Featured Events
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ Awakened Relating ~ Daylong Workshop
This daylong workshop will go deeply into Awakened Relating, which takes the exploration of spirituality and relationship to the next level and guides you into embodying your loving nature in real-life relationship challenges such as conflict, communication issues, negative self-beliefs and projections, intimacy issues, and being with relational wounding and trauma. Awakened Relating addresses both awakening to the presence of pure love, and the healing of our relational wounding, which is the source of most relationship struggles. The deepest healing is found in any relationship that consciously includes our source nature, as well as psychological and somatic healing. Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a nondual psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience as a therapist as well as with nondual teachings.
Friday, February 26, 2021 @ 9:00am-3:00pm (Pacific Time), with 1 hour lunch break at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Pamela Wilson ~ The Heart Within Everything: 4-Part Online Retreat
Life’s love animates and sustains everything; its stillness, wisdom and love pulse in all forms and functions. Finding this benevolent heart within us and within all the interior movements is relaxing. Nothing is only what it appears to be! The mind, body and emotions can live as awareness does, free, wise and rooted. Same, same! One by one habits, misunderstandings, misidentification and aversions present themselves for inner satsang. Met with respect and kindness, they self-liberate, revealing the ancient heart that beats as resounding Silence and Love. Join with Pamela and your fellow sages in being curious and listening within! 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, March 2, 2021 @ 10:00am - 12:00pm (Pacific Time), continuing March 5, 9 & 12 at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)John J. Prendergast, Ph.D ~ Finding Our Deepest Ground: 4-Part Course
Most contemplative traditions, east or west, tend to focus on awakening the mind and heart. However, they often minimize or entirely ignore the belly (or hara) which includes our felt sense of the ground. As a result many long-term spiritual practitioners remain unfamiliar with this critically important domain and are subject to doubting their inner authority and being regularly hijacked by the deeply conditioned and unconscious fears embedded in this area. In our shared journey, we will explore the different dimensions of the ground – egoic, soul/archetypal, and Self (no self) – and our resistance to more fully opening to the ground of Being. We will also learn how to welcome our resistance from Presence and to rest in and as our deepest Ground. This brings a profound sense of inner stability, self-trust, autonomy, and connection with a fundamental life current. It also provides a foundational safety for sustaining an open heart and clear mind. John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. is the author of The Deep Heart (2019) and In Touch (2015), a retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at CIIS, a spiritual teacher, and a soon-to-retire psychotherapist, who offers online and in-person (when possible) retreats.
Sunday, March 7, 2021 @ 10:00 am & 12:00 noon (Pacific Time), continuing Sundays March 14, 21 & 28 at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)