February 2024
Lisa Cairns ~ Is There a “Doer”?
There's no "doer" doing anything, there is no independent person, it's just a happening, all of it, now. When you're walking your legs are simply walking all by themselves and we claim that and we say „I'm walking“.
Who is this „I“ that walks ?
There's nobody that's walking.
Walking happens. Speaking happens. Looking happens. Hearing happens. Action happens.
And our illusion is that we act.
„I act. I'm naked. I'm not naked. I'm free. I'm not free. I'm enlightened. I'm not enlightened.“
There is nobody. It's all coming from divinity and nothing is outside of you, nothing!
Everything is a production of your brain, and your brain is a production of that infinite unknowable source which is free. It's so free, everything!
There's nothing you need to worry about or not worry about but yeah, worrying happens. But it's not your worrying and there's nothing wrong with worrying happening, There's nothing wrong with deceit happening, there's nothing wrong with anger happening, there's nothing wrong with love happening or joy happening, they're all the same. It is simply life playing out, and it couldn't be any other way.
About Lisa:
In Bali in 2011, Lisa suddenly lost total control while eating banana fritters with ice cream, and there was a sudden and explosive energetic shift; at that moment it was understood, beyond the intellect, non-dual philosophy.
For the past eleven years, she has traveled around the world, sharing an amazing Indian Philosophy called Non duality. She has spoken in book shops, cafes, yoga centers, universities, schools, the UK’s NHS (National Health Care System), conference centers, festivals, theatres and in someone’s front room.
In her talks, she tries to communicate the limitless nature of life, which you could say is at the root of every philosophy, religion or story. This is a tall order, so failing that, she hopes to open doors for anyone who wants to listen, providing a broader perspective on this magical thing we call life.
More about Lisa: www.lisacairns.com
Suggested donation: $15 to $40
No one turned away for lack of funds.
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The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.
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John J. Prendergast, Ph.D ~ “Falling Open” ~ 4-Part Course
4-Part Online Course
Feb 24, Mar 2, 9, 16, 2024
10:00 am – 12:00 noon Pacific Time, each day
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Event will be recorded and emailed
to participants after each meeting.
You're welcome to join even if you can't attend all the live sessions.
In this four-part series we will explore the theme of falling open to not knowing, to the boundless heart, and to the groundless ground of Being. What happens when our mind sees it’s limits and lets go, when our heart remembers its native innocence and wholeness, and when our false ground falls away? Meetings will include guided and silent meditations, talks, experiential conversations, and dyadic and group meditative inquiries.
John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. is the author of The Deep Heart (2019 ) and In Touch (2015) and is working on a new book for Sounds True about the Ground. He is a retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies as well as a retired psychotherapist. He studied with the European sage Jean Klein for many years as well as with Adyashanti who gave dharma transmission to John in August, 2023. John and his wife Christiane offer residential retreats in the United States and Europe.
www.listeningfromsilence.com
YouTube channel
Sliding Scale: $80 to $140
Some Partial Scholarships Available
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March 2024
Jeannie Zandi ~ Abundance Despite Scarcity
Join Jeannie to marinate in the sense of abundance that comes from presence despite feelings of scarcity.
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
Please note Daylight Savings Time starts in the US
at 2 am (Pacific Time) on Sunday morning, March 10th.
This may mean the event starts at a different time than usual in your area,
e.g., start times for most Europeans from March 10 until March 31 will be one hour earlier than usual.
Pamela Wilson ~ The Power of Peace ~ Spring Equinox 4 Part Online Retreat
March 11th, 13th, 18th and 20th, 2024
10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
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Please note Daylight Savings Time starts in the US
at 2 am (Pacific Time) on Sunday morning, March 10th.
So the event may start at a different time than usual in your area.
For example, start times for most Europeans from March 10
until March 31 will be one hour earlier than usual.
Recording will be emailed to participants after each meeting.
You're welcome to join even if you can't attend all the live sessions.
Joining in Satsang with your Fellow Sages is a drumming concert on behalf of Peace. From Love’s own Heartbeat and the ancient Pulsing Wisdom in the Belly we drum for Peace and Sanity worldwide. This Vernal Equinox supports our balancing transmission, calling forth wakefulness within all Beings.
May the Love that animates all opposites melt and clarify separation, strife and suffering. Allowing Pure Being to lead the way rather than the mind. Join Pamela in adding your presence to distill and radiate this core medicine.
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.
A Call to Awaken with Unmani
Awakening is an endless strip-tease. We are continually invited to see where we are still believing in some kind of conclusion, or assumption about who we are and about Life itself. This endless stripping away of whatever we are holding onto, leaves us naked and vulnerable. This can be a scary and uncomfortable process, and leaves us with no firm ground under our feet. But at the same time it answers a call from who we really are, to wake up out of the dreams of the mind, and to come alive as Life itself.
Unmani is a contemporary teacher, facilitator, and mentor, for those who long for deep spiritual awakening, and to explore how this is grounded in our human lives.
About Unmani
Meeting with Unmani is meeting with yourself in the most real and alive way. Unmani is originally from the UK, but has lived in many countries around the world. Since she was a child, Unmani didn't identify with being a separate individual, but assumed there was something wrong with her, until she came across the expression of Satsang and nonduality. Truth has always been her passion. Unmani had teachers including Osho, Dolano, Nathan Gill, Tony Parsons, Gangaji and several other amazing people who are not considered 'teachers'.
In 2013 she met her husband, the wonderful musician, and courageous lover of life, Robert Hanuman. In 2015 their son, Sky, was born. On 3rd January 2018, Robert Hanuman died suddenly from a heart attack while they were in India. Robert Hanuman's presence deeply influenced Unmani's teaching, and in the time they were together it evolved into a more human expression of the courage to live the paradox of the Absolute, living as this human. Robert put Unmani's words to his beautiful classical guitar music and Unmani still plays his songs at her meetings.
Unmani has been holding meetings and retreats all over the world for since 2003, and in this time people have been deeply touched by her work: She meets each person exactly where they are at, and in whatever they need at the time, while at the same time holding them in the truth of who they really are beyond it all. This combination, and paradox, of the personal and impersonal, brings so much depth, openness and healing to people's lives. They wake up to who they really are, and discover how this is lived and integrated into their daily lives.
Unmani has written 3 books 'I am Life itself', 'Die to Love' and 'The Courage to Come Alive'. Unmani holds regular meetings and retreats several times a year as well as monthly webinars on different themes.
For more information about Unmani's work go to: www.die-to-love.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Unmani
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unmani
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unmani_hyde/
Robert Hanuman's music can be downloaded on iTunes here: https://music.apple.com/nl/artist/robert-hanuman/1329878840?l=en
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
Please note Daylight Savings Time starts in the US
at 2 am (Pacific Time) on Sunday morning, March 10th.
This may mean the event starts at a different time than usual in your area,
e.g., start times for most Europeans from March 10 until March 31 will be one hour earlier than usual.
Chesaray ~ Our Greatest Resource
There are many ways to discover our greatest resource and live embodied freedom. In this class we will create a grace filled path into the great Silence. By utilizing movement and sound, we can open the channels and activate the body's innate healing response. The cells can discover their connection with Grace and we can find our way home. Join me in remembering who we really are.
Chesaray is passionate about supporting those to awaken to the lived experience of Unconditional Love and Being. She is the Spiritual Director of Loving Ground, a 501 c3 non-profit. She offers online and in person retreats and courses based on a wide range of psychological, spiritual, holistic healing modalities that support human evolution.
Please find out more about Chesaray’s offerings at www.chesaray.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
Please note Daylight Savings Time starts in the US
at 2 am (Pacific Time) on Sunday morning, March 10th.
This may mean the event starts at a different time than usual in your area,
e.g., start times for most Europeans from March 10 until March 31 will be one hour earlier than usual.
Jeannie Zandi ~ Regeneration
Join Jeannie to explore the springtime theme of spiritual regeneration and rebirth.
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
Please note Daylight Savings Time starts in the US
at 2 am (Pacific Time) on Sunday morning, March 10th.
This may mean the event starts at a different time than usual in your area,
e.g., start times for most Europeans from March 10 until March 31 will be one hour earlier than usual.
April 2024
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.
Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Women’s Sensual Satsang (for Women Only)
If traditional non dual Satsang is about waking up out of our bodies to our true transcendent nature “to know we are not this thought, not this feeling, etc.”, then Sensual Satsang is about ‘incending’ back into the body, into the senses, – or more accurately – the body ‘incending’ back into our spacious, silent nature until body and silence melt together as one.
During this Women’s Sensual Satsang, we first anchor ourselves as silence and then through guided practice, we awaken our senses. Along the way, we may bump into parts of ourselves that are disconnected and numb. With tenderness and patience – going only as fast as the slowest part – we invite these parts and the rest of the body to melt into the vast silence, until there is no gap between the two, no divide.
Silence & Sensuality are very close to my heart. Hope to see you in Sensual Satsang!
About Marlies:
Marlies Myoku Cocheret brings a potent invitation into the deep silence that we are. She gathers women together to celebrate their sovereignty and the sensual, silent essence within their bodies. She’s been leading women on journeys of intimate connection with themselves and the feminine Divine for 25+ years and has been offering satsang and retreat since 2000 when Adyashanti asked her to teach. She lives in Tennessee and works internationally as a spiritual teacher, psychologist, Hakomi therapist, and tantric educator.
“Marlies is a master at offering practices that help us embody and connect to ourselves. I felt seen and met by her. Her work is deeply still and yet so enlivening. What a gift!” ~ B.E.
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
Stephan Bodian ~ Wake Up Now: A 2-Day Journey Through the Stages of Awakening
April 13 & 14, 2024
9:00 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.
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 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.
In this weekend mini-retreat, we’ll explore the journey of awakening through teachings, guided meditations, self-inquiry, dialogue, discussion, and ample time to rest in the silence and stillness of Being. In the process you’ll discover that awakening is not a noun, but a verb, not a state but an endless unfolding into the Mystery of what is.
Stephan Bodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition of Zen, Dzogchen, and Advaita Vedanta. He's been offering the School for Awakening, an annual multi-month intensive program in spiritual unfolding and awakened living, since 2007. As a licensed psychotherapist, he brings a deep understanding of the impact of trauma and early conditioning on the process of spiritual realization and offers individual counseling and mentoring in psychospiritual integration. Stephan studied for many years with Advaita master Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001. His books include Wake Up Now and Beyond Mindfulness. For more information, visit : www.stephanbodian.org
Sliding Scale: $60 to $90
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.