May 2023
Ishita Sharma ~ Call to Coherence: Inner Coherence
Coming together in a space that is slow, curious, generous and kind, we will explore the nature of flow and ourselves, learning by contrasting in our own experience what coherence is and isn't, what hinders and augments it. We will engage processes that augment access to coherent fields at various levels of being, becoming and belonging.
Join us in a series of 3 facilitated experiential conversations to examine flow/coherence at 3 levels of field: self, shared and universal, to strengthen your capacity to access it at will.
Each call will build on the last while also standing alone as a wholesome offering in itself.
As much as attending the whole series is beneficial, you are welcome to register for any number of calls, even if you haven't joined the previous ones.
Part 1: Inner Coherence: authenticity, self-alignment, how I am being (May 15th)
Part 2: Relational Coherence: mutuality, how we are being, within and between us. (June 10th)
Part 3: Universal Coherence: interconnectedness, synchronization with the rhythm of the whole. (July 1st)
Join like-hearted others to play with friendly curiosity in a field of shared intent.
ON EACH CALL WE WILL:
- Explore contrast between discordance and coherence, learning from our own experience.
- Practice an experiential somatic meditation.
- Experience the healing power of inner and group coherence.
- Have space to share, ask questions.
- Learn about deeper upcoming offerings to engage and answer your inner call to coherence.
In times of accelerated growth, communities of care are balm for the soul. And a community is formed when we come together with authenticity, openness and respect. This will be a series of such calls.
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
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
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ SELF LOVE: From Self Criticism to Self-Acceptance ~ 2-Part Retreat
A 2-Part Retreat
Part 1 (May 20) and Part 2 (May 21)
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.
Lack of self-love is the primary, core issue in most people. It can be our greatest obstacle to health, happiness, healthy relationships, success, personal growth, and awakening. In other words, it affects every aspect of our life!
What does it mean to love yourself? It is a common belief that we must eliminate all our perceived faults before we can love ourselves.
What if you are totally okay, now, just as you are? What if unconditional self-acceptance is the key to self-love? But how does that happen?
To truly love ourselves, we need to remember who we truly are—a vast being of pure love. Then it is possible, along with therapeutic assistance and support, to meet and resolve the negative programming, trauma, and relational wounding, which creates a negative sense of self. As these falls away, we embody more self-love. We wake up out of the false, negative identity into our pure loving nature.
This weekend event will offer a deep immersion into this issue so that you can begin to understand and directly experience true self-love. We will touch into how lack of self-love manifests on all levels—physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Lynn Marie brings extensive experience, both personally and professionally, with the journey from self-criticism to self-acceptance and love. She will offer her insight and skills on all those levels.
Participant feedback: “Through attending Lynn Marie’s events, my ability to rest in and as Presence has deepened exponentially. It seems that there is nothing of greater service than to embody our true nature more fully. Lynn Marie skillfully offers the sacred space and practical wisdom to do so.”
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.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ SELF LOVE: From Self Criticism to Self-Acceptance ~ 2-Part Retreat
Lack of self-love is the primary, core issue in most people. It can be our greatest obstacle to health, happiness, healthy relationships, success, personal growth, and awakening. In other words, it affects every aspect of our life! What if unconditional self-acceptance is the key to self-love? But how does that happen? To truly love ourselves, we need to remember who we truly are—a vast being of pure love. Then it is possible, along with therapeutic assistance and support, to meet and resolve the negative programming which creates a negative sense of self. As these falls away, we wake up out of the false, negative identity into our pure loving nature. 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 and wounding and the embodiment of awakening. She is a trustworthy and competent guide for both healing and freedom on all levels.
Find out more »Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ SELF LOVE: From Self Criticism to Self-Acceptance ~ 2-Part Retreat
A 2-Part Retreat
Part 1 (May 20) and Part 2 (May 21)
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time, each day
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.
Lack of self-love is the primary, core issue in most people. It can be our greatest obstacle to health, happiness, healthy relationships, success, personal growth, and awakening. In other words, it affects every aspect of our life!
What does it mean to love yourself? It is a common belief that we must eliminate all our perceived faults before we can love ourselves.
What if you are totally okay, now, just as you are? What if unconditional self-acceptance is the key to self-love? But how does that happen?
To truly love ourselves, we need to remember who we truly are—a vast being of pure love. Then it is possible, along with therapeutic assistance and support, to meet and resolve the negative programming, trauma, and relational wounding, which creates a negative sense of self. As these falls away, we embody more self-love. We wake up out of the false, negative identity into our pure loving nature.
This weekend event will offer a deep immersion into this issue so that you can begin to understand and directly experience true self-love. We will touch into how lack of self-love manifests on all levels—physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Lynn Marie brings extensive experience, both personally and professionally, with the journey from self-criticism to self-acceptance and love. She will offer her insight and skills on all those levels.
Participant feedback: “Through attending Lynn Marie’s events, my ability to rest in and as Presence has deepened exponentially. It seems that there is nothing of greater service than to embody our true nature more fully. Lynn Marie skillfully offers the sacred space and practical wisdom to do so.”
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.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ SELF LOVE: From Self Criticism to Self-Acceptance ~ 2-Part Retreat
Lack of self-love is the primary, core issue in most people. It can be our greatest obstacle to health, happiness, healthy relationships, success, personal growth, and awakening. In other words, it affects every aspect of our life!
What if unconditional self-acceptance is the key to self-love? But how does that happen?
To truly love ourselves, we need to remember who we truly are—a vast being of pure love. Then it is possible, along with therapeutic assistance and support, to meet and resolve the negative programming which creates a negative sense of self. As these falls away, we wake up out of the false, negative identity into our pure loving nature.
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 and wounding and the embodiment of awakening. She is a trustworthy and competent guide for both healing and freedom on all levels.
Find out more »Shakti Caterina Maggi ~ Riding the tiger: The tantric way from anger to clarity ~ 2-Part Intensive
2-Part Intensive
includes May 27 & 28
9:00 am – 11:00 am 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.
Anger is a powerful force in our life to transcend our self imposed or social limitations. When it is not directed towards life, but towards the ego, it becomes a phenomenal drive to dissolve the sense of separation. The result will be clarity and compassion.
This two-part online intensive will offer both theoretical and practical teachings based on an embodied duality approach.
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.
Sliding Scale: $60 to $90
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
Shakti Caterina Maggi ~ Riding the tiger: The tantric way from anger to clarity ~ 2-Part Intensive
Anger is a powerful force in our life to transcend our self-imposed or social limitations. When it is not directed towards life, but towards the ego, it becomes a phenomenal drive to dissolve the sense of separation. The result will be clarity and compassion.
This two-part online intensive will offer both theoretical and practical teachings based on an embodied duality approach.
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.
Find out more »Shakti Caterina Maggi ~ Riding the tiger: The tantric way from anger to clarity ~ 2-Part Intensive
2-Part Intensive
includes May 27 & 28
9:00 am – 11:00 am Pacific Time, each day
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.
Anger is a powerful force in our life to transcend our self imposed or social limitations. When it is not directed towards life, but towards the ego, it becomes a phenomenal drive to dissolve the sense of separation. The result will be clarity and compassion.
This two-part online intensive will offer both theoretical and practical teachings based on an embodied duality approach.
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.
Sliding Scale: $60 to $90
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
June 2023
Ishita Sharma ~ Call to Coherence: Relational Coherence
Coming together in a space that is slow, curious, generous and kind, we will explore the nature of flow and ourselves, learning by contrasting in our own experience what coherence is and isn't, what hinders and augments it. We will engage processes that augment access to coherent fields at various levels of being, becoming and belonging.
Join us in a series of 3 facilitated experiential conversations to examine flow/coherence at 3 levels of field: self, shared and universal, to strengthen your capacity to access it at will.
Each call will build on the last while also standing alone as a wholesome offering in itself.
As much as attending the whole series is beneficial, you are welcome to register for any number of calls, even if you haven't joined the previous ones.
Part 1: Inner Coherence: authenticity, self-alignment, how I am being (May 15th)
Part 2: Relational Coherence: mutuality, how we are being, within and between us. (June 10th)
Part 3: Universal Coherence: interconnectedness, synchronization with the rhythm of the whole. (July 1st)
Join like-hearted others to play with friendly curiosity in a field of shared intent.
ON EACH CALL WE WILL:
- Explore contrast between discordance and coherence, learning from our own experience.
- Practice an experiential somatic meditation.
- Experience the healing power of inner and group coherence.
- Have space to share, ask questions.
- Learn about deeper upcoming offerings to engage and answer your inner call to coherence.
In times of accelerated growth, communities of care are balm for the soul. And a community is formed when we come together with authenticity, openness and respect. This will be a series of such calls.
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
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
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.
We hope you will join us!
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.
Suggested Donation: $75 No one turned away - any donation accepted.
To register:
Email Rob at robmschwartz@yahoo.com
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 »