December 2025
Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)
Mondays: 8:00am – 8:30am Pacific Time
Wednesdays : 9:00am – 9:30am Pacific Time
Ongoing every week, with rare exceptions. Check Full Calendar to verify dates.
Join for a group meditation – just us, without a teacher. Do your own practice silently in the company of others. There will be no talk or guidance – only a bell to start and finish. Let’s be present, together.
After half an hour of silent sitting, there will be space for a brief hello in the end, if we like.
Please be seated by the time meditation starts, so that we can begin together. You are welcome to have your camera and microphone on (unless you have a lot of background noise), so that we can feel as if we were in one space.
The zoom link remains the same for all the sessions, so you are welcome to register only once and save the link for future reference.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
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 »Maja Apolonia Rodé, PhD ~ Divine Dialogue
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.
Maja Apolonia Rodé, PhD, is a creative mystic. Her rainbow variety of work weaves together three golden threads: awakening consciousness, inspired creativity, and loving connectedness. Her larger calling is to plant seeds of an interconnected culture that supports well-being for all.
Limited to 12 participants. Please register to save your seat.
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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Jeannie Zandi ~ Beloved Community: Living Presence through Togetherness
What is community, and why does it matter on the spiritual path? In this call, Jeannie will explore the many faces of community—spiritual, social, and inner—as both a ground for healing, a sangha for practice, and a living metaphor for oneness. We’ll reflect on how community can support our embodiment of presence, invite us into deeper unity, and serve as an experimental ground where love becomes lived reality.
Jeannie Zandi is a nondual spiritual teacher and guide for embodied awakening, inviting students to fully inhabit their human lives with presence, clarity, and love..... LEARN MORE HERE
Find out more »Jeannie Zandi ~ Beloved Community: Living Presence through Togetherness
What is community, and why does it matter on the spiritual path? In this meetingl, Jeannie will explore the many faces of community—spiritual, social, and inner—as both a ground for healing, a sangha for practice, and a living metaphor for oneness. We’ll reflect on how community can support our embodiment of presence, invite us into deeper unity, and serve as an experimental ground where love becomes lived reality.
Jeannie Zandi is a nondual spiritual teacher and guide for embodied awakening, inviting students to fully inhabit their human lives with presence, clarity, and love. Known for her fierce tenderness, irreverent wisdom, and unwavering presence, she creates powerful spaces for transformation, where truth is met in the raw, and awakening moves beyond concept into lived reality.
Find out more »Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)
Join us for a silent group meditation. Do your own practice quietly in the company of others. Let’s be present, together. .... more details
Mon.: 8:00am – 8:30am (PT) and Wed.: 9:00am – 9:30am (PT)
Ongoing drop-in group – attend as often as you like.
Weekly, with rare exceptions. Verify dates on Full Calendar.
Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)
Mondays: 8:00am – 8:30am Pacific Time
Wednesdays : 9:00am – 9:30am Pacific Time
Ongoing every week, with rare exceptions. Check Full Calendar to verify dates.
Join for a group meditation – just us, without a teacher. Do your own practice silently in the company of others. There will be no talk or guidance – only a bell to start and finish. Let’s be present, together.
After half an hour of silent sitting, there will be space for a brief hello in the end, if we like.
Please be seated by the time meditation starts, so that we can begin together. You are welcome to have your camera and microphone on (unless you have a lot of background noise), so that we can feel as if we were in one space.
The zoom link remains the same for all the sessions, so you are welcome to register only once and save the link for future reference.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Ryan Burton ~ “I Want to Get Back There” – The Most Common Post-Awakening Trap
A practitioner will have many openings and experiences over the course of their spiritual or contemplative endeavor. There is a common and important stage in awakening I call the 'foreground-background split' which occurs after someone has had an opening whether induced or spontaneous.
It can leave us with intense wanting and the question of “how can I get back there?” The challenge of the meditator in this stage is to not mistake the bliss, clarity and unity which characterized the opening as being the awakening itself. Abandoning what was previously attained is an act of surrender that helps us see the true nature of the present.....
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Ryan Burton ~ “I Want to Get Back There” – The Most Common Post-Awakening Trap
A practitioner will have many openings and experiences over the course of their spiritual or contemplative endeavor. They can leave us with intense wanting, and the question of “how can I get back there?” The challenge is to not mistake the bliss, clarity and unity which characterized the opening as being the awakening itself. Abandoning what was previously attained is an act of surrender that helps us see the true nature of the present.
Ryan Burton is a meditation teacher with over 15 years of intensive practice in Theravāda Buddhism, Dzogchen, Zen and other contemplative lineages. After completing a 9-month retreat period in Thailand in 2019 he began teaching in Los Angeles, California. His work offers clear, practical guidance on awakening, non-duality, jhānas, cessation, dream yoga, and out of body experience.
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