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Stephan Bodian ~ Wake Up Now: A Weekend Journey Through the Heart of Awakening

Wake Up Now

A Weekend Journey Through the

Heart of Awakening

Saturday & Sunday, December 6-7, 2025

9:00 am Ð 12:00 pm, Pacific Time

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Event will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting.

You’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions.

Awakenings come in many shapes and sizes and are as diverse as the people who experience them. Yet they tend to follow a similar trajectory, from the initial recognition that youÕre not who you thought you were to the full realization of your nondual spiritual nature beyond the mind. Along the way, you may have a range of different experiences and insights that offer motivation and inspiration and deepen and expand your understanding.

In this weekend online intensive, weÕll explore the journey of awakening through teachings, guided meditations, self-inquiry, dialogue, discussion, and ample time to rest in the silence and stillness of Being. In the process youÕll discover that awakening is not a noun, but a verb, not a state but an endless unfolding into the Mystery of what is.

The retreat is a condensed introduction to the “direct approach” I offer in the eight-month School for Awakening and describe in detail in my new book, Infinite Awakening, to be published by Shambhala next spring.

Stephan Bodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition of Zen, Dzogchen, and Advaita Vedanta. HeÕs been offering the School for Awakening, an annual multi-month intensive program in spiritual unfolding and awakened living, since 2007. As a licensed psychotherapist, he brings a deep understanding of the impact of trauma and early conditioning on the process of spiritual realization and offers individual counseling and mentoring in psychospiritual integration. Stephan studied for many years with Advaita master Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001. His books include Wake Up Now and Beyond Mindfulness, and his new book, Infinite Awakening, will be published by Shambhala in spring 2026.

For more information, visit : www.stephanbodian.org

Sliding Scale: $60 to $90

Some Partial Scholarships Available

Please Register Early if you can.

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