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In this event nondual psychotherapist and teacher, Riyaz Motan, will describe, demonstrate, and guide participants through a powerful method of engaging with and transforming our difficult experiences and emotions.  He will show us how to engage with our suffering through a 4-step process that utilizes the healing power of unconditional presence.  This process of tending to our direct experience runs counter to the usual cognitive, emotional, and somatic ways that most of us are conditioned to respond to our pain and suffering.

In this simple practice, we can begin to truly listen to our direct experience without trying to manipulate, change, analyze or resist it. We will learn to tend to our difficulties from an open, affectionate, curious, and creative space of presence. And, in this patient and unconditional embrace our difficult experiences will begin to unfold and reveal themselves just as a closed flower opens and blossoms in the warmth and radiance of the sun.  As we practice this method, we come to see and trust that the direction of our unfoldment reliably arcs towards wholeness, where our human experience is reclaimed and restored and we come into a more full and authentic expression of ourselves.

This method also opens us to:
~ the subtle intuitive and creative capacities within us

~ a deeper trust of our direct experience

~ the innate wisdom of the body.

~ healing and understanding the intergenerational/ancestral dimensions of our suffering.

This event is ideal for spiritually oriented people who are interested in fully embodying their wholeness. It is especially relevant for spiritual practitioners who are wanting a reliable and effective way to not bypass the sticky, painful aspects of human life.

This event can also be very helpful for people in the healing professions as this approach can be powerfully utilized when working with others.

Riyaz has been a practicing psychotherapist in the Bay Area for the past 25 years. From the beginning his passion has been on the integration of Eastern wisdom traditions with Western psychology. His two main teachers, John Prendergast and Adyashanti have deeply influenced his work and his spiritual life. He now increasingly feels called to support people in embodying their whole selves -- their humanity and their divinity.

riyazmotan.com

Sliding Scale: $25 to $45
Some Partial Scholarships Available
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Join Jeannie and friends to plumb the depths of abundance as well as its shadow, lack. How can we open to and enjoy abundance and how do we navigate when feelings of lack rise?

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.

www.jeanniezandi.com

Suggested donation: $15 to $25
No one turned away for lack of funds.
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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.

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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.

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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.
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A 2-Part Retreat
Part 1 (May 20) and Part 2 (May 21)
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time, each day
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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.

Lack of self-love is the primary, core issue in most people. It can be our greatest obstacle to health, happiness, healthy relationships, success, personal growth, and awakening. In other words, it affects every aspect of our life!

What does it mean to love yourself? It is a common belief that we must eliminate all our perceived faults before we can love ourselves.

What if you are totally okay, now, just as you are? What if unconditional self-acceptance is the key to self-love? But how does that happen?

To truly love ourselves, we need to remember who we truly are—a vast being of pure love. Then it is possible, along with therapeutic assistance and support, to meet and resolve the negative programming, trauma, and relational wounding, which creates a negative sense of self. As these falls away, we embody more self-love. We wake up out of the false, negative identity into our pure loving nature.

This weekend event will offer a deep immersion into this issue so that you can begin to understand and directly experience true self-love. We will touch into how lack of self-love manifests on all levels—physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Lynn Marie brings extensive experience, both personally and professionally, with the journey from self-criticism to self-acceptance and love. She will offer her insight and skills on all those levels.

Participant feedback: “Through attending Lynn Marie’s events, my ability to rest in and as Presence has deepened exponentially. It seems that there is nothing of greater service than to embody our true nature more fully. Lynn Marie skillfully offers the sacred space and practical wisdom to do so.”

Lynn Marie Lumiere is a seasoned psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and author. She offers a rare blend of embodied spiritual wisdom with a skilled therapeutic approach that facilitates healing of psychological trauma/wounding and the embodiment of awakening. Her depth of experience, rooted in her own healing and awakening journey, spans decades of expertly guiding individuals in the resolution of their trauma and into connection with their true nature. She is a trustworthy and competent guide for both healing and freedom on all levels, with a natural empathy for the human struggle that is born of her own life process. She is also the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships.

For more information see: www.lynnmarielumiere.com

Sliding Scale: $60 to $90
Some Partial Scholarships Available
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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.

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2-Part Intensive
includes May 27 & 28
9:00 am – 11:00 am Pacific Time, each day
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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.

Anger is a powerful force in our life to transcend our self imposed or social limitations. When it is not directed towards life, but towards the ego, it becomes a phenomenal drive to dissolve the sense of separation. The result will be clarity and compassion.

This two-part online intensive will offer both theoretical and practical teachings based on an embodied duality approach.

Shakti Caterina Maggi is a spiritual guide, meditation teacher and author widely recognized as one of the most authentic and profound voices of contemporary spirituality. Combining the vision of Advaita and non-dual Tantra with a contemporary approach, Shakti offers with humanity, compassion and great clarity an inner technology to dissolve that contraction of suffering that accompanies our lives, and access a space of peace and unconditional love towards life.

www.shakticaterinamaggi.com

Sliding Scale: $60 to $90
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.

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