April 2020
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ Support for Deeper Healing and Awakening in Stressful Times ~ Ongoing Group (3 hours)
This is an ongoing group for people in a spiritual awakening and embodiment process who are “stress sensitive” need skilled support and information to help them: Develop stress-regulation and build resilience in the nervous system; Understand what it means to be “stress sensitive”; Learn coping skills for being present with stress and trauma triggers; Not get stuck in negative emotions such as fear; Question limiting beliefs and negative narratives; and Have a direct experience of nondual awareness and cultivate the ability to rely on that
The group will have open registration for each meeting, so you can choose which meetings you’d like to attend. For the highest benefit we suggest attending the group regularly. If you cannot join live, you are still welcome to register and benefit from the information and skills provided through the 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.
Find out more »Isaac Shapiro ~ Resting as Who We have Always Been: Being Available as Love
“As life lives us, a recognition of our true nature makes it possible for the automatic, unconscious patterns that produce a sense of disease and separateness, to come home. This allows living as love – the nectar of which benefits all beings.”
Recognizing our true nature is the apex of what is possible for the human expression. In that recognition, the possibility arises to develop skillful means to assist in the integration of collective trauma, conditioning and undigested life experience. We welcome you to explore this possibility together.
Through direct yet playful inquiry into what is, we will be unraveling the conditioning of the mind and the nervous system. The format of the meeting is interactive and spontaneous, deeply in tune with what wants to emerge in the moment.
Isaac Shapiro is an internationally known facilitator and non-dual teacher, fascinated with life lived in alignment with the world’s wisdom traditions. A former student of H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji), Isaac draws on a broad spectrum of understanding, from Advaita to neurophysiology to some of the latest discoveries in quantum physics, which he applies in a light-hearted but direct way.
Through years of working with people, Isaac has cultivated and refined an ability to track what is happening in the nervous system of participants. Bringing this awareness to people’s attention, allows our natural, innate self-regulating mechanism to be re-established.
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 48 hours.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Isaac Shapiro ~ Resting as Who We have Always Been: Being Available as Love
Recognizing our true nature is the apex of what is possible for the human expression. In that recognition, the possibility arises to develop skillful means to assist in the integration of collective trauma, conditioning and undigested life experience. We welcome you to explore this possibility together.
Through direct yet playful inquiry into what is, we will be unraveling the conditioning of the mind and the nervous system. The format of the meeting is interactive and spontaneous, deeply in tune with what wants to emerge in the moment.
Isaac Shapiro is an internationally known facilitator and non-dual teacher, fascinated with life lived in alignment with the world’s wisdom traditions.
Through years of working with people, Isaac has cultivated and refined an ability to track what is happening in the nervous system of participants. Bringing this awareness to people’s attention, allows our natural, innate self-regulating mechanism to be re-established.
Sonya Amrita Bibilos ~ Awaken at Work: Consciousness in Business
Pacific Time - San Francisco, CA, USA Time Zone Converter
In our culture, we are taught that business and spirituality do not mix. But in Oneness, work can’t be separate from Consciousness. Awakening at work is a critical element of embodiment and living Truth and Light every day.
Every day, your work needs your awakened awareness – wisdom, truth, compassion, and integrity. When you show up with these qualities, you create a domino effect of positive impact: 1. You feel more clear, aligned and at peace at work; 2. You inspire others by example and encourage them to be authentic, compassionate and wise; 3. You change how you do business, which can ultimately create ripple effects of change in your work culture, business, or industry.
During this event, Sonya will guide you to an experience of empowered embodiment with your work and help you see the ways in which you can bring your awakened wisdom and compassion to work each day. There will be time for questions and answers.
Sonya Amrita Bibilos is a healer, teacher, and coach who experienced a series of life-changing awakenings while working at a Silicon Valley software company, and later while serving as the Program Director for her spiritual teacher, Adyashanti. For almost 15 years, she has been supporting entrepreneurs, executives at all levels, business coaches, successful artists, spiritual teachers, and medical professionals to awaken at work and create Conscious Business.
www.awakenatwork.com
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY if you can.
Review in advance info for joining event.
Sonya Amrita Bibilos ~ Awaken at Work: Consciousness in Business
In our culture, we are taught that business and spirituality do not mix. But in Oneness, work can’t be separate from Consciousness. Awakening at work is a critical element of embodiment and living Truth and Light every day.
Every day, your work needs your awakened awareness – wisdom, truth, compassion, and integrity. When you show up with these qualities, you create a domino effect of positive impact which can ultimately create ripple effects of change in your work culture, business, or industry.
During this event, Sonya will guide you to an experience of empowered embodiment with your work and help you see the ways in which you can bring your awakened wisdom and compassion to work each day. There will be time for questions and answers.
Sonya Amrita Bibilos is a healer, teacher, and coach who experienced a series of life-changing awakenings while working at a Silicon Valley software company, and later while serving as the Program Director for her spiritual teacher, Adyashanti. For almost 15 years, she has been supporting entrepreneurs, executives at all levels, business coaches, successful artists, spiritual teachers, and medical professionals to awaken at work and create Conscious Business.
Find out more »Adam Chacksfield ~ Falling Open Together
10 am to 12 noon (Pacific Time - San Francisco, CA, USA) Time Zone Converter
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.
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY if you can.
Review in advance info for joining event.
Adam Chacksfield ~ Falling Open Together
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.
Find out more »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 $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 48 hours.
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Open Circle Sebastopol Sangha ~ The Absolute
This free meeting will include meditation, and conversation in small groups.
The theme is "The Absolute". In the journey of nondual awareness, the absolute is a place of peace, emptiness, and home. Adyashanti has described it as “a kind of emptiness in the center of our being”. For Hameed Ali it’s “the absence of any basis for self or personality...a spontaneity...to be an instrument of the absolute, allowing the absolute to behold and experience its own creation, its own display of its hidden treasures”. Sri Aurobindo said the absolute or "nirvana" is “a condition above and without thought, unstained by any mental or vital movement; there was no ego, no real world – only when one looked through the immobile senses, something perceived or born upon its sheer silence a world of empty forms, materialized shadows without true substance.”
If we’re quiet enough, we can access it, through a breath, or the mind. It’s a vacation from the ups & downs of consciousness, to a place of wholeness, ground and emptiness.
To join the meeting, click here.
If you are having trouble with the link, enter the following URL into your web browser:
https://zoom.us/j/97498774773
May 2020
John Prendergast ~ Facing Fear and Finding Our Deepest Ground
The current pandemic offers us an opportunity to face our deepest fears of annihilation and to feel and see our way through them. As we do, we may discover a dimension of the Ground that cannot be harmed. Please join us for this experiential exploration of the multidimensional nature of the ground via a guided meditation, talk, and brief, attuned, one-on-one exchanges.
John J. Prendergast is a spiritual teacher, psychotherapist and retired adjunct professor of psychology at CIIS, known for his pioneering work in integrating nondual wisdom and psychotherapy. A long-time student of both Jean Klein and Adyashanti, he was asked to share the dharma by Dorothy Hunt. He is the author of The Deep Heart: Our Portal to Presence, as well as In Touch: How to Tune in to the Inner Guidance of Your Body and Trust Yourself.
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 48 hours.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter