May 2025
Engaged Nonduality ~ With Stephanie Lopez and Lisa Ferguson
Engaged Nonduality:
Acting from the Wellspring of Essential Nature
with With Stephanie Lopez and Lisa Ferguson
As modern life becomes more complicated each of us faces a multitude of personal, political, and ecological challenges. As spiritual practitioners, our calling is to navigate the metacrisis with integrity and right action. This requires practices that allow for skillful listening both within ourselves and to others, as we open to our authentic response. In these moments, the wellspring of Essential Nature serves as a ground from which we can rest, nourish, renew, and engage.
Drawing on practices of iRest yoga nidra, somatic inquiry, and relational psychology, we’ll dive into restorative practices and ways of being that inform how we meet each moment as it is......
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Jeannie Zandi ~ I Am. Becoming Your Own Authority
Beyond seeking outside validation lies unspeakable freedom.
Many of us have been conditioned since childhood to look outside ourselves for direction and approval. We've learned to doubt our own perceptions and override our body's wisdom in favor of external authority. Yet true sovereignty, self-trust and authority emerges through a reconnection with, and development of, the guidance system we were born with.......
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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.
Ramachandra Roddam ~ Deity Worship as Spiritual Practice (In-Person & Livestream)
A beautiful opportunity to step into the world and learn about some basic methods of Worship and Sadhana, from an authentic voice and practitioner.
Sri Ramachandra Roddam is a sadhak on the path of Shakta Tantra and a teacher of the path of the Bauls. The Bauls are a traditional sect from northeastern India who often defy societal conventions and who seek a direct connection with the divine through ecstatic singing, music and dance. Sri Ramachandra is a trustee of Sanatan Siddhashram, a center in West Bengal founded by the internationally acclaimed Baul dancer and teacher, Maa Parvathy Baul......
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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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Ishita Sharma ~ Embodiment Lab – Experiments in Embodying Presence: Relationships
Together we will examine what embodied presence makes possible in relationships, and how we can use the crucible of intimate relationships to deepen as/into unity.
Join us for Embodiment Lab, an experiential exploration of the body as a doorway to presence and aliveness, returning to the ground of being through our own direct experience......
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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.
Lynn Marie Lumiere ~ Finding Balance in a World out of Balance
We are now subject to ever-increasing amounts of stress in the world we live in. The number of issues we are facing globally and the fast pace in which these issues are increasing can overwhelm our current ability to stay in balance.
Lynn Marie will offer somatic support for staying regulated as well as spiritual inspiration and guidance for remaining awake in these stressful times. When our somatic system is regulated, we can be more present and have more capacity and resilience.
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June 2025
Stephan Bodian ~ Wake Up Now: A Weekend Journey Through the Heart of Awakening
Awakenings come in many shapes and sizes and are as diverse as the people who experience them. Yet they tend to follow a similar trajectory, from the initial recognition that you’re not who you thought you were to the full realization of your boundless nondual spiritual nature beyond the mind. Along the way, you may have a range of different experiences and insights that offer motivation and inspiration and deepen and expand your understanding......
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Jeannie Zandi ~ Living Clear: Digesting the Past Rather than Operating from It
Discover how to digest emotions skillfully instead of being ruled by them.
In a world that builds layers of false belief and delusion on top of our suppressed and undigested emotion, we can learn to recognize when our reality is distorted and create space to digest and re-evaluate what we’ve concluded about ourselves and the world. Learning to digest emotions skillfully allows our experience to become a source of wisdom rather than delusion.........
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