Ongoing
CANCELLED – Ellen Emmet ~ The Awakening Body: 3 part Online Retreat
Sorry to announce this event had to be cancelled on short notice due to illness.
Aug. 26, 27 & 28
We start at 9:00 am Pacific Time / 5:00 pm UK time
/ 6:00 pm Central European 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.
Drawn by our deepest longing, we gather in the invisible shrine.
At the door we leave our beliefs and our ideas. We enter barefoot. We are open. We are together in openness.
During this three-part retreat, we will welcome our direct experience and let it reveal its palpable reality of unconditional love. Within it the layers of suffering that seem to keep us separate from the totality naturally surface.
Our particular focus is our body, allowing it to be our mirror and our pathway, our prayer, and our cry and ultimately the shining expression of our shared essence and unique individual shape.
Together, we will listen to its tactile, emotional, and energetic language and allow it to simply unfold and blossom in its natural original intelligence.
Along the way, held traumas find open pathways, tensions touch the possibility of relaxation, stories find fresh formulations, expression is liberated, and we may discover the effortless movement of healing.
There will be time for sharing each day as our inquiry deepens, and a 20-30 minute break during the 3-hour sessions.
Ellen’s deepest intuition was confirmed when she met her teacher, Francis Lucille. In his presence, she recognized the eternal, limitless and universal nature of our shared reality. Over many years, her understanding has continued to deepen and to touch all levels of experience. At the same time, she has never ceased exploring her individual journey, always curious to live at the interface between the very personal trajectory of her life and the pure intimacy of Presence.
More and more, she senses that each of our lives is a path of revelation and integration, (including its darker crossings), through which the face of truth can shine uniquely and anew, wedding us to our direct experience of Awareness and connecting us to the great family of creation.
To find out more about Ellen and her offering, visit www.ellenemmet.com
Sliding Scale: $80 to $140
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please register early if you can.
2:00 pm
David Lee ~ Non-Duality: From the Progressive to the Direct Path
Satsang: 2-4 pm
Refreshments: until 5
Suggested Donation: $10- $20, no one turned away.
Location: 8476 Sonoma Ave, Sebastopol, CA. Park on Sonoma Ave.
Note: The address sign says 8474/8476. Park on the street, and walk down the short driveway to the house with the carport. Please arrive 10-15 minutes early.
Come and explore what it is to be awake within our ever-changing present experience. We will be exploring our deep conditioning of being separated from the wholeness of who we are and how nondual teachings can be tools to create favorable conditions for "slipping into" a larger dimension of ourselves.
Yet teachings can also pose limitations. Understanding has its place and value, but concepts and language are at best a pointer to the presence of who we are. Words like presence or effortless being are descriptions of this open, loving presence; but not to be mistaken for the actual experience of the vast fullness of one's essential self.
We will see how observing and grappling with our ego and its structures can help us to let go and surrender. In doing so a larger dimension opens. From a glimpse into our true nature we naturally want more of this...it's human nature. Wherever you are on your journey, come explore together the fertile ground of your true being.
- Hear from David about movement from the Progressive Path to the Direct Path
- Understand the role of ego and the Separate Self
- Dwell in the presence of who you are
- What is surrender all about?
"Real understanding is in not knowing. All knowing dissolves in not-knowing, and it is this not knowing state that there is transformation. Let go of all desire to know. But keep your terrible eagerness." ~ Jean Klein
David Lee lives in Sebastopol and has been facilitating nondual discussion groups for 5 years. He has been a sincere and dedicated aspirant of both the Progressive Path and the Direct Path for 48 years. He has done long retreats, 3 months as well as shorter 10 day retreats over this period of time. His main teachers are Rupert Spira, Miranda MacPherson, Adyashanti and in the Buddhist tradition, Joseph Goldstein. To learn more about him and see what he is offering, please go to his website: www.davidleenonduality.com
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