January 2021
Ajaya Sommers ~ Being Here: The Alchemy of Intimacy ~ Daylong Retreat
During a series of day long retreats, we will be discovering the possibility of allowing ourselves to explore the contours of our most direct and intimate experience of Being Here.
Being Here— also known as: truly alive, honest, vulnerable and awake with feeling from our most divinely human center of Love.
Each event of this series is independent - you are welcome to join any time and attend any number of the monthly daylong retreats. Remaining dates:
February 21, March 27, April 18, 2021
Through perceptual practices that include the breath of our hearts, bodies and souls; we can open wider, root deeper and grow taller into our authentic embodied presence and clarity of expression. In this way, we receive and integrate the true blessings that are bestowed through the inevitable and most intimate initiations of Life.
Often the deepest blessings of Life are shrouded in the intimate initiations or mystery schools we call love, loss, illness, trauma, death and all manner of things that involve not being in control. When we peer through the lens of our original developmental blueprints of our human embryo and natural law itself, we can re-frame these inevitable initiations of Life as essential substantive blessings of nature. Allowing us to be here and to be who we are— not as a flaw or failure to the design or the path, but as primary ingredients to the alchemy involved in deepening our most human and divine evolution and embodiment.
What shall comprise each session?
Bringing our Loving attention to what is Here:
Through precise breath practices that include provocative sounds, touch, embryological movement motifs and relaxed concentration we will grow the potency of our life force to vivify our subtle core and empower higher brain states, heart coherence, and the magic of relational intimacy that comes from this ground of safety, permission and play.
The ancient mystery school yoga’s of Egypt, Greece, India, and Tibet knew that working with the core energy centers was a powerful way to advance and evolve consciousness. Now we have the modern day neuro-science to measure the impact of these subtle yoga’s on healing and restoring one's vitality, regulating one's emotions and creating an inspired environment to reignite ones path of service and precious connection to all of life.
Ajaya Sommers, RCST is a gifted teacher, author, public speaker and creative catalyst in the field of psycho-spiritual somatic integration. For the last 26 years, she has been instrumental in facilitating conscious evolution in thousands of people’s lives. All of her programs are grounded in science, expanded through devotional practice and made real through direct experience. Ajaya is the founder of a unique somatic discovery process called, Core Embodiment® — an integrated system of embodiment practices, principles and perceptual orientations to awaken and align with the power of your human potential. She is a certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Integration Teacher, a NARM practitioner (Neuro-affective-relational model) as well as an Authorized Continuum Teacher.
Sliding Scale: $40 to $80
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please register early if you can.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.
You're welcome to join, even if you can't attend the live session.
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Bruce Pardoe ~ Heart Fluency® Non-Dual Awakening & Emotional Healing Workshop
Pure awareness is the basic, ordinary nature of our entire lives. It is accessible and obvious here and now. When we can plainly feel and recognize it in any moment, we naturally come to consciously and continuously inhabit it with ease. Heart Fluency® founder Bruce Pardoe will lead this 2 hour experiential journey with group exercises and guided meditations to directly feel your awakened nature. With Heart Fluency’s three-step practice you will also learn to utilize an embodied inner balance that harnesses the ever-present, unlimited capacities of awareness to allow emotional wounds, traumas and afflictive patterns to transform into your deepest gifts. This workshop stands on its own but is also a wonderful precursor to the Non-Dual Contemplative Daylong Retreat on February 7th.
For more than 40 years Bruce Pardoe has been navigating and facilitating the path of inner healing and non-dual wisdom. Bruce’s journey healing his own complex trauma led him to develop the radically gentle Heart Fluency® method for engaging emotional wounds and afflictive patterns as portals to directly embodying non-dual well-being and happiness. Heart Fluency combines neuroscience and the unconditional nourishment of pure awareness in a highly accessible, heart-centered approach.
After spending over two years on silent retreat, Bruce became a meditation teacher in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhism. He has completed Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s two-year Dharma Leader training, and has studied extensively in Asia in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and Advaita. Bruce has also trained in Polyvagal Theory, Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement and Hakomi’s body-centered psychotherapy. Since 2007 Bruce has shared Heart Fluency trainings and workshops with conscious individuals, therapists and healers on four continents.
"Bruce Pardoe has developed a very effective therapeutic and awakening process called Heart Fluency based in Buddhist and non-dual wisdom as well as body-mind healing modalities. I have experienced his work, and I highly recommend him!"
~ Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
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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February 2021
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ Therapy For Awakening
Ongoing therapeutic support group for embodiment and awakening
This on-going group integrates psychology, somatic practices and nondual wisdom for regulating your nervous system as well as releasing old traumas and beliefs. Therapy for awakening is based in the Field of Awareness where all true healing and transformation takes place.
This group offers:
- Deepening in the direct recognition of our true nature
- Somatic practices to help regulate the nervous system and build resilience
- Psychotherapeutic processes for resolving trauma memories and negative beliefs
- Sharing and dialogue in the group and in dyads, as well as individual processing
It is best to attend the group in person, if possible. However, you can also register and listen to the recording. Lynn Marie will focus the group in a way that will also benefit those attending by recording.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a nondual psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience as a therapist as well as with nondual teachings. She is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships and The Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment.
Suggested donation: $15 to $35
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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Bruce Pardoe ~ Heart Fluency® – Establish A Non-Dual Contemplative Practice: Daylong Retreat
Embody and live your freedom. Learn to use Heart Fluency’s highly accessible non-dual method as the basis of a meditation practice to experience and consolidate your ordinary awakened nature as your default orientation to life. This seven-hour retreat includes sitting and walking meditation, as well as straightforward teachings that will enable you to feel through your direct embodied and mental experience to the liberated, healing nature of pure awareness. Discover how a contemplative practice can cultivate a lasting, free relationship to reality that opens you to “flow”, and what is called “suchness” in Zen practice. As we deepen through the day we feel how awareness can heal our deepest wounds. This is a transformative, yet simple and affirming day of wondrous presence.
There will be 1 hour lunch break around noon.
For more than 40 years Bruce Pardoe has been navigating and facilitating the path of inner healing and non-dual wisdom. Bruce’s journey healing his own complex trauma led him to develop the radically gentle Heart Fluency® method for engaging emotional wounds and afflictive patterns as portals to directly embodying non-dual well-being and happiness. Heart Fluency combines neuroscience and the unconditional nourishment of pure awareness in a highly accessible, heart-centered approach.
After spending over two years on silent retreat, Bruce became a meditation teacher in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhism. He has completed Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s two-year Dharma Leader training, and has studied extensively in Asia in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and Advaita. Bruce has also trained in Polyvagal Theory, Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement and Hakomi’s body-centered psychotherapy. Since 2007 Bruce has shared Heart Fluency trainings and workshops with conscious individuals, therapists and healers on four continents.
"Bruce Pardoe has developed a very effective therapeutic and awakening process called Heart Fluency based in Buddhist and non-dual wisdom as well as body-mind healing modalities. I have experienced his work, and I highly recommend him!"
~ Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT
Sliding Scale: $50 to $90
Some Partial Scholarships Available
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 ~ Awakened Relating
This webinar will introduce you to Awakened Relating as presented in Lynn Marie’s book Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships. It will apply to all relationships, not just intimate ones. We are always in relationship, which is where embodiment takes place. Therefore, relationship is our greatest opportunity for healing and awakening.
Awakened Relating offers the deepest, most lasting solution to relationship struggles. It addresses both awakening to the presence of pure love, and the healing of our relational wounding, which is the source of most relationship struggles. The deepest healing is found in any relationship that consciously includes our source nature, as well as psychological and somatic healing, which will be discussed in this webinar. Awakened Relating takes the exploration of spirituality and relationship to the next level and guides us into embodying our loving nature in real-life relationship challenges such as conflict, communication issues, negative self-beliefs and projections, intimacy issues, and being with relational wounding and trauma.
This introductory webinar is in preparation for the daylong workshop on Awakened Relating that Lynn Marie will be presenting on February 26th, 9:00 – 3:00.
Endorsements for Awakened Relating:
“Breaking new ground, Lynn Marie offers wise and elegant guidance in embodying our radiant, boundless, undivided true nature in the realm of relationships, where relational wounding and unresolved childhood issues may make it challenging to live from the limitless love we know ourselves to be.”
Stephan Bodian
“Awakened Relating dispels the myth of romantic love and points directly to an awakened way of relating that arises from the recognition of our true nature as Love.”
John Prendergast
“Lynn Marie brings together a clear understanding of initial awakening, psychotherapy, and relationship.”
Loch Kelly.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a nondual psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience as a therapist as well as with nondual teachings. She is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships and The Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment.
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
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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Adam Chacksfield ~ Falling Open Together
Join Adam for Falling Open Together and invite more intimacy with the deeper movement of life through us and between us.
“We are invited to receive the ultimate gift, for which there is no substitute , worth infinitely more than all our dreams and fantasies. We accept this gift by simply falling open. When the heart and mind fall open, we find ourselves intimately present and completely available to what is here. Our struggle with reality dissolves into harmony.”
Described by Pamela Wilson as “a great messenger of truth with a unique transmission that does wonderful things for my spirit,” Adam invites us to share the direct experience of the heart and mind falling open. In this effortless opening, the suffering involved in resisting feelings and believing our thoughts spontaneously releases. This allows our natural abundance of joy, peace, wisdom and love to become apparent and available. Heart-centered and direct, Adam offers a path straight into the truth of who you are. Adam Chacksfield offers retreats worldwide exploring the depths that reveal that reveal themselves as we become more intimate with our embodied experience and the vibrantly alive field of relating. He also offers private sessions online and in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
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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Jeannie Zandi ~ Moth to the Flame – Love, Longing & Devotion
Join Jeannie and friends for this special Valentine’s Day theme to plumb the depths of the heart through an exploration of love, longing and devotion.
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. Come join us!
Jeannie 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. Residing in Colorado, she travels widely in the US, bringing a down-to-earth embodied teaching of living as love.
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
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 ~ The Secret Sanctuary
During this regular monthly satsang, Marlies gently guides us to rest in the silence of our being, our secret, sacred sanctuary. The more we rest as the silence that we are, the more this silence permeates our lives and the rest of the world.
As we fall into the arms of our true nature, sometimes that which is not silent may start to arise, such as trauma, pain, confusion, pleasure, etc. These are received and acknowledged in this space. With the assistance of Marlies’ presence as an anchor, your Being stands out as the only thing there really is … which is You!
We invite you to join us to deepen into the truth of your being.
There will be an opportunity to share, so please bring your experience, presence and questions to share with the group.
Marlies Myoku Cocheret de la Morinière has devoted her life to the Beloved. She brings a potent invitation into the deep Silence that we are. The kindness of her gentle and direct teaching guides us home like a lighthouse. Marlies has been offering satsang and retreat since 2000 when Adyashanti asked her to teach. She lives in Santa Cruz, California and works internationally as a psychologist, Hakomi therapist and Tantric Educator.
Marlies is interviewed in the book Awakened Relating. A Guide To Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships by Lynn Marie Lumiere, and in the book Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom by R.M. Robinson.
“With Adya, the bottom fell out. I deeply knew I am not this body, mind, thought, psyche, and I am also all these things as well. There was no in and/or out. All is One.”
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
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 ~ Therapy For Awakening
Ongoing therapeutic support group for embodiment and awakening
This on-going group integrates psychology, somatic practices and nondual wisdom for regulating your nervous system as well as releasing old traumas and beliefs. Therapy for awakening is based in the Field of Awareness where all true healing and transformation takes place.
This group offers:
- Deepening in the direct recognition of our true nature
- Somatic practices to help regulate the nervous system and build resilience
- Psychotherapeutic processes for resolving trauma memories and negative beliefs
- Sharing and dialogue in the group and in dyads, as well as individual processing
It is best to attend the group in person, if possible. However, you can also register and listen to the recording. Lynn Marie will focus the group in a way that will also benefit those attending by recording.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a nondual psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience as a therapist as well as with nondual teachings. She is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships and The Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment.
Suggested donation: $15 to $35
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
Poetry & Light: A Community Evening ~ FREE ~ with Sebastopol Open Circle
Please join Sebastopol Open Circle by Zoom on Wednesday February 24, 6:00 - 7:30 pm... for Poetry + Light ...a time to read, recite, rap, sing, listen ... & feel the light!
* Read a poem of your own or another
* Take time out to rest in the depth and beauty of poetry
* Hear in poetry, what is often the unspoken
* Connect with the light within
Bring a poem, a song, or rap ... 3 minutes or less... for each of us and our community.
Also, light a candle that's visible in your Zoom video!
Please address inquiries to Tomas at 707 235 2200, or by email at tommy@sonic.net
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