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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Ellen Emmet ~ The Awakening Body: 3 part Online Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Sorry to announce this event had to be cancelled on short notice due to illness. \nAug. 26\, 27 & 28\nWe start at 9:00 am Pacific Time / 5:00 pm UK time / 6:00 pm Central European Time.\nTime Zone Converter\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. \nDrawn by our deepest longing\, we gather in the invisible shrine.\nAt the door we leave our beliefs and our ideas. We enter barefoot. We are open. We are together in openness. \nDuring 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. \nOur 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. \nTogether\, we will listen to its tactile\, emotional\, and energetic language and allow it to simply unfold and blossom in its natural original intelligence. \nAlong 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. \nThere will be time for sharing each day as our inquiry deepens\, and a 20-30 minute break during the 3-hour sessions. \nEllen’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. \nMore 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. \nTo find out more about Ellen and her offering\, visit www.ellenemmet.com \nSliding Scale: $80 to $140\nSome Partial Scholarships Available\nPlease register early if you can.
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SUMMARY:David Lee ~ Non-Duality: From the Progressive to the Direct Path
DESCRIPTION:Satsang: 2-4 pm\nRefreshments: until 5\nSuggested Donation:  $10- $20\, no one turned away. \nLocation: 8476 Sonoma Ave\, Sebastopol\, CA. Park on Sonoma Ave. \nNote: 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. \nCome 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. \nYet 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. \nWe 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. \n\nHear from David about movement from the Progressive Path to the Direct Path\nUnderstand the role of ego and the Separate Self\nDwell in the presence of who you are\nWhat is surrender all about?\n\n“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 \nDavid 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 \n 
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/david-lee-9-38-2022/
LOCATION:Sebastopol\, 8476 Sonoma Ave.\, Sebastopol\, CA
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