September 2023
Jeannie Zandi ~ Teacher, Teaching, Sangha
Join Jeannie to explore these three aspects of the spiritual path, the supportive value of each, and some pitfalls to navigate.
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.
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October 2023
Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Women’s Sensual Satsang (for Women Only)
If we view Satsang as being about waking up to our true nature and waking up out of our bodies i.e. 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 our 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 the 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.
I'm very excited to offer this. 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 brings women together to celebrate their sovereignty and sensual, silent essence in 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.
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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.
Julian Misliuc ~ Sorrow Is a Love Spring
Apart from our day to day sorrows lives a Sorrow of immense proportions. A Sorrow that acknowledges birth, life, death and the unborn as one living whole. A Sorrow which includes life and its forms in all their beautiful and terrible expressions. A Sorrow which embraces the entirety of our human experience. This Sorrow lives in the deepest caverns of our heart. It invites us to be daring and selfless enough to plunge into its profound heartbreak. To open to this Sorrow is to let it widen the love spring of our hearts. It readies our hearts for an unimaginable love for it is the birthing of embodied wisdom and compassion. We will have time for meditation, a talk on the topic and an opportunity for exchanges.
About Julian Misliuc:
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.
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Dave Oshana ~ Enlightenment Transmission, Enlightenment & Healing
A chance to explore and experience the Enlightenment Transmission, and interact with Dave Oshana.
Dave's expression of Enlightenment is unique, direct, relatable, experiential, profound and life-changing.
Every interaction with the group, and each individual, is customised to the unique coming together of hearts and souls in this present moment. The meeting starts simple and unassuming, and quickly goes deep. You will feel the difference and notice the impact. Communication is going on at various levels verbal, physical and energetic. The aim: immersion within your consciousness - and happiness, of course! You cannot explain how it works but are thankful. Fascinating, healthy, you might even get Enlightened.
Participants report profound, spontaneous breakthroughs, mystical phenomena and extra-sensory experiences. You have the opportunity to fulfill your spiritual potential, and fully embody your soul within your relationships. I give customized lifestyle guidance, but more important than anything I can say or show, is your connection with Existence.
Advice:
For full receptivity and comfort, it is recommended that you have space to lay down, away from WiFi and phones, hydrate well and abstain from addictive and mind-altering substances, both before and after our meeting. Feel free to contact Dave ahead of the meeting to receive more detailed guidance and receive your first Enlightenment Transmission: Contact Dave Oshana
BIO
After 25 years of intense spiritual seeking, I was surprised to find myself Enlightened at 5am on 19th June 2000. I share the profound transformation in the energetic fields we create together, and call this phenomenon: Enlightenment Transmission.
Enlightenment Transmission online resources
include YouTube, audio, writings and online events.
enlightenment-transmission.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.
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Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Exploring Meditation
Your body is a refined sense organ.
It is a portal into the beautiful Silent Presence that you are.
Let’s sit together … abide as You … for All
Meditation is the art of inner exploration. It’s an opportunity to slow down and receive all of life exactly as it is. Using your body as a portal into your Yourself, we will explore how to connect with and abide as your true essence underneath all the daily busy-ness.
You may have noticed that often the mind does not settle easily. In fact, in quietude, all the things you have been trying to avoid often come bubbling up to the surface. It’s not a problem. They simply want to be met with that gentle, fierce and spacious awareness which is what you truly are.
The more we learn to rest as our underlying silent nature, no matter what arises within us, the easier it becomes to keep our seat when the winds of life pull us back and forth.
Come set the tone for the day and be close with yourself in an embodied way.
Marlies Myoku Cocheret was invited to teach the Dharma by Adyashanti in 2000. She teaches meditation, retreats, and works as a Hakomi therapist and psychologist. She brings a potent invitation into the deep silence that you are, and guides you into embodied connection with your humanity and divine nature. With her grounded presence and therapeutic experience, people feel safe to explore meditation and awakening, knowing that whatever comes up is welcome and can be held.
Suggested donation: $10 to $30
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.
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CANCELLED – Stephan Bodian ~ Nondual Wisdom in Challenging Times
Due to events beyond our control,
this event had to be cancelled.
On the relative human level of time, space, and history, our species teeters on the edge of self-annihilation. We could easily destroy ourselves (and possibly our planet as well) in half a dozen ways within the lifetime of babies born now. At the same time, from the perspective of awakened awareness, everything is complete and perfect just as it is, no matter how it unfolds. These are the paradoxical truths we embody.
How do we face the facts—not only about our potential fate as a species but about the inevitability of our individual demise—and do what we can, while remaining grateful, open-hearted, compassionate, and joyful? How do we stay connected with our inherent wakefulness while living engaged and dynamic human lives? Please join me in satsang for an in-depth exploration of these themes and more. Our gathering will include guided meditation, direct pointers to our true nature, and plenty of time for dialogue and discussion.
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 a five-session mentoring intensive 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
Jeannie Zandi ~ The Unconscious
Join Jeannie to explore the role of the unconscious in the embodiment of awakening.
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
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ The Healing Power of Embodied Presence
We all have within us the ability to heal ourselves. The power to heal lies within the embodied presence of our own Being. That, and only that, can transform and free our fixed and distorted identity that causes our mental and physical health issues. The false identity cannot change itself. True healing comes from something beyond that, but not separate. It is in the meeting of our infinite being and our finite humanness that the alchemy of true healing takes place.
This healing can include changing our lifestyle, our relationships, our diet, taking medicines, therapy, etc. What is important is we are moved from the deepest wisdom of our Being, not from the separate identity trying to fix it. We rely on the presence of Being to inform our body mind and to meet our mental, emotional and physical pain without resistance. This is how we embody the Presence and heal our humanness.
This webinar will offer a guided meditation and an opportunity to have a direct experience with embodied Presence, as well as receive therapeutic support if needed with the issues you are struggling with.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a seasoned psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and author. Her work is a rare blend of deep spiritual wisdom and decades of skilled therapeutic work with a focus on healing psychological trauma/wounding and embodied awakening. She brings a comprehensive depth of experience hard-won through deeply healing her own trauma and awakening to her true nature. This allows her to be a trustworthy and competent guide for both healing and freedom on all levels. Lynn Marie has a natural empathy and compassion for the human struggles of others 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.
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.
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Shakti Caterina Maggi ~ Embodied non duality ~ In-Person in Berkeley, CA & LIVESTREAM
A direct and compassionate immersion into the field of non duality, an invitation to the conscious embodiment of our true nature. Our daily life itself can then be actively experienced as our most important spiritual practice.
The sharing will be followed by a session of Q&A to integrate the message.
Shakti Caterina Maggi is a spiritual guide who has, since 2003, been sharing a message of non-separation and awakening to our true Self. Her contemporary and heart-centered approach to Advaita and non-dual Tantra has supported thousands of seekers who meet her in retreats and seminars all over the world.
www.shakticaterinamaggi.com
Open Circle is hosting a series of events with Shakti in various locations:
See Shakti's California Tour Page for details.
Berkeley, CA satsangs: Oct. 26th & 31st and Nov. 2nd, 7th & 8th (7-9 pm)
Mount Shasta, CA satsangs: Oct. 27th (7-9 pm) & 28th (3-5 pm)
Sebastopol, CA satsang: Oct. 29th (2-4 pm)
Pre-Retreat satsang, San Rafael, CA: Nov. 3rd (7-9 pm)
(Included when you register for the Retreat and can be attended separately, open to all)
Weekend RETREAT in Berkeley, CA: Nov. 4th & 5th
Suggested donation for this evening In-Person: $10 to $30
No pre-registration. Pay at door when you arrive.
If you have symptoms of a viral infection, or have had a recent
Covid exposure or positive test, please stay home out of consideration for others.
For Nov. 2nd, 7th & 8th, Join us IN-PERSON in Berkeley or by LIVESTREAM...
Link to access recording will be emailed within a week after event,
to those registered for Livestream & Recording Access