April 2025
Engaged Nonduality ~ With David Loy and Lisa Ferguson
Join Lisa Ferguson and David Loy, leading advocates in connecting spirituality with social engagement, for an exploration of non-dual values in action, and practical responses to our planetary crises from the perspective of non-separation. We’ll explore how our world situation mirrors that of our own personal misconception of separation, and how the wisest response to our planetary crisis is to address separation on both of these levels.
Find out more »Pamela Wilson ~ From Sorrow to Solace
Join Pamela and your fellow sages at a beautiful private home in the Fairfax hills in finding the rooted strength within to be with the current chaos. Rising as the transmission of truth in daily life, we are the still spine of the Tree of Life.
Pamela Wilson evokes through dialogue, inquiry and her very presence the qualities of unconditional love and radical acceptance, and 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.
Find out more »Arian Mateo ~ Letting Ourselves Off the Hook
Join us for a transformative spiritual meeting where we will explore the profound freedom that comes from letting ourselves off the hook. You will be guided to release deep-rooted patterns of self-judgment, seeking, striving, and unresolved guilt and shame, allowing you to discover and rest in the simplicity of our true nature.
Arian Mateo is the founder of the Awareness Method, where he integrates profound spiritual insights with deep psychological understanding to bring about embodied and lasting liberation. He draws from a wide range of traditions, including Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Diamond Approach, and attachment and trauma healing.
Ishita Sharma ~ Embodiment Lab – Experiments in Embodying Presence: Relationships
Join us for an experiential exploration of the body as a doorway to presence and aliveness, returning to the ground of being through our own direct experience. In this meeting, we will examine what embodied presence makes possible in relationships, and how we can use the crucible of intimate relationships to deepen as/into unity, using our body’s signals to return to sensate presence.
Ishita Sharma serves as a spiritual teacher and Core Energetics Practitioner of body-based psychotherapy. Teaching Universal principles of healing and mysticism, she is devoted to supporting healing and awakening in all those committed to living a bright and connected life, sharing their gifts for the good of the Whole.
Find out more »May 2025
Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Presence: Our Only Refuge (In-Person & Livestream)
Open Circle is hosting an evening Satsang and two DAYLONGS with Marlies Myoku Cocheret in California, USA: *
May 2nd (7-9 pm, PT) ~ Berkeley, CA (In-Person & Livestream ~ Open to all) *
May 3rd Daylong (11am - 5pm, PT) ~ Fairfax, CA (In-Person & Livestream ~ Open to all) *
May 4th Way of the Women Daylong (11am - 5pm, PT) ~ Fairfax, CA (In-Person only - Women only) *
These times demand a strong Presence if we are to care as Love for the world right now. So let’s come together in truth and love, to connect as our true nature for ourselves and our world. This brings forward wisdom and compassion. Naturally the right action follows.
Marlies Myoku Cocheret is a spiritual teacher, psychologist, Hakomi therapist, and tantric educator. She has been offering satsang and retreats since 2000 when Adyashanti asked her to teach.
Find out more »Miranda Macpherson ~ Turning everything into the Path of Awakening ~ Daylong Retreat, Bay Area & Livestream
If ever there was a time to stay spiritually connected, so we can remain open-hearted, responsive and awake, it's now.
This daylong is for deep spiritual nourishment and community support to help us find calm amidst the chaos, deepen in to our fundamental human unity, and explore what timeless spiritual Truths have to offer us practically in living meaningfully and navigating life from our spiritual depth.
Miranda Macpherson is a contemporary spiritual teacher, who leads the Living Grace Global Sangha, and who has been guiding others into direct experience of the sacred for over thirty years internationally. Unapologetically feminine, joyful and down to earth, she is dedicated to loving people all the way back into the freedom and wholeness of our true nature. Miranda is the author of several books and is also a kirtan musician and singer.
Find out more »Engaged Nonduality ~ With Stephanie Lopez and Lisa Ferguson
As modern life becomes more complicated, each of us faces a multitude of personal, political, and ecological challenges. As spiritual practitioners, our calling is to navigate the metacrisis with integrity and right action, which requires skillful listening both within ourselves and to others, as we open to our authentic response. In these moments, the wellspring of Essential Nature serves as a ground from which we can rest, nourish, renew, and engage.
Stephanie Lopez is a psychotherapist and senior trainer for iRest Institute, which teaches an updated version of the traditional yoga nidra practice. Lisa Ferguson is the founder of Climate Compassion, and has focused on supporting planetary wellbeing as a healing arts practitioner, climate justice activist, organizer and contemplative.
Find out more »Susanne Marie ~ Ease into Awakening (In-Person Event)
Join Susanne and community in an afternoon of relaxing into our True Nature. The focus will be on drinking from the well of Source and taking our hands off the steering wheel, and instead lean back into the natural state of being which is easily overlooked and veiled. Resting in presence is a vital part of the spiritual path, and it supports you in gaining trust in the safety of letting go, facilitating growth in abiding awakening.
Susanne Marie offers integrated teachings in support of freedom, and the celebration of our common essence of love and unity with all life. Her teaching style is heart-centered and practical, with a focus on supporting you in your unique awakening journey.
Find out more »Ramachandra Roddam ~ Deity Worship as Spiritual Practice (Online Event)
We are sorry to announce that the In-Person event has been cancelled due to unforseen events....
** We plan to reschedule as an Online Event. **Stay tuned to our emails and calendar for the new online date!
........ Sri Ramachandra Roddam is a sadhak on the path of Shakta Tantra and a teacher of the path of the Bauls, visiting the Bay Area for the first time. The Bauls are a traditional sect from northeastern India who seek a direct connection with the divine through deity worship, ecstatic singing, music and dance. Sri Ramachandra is a trustee of Sanatan Siddhashram, a center in West Bengal founded by the internationally acclaimed Baul dancer and teacher, Maa Parvathy Baul......
Find out more »John Prendergast ~ “Seeing through False Ground” ~ Bay Area Daylong Retreat (In Person & Livestream)
Almost all of us unknowingly stand (or have stood) upon a highly conditioned, self-constructed ground that we mis-take as being solid and real. As we become more honest and intimate with our experience, this constructed ground begins to give way revealing a breath-taking openness – a groundless ground – that is our true nature.
In this daylong retreat, we will welcome this false ground into Presence via silent and guided meditation, talks, dyadic meditative inquiry, and experiential conversations.
John Prendergast is a spiritual teacher, and retired psychotherapist and Professor of Psychology, 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 several books, including his latest, Your Deepest Ground: A Guide to Embodied Spirituality.
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