April 2025
Pamela Wilson ~ From Sorrow to Solace
Join Pamela and your fellow sages 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. She 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. Featured in the book Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom, Pamela is at her best in heart-felt dialogue, so please bring your questions!......
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May 2025
Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Presence: Our Only Refuge ~ Bay Area Daylong Retreat
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)
May 3rd (11am - 5pm, PT) ~ Fairfax, CA (In-Person & Livestream)
May 4th Way of the Women Daylong (11am - 5pm, PT) ~
.....Fairfax, CA (In-Person only - Women only)
Presence: Our Only Refuge
Abiding presence is the only ground from which right action can flower in our world.
During this Daylong Meditation Retreat, we sit and share together sacred space to welcome in our true nature, our silent nature, that is always here and never changes. Marlies takes you by the hand into the cathedral of your being so together we connect, taste and abide as Presence: our only refuge......
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Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Silence and The Female Body ~ Bay Area Daylong Way of Woman Retreat
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)
May 3rd (11am - 5pm, PT) ~ Fairfax, CA (In-Person & Livestream)
May 4th Way of the Women Daylong (11am - 5pm, PT) ~
.....Fairfax, CA (In-Person only - Women only)
Way of Woman Retreat
(For Women Only)
Silence and The Female Body
Letting your silent nature melt with your feminine body of beauty.
Deep inside your heart you know it’s possible to be an embodied, sovereign, luscious Woman of Beauty. When you truly rest as your silent heart, naturally your feminine body wants to flow and shine. Come play together and take your place in this wonderful dance of life, and honor your precious temple as Woman......
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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, its now.
This daylong with Miranda Macpherson, on a beautiful property in west Marin, is a day 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.....
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John Prendergast ~ “Seeing through False Ground” ~ Bay Area Daylong Retreat
Description: 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, much like the foundations of a house, 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.....
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September 2025
John Prendergast ~ “Letting Go” ~ Bay Area Daylong Retreat
While the essence of the awakening process is a letting go, it cannot be willed. Rather, it arises from a spontaneous upwelling of our deepest desire to be completely emptied out, opened, and freed from any internal resistance to abiding in and as our true nature as loving awareness. Through guided and silent meditation, dyadic inquiry, a talk and experiential conversations, we will explore attuning with this deepest of desires and recognizing and welcoming the inevitable resistance that arises......
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November 2025
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, hopelseness, and open to the presence that can transform them into responsiveness from our depth.
What does it take to abide in natural great peace, and come from love amidst such anxiety provoking times? What can help us find the restorative Grace we need to thrive, even in the face of heart-breaking news?..... LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »POTLUCK DHARMA ~ with Joryu Myosei and John & Christiane Prendergast
Annual Community Celebration & Fundraiser for Mountain Home Sanctuary
With Joryu Myosei and John & Christiane Prendergast
In partnership with Open Circle, honoring Rob Schwartz and his vision for maintaining Mountain Home Sanctuary, his home and land, as a retreat space for spiritual gatherings.
Joryu Myosei created and leads Potluck Dharma as a monthly community practice gathering and holds an annual fundraising event in November for Mountain Home Sanctuary with the help of so many in our community. John & Christiane Prendergast, have generously joined this year to offer their deep and embodied wisdom. Mirabai will be offering devotional music to open our hearts with her soulful voice and instruments.
Registration closes Nov. 19th. Space is limited so register early to save your seat at our table........
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December 2025
John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. ~ “Emptiness and Fullness” ~ Bay Area Daylong Retreat
The emptier we are, the more we are filled with light. In this meeting we will investigate our willingness as well as our resistance to being no one and no-thing. When we see and feel through the emptiness of the separate self-construct, we discover the fullness of Being. Nothing essential is lost in this profound process of letting go and discovery, of death and rebirth......
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January 2026
New Year’s Gathering 2026 ~ Celebrating Our Divine Presence With Mystical Poetry, Song and Silence ~ Bay Area
We invite you to join us for our sacred gathering of song, poetry, silence and dialogue as with tender hearts we welcome this time of new beginnings and honor the divine intelligence animating our being.
Christine Tulis, harpist, singer and healing artist and Judith Shiner, PhD., poet and spiritual mentor, invite you to a time of sacred retreat. We come together to honor and celebrate the divine presence always here within us as we enter this unprecedented New Year.
Through the rich gifts of mystical poetry delicately layered with sublime harp music, we move from our mind into our heart and rest in the deep knowing of our soul’s wisdom..... LEARN MORE HERE
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