May 2022
Shakti Caterina Maggi ~ FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT: Non Dual Understanding in Challenging Times ~ 3 Part Retreat
In a world ever more split in divisions, we see more and more the other as the enemy to fight.
The opportunity to awaken in the face of this global scenario is huge, when we understand that
Life is mirroring us all the places where we still hold on to divisions.
We can learn from this situation and use them for our own spiritual growth, bringing light in our life and all around us.
Spiritual guide and author, Shakti is a meditation teacher recognized throughout the world 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.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ TRUE HEALING: BODY-MIND & BEING ~ 3-Part Retreat
3-Part Transformational Retreat
May 27, 28 & 29, 2022
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time, each day
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Event will be recorded and
emailed to participants after each meeting.
You're welcome to join even if you can't attend all the live sessions.
This retreat offers an opportunity to take time out of daily routines to focus together into the Being we all share and find healing and balance within our human body-mind.
True healing requires an awakening of body, mind and Being. We will bring together spiritual wisdom and somatic psychology to focus on both waking up to True Nature and resolving the human issues we struggle with such as depression, anxiety, low self-worth, and illness. These issues, along with the life problems they create, can interfere with our ability to rest as Being.
The retreat will offer:
- Deepened recognition of our True Nature through guided meditations and sharing truth
- Somatic practices to help regulate the nervous system and build resilience
- Psychotherapeutic processes for resolving the blocks to our full expression
- Sharing and dialogue in the group
- Practices to do between meetings on retreat days
The Presence of our own Being is the only true healing force there is. As we awaken to/as Being and allow it to fully meet all our humanness as it is, we are healed and transformed from within. We are also directed to whoever or whatever is needed for our healing.
You are invited to join the retreat sessions live to benefit from group interaction and processing with Lynn Marie. You are also welcomed to register and attend the retreat by recording on your own time.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a psychotherapist and author with a focus on bringing awakened consciousness to the healing of our human body-mind issues. Her work is grounded in nondual spiritual teachings and psychotherapeutic and somatic training. Lynn Marie is a contributing author for the Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, co-author of The Awakening West, and is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships.
For more information se: www.lynnmarielumiere.com
Sliding Scale: $75 to $135
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ TRUE HEALING: BODY-MIND & BEING ~ 3-Part Retreat
This retreat offers an opportunity to take time out of daily routines to focus together into the Being we all share and find healing and balance within our human body-mind.
We will bring together spiritual wisdom and somatic psychology to focus on both waking up to True Nature and resolving the human issues we struggle with such as depression, anxiety, low self-worth, and illness. These issues, along with the life problems they create, can interfere with our ability to rest as Being.
The Presence of our own Being is the only true healing force there is. As we awaken to/as Being and allow it to fully meet all our humanness as it is, we are healed and transformed from within. Lynn Marie Lumiere is a psychotherapist and author with a focus on bringing awakened consciousness to the healing of our human body-mind issues. Her work is grounded in nondual spiritual teachings and psychotherapeutic and somatic training.
June 2022
Boyan Milouchev ~ Embodied Spirituality: Trusting Guidance
All of us are looking to find our innate Peace and experience our True Self, but also - and most importantly - to maintain this Peace throughout our day-to-day lives. Embodied spirituality is the understanding that this Presence is constant and changeless, and results in the full embracing of what is unfolding, moment-by-moment.
As part of this process of embodiment, many spiritual traditions suggest letting go of planning and to-do lists, tuning into intuition to receive answers and guidance, or even surrendering our decision-making process to a "Higher Will" that knows us perfectly.
During this event, we will explore:
- What is Guidance and how it can help you release obstacles to Presence
- Making decisions through Divination
- The true meaning behind "the last step is taken by God"
- The nature of reality, processing, and everything always unfolding perfectly
- Living your unique purpose
The event is for you if you are ready to surrender on an ever-deeper level and see where Life takes you. It will begin with a 20-minute meditation followed by a talk and a Q&A session.
Bio:
From an early age, Boyan was fascinated by the nature of the mind and our experience of reality. After exploring NLP, the Three Principles, and A Course in Miracles, his journey of seeking came to an end when he came across non-duality. Today, Boyan supports others along the spiritual journey through one-to-one sessions and online events and programmes. He lovingly guides individuals and groups toward the understanding of the essential cause of their suffering, and to realise their innate wholeness. His approach is gentle but direct and especially well-suited for those who are ready to embrace life and live it fully.
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
Jeannie Zandi ~ Self Love
From every corner of the self growth movement we are encouraged to love ourselves, and that to love others we have to love ourselves first. Who loves who? Join Jeannie for an exploration of what self love is and how to turn toward it.
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
Gail Brenner, Ph.D ~ Waking Up in Our Relationships: The Sacred Path of Intimacy and Deep Trauma Healing ~ 3-Part Online Course
3-Part Online Course
June 9, 10 & 11, 2022
9:00 am – 12:00 noon, Pacific Time, each day
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Event will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting.
You're welcome to join even if you can't attend all the live sessions.
Are you passionate about embodying awakened consciousness in everyday life? Then let’s explore our relationships. Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
In this sacred time of retreat together, we create a field of safe space to explore the patterns we bring to our relationships that create a sense of separation—from ourselves, others, and all of life. These are fear-based programmed ways of being that we learned early in our lives and left us feeling unsafe, rejected, unseen, or disconnected.
People-pleasing, withdrawal, inflating or deflating ourselves in comparison to others, holding grudges, and defensiveness… These are signs of unexamined contractions that are waiting for liberation.
Untying the knots that lie at the core of our relationship struggles brings freshness, ease, and space for new and authentic ways of being. We discover we can meet the tender places in ourselves with deep acceptance and care and have space to open to intimate connection beyond our personal selves.
With guided inner reflection, journaling exercises, small group practice, and Q&A, we’ll practice creating safe space for deep connection. We’ll explore practical ways to be more present in our interactions. You’ll leave with new insights, ways to experiment in daily life, and tools for being in your relationships as a pathway for awakening.
Day 1: Our relationship with our own experience. We’ll begin by exploring how we disconnect from our selves and practice bringing loving awareness to all of our experience.
Day 2: Our relationships with others. We’ll identify patterns of relating that develop from our early experience and practice staying grounded in ourselves so we can find space to stay present in our interactions.
Day 3: Practical tools and skills. We’ll explore and practice new ways of relating so you can show up in your relationships more authentic and loving.
Please feel free to contact Gail with any questions about the program at gail@gailbrenner.com.
“I am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.” ~Susan R.
“What you’re pointing to is so difficult to talk about in words, but you describe it so brilliantly and give such practical, actionable steps to follow that I truly, deeply get it. I just cannot express to you how transformative your approach has been for me.” ~Sandra Joseph, Broadway star and author of Unmasking What Matters
Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups, and is known for creating the sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration. She is the author of The End of Self-Help and Suffering Is Optional.
Sliding Scale: $80 to $140
Some Partial Scholarships Available
Please Register Early if you can.
Gail Brenner, Ph.D ~ Waking Up in Our Relationships: The Sacred Path of Intimacy and Deep Trauma Healing ~ 3-Part Online Course
Are you passionate about embodying awakened consciousness in everyday life? Then let’s explore our relationships and the patterns we bring to our relationships that create a sense of separation—from ourselves, others, and all of life.
Untying the knots that lie at the core of our relationship struggles brings freshness, ease, and space for new and authentic ways of being. We discover we can meet the tender places in ourselves with deep acceptance and care, and have space to open to intimate connection beyond our personal selves.
Your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.
Gail Brenner. is your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups, and is known for creating the sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration.
Find out more »Chesaray ~ Love’s Grit and Grace: Embodying Love within our Humanity
"Love's transmission is infinite and unconditional. Love can fill every feeling of lack and pain we perceive. Our purpose is to discover and embody this love... to let it live us." ~Chesaray
This two-hour meeting is an invitation into the experiential understanding of the Divine. Our time together will be a still or moving meditation, a talk and exchanges. This work aims to foster one's capacity to be on the edge of growth and aliveness. These palpable guided meditations and exchanges enrich one's receptivity to Grace, encourage deep somatic inquiry, and support awakening in all directions.
Chesaray’s search for “What is Real?” began as early as she can remember. After losing several significant loved ones in her teens, she was driven into a deep contemplation of grief, God, and death. This drew her interest to travel and live in India where she studied with several masters. Upon returning she began to immerse herself with other master teachers from the west. This opened a series of profound awakenings which set her in the direction of devoting her life to Self-Realization. After years of development, a plunge into a dark night of the soul and two brain injuries, Chesaray was stripped of her common sense of self and the world. As a result, her initially unbearable descent turned inside out and became a bow to Life, an unconditional love for the grit and joys of living. It is this Love that guides her heart and mind as she serves the awakening of humanity.
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
Unmani ~ Longing to Be Free: Introduction
For so many of us, we started out on this spiritual path with a deep longing to come home. Even if you didn’t have any real concept of what that meant at the time, maybe you had a heart-felt longing that was impossible to conceptualise. Perhaps you felt disconnected and misunderstood in a world where the mind is revered, and a true or heart knowing is belittled or overlooked. Maybe you felt so alone and isolated without any reflection of who you really are. Maybe over time you learnt ways to survive in this strange world which compromised yourself and your deepest longing. The sense of disconnection and separation became almost normal. At some point, Life calls us to reconnect with our deepest longing to come home. This longing is beyond all the spiritual concepts or any other concepts. It is the longing to meet yourself right now, and no longer compromise or overlook this.
About Unmani
Meeting with Unmani is meeting with yourself in the most real and alive way. Unmani is originally from the UK, but has lived in many countries around the world. Since she was a child, Unmani didn’t identify with being a separate individual, but assumed there was something wrong with her, until she came across the expression of Satsang and nonduality. Truth has always been her passion. Unmani had teachers including Osho, Dolano, Nathan Gill, Tony Parsons, Gangaji and several other amazing people who are not considered ‘teachers’.
In 2013 she met her husband, the wonderful musician, and courageous lover of life, Robert Hanuman. In 2015 their son, Sky, was born. On 3rd January 2018, Robert Hanuman died suddenly from a heart attack while they were in India. Robert Hanuman’s presence deeply influenced Unmani’s teaching, and in the time they were together it evolved into a more human expression of the courage to live the paradox of the Absolute, living as this human. Robert put Unmani’s words to his beautiful classical guitar music and Unmani still plays his songs at her meetings.
Unmani has been holding meetings and retreats all over the world for since 2003, and in this time people have been deeply touched by her work: She meets each person exactly where they are at, and in whatever they need at the time, while at the same time holding them in the truth of who they really are beyond it all. This combination, and paradox, of the personal and impersonal, brings so much depth, openness and healing to people’s lives. They wake up to who they really are, and discover how this is lived and integrated into their daily lives.
Unmani has written 3 books ‘I am Life itself’, ‘Die to Love’ and ‘The Courage to Come Alive’ (soon to be published). Unmani holds regular meetings and retreats several times a year as well as monthly webinars on different themes. There are many videos of her teaching from the past nearly 20 years on her Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Unmani
Robert Hanuman’s music can be downloaded on iTunes here: https://music.apple.com/nl/artist/robert-hanuman/1329878840?l=en
Unmani’s website is: www.die-to-love.com
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
Unmani ~ Longing to Be Free
For so many of us, we started out on this spiritual path with a deep longing to come home. Maybe you had a heart-felt longing that was impossible to conceptualisze. This longing is beyond all the spiritual concepts or any other concepts. It is the longing to meet yourself right now, and no longer compromise or overlook this.
Meeting with Unmani is meeting with yourself in the most real and alive way. Unman, who is originally from the UK, has been holding meetings and retreats all over the world since 2003, and in this time people have been deeply touched by her work: She meets each person exactly where they are at, and in whatever they need at the time, while at the same time holding them in the truth of who they really are beyond it all.
This meeting is an introduction to a three-day retreat coming up on June 24-26th.
Find out more »