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Jeannie Zandi ~ Love’s Wild Heart: When Human Meets Divine (In-Person & Livestream)
Open Circle is delighted to welcome Jeannie Zandi back to the Bay Area for a series of events at various locations, running from January 12th through the 16th (see below). Jeannie’s gift for inviting people to join her in resting and rooted presence evokes a deep meeting with oneself and reality. She is known for her fearless clarity, tender mercy toward humanness, and a juicy, poetic and often humorous teaching style. *** Sunday, January 12th, 8476 Sonoma Ave., Sebastopol *** *** Monday, January 13th, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley *** *** Tuesday, January 14th, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley *** *** Wednesday, January 15th, First Presbyterian Church, San Rafael *** *** Thursday, January 16th, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley *** ........
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 @ 7:00pm-9:00pm (Pacific Time) at First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael (& Livestream)Jeannie Zandi ~ The Heart’s Revolution: Being Love’s Instrument in the World *(In-Person & Livestream)
Open Circle is delighted to welcome Jeannie Zandi back to the Bay Area for a series of events at various locations, running from January 12th through the 16th (see below). Jeannie’s gift for inviting people to join her in resting and rooted presence evokes a deep meeting with oneself and reality. She is known for her fearless clarity, tender mercy toward humanness, and a juicy, poetic and often humorous teaching style. *** Sunday, January 12th, 8476 Sonoma Ave., Sebastopol *** *** Monday, January 13th, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley *** *** Tuesday, January 14th, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley *** *** Wednesday, January 15th, First Presbyterian Church, San Rafael *** *** Thursday, January 16th, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley *** ........
Thursday, January 16, 2025 @ 7:00pm-9:00pm (Pacific Time) at Northbrae Community Church (& Livestream)Ishita 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, January 26, 2025 @ 9:00am - 10:30am (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Stephan Bodian ~ Waking Up Through the Metacrisis: Finding Deeper Ground in Challenging Times
Please join me for one or more satsangs in this monthly series (Jan-May) that include meditations for returning to and resting in our deeper ground while welcoming and working with the feelings that these challenging times evoke. There will also be a brief talk and plenty of time for sharing and discussion. This will not be a space for intellectual analysis or political discussion. Stephan Bodian is a teacher in the non-dual wisdom tradition, and a licensed psychotherapist, who brings a deep understanding of the impact of trauma on the process of spiritual realization. Stephan studied for many years with Advaita master Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001.
Saturday, February 1, 2025 @ 9:00am-10:30am (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Lisa Schumacher ~ Choose Love: Self-Inquiry Meeting
A meeting with Lisa is an opportunity to step away from your day to day life and devote time for self-inquiry into the heart of Love. There will be a few moments of silence to start the meeting and then Lisa will speak and invite the community to share reports about their realizations and ask questions. Upon hearing Gangaji in the early 90s say “Be your Natural Self”, Lisa’s heart caught on fire and she fell into a deep bow of surrender. That meeting revealed to her the absolute simplicity of the natural, living truth of Love, inseparable from who one is. In 2006, Lisa was asked by Gangaji to meet with people and share her discovery of the Love that is alive in the core of one’s being.
Sunday, February 2, 2025 @ 10:00am-12:00noon (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)
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