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August 2026

Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 @ 9:00am & Mon. 8:00am (PT), Ongoing Mondays & Wednesdays
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An event every week that begins at 9:00 am on Wednesday, repeating until Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Mondays: 8:00am – 8:30am Pacific Time
Wednesdays : 9:00am – 9:30am Pacific Time
Ongoing every week, with rare exceptions. Check Full Calendar to verify dates.

Join for a group meditation – just us, without a teacher. Do your own practice silently in the company of others. There will be no talk or guidance – only a bell to start and finish. Let’s be present, together.

After half an hour of silent sitting, there will be space for a brief hello in the end, if we like.

Please be seated by the time meditation starts, so that we can begin together. You are welcome to have your camera and microphone on (unless you have a lot of background noise), so that we can feel as if we were in one space.

The zoom link remains the same for all the sessions, so you are welcome to register only once and save the link for future reference.


To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter

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Ryan Burton ~ The Awareness Release & Reverse Method

Sunday, August 23, 2026 @ 9:00am-11:00am (Pacific Time)

For centuries, meditation instruction has rested on a single assumption: that awareness must be held. Whether directed at the breath or turned back upon the mind itself in non-dual inquiry, the instruction is the same — apply effort, sustain attention, and don’t let go. The result is a state of focus that is genuinely useful, but which remains conditioned and maintained by concentration.

This workshop teaches the opposite...... LEARN MORE HERE

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Ryan Burton ~ The Awareness Release & Reverse Method

Sunday, August 23, 2026 @ 9:00am-11:00am (Pacific Time)

For centuries, meditation instruction has rested on a single assumption: that awareness must be held — apply effort, sustain attention, and don’t let go. The result is a state of focus that is genuinely useful, but which remains conditioned and maintained by concentration.

This workshop teaches the opposite.

Rather than sustaining awareness, you will be instructed to release it.
The aim is to bring to rest the grasping, efforting, and attempting functions of the mind — the very machinery that keeps the present moment feeling like something to be reached rather than something already fully here.

Ryan Burton is a meditation teacher and guide in the non-dual traditions, with over seventeen years of practice across Dhammakaya Theravada, Dzogchen, Vedanta, and Zen.

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Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)

Monday, August 24, 2026 @ 8am & Wed. 9:00am (PT), Ongoing Mondays & Wednesdays
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An event every week that begins at 8:00 am on Monday, repeating until Monday, August 31, 2026

Join us for a silent group meditation. Do your own practice quietly in the company of others. Let’s be present, together. .... more details
Mon.: 8:00am – 8:30am (PT) and Wed.: 9:00am – 9:30am (PT)
Ongoing drop-in group – attend as often as you like.
Weekly, with rare exceptions. Verify dates on
Full Calendar.

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Ajaya Sommers ~ Awake Attachment™ – Intimacy with Life as a Path of Embodied Awakening ~ 4 Part Online Series

Monday, August 24, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00pm (Pacific Time), part of a 4-Part Series, includes Aug 24, 27, 31 & Sep 3

When the separate self dissolves - and awakens to ones natural being, in deep meditation, in nature, in love - what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything.

This is not an achievement. It is our original nature.

And yet most of us cannot sustain it. Because the nervous system learned, early, that connection was not always safe.

What we long for most - a holy, primal intimacy with life itself, with ourselves, with other humans, with the more-than-human world - is also what we fear most. And the very places we feel most broken, most defended, most disconnected, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They are the doorway into it..... LEARN MORE HERE

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Ajaya Sommers ~ Awake Attachment™ – Intimacy with Life as a Path of Embodied Awakening ~ 4 Part Online Series

Monday, August 24, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00pm (Pacific Time), part of a 4-Part Series, includes Aug 24, 27, 31 & Sep 3

When the separate self dissolves and awakens to one's natural being, in deep meditation, in nature, in love, what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything.

And yet most of us cannot sustain it. Because the nervous system learned early that connection was not always safe.

But the very places we feel most broken, most defended, most disconnected, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They are the doorway into it. What if the path is not away from attachment but through it, into the embodied realization of being both awake and attached?

Awakening to our true nature does not automatically resolve the nervous system patterns organized around protection. This series explores that meeting point — where spiritual realization and the living body learn to breathe together.

Ajaya Sommers' work lives at the intersection of somatic intelligence, embodied awakening, relational intimacy, and non-dual inquiry, helping people reclaim presence, coherence, and deeper connection to themselves, others and Life itself.

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Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 @ 9:00am & Mon. 8:00am (PT), Ongoing Mondays & Wednesdays
|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every week that begins at 9:00 am on Wednesday, repeating until Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Mondays: 8:00am – 8:30am Pacific Time
Wednesdays : 9:00am – 9:30am Pacific Time
Ongoing every week, with rare exceptions. Check Full Calendar to verify dates.

Join for a group meditation – just us, without a teacher. Do your own practice silently in the company of others. There will be no talk or guidance – only a bell to start and finish. Let’s be present, together.

After half an hour of silent sitting, there will be space for a brief hello in the end, if we like.

Please be seated by the time meditation starts, so that we can begin together. You are welcome to have your camera and microphone on (unless you have a lot of background noise), so that we can feel as if we were in one space.

The zoom link remains the same for all the sessions, so you are welcome to register only once and save the link for future reference.


To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter

Find out more »

Ajaya Sommers ~ Awake Attachment™ – Intimacy with Life as a Path of Embodied Awakening ~ 4 Part Online Series

Thursday, August 27, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00pm (Pacific Time), part of a 4-Part Series, includes Aug 24, 27, 31 & Sep 3
|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Monday and Thursday, repeating until Thursday, September 3, 2026

When the separate self dissolves - and awakens to ones natural being, in deep meditation, in nature, in love - what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything.

This is not an achievement. It is our original nature.

And yet most of us cannot sustain it. Because the nervous system learned, early, that connection was not always safe.

What we long for most - a holy, primal intimacy with life itself, with ourselves, with other humans, with the more-than-human world - is also what we fear most. And the very places we feel most broken, most defended, most disconnected, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They are the doorway into it..... LEARN MORE HERE

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Sarah Taylor ~ The Call of Aliveness

Sunday, August 30, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00pm (Pacific Time)

Awakening can bring greater peace, clarity, and freedom. And on this path, many of us eventually encounter another invitation: the call to live more fully.

Beneath our habits, fears, and familiar identities, there is a deeper current moving through life. It is a natural impulse toward authenticity, vitality, creativity, and expression. It may appear as a longing, a curiosity, an unexpected desire…or a pulsating sense that something within us is ready to emerge!...... LEARN MORE HERE

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Silent Group Meditation (Free, No Guidance)

Monday, August 31, 2026 @ 8am & Wed. 9:00am (PT), Ongoing Mondays & Wednesdays
|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every week that begins at 8:00 am on Monday, repeating until Monday, August 31, 2026

Join us for a silent group meditation. Do your own practice quietly in the company of others. Let’s be present, together. .... more details
Mon.: 8:00am – 8:30am (PT) and Wed.: 9:00am – 9:30am (PT)
Ongoing drop-in group – attend as often as you like.
Weekly, with rare exceptions. Verify dates on
Full Calendar.

Find out more »

Ajaya Sommers ~ Awake Attachment™ – Intimacy with Life as a Path of Embodied Awakening ~ 4 Part Online Series

Monday, August 31, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00pm (Pacific Time), part of a 4-Part Series, includes Aug 24, 27, 31 & Sep 3
|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Monday and Thursday, repeating until Thursday, September 3, 2026

When the separate self dissolves - and awakens to ones natural being, in deep meditation, in nature, in love - what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything.

This is not an achievement. It is our original nature.

And yet most of us cannot sustain it. Because the nervous system learned, early, that connection was not always safe.

What we long for most - a holy, primal intimacy with life itself, with ourselves, with other humans, with the more-than-human world - is also what we fear most. And the very places we feel most broken, most defended, most disconnected, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They are the doorway into it..... LEARN MORE HERE

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September 2026

Ajaya Sommers ~ Awake Attachment™ – Intimacy with Life as a Path of Embodied Awakening ~ 4 Part Online Series

Thursday, September 3, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00pm (Pacific Time), part of a 4-Part Series, includes Aug 24, 27, 31 & Sep 3
|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Monday and Thursday, repeating until Thursday, September 3, 2026

When the separate self dissolves - and awakens to ones natural being, in deep meditation, in nature, in love - what remains is not emptiness. It is intimacy. With everything.

This is not an achievement. It is our original nature.

And yet most of us cannot sustain it. Because the nervous system learned, early, that connection was not always safe.

What we long for most - a holy, primal intimacy with life itself, with ourselves, with other humans, with the more-than-human world - is also what we fear most. And the very places we feel most broken, most defended, most disconnected, are not obstacles to that intimacy. They are the doorway into it..... LEARN MORE HERE

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Satsang with Stephen D’Amico: Presence and Direct Inquiry

Saturday, September 12, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00pm (Pacific Time)

Join author and spiritual teacher Stephen D’Amico for Satsang—a gathering dedicated to the shared recognition of our true nature.

In this session, Stephen will energetically shift you out of the narrative of the seeker and draw you into the silent presence that is already here.
Following a brief meditation and a reflection on the mechanics of awakening, the floor will open for personalized guidance and deep inquiry.

Whether you'd like the opportunity to ask your most pressing spiritual questions, or simply wish to resonate in a palpable field of heightened awareness, this space will help clarify the way things are....
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Jeannie Zandi ~ Love Beyond Gender ~ Liberating the Heart from Gender Conditioning

Sunday, September 13, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00noon (Pacific Time)

From the time we're very young, we begin learning who we're supposed to be. We absorb countless messages about what it means to be a woman or a man, which emotions are acceptable, how we're expected to love, speak, lead, care, and belong. Much of this conditioning happens so early and so subtly that we mistake it for the truth.

Beneath these learned roles is a heart that longs to love freely and live truthfully.

In this gathering, we'll explore the ways gender conditioning can shape our expression of love, our relationship with vulnerability and strength, our ability to receive and to give..... LEARN MORE HERE

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Arian Mateo ~ Open Meeting in Presence

Sunday, September 13, 2026 @ 6:00pm - 8:00pm (Pacific Time)

An open meeting in presence.

We sit together in loving awareness.
There is guidance, inquiry, and shared reflection.

You may listen, speak, ask questions, or simply sit.
All experiences are welcome.
Silence, thought, emotion, sensation.

A space to return to what is already here,
in the company of others........ LEARN MORE HERE

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Kristin Kirk ~ Dissolving The Identity Game

Sunday, September 20, 2026 @ 12:00pm-2:00pm (Pacific Time)

Explore the Fabric of Identity; The heart of Being everything and nothing; and discover the wonder of Being empty radiant surrendered empowered presence. What happens when you keep surrendering everything? How does surrendered presence radiate and function as a human being

When we dissolve through the identity game... We discover an infinite and invincible radiant truth within.

Come join Kristin Kirk for a powerful transmission and fresh look at awakening and embodiment..... LEARN MORE HERE

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