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We often think of trauma as only related to big events such as war or serious abuse. However, it has to do with any stress outside the range of our nervous system’s window of tolerance. This has more of an impact if experienced in childhood. Trauma has been defined as “the inability to be present with what is.” This ability is most often required to awaken to our deeper nature and embody that in our lives.
True trauma healing happens somatically, in the body, and has the potential of leading to the direct experience of embodied Presence.

Lynn Marie 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.

What does it mean to be a true citizen of the world—not as an abstract ideal, but as an embodied reality? In this illuminating session, Jeannie will guide participants beyond both rugged individualism and self-abandoning collectivism into a vision of citizenship rooted in the understanding that we are distinct yet inseparable parts of a living whole.

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.

Rather than transcending life, she calls us to root in it, maturing into authentic expressions of love, serving the whole with wisdom and heart.

Kashmir Shaivism points to a deep engagement with life, finding the sacred in the simple. Rooted in non-dual Tantric tradition, this is a journey of awakening through sensory exploration. Discover a non-dual approach to savoring each moment, finding joy and divinity in even the most mundane experiences. This tradition teaches the full experiencing our sensory perceptions, emotions, and thoughts, without rejecting them as illusion or distractions. The true nature of reality and ourselves are recognized as one and the same.

Lisa will lead us in an "embodied" form of non-dualism, using the senses as the doorway toward recognition of our true nature. She is a non-dual Tantric meditation teacher, and specializes in helping practitioners integrate their spiritual practice and awakening experiences into daily life.

There are times in each of our lives when a bitter wind blows our spiritual torch out. It may be called depression, grief, trauma, illness, the end of a relationship, a sense that we are no longer in alignment with our deepest self.
Here we are, standing at the threshold of our being, knowing that nothing we have used to light the way forward will work.

During this gathering we will venture together, away from the certitudes held by the mind and into the dark wilderness of the body. We will listen inwardly to our felt experience. Perhaps we will touch the vulnerability and strength of Life as she cycles and connects us to the great garland of creation.

Ellen’s deepest intuition was confirmed when she met her teacher in the non-dual tradition, Francis Lucille. Hearing his words, she recognized the eternal, limitless and universal nature of our shared reality.
Ellen will draw on her experience of Kashmir nondual yoga, the Jungian ideas especially as expressed by Marion Woodman, Authentic Movement, and whatever else may arise from the field of our gathering.

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. Join us for guided and silent meditation, teachings and pointers, and plenty of time for dialogue and discussion.

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. Stephan studied for many years with Advaita master Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001.

These meetings share the simple message that what is truly longed for is already "what is". This obvious simplicity is overlooked by a personal sense of separation that "what is" is missing something, and a conviction that something needs to happen. This sense of a personal reality can be recognized as a need for more experience or knowledge. The hope is that enough of the right experience or knowledge will lead to fulfillment or endless happiness. In the meetings this sense of a personal reality and the need for becoming as necessary is exposed as unnecessary and illusory. In his early twenties, Jim experienced an awakening that completely upended his search within the realm of what could be known. Not understanding what had happened, he turned to those who claimed to know: spiritual teachers and gurus. But it didn't work. The practices and explanations didn't resonate. Then he encountered a radical message: one that stated, without compromise, that there is no one. Upon truly hearing this, the dream and the dreamer dissolved. Never having happened.

And yet, all of this being said: there is no path to what is.
* You can join one date or the full Series: * Friday, Oct. 10 ~ 7:30-9pm * Saturday, Oct. 11 ~ 2-6pm * Sunday, Oct. 12 ~ 2-6pm *

We have all been touched to by trauma to some degree. Trauma can be defined as any experience that takes us out of our window of tolerance and leaves us with high levels of stress in our nervous system. It has also been defined as the inability to be present in the here and now because we get stuck in the past, or in overwhelm. Therefore, healing trauma is an integral part of our nondual awakening and embodiment process. When all of who we are is met in/as our essential nature, there is no more division and we are whole, empowered and healed. We become embodied presence.

Lynn Marie will focus on awakening to true nature as well as developing a balanced nervous system, so you have more ability to remain awake and meet all that arises within the body-mind in your undivided nature. She will also provide skillful means that are often needed to be present with highly stressful experience. Lynn Marie 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.