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In this webinar Lynn Marie will explore awakening in the body through somatic practises for balancing the nervous system and building more resilience and capacity for regulating stress and emotions. Being more regulated and resilient is very important for both healing our human wounding and our spiritual awakening. Building resilience is especially important at this time of global stress, uncertainty, and rapid change. When our nervous system is dis-regulated, it reacts to life as though we are in danger and it doesn’t feel safe to let go and relax. This interferes with our ability to be present with our moment to moment experience and access the ever-present awareness. As you relax and and quiet down with the help of somatic practises, we will deepen into self-inquiry and connect with the ultimate resilience—the Silence of Being.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a nondual psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience as a therapist as well as with nondual teachings. She is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships and The Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment.

When we stop spiritually bypassing our humanity, hoping for a miracle cure, we get to look squarely at the process of embodiment. Join Jeannie and friends to explore the vital role of awareness of the body in the process of embodiment.

Jeannie’s gift for inviting people to join her in resting and rooted presence evokes a deep meeting with oneself and reality. Within that, Jeannie’s humor and iconoclasm serve to bring people into an understanding that is beyond the intellectual. Through silent and guided meditation, spontaneous talks and exchange with participants, Jeannie will host a space of clarity and warmth where the richness of relating can be explored safely and your innermost questions met fully. Come join us!

Jeannie is known for her fearless clarity, tender mercy toward humanness, and a juicy, poetic and often humorous style, and her down-to-earth embodied teaching of living as love.

The two most common approaches of direct awakening are 1) the do nothing or resting method and 2) the looking or inquiry method.

The Direct Inquiry approach begins with a looking method of awareness of awareness. However it does not stop with pure awareness but continues to untie knots of confusion to abide and live an awakened life. This natural unfolding moves from Waking up --- from small self, Waking as---the ground of awake awareness, Waking in --- awake awareness arises simultaneously as energy, love and embodiment, Waking out --- to create and relate from embodied, loving, awake consciousness.

How do we recognize our True nature if it can’t be done by the seeker, ego, doer, self, will, attention or a meditator? Our already awake awareness can intentionally unhook from being identified with our small self-center.

Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW is an author of the award winning book The Way of Effortless Mindfulness. He is a licensed psychotherapist and recognized leader in the field of meditation and awakening. Loch is known for his warm sense of humor, and his trust that awakening is the next natural stage of development. He teaches the advanced, yet simple, nondual pointers and direct methods of effortless mindfulness, informed by psychology and social justice.
“Loch Kelly is one of the clearest expressions of authentic awakened freedom and love that I know. He offers wise, loving medicine and direct, practical guidance which evolved from Loch’s vast experience and deep commitment to help others awaken to spiritual freedom.”
~ Adyashanti

The world is experiencing many challenges and changes. As spiritual seekers we can be experiencing an even greater gap between what we are living and feeling, and the spiritual ideals of awakening and consciousness.

In this three-part workshop series Isira will explore with us how to bridge the higher principles and elements of the spiritual path with the raw reality of the challenges being experienced as a human on the planet right now. Isira will share how we can find relevance in our spiritual ideals and apply them for the greatest benefit and effect.

We will acknowledge and recognize both the upper realm of spiritual (more abstract) ideals and principles and the ground level experience of what we are living in. We will recognize the challenges we are faced with and bring a new perspective to both of these.

Isira (pronounced "a-SIRE-a") is a spiritual teacher from Southern Australia of mixed European and Aboriginal heritage whose teaching ─ rooted in non-duality ─ revolves around the primacy of love, the necessity to transform limiting beliefs, and the profound need for deep communion with the Earth, its creatures, and elemental forces. From infancy onwards, Isira experienced profound meditative states, prophetic dreams, powerful visions, psychic abilities, vivid past life memories and auspicious synchronicities. She received ordination from the Dalai Lama and spent several years living in Himalayan hermitages before returning to Australia to explore her indigenous roots. Today she functions as a wisdom keeper, a spiritual leader, an ardent advocate for conscious change in the world, and an exemplar of the life of love.

What is the most essential you that is present regardless of thought or emotion? Who or what has been present for all of your life experience? How does this spirit of constancy touch your life? Mukti will speak on these compelling topics and follow with time for questions and answers pointing directly to the true nature of Self.

Mukti’s name originates in Sanskrit and is most often translated as “liberation." Mukti has been the Associate Teacher of Open Gate Sangha since 2004 and has been a student of her husband, Adyashanti, since he began teaching in 1996, when they founded Open Gate Sangha together.

Mukti's years of study with Adyashanti and her background in body awareness and the healing arts inform her presentation style, her recommended inquiry methods, and her interest in the energetic unfolding of realization and embodiment.

In this three day retreat we will explore our direct experience and let it reveal its essential reality of Awareness. Our particular focus is the body, allowing it to be our mirror and our pathway, our prayer and our altar, and ultimately the shining expression of this shared identity.

In our daily lives, the body is seldom tasted as it is. We rarely listen to its tactile and energetic language or allow it to simply unfold and blossom in its natural original intelligence.

With silence as our main shrine, we will share gradually deepening guided tactile meditations along with simple postures, free movements, breathing, and visualizations. In this contemplation, resistances and chains of bodily contractions, the habits that create the illusion that our identity is limited, located and separate, are revealed and free to unfold as they are: feelings and sensations that come and go in Awareness. We come to feel that our true identity is an open field of vibrating openness,limitless and ever-present.

Ellen’s deepest intuition was confirmed when she met her teacher, Francis Lucille. In his presence, she recognized the eternal, limitless and universal nature of our shared reality. Over many years, her understanding deepened to touch all levels of experience. The process of aligning and stabilizing all aspects of her life to this understanding has continued to unfold since then.

In this webinar Lynn Marie will explore awakening in the body through somatic practices for balancing the nervous system and building more resilience and capacity for regulating stress and emotions. Building resilience is especially important at this time of global stress, uncertainty, and rapid change. When our nervous system is dis-regulated, it reacts to life as though we are in danger and it doesn’t feel safe to let go and relax. This interferes with our ability to be present with our moment to moment experience and access the ever-present awareness. As you relax and and quiet down with the help of somatic practices, we will deepen into self-inquiry and connect with the ultimate resilience—the Silence of Being.Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a nondual psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience as a therapist as well as with nondual teachings. She is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships and The Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment.

We hear the word “surrender” in relation to spirituality all the time, but what does it take to surrender? Surrender what? And to what? Join Jeannie and friends to explore this topic beyond the conceptual in our actual experience.

Jeannie’s gift for inviting people to join her in resting and rooted presence evokes a deep meeting with oneself and reality. Within that, Jeannie’s humor and iconoclasm serve to bring people into an understanding that is beyond the intellectual. Jeannie will host a space of clarity and warmth where the richness of relating can be explored safely and your innermost questions met fully.

Jeannie Zandi is the director of Living as Love, a nonprofit organization dedicated to seeding a culture of the Heart on the planet, inspiring, teaching and supporting people to live from their essence as Love. A year before the birth of her daughter, Jeannie was plunged into a dark night of the soul that culminated in a radical shift of consciousness. She is known for her fearless clarity, tender mercy toward humanness, and a juicy, poetic and often humorous teaching style.