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Unmani ~ How Can We Embrace the Whole of Life?
Beyond the play of separation there is only wholeness. We all know this, despite mostly living as if we have forgotten. Experiencing separation can feel incredibly painful when we reject parts of ourselves or Life, because we think those parts are not good enough, or shouldn't be here for some reason. This rejection goes against our deeper sense of the wholeness beyond it all, and our natural longing to merge with and embrace Life as ourselves. But how can we stop this painful game, and start embracing the whole of Life as ourselves? Let's explore this together. Unmani is originally from the UK, but has lived in many countries around the world. Since she was a child, Unmani didn't identify with being a separate individual, but assumed there was something wrong with her, until she came across the expression of Satsang and nonduality. Truth has always been her passion.
Saturday, February 22, 2025 @ 9:00am-11:00am (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Community Work Party, Fairfax, CA
Come enjoy community and help work on the beautiful land in Fairfax that was purchased by Open Circle co-founder Rob Schwartz a few years before his death. Help us in continuing to realize Rob's dream of using this special property as a place to gather together in satsang. The emphasis of the day will be on clearing trails and creating space around the outdoor meeting sites on the property. We will start at 10:00am with a brief meditation. We will then work until noon, enjoy a potluck lunch until 1:30, then go back to work, ending around 4:00 pm with another brief meditation. You are free to come and go as your schedule allows. Heavy rain will cancel. RSVP/Registration is requested (though not required) to give us a sense of how many people are coming. We will also then provide the address and directions.......
Saturday, February 22, 2025 @ 10:00am - 4:00pm at Private country homeIshita Sharma ~ Embodiment Lab – Experiments in Embodying Presence
We are not thinking beings who sense; we are sensing beings who think. And re-setting that balance is key to joy, to vibrance, and true liberation! Join us for Embodiment Lab, an experiential exploration of the body as a doorway to presence and aliveness, returning to the ground of being through our own direct experience. Ishita Sharma serves as a spiritual teacher, healing mirror, embodiment partner, and Core Energetics Practitioner. 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, February 23, 2025 @ 9:00am - 10:30am (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Amoda Maa ~ An Inquiry into the Living Truth of Freedom (In-Person & Livestream)
Open Circle is hosting a series of in-person SATSANGS & a DAYLONG with Amoda Maa in California in late February and early March: Berkeley, CA, February 27th (7-9 pm); Mill Valley, CA, February 28th (7-9 pm); Fairfax, CA, March 1st Daylong (11:00am - 5:00pm); and Sebastopol, CA, March 2nd (2-4 pm, PT). Livestream is also available for the Feb. 27th to March 1st events. Amoda Maa invites an open-hearted honesty to the exploration of what it means to live as freedom in all circumstances. She offers profound pointers to how this freedom reveals itself if we are willing to surrender all resistance to “what is,” and how the light of our essential nature shines through all experience when the “veil of self" comes undone. She supports the recognition of that which is beyond the duality of perception, thought and feeling, and takes us to the experience of the ever-present and unchanging reality of awareness. This unbounded awareness is the eternal ground of Being, the source of true peace and freedom. The luminous truth in Amoda’s teachings is the same nondual understanding at the core of many spiritual traditions.
Thursday, February 27, 2025 @ 7:00pm-9:00pm (Pacific Time) at Northbrae Community Church (& Livestream)
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