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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.

www.adamchacksfield.com

Suggested donation: $15 to $25
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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.

www.jeanniezandi.com

Suggested donation: $15 to $25
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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.”

www.marliescocheret.com

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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.

www.lynnmarielumiere.com

Suggested donation: $15 to $35
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This daylong workshop will go deeply into Awakened Relating, which takes the exploration of spirituality and relationship to the next level and guides you into embodying your 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 workshop will apply to all relationships, not just intimate ones, including the relationship with yourself. We are always in relationship, which is where embodiment takes place. Therefore, relationship is our greatest opportunity for healing and awakening.

Awakened Relating 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. This workshop will offer meditation and dyad work for connecting in with shared being in yourself and with others. Lynn Marie will also offer psychological and somatic practices that assist in resolving your relationship issues and relational wounding.

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.

www.lynnmarielumiere.com

Sliding Scale: $40 to $80
Some Partial Scholarships Available
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Let us get to know each other, while co-creating Open Circle's future together!

This gathering will be a space where Members of our community (You!) can come together, connect with others, as well as influence Open Circle's evolution.

We've had opportunities to connect deeply in the shared space of Satsang. We may feel a deeper knowing and connection to each other here than we experience in other social circles. Here's an opportunity to connect with each other outside of the context of a formal session with a teacher.

We will also invite your feedback about Open Circle's offerings. Please bring your ideas and suggestions. Let us know how we may better serve you, each other. What teachers and topics would you like to see in our program? What has been working well, and what might be changed?
We'd love to hear your voice!

The meeting will be co-hosted by Open Circle's Phil & Sara. There will be a mix of sharing, and brainstorming, in small groups, as well as group conversations. There will be time to exchange contact information for those who wish for more connection with each other beyond our Satsangs and courses.

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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:
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.

www.ajayasommers.com

Sliding Scale: $40 to $80
Some Partial Scholarships Available
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