December 2023
CANCELED – Jeannie Zandi ~ Everyday Mystic ~ In-Person Local Event
Due to illness, Jeannie will be coming out to California later than planned and will not be able to have events until Thursday, December 7th.
Please join her for the public gathering on Thursday, December 7 in Berkeley and the Friday & Saturday (December 8 & 9) intensive in Sausalito if you are able!
CANCELED – Jeannie Zandi ~ Everyday Mystic ~ In-Person Local Event
Due to illness, Jeannie will be coming out to California later than planned and will not be able to have events until Thursday, December 7th.
Please join her for the public gathering on Thursday, December 7 in Berkeley and the Friday & Saturday (December 8 & 9) intensive in Sausalito if you are able!
Jeannie Zandi ~ Everyday Mystic ~ In-Person Local Event
Spiritual openings allow us to discover the peace and freedom of our true nature, but it is how we take that discovery into the everyday that illuminates and transforms our lives.
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.
Jeannie Zandi 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.
The satsang includes a meditation, comments by the speaker, then Q&A and discussion.
Suggested Donation: $15- $25, no one turned away.
No pre-registration. Pay at door when you arrive.
If you have symptoms of a viral infection, or have had a recent
Covid exposure or positive test, please stay home out of consideration for others.
Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Exploring Meditation
Whether you are starting to meditate or already have a meditation practice, this bi-monthly meditation with Marlies will help you drop deeper into connection with yourself, setting the tone for the day in an embodied way.
Your body is a refined sense organ.
It is a portal into the beautiful Silent Presence that you are.
Let’s sit together … abide as You … for All
Meditation is the art of inner exploration. It’s an opportunity to slow down and receive all of life exactly as it is. Using your body as a portal into your Yourself, we will explore how to connect with and abide as your true essence underneath all the daily busy-ness.
You may have noticed that often the mind does not settle easily. In fact, in quietude, all the things you have been trying to avoid often come bubbling up to the surface. It’s not a problem. They simply want to be met with that gentle, fierce and spacious awareness which is what you truly are.
The more we learn to rest as our underlying silent nature, no matter what arises within us, the easier it becomes to keep our seat when the winds of life pull us back and forth.
Come set the tone for the day and be close with yourself in an embodied way.
Marlies Myoku Cocheret was invited to teach the Dharma by Adyashanti in 2000. She teaches meditation, retreats, and works as a Hakomi therapist and psychologist. She brings a potent invitation into the deep silence that you are, and guides you into embodied connection with your humanity and divine nature. With her grounded presence and therapeutic experience, people feel safe to explore meditation and awakening, knowing that whatever comes up is welcome and can be held.
Suggested donation: $10 to $30
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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Awakening Mercy Retreat with Jeannie Zandi (In-Person Local Event)
Co-sponsored by Open Circle
Join Jeannie and friends to explore practical tools for embodying love and clarity in a presence-filled, humor-pervaded holy hall of now.
Along with opening to who we most truly are, the spiritual path includes reckoning with this pesky humanness, which can pull us out of living from presence right into conflict and suffering. Developing mercy for our human foibles as we open to all that we are allows us to walk our open hearts into the world with dignity and consistency. Join Jeannie and friends to explore practical tools for embodying love and clarity in a presence-filled, humor-pervaded holy hall of now.
Dates
Our retreat begins on Friday, December 8th at 2 pm (PDT) and ends on Saturday, December 9th at 9 pm (PDT).
Location: Sausalito, CA
Click here for details & REGISTRATION
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.
Jeannie Zandi 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.
Find out more »Stephan Bodian ~ Meditation without a Meditator: From Deliberate Awareness to Nondual Presence ~ 2-Part Online Retreat
Dec. 9th & 10th, 2023
9:00 am – 12:00 pm, Pacific Time
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Recording will be emailed to participants after each meeting.
You're welcome to join even if you can't attend all the live sessions.
Many seekers who shift from progressive approaches like deliberate mindfulness to a more direct approach continue to search for the right meditative strategy, the sweet spot that allows them to let go of their efforting and drop into their natural state of nondual presence. But paradoxically it’s this very strategizing that needs to drop away as presence reveals itself to be the nature of reality, the deeper ground beyond a separate self, not something that you can strategize into being. You can’t do it—you can only join the nondual presence that’s always already taking place.
So how exactly can you position your awareness to fall into nondual presence? In this two-day mini-retreat you’ll learn how to take the backward step to illuminate the deeper ground of Being as your true nature or true Self beyond all division. Once that deeper identity has been revealed, you no longer have to search for what is already so blatantly obvious. You merely need to be it.
The retreat will feature self-inquiry, direct pointers to the nature of reality, and a series of guided meditations that lead you through the stages of awakening to nondual presence. In nondual presence life unfolds effortlessly, without an illusory someone in charge of the unfolding, as an expression of the exquisite intelligence at the heart of the Mystery. Absolute and relative dimensions of Being—universal and individual, trans/impersonal and personal, one and many—dissolve into a single, vibrant, multidimensional, perfectly imperfect current of love and manifestation. Just This!
Stephan Bodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition of Zen, Dzogchen, and Advaita Vedanta. He's been offering the School for Awakening, an annual multi-month intensive program in spiritual unfolding and awakened living, since 2007. As a licensed psychotherapist, he brings a deep understanding of the impact of trauma and early conditioning on the process of spiritual realization and offers individual counseling and a five-session mentoring intensive in psychospiritual integration. Stephan studied for many years with Advaita master Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001. His books include Wake Up Now and Beyond Mindfulness.
For more information, visit : www.stephanbodian.org
Sliding Scale: $60 to $90
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
Stephan Bodian ~ Meditation without a Meditator: From Deliberate Awareness to Nondual Presence ~ 2-Part Online Retreat
Many seekers who shift from progressive approaches, like deliberate mindfulness, to a more direct approach continue to search for the right meditative strategy, the sweet spot that allows them to let go of their efforting and drop into their natural state of nondual presence. But paradoxically it’s this very strategizing that needs to drop away as presence reveals itself to be the nature of reality. In this two-day mini-retreat you’ll learn how to take the backward step to illuminate the deeper ground of Being as your true nature, beyond all division. Once that deeper identity has been revealed, you no longer have to search for what is already so blatantly obvious.
Stephan Bodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition. He studied for many years with Advaita master Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001.
Stephan Bodian ~ Meditation without a Meditator: From Deliberate Awareness to Nondual Presence ~ 2-Part Online Retreat
Dec. 9th & 10th, 2023
9:00 am – 12:00 pm, Pacific Time
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Recording will be emailed to participants after each meeting.
You're welcome to join even if you can't attend all the live sessions.
Many seekers who shift from progressive approaches like deliberate mindfulness to a more direct approach continue to search for the right meditative strategy, the sweet spot that allows them to let go of their efforting and drop into their natural state of nondual presence. But paradoxically it’s this very strategizing that needs to drop away as presence reveals itself to be the nature of reality, the deeper ground beyond a separate self, not something that you can strategize into being. You can’t do it—you can only join the nondual presence that’s always already taking place.
So how exactly can you position your awareness to fall into nondual presence? In this two-day mini-retreat you’ll learn how to take the backward step to illuminate the deeper ground of Being as your true nature or true Self beyond all division. Once that deeper identity has been revealed, you no longer have to search for what is already so blatantly obvious. You merely need to be it.
The retreat will feature self-inquiry, direct pointers to the nature of reality, and a series of guided meditations that lead you through the stages of awakening to nondual presence. In nondual presence life unfolds effortlessly, without an illusory someone in charge of the unfolding, as an expression of the exquisite intelligence at the heart of the Mystery. Absolute and relative dimensions of Being—universal and individual, trans/impersonal and personal, one and many—dissolve into a single, vibrant, multidimensional, perfectly imperfect current of love and manifestation. Just This!
Stephan Bodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition of Zen, Dzogchen, and Advaita Vedanta. He's been offering the School for Awakening, an annual multi-month intensive program in spiritual unfolding and awakened living, since 2007. As a licensed psychotherapist, he brings a deep understanding of the impact of trauma and early conditioning on the process of spiritual realization and offers individual counseling and a five-session mentoring intensive in psychospiritual integration. Stephan studied for many years with Advaita master Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001. His books include Wake Up Now and Beyond Mindfulness.
For more information, visit : www.stephanbodian.org
Sliding Scale: $60 to $90
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
Pamela Wilson ~ Inviting Peace To Be Bigger Than War – Uncontaining the Power of Peace Within ~ 4 Part Online Retreat
Dec. 11, 15, 18 & 22, 2023
10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Pacific Time
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Recording link will be emailed to participants after each meeting.
You're welcome to join even if you can't attend all the live sessions.
Join Pamela and your fellow sages to call forth the Peace that animates all of Nature and all Beings to hold and powerfully transmit its healing balance.
Within all forms, including our bodies, trees, earth and sky, is the medicine that knows the way, that is intimate with all. Transmission is limited only by protective tension and overlooked and ignored (undernourished) Stillness.
When Awareness honors the Heart, the Essence of everything, there is a quickening and alertness, as if the most ancient Peace is emerging from a long meditation. We bring its awareness to the imbalance and insanity of the human tribe, not in opposition but in an all powerful, compassionate invocation and prayer.
Inviting its healing transmission to hold, permeate and heal.
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
Sliding Scale: $80 to $120
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
Pamela Wilson ~ Inviting Peace To Be Bigger Than War – Uncontaining the Power of Peace Within ~ 4 Part Online Retreat
Dec. 11, 15, 18 & 22, 2023
10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Pacific Time
Time Zone Converter
Recording link will be emailed to participants after each meeting.
You're welcome to join even if you can't attend all the live sessions.
Join Pamela and your fellow sages to call forth the Peace that animates all of Nature and all Beings to hold and powerfully transmit its healing balance.
Within all forms, including our bodies, trees, earth and sky, is the medicine that knows the way, that is intimate with all. Transmission is limited only by protective tension and overlooked and ignored (undernourished) Stillness.
When Awareness honors the Heart, the Essence of everything, there is a quickening and alertness, as if the most ancient Peace is emerging from a long meditation. We bring its awareness to the imbalance and insanity of the human tribe, not in opposition but in an all powerful, compassionate invocation and prayer.
Inviting its healing transmission to hold, permeate and heal.
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
Sliding Scale: $80 to $120
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.