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Engaged Nonduality ~ With Stephanie Lopez and Lisa Ferguson

Engaged Nonduality:

Acting from the Wellspring of Essential Nature

with With Stephanie Lopez and Lisa Ferguson

Recording will be emailed to participants within a week.

YouÕre welcome to join even if you canÕt attend the live session.

As modern life becomes more complicated each of us faces a multitude of personal, political, and ecological challenges. As spiritual practitioners, our calling is to navigate the metacrisis with integrity and right action. This requires practices that allow for skillful listening both within ourselves and to others, as we open to our authentic response. In these moments, the wellspring of Essential Nature serves as a ground from which we can rest, nourish, renew, and engage.

Drawing on practices of iRest yoga nidra, somatic inquiry, and relational psychology, weÕll dive into restorative practices and ways of being that inform how we meet each moment as it is.

Together weÕll explore:

  • How subtle listening and Ôallowing what isÕ may reveal our calling that arises from the reality of the momentÊ
  • The stabilizing force of grounded presence and embodied peace
  • iRest practices that support skillful means to metabolize intense emotions and core beliefs to reveal messages that bring clarity in action
  • An intuitive inner knowing as we meet each moment
  • Ways of listening inspired by Julian of Norwich that cultivates living as an expression of Essential Nature

In this session Stephanie will share a talk, practices and invite somatic inquiries in relationship to participantÕs questions and shares.

The Engaged Nonduality series

This Engaged Nonduality series, hosted by Lisa Ferguson, explores how nondual wisdom may respond to our world in crisis. We live in a time of multiple intersecting crises that threaten the wellbeing of all life, including climate breakdown, unaligned tech and AI, injustice, war and authoritarianism. The recognition of nonduality has much to offer in these times, including a deep knowing of our wholeness and shared Being, as well as opening to the wellspring of our wise and creative response. This series invites guest presenters to explore how nondual teaching may respond to planetary crises through talks, practices and group participation.

Stephanie Lopez, LISW, C-IAYT, is the Senior Director of Philosophy & Learning and Senior iRest Trainer for iRest Institute. With a deeply embodied understanding of meditation informed by nearly 30 years of immersion in the nondual teachings of yoga, she leads retreats and trainings internationally with a focus on living an authentic and awakened life. Stephanie is a Gestalt psychotherapist, certified yoga therapist, and world-leading meditation teacher who has presented meditation at Google, Spotify, and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She is a contributing author of ÒYoga Nidra Meditations.Ó

Lisa Ferguson, Ph.D. is the founder of Climate Compassion, and has focused on supporting planetary wellbeing as a healing arts practitioner, climate justice activist, organizer and contemplative. She offers psychospiritual support to activists through one-one sessions and small groups, weaving together a focus on awakening, healing and wise action.

Sliding Scale: $15 to $40

However, no one turned away for lack of funds.

If you canÕt pay within the sliding scale, just contact us to let us know what you can contribute.

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