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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
CATEGORIES:Marin
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SUMMARY:Stephan Bodian ~ Meditation without a Meditator: From Deliberate Awareness to Nondual Presence ~ 2-Part Online Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Dec. 9th & 10th\, 2023\n9:00 am – 12:00 pm\, Pacific 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. \nMany seekers who shift from progressive approaches like deliberate mindfulness to a more direct approach continue to search for the right meditative strategy\, the sweet spot that allows them to let go of their efforting and drop into their natural state of nondual presence. But paradoxically it’s this very strategizing that needs to drop away as presence reveals itself to be the nature of reality\, the deeper ground beyond a separate self\, not something that you can strategize into being. You can’t do it—you can only join the nondual presence that’s always already taking place. \nSo how exactly can you position your awareness to fall into nondual presence? In this two-day mini-retreat you’ll learn how to take the backward step to illuminate the deeper ground of Being as your true nature or true Self beyond all division. Once that deeper identity has been revealed\, you no longer have to search for what is already so blatantly obvious. You merely need to be it. \nThe retreat will feature self-inquiry\, direct pointers to the nature of reality\, and a series of guided meditations that lead you through the stages of awakening to nondual presence. In nondual presence life unfolds effortlessly\, without an illusory someone in charge of the unfolding\, as an expression of the exquisite intelligence at the heart of the Mystery. Absolute and relative dimensions of Being—universal and individual\, trans/impersonal and personal\, one and many—dissolve into a single\, vibrant\, multidimensional\, perfectly imperfect current of love and manifestation. Just This!  \nStephan Bodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition of Zen\, Dzogchen\, and Advaita Vedanta. He’s been offering the School for Awakening\, an annual multi-month intensive program in spiritual unfolding and awakened living\, since 2007. As a licensed psychotherapist\, he brings a deep understanding of the impact of trauma and early conditioning on the process of spiritual realization and offers individual counseling and a five-session mentoring intensive in psychospiritual integration. Stephan studied for many years with Advaita master Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001. His books include Wake Up Now and Beyond Mindfulness. For more information\, visit : www.stephanbodian.org \nSliding Scale: $60 to $90\nSome Partial Scholarships Available\nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/stephan-bodian-retreat-dec-2023/
LOCATION:Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)
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SUMMARY:Stephan Bodian ~ Meditation without a Meditator: From Deliberate Awareness to Nondual Presence ~ 2-Part Online Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Dec. 9th & 10th\, 2023\n9:00 am – 12:00 pm\, Pacific 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. \nMany seekers who shift from progressive approaches like deliberate mindfulness to a more direct approach continue to search for the right meditative strategy\, the sweet spot that allows them to let go of their efforting and drop into their natural state of nondual presence. But paradoxically it’s this very strategizing that needs to drop away as presence reveals itself to be the nature of reality\, the deeper ground beyond a separate self\, not something that you can strategize into being. You can’t do it—you can only join the nondual presence that’s always already taking place. \nSo how exactly can you position your awareness to fall into nondual presence? In this two-day mini-retreat you’ll learn how to take the backward step to illuminate the deeper ground of Being as your true nature or true Self beyond all division. Once that deeper identity has been revealed\, you no longer have to search for what is already so blatantly obvious. You merely need to be it. \nThe retreat will feature self-inquiry\, direct pointers to the nature of reality\, and a series of guided meditations that lead you through the stages of awakening to nondual presence. In nondual presence life unfolds effortlessly\, without an illusory someone in charge of the unfolding\, as an expression of the exquisite intelligence at the heart of the Mystery. Absolute and relative dimensions of Being—universal and individual\, trans/impersonal and personal\, one and many—dissolve into a single\, vibrant\, multidimensional\, perfectly imperfect current of love and manifestation. Just This! \nStephan Bodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition of Zen\, Dzogchen\, and Advaita Vedanta. He’s been offering the School for Awakening\, an annual multi-month intensive program in spiritual unfolding and awakened living\, since 2007. As a licensed psychotherapist\, he brings a deep understanding of the impact of trauma and early conditioning on the process of spiritual realization and offers individual counseling and a five-session mentoring intensive in psychospiritual integration. Stephan studied for many years with Advaita master Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001. His books include Wake Up Now and Beyond Mindfulness.\nFor more information\, visit : www.stephanbodian.org \nSliding Scale: $60 to $90\nSome Partial Scholarships Available\nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencirclecenter.org/event/stephan-bodian-retreat-dec-2023-2-2/
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