July 2023
Ishita Sharma ~ Presencing: embodying our Divinity and our Humanity
What is presence? What is embodiment? How do we weave our Humanity and Divinity in how we are being, doing and becoming?
In this 3 hour experiential immersive, together we will explore presence as a process of arriving- into Life, into here-now, into our bodies, into relational weaving with Life, catalyzed by the magic of community- what it is, isn't, what it can be, and how it can support our deepest blossoming.
IN OUR IMMERSIVE YOU WILL:
- Explore and learn from the wisdom of your own experience.
- Ground yourself into presence and refine relational capacity.
- Mine somatic, energetic, cognitive, relational and metacognitive intelligence.
- Glimpse what it feels like to move as an individuated, universal being, living your unique expression of the vast, connected, creative field of unity consciousness.
- Show up in surrender, deeply honoring yourself, those around you and the wisdom of the unfolding now.
About Ishita
Ishita Sharma serves as a mirror, mentor and muse to those who wish to better the world starting within. Her work is the joyful expression of her deepest realizations, and an invitation into your own. Come to Center is fueled by her wish to realize a world that lives from enlightened awareness. She helps clients heal disconnects and mine the gold hidden in everyday challenges to live a life that is connected, expansive and joyful!
She draws on her unique capacity to attune to her clients’ nervous systems and guide contraction and confusion into clarity and ease. Her incisive approach is grounded in spacious, loving connection.
Ishita sees her role here as a bridge between cultures, paradigms and dimensions- marrying western intellect and eastern spirit through the wisdom of the human heart and body. Contending the future of humanity hinges upon healing division within and between us, Ishita supports individuals and groups alike to wake up, step up and show up together for the world we wish to see.
Find out more about Ishita: cometocenter.com
Sliding Scale: $25 to $45
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please register early if you can.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week.
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August 2023
Manilai ~ Sound Bath ~ In-Person in Berkeley, CA
Join us in a space of connection, honoring and healing.
We will relax and re-harmonize to the sounds and vibrations of crystal singing bowls performed by Manilai. Each singing bowl is attuned to one of the 7 main chakras and helps to clear and align the chakras. You will be invited to completely relax during this one-hour full-bodied, immersive experience that invites deep healing and restorative processes.
“Sounds permeate our systems, resonating with our essence, so that inner dissonance seems almost immediately to be transformed into harmony.”- Dr. Mitchell Gaynor
Bring what you like for your comfort such as a foam or yoga mat, pillows and blankets.
Write up about me:
I went through a period of deep emotional release and healing. Profound shifts happened in my experience of life when I moved from living from my head to my heart. Now I connect to Heart's Truth to guide my way, letting go of the mind's attachment to the illusions of control, security and life story. So much freed when I brought my attention to inner joy and loosened the seeking of happiness outside of myself. I am grateful for this beautiful journey of heart opening and experiencing the unfolding of love all around and through me.
My joy of singing bowl sound baths started several years ago and I felt an immediate affinity for their beautiful vibration and sound. Sound baths have been very healing and restorative for me and I love sharing this with others.
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
Find out more »Manilai ~ Sound Bath ~ In-Person in Berkeley, CA
Join us in a space of connection, honoring and healing.
We will relax and re-harmonize to the sounds and vibrations of crystal singing bowls performed by Manilai. Each singing bowl is attuned to one of the 7 main chakras and helps to clear and align the chakras. You will be invited to completely relax during this one-hour full-bodied, immersive experience that invites deep healing and restorative processes.
“Sounds permeate our systems, resonating with our essence, so that inner dissonance seems almost immediately to be transformed into harmony.”- Dr. Mitchell Gaynor --
Bring what you like for your comfort such as a foam or yoga mat, pillows and blankets.......
Find out more »Jeannie Zandi ~ Post Awakening Weirdness
Join Jeannie to explore recognizing and navigating a variety of changes that can accompany awakening.
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.
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Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ EMBRACE ALL OF WHO YOU ARE: Healing Core Shame ~ Weekend Retreat
A 2-Part Weekend Retreat
August 12 & 13, 2023
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time, each day
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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.
If you ever experience yourself as not good enough, bad, unlovable, unworthy, or powerless, you are experiencing core shame. You are not alone. Shame is in all of us to some degree.
It is a case of mistaken identity when we identify with a conditioned part of ourselves rather than with the Wholeness of who we are in both our humanness and Source Nature. This, along with negative conditioning, creates core shame, which is a significant obstacle to health, happiness, healthy relationships, and success. It affects every aspect of our life.
To truly heal core shame, we need to remember who we really are—a vast being of pure love. Then it is possible, along with therapeutic assistance and support, to meet and resolve the negative programming and wounding that creates a negative sense of self. As these false identities fall away, we embody more self-love.
This weekend event will offer a deep immersion into this issue so that you can begin to understand and directly experience being free of core shame. Lynn Marie brings extensive experience, both personally and professionally, with both spiritual awakening and healing our body-mind. She will offer insight and skills on freeing yourself from shame on all levels—somatically, mentally and spiritually.
Participant feedback: “With Lynn Marie, I get in an embodied way that my human experience is workable. I greatly appreciate her unique way of including and working with the human nervous system, conditioning and relationship as the very path of ever-evolving spiritual awakening. For me, she is naturally and powerfully transmitting a unique energy that is lovingly embracing simultaneously the finite and the Infinite, the human and the Divine.”
Lynn Marie Lumiere is a seasoned psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, 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 a trustworthy and competent guide for both healing and freedom on all levels, with a natural empathy for the human struggle that is born of her own life process. She is also the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships.
For more information see: www.lynnmarielumiere.com
Sliding Scale: $60 to $90
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
Julian Misliuc ~ On Fire For The Real
At some moment in time something was sparked in us, some kind of opening, knowing or inspiration which drew us to spiritual work. Even though we look back at these moments of inspiration as important turning points in our life, we generally miss the deeper message. That spark isn’t simply a moment of clarity or greater connection, but rather our own Divinity making itself known. In this meeting we will explore how this inspiration is our truest guide, and that what initially had been a spark can become an all consuming fire. The more we offer ourselves to the spark the more we catch on fire, which in turn transmutes every aspect of our life. Fire is discomfort, fire is strength, fire is transmutation, fire is love, fire is the Holy bringing us back to ourselves. We will have time for meditation, a talk on the topic and an opportunity for exchanges.
Julian's strength of presence deepens and amplifies people's direct connection with their True Nature. He carries a gentleness, delicacy and precision for integrating all aspects of our humanity in the process of awakening. His intuitive capacity supports people in finding the root of what challenges them most and encourages a steady awakening to reality. Julian has a background in practicing with multiple spiritual masters, as well as training in men’s work, group work, energetic bodywork, and post traumatic growth somatic therapy. He brings a holistic approach to helping people heal, rest into their True Nature and embody who they really are.
For more info: www.julianmisliuc.com
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
CANCELED Susanne Marie ~ The Importance of Trust on the Spiritual Path
This event has been canceled.
Trusting in the mystery is a valuable key in letting go into the unknown and opening to one's true nature. Without trust, there will be an over reliance on one's personal will and conditioned mind, which will create an imbalance in one's life. Spiritually speaking there is nothing more important than cultivating trust on the spiritual path. Together we will explore the topic of trust along with suggestions on how to relax into the unknown.
About Susanne Marie:
Featured in conversation with Adyashanti on Buddha at the Gas Pump as well as on Conscious TV, Susanne Marie offers teachings in support of freedom and the celebration of our common essence of love and unity with all life. Susanne, the parent of two young adults, offers spiritual mentoring, online and in-person group facilitation, as well as retreats.
Find out more about Susanne Marie: susannemarie.org
Find out more »Shakti Caterina Maggi ~ Embodied nonduality
The teaching will be a dive into the heart of nonduality. An open and direct sharing about how our spiritual essence embodies in human experience to wake up to itself.
We will explore how suffering is the way through which we can recognize our self-imposed limitations. With courage and radical honesty we can use suffering as a trampoline to consciously connect to an unshakeable inner peace.
Shakti will offer a talk followed by Q&A.
Shakti Caterina Maggi is a spiritual guide, meditation teacher and author widely recognized as one of the most authentic and profound voices of contemporary spirituality. Combining the vision of Advaita and non-dual Tantra with a contemporary approach, Shakti offers with humanity, compassion and great clarity an inner technology to dissolve that contraction of suffering that accompanies our lives, and access a space of peace and unconditional love towards life.
www.shakticaterinamaggi.com
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.
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Peter Russell ~ Nonduality and Awakening ~ InPerson Local Event
The Indian philosophy of advaita, or nonduality, teaches that consciousness is the primary reality, the fundamental essence of the cosmos. But what does this really mean? It certainly doesn’t appear that way to our eyes. And how can we understand awakening from this perspective. What are we awakening from? And to? Peter Russell will explore questions such as these, and the essential role that letting go plays in this journey.
Bio: Peter Russell, M.A., D.C.S. is a leading thinker on consciousness and contemporary spirituality. He coined the term "global brain" with his 1980s bestseller of the same name in which he predicted the internet and the impact it would have on humanity. Other books include Waking UP in Time, From Science to God, and his most recent Letting Go of Nothing.
Peter's website: www.peterrussell.com
The satsang includes a meditation, comments by the speaker, then Q&A and discussion.
Satsang: 2-4 pm
Refreshments: until 5
Suggested Donation: $10- $20, no one turned away.
No pre-registration. Pay at door when you arrive.
Location: 8476 Sonoma Ave, Sebastopol, CA. Park on Sonoma Ave.
Note: The address sign says 8474/8476. Park on the street, and walk down the short driveway to the house with the carport.
Please arrive 10-15 minutes early.
Please dress warmly, doors & windows will be open!
September 2023
Chesaray ~ Grounding our Spirituality: Living Heart-fulness in Trying Times
Our whole world opens up when we learn to live from the heart and turn towards the heart in difficult times. Join Chesaray for a two hour dedicated exploration of the mysteries of the heart. There will be meditation, exchanges, and engagement in dynamic practice. Our heart is designed to be our anchor and guide in life.
Chesaray is the Spiritual Director of Loving Ground 501 c3 non-profit. She offers retreats and courses based on a wide range of psychological, spiritual, holistic healing modalities that support human evolution.
Please find out more about Chesaray’s offerings at www.chesaray.org
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