Events for Sunday, November 8, 2020

Uncertainty and Resilience of the Nervous System
as Gateways to Awakening
Satsang with Neelam
We are living in a unique moment in time, maybe even during a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The invitation to Awakening and Freedom just became so much more available and the potential for true transformation is so profound now.

We can both individually and collectively face our fears and dependence on what we "know" as the world that we are used to — as it is changing and falling apart.

We can however, use this profound slowing down and change for transformation and Freedom for truer and deeper reliance on Peace (our true nature); for change in our way of Being — internally and in the world — and ultimately for Awakening.

In our upcoming 3-hour call, I will be addressing:

• the Nervous System and our capacity to Be Here;
• embodiment of challenging states;
• and speaking about uncertainty and the steps necessary for Awakening now

As always, we will have time for sharing, Q and A, and practice.

Let's use this opportunity together for Awakening, Embodiment, and Freedom, to grow in Peace and to expand our capacity for Peace and change in the world.

Areas of interest:

• The changing world — how it affects us and our opportunity for transformation
• How to use patterns of the past and current reactivity for Awakening, Embodiment and Freedom and how to expand our capacity to live in the world in Peace
• Uncertainty and Resilience of Nervous System as gateways to Awakening

About Neelam
Neelam is a direct disciple of HWL Poonja (affectionately known as Papaji), whose own teacher was Ramana Maharshi. Neelam’s unequivocal commitment to Truth helps us turn inward and release underlying patterns of conditioning which block the recognition of our True Nature. With the utmost tenderness, she invites us into the same recognition of Truth that her teacher, Papaji, transmitted to her, while helping us to address all aspects of daily living, including past conditioning and trauma.

Testimonials from Program Participants
“What’s different about Neelam is that she demystifies the actual practice of being present – she’s helped me see what’s actually happening when feelings and emotions come up, and how, in a very practical way, to deal with them. Her strong point is “how to actually do this being the present thing.” It really helps to take it out of the mind and into the body”

“Neelam showed me that Being Here was what I was looking for. Then she showed me how to build Nervous System capacity to Be Here and that took time and repetition”

“Awakening is a shift from identifying yourself as this body to knowing yourself as Presence. Freedom means a true independence from the past, where our ability to Be Here and the action in the moment are not guided by our attachment to the arising past. To truly be Free we need to embody our recognition of Presence, and that requires growing of the capacity of our nervous system to Be Here. It is in the meeting of what arises that we find true and lasting freedom.”

Neelam's website: www.neelam.org

YouTube Video Recording You May Like: Everything Ok Just the Way it Is/ Practice with Neelam

Sliding Scale: $20 to $45
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please register early if you can.
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The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.
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Three-Part Retreat: Sundays, Nov. 8, 15 & 22
3:00 – 5:00 pm, Pacific Time
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Event will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting.
You're welcome to join even if you can't attend all the live sessions.

Awakening in a Time of Significant Change in the World
Bridging the gap between awakening
and lived experience during these times.
The world is experiencing many challenges and changes. As spiritual seekers we can be experiencing an even greater gap between what we are living and feeling, and the spiritual ideals of awakening and consciousness.

How to consciously respond and adapt to this time of significant change in the world:
In this three part workshop series Isira will explore with us how to bridge the higher principles and elements of the spiritual path with the raw reality of the challenges being experienced as a human on the planet now. Isira will share how we can find relevance in our spiritual ideals and apply them for the greatest benefit and effect.

This will support you to understand:

• What is the relationship between the upper realm of truth and our lived experience, and how to bridge the gap between the two?
• Why we are experiencing what we are, and finding deeper understanding?
• How our own spiritual process relates to these times of crisis, and how to bring conscious change?
• How what is happening in the world relates to being on our spiritual path?
• Why we may still be struggling and how to restore faith and power?

Isira will share insights, tools and meditations enabling you to benefit from spiritual theory at a more lived level. This will support you to more easily bridge the gap in your own experience and give you the ability to:

• Respond to the disruptions internally and externally.
• Nurture and support the effects of these disruptions internally and externally.
• Anchor in a consciously poised state and therefore set in motion a higher paradigm of experience and intentional creation.

Part 1
We will acknowledge and recognize both the upper realm of spiritual (more abstract) ideals and principles and the ground level experience of what we are living in. We will recognize the challenges we are faced with and bring a new perspective to both of these.

Part 2
We will learn how to respond to the challenges effectively. Learn which tools can assist us most in meeting the challenges and disruptions to restore balance internally and externally.

Part 3
We will discover how to ground and occupy ourselves in a higher vibrational state and intentionally create a higher paradigm.

About Isira
Isira (pronounced "a-SIRE-a") Sananda is a spiritual teacher from Southern Australia of mixed European and Aboriginal heritage whose teaching ─ rooted in non-duality ─ revolves around the primacy of love, the necessity to transform limiting beliefs, and the profound need for deep communion with the Earth, its creatures, and elemental forces. From infancy onwards, Isira experienced profound meditative states, prophetic dreams, powerful visions, psychic abilities, vivid past life memories and auspicious synchronicities. After a difficult childhood, and surviving a brutal murder attempt as a teenage runaway, Isira received ordination from the Dalai Lama and spent several years living in Himalayan hermitages as a Tibetan initiate, before returning to Australia to explore her indigenous roots. Today she functions as a wisdom keeper, a spiritual leader, an ardent advocate for conscious change in the world, and an exemplar of the life of love, all the while bringing penetrating insight into both the nature of consciousness and the urgent global challenges we all face. She is the author of a remarkable memoir, Buddha on the Dance Floor, and a book of teachings, Awakening You: Empowering Peace, Love and Freedom on Earth.

“I am Universal. I am not of one religion, one lineage, one race or one country. My lineage is consciousness. My religion is love. And the world is my sacred home.”

www.isira.com
Watch an hour-long conversation between Isira and Open Circle's Sara.

Sliding Scale: $50 to $90
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
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