Open Circle Events:

Susanne Marie ~ Celebrating our Interconnection

Satsang 2-4 pm

Refreshments until 5

Celebrating our Interconnection: Join Susanne Marie and friends as we create a circle with the intention to open to what is everybody’s birthright: the light, love, and depth of your own Being.

The satsang starts with a short meditation, then comments by Susanne Marie, followed by Q&A and discussion.

Susanne Marie offers teachings in support of freedom, sacred mutuality, and the celebration of our common essence of love and unity with all life. Her work is transformational and empowering, as she points to the remembering of That which we have always been, allowing truth to become ever more conscious of itself through a human life. In a relaxed, empathetic and personable manner, and with deep personal insight, humor, and grace, she helps others deconstruct their beliefs of what living a life of freedom looks like.

The parent of two young adults, Susanne offers spiritual mentoring, online and in-person group facilitation, as well as retreats.

Suggested Donation: $10- $20, no one turned away.

Location: 8476 Sonoma Ave, Sebastopol, CA. Park on Sonoma Ave.

Walk down the short driveway to the house with a carport.

Please arrive 10-15 minutes early. Limited seating outside, so please consider bringing a chair.

From susannemarie.org

“I became a seeker at the early age of seven. I felt like I was engaged in a losing battle with the conditioned trance of the adult world, rendering the felt sense of unity I had throughout my childhood for the most part, unconscious. I sought for that lost part in various ways over the course of my young adult life, leading to the study of yoga, meditation, and consciousness. Finding a direction that helped make sense of my life was a relief to my system. My goal was a return to wholeness.

Over time, I was led to a few remarkable teachers and teachings, as well as a variety of difficult life lessons which eventually cast me onto an empty shore where I could not sustain beliefs Ð even in what spirituality could give me. For a long time, accrued conditioning, both my own as well as collective, fell away as I unraveled back to essential nature.

Many realizations have occurred over the years, and I can now say that we humans are both more simple and more complex than I could have imagined. For seeking to end is a relief. Remembering intrinsic wholeness is a grace and helps make life meaningful. The revelation of the emptiness of true nature, while we move and live simultaneously as a human being, is a miracle and mystery Ð one for which I am grateful and which leads to my sharing.”

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