December 2020
Marlies 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
Jeannie Zandi ~ Sweet Darkness
Long nights call us to descend to our depths, to know every nook and cranny of what is just out of our sight, to leave behind the definition of the lit and rational and to find our way through the unknown by feel. Join Jeannie and friends to explore the metaphor of the dark and the riches it has to offer us as we turn toward it.
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.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Loving Darkness: The Thinning Of The Veils – Daylong Retreat
The time between Christmas eve and the beginning of January is sacred and secret. We are strongly invited to go into the hidden mystery. When we dare to go there, first we tend to encounter the conditioned self. When we keep going, sooner or later we face the darkness. Here is the opportunity of a lifetime to receive that which the mystery wants to reveal.
During this one day retreat we will explore what it is like to let ourselves be taken beyond the veils. Are you willing?
There will be an opportunity to share, so please bring your experience, presence and questions to share with the group.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants after the meeting.
Marlies Myoku Cocheret 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.”
Sliding Scale: $45 to $90
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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Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ The Gift of You: 3-Day Holiday Retreat
3-Day Holiday Retreat
Dec. 28, 29 & 30, 2020 - 4 hours each day:
9:00-11:00 am and 12:00-2:00 pm Pacific Time
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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.
During these gift-giving holidays, reflecting on the gift that each of us is to ourselves, others,
and to the world is important. Allowing and honoring this very human expression of our divine
essence is an important aspect of realizing our true nature.
Join us for a psycho-spiritual retreat balancing both a spiritual focus on our pure essence and a
psycho-somatic exploration, and releasing, of what has been obstructing its fullest expression
through our unique human form. We will be focusing on:
- Deepening our recognition of our true nature through guided meditations and satsang
- Recognizing, contemplating, and celebrating the unique gift that you are to our world
- Somatic practices to help you regulate the nervous system and build resilience
- Psychotherapeutic processes for resolving our blocks to our full expression
- Sharing and dialogue in the group and in dyads.
- Practices that will be offered to do between meetings on retreat days.
We will also reflect on this past year, 2020, that was full of unprecedented changes, and
clarify our intentions for the New Year, 2021.
The invitation is to set aside these three days to be on retreat and not schedule other activities, if possible. Please attend the live session if you can so you can receive individual assistance if needed and ask questions. Also, experiencing the support of the group is an important part of what is offered. However, if that is not possible, you are welcome to register and do the retreat by recording at your convenience.
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.
Sliding Scale: $90 to $150
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
January 2021
Ellen Emmet ~ The Awakening Body
This is an opportunity to meet with a group of like-minded friends. We gather around the non-dual teaching with a particular focus on the realm of the body, its tactility and feelings, from the perspective of our shared listening Presence.
This approach to the body is a form of ‘somatic inquiry’ that invites us to open to the totality of our felt, tactile and sensorial experience moment by moment, free of any agenda, allowing us to uncover the open Presence which is our essential identity.
Ellen will guide a gentle experiential meditation, followed by a conversation where participants may ask questions or share their experiences.
Ellen’s deepest intuition was confirmed when she met her teacher, Francis Lucille. In his presence, she recognized the eternal, limitless and universal nature of our shared reality. Over many years, her understanding deepened to touch all levels of experience. The process of aligning and stabilizing all aspects of her life to this understanding has continued to unfold since then.
Today, Ellen offers meetings and retreats in The Awakening Body, sharing a direct exploration of reality sourced in the tradition of Kashmir Shivaism and self-inquiry as transmitted through Francis Lucille and his teacher, Jean Klein. In addition, she has a private practice as a psychotherapist and facilitator of Authentic Movement. Her background of Dance Movement Therapy and Transpersonal Psychology is shaped by the non-dual understanding. Ellen lives in Oxford, England with her husband, Rupert Spira.
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
Pamela Wilson ~ Serene Strength, Living from Substratum, Being Benevolence ~ 4 Part Online Retreat
Tuesdays & Fridays:
January 5, 8, 12 & 15
10:00 – 12:00 pm, Pacific Time
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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.
Join Pamela and friends to explore the Wisdom within. The mountain nature of stillness and the soaring rooted strength of love and clarity. Each one of us has unexplored depths in our naturalness, hidden behind and within the ordinary.
Inner curiosity and respect unveil all the gifts nature is made of and has given itSelf.
Uncontaining the great promise.
Pamela 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: $60 to $120
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
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
- A different theme or topic each group that is relevant to embodiment and awakening
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
Jeannie Zandi ~ Living in the Moment
Mind racing forward to thoughts of the future? Mind racing backward in regret or shame? Are you experiencing the living miracle of life right now? Join Jeannie and friends to explore what it means to live in the moment.
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.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Living as a Sovereign Being ~ 4 Part Online Retreat
Tuesdays & Fridays:
January 19, 22, 26 & 29
10:00 – 12:00 pm, Pacific Time
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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.
The word sovereign was originally understood to mean supreme ruler. Sovereign indicates that you reign and are responsible. You take your seat on your throne and are the empress or emperor of your world. Whether the realm is peaceful and prosperous or in chaos, you are still the one in charge. You cannot abdicate. If you try, things get worse.
In spirituality I have found that naturally we are thrown into owning our body-being. First we might make ourselves dependent or less-than a teacher or power. Sooner or later there must come a point where we realize, “This is my life that needs to be lived as ME and no-body else.” Ultimately each of us has to completely own our true nature, otherwise we will always feel dependent on something outside ourselves.
You are a sovereign being. You have always been a sovereign being. For some reason along the way we have forgotten or we lost track of it. We got diverted.
During this four-satsang-retreat over a period of two weeks the aim is to empower you to take ownership of your life.
It is important to be rooted in and as silence in our bodies and to allow pure action to come forth. When we rest as silence or source, sovereignty naturally becomes action. That will bring forth trust, coherence and connection.
These times strongly invite us to own our sovereignty and not engage in polarization, division or separation. We are trained from birth to exhaust our energy on the outer happenings. The whole thing is out of balance.
When we stand in our sovereignty we step out of the matrix of good and bad, up or down. We step into the unified field. Now we know how to move in this world.
During this retreat we will bathe ourselves in the deep silence and listen. We will practice trusting our nature and letting our felt sense of body-being take action. We are the action and we are the pure love that needs to live this life. Nobody will do it for us.
Marlies Myoku Cocheret 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.”
Sliding Scale: $60 to $120
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
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