August 2026
Lisa Schumacher ~ The Choice to Love: An Inquiry into Our Non-Dual Nature ~ 3 Part Online Series
What does it mean to surrender to love? Is it possible to do so and live in the world? These are some of the questions that arise in the desire to awaken. Love is the medicine and the essential teacher that reveals the living truth, freeing us from the burden of unnecessary suffering. To be devoted to Love is to give yourself to yourself and be truly happy, a beacon of light in the world..... LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »Ajaya Sommers ~ Awake Attachment™ – Intimacy with Life as a Path of Embodied Awakening ~ 4 Part Online Series
When the separate self dissolves - and awakens to ones natural being, in deep meditation, in nature, in love - what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything.
This is not an achievement. It is our original nature.
And yet most of us cannot sustain it. Because the nervous system learned, early, that connection was not always safe.
What we long for most - a holy, primal intimacy with life itself, with ourselves, with other humans, with the more-than-human world - is also what we fear most. And the very places we feel most broken, most defended, most disconnected, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They are the doorway into it..... LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »Ajaya Sommers ~ Awake Attachment™ – Intimacy with Life as a Path of Embodied Awakening ~ 4 Part Online Series
When the separate self dissolves - and awakens to ones natural being, in deep meditation, in nature, in love - what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything.
This is not an achievement. It is our original nature.
And yet most of us cannot sustain it. Because the nervous system learned, early, that connection was not always safe.
What we long for most - a holy, primal intimacy with life itself, with ourselves, with other humans, with the more-than-human world - is also what we fear most. And the very places we feel most broken, most defended, most disconnected, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They are the doorway into it..... LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »Sarah Taylor ~ The Call of Aliveness
Awakening can bring greater peace, clarity, and freedom. And on this path, many of us eventually encounter another invitation: the call to live more fully.
Beneath our habits, fears, and familiar identities, there is a deeper current moving through life. It is a natural impulse toward authenticity, vitality, creativity, and expression. It may appear as a longing, a curiosity, an unexpected desire…or a pulsating sense that something within us is ready to emerge!...... LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »Ajaya Sommers ~ Awake Attachment™ – Intimacy with Life as a Path of Embodied Awakening ~ 4 Part Online Series
When the separate self dissolves - and awakens to ones natural being, in deep meditation, in nature, in love - what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything.
This is not an achievement. It is our original nature.
And yet most of us cannot sustain it. Because the nervous system learned, early, that connection was not always safe.
What we long for most - a holy, primal intimacy with life itself, with ourselves, with other humans, with the more-than-human world - is also what we fear most. And the very places we feel most broken, most defended, most disconnected, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They are the doorway into it..... LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »September 2026
Ajaya Sommers ~ Awake Attachment™ – Intimacy with Life as a Path of Embodied Awakening ~ 4 Part Online Series
When the separate self dissolves - and awakens to ones natural being, in deep meditation, in nature, in love - what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything.
This is not an achievement. It is our original nature.
And yet most of us cannot sustain it. Because the nervous system learned, early, that connection was not always safe.
What we long for most - a holy, primal intimacy with life itself, with ourselves, with other humans, with the more-than-human world - is also what we fear most. And the very places we feel most broken, most defended, most disconnected, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They are the doorway into it..... LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. ~ “Being Absolutely No One and No Thing” (In-Person)
When we know that we are no thing, we are free to be as we are – both as spacious, loving awareness and as unique, individuated being. Through silent and guided meditations, a talk, meditative inquiry, and experiential conversations in community, we will explore seeing and feeling through who we have mis-taken our self to be and discovering what remains.
John Prendergast, Ph.D is a spiritual teacher, retired psychotherapist, and retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at CIIS, well known for his pioneering work in integrating non-dual wisdom and psychotherapy...... LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »November 2026
Miranda Macpherson ~ Turning Everything Into The Path Of Awakening (In-Person)
2026 Bay Area Events with Miranda Macpherson
Join us for some or all in this series of In-Person events....
February 7, May 9, June 13, November 21, 2026
This daylong with Miranda Macpherson is a day for deep spiritual nourishment and community support to connect more substantially to the luminous presence within, illuminate obstacles one your path, and explore what timeless Truths have to offer practically for living meaningfully and navigating life from our spiritual depth.
Together, we will embrace all that we grapple with personally and collectively as fuel that ultimately can serve to propel us further on the path of awakening. Miranda will share potent teachings and practices on how we can ground more substantially in the Grace of our True Nature, Trust the Mystery and come from Loving awareness in all that we face..... LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »December 2026
John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. ~ “Being Absolutely No One and No Thing” (In-Person)
When we know that we are no thing, we are free to be as we are – both as spacious, loving awareness and as unique, individuated being. Through silent and guided meditations, a talk, meditative inquiry, and experiential conversations in community, we will explore seeing and feeling through who we have mis-taken our self to be and discovering what remains.
John Prendergast, Ph.D is a spiritual teacher, retired psychotherapist, and retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at CIIS, well known for his pioneering work in integrating non-dual wisdom and psychotherapy...... LEARN MORE HERE
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