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A meeting with Lisa is an opportunity to step away from your day to day life and devote time for self-inquiry into the heart of the truth. There will be a few moments of silence to start the meeting and then Lisa will speak and invite the community to share reports about their lives and questions.

In the early 90s, a friend invited Lisa to a video satsang with Gangaji. Upon hearing Gangaji say "Be your Natural Self", Lisa's heart caught on fire and she fell into a deep bow of surrender. That meeting revealed to her the absolute simplicity of the natural, living truth of Love, inseparable from who one is. In 2006, Lisa was asked by Gangaji to meet with people and share Satsang. She has held meetings in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and North America. Note that Lisa will also be holding a meeting in Sebastopol on Sunday, November 19th (see Sonoma Events).

Many 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. 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, beyond all division. Once that deeper identity has been revealed, you no longer have to search for what is already so blatantly obvious.
Stephan Bodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition. He studied for many years with Advaita master Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001.

The power to heal and awaken is within all of us — and you can unlock it!

Now is the time. It’s time to wake up to who you truly are—not a diminished, distorted version of yourself. It’s time to let the gift of your unique expression flow freely and empower your world. As human beings, this is our deepest happiness and fulfillment. And it is available to you, right now!
This online daylong will focus on empowering you to connect with the infinite powerhouse within so you can more deeply embody that through all your humanness on somatic, emotional, psychological, and relational levels.

Lynn Marie Lumiere offers a rare blend of embodied spiritual wisdom with a skilled therapeutic approach that facilitates healing of psychological trauma/wounding and the embodiment of awakening.

Join Jeannie to explore how we can walk as open hearts through a troubled world - how we can both take care of ourselves and bring our hearts to bear on the suffering.

Jeannie’s gift for inviting people to join her in resting and rooted presence evokes a deep meeting with oneself and reality. She is known for her fearless clarity, tender mercy toward humanness, and a juicy, poetic and often humorous teaching style.

When we are operating from the deep dimension of Being, life is experienced as fresh, alive, spontaneous, open, wise, loving, and present to the immediacy of Now. Being is also continually becoming, showing itself as doing, as well as all that appears to come and go in nature and in our relative lives.

However, if we base our identity on what we do, and do not know who or what we truly are, we are in a constant state of trying, striving, and judging a self that needs to become some ideal or perfect version of itself.

In this daylong exploration, we will examine what it feel like to allow our doing to come from Being rather than from a self-image or an idea of self-worth. And who is the “I AM” that seems to be wrapped in so many beliefs?

Dorothy Hunt currently serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching at the request and in the spiritual lineage of Adyashanti. The flavor of her teaching blends Advaita and Zen with a deep welcoming of the human expressions of the Mystery.