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SUMMARY:Ajaya Sommers ~ Awake Attachment™ - Intimacy as a Path of Embodiment and Awakening ~ 4 Part Online Series
DESCRIPTION:June 15\, 17\, 22 & 24\, 2026\n10:00 am – 12:00 pm\, Pacific Daylight Time (PT)\nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting.\nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nSliding Scale: $100 to $200\nSome Partial Scholarships Available\nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: World Time Buddy \nREGISTER \nWhen the separate self dissolves – and awakens to one’s natural being\, in deep meditation\, in nature\, in love – what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything. \nThis is not an achievement. It is our original nature. \nAnd yet most of us cannot sustain it. Because the nervous system learned\, early\, that closeness was not always safe. \nWhat we long for most – a holy\, primal intimacy with life itself\, with ourselves\, with other humans\, with the more-than-human world – is also what we fear most. And the very places we feel most broken\, most defended\, most disconnected\, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They are the doorway into it. \nWe humans live inside a paradox. \nThe Buddha taught that attachment is the root of suffering – that freedom comes from loosening our grip\, clinging to nothing. Modern psychology says the opposite: from our first breath\, our survival depends on secure bonds. Our nervous systems\, our capacity to regulate and relate\, our sense of safety in the world – all of it is built on healthy attachment. To ourselves\, to each other\, to the more-than-human world. \nWhat if these two teachings are not in conflict? What if the path is not away from attachment – but through it\, into the embodied realization of being both awake and attached? \nMany people drawn to this work have walked a meaningful inner path. And still\, they sense a gap between what they understand spiritually and what they can sustain in real-time relationship – especially when emotions intensify\, or intimacy calls for something more. \nAwakening to our true nature does not automatically resolve the nervous system patterns organized around protection. This series explores that meeting point – where spiritual realization and the living body learn to move together. \nAt the center of this work is a simple but profound reframe: \nThe opposite of attachment is not detachment. It is intimacy without self-abandonment. \nThe Four Sessions \nSession One – Staying · The intelligence of the gut Learning how not to abandon yourself. We establish the conditions for safety\, regulation\, and embodied presence – and begin to explore what it means to remain connected to ourselves when intensity arises. \nSession Two – Feeling · The intelligence of the heart We turn toward emotional presence and the deeper intelligence within our relational patterns – meeting vulnerability and reactivity with awareness rather than avoidance or collapse. \nSession Three – Opening · The intelligence of awareness As the nervous system settles and the heart opens\, we explore intimacy – not as fusion or dependency\, but as the capacity to remain deeply connected without losing ourselves. \nSession Four – Living · Integration of gut\, heart\, and awareness as one breathing motion. What it means to love\, relate\, and meet life from a more grounded and awake presence – not as an ideal\, but as a living capacity. \nHow we explore:\nEach session combines somatic practice\, guided inquiry\, and relational exploration. We slow down together\, settle the nervous system\, and build – gradually and experientially – the capacity to stay present with what is alive inside. The emphasis throughout is on direct experience rather than concept\, and on the integration of insight into lived relationship. \nThis series is for you if…\nYou have a spiritual practice – and your relationships are still the hardest part. \nYou sense a gap between what you understand and what you can sustain in real-time. \nYou long for a deeper ground within yourself – not through control\, but through presence. \nYou are drawn to how awakening lives in the body\, in intimacy\, in the fullness of a human life. \nAbout Ajaya Sommers\nAjaya Sommers\, RCST\, is the founder of Core Embodiment®\, a somatic practitioner\, teacher\, and speaker with over 30 years of experience guiding people into genuine transformation. \nHer work lives at the intersection of somatic embodiment\, relational intimacy\, and non-dual inquiry\, helping people reclaim presence\, coherence\, and deeper connection to themselves\, others and Life itself. She is a certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Integration Teacher\, NARM practitioner\, and Authorized Continuum Teacher\, and has presented at the SAND Conference\, Esalen Institute\, the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)\, and the Purpose Summit. \najayasommers.com \nSliding Scale: $100 to $200\nSome Partial Scholarships Available\nAddress inquiries to web@opencirclecenter.org\nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/ajaya-sommers-jun-series-2026-2/2026-06-22/
LOCATION:Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)
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