: Feb. 24 & 25 at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)
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