October 2024
John Prendergast and Lisa Ferguson ~ Engaged Nonduality
This series weaves non-dual awakening and an embodied response to our world in crisis. We are facing intersecting crises of climate breakdown, the potential of ecological and systems collapse, severe injustice and inequality, rising authoritarianism, unaligned tech and AI, and more. The path of non-duality has much to offer in these times, including a deep recognition of our wholeness and shared Being, and opening to the wellspring of our wise response.
This series invites guest presenters to explore how the wisdom of these non-dual teachings may be deeply embodied through a response to our world in crisis.
John J. Prendergast studied with the European sage Jean Klein for many years, as well as with Adyashanti who gave dharma transmission to John in August, 2023. He is a retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies as well as a retired psychotherapist, and the author of several books.
Lisa Ferguson is the founder of Climate Compassion, and has focused on supporting planetary well-being as a healing arts practitioner, climate justice activist, organizer and contemplative.
Find out more »Rupert Spira ~ The Essence of Non-Duality ~ In-Person & LIVESTREAM in Berkeley, CA
In the last few years Rupert Spira has become one of the most respected and sought-after teachers of non-dual wisdom, known for his crystal clear use of language, laser-like intellect, skillful guided inquiries, and powerfully direct pointing to aware presence—all delivered with warmth, wit and an unmatched and distinctive eloquence.
In his meetings, Rupert explores the perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions, and which is also the direct, ever-present reality of our own experience. This is a contemporary, experiential approach involving guided meditation and conversation. All that is required is an interest in the essential nature of experience, and in the longing for love, peace and happiness around which most of our lives revolve.
Find out more »Ishita Sharma ~ Embodiment Lab – Experiments in Embodying Presence
We are not thinking beings who sense; we are sensing beings who think. And re-setting that balance is key to joy, to vibrance, and true liberation!
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.
Engaging and transcending our senses, awareness, breath, movement and sound and more, we will use our body's signals to return to sensate presence.
Ishita Sharma serves as a spiritual teacher, healing mirror, embodiment guide, and Core Energetics Practitioner. Ishita’s teachings support self-study through direct realization, marrying western mind and eastern spirit through the human body and heart to facilitate embodied awakening and authentic connection, the balm for our tumultuous times.
Find out more »Amoda Maa ~ Unveiling the Self to Reveal the Freedom of Being
Amoda Maa offers a profound invitation to all those who wish to embody the truth of awakened consciousness in the midst of everyday life. Speaking with clarity and grace, she invites an open-hearted honesty to the exploration of what it means to recognize and live from our essential nature as Being-ness.
Amoda’s teachings are free from any ideology, and yet the luminous truth is the same nondual understanding at the core of many spiritual traditions. Arising from her own direct experience and expressed in a contemporary language, these teachings are relevant and accessible to all people from all backgrounds and cultures.
Find out more »John Prendergast, Lisa Ferguson & Jeremy Lent ~ Engaged Nonduality
A deep investigation into the source of the meta-crisis reveals, at its root, a worldview of separation: a belief that we’re split between mind and body, separate from each other, and at odds with the natural world.
In this session, Jeremy Lent will show how that worldview has led to today’s civilizational crisis and what’s at stake for our future. Then, we’ll glimpse what a civilization might look like based on values that set the conditions for all people to thrive on a regenerated Earth: an ecological civilization.
Jeremy Lent is the author of the award-winning books, The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning, which offer a foundation for an integrative worldview for a flourishing future.
John J. Prendergast is a retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as well as a retired psychotherapist. He studied with the European sage Jean Klein for many years as well as with Adyashanti.
Find out more »Stephan Bodian ~ Welcoming What Is
When we wake up to who we really are, we discover the innate perfection of this moment right now. Nothing is inherently missing or problematic in the sacred mystery of Being. But the ego has its own ideas about how things should be and is constantly resisting what is and trying to impose its agenda on life.
In this satsang, we’ll sit together in the silent mystery of Being and explore how to relate with our resistance to what is, using the Rumi poem The Guest House as our guide.
Stephan Bodian is a teacher in the non-dual wisdom tradition. 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.
Find out more »John Prendergast, Lisa Ferguson & Jonathan Gustin ~ Engaged Nonduality
Many spiritual journeys adjourn with a peaceful detachment. A different finale is possible—a love of the unmanifest infinite with a passionate engagement with material existence.
In this gathering we will explore moksha-dharma (liberation and responsibility). A splitting between Moksha (Liberation/Enlightenment) and Dharma (purpose/duty) is not only false...it may be inadvertently contributing to the metacrisis. Non-duality can (and should) evolve, to include dharmic responsibility and 'engaged liberation' where "love leaves nothing out."
Jonathan Gustin is the founder of Purpose Guides Institute and a meditation teacher. He helps people to find and embody their life’s purpose, and offers training for those who want to become Purpose Guides themselves.
John J. Prendergast is a retired psychotherapist and Adjunct Professor of Psychology. He studied with the European sage Jean Klein for many years as well as with Adyashanti.
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 »Grace & Gratitude: An Evening of Sacred Chant ~ Adam Bauer & Christine Mason (In-Person and Livestream)
In strange and turbulent times, we remember to breathe and seek connection and healing in the sacred vessel of community. Join Christine and Adam in this heartfelt celebration of the natural devotional practice of gathering and singing mantra together.
A kirtan and satsang 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. Adam spent years playing bass with kirtan pioneer Krishna Das, and later with Bhakti Yoga legend Shyamdas, both of whom nourished his love of sacred sound and the yoga of devotion. He has released three critically-acclaimed records.
Christine is a 20+ year yogi and practitioner of bhakti tantra, an author, the founder of Rosebud Woman, Radiant Farms and Sundari Gardens.
Find out more »November 2024
John Prendergast, Lisa Ferguson & Caverly Morgan ~ Engaged Nonduality
This gathering is about the act of being. It’s about knowing a happiness you can’t explain because you have no reason to point to. The joy of pure being. Together we’ll explore knowing who you are, resting in presence, what it means to act in the world on behalf of this deep knowing.
This gathering will consist of a guided meditation, a teaching, and a group discussion, based on Caverly’s book, The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together.
Caverly Morgan is a spiritual teacher, speaker and writer who blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern non-dual approach. She is the founder of Peace in Schools, a nonprofit that created the nation’s first for-credit mindfulness class in public high schools.
John J. Prendergast is a retired psychotherapist and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He studied with the European sage Jean Klein for many years, as well as with Adyashanti.
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 »Lisa Schumacher ~ Choose Love
NOTE: As of SUNDAY morning 2 AM on NOV. 3rd, Daylight Savings Time ends, and clocks in most of the USA are turned back 1 hour.
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. 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 realizations and ask questions.
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.
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