April 2020
Stephan Bodian ~ Finding Deeper Ground in Challenging Times: A 4-Week Online Course
Global pandemic. Climate emergency. Financial meltdown. Wherever we turn these days, we’re faced with circumstances that seem to threaten our very survival, couched in terms designed to strike fear into our hearts. How do we find peace in the midst of what seems like impending catastrophe? How do we ride the waves of change to carry us deeper and deeper into the mystery of who we are?
At the ultimate level we can take refuge from the mind’s preoccupation with past and future in the silence and simplicity of the eternal now. As we drop out of the spinning mind, past the layers of fear and self-protection, we encounter the peace and equanimity of our essential nature, which is not disturbed by the inevitable ups and downs, gains and losses, blessings and catastrophes of life.
But when strong emotions like fear, despair, anger, or helplessness sneak up on us and grip our bodies in their unrelenting embrace, we may quickly lose touch with presence and cast about for ways to regain the peace and balance we’ve apparently lost. What options are open to us then? Where can we find a deeper ground?
In this four-week course, we’ll take the unprecedented events that are currently unfolding as our guru and support one another in welcoming our inner experience just as it is, without struggle or identification, while we let go of old certainties and fall into the groundless ground. Each class will include silent and guided meditation, self-inquiry, direct pointers to timeless truth, and ample time to explore our own evolving experience.
Watch a compilation of online events with Stephan here.
Stephan Bodian has been sharing the direct approach to spiritual awakening for more than 40 years. A former Buddhist monk, a licensed psychotherapist, and a longtime student of Advaita master Jean Klein, Stephan received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001. Since 2007 he has taught the annual months-long School for Awakening, which will begin again, in online form, in January 2020. His books include Wake Up Now and Beyond Mindfulness.
Find out more »Stephan Bodian ~ Finding Deeper Ground in Challenging Times: A 4-Week Online Course
Global pandemic. Climate emergency. Financial meltdown. Wherever we turn these days, we’re faced with circumstances that seem to threaten our very survival, couched in terms designed to strike fear into our hearts. How do we find peace in the midst of what seems like impending catastrophe? How do we ride the waves of change to carry us deeper and deeper into the mystery of who we are?
In this four-week course, we’ll take the unprecedented events that are currently unfolding as our guru, and support one another in welcoming our inner experience just as it is, without struggle or identification, while we let go of old certainties and fall into the groundless ground. Each class will include silent and guided meditation, self-inquiry, direct pointers to timeless truth, and ample time to explore our own evolving experience.
Stephan Bodian has been sharing the direct approach to spiritual awakening for more than 40 years. A former Buddhist monk, a licensed psychotherapist, and a longtime student of Advaita master Jean Klein, Stephan received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001. His books include Wake Up Now and Beyond Mindfulness.
Find out more »Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Bathed in the light of the Beloved – Being a Munificent Presence
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We are always bathed in the light of the Beloved, but sometimes we lose track of it.
Let's keep anchoring ourselves in and as the light. Then we can be here and now for our loved ones and all life on earth. When we are anchored in the light, we naturally become a munificent presence to the world. In these times of opportunity, this is exactly what is needed.
Please come join this auspicious journey.
Marlies Myoku 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. She helps people to see that freedom and peace lie not in escaping from difficulties, but rather in completely welcoming and receiving all that the Mystery presents.
She has been offering satsang and retreat since 2000 when Adyashanti asked her to teach. Marlies is trained as a psychologist in The Netherlands, a Hakomi therapist, and a Tantric educator. For over 25 years she has been ushering seekers into living the Divine in the body. She has a passion and a gift for bringing together the Sensual Body and the Silence of our Being.
She lives in Santa Cruz; California, but works internationally. 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.”
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY if you can.
Review in advance info for joining event.
Jeannie Zandi ~ Love and Fear
Join Jeannie and friends to explore the ground of Love and the challenge of fear. Learn where Love lives, how to access it, and how to bring mercy to the creature for its conditioned survival response to uncertainty.
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. Come join us!
Jeannie 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. Residing in Colorado, she travels widely in the US, bringing a down-to-earth embodied teaching of living as love.
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 48 hours.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ Support for Deeper Healing and Awakening in Stressful Times ~ Ongoing Group (3 hours)
We meet on Saturdays, twice a month, 9am-12pm PT.
You are welcome to join any time.
This is an ongoing group for people in a spiritual awakening and embodiment process who are “stress sensitive” need skilled support and information to help them:
∙ Develop stress-regulation and build resilience in the nervous system
∙ Understand what it means to be “stress sensitive”
∙ Learn coping skills for being present with stress and trauma triggers
∙ Not get stuck in negative emotions such as fear
∙ Question limiting beliefs and negative narratives
∙ Have a direct experience of nondual awareness and cultivate the ability to rely on that
The group will have open registration for each meeting, so you can choose which meetings you’d like to attend. For the highest benefit we suggest attending the group regularly. If you cannot join live, you are still welcome to register and benefit from the information and skills provided through the recording.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a nondual psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience as a therapist as well as with nondual teachings. She is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships and The Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment.
Suggested donation: $15 to $35
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please register early if you can.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within 48 hours.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Isaac Shapiro ~ Resting as Who We have Always Been: Being Available as Love
“As life lives us, a recognition of our true nature makes it possible for the automatic, unconscious patterns that produce a sense of disease and separateness, to come home. This allows living as love – the nectar of which benefits all beings.”
Recognizing our true nature is the apex of what is possible for the human expression. In that recognition, the possibility arises to develop skillful means to assist in the integration of collective trauma, conditioning and undigested life experience. We welcome you to explore this possibility together.
Through direct yet playful inquiry into what is, we will be unraveling the conditioning of the mind and the nervous system. The format of the meeting is interactive and spontaneous, deeply in tune with what wants to emerge in the moment.
Isaac Shapiro is an internationally known facilitator and non-dual teacher, fascinated with life lived in alignment with the world’s wisdom traditions. A former student of H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji), Isaac draws on a broad spectrum of understanding, from Advaita to neurophysiology to some of the latest discoveries in quantum physics, which he applies in a light-hearted but direct way.
Through years of working with people, Isaac has cultivated and refined an ability to track what is happening in the nervous system of participants. Bringing this awareness to people’s attention, allows our natural, innate self-regulating mechanism to be re-established.
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 48 hours.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Sonya Amrita Bibilos ~ Awaken at Work: Consciousness in Business
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In our culture, we are taught that business and spirituality do not mix. But in Oneness, work can’t be separate from Consciousness. Awakening at work is a critical element of embodiment and living Truth and Light every day.
Every day, your work needs your awakened awareness – wisdom, truth, compassion, and integrity. When you show up with these qualities, you create a domino effect of positive impact: 1. You feel more clear, aligned and at peace at work; 2. You inspire others by example and encourage them to be authentic, compassionate and wise; 3. You change how you do business, which can ultimately create ripple effects of change in your work culture, business, or industry.
During this event, Sonya will guide you to an experience of empowered embodiment with your work and help you see the ways in which you can bring your awakened wisdom and compassion to work each day. There will be time for questions and answers.
Sonya Amrita Bibilos is a healer, teacher, and coach who experienced a series of life-changing awakenings while working at a Silicon Valley software company, and later while serving as the Program Director for her spiritual teacher, Adyashanti. For almost 15 years, she has been supporting entrepreneurs, executives at all levels, business coaches, successful artists, spiritual teachers, and medical professionals to awaken at work and create Conscious Business.
www.awakenatwork.com
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY if you can.
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Adam Chacksfield ~ Falling Open Together
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Join Adam for Falling Open Together and invite more intimacy with the deeper movement of life through us and between us.
“We are invited to receive the ultimate gift, for which there is no substitute , worth infinitely more than all our dreams and fantasies. We accept this gift by simply falling open. When the heart and mind fall open, we find ourselves intimately present and completely available to what is here. Our struggle with reality dissolves into harmony.”
Described by Pamela Wilson as “a great messenger of truth a unique transmission that does wonderful things for my spirit,” Adam invites us to share the direct experience of the heart and mind falling open. In this effortless opening, the suffering involved in resisting feelings and believing our thoughts spontaneously releases. This allows our natural abundance of joy, peace, wisdom and love to become apparent and available. Heart-centered and direct, Adam offers a path straight into the truth of who you are. Adam Chacksfield offers retreats worldwide exploring the depths that reveal that reveal themselves as we become more intimate with our embodied experience and the vibrantly alive field of relating. He also offers private sessions online and in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY if you can. Review in advance info for joining event.
Ellen Emmet ~ The Awakening Body
This is an opportunity to meet easily with a group of like-minded friends. We gather around the non-dual teaching with a particular focus on the realm of the body, tactility and feelings from the perspective of our shared listening Presence.
Ellen will guide a gentle experiential meditation followed by a conversation where participants may ask questions or share their experiences.
About Ellen
Ellen’s deepest intuition was confirmed when she met her teacher, Francis Lucille. In his presence, she recognised the eternal, limitless and universal nature of our shared reality. Over many years, her understanding deepened to touch all levels of experience. The process of aligning and stabilizing all aspects of her life to this understanding has continued to unfold since then.
Today, Ellen offers meetings and retreats in The Awakening Body, sharing a direct exploration of reality sourced in the tradition of Kashmir Shivaism and self-inquiry as transmitted through Francis Lucille and his lienage.
In addition, she has a private practice as a Psychotherapist, and facilitator of Authentic Movement. Her background of Dance-Movement Therapy and Transpersonal Psychology is shaped by the non-dual understanding.
Ellen lives in Oxford with her husband Rupert Spira, also a teacher in the tradition of non-duality.
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 48 hours.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
May 2020
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ Support for Deeper Healing and Awakening in Stressful Times ~ Ongoing Group (3 hours)
We meet on Saturdays, twice a month, 9am-12pm PT.
You are welcome to join any time.
This is an ongoing group for people in a spiritual awakening and embodiment process who are “stress sensitive” need skilled support and information to help them:
∙ Develop stress-regulation and build resilience in the nervous system
∙ Understand what it means to be “stress sensitive”
∙ Learn coping skills for being present with stress and trauma triggers
∙ Not get stuck in negative emotions such as fear
∙ Question limiting beliefs and negative narratives
∙ Have a direct experience of nondual awareness and cultivate the ability to rely on that
The group will have open registration for each meeting, so you can choose which meetings you’d like to attend. For the highest benefit we suggest attending the group regularly. If you cannot join live, you are still welcome to register and benefit from the information and skills provided through the recording.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a nondual psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience as a therapist as well as with nondual teachings. She is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships and The Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment.
Suggested donation: $15 to $35
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please register early if you can.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within 48 hours.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Tom Kurzka ~ Vulnerability as the Aliveness of Being Itself
The Covid-19 virus has pulled the rug out from under our world. Suddenly we are confronted by the inescapable fact that what we assumed was our solid very knowable world is fragile, fluid and fleeting. Deprived of our normal routines and distractions, we are being plunged into survival fear, into the unknown. Will my world continue? What will happen to me and my loved ones? If we are honest with ourselves, we come face to face with our own vulnerability, the last place our mind structure wants to go. This brings us to something very infantile, where a primitive ameoba-like sense of touch forms preconceptually. As the intellectual capacity develops, this innocent sense of touch gets covered over by a fixated belief in human skin guarding against a reified outside world. If we are willing to completely collapse into this state of infant helplessness, the boundary is seen in all its innocence — fluid alive energy arising and dissipating in the freedom of the moment. Our personality dissolves into Being Itself. To quote Rumi: “At the very moment you become content in affliction, the door of paradise will open.”
In this event we will work with our fears that are being triggered by these troubled and uncertain times. We will use the breath and felt sensation as an anchor out of our distracting and wandering minds. Using the simple appreciation and curiosity inherent in Being, we will gently peel away the layers of protection that cover our existential sense of angst, our vulnerability. In this soft and open place, an immediate aliveness is felt, an immense holding embraces our humanness and soothes our worst fear: “the dissolution of me.” Who we truly are is holding it all.
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 48 hours.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Isaac Shapiro ~ 3-day Online Retreat: Resting as Who We have Always Been: Being Available as Love
Recognizing our true nature is the apex of what is possible for the human expression. In that recognition, the possibility arises to develop skillful means to assist in the integration of collective trauma, conditioning and undigested life experience. We welcome you to explore this possibility together.
Through direct yet playful inquiry into what is, we will be unraveling the conditioning of the mind and the nervous system. The format of the meeting is interactive and spontaneous, deeply in tune with what wants to emerge in the moment.
Isaac Shapiro is an internationally known facilitator and non-dual teacher, fascinated with life lived in alignment with the world’s wisdom traditions. A former student of H.W.L. Poonja (Papaji), Isaac draws on a broad spectrum of understanding, from Advaita to neurophysiology to some of the latest discoveries in quantum physics, which he applies in a light-hearted but direct way.
Through years of working with people, Isaac has cultivated and refined an ability to track what is happening in the nervous system of participants. Bringing this awareness to people’s attention, allows our natural, innate self-regulating mechanism to be re-established.
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 after each session.
Find out more »Jeannie Zandi ~ Mercy for Humanness
Is there a place for humanness in our quest for spiritual transcendence? Is relentless searching and striving and spiritually correcting ourselves truly the way “there?” Join Jeannie to explore the role of mercy and softening open to Being as a key part of embodying your realization.
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. Come join us!
Jeannie 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. Residing in Colorado, she travels widely in the US, bringing a down-to-earth embodied teaching of living as love.
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 48 hours.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ The Clarity Within Confusion
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When we give ourselves the opportunity to leave our busy world behind, we discover a completely different world. This other world is mysterious and filled with the awe of the universe. You will directly experience the simultaneity of the chronic dissociative state and the unfathomable silence that we are. Which is always here.
Our busy world is confusion, struggle and endless dissatisfaction. The world of reality is peace, clarity, love and profound truth.
Of course you have heard all of this before. The question is, which world do you choose to live in?
Together we will devote ourselves to the Being that we are. Along the way obstacles like trauma, pain, confusion and pleasure tend to arise. When we wholeheartedly receive them, naturally Being stands out as the only thing there really is. Which is You!
Please come and join this exploration.
Marlies Myoku 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. She helps people to see that freedom and peace lie not in escaping from difficulties, but rather in completely welcoming and receiving all that the Mystery presents.
She has been offering satsang and retreat since 2000 when Adyashanti asked her to teach. Marlies is trained as a psychologist in The Netherlands, a Hakomi therapist, and a Tantric educator. For over 25 years she has been ushering seekers into living the Divine in the body. She has a passion and a gift for bringing together the Sensual Body and the Silence of our Being.
She lives in Santa Cruz; California and works internationally. 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.”
Suggested donation: $15 to $25
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY if you can. Review in advance info for joining event.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ Support for Deeper Healing and Awakening in Stressful Times ~ Ongoing Group (3 hours)
We meet on Saturdays, twice a month, 9am-12pm PT.
You are welcome to join any time.
This is an ongoing group for people in a spiritual awakening and embodiment process who are “stress sensitive” need skilled support and information to help them:
∙ Develop stress-regulation and build resilience in the nervous system
∙ Understand what it means to be “stress sensitive”
∙ Learn coping skills for being present with stress and trauma triggers
∙ Not get stuck in negative emotions such as fear
∙ Question limiting beliefs and negative narratives
∙ Have a direct experience of nondual awareness and cultivate the ability to rely on that
The group will have open registration for each meeting, so you can choose which meetings you’d like to attend. For the highest benefit we suggest attending the group regularly. If you cannot join live, you are still welcome to register and benefit from the information and skills provided through the recording.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a nondual psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience as a therapist as well as with nondual teachings. She is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships and The Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment.
Suggested donation: $15 to $35
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please register early if you can.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within 48 hours.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
June 2020
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT ~ Support for Deeper Healing and Awakening in Stressful Times ~ Ongoing Group (3 hours)
We meet on Saturdays, twice a month, 9am-12pm PT.
You are welcome to join any time.
This is an ongoing group for people in a spiritual awakening and embodiment process who are “stress sensitive” need skilled support and information to help them:
∙ Develop stress-regulation and build resilience in the nervous system
∙ Understand what it means to be “stress sensitive”
∙ Learn coping skills for being present with stress and trauma triggers
∙ Not get stuck in negative emotions such as fear
∙ Question limiting beliefs and negative narratives
∙ Have a direct experience of nondual awareness and cultivate the ability to rely on that
The group will have open registration for each meeting, so you can choose which meetings you’d like to attend. For the highest benefit we suggest attending the group regularly. If you cannot join live, you are still welcome to register and benefit from the information and skills provided through the recording.
Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a nondual psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience as a therapist as well as with nondual teachings. She is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships and The Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment.
Suggested donation: $15 to $35
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please register early if you can.
The event will be recorded and emailed to participants within 48 hours.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
Jeannie Zandi ~ Opening to the New
Join Jeannie and friends to explore the moment to moment leaving of the past and opening to the ground of being, the fertile field of all future possibilities.
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. Come join us!
Jeannie 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. Residing in Colorado, she travels widely in the US, bringing a down-to-earth embodied teaching of living as love.
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 48 hours.
To check your local time, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter