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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
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.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
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