January 2024
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.
Pamela Wilson ~ New Year’s Day Retreat ~ In-Person Gathering
"May all beings return to natural balance, heartfelt clear seeing, listening within and living as this courageous and unshakeable Oneness"
Join us on New Year's Day for in-person daylong meeting with Pamela Wilson at a private residence in the hills of Fairfax.
In addition to enjoying the warmth of community in the midst of winter, and on this traditional day of renewal, we will explore and enjoy the themes of naturalness, resting in timelessness, and unconditional receptivity.
Pamela Wilson evokes through dialogue, inquiry and her very presence the qualities of unconditional love and radical acceptance. She endears herself to her audiences with her playful and light-hearted humor, combined with compassion and deep understanding of what it is to be human. She is celebrated for her ability to open the heart, call forth our own inner sage, and create a space in which long-held struggles and notions about one’s identity relax. Pamela is featured in the book Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom.
More about Pamela: www.pamelasatsang.com
The meeting will be from 11:00am to 5:00pm, and is by donation.
We hope you will join us!
For more information and to REGISTER:
Email LocalEvents@opencirclecenter.org
Location:
The meeting will be held at a private home in the Fairfax hills, with views of Mount Tam and hiking trails.
Address and directions will be provided upon registration.
Please bring your own lunch, or feel free to go into town to one of the restaurants or to Good Earth Natural Foods.
Find out more »Pamela Wilson ~ New Year’s Day In-Person Retreat
"May all beings return to natural balance, heartfelt clear seeing, listening within and living as this courageous and unshakeable Oneness"
Join us on New Year's Day for in-person daylong meeting with Pamela Wilson at a private residence in the hills of Fairfax.
In addition to enjoying the warmth of community in the midst of winter, and on this traditional day of renewal, we will explore and enjoy the themes of naturalness, resting in timelessness, and unconditional receptivity.
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, call forth our own inner sage, and create a space in which long-held struggles and notions about one’s identity relax.
Find out more »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
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ POWER UP for the New Year With Empowered Embodiment
The power to heal and awaken is within all of us — and you can unlock it!
Now is the time. It’s time to wake up to who you truly are—not a diminished, distorted version of yourself. It’s time to let the gift of your unique expression flow freely and empower your world. As human beings, this is our deepest happiness and fulfillment. And it is available to you, right now!
This daylong will focus on empowering you to connect with the infinite powerhouse within so you can more deeply embody that through all your humanness on somatic, emotional, psychological, and relational levels. This is what I call Empowered Embodiment.
Tapping into your own innate power will power you up to meet all of life’s challenges in your personal life as well as the many challenges we are facing in the world today. The daylong will be a place to discuss these challenges and how to meet them in a more empowered and embodied way.
You are encouraged to attend each session of this retreat live so you can benefit from group sharing and processing with Lynn Marie. However, you are also welcome to attend at your convenience by listening to the recording.
Lynn Marie Lumiere is a seasoned psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, spiritual mentor, and author. She offers a rare blend of embodied spiritual wisdom with a skilled therapeutic approach that facilitates healing of psychological trauma/wounding and the embodiment of awakening. Her depth of experience, rooted in her own healing and awakening journey, spans decades of expertly guiding individuals in the resolution of their trauma and into connection with their true nature. She is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying More Love in Relationships.
Sliding Scale: $40 to $70
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ POWER UP for the New Year With Empowered Embodiment
The power to heal and awaken is within all of us — and you can unlock it!
Now is the time. It’s time to wake up to who you truly are—not a diminished, distorted version of yourself. It’s time to let the gift of your unique expression flow freely and empower your world. As human beings, this is our deepest happiness and fulfillment. And it is available to you, right now!
This online daylong will focus on empowering you to connect with the infinite powerhouse within so you can more deeply embody that through all your humanness on somatic, emotional, psychological, and relational levels.
Lynn Marie Lumiere offers a rare blend of embodied spiritual wisdom with a skilled therapeutic approach that facilitates healing of psychological trauma/wounding and the embodiment of awakening.
Find out more »Jeannie Zandi ~ Living Open in a Troubled World
Join Jeannie to explore how we can walk as open hearts through a troubled world - how we can both take care of ourselves and bring our hearts to bear on the suffering.
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.
Suggested donation: $15 to $40
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.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Jeannie Zandi ~ Living Open in a Troubled World
Join Jeannie to explore how we can walk as open hearts through a troubled world - how we can both take care of ourselves and bring our hearts to bear on the suffering.
Jeannie’s gift for inviting people to join her in resting and rooted presence evokes a deep meeting with oneself and reality. She is known for her fearless clarity, tender mercy toward humanness, and a juicy, poetic and often humorous teaching style.
Find out more »Dorothy Hunt ~ Being, Doing, Having ~ Online Daylong Retreat
Online Daylong Retreat
January 14, 2024
9:00am - 11:00am & 12:00pm - 2:00pm (Pacific Time)
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Recording will be emailed to participants within a week.
You're welcome to join even if you can't attend the live sessions.
When we are operating from the deep dimension of Being, life is experienced as fresh, alive, spontaneous, open, wise, loving, and present to the immediacy of Now. Being is also continually becoming, showing itself as doing, as well as all that appears to come and go in nature and in our relative lives.
However, if we base our identity on what we do, and do not know who or what we truly are, we are in a constant state of trying, striving, and judging a self that needs to become some ideal or perfect version of itself. This leads to a vast
consumer mentality of “having" and acquiring more and more—whether we are attached to having money, power, approval, influence, a partner, or spiritual experiences. Once basic needs are met, does freedom or worth, really depend on having? Is something at peace regardless of circumstance?
In this daylong exploration, we will examine how we value ourselves and so-called others. What does it feel like to allow our doing to come from Being rather than continually equating doing with a self-image or an idea of self-worth? What is the experience of living from Being rather than having? And who is the
“I AM” that seems to be wrapped in so many beliefs?
Dorothy Hunt currently serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching at the request and in the spiritual lineage of Adyashanti. The flavor of her teaching blends Advaita and Zen with a deep welcoming of the human expressions of the Mystery. Dorothy is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy, and practiced psychotherapy from 1967 until her retirement in 2020. She is the author of Only This!, Leaves from Moon Mountain, and Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness. In addition, she is a contributing author to two books on Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, and the editor of Love: A Fruit Always in Season.
Presently, Dorothy offers satsang and retreats via Zoom, and dokusan by phone. For more information, please visit www.dorothyhunt.org
Sliding Scale: $40 to $70
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
Dorothy Hunt ~ Being, Doing, Having ~ Online Daylong Retreat
When we are operating from the deep dimension of Being, life is experienced as fresh, alive, spontaneous, open, wise, loving, and present to the immediacy of Now. Being is also continually becoming, showing itself as doing, as well as all that appears to come and go in nature and in our relative lives.
However, if we base our identity on what we do, and do not know who or what we truly are, we are in a constant state of trying, striving, and judging a self that needs to become some ideal or perfect version of itself.
In this daylong exploration, we will examine what it feel like to allow our doing to come from Being rather than from a self-image or an idea of self-worth. And who is the “I AM” that seems to be wrapped in so many beliefs?
Dorothy Hunt currently serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching at the request and in the spiritual lineage of Adyashanti. The flavor of her teaching blends Advaita and Zen with a deep welcoming of the human expressions of the Mystery.
Find out more »