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SUMMARY:Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Exploring Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Whether you are starting to meditate or already have a meditation practice\, this bi-monthly meditation with Marlies will help you drop deeper into connection with yourself\, setting the tone for the day in an embodied way.  \nYour body is a refined sense organ.\nIt is a portal into the beautiful Silent Presence that you are.\nLet’s sit together … abide as You … for All \nMeditation is the art of inner exploration. It’s an opportunity to slow down and receive all of life exactly as it is. Using your body as a portal into your Yourself\, we will explore how to connect with and abide as your true essence underneath all the daily busy-ness. \nYou may have noticed that often the mind does not settle easily. In fact\, in quietude\, all the things you have been trying to avoid often come bubbling up to the surface. It’s not a problem. They simply want to be met with that gentle\, fierce and spacious awareness which is what you truly are. \nThe more we learn to rest as our underlying silent nature\, no matter what arises within us\, the easier it becomes to keep our seat when the winds of life pull us back and forth. \nCome set the tone for the day and be close with yourself in an embodied way. \nWatch Marlies share about meditation: \n\nMarlies Myoku Cocheret was invited to teach the Dharma by Adyashanti in 2000. She teaches meditation\, retreats\, and works as a Hakomi therapist and psychologist. She brings a potent invitation into the deep silence that you are\, and guides you into embodied connection with your humanity and divine nature. With her grounded presence and therapeutic experience\, people feel safe to explore meditation and awakening\, knowing that whatever comes up is welcome and can be held. \nwww.marliescocheret.com \nSuggested donation: $10 to $30\nNo one turned away for lack of funds.\nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.\nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/marlies-myoku-dec-8-2023/
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SUMMARY:Awakening Mercy Retreat with Jeannie Zandi (In-Person Local Event)
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Open Circle \nIs this event is for you? Watch Jeannie’s answer: \n\nJoin Jeannie and friends to explore practical tools for embodying love and clarity in a presence-filled\, humor-pervaded holy hall of now. \nAlong with opening to who we most truly are\, the spiritual path includes reckoning with this pesky humanness\, which can pull us out of living from presence right into conflict and suffering. Developing mercy for our human foibles as we open to all that we are allows us to walk our open hearts into the world with dignity and consistency. Join Jeannie and friends to explore practical tools for embodying love and clarity in a presence-filled\, humor-pervaded holy hall of now. \nWhat does “Awakening Mercy” mean? Watch Jeannie’s short sharing: \n\nDates\nOur retreat begins on Friday\, December 8th at 2 pm (PDT) and ends on Saturday\, December 9th at 9 pm (PDT).\nLocation: Sausalito\, CA \nClick here for details & REGISTRATION \nJeannie’s gift for inviting people to join her in resting and rooted presence evokes a deep meeting with oneself and reality. Within that\, Jeannie’s humor and iconoclasm serve to bring people into an understanding that is beyond the intellectual. Through silent and guided meditation\, spontaneous talks and exchange with participants\, Jeannie will host a space of clarity and warmth where the richness of relating can be explored safely and your innermost questions met fully. \nJeannie Zandi is the director of Living as Love\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to seeding a culture of the Heart on the planet\, inspiring\, teaching and supporting people to live from their essence as Love. A year before the birth of her daughter\, Jeannie was plunged into a dark night of the soul that culminated in a radical shift of consciousness. She is known for her fearless clarity\, tender mercy toward humanness\, and a juicy\, poetic and often humorous style that draws from Advaita Vedanta\, Sufism\, Christian mysticism and the ongoing revelation of fully engaged living. \nwww.jeanniezandi.com
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/jeannie-retreat-dec-2023/
LOCATION:Sausalito\, CA\, United States
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