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Join us for this special series of evening meetings and daylong gatherings with Isaac Shapiro in Berkeley.

Date & Time info is detailed below.

Isaac helps us inquire into how we live our lives moment by moment, and how to better align ourselves with the deepest spiritual truths. He works through pointed but good-humored questioning, reflecting back to us, and helping to unravel, the conditioning of the mind and the nervous system, allowing a deeper participation in the moment.

Isaac is an internationally known facilitator and non-dual teacher, fascinated with life lived in alignment with the world’s wisdom traditions. He enjoys exploring and assisting those who share this interest. A student of H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji), Isaac draws on a broad spectrum of understanding, from neurophysiology to some of the latest discoveries in quantum physics, which he applies in a light-hearted but direct way.

Through years of working with people, Isaac has cultivated and refined an ability to track what is happening in the nervous system of participants. Bringing this awareness to people’s attention, allows our natural, innate self-regulating mechanism to be re-established.

“My approach is to invite you to look for yourself at what is true in your own being. This points to what you already know, but which is obscured in the ways of the nervous system. The beauty of this invitation is that nothing needs to be changed, fixed or eliminated. It is a non-dualistic, non-judgmental enquiry into our present being.

“Everything happens through the agency of awareness. As we bring awareness to our unconscious habits, there is a shift that occurs. In the course of the investigation, people spontaneously recognize the true nature of themselves, which many report as the experience of peace, unconditional love, compassion, or simply of being home.”

www.isaacshapiro.org

Evening Meetings
Wed. & Thur. Sept 11th & 12th
and Sun.- Fri. Sept 15th to 20th in Berkeley
7:00 - 8:45 pm
Chochmat HaLev, 2215 Prince Street, Berkeley

Suggested Donation for evenings: $15-$25
No one turned away for lack of funds.

Daylong Intensives
Sat. and Sun., Sept 21st & 22nd, in Berkeley
11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Chochmat HaLev, 2215 Prince Street, Berkeley
No pre-registration required

Sliding Scale: $50 to $100

Lunch Break:
Welcome to bring your lunch, and there are also various places near the Berkeley venue, to go out to eat.

Note: Per venue policy, only vegetarian food is allowed on premises at Chochmat HaLev.

A special message written from Matt to the Berkeley audience:

"What’s not to love about Berkeley? From the free-spirited nature of a passionate artist-driven community to farm-to-table ethics celebrated throughout so many restaurants and cafes alike, Berkeley is home to the progressive thinker. Balance all this with the energies of oneness that permeate the hearts of so many residents and you have a place where tech execs, die-hard foodies and spiritual warriors can call home.

"This is why I am always so privileged to make Berkeley a featured stop along my annual group-healing tour. My intuition tells me this year will be perhaps the most potent and miraculous Berkeley weekend of them all. I'd love to gather with you there on September 13 and 14!"

The Heart of Awakening

Fri. September 13, 7:00-9:00pm PDT

All seating is GENERAL ADMISSION and on a first-come, first-served basis.

What if there was an easier, more direct and loving way to experience the light of self-realization? What if it didn’t require effort, years of study, or endless hours of practice in order to be experienced? Are you ready to explore a brand-new way of waking up that allows the ego to let go and surrender with kindness, simplicity, and ease? If so, then please join best-selling author, YouTube sensation, and empathic healer Matt Kahn to enter a brand-new paradigm of revelation and self-discovery. Those who are unable to attend both weekend gatherings are able to purchase livestream passes for either event. If you are ready to explore a new reality of truth that is as equally loving and supportive as it is aligned and wise, then this event will be an exciting new way to dissolve the boundaries of perception.

Ultimate Liberation

Sat. September 14, 11:00am - 5:00pm PDT

All seating is GENERAL ADMISSION and on a first-come, first-served basis.

This full-day immersion is your opportunity to experience the living presence of liberation or Samadhi that is transmitted on an energetic level as Matt speaks. The more often the energy of Samadhi is felt, the more it is received by the subconscious mind to be integrated and embodied throughout your life. If you are ready to end the seeking and suffering and step into the fullness of your radiant eternal being, then this one-day immersion is an incredibly healing way to open the door of liberation with compassion, peace and ease.

Discover what has nearly 12 million YouTube viewers feeling loved, supported, awakened, and opened to the greatest possibilities in life as part of “The Love Revolution.” The video teachings we offer are a mere taste of the full-body experience of our LIVE events! Don’t just hear about it online afterwards, but come be in the healing energy as the spontaneous transmission unfolds. Each gathering is a living, breathing, visceral experience of unconditional love to inspire your soul’s journey to be reawakened, and reimagined in the most heart-centered way.

Using his laser-like, highly-honed intuitive abilities of seeing, hearing, feeling, and direct knowing, Matt Kahn feels the emotions of others and is able to accurately pinpoint what blocks any heart from opening. As a result, he brings forth revolutionary teachings through the spoken word to assist energetically-sensitive beings in healing the body, awakening the soul, and transforming reality to its absolute potential. At each live event, Matt delivers channeled teachings that guide you into higher levels of consciousness with humor, gentleness, and ease.

If you’re ready to explore your life’s purpose on a deeper level, feel more aligned with Spirit, and contribute to the awakening of humanity by shining your light as never before; you are invited to receive the timeless insights, loving wisdom, and healing energy that are offered at each Soul Gathering, Weekend Immersion, and Retreat event. The messages, healing energies, and “It’s amazing how he’s speaking just to me!” moments are a part of the alchemical combination that have had people coming back to these gatherings again and again from states and even countries away.

Each live event is a life-changing opportunity to:

• Accelerate healing on a physical, emotional, and energetic level
• Feel more whole, nourished, inspired and fulfilled
• Connect into the radiance of your highest vibration
• Align with the power of the Universe
• Have greater access to your own intuitive gifts
• Activate the light of your highest potential
• Become more happy, abundant, joyful, and free

Matt Kahn is a spiritual teacher and highly-attuned empathic healer. He is the author of the books, Whatever Arises, Love That and Everything Is Here To Help You. His spontaneous awakening arose out of an out-of-body experience at the age of 8, and through his direct experiences with ascended masters and archangels throughout his life. Using his intuitive abilities of seeing, hearing, feeling, and direct knowing, as an empath, Matt feels the emotions of others and is able to pinpoint what blocks any heart from opening. As a result, he brings forth revolutionary teachings through both the written and spoken word that assist energetically-sensitive beings in healing the body, awakening the soul, and transforming reality through the power of love.

The link to specific details and tickets:

https://tickets.brightstarevents.com/event/matt-kahn-live-in-berkeley?_ga=2.164198591.181328144.1551198857-2108326968.1551198857

Co-Sponsored by BAI and Open Circle Center

Awakening to the ever-present and expansive nature of awareness is only half of the journey. For many of us, the real work is to learn how to more fully embrace our relative human experience with greater levels of authenticity, intimacy, and connection.

In this evening immersion, Ajaya and Dustin will lead a series of practices designed to help you come to a fuller understanding of how your humanity is an expression of your divinity:

Learn the majesty and freedom of opening to a boundless body of awareness.

Reclaim your native innocence as you better understand your needs for both safety and exploration in relation to others.

Explore how to blend an expanded open awareness with practices designed to increase intimacy and connection with others in a grounded way.

Throughout the evening, Ajaya and Dustin will hold a container of safety and trust allowing you to explore the contours of your own direct experience. Through an intelligent weaving of both individual and collective practices, you’ll have the chance to discover the original innocence of your humanity (Earth) as well as the freedom and joy that comes from touching your own divinity (Stars).

When we come to know that we are of both Earth and Stars, we establish a way of life in the sacred middle: we live in a field of coherence that is uniquely ours to inhabit.

Join us for an evening of sacred exploration.

Dustin DiPerna is a Harvard-trained scholar of world religions. He studies and teaches in the Tibetan meditation lineages of Mahamudra and Dzogchen with Daniel P. Brown and is a long-term student of American philosopher Ken Wilber. His books include Streams of Wisdom, Evolution's Ally, Purpose Rising, and Earth is Eden. He currently teaches at Stanford University.

Ajaya Sommers is a gifted healer, teacher and creative catalyst in the field of embodied awakening. For the last 25 years, she has been instrumental in facilitating conscious evolution in hundreds of people's lives. All of her programs are grounded in science, expanded through devotional practice and made real through direct experience. Within a field of unconditionally loving presence, Ajaya facilitates and transmits a unique discovery process, called, Core Embodiment, an integrated system of embodiment practices, principles and perceptual orientations to awaken and align with the power of our human potential. She is a certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Integration Teacher as well as an Authorized Continuum Teacher.

www.ajayasommers.com
www.dustindiperna.com

$20 single; $35 couple; $25 at-the-door – Preregistration Strongly Recommended
Get Tickets Here

"I am Rooted and I Flow” - a marvelous quote by Virginia Wolff confirming what is already here for all of us as embodied presence. Let’s explore this relaxed rootedness and honor together the intelligence of Life’s flow, within and without.

Pamela invites us to uncontain the field of presence, clarity and strength within by noticing the ongoing inner satsang that appears in the heart, body and mind. Bringing warmth and compassion to what is tight or troubled liberates the past from the body, allowing a rooted, clear and free flowing expansion. Life then can live itself, no role play required!

Pamela evokes through dialogue, inquiry and her very presence the qualities of unconditional love and radical acceptance. She is celebrated for her ability to open the heart and create a space in which long-cherished struggles and notions about one's identity relax. Featured in the book Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom, Pamela is at her best in heart-felt dialogue, so please come and bring your questions!

www.pamelasatsang.com

Suggested donation: $15 to $25

Shakti Caterina Maggi has been sharing a message of awakening to our true nature as One Consciousness since 2003. Her approach to Self-Realization is very contemporary and accessible, and is profoundly in tune with Advaita and the non-dual Tantric traditions. She reveals the real possibility of seeing what we truly are, and embodying it in our everyday lives with clarity, wisdom, and humor.

She was recently asked to contribute to the anthology On the Mystery of Being: Contemporary Insights into the Convergence of Science and Spirituality edited by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo, the founders of the Science and Non-Duality (SAND) Conference. She teaches in Europe, Canada and the USA, offering satsang, seminars and retreats.

“The true Heart is the space in which we can deeply meet ourselves and the entire world. The way to the Heart is an embodied Consciousness, in which we are divinely human.”

Thursday Evening (Oct. 17th) ~ Living Awakening

From understanding to being, the passage of embodying awakening requires a deep integration into our everyday life of what has been revealed in our spiritual journey. Perception is the way through which we will directly connect to our non-dual nature, as all illusion of separation is purely conceptual.

Where: Chochmat HaLev, 2215 Prince St., Berkeley, CA
When: 7:00pm - 8:45pm
Suggested donation: $15 - $25
No one turned away for lack of funds

Sunday Daylong (Oct. 20th ) ~ Embodied Consciousness

This experiential intensive will lead to profound access to our true Consciousness, and will guide participants in the transformation of the way in which we see ourselves and the world, as well as the way in which we can deal with suffering in ourselves and others. The intensive will include meditations, open discussion, and special perception exercises to help us see and dissolve the patterns of holding and resistance that reinforce the sense of separation.

Where: Chochmat HaLev, 2215 Prince St., Berkeley, CA
When: 11:00am - 5:00 pm
Sliding scale: $60 - $120
No pre-registration required.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Note: Per venue policy, only vegetarian food is allowed on premises at Chochmat HaLev

From understanding to being, the passage of embodying awakening requires a deep integration into our everyday life of what has been revealed in our spiritual journey. Perception is the way through which we will directly connect to our non-dual nature, as all illusion of separation is purely conceptual.

This experiential intensive will lead to profound access to our true Consciousness, and will guide participants in the transformation of the way in which we see ourselves and the world, as well as the way in which we can deal with suffering in ourselves and others. The intensive will include meditations, open discussion, and special perception exercises to help us see and dissolve the patterns of holding and resistance that reinforce the sense of separation.

Shakti Caterina Maggi has been sharing a message of awakening to our true nature as One Consciousness since 2003. Her approach to Self-Realization is very contemporary and accessible, and is profoundly in tune with Advaita and the non-dual Tantric traditions. She reveals the real possibility of seeing what we truly are, and embodying it in our everyday lives with clarity, wisdom, and humor.

She was recently asked to contribute to the anthology <em>On the Mystery of Being: Contemporary Insights into the Convergence of Science and Spirituality</em> edited by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo, the founders of the Science and Non-Duality (SAND) Conference. She teaches in Europe, Canada and the USA, offering satsang, seminars and retreats.

“The true Heart is the space in which we can deeply meet ourselves and the entire world. The way to the Heart is an embodied Consciousness, in which we are divinely human.”

Where: Chochmat HaLev, 2215 Prince St., Berkeley, CA
When: 11:00am - 5:00 pm
Sliding scale: $60 - $120
No pre-registration required.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Note: Per venue policy, only vegetarian food is allowed on premises at Chochmat HaLev

“Meditation is what we are, not what we do; the separate self is what we do, not what we are.”

In the last few years Rupert Spira has become one of the most respected and sought-after teachers of non-dual wisdom, known for his crystal clear use of language, laser-like intellect, skillful guided enquiries, and powerfully direct pointing to aware presence—all delivered with warmth, wit and an unmatched and distinctive eloquence.

In his meetings, Rupert explores the perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions, such as Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mystical Christianity, Sufism, Zen etc., and which is also the direct, ever-present reality of our own experience. This is a contemporary, experiential approach involving silent meditation, guided meditation and conversation, and requires no affiliation to any particular religious or spiritual tradition. All that is required is an interest in the essential nature of experience, and in the longing for love, peace and happiness around which most of our lives revolve.

After thirty years of intense seeking, Rupert met his primary teacher Francis Lucille, who introduced him to the direct way taught by his own teacher, Jean Klein. Rupert lives in Oxford, England, with his wife Ellen Emmet, a therapist and yoga teacher in the tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. . He is the author of several books, including his latest two, The Nature of Consciousness and Being Aware of Being Aware, and two book/CD box-sets, Transparent Body, Luminous World and The Light of Pure Knowing.

www.non-duality.rupertspira.com

PARKING: There is some limited street parking in the neighborhood, free and without time limit weekday evenings. There is also parking a few blocks away at the east parking lot of the Ashby Bart station: www.bart.gov/stations/ashb/map