November 2025
Stephan Bodian ~ Just This! An Invitation to Rest in the Joy and Fulfillment of Nondual Presence
All those spiritual words mean just one thing: Coming home to the ease and simplicity of right now, beyond the limiting projections of the mind! Most of us spend most of our time suffering in the dream of past and future, of how it should have been then and should be next week. But in the Now there are no problems to solve, just Being endlessly unfolding in its innately perfect, unarguable, and mysterious way.
Let’s come together to rest in the joy and fulfillment of Being as it is.
Stephan Bodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition of Zen, Dzogchen, and Advaita Vedanta. As a licensed psychotherapist, he brings a deep understanding of the impact of trauma and early conditioning on the process of spiritual realization. He studied for many years with Advaita master Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001.
Find out more »Susanne Marie ~ Awakening to Connection: Why Belonging Matters (In-Person Event)
At the heart of being human lies a deep longing to belong: to one another, to Spirit, to the Earth, and to ourselves. True wholeness arises when we honor both our inner autonomy and our connection to the greater web of life. Without a felt sense of belonging, we can become isolated, untethered, and alone.
In this gathering, we’ll explore what it truly means to come home within ourselves, in relationship with others, and as part of something larger. As we recognize our deep interconnection, we open to the care and compassion that naturally arise, the essence of a full-circle spiritual awakening.
Susanne Marie offers integrated teachings in support of freedom, and the celebration of our common essence of love and unity with all life. As a natural empath, her teaching style is heart-centered and practical, with a focus on supporting you in your unique awakening journey.
Note that Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 am Nov. 2nd.. Set your clocks back 1 hour!
Jeannie Zandi ~ Unbound: Beyond Victimization
Join Jeannie to explore how unconscious habits of identification, personalizing, and victim stance keep us chained to suffering. By slowing down to meet our raw sensations rather than spinning them into stories, we reclaim responsibility for our inner life and discover the gold hidden beneath our discomfort. This is a path of mercy, freedom, and communion with what is—an invitation to step out of curse and blame into blessing and presence.
Jeannie Zandi is a nondual spiritual teacher and guide for embodied awakening, inviting students to fully inhabit their human lives with presence, clarity, and love. Known for her fierce tenderness, irreverent wisdom, and unwavering presence, she creates powerful spaces for transformation, where truth is met in the raw, and awakening moves beyond concept into lived reality.
Find out more »Miranda Macpherson ~ Waking Up and Showing Up ~ Daylong Retreat, Bay Area & Livestream
In these immense times, we need the refuge that spiritual practice provides to nurture our access to the luminous love and clarity of our shared Being. Equally, we need the refuge of community to help us acknowledge all that we may be feeling – fear, anger, despair, hopelessness, and open to the presence that can transform them into responsiveness from our depth.
Together, in this experiential daylong Miranda Macpherson will hold space for all that we are navigating both personally and collectively, and offer insights and practices to help us harness the intensity of our times into the path.
Miranda Macpherson is a contemporary spiritual teacher who has been guiding others into direct experience of the sacred for over thirty years internationally. Unapologetically feminine, joyful and down to earth in her way of being, Miranda is dedicated to loving people all the way home into the freedom and wholeness of our True Nature.
Find out more »Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT, SEP ~ Integrating Nonduality and Somatic Trauma Healing
Trauma healing and nondual awakening come together in the present moment, the eternal now. The ability to be present here and now is essential for awakening to our deeper Nature and embodying that in our lives. It is also necessary for healing the effects of traumatic stress. However, trauma profoundly disrupts this ability, making it difficult to fully inhabit the present moment.
When it comes to trauma, skillful means are needed to regulate the nervous system and expand our window of tolerance, so we are more able to both rest in Being and be present with our human wounding. Trauma healing is primarily a somatic process and is an opportunity for experiencing embodied Presence.
Lynn Marie Lumiere is a seasoned psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, spiritual mentor, and author. She 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.
Find out more »POTLUCK DHARMA ~ with Joryu Myosei, John & Christiane Prendergast
This event presents an opportunity to practice generosity and to celebrate the blessings of gathering in spiritual community. The net proceeds from Potluck Dharma will be donated to Rosie Siscon to support her in honoring Rob Schwartz, co-founder of Open Circle, and his vision to maintain his property, Mountain Home Sanctuary, as a retreat space for spiritual gatherings. Your generous donations for this event help with the ongoing expenses inherent in keeping this special place open and available for sangha. Host Joryu Myosei is joined by John and Christiane Prendergast, who will offer their deep and embodied wisdom, while Mirabai will be offering devotional music to open our hearts with her soulful voice and instruments. We can’t wait to share the wisdom, the music, and the meal with you. NOTE THAT SPACE IS LIMITED, so please register early to save your seat at our table.
Find out more »Susanne Marie ~ Turning Toward Wholeness
At any given moment, we can tune into one of two streams. One arises from the natural wholeness of our being: open, still, and complete. The other is formed by the mind’s projections onto Reality, creating a sense of separation and confusion. This mental stream veils what is already whole and true.
In this meeting, we will explore how to rest in the stream of wholeness, learning to recognize and gently turn our attention away from the mind’s content. Through shared inquiry and practice, we’ll deepen our capacity to abide in what is real, whole, and ever-present.
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, whose focus is on supporting you in your unique awakening journey.
Find out more »Lisa Schumacher ~ Choose Love: Self-Inquiry Meeting
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 Love. In your search for freedom, you can rest in stopping. You can find stillness in Satsang. All of your spiritual questions and reports are welcome as we discover together how to meet the intensity of the world with an open and loving heart.
Upon hearing Gangaji in the early 90s 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 her discovery of the Love that is alive in the core of one’s being. During our meeting together, Lisa will support you with deep stillness and skillful self-inquiry to open to your true nature, leaving behind the illusion of a separate self.
Find out more »December 2025
Adam Bauer & Friends Kirtan ~ Sacred Chant
In strange and turbulent times, we remember to breathe and seek connection and healing in the sacred vessel of community. Join Adam and friends in this heartfelt celebration of the natural devotional practice of gathering and singing mantra together.
A kirtan with sacred chant artist Adam Bauer is a deep immersion in bhakti—the yoga of devotion, a blissful union of hearts and voices carried on a current of music and love. With his warm baritone voice and sonorous harmonium accompaniment, Adam leads his chanting sessions with a gentle, grounded energy, guiding participants to profound levels of conscious awareness......
Open to all, no experience necessary. Pre-Registration requited.
Find out more »Maja Apolonia Rodé, PhD ~ Divine Dialogue
Divine Dialogues are gently guided mystical conversations with magic at the core. The process is designed to bring us to a state of coherence and build our capacity to discover and express interconnected wisdom.
At the heart of each Dialogue is a single oracular prompt—revealed in the moment through Maja's Divine Dice. A profound idea then becomes the gravitational center of our inquiry and cultivates a unified field of exploration.
Maja Apolonia Rodé, PhD, is a creative mystic. Her rainbow variety of work weaves together three golden threads: awakening consciousness, inspired creativity, and loving connectedness. Her larger calling is to plant seeds of an interconnected culture that supports well-being for all.
Limited to 12 participants. Please register to save your seat.