April 2023
Amoda Maa ~ Knowing Our Essential Nature as Open Awareness ~ In-Person in Berkeley, CA
Amoda Maa offers a profound invitation to all those who wish to embody the truth of awakened consciousness in the midst of everyday life. Her meetings include silent or guided meditation, discourse, and an opportunity to ask questions from the innermost. Speaking with clarity and grace, she invites an open-hearted honesty to the exploration of what it means to recognize and live from our essential nature as open awareness.
Amoda’s teachings are free from any ideology and are not affiliated with any lineage or tradition, and yet the luminous truth is the same nondual understanding at the core of of many spiritual traditions. Arising from her own direct experience and expressed in a contemporary language, these teachings are relevant and accessible to all people from all backgrounds and cultures. She is known for her authenticity, depth, and unique expression of “masculine” clear-pointed insight and “feminine” unconditional acceptance.
Since 2016, she has been living in the US, and today her teachings are followed by a growing global community. She has been a speaker and guest teacher at a variety of conferences, featured in several magazines, interviewed for numerous broadcasts and podcasts, and is the author of several books including Embodied Enlightenment and Falling Open in a World Falling Apart. Her life and work are dedicated to supporting an "inner transformation of consciousness” and envisioning a new world of peace and enlightened living.
More info on Amoda, her teachings, and events, including Bay Area daylong gathering on April 22nd at www.amodamaa.com/events
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
No pre-registration.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Amoda Maa ~ Knowing Our Essential Nature as Open Awareness ~ In-Person in Berkeley, CA
Amoda Maa offers a profound invitation to all those who wish to embody the truth of awakened consciousness in the midst of everyday life. Her meetings include silent or guided meditation, discourse, and an opportunity to ask questions from the innermost. Speaking with clarity and grace, she invites an open-hearted honesty to the exploration of what it means to recognize and live from our essential nature as open awareness.
Amoda’s teachings are free from any ideology, and yet the luminous truth is the same nondual understanding at the core of of many spiritual traditions. Arising from her own direct experience and expressed in a contemporary language, these teachings are relevant and accessible to all people from all backgrounds and cultures. She is known for her authenticity, depth, and unique expression of “masculine” clear-pointed insight and “feminine” unconditional acceptance.
Find out more »Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ FREEDOM FROM LOW-SELF-ESTEEM IS POSSIBLE
Do you think negatively about yourself? Are you overly critical of yourself and lack confidence?
Many people in our Western world have negative thoughts about themselves, which may stem from unhappy childhoods, and the effects of media, school systems, etc. When we identify with these thoughts, believing them to be true, they form an artificial self. Our artificial self is made up of many thoughts, beliefs and programs that we have become identified with on all levels: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
To be fully free from low self-esteem, we need to remember who we truly are. To do that, we connect with our Natural Self, which is not really a self, it is a vast Being. It is our Nature—pure and untouched by programming or emotional trauma/wounding.
The more we come into our Natural Self, the more we can disidentify with the artificial self. By doing this, programming related to low self-esteem naturally resolves, if we allow it to. Our Nature is the only power that can do that!
This 3-hour webinar will include guided meditation, experiential process, and dialogue. It is recommended that you attend in person to benefit from working with Lynn Marie directly. However, you are welcome to register and attend by watching the recording.
Participant feedback: “I feel inspired when I am with Lynn Marie, inspired by her presence and her own human/healing/spiritual journey. I feel naturally encouraged: I too can heal. I too can drop old false beliefs and grow into greater clarity of awareness, greater ease in my experience of being, and greater freedom.”
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.
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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CANCELED Tiger Singleton ~ The Opportunity of Being Human ~ 3-Part Online Retreat
3-Part Online Retreat
April 28, 29 & 30, 2023
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.
Let’s get cozy and… real. Join Tiger Singleton for a weekend series event, where he shares practical insight and wisdom for living with more love, compassion, and freedom. 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!
During the event, Tiger will cover the following topics:
Friday:
Open the Eyes of Your Heart: In this session, Tiger will offer practical guidance and insights into 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.
Saturday:
Embrace Your Value & Shine: Tiger invites participants to realize that the opportunity of being human is to discover something beautiful (valuable) on the inside of themselves and then share that beauty (value) with the world. In this session, he will guide participants to step into their value and shine.
Sunday:
Courage to Thrive; Focus and Go Play: 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.
In addition to these topics, Tiger is also likely to offer a guided meditation during each session.
Overall, this event with Tiger Singleton 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
Sliding Scale: $70 to $110
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
Peter Russell ~ Nonduality and the Science of Consciousness ~ In-Person in Berkeley, CA
This event will be held in the large cozy Sanctuary space.
The spiritual teaching of nonduality, which stems from the Indian philosophy of advaita, teaches that consciousness is the primary reality, the fundamental essence of the cosmos. On the other hand, the current scientific worldview holds that the physical world is primary, and that consciousness somehow, in ways that we do not yet understand, emerges from it. Both views have their challenges. If consciousness is primary, why do we not see it in all things? Conversely if the physical world is primary, how does consciousness arise from something as insentient matter?
Peter Russell, M.A., D.C.S.
Peter Russell 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.
Suggested Donation: $15 to $25
No pre-registration.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Peter Russell ~ Nonduality and the Science of Consciousness ~ In-Person in Berkeley, CA
The spiritual teaching of nonduality, which stems from the Indian philosophy of advaita, teaches that consciousness is the primary reality, the fundamental essence of the cosmos. On the other hand, the current scientific worldview holds that the physical world is primary, and that consciousness somehow, in ways that we do not yet understand, emerges from it. Both views have their challenges. If consciousness is primary, why do we not see it in all things? Conversely if the physical world is primary, how does consciousness arise from something as insentient matter?
Peter Russell 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.
Find out more »May 2023
Riyaz Motan ~ Transforming Difficult Experiences and Emotions With Unconditional Presence
In this event nondual psychotherapist and teacher, Riyaz Motan, will describe, demonstrate, and guide participants through a powerful method of engaging with and transforming our difficult experiences and emotions. He will show us how to engage with our suffering through a 4-step process that utilizes the healing power of unconditional presence. This process of tending to our direct experience runs counter to the usual cognitive, emotional, and somatic ways that most of us are conditioned to respond to our pain and suffering.
In this simple practice, we can begin to truly listen to our direct experience without trying to manipulate, change, analyze or resist it. We will learn to tend to our difficulties from an open, affectionate, curious, and creative space of presence. And, in this patient and unconditional embrace our difficult experiences will begin to unfold and reveal themselves just as a closed flower opens and blossoms in the warmth and radiance of the sun. As we practice this method, we come to see and trust that the direction of our unfoldment reliably arcs towards wholeness, where our human experience is reclaimed and restored and we come into a more full and authentic expression of ourselves.
This method also opens us to:
~ the subtle intuitive and creative capacities within us
~ a deeper trust of our direct experience
~ the innate wisdom of the body.
~ healing and understanding the intergenerational/ancestral dimensions of our suffering.
This event is ideal for spiritually oriented people who are interested in fully embodying their wholeness. It is especially relevant for spiritual practitioners who are wanting a reliable and effective way to not bypass the sticky, painful aspects of human life.
This event can also be very helpful for people in the healing professions as this approach can be powerfully utilized when working with others.
Riyaz has been a practicing psychotherapist in the Bay Area for the past 25 years. From the beginning his passion has been on the integration of Eastern wisdom traditions with Western psychology. His two main teachers, John Prendergast and Adyashanti have deeply influenced his work and his spiritual life. He now increasingly feels called to support people in embodying their whole selves -- their humanity and their divinity.
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.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Jeannie Zandi ~ Abundance & Lack
Join Jeannie and friends to plumb the depths of abundance as well as its shadow, lack. How can we open to and enjoy abundance and how do we navigate when feelings of lack rise?
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 $25
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
Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ A Day of Silence, Movement and Connection ~ In-Person Daylong in Berkeley
Join the Silent Revolution!
A wave of awakening is washing over the earth. This is no coincidence. It is the dire nature of our circumstances that guides us to walk the narrow path because truly there is no alternative. The most authentic and deepest revolution is an inside job.
Yes, Mother-Lover-Earth is hurting. Humanity and the animal kingdom are hurting. In the face of this bleak picture, it is natural to want to do something. But what?
First we must ask, what is the root of this human chaos that is destroying not only Mother Earth but also our connection with our True Nature?
When we take our thought patterns about ourselves and the world to be real, and struggle against this false reality, we create suffering and chaos ensues. It doesn’t work. So what can we do?
We can join the Silent Revolution and go inward, slow down, be still and listen.
It is in this way that we can hear our body’s language and find our way back through our precious form as a portal to wholeness, radiance and YOU!
Together we can learn to rest as silence and meet our humanity compassionately with all its struggle, resistance and beauty. Then True Reality, spacious Silent Being, appears which is You! Live as that. Through strong bonds of connection and affection we create a powerful field which washes over the entire Earth and helps all to awaken. In this way, we can get through anything.
This is what is needed, and the time is NOW!
Come and join the wave of silence waking up to Herself everywhere.
Come and join the Silent Revolution!
Marlies Myoku Cocheret has devoted her life to the Beloved. She brings a potent invitation into the deep Silence that we are. The kindness of her gentle and direct teaching guides us home like a lighthouse. Marlies has been offering satsang and retreat since 2000 when Adyashanti asked her to teach.
Marlies is interviewed in the book Awakened Relating. A Guide To Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships by Lynn Marie Lumiere, and in the book Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom by R.M. Robinson.
“With Adya, the bottom fell out. I deeply knew I am not this body, mind, thought, psyche, and I am also all these things as well. There was no in and/or out. All is One.”
Sliding Scale: $60 to $120
Pre-Register here or...
Pay at Door when you arrive.
Pre-registration online closed at 12 noon, Saturday May 13th (the day before event)
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Lunch Break: There are places close by to go out for lunch, or you may bring your own lunch, though there is no refrigerator access. There's a nice small yard with lawn, as well as some indoor space for eating at the premises.
NOTE: The venue is a kosher-style facility, so no pork or shellfish, and no meat mixed with dairy on premises.
Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ A Day of Silence, Movement and Connection ~ In-Person Daylong in Berkeley
A wave of awakening is washing over the earth. This is no coincidence. It is the dire nature of our circumstances that guides us to walk the narrow path because truly there is no alternative. The most authentic and deepest revolution is an inside job.
When we take our thought patterns about ourselves and the world to be real, and struggle against this false reality, we create suffering and chaos ensues. It doesn’t work. So what can we do?
We can join the Silent Revolution and go inward, slow down, be still and listen.
Together we can learn to rest as silence and meet our humanity compassionately with all its struggle, resistance and beauty. Through strong bonds of connection and affection we create a powerful field which washes over the entire Earth and helps all to awaken. In this way, we can get through anything.
Marlies Myoku Cocheret brings a potent invitation into the deep Silence that we are. She has been offering satsang and retreat since 2000 when Adyashanti asked her to teach.