October 2025
Jim Newman ~ SIMPLY THIS
Co-sponsored by Open Circle and The Open Way
You can join one date or the full Series:
Fri, Oct. 10 ~ 7:30-9pm ~ Sat, Oct. 11 ~ 2-6pm ~ Sun, Oct. 12 ~ 2-6pm
Simply This meetings share the simple message that what is truly longed for is already "what is"........
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November 2025
Susanne Marie ~ Awakening to Connection: Why Belonging Matters (In-Person Event)
Please check your time! Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 am Nov. 2nd.
Set your clocks back 1 hour!
Join Susanne and community: At the heart of being human lies a deep longing to belong, to one another, to Spirit, to the Earth, and to ourselves. True wholeness arises when we honor both our inner autonomy and our connection to the greater web of life. Without a felt sense of belonging, we can become isolated, untethered, and alone........
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Miranda Macpherson ~ Waking Up and Showing Up ~ Daylong Retreat, Bay Area & Livestream
In these immense times, we need the refuge that spiritual practice provides to nurture our access to the luminous love and clarity of our shared Being. Equally, we need the refuge of community to help us acknowledge all that we may be feeling – fear, anger, despair, hopelseness, and open to the presence that can transform them into responsiveness from our depth.
What does it take to abide in natural great peace, and come from love amidst such anxiety provoking times? What can help us find the restorative Grace we need to thrive, even in the face of heart-breaking news?..... LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »POTLUCK DHARMA ~ with Joryu Myosei and John & Christiane Prendergast
Annual Community Celebration & Fundraiser for Mountain Home Sanctuary
With Joryu Myosei and John & Christiane Prendergast
In partnership with Open Circle, honoring Rob Schwartz and his vision for maintaining Mountain Home Sanctuary, his home and land, as a retreat space for spiritual gatherings.
Joryu Myosei created and leads Potluck Dharma as a monthly community practice gathering and holds an annual fundraising event in November for Mountain Home Sanctuary with the help of so many in our community. John & Christiane Prendergast, have generously joined this year to offer their deep and embodied wisdom. Mirabai will be offering devotional music to open our hearts with her soulful voice and instruments.
Registration closes Nov. 19th. Space is limited so register early to save your seat at our table........
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December 2025
Adam Bauer & Friends Kirtan ~ Sacred Chant
In strange and turbulent times, we remember to breathe and seek connection and healing in the sacred vessel of community. Join Adam and friends in this heartfelt celebration of the natural devotional practice of gathering and singing mantra together.
A kirtan with sacred chant artist Adam Bauer is a deep immersion in bhakti—the yoga of devotion, a blissful union of hearts and voices carried on a current of music and love. With his warm baritone voice and sonorous harmonium accompaniment, Adam leads his chanting sessions with a gentle, grounded energy, guiding participants to profound levels of conscious awareness.
Adam Bauer travels the globe sharing the heart-expanding beauty of kirtan, healing touch, the I Ching, and transformational conversation. Adam spent years playing bass with kirtan pioneer Krishna Das, and later with Bhakti Yoga legend Shyamdas, both of whom nourished his love of sacred sound and the yoga of devotion. He has released three critically-acclaimed records.
Open to all, no experience necessary. Pre-Registration requited. LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »Maja Apolonia Rodé, PhD ~ Divine Dialogue
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About Divine Dialogues
Divine Dialogues are gently guided mystical conversations with magic at the core. The process is designed to bring us to a state of coherence and build our capacity to discover and express interconnected wisdom.
At the heart of each Dialogue is a single oracular prompt—revealed in the moment through Maja's Divine Dice. A profound idea then becomes the gravitational center of our inquiry and cultivates a unified field of exploration.
Limited to 12 participants. Register to save your seat..... LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. ~ “Emptiness and Fullness” ~ Bay Area Daylong Retreat
The emptier we are, the more we are filled with light. In this meeting we will investigate our willingness as well as our resistance to being no one and no-thing. When we see and feel through the emptiness of the separate self-construct, we discover the fullness of Being. Nothing essential is lost in this profound process of letting go and discovery, of death and rebirth......
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Lynn Marie Lumiere ~ EMBODIED PRESENCE: Nondual Healing of our Human Wounding (In-Person Event)
Embodied Presence is pure and free of the hurt and pain that we carry in our human body-mind. At the same time, it is not separate from our human experience and is fully allowing it all. It is through aligning with this unconditional allowing that we are healed and embodied. Awakened presence makes it possible for us to meet our long-held emotional pain without resistance and thereby free it, which leads to physical, emotional and psychological healing as well as a more deeply embodied presence. This is how healing and awakening come together as a nondual process. When we make them separate, or spiritually bypass our wounding, we cannot fully heal........ LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »Pamela Wilson ~ Solstice Satsang ~ In-Person
Solstice Satsang, a gathering to warm the Heart. Join Pamela and your fellow sages to celebrate clarity and compassion.
Pamela Wilson 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
We'll have a short holiday get together after the satsang, to 6pm. Feel free to bring something to share if you wish.
Suggested donation: $15 to $30
No one turned away for lack of funds.
PARKING: There is some street parking in the neighborhood, free and without time limit.
For inquiries contact LocalEvents@opencirclecenter.org
If you have symptoms of a respiratory infection, or have had a recent
Covid exposure or positive test, please stay home out of consideration for others.
January 2026
New Year’s Gathering 2026 ~ Celebrating Our Divine Presence With Mystical Poetry, Song and Silence ~ Bay Area
We invite you to join us for our sacred gathering of song, poetry, silence and dialogue as with tender hearts we welcome this time of new beginnings and honor the divine intelligence animating our being.
Christine Tulis, harpist, singer and healing artist and Judith Shiner, PhD., poet and spiritual mentor, invite you to a time of sacred retreat. We come together to honor and celebrate the divine presence always here within us as we enter this unprecedented New Year.
Through the rich gifts of mystical poetry delicately layered with sublime harp music, we move from our mind into our heart and rest in the deep knowing of our soul’s wisdom..... LEARN MORE HERE
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