
June 2023
Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)
Join us for a silent group meditation. Do your own practice quietly in the company of others. Let’s be present, together. .... more details
Mon.: 8:00am – 8:30am (PT) and Wed.: 9:00am – 9:30am (PT)
Ongoing drop-in group – attend as often as you like.
Weekly, with rare exceptions. Verify dates on Full Calendar.
Ishita Sharma ~ Call to Coherence: Relational Coherence
Coming together in a space that is slow, curious, generous and kind, we will explore the nature of flow and ourselves, learning by contrasting in our own experience what coherence is and isn't, what hinders and augments it. We will engage processes that augment access to coherent fields at various levels of being, becoming and belonging.
Join us in a series of 3 facilitated experiential conversations to examine flow/coherence at 3 levels of field: self, shared and universal, to strengthen your capacity to access it at will.
Each call will build on the last while also standing alone as a wholesome offering in itself.
As much as attending the whole series is beneficial, you are welcome to register for any number of calls, even if you haven't joined the previous ones.
Part 1: Inner Coherence: authenticity, self-alignment, how I am being (May 15th)
Part 2: Relational Coherence: mutuality, how we are being, within and between us. (June 10th)
Part 3: Universal Coherence: interconnectedness, synchronization with the rhythm of the whole. (July 1st)
Join like-hearted others to play with friendly curiosity in a field of shared intent.
ON EACH CALL WE WILL:
- Explore contrast between discordance and coherence, learning from our own experience.
- Practice an experiential somatic meditation.
- Experience the healing power of inner and group coherence.
- Have space to share, ask questions.
- Learn about deeper upcoming offerings to engage and answer your inner call to coherence.
In times of accelerated growth, communities of care are balm for the soul. And a community is formed when we come together with authenticity, openness and respect. This will be a series of such calls.
About Ishita
Ishita Sharma serves as a mirror, mentor and muse to those who wish to better the world starting within. Her work is the joyful expression of her deepest realizations, and an invitation into your own. Come to Center is fueled by her wish to realize a world that lives from enlightened awareness. She helps clients heal disconnects and mine the gold hidden in everyday challenges to live a life that is connected, expansive and joyful!
She draws on her unique capacity to attune to her clients’ nervous systems and guide contraction and confusion into clarity and ease. Her incisive approach is grounded in spacious, loving connection.
Ishita sees her role here as a bridge between cultures, paradigms and dimensions- marrying western intellect and eastern spirit through the wisdom of the human heart and body. Contending the future of humanity hinges upon healing division within and between us, Ishita supports individuals and groups alike to wake up, step up and show up together for the world we wish to see.
Find out more about Ishita: cometocenter.com
Suggested donation: $15 to $40
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please register early if you can.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)
Join us for a silent group meditation. Do your own practice quietly in the company of others. Let’s be present, together. .... more details
Mon.: 8:00am – 8:30am (PT) and Wed.: 9:00am – 9:30am (PT)
Ongoing drop-in group – attend as often as you like.
Weekly, with rare exceptions. Verify dates on Full Calendar.
Pamela Wilson ~ The Blessing of Balance ~ 4 Part Online Retreat
June 12, 15, 19 & 22, 2023
10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Pacific Time
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Recording will be emailed to participants after each meeting.
You're welcome to join even if you can't attend all the live sessions.
Join Pamela and your fellow sages for a four part satsang retreat.
We will invite any tension between the opposites within to balance and self adjust by meeting them respectfully and inviting them to know themselves. Only realization resolves human conditioning back to healthy balance and stability. Even perceived threat, habitual opposition, stress and separation can root and return to natural clarity and relaxation.
When we function as the sage we are, everything self liberates and balances. Allowing us to live as wise love, flow, peace and ease.
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!
More about Pamela: www.pamelasatsang.com
Sliding Scale: $80 to $120
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
Ellen Emmet ~ The Shrine of Not Knowing
In Rumi’s field, ‘beyond ideas of wrong doing of right doing’, prior to concepts and convictions, (however luminous and spiritual), the Tantric Kashmir approach invites us to listen to our felt experience without any aims or objectives. Here we simply recognize the geography of separation, taste the contour of our limits, see the positions of security, the lines of physical and psychological defences expressed in our convictions and mirrored in the tension held in our body.
This listening becomes a burning altar to which thoughts and resistances are offered as they arise. Tactile sensitivity gently blossoms. Emotions unfold fully as life’s waves, delivering their energetic message whilst burning away the agendas and leaving the body awash with sensitivity and availability.
About Ellen:
Ellen’s deepest intuition was confirmed when she met her teacher in the non-dual tradition, Francis Lucille. Hearing his words, she recognised the eternal, limitless and universal nature of our shared reality. Over the years, this understanding has continued to unfold and to touch all levels of experience.
At the very same time, Ellen has never ceased to delve into the depths of her human experience, seen and unseen, thirsting for a wholeness and connectedness which appeared to be lost or obscured. This unstoppable quest brought her to therapy, Jungian workshops (and later Jungian analysis), Dream Work, Authentic Movement and creative writing.
More and more, she senses that each of our lives is a journey of revelation and integration, including its darker crossings, through which the face of truth can shine uniquely and anew, wedding us to our direct experience and connecting us to the great family of creation.
To find out more about Ellen and her offering, visit www.ellenemmet.com
Sliding Scale: $25 to $45
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please register early if you can.
Jeannie Zandi ~ God the Father (and other dads)
Join Jeannie and friends for a special Father’s Day call to explore the symbolism and actuality of father – from God the Father to our own dads and all the beauties and challenges of all that!
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.
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 style that draws from Advaita Vedanta, Sufism, Christian mysticism and the ongoing revelation of fully engaged living.
Suggested donation: $15 to $40
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please register early if you can.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)
Join us for a silent group meditation. Do your own practice quietly in the company of others. Let’s be present, together. .... more details
Mon.: 8:00am – 8:30am (PT) and Wed.: 9:00am – 9:30am (PT)
Ongoing drop-in group – attend as often as you like.
Weekly, with rare exceptions. Verify dates on Full Calendar.
Chesaray & Julian ~ Suffering
What if we inquired into our common perceptions and attitudes of suffering. What if we stop trying to fix, get rid of or heal suffering. Could suffering itself be a doorway to greater intimacy with life, each other and ourselves. How would it be for us to come together in gentleness and yield to our precious human lives. In this 2 hour meeting we will have a short meditation, a talk on suffering and an opportunity for exchanges. Come settle in this compassionate space and unfold with us.
Chesaray offers courses, sessions, and retreats based in non-duality, embodied awakening, and the healing arts. Chesaray's search for “What is Real?” began as early as she can remember. Life has always been her greatest teacher. Experiences as a teen drove her into an unavoidable contemplation of grief, God, and death. Her university studies in Philosophy of Mind and Buddhism led her to study abroad in India, where she set her heart on embodying freedom. She was gifted with a non-dual awakening at 22 with Jon Bernie that lifted a tremendous amount of unconscious suffering from her shoulders, and has since experienced the fire of that opening guiding her life. Exploration of the psyche, soul, and soma has led her into ongoing training and practice in meditation, conscious movement, bodywork, psycho-therapeutic modalities and a devotion to learning from life experience. She descended into a dark night of the Soul for many years and she is left with an abiding experience of the heart of Being and a gift of healing Grace.
For more info: www.chesaray.org
Julian's strength of presence deepens and amplifies people's direct connection with their True Nature. He carries a gentleness, delicacy and precision for integrating all aspects of our humanity in the process of awakening. His intuitive capacity supports people in finding the root of what challenges them most and encourages a steady awakening to reality. Julian has a background in practicing with multiple spiritual masters, as well as training in men’s work, group work, energetic bodywork, and post traumatic growth somatic therapy. He brings a holistic approach to helping people heal, rest into their True Nature and embody who they really are.
For more info: www.julianmisliuc.com
Suggested donation: $15 to $40
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please register early if you can.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Susanne Marie ~ Your Inner Light
Everybody contains inside of them an inner spiritual guidance system, which when aligned with, helps orient one to following the path that best serves your awakening. Learning how to open in trust to your inner knowing, is much of what the spiritual journey is about.
Bio: Featured in conversation with Adyashanti on Buddha at the Gas Pump as well as on Conscious TV, Susanne Marie offers teachings in support of freedom and the celebration of our common essence of love and unity with all life. Susanne, the parent of two young adults, offers spiritual mentoring, online and in-person group facilitation, as well as retreats.
Find out more about Susanne Marie: susannemarie.org
Suggested donation: $15 to $40
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please register early if you can.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Tiger Singleton ~ The Opportunity of Being Human
Join Tiger Singleton for an event where he shares practical insight and wisdom for living with more love, compassion, and freedom. He will encourage participants to look beyond their mind’s fearful conditioning and make contact with a sacred opportunity of being alive.
Tiger believes that life is an adventure and not a safe place to seek comfort. He will encourage participants to embrace the gift of this temporary human experience and grow rapidly. This session is for those who are tired of taking life too seriously or not allowing themselves to truly play and grow. His playful, yet, no nonsense approach is sure to set your heart on fire. Be warned though, this is a space for taking radical responsibility for your human experience; so, as much as it will inspire, it will also invite you to get profoundly honest with yourself. Come play!
Overall, this event promises to be an insightful and transformative experience.
About Tiger:
Meet Tiger 🐯 - with a unique blend of playfulness and compassionate guidance, he's been sharing his insight and wisdom with people all over the world for over a decade.
He encourages a deep dive into the present moment, seeing beyond the mind's conditioning, to discover what is truly real and true.
Tiger's approach is direct, sincere, and focused on helping people navigate the journey of being human, with more love, compassion, and freedom.
Find out more about Tiger: www.inlightconnect.com -- On Facebook -- On YouTube
Suggested donation: $15 to $40
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please register early if you can.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter