January 2024
Dorothy Hunt ~ Being, Doing, Having ~ Online Daylong Retreat
Online Daylong Retreat
January 14, 2024
9:00am - 11:00am & 12:00pm - 2:00pm (Pacific Time)
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Recording will be emailed to participants within a week.
You're welcome to join even if you can't attend the live sessions.
When we are operating from the deep dimension of Being, life is experienced as fresh, alive, spontaneous, open, wise, loving, and present to the immediacy of Now. Being is also continually becoming, showing itself as doing, as well as all that appears to come and go in nature and in our relative lives.
However, if we base our identity on what we do, and do not know who or what we truly are, we are in a constant state of trying, striving, and judging a self that needs to become some ideal or perfect version of itself. This leads to a vast
consumer mentality of “having" and acquiring more and more—whether we are attached to having money, power, approval, influence, a partner, or spiritual experiences. Once basic needs are met, does freedom or worth, really depend on having? Is something at peace regardless of circumstance?
In this daylong exploration, we will examine how we value ourselves and so-called others. What does it feel like to allow our doing to come from Being rather than continually equating doing with a self-image or an idea of self-worth? What is the experience of living from Being rather than having? And who is the
“I AM” that seems to be wrapped in so many beliefs?
Dorothy Hunt currently serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching at the request and in the spiritual lineage of Adyashanti. The flavor of her teaching blends Advaita and Zen with a deep welcoming of the human expressions of the Mystery. Dorothy is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy, and practiced psychotherapy from 1967 until her retirement in 2020. She is the author of Only This!, Leaves from Moon Mountain, and Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness. In addition, she is a contributing author to two books on Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, and the editor of Love: A Fruit Always in Season.
Presently, Dorothy offers satsang and retreats via Zoom, and dokusan by phone. For more information, please visit www.dorothyhunt.org
Sliding Scale: $40 to $70
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
Lisa Schumacher ~ Choose Love
A meeting with Lisa is an opportunity to step away from your day to day life and devote time for self-inquiry into the heart of Love. There will be a few moments of silence to start the meeting and then Lisa will speak and invite the community to share reports about their realizations and ask questions.
Lisa Schumacher: Lisa grew up in Colusa, CA, and attended college at San Luis Obispo in the 1980's. After she moved to Southern Oregon in the early 90s, a friend invited her to a video satsang with Gangaji. Upon hearing Gangaji say "Be your Natural Self", Lisa's heart caught on fire and she fell into a deep bow of surrender. That meeting revealed to her the absolute simplicity of the natural, living truth of Love, inseparable from who one is. Lisa moved to Bolinas in 1999 to be closer to Gangaji and the vibrant community around her. In 2006, Lisa was asked by Gangaji to meet with people and share Satsang. She has held meetings in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and North America. She's also a long-time student of Eli Jaxon-Bear, Gangaji's husband, and a founding teacher of the Eli's "Leela School of Awakening". Lisa is the author of "The Stone I Love", a book of poetry inspired by Gangaji, available on her website and for purchase at the gathering.
In Lisa's meetings, she invites you to sit close and inquire about your awakening, your spiritual questions, and the unfolding truth. The teaching is in the tradition of Gangaji, who is a student of Papaji, who had his awakening at the feet of Ramana Maharshi.
Lisa's website: satsangwithlisa.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
Ilona Ciunaite ~ From Seeking to Seeing
Seeking is a powerful energy that is looking for something. It seems that someone else has what I want, or that if I achieve this or that I will be happy. It shows up in many forms and it is directed outwards, to the world, to the future, away from what is.
In this event we will look at the seeking energy, we will recognise what is going on and how it plays out and as we turn attention inwards — something is found. A shift from seeking for to seeing what is already here happens. And what is already here can be met fully, openly, kindly and with respect.
Seeking to know your true nature and trying to understand resolves as beingness and openness is recognised.
And here we rest and allow what needs to be seen to reveal itself, and everything comes back to peace.
What you are looking for is already here.
About Ilona:
Ilona Ciunaite was born in Lithuania. Always interested in the mind and how it works, she has a degree in psychology and a mind-set to focus on freedom for herself and those who find her.
Ilona's search for truth started in 2002 when for the first time she experienced silence of the thinking mind, peace that felt like home. The search ended 8 years later with the question, “is there Ilona running the show?” The separate self was seen to be an illusion. Something deep was recognised and perception of life has changed dramatically.
In September 2011, the Liberation Unleashed website and forum was launched — a global community of volunteer guides. Her book “Liberation Unleashed” was published in 2016 and is filled with pointers, exercises and conversations that lead to finding one's true nature. Inspired by Pamela Wilson Ilona works with people in private and in groups, offering her guidance, so that recognition can happen and with that first step everything else unfolds and falls into place.
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
February 2024
Jeannie Zandi ~ Holding Your Own in Difficult Relationships
Join Jeannie for an exploration of engaging with personalities that are challenging for us while maintaining our ground and simplicity.
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
Dorothy Hunt ~ Seeing from Love – Hiding from Love ~ 3-part Online Valentine’s Retreat
3-part Online Valentine’s Retreat
Feb. 9, 10 & 11, 2024
9:00am – 12:00pm, 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 the live sessions.
Within each of us is the Source of an unconditional Loving. Are we open to receive such a gift? Is it possible to see ourselves or apparent “others” from this loving dimension of the Heart? Longing for love, we often hide from it, imagining we are not worthy, or demanding that love must come in a particular size and shape. Many have experienced something “called” love that has felt controlling or like a conditional business arrangement—"I’ll love you if you become who I want you to be."
While love may have many faces, in its deepest essence, it has no opposite and requires no protection, although it often evokes feelings of vulnerability in its human expressions.
This three-day online retreat with Dorothy Hunt will include guided meditations, silence, dharma talks, and dialogue, as we explore the experience of giving and receiving Love. We may even discover that our true Valentine lives within as both lover and beloved!
Dorothy Hunt currently serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching at the request and in the spiritual lineage of Adyashanti. The flavor of her teaching blends Advaita and Zen with a deep welcoming of the human expressions of the Mystery. Dorothy is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy, and practiced psychotherapy from 1967 until her retirement in 2020. She is the author of Only This!, Leaves from Moon Mountain, and Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness. In addition, she is a contributing author to two books on Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, and the editor of Love: A Fruit Always in Season.
Presently, Dorothy offers satsang and retreats via Zoom, and dokusan by phone. For more information, please visit www.dorothyhunt.org
Sliding Scale: $80 to $120
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
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.
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
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
Please Register Early if you can.
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)
Time Zone Converter
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.