June 2023
John Prendergast ~ Emptiness and Fullness ~ In-Person Daylong Gathering
To be filled, we must first be emptied. The spiritual path is initially about subtraction instead of addition. There is a stripping away of illusion, an emptying out of confusion, an unlearning and unveiling. Whatever our self/world view may be, it is not the ultimate truth. We are not who we think we are and the world is not what we think it is. When there is a willingness to not know with the ordinary mind, we are open to the Unknown and available to being filled by an essential Life. This influx of fullness comes of its own – the natural radiance of our true nature.
Through guided and silent meditation, heart-felt inquiry, and experiential conversations we will explore this natural process of emptying out and being filled.
The meeting will be held at a private home in the Fairfax hills, with views of Mount Tam and hiking trails.
John is a retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at CIIS and the author of several books on the intersection of nondual wisdom and psychology, including The Deep Heart and In Touch. He studied for many years with the European sage, Jean Klein, as well as with Adyashanti, and now teaches in a profoundly experiential manner.
Find out more »What is Nondual Awakening? ~ with Kathleen McTeigue and Tomas Phillips ~ In-Person Local Event
Satsang: 2-4 pm
Refreshments: until 5
Suggested Donation: $10- $20, no one turned away.
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!
Since the pandemic, fewer teachers are available for local meetings, and more teachings are onling. Yet there is a value and synergy in meeting in person! This satsang is facilitated by Kathleen McTeigue and Tomas Phillips, two locals who've experienced the teachings directly. We'll explore Nondual Awakening, and direct experience, yours and ours. We'll talk about these topics:
* What do I awaken from, and to?
* Is nondual awakening available to anyone?
* What is duality like in our everyday lives, and what is nonduality?
* What happens to the ego in awakening?
* Can the spiritual ego co-opt awakening?
Kathleen had a spontaneous awakening to nondual nature. This recognition of the unitive nature of reality, forever altered her perspective. It revealed the illusory nature of a separate self and the indescribable essence of our true nature. The awakening was the beginning of an alchemical process of transformation, including as a student of Adyasanti. She enjoys being in satsang and spiritual community with fellow lovers of truth. Kathleen's website: openingtopresence.com
Tomas has been hosting nondual satsangs since 2004. His first teacher was Adyashanti, and his current teacher is Angelo DiLullo. He experienced a consciousness shift on a Sunday afternoon in 2006. Since then he's learned to make the teachings his own, through inquiry, and looking within. Awakening is a continuous process of expansion, away from fixed positions of the mind, to freedom in all areas of life.
Find out more »Pamela Wilson ~ The Blessing of Balance ~ 4 Part Online Retreat
June 12, 15, 19 & 22, 2023
10:00 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.
Join Pamela and your fellow sages for a four part satsang retreat.
We will invite any tension between the opposites within to balance and self adjust by meeting them respectfully and inviting them to know themselves. Only realization resolves human conditioning back to healthy balance and stability. Even perceived threat, habitual opposition, stress and separation can root and return to natural clarity and relaxation.
When we function as the sage we are, everything self liberates and balances. Allowing us to live as wise love, flow, peace and ease.
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 ~ The Blessing of Balance ~ 4 Part Online Retreat
Join Pamela and your fellow sages for a four part satsang retreat.
We will invite any tension between the opposites within to balance and self-adjust by meeting them respectfully and inviting them to know themselves. When we function as the sage we are, everything self-liberates and balances, allowing us to live as wise love, flow, peace and ease. Even perceived threat, habitual opposition, stress and separation can root and return to natural clarity and relaxation.
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.
Find out more »Pamela Wilson ~ The Blessing of Balance ~ 4 Part Online Retreat
June 12, 15, 19 & 22, 2023
10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Pacific Time
Time Zone Converter
Recording 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 for a four part satsang retreat.
We will invite any tension between the opposites within to balance and self adjust by meeting them respectfully and inviting them to know themselves. Only realization resolves human conditioning back to healthy balance and stability. Even perceived threat, habitual opposition, stress and separation can root and return to natural clarity and relaxation.
When we function as the sage we are, everything self liberates and balances. Allowing us to live as wise love, flow, peace and ease.
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.
Ellen Emmet ~ The Shrine of Not Knowing
In Rumi’s field, ‘beyond ideas of wrong doing of right doing’, prior to concepts and convictions, (however luminous and spiritual), the Tantric Kashmir approach invites us to listen to our felt experience without any aims or objectives. Here we simply recognize the geography of separation, taste the contour of our limits, see the positions of security, the lines of physical and psychological defences expressed in our convictions and mirrored in the tension held in our body.
This listening becomes a burning altar to which thoughts and resistances are offered as they arise. Tactile sensitivity gently blossoms. Emotions unfold fully as life’s waves, delivering their energetic message whilst burning away the agendas and leaving the body awash with sensitivity and availability.
About Ellen:
Ellen’s deepest intuition was confirmed when she met her teacher in the non-dual tradition, Francis Lucille. Hearing his words, she recognised the eternal, limitless and universal nature of our shared reality. Over the years, this understanding has continued to unfold and to touch all levels of experience.
At the very same time, Ellen has never ceased to delve into the depths of her human experience, seen and unseen, thirsting for a wholeness and connectedness which appeared to be lost or obscured. This unstoppable quest brought her to therapy, Jungian workshops (and later Jungian analysis), Dream Work, Authentic Movement and creative writing.
More and more, she senses that each of our lives is a journey of revelation and integration, including its darker crossings, through which the face of truth can shine uniquely and anew, wedding us to our direct experience and connecting us to the great family of creation.
To find out more about Ellen and her offering, visit www.ellenemmet.com
Sliding Scale: $25 to $45
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please register early if you can.
Jeannie Zandi ~ God the Father (and other dads)
Join Jeannie and friends for a special Father’s Day call to explore the symbolism and actuality of father – from God the Father to our own dads and all the beauties and challenges of all that!
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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Chesaray & Julian ~ Suffering
What if we inquired into our common perceptions and attitudes of suffering. What if we stop trying to fix, get rid of or heal suffering. Could suffering itself be a doorway to greater intimacy with life, each other and ourselves. How would it be for us to come together in gentleness and yield to our precious human lives. In this 2 hour meeting we will have a short meditation, a talk on suffering and an opportunity for exchanges. Come settle in this compassionate space and unfold with us.
Chesaray offers courses, sessions, and retreats based in non-duality, embodied awakening, and the healing arts. Chesaray's search for “What is Real?” began as early as she can remember. Life has always been her greatest teacher. Experiences as a teen drove her into an unavoidable contemplation of grief, God, and death. Her university studies in Philosophy of Mind and Buddhism led her to study abroad in India, where she set her heart on embodying freedom. She was gifted with a non-dual awakening at 22 with Jon Bernie that lifted a tremendous amount of unconscious suffering from her shoulders, and has since experienced the fire of that opening guiding her life. Exploration of the psyche, soul, and soma has led her into ongoing training and practice in meditation, conscious movement, bodywork, psycho-therapeutic modalities and a devotion to learning from life experience. She descended into a dark night of the Soul for many years and she is left with an abiding experience of the heart of Being and a gift of healing Grace.
For more info: www.chesaray.org
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.
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Susanne Marie ~ Your Inner Light
Everybody contains inside of them an inner spiritual guidance system, which when aligned with, helps orient one to following the path that best serves your awakening. Learning how to open in trust to your inner knowing, is much of what the spiritual journey is about.
Bio: 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
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
Tiger Singleton ~ The Opportunity of Being Human
Join Tiger Singleton for an event where he shares practical insight and wisdom for living with more love, compassion, and freedom. He will encourage participants to look beyond their mind’s fearful conditioning and make contact with a sacred opportunity of being alive.
Tiger believes that life is an adventure and not a safe place to seek comfort. He will encourage participants to embrace the gift of this temporary human experience and grow rapidly. This session is for those who are tired of taking life too seriously or not allowing themselves to truly play and grow. His playful, yet, no nonsense approach is sure to set your heart on fire. Be warned though, this is a space for taking radical responsibility for your human experience; so, as much as it will inspire, it will also invite you to get profoundly honest with yourself. Come play!
Overall, this event promises to be an insightful and transformative experience.
About Tiger:
Meet Tiger 🐯 - with a unique blend of playfulness and compassionate guidance, he's been sharing his insight and wisdom with people all over the world for over a decade.
He encourages a deep dive into the present moment, seeing beyond the mind's conditioning, to discover what is truly real and true.
Tiger's approach is direct, sincere, and focused on helping people navigate the journey of being human, with more love, compassion, and freedom.
Find out more about Tiger: www.inlightconnect.com -- On Facebook -- On YouTube
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