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Susanne Marie ~ Your Spiritual Map ~ Bay Area Daylong Retreat

Where are you within your spiritual journey? Are you aware of the leading edge of your understanding? Do you recognize what you are currently working on evolutionarily?

Everybody who is called home and takes it seriously is guided to accomplish the goal of living in an undividedÊmanner. Life is hard at work to help bring us into innerÊalignment. Along the way we are given tools, teachers & teachings, as well as the life experiences we need to help us grow. This includes challenges that can lead one to become primed and committed to seek what is true.

Whether we know it or not, we are always a scientific experiment, experimenting on ourselves. This ongoing experiment teaches us the power of attention and where to place it. Opening to trust the wisdom contained in that attention, we become attuned to spiritualÊpractices we need, depending on which area of growth is necessary at the time.Ê It could be a time of undoing, of stripping away of the belief in a separate self. It could be a time of abiding peacefully in the unknown, realizing that this too is a teaching. It can also be a time of healing old wounds,Êwhere oneÕs pain is asking to be met. There can be a calling to honestly enter the world while embodying awakening. It completely depends on which facet must be polished at the time. Rather than being told by an authority beyond yourself how (and in what order) further steps in the process of realization are to be addressed based on an external model, we can learn to listen deeply and to trust the guidance that is intended specifically for you. Everyone is unique in their journey back to remembrance, and this is to be honored.ÊWe are multifacetedÊbeings, and at any given time a particular facet is offered up to be polished and liberated.

During our time together, we will explore ways toÊlisten to ourselves more sensitively,Êand we will be guided to attune ourselves to the medicine we need to continue gracefully on ourÊjourney.ÊWe will share with the group andÊinÊdyads, exploringÊour innate ability to feel into or sense our inner pulse of knowing, and finally how to gain confidence in it and to trust it.ÊSometimes it takes support to affirm theÊcurrent trail one isÊtaking.

Bio:

Featured in conversation with Adyashanti on Buddha at the Gas Pump as well as on Conscious TV, Susanne Marie offers teachings in support of freedom and the celebration of our common essence of love and unity with all life. Susanne, the parent of two young adults, offers spiritual mentoring, online and in-person group facilitation, as well as retreats.

www.susannemarie.org

Adyashanti and Susanne Marie on the Falling Away of Self – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

Susanne Marie ÒLiving Beyond UnityÓ Interview by Renate McNay

The meeting will be from 11:00am to 5:00pm, with a break for lunch.

Please bring your own lunch, or feel free to go into town to one of the restaurants or to Good Earth Natural Foods.

We hope you will join us!

Pre-registration required, as space is limited

Registration closes at 5 pm on March 22nd

Suggested Donation: $60 to $120

No one turned away for lack of funds.

Pay when you arrive.

For inquiries contact LocalEvents@opencircle.net

Location:

The meeting will be held at a private home in the Fairfax hills, with views of Mount Tam and hiking trails.

Address and directions will be provided upon registration.

If you have symptoms of a viral infection, or have had a recent

Covid exposure or positive test, please stay home out of consideration for others.

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