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SUMMARY:Gail Brenner\, Ph.D ~ Bringing Heaven to Earth: Fully Alive in Everyday Life ~ 3-Part Online Course
DESCRIPTION:3-Part Online Course\nSaturday\, Tuesday\, and Thursday – April 15\, 18 & 20\, 2023\n9:00 am – 11:30 am\, Pacific Time\, each day\nStarts at noon Eastern\, 5pm UK\, 6pm CET\nTime Zone Converter\nRecording will be sent out each day to all who register\nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nThe nondual teaching invites us to recognize the truth of who we are beyond any conditioned ideas about ourselves. And this recognition changes everything. \nWe no longer believe the fear-based\, limited ideas we hold about ourselves and the world\, and we open to everything\, flowing with things as they are. Rather than needing to fix and control\, we get out of our heads and rest effortlessly as the Being that we are\, loving whatever appears. \nThis knowing radically transforms our relationships with others\, how we relate to ourselves when we’re triggered\, and how we meet the challenges that arise in the course of human life. Where before we felt stuck and limited\, we now live in wonder\, curiosity\, and heart. \nLet’s gather in loving community to explore living everyday life with nothing in the way…endlessly available to all that is… \nThis 3-session course offers you an invitation to open to a fresh way of being\, fully aligned with your natural essence as whole\, peaceful\, primed for joy\, and lacking nothing. You’ll learn to untangle the limited ways you think about yourself and find your way home to the ever present space of inner aliveness\, the sacredness of all of Life. \nEach session includes guided meditation\, clarifying wisdom\, small group sharing\, Q&A\, and joyful celebration together. You’ll come away with skills to feel grounded\, safe\, and connected within yourself and in your life. You’ll experience more space for the natural arising of intimacy\, generosity\, inspiration\, and delight. \n“This course has changed my life. Gail is able to transform through her presence and I think anyone open to healing would benefit.”  ~ Erica C. \nSession 1: How We Show Up for Ourselves and for Life \nWe’ll name and explore essential qualities of awakened awareness: openness\, curiosity\, humility\, compassion\, and devotion. How do we embody these qualities in everyday life? \nSession 2: Insight Into Conditioned Patterns \nWe’ll understand how we contract into limiting ideas about ourselves and forget the truth of our being. We’ll practice wise and kind ways to be with emotions and the nervous system. \nSession 3: Awake in Everyday Life \nWe’ll get practical about relationships\, resentments\, hurts\, frustrations of daily life\, and anything else you’re struggling with. How do we navigate these situations without losing our authentic Being? How can you\, more and more\, step into your full magnificence as you were meant to be? \n“Gail creates\, embodies and models a very safe space which is helping to create safety in myself on a day to day level which is Huge.”  ~ H.F. \nFree Information Session: Please join Gail for a free information session on Thursday\, April 13 at 9am Pacific\, noon Eastern\, 5pm BST. You’ll learn more about the course and get a taste of the safe and loving community that supports this work. Please click the link to register. \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdOuprj8uHdG2HNeCxXyO7jk_TP3CmzRY \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n“I feel accepted\, included\, safe\, loved and also\, as importantly\, I feel that my presence in the group can offer the same qualities to others.”  ~ Sue E. \n“It was pure delight (and relief) to find such a healing container in this sangha group. Gail’s masterful facilitation and unhurried attention to our experience of coming together\, shifting into direct experience\, and powerful questions were grounding and illuminating.”  ~ Lisa L. \nGail Brenner\, Ph.D. is your guide. As a psychologist\, author\, and teacher\, she transmits a love of truth with a fire that burns brightly. Gail is an expert in healing from early trauma and brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups. She is known for creating the safe space needed for deep inner exploration. Gail is the author of the award-winning The End of Self-Help and Suffering Is Optional. \nwww.gailbrenner.com \nSliding Scale: $80 to $130\nSome Partial Scholarships Available\nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/gail-brenner-course-apr-2023/
LOCATION:Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)
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SUMMARY:Gail Brenner\, Ph.D ~ Bringing Heaven to Earth: Fully Alive in Everyday Life ~ 3-Part Online Course
DESCRIPTION:3-Part Online Course\nSaturday\, Tuesday\, and Thursday – April 15\, 18 & 20\, 2023\n9:00 am – 11:30 am\, Pacific Time\, each day\nStarts at noon Eastern\, 5pm UK\, 6pm CET\nTime Zone Converter\nRecording will be sent out each day to all who register\nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nThe nondual teaching invites us to recognize the truth of who we are beyond any conditioned ideas about ourselves. And this recognition changes everything. \nWe no longer believe the fear-based\, limited ideas we hold about ourselves and the world\, and we open to everything\, flowing with things as they are. Rather than needing to fix and control\, we get out of our heads and rest effortlessly as the Being that we are\, loving whatever appears. \nThis knowing radically transforms our relationships with others\, how we relate to ourselves when we’re triggered\, and how we meet the challenges that arise in the course of human life. Where before we felt stuck and limited\, we now live in wonder\, curiosity\, and heart. \nLet’s gather in loving community to explore living everyday life with nothing in the way…endlessly available to all that is… \nThis 3-session course offers you an invitation to open to a fresh way of being\, fully aligned with your natural essence as whole\, peaceful\, primed for joy\, and lacking nothing. You’ll learn to untangle the limited ways you think about yourself and find your way home to the ever present space of inner aliveness\, the sacredness of all of Life. \nEach session includes guided meditation\, clarifying wisdom\, small group sharing\, Q&A\, and joyful celebration together. You’ll come away with skills to feel grounded\, safe\, and connected within yourself and in your life. You’ll experience more space for the natural arising of intimacy\, generosity\, inspiration\, and delight. \n“This course has changed my life. Gail is able to transform through her presence and I think anyone open to healing would benefit.”  ~ Erica C. \nSession 1: How We Show Up for Ourselves and for Life \nWe’ll name and explore essential qualities of awakened awareness: openness\, curiosity\, humility\, compassion\, and devotion. How do we embody these qualities in everyday life? \nSession 2: Insight Into Conditioned Patterns \nWe’ll understand how we contract into limiting ideas about ourselves and forget the truth of our being. We’ll practice wise and kind ways to be with emotions and the nervous system. \nSession 3: Awake in Everyday Life \nWe’ll get practical about relationships\, resentments\, hurts\, frustrations of daily life\, and anything else you’re struggling with. How do we navigate these situations without losing our authentic Being? How can you\, more and more\, step into your full magnificence as you were meant to be? \n“Gail creates\, embodies and models a very safe space which is helping to create safety in myself on a day to day level which is Huge.”  ~ H.F. \nFree Information Session: Please join Gail for a free information session on Thursday\, April 13 at 9am Pacific\, noon Eastern\, 5pm BST. You’ll learn more about the course and get a taste of the safe and loving community that supports this work. Please click the link to register. \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdOuprj8uHdG2HNeCxXyO7jk_TP3CmzRY \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n“I feel accepted\, included\, safe\, loved and also\, as importantly\, I feel that my presence in the group can offer the same qualities to others.”  ~ Sue E. \n“It was pure delight (and relief) to find such a healing container in this sangha group. Gail’s masterful facilitation and unhurried attention to our experience of coming together\, shifting into direct experience\, and powerful questions were grounding and illuminating.”  ~ Lisa L. \nGail Brenner\, Ph.D. is your guide. As a psychologist\, author\, and teacher\, she transmits a love of truth with a fire that burns brightly. Gail is an expert in healing from early trauma and brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups. She is known for creating the safe space needed for deep inner exploration. Gail is the author of the award-winning The End of Self-Help and Suffering Is Optional. \nwww.gailbrenner.com \nSliding Scale: $80 to $130\nSome Partial Scholarships Available\nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/gail-brenner-course-apr-2023-3/
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SUMMARY:Ellen Emmet ~ The Awakening Body ~ In-Person Local Event
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. \nIn our daily lives\, the body is seldom tasted as it is.  We rarely listen to its tactile and energetic language or allow it to simply unfold and blossom in its natural original intelligence.   \nIn fact we have deeply disconnected from this level of experience and even when we turn back towards the body\, we come with agendas and ideas that we project upon it\, forcing the body into a new mode\, only to perpetuate a felt identification with a body\, that may seem improved\, but in fact remains a mere projection for the separate self that seems to live in its center.   \nWith silence as our main shrine\, we will share a guided tactile meditation.  In this contemplation\, resistances and chains of bodily contractions\, the habits that create the illusion that our identity is limited\, located and separate are revealed and free to unfold as they are:  feelings and sensations that come and go in Awareness.  We com to feel that our true identity is an open field of vibrating openness\, limitless and ever-present.    \nGently and effortlessly\, in deepening waves\, the body is slowly realigned with this felt understanding.  It flows as a living substance with more and more ease and transparency and reflects and expresses the ever-present freedom and silence that is its invisible source. \nFor Ellen\, “the experience we call the body has always been central to all of her experiences and recognitions.  It is the place of pain and expression\, the channel for raw and tactile intelligence\, the mirror of the totality of creation and the pathway to healing. \nShe participated in gatherings with the Jungian analyst Marion Woodman\, and dove into body and soul through dreamwork\, body and voice explorations\, mask making\, ritual\, and a circle of women.  Today\, Ellen offers meetings and retreats in The Awakened Body\, a direct experience sourced in Kashmir Shivaism\, Authentic Movement\, and self inquiry.  \nEllen has Master Degrees in Dance Movement Therapy from NYU\, and Transpersonal Psychology from JFK\, and a certificate in Laban Movement Analysis.  She lives in Oxford.\nEllen’s website: www.ellenemmet.com
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