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When the separate self dissolves and awakens to one's natural being, in deep meditation, in nature, in love, what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything.

And yet most of us cannot sustain it. Because the nervous system learned early that connection was not always safe.

But the very places we feel most broken, most defended, most disconnected, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They are the doorway into it. What if the path is not away from attachment but through it, into the embodied realization of being both awake and attached?

Awakening to our true nature does not automatically resolve the nervous system patterns organized around protection. This series explores that meeting point — where spiritual realization and the living body learn to breathe together.

Ajaya Sommers' work lives at the intersection of somatic intelligence, embodied awakening, relational intimacy, and non-dual inquiry, helping people reclaim presence, coherence, and deeper connection to themselves, others and Life itself.

What is the purpose of identity, and how do you surrender through it into True freedom? Come explore the divine role of Identity. Discover how to surrender through the conditioned self and experience true freedom during Satsang and soul transmission in person with Kristin Kirk.

Kristin Kirk is an international healer, spiritual teacher and writer who has been gifted extraordinary vision and healing capacities from her 2003 awakening. She accesses our enlightened self and multidimensional true nature to dissolve our wounds, karma, and conditioning into light and reveal our innate wholeness. Her transformative energy and powerful transmissions accelerate the awakening process and foster deep spiritual growth for many.

Awakening can bring greater peace, clarity, and freedom. And on this path, many of us eventually encounter another invitation: the call to live more fully.

Beneath our habits, fears, and familiar identities, there is a natural impulse toward authenticity, vitality, creativity, and expression.

In this gathering, we’ll explore what it means to listen for, and trust this call of aliveness, and explore how awakening can reveal the gifts, qualities, and possibilities already seeking expression through us.

Sarah is an awakening trail guide, intuitive energy healer, and mystic whose work explores awakening, embodiment, and the fullness of being. She offers grounded and compassionate support for realization, integration, and authentic living.

In this session, Stephen will energetically shift you out of the narrative of the seeker and draw you into the silent presence that is already here.

Following a brief meditation and a reflection on the mechanics of awakening, the floor will open for personalized guidance and deep inquiry.

Whether you'd like the opportunity to ask your most pressing spiritual questions, or simply wish to resonate in a palpable field of heightened awareness, this space will help clarify the way things are.

Stephen D’Amico spent much of his early life connected to the enlightened state of being and attained full self-realization at age 22. For nearly three decades, he has been teaching and guiding others on the path. Based in Toronto, he runs an urban ashram where he hosts Satsang and offers spiritual direction.

From the time we're very young, we absorb countless messages about what it means to be a woman or a man, which emotions are acceptable, how we're expected to love, speak, lead, care, and belong. Beneath these learned roles is a heart that longs to love freely and live truthfully.

As we bring this conditioning into awareness, the heart naturally starts to reclaim the qualities it has hidden, and we discover a way of being that is more authentic, more whole, and more deeply aligned with our essential nature.
Jeannie Zandi is a non-dual spiritual teacher and guide known for her fierce tenderness, irreverent wisdom, and unwavering presence. Rather than transcending life, she calls us to root in it, maturing into authentic expressions of love, serving the whole with wisdom and heart.

When we know that we are no thing, we are free to be as we are –- both as spacious, loving awareness and as unique, individuated being. Through silent and guided meditations, a talk, meditative inquiry, and experiential conversations in community, we will explore seeing and feeling through who we have mis-taken our self to be and discovering what remains.

John Prendergast, Ph.D is a spiritual teacher, retired psychotherapist, and retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at CIIS, well known for his pioneering work in integrating non-dual wisdom and psychotherapy. He studied with the European sage Jean Klein for many years, as well as with Adyashanti, who gave him dharma transmission in 2023. He is the author of The Deep Heart (2019), In Touch (2015), and his latest, Your Deepest Ground: A Guide to Embodied Spirituality (March, 2025).

Explore the Fabric of Identity; the heart of Being everything and nothing; and discover the wonder of Being empty radiant surrendered empowered presence. What happens when you keep surrendering everything? How does surrendered presence radiate and function as a human being? When we dissolve through the identity game, we discover an infinite and invincible radiant truth within. Come join Kristin Kirk for a powerful transmission and fresh look at awakening and embodiment. Kristin Kirk is an international healer and spiritual teacher who has been gifted extraordinary vision and healing capacities from her 2003 awakening. She accesses our enlightened self and multidimensional true nature to dissolve our wounds, karma, and conditioning into light, and reveal our innate wholeness. Her transformative energy and powerful transmissions accelerate the awakening process and foster deep spiritual growth.