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FREE Online Event with Adam Chacksfield, PhD & Kate Foley, MSW ~ WE Relating
10 am to 12 noon (Pacific Time - San Francisco, CA, USA)
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Join Adam Chacksfield, Ph.D., and Kate Foley, MSW, in an exploration of relating at the deepest level. Through sharing their explorations in We relating and through interactive practices, Adam and Kate will invite you into a new way of being in all your relationships.
The ultimate promise of relating is that we can really meet in the whole truth together rather than from separate positions. In We relating we can fall inside each other, and experience each other’s experience from the inside, completely given to the interbeing of We. In this union we realize the fulfillment of love’s movement through us and simultaneously open to the wondrous possibility of participating in the aliveness of the interbeing. In this shift to relating from inside We rather than from opposite sides, we are transformed at the deepest levels.This is what love has been calling us to all along.
Through this process conditioned habits of relating will be revealed. Adam and Kate will guide you through compassionately opening to the truth of existing ways of relating, bringing love and light to the places that are hurting, scared, or ashamed, so these earlier paradigms of relating can be transcended and natural freedom and aliveness unlocked.
To learn more about the difference between We-Relating and the earlier paradigms of relationship you can download Adam's free Map of Relationship Paradigms
If you’re interested in bringing loving awareness to all your relationships and realizing the possibility of We relating, join this FREE online event. And if you wish to dive deeper into We relating and truly commit to revolutionizing yourself and your relationships, check out Adam and Kate's 3 month We relating course~ WE RELATING: A New Paradigm to Transform All Your Relationships.
Adam is a heart-centered nondual spiritual teacher and the founder of the Center for Nondual Awareness. He's committed to supporting the world-transforming infusion of awareness throughout our lives and relationships. After some profound openings he left his job as a Professor, at age 33, to devote himself to spiritual exploration. In 2010, with Peter Fenner's encouragement and support, Adam started to work with groups and individuals. His teaching was then profoundly influenced by Jeannie Zandi's love-saturated transmission. Adam's deepening into the new paradigm of “we-relating” is now being inspired and supported by his immersion in Patricia Albere's Evolutionary Collective.
Kate is passionate about supporting the embodiment of nondual awareness and cultivating heart centered relationships with self and other. She draws from over a decade of experience with working closely with heart and somatic oriented nondual teachers such as Adyashanti, Jeannie Zandi, Pamela Wilson, and Isaac Shapiro. Kate has been trained as a spaceholder for individuals and groups with Jeannie Zandi. She has facilitated online retreat sharing groups for Isaac Shapiro, Pamela Wilson, and John Prendergast. Kate also has a background in social work and Reiki and offers heart centered awareness counseling.
Jeannie Zandi ~ Standing in the Heart
10 am to 12 noon (Pacific Time - San Francisco, CA, USA)
Join Jeannie and friends for an exploration of standing in the power and sweetness of the grounded, unlimited heart. 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, a spontaneous talk 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 and Canada, bringing a down-to-earth embodied teaching of living as love.
Suggested donation: $10 to $15
Find out more »Ellen Emmet ~ The Awakening Body
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In our daily lives, the body is seldom tasted as it is. We rarely listen to its language or allow it to simply unfold and blossom in its natural original intelligence and to discover its real essence.
In fact we have deeply disconnected from this level of experience. Even when we turn back towards the body, we come with agendas and ideas that we project upon it, forcing the body into yet another mode. This only perpetuates a felt identification with a body, that may seem improved, but in fact remains a mere projections for the separate limited self that seems to live in its center.
Using guided meditation, simple postures, free movements, breathing, and visualizations we will reestablish our true identity as ever-present and unlocated Awareness and reacquaint ourselves with our body directly, as free of concepts or images as possible. In this contemplation, resistances and chains of bodily contractions, the habits that create the illusion that our identity is limited, located and separate are revealed for what they are: feelings and sensations that rise and unfold in Awareness. We come to feel our true identity as an open field of tactile openness, limitless, vibrating and ever-present in which the body can rise out of and return to moment by moment.
Please sit comfortably on a chair or on a cushion in as comfortable and alert a position as possible with some space all around you.
There will be time for questions and sharing.
Ellen started to teach after studying for many years with her teacher Francis Lucille. She is also a licensed transpersonal psychotherapist with a background in movement, dance and somatic therapies.
Suggested donation: $10 to $15
Find out more »Andrea Colombu – The Eye of the Storm
10 am to 12 noon (Pacific Time - San Francisco, CA, USA)
"Although our existence is undoubtedly marked by different forms of suffering, struggles, and challenges, finding inner peace and grounded awareness is not only possible, but it is also the reflection of our true nature."
In our time together, Andrea will invite us into a contemplative space where we can reveal and rediscover our true nature in order to cultivate and support its integration in our everyday life, especially during difficult and uncertain times.
Andrea Colombu is a psychotherapist, a meditation teacher, a nondual facilitator, and a mindfulness educator. In each of these roles, Andrea offers his heartfelt dedication to the awakening and rediscovery of our true nature with compassionate wisdom, authentic presence, clarity, and a sincere sense of service.
In his therapy work and Dharma offerings, Andrea brings contemporary nondual wisdom, psychological savvy, and over fifteen years of dedicated spiritual practice in different Buddhist traditions. He practices contemplative-based psychotherapy and holds regular meditation and awareness gatherings and retreats in the San Francisco East Bay Area.
Suggested donation: $10 to $15
Find out more »Jeannie Zandi ~ Standing in the Heart
10 am to 12 noon (Pacific Time - San Francisco, CA, USA)
Join Jeannie and friends for an exploration of standing in the power and sweetness of the grounded, unlimited heart. 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, a spontaneous talk 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 and Canada, bringing a down-to-earth embodied teaching of living as love.
Suggested donation: $10 to $15
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