December 2025
Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)
Mondays: 8:00am – 8:30am Pacific Time
Wednesdays : 9:00am – 9:30am Pacific Time
Ongoing every week, with rare exceptions. Check Full Calendar to verify dates.
Join for a group meditation – just us, without a teacher. Do your own practice silently in the company of others. There will be no talk or guidance – only a bell to start and finish. Let’s be present, together.
After half an hour of silent sitting, there will be space for a brief hello in the end, if we like.
Please be seated by the time meditation starts, so that we can begin together. You are welcome to have your camera and microphone on (unless you have a lot of background noise), so that we can feel as if we were in one space.
The zoom link remains the same for all the sessions, so you are welcome to register only once and save the link for future reference.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Ryan Burton ~ “I Want to Get Back There” – The Most Common Post-Awakening Trap
A practitioner will have many openings and experiences over the course of their spiritual or contemplative endeavor. There is a common and important stage in awakening I call the 'foreground-background split' which occurs after someone has had an opening whether induced or spontaneous.
It can leave us with intense wanting and the question of “how can I get back there?” The challenge of the meditator in this stage is to not mistake the bliss, clarity and unity which characterized the opening as being the awakening itself. Abandoning what was previously attained is an act of surrender that helps us see the true nature of the present.....
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Lynn Marie Lumiere ~ EMBODIED PRESENCE: Nondual Healing of our Human Wounding (In-Person Event)
Embodied Presence is pure and free of the hurt and pain that we carry in our human body-mind. At the same time, it is not separate from our human experience and is fully allowing it all. It is through aligning with this unconditional allowing that we are healed and embodied. Awakened presence makes it possible for us to meet our long-held emotional pain without resistance and thereby free it, which leads to physical, emotional and psychological healing as well as a more deeply embodied presence. This is how healing and awakening come together as a nondual process. When we make them separate, or spiritually bypass our wounding, we cannot fully heal........ LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »Pamela Wilson ~ Solstice Satsang ~ In-Person
Solstice Satsang, a gathering to warm the Heart. Join Pamela and your fellow sages to celebrate clarity and compassion.
Pamela Wilson 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. Featured in the book Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom, Pamela is at her best in heart-felt dialogue, so please bring your questions!
More about Pamela: www.pamelasatsang.com
We'll have a short holiday get together after the satsang, to 6pm. Feel free to bring something to share if you wish.
Suggested donation: $15 to $30
No one turned away for lack of funds.
PARKING: There is some street parking in the neighborhood, free and without time limit.
For inquiries contact LocalEvents@opencirclecenter.org
If you have symptoms of a respiratory infection, or have had a recent
Covid exposure or positive test, please stay home out of consideration for others.
Pamela Wilson ~ Solstice Satsang ~ In-Person
Solstice Satsang, a gathering to warm the Heart. Join Pamela and your fellow sages to celebrate clarity and compassion.
Pamela Wilson 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. Featured in the book Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom, Pamela is at her best in heart-felt dialogue, so please bring your questions!
*** We'll have a short holiday get together after the satsang. Feel free to bring something to share if you wish.***
Find out more »Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)
Join us for a silent group meditation. Do your own practice quietly in the company of others. Let’s be present, together. .... more details
Mon.: 8:00am – 8:30am (PT) and Wed.: 9:00am – 9:30am (PT)
Ongoing drop-in group – attend as often as you like.
Weekly, with rare exceptions. Verify dates on Full Calendar.
Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)
Mondays: 8:00am – 8:30am Pacific Time
Wednesdays : 9:00am – 9:30am Pacific Time
Ongoing every week, with rare exceptions. Check Full Calendar to verify dates.
Join for a group meditation – just us, without a teacher. Do your own practice silently in the company of others. There will be no talk or guidance – only a bell to start and finish. Let’s be present, together.
After half an hour of silent sitting, there will be space for a brief hello in the end, if we like.
Please be seated by the time meditation starts, so that we can begin together. You are welcome to have your camera and microphone on (unless you have a lot of background noise), so that we can feel as if we were in one space.
The zoom link remains the same for all the sessions, so you are welcome to register only once and save the link for future reference.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Ishita Sharma ~ Embodiment Lab: End-of-Year Special – Completion
Together will reap the harvest of the passing year and listen for new sparks, guided by the fire of our souls. Receiving, digesting, and blessing all that came before, and honoring what is here, now.
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......
LEARN MORE HERE
Ishita Sharma ~ Embodiment Lab: End-of-Year Special – Completion
Together will reap the harvest of the passing year and listen for new sparks, guided by the fire of our souls. Receiving, digesting, and blessing all that came before, and honoring what is here, now.
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.
We will use the fullness of our experience to tune and attune to our bodies, illuminating our deepest healing and freedom. Engaging and transcending our senses, awareness, breath, movement and sound and more, we will use our body’s signals to return to sensate presence.
Ishita Sharma serves as a spiritual teacher, healing mirror, embodiment partner, and Core Energetics Practitioner of body-based psychotherapy. She is devoted to supporting healing and awakening in all those committed to living a bright and connected life.
Find out more »Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)
Join us for a silent group meditation. Do your own practice quietly in the company of others. Let’s be present, together. .... more details
Mon.: 8:00am – 8:30am (PT) and Wed.: 9:00am – 9:30am (PT)
Ongoing drop-in group – attend as often as you like.
Weekly, with rare exceptions. Verify dates on Full Calendar.