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SUMMARY:Shakti Caterina Maggi ~ FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT: Non Dual Understanding in Challenging Times ~ 3 Part Retreat
DESCRIPTION:May 7\, 14 & 22 \n10:00 am Ð 12:00 pm and 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm\, PDT \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nFROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT \nnon dual understanding in challenging times \nWHAT YOU WILL FIND  \n\n9 hours of live teaching\nstreaming available\nexperiential session and live Q&A\n\nTOPIC \nIn a world ever more split in divisions\, we see more and more the other as the enemy to fight. The opportunity to awaken in the face of this global scenario is huge\, when we understand that Life is mirroring us all the places where we still hold on to divisions. \nWe can learn from this situation and use them for our own spiritual growth\, bringing light in our life and all around us. \n1) Distancing from the story\, perceiving Reality – MAY 7th \n10:00 am – 12:00 noon PDT main session \n12:30 pm – 1:30 pm PDT perception exercises \n2) The true meaning of turning other cheek  – MAY 14th \n10:00 am – 12:00 noon PDT main session \n12:30 pm – 1:30 pm PDT perception exercises \n3) Learning from darkness\, being truth – MAY 22nd \n10:00 am – 12:00 noon PDT main session \n12:30 pm – 1:30 pm PDT perception exercises \nBIO  \nSpiritual guide and author\, Shakti is a meditation teacher recognized throughout the world as one of the most authentic and profound voices of contemporary spirituality. Combining the vision of Advaita and non-dual Tantra with a contemporary approach\, Shakti offers with humanity\, compassion and great clarity an inner technology to dissolve that contraction of suffering that accompanies our lives and access a space of peace and unconditional love towards life. \nwww.shakticaterinamaggi.com \nSliding Scale: $180 to $250 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/shakti-caterina-maggi-from-darkness-to-light-non-dual-understanding-in-challenging-times-3-part-retreat-2/
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SUMMARY:John J. Prendergast\, Ph.D ~ ÒEmbodying SpiritÓ ~ 4-Part Course
DESCRIPTION:4-Part Online Course \nNov. 13\, 20\, 27 & Dec. 4\, 2022 \n10:00 am Ð 12:00 noon Pacific Time\, each day \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed  \nto participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nIn this 4-part series we will take a fresh look at what the process of embodying spirit entails. In the first meeting we will explore the importance of spiritual embodiment\, what the body is\, the process by which the body becomes infused with the light of awareness\, the role of conditioning\, and the practice of welcoming the body from Presence. The three following meetings we will apply these insights to the most common areas of subtle somatic contraction as we embody spirit: the heart area (self love and acceptance)\, the solar plexus (control)\, and the base of the spine (survival). There will be guided meditations\, talks\, group meditative inquiries\, and experiential conversations. \nJohn J. Prendergast\, Ph.D.\, is the author of The Deep Heart and In Touch\, a retired Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at CIIS\, and a retired psychotherapist. He studied for many years with the European sage\, Jean Klein\, as well as with Adyashanti\, and offers online and in-person retreats. \nwww.listeningfromsilence.com \nYouTube channel \nSliding Scale: $80 to $140 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/john-j-prendergast-ph-d-oembodying-spirito-4-part-course-2/
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SUMMARY:John J. Prendergast\, Ph.D ~ ÒEmbodying SpiritÓ ~ 4-Part Course
DESCRIPTION:4-Part Online Course \nNov. 13\, 20\, 27 & Dec. 4\, 2022 \n10:00 am Ð 12:00 noon Pacific Time\, each day \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed  \nto participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nIn this 4-part series we will take a fresh look at what the process of embodying spirit entails. In the first meeting we will explore the importance of spiritual embodiment\, what the body is\, the process by which the body becomes infused with the light of awareness\, the role of conditioning\, and the practice of welcoming the body from Presence. The three following meetings we will apply these insights to the most common areas of subtle somatic contraction as we embody spirit: the heart area (self love and acceptance)\, the solar plexus (control)\, and the base of the spine (survival). There will be guided meditations\, talks\, group meditative inquiries\, and experiential conversations. \nJohn J. Prendergast\, Ph.D.\, is the author of The Deep Heart and In Touch\, a retired Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at CIIS\, and a retired psychotherapist. He studied for many years with the European sage\, Jean Klein\, as well as with Adyashanti\, and offers online and in-person retreats. \nwww.listeningfromsilence.com \nYouTube channel \nSliding Scale: $80 to $140 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/john-j-prendergast-ph-d-oembodying-spirito-4-part-course/
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SUMMARY:Lynn Marie Lumiere\, MFT ~ TRUE HEALING: Being Present with What Is ~ 3 Half-Days Retreat
DESCRIPTION:A 3 Half-Days Retreat \nSept. 9\, 10 & 11\, 2022 \n9:00 am Ð 12:00 pm Pacific Time\, each day \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nTrue healing arises from being present with all our experience as it is. In this retreat we will bring together spiritual wisdom and somatic psychology to focus on both waking up to True Nature and resolving the human issues we struggle with such as depression\, anxiety\, low self-worth\, and illness. These issues\, along with the life problems they create\, can interfere with our ability to rest as Being. \nThe retreat will offer: \n\nDeepened recognition of our True Nature through guided meditations and sharing truth\nSomatic practices to help regulate the nervous system and build resilience\nPsychotherapeutic processes for resolving the blocks to our full expression\nSharing and dialogue in the group\n\nThe Presence of our own Being is the only true healing force there is. As we awaken to/as Being and allow it to fully meet all our humanness as it is\, we are healed and transformed from within\, and directed to whoever or whatever is needed for our healing. \nYou are invited to join the retreat sessions live to benefit from group interaction and processing with Lynn Marie.Ê You are also welcomed to register and attend the retreat by recording on your own time. \nLynn Marie Lumiere\, MFT is a psychotherapist and author with a focus on bringing awakened consciousness to the healing of our human body-mind issues. Her work is grounded in nondual spiritual teachings and psychotherapeutic and somatic training. Lynn Marie is a contributing author for the Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy\, co-author of The Awakening West\, and is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships. \nFor more information se: www.lynnmarielumiere.com \nSliding Scale: $75 to $135 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/lynn-marie-lumiere-mft-true-healing-being-present-with-what-is-3-half-days-retreat/
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SUMMARY:Loch Kelly ~ Effortless Mindfulness Embodied
DESCRIPTION:ÒLoch Kelly is one of the clearest expressions of authentic awakened freedom and love that I know. He offers wise\, loving medicine and direct\,Êpractical guidance which evolved from LochÕs vast experience and deep commitment to help others awaken to spiritual freedom.Ó \n~ Adyashanti \nJoin Loch Kelly in this experiential workshop to learn effortless mindfulness as a way to shift out of your chattering mind and live from your awake heart-mind.Ê It is not enough to simply wake up out of our small self and try to maintain pure awareness. In order to live awake in relationships and work\, we need to familiarize ourselves with what parts of us get in the way of living from embodied awake consciousness and how to include our full humanity. \nIn these challenging times\, effortless mindfulness is ideal as it is done with small glimpses of our True Nature in compassionate relationship to any feelings that arise\, with eyes openÊin the midst of everyday life. \nLoch will draw from the ancient wisdom traditions\, psychology\, and current neuroscience research to point us beyond our small\, separate senseÊof self to help us live from our already awake heart-mind. \nLoch Kelly\, M.Div.\, LCSW is an award-winning author of The Way of Effortless Mindfulness\, a licensed psychotherapist\, and recognized leader in the field of meditation and awakening.ÊLoch graduated from Columbia University and received a fellowship to study in Sri Lanka\, India\, and Nepal. He has collaboratedÊwith neuroscientists at Yale\, UPenn\, and NYU in the study of how awareness training can enhance compassion and wellbeing. LochÊis known for his warm sense of humor and his trust that awakening isÊthe next natural stage of development. He teaches the advanced-yet-simple nondual pointers and direct methods of Effortless Mindfulness. Loch will be teaching a live 5 day retreat May 1st atÊEsalenÊand he has just released a mobile meditation program with Daily Glimpses\, In Depth Programs and Community Support.ÊLoch lives in upstate New York with his wife Paige and their cat Duffy. lochkelly.org/em \nSuggested donation: $15 to $25 \nNo one turned away for lack of funds. \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week. \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/loch-kelly-effortless-mindfulness-embodied/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Georgia Simone ~ Befriending Shame and Self-Judgement
DESCRIPTION:This event had to be cancelled. \nWe look forward to scheduling for a new date.  \nShame keeps us locked in destructive strategies while simultaneously disconnecting us from our deeper nature. It manifests as low self-esteem\, self judgement\, and feeling like an outsider. Indeed\, this experience – that youÕre deficient in some way – is the glue that holds unresolved trauma together. \nSpiritual teachings acknowledge that the separate sense of self is rooted in this fundamental misperception. However\, despite this understanding\, you may have noticed how pervasive it is! Deconstructing shame is much more than changing a belief or expanding your perspective\, because shame is much more than a belief or a perception. Indeed\, it has woven its way into your very sense of self\, from mind to body to heart. Therefore\, only when you can meet it all levels of identity can you begin to loosen its tenacious grip. \nDuring our time together\, weÕll deconstruct shame through the lens of developmental trauma. \nYouÕll learn:Ê \n\nWhy shame is the glue that holds unresolved trauma together\nHow to recognise when youÕre caught in a shame spiral and how to step outside of it\nA guided process for befriending (and therefore disarming) your inner critic\nHow to meet yourself with more patience and greater compassion\n\nThis will happen in the context of a deeply held relational space where you can safely explore this patterningÊ in real time. \nAwakened Healing is a presence based\, body oriented\, and relationally centered approach to addressing unresolved trauma. Through gentle exploration and somatic awareness you can cultivate a new way of being with your most challenging patterns. No longer a victim of the push and pull of inner disturbance\, you can step forward with greater confidence\, knowing that whatever comes your way\, you embody the resilience and the capacity to meet and integrate it. As you awaken and refine a more subtle way of Being and Being With\, you can slowly but surely become the space Ð the container and the field Ð where healing takes place. \nGeorgia Simone is a facilitator of trauma-informed healing and awakening. The first leg of her path exposed her to the teachings of Advaita Vedanta\, which provided her with the foundation she needed to dis-identify from pain and suffering. However\, despite a growing freedom\, a significant bypass took place\, as her orientation towards transcendence reinforced her deep disconnection from life. Upon seeing this\, her focus became addressing the unresolved trauma that had woven its way into every fibre of her being. \nDuring this period\, Georgia was influenced by Inner Relationship Focusing\, a presence based approach that works with the Felt Sense and the split-off parts of self. She also trained as a NARM informed practitioner\, which addresses developmental\, attachment and relational trauma. After many years of wading through this marshland of conditioning\, she now shares her discoveries with others. \nGeorgia invites a rounded and grounded approach that holds psychological healing and spiritual awakening in equal measure. ItÕs through this holistic embrace that she weaves her passion for meeting and healing the conditioning that blinds and binds us. She believes that the spiritual path is as much about arriving here fully Ð as an embodied human being Ð as it is about dissolving into the infinite source that makes this life possible. How can we die to the absolute\, while deeply embracing our relative human experience? This Living Inquiry is her LifeÕs prayer. \nwww.georgiasimone.com
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/cancelled-georgia-simone-befriending-shame-and-self-judgement/
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SUMMARY:Pamela Wilson ~ Stillness is Love\, Peace is Love\, Food is Love ~ 3 Part Online Retreat
DESCRIPTION:April 15\, 16 & 17 \n10:00 am Ð 12:00 pm\, Pacific Time \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nYears agoÊRam DassÊasked his guru\, Neem Karoli Baba\, “What is the most direct path? His answer was: ÒFeed people. Love people and feed people.” \nPlease join Pamela and fellow sages on retreat to transmit Stillness\, Peace and Balance for Humanity. As a sangha we amplify and transmit Love and Clarity\, soothing chaos\, confusion and unkindness. The original nourishment of Stillness is peace and all-inclusive\, all-pervading friendship. \nAll proceeds from this gathering will be donated toÊWCK.orgÊthat has already fed over a million meals to refugees and families in the Ukraine and at the borders. \nPamela evokes through dialogue\, inquiry and her very presence the qualities of unconditional love and radical acceptance. She is celebrated for her ability to open the heart and create a space in which long-cherished struggles and notions about oneÕs identity relax. Featured in the bookÊOrdinary Women\, Extraordinary Wisdom\, Pamela is at her best in heart-felt dialogue\, so please bring your questions! \nMore about Pamela: www.pamelasatsang.com \nSliding Scale: $60 to $90 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/pamela-wilson-stillness-is-love-peace-is-love-food-is-love-3-part-online-retreat-2/
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SUMMARY:Gail Brenner\, Ph.D ~ Awakening in Relationships: a Mini-Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Time Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants.  \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend the whole live session. \nCurious about embodying awakened consciousness in everyday life? Then letÕs explore our relationships. Because when we can show up with others unveiled and free\, we find no end to the intimacy that is possible.  \nIn this mini-retreat\, weÕll identify the patterns we play out that create a sense of separationÑfrom ourselves\, others\, and all of life. These are fear-based programmed ways of being that include people-pleasing\, withdrawal\, inflating or deflating ourselves in comparison to others\, holding grudges\, and defensiveness. Together\, weÕll untangle the distorted assumptions we hold about the world and learn to meet our tender emotions with loving acceptance.  \nUntying the knots that lie at the core of our relationship struggles brings freshness\, ease\, and space for new and authentic ways of being. We realize our shared humanness\, which brings compassion for ourselves and others\, melting into the one boundless heart beyond our personal selves. \nWe learn about relationships from our first connections with our caregivers early on in life. Fear of rejection\, hurt from feeling unseen\, mistrust\, the need to pleaseÑthese are signs of unexamined contractions that are waiting for liberation. \nDo you feel separate in your relationships? With guided inner reflection\, a journaling exercise\, small group experiences\, and Q&A\, weÕll practice creating safe space for authentic connection. YouÕll leave with new insights\, ways to experiment in daily life\, and tools for being in your relationships as a pathway for awakening. I look forward to being with you! \nPlease feel free to contact Gail with any questions about the program at gail@gailbrenner.com. \nFor technical questions please reach out to web@opencircle.net. \nÒI am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.Ó ~Susan R. \nÒWhat youÕre pointing to is so difficult to talk about in words\, but you describe it so brilliantly and give such practical\, actionable steps to follow that I truly\, deeply get it. I just cannot express to you how transformative your approach has been for me.Ó ~Sandra Joseph\, Broadway star and author of Unmasking What Matters \nGail Brenner\, Ph.D. is your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups and is known for creating the sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration. \nwww.gailbrenner.com \nSliding Scale: $25 to $45 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/gail-brenner-ph-d-awakening-in-relationships-a-mini-retreat-2/
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SUMMARY:Shakti Caterina Maggi ~ FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT: Non Dual Understanding in Challenging Times ~ 3 Part Retreat
DESCRIPTION:May 7\, 14 & 22 \n10:00 am Ð 12:00 pm and 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm\, PDT \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nFROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT \nnon dual understanding in challenging times \nWHAT YOU WILL FIND  \n\n9 hours of live teaching\nstreaming available\nexperiential session and live Q&A\n\nTOPIC \nIn a world ever more split in divisions\, we see more and more the other as the enemy to fight. The opportunity to awaken in the face of this global scenario is huge\, when we understand that Life is mirroring us all the places where we still hold on to divisions. \nWe can learn from this situation and use them for our own spiritual growth\, bringing light in our life and all around us. \n1) Distancing from the story\, perceiving Reality – MAY 7th \n10:00 am – 12:00 noon PDT main session \n12:30 pm – 1:30 pm PDT perception exercises \n2) The true meaning of turning other cheek  – MAY 14th \n10:00 am – 12:00 noon PDT main session \n12:30 pm – 1:30 pm PDT perception exercises \n3) Learning from darkness\, being truth – MAY 22nd \n10:00 am – 12:00 noon PDT main session \n12:30 pm – 1:30 pm PDT perception exercises \nBIO  \nSpiritual guide and author\, Shakti is a meditation teacher recognized throughout the world as one of the most authentic and profound voices of contemporary spirituality. Combining the vision of Advaita and non-dual Tantra with a contemporary approach\, Shakti offers with humanity\, compassion and great clarity an inner technology to dissolve that contraction of suffering that accompanies our lives and access a space of peace and unconditional love towards life. \nwww.shakticaterinamaggi.com \nSliding Scale: $180 to $250 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/shakti-caterina-maggi-from-darkness-to-light-non-dual-understanding-in-challenging-times-3-part-retreat/
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SUMMARY:Ellen Emmet ~ The Awakening Body: 2 part Online Retreat
DESCRIPTION:We start at 9:00 am Pacific Time / 5:00 pm UK time / 6:00 pm Central European Time. \nIn this two day retreat we will explore our direct experience and let it reveal its essential reality of Awareness. Our particular focus is the body\, allowing it to be our mirror and our pathway\, our prayer and our altar\, and ultimately the shining expression of this shared identity. \nThere will be time for questions and conversation each day as our inquiry deepens. \nThere will be a 20-30 minute break during the 3-hour sessions. \nIn our daily lives\, the body is seldom tasted as it is. We rarely listen to its tactile and energetic language or allow it to simply unfold and blossom in its natural original intelligence. \nIn fact we have deeply disconnected from this level of experience and even when we turn back towards the body\, we come with agendas and ideas that we project upon it\, forcing the body into a new mode\, only to perpetuate a felt identification with a body\, that may seem improved\, but in fact remains a mere projections for the separate self that seems to live in its center. \nWith silence as our main shrine\, we will share gradually deepening guided tactile meditations along with simple postures\, free movements\, breathing\, and visualizations. 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 and free to unfold as they are: feelings and sensations that come and go in Awareness. We come to feel that our true identity is an open field of vibrating openness\,limitless and ever-present. \nGently and effortlessly\, in deepening waves\, the body is slowly realigned with this felt understanding. It flows as a living substence with more and more ease and transparency and reflects and expresses the ever-present freedom and silence that is its invisible source. \nEllenÕs deepest intuition was confirmed when she met her teacher\, Francis Lucille. In his presence\, she recognized the eternal\, limitless and universal nature of our shared reality. Over many years\, her understanding deepened to touch all levels of experience. The process of aligning and stabilizing all aspects of her life to this understanding has continued to unfold since then. \nToday\, Ellen offers meetings and retreats in The Awakening Body\, sharing a direct exploration of reality sourced in the tradition of Kashmir Shivaism and self-inquiry as transmitted through Francis Lucille and his teacher\, Jean Klein. In addition\, she has a private practice as a psychotherapist and facilitator of Authentic Movement. Her background of Dance Movement Therapy and Transpersonal Psychology is shaped by the non-dual understanding. Ellen lives in Oxford\, England with her husband\, Rupert Spira. \nwww.ellenemmet.com \nSliding Scale: $50 to $90 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants. \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/ellen-emmet-the-awakening-body-2-part-online-retreat-2/
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SUMMARY:iRest Group ~ Yogic Relaxation Practice
DESCRIPTION:Open Circle is pleased to be offering biweekly facilitated iRest sessions. Developed by meditation master Richard Miller\, iRest is a modernized form of the ancient practice of Yoga Nidra or Òyogic sleepÓ. It is a restorative practice that promotes deep healing\, health\, and well-being. This 45-60 minute-long group will be gently led by Kate Foley\, an iRest trained facilitator. It will consist of a full 30 minute guided meditation\, along with the opportunity to share and connect with community. The meditation is done lying down\, and is an invitation for your nervous system to truly rest: nothing to do\, nowhere to go\, nothing to be; simply a time gifted to yourself to relax and to be supported. Join as often as you like\, and keep yourself nourished and balanced during these challenging times. No prior yoga experience necessary. \nSuggested donation: $10 to $20 \nNo one turned away for lack of funds. Please register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/irest-group-yogic-relaxation-practice-2/
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SUMMARY:Gail Brenner\, Ph.D ~ Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living ~ 3-Part Online Retreat
DESCRIPTION:3-Part Online Retreat \nNov. 3\, 4 & 5\, 2022 \n9:00 am Ð 12:00 noon\, Pacific Time\, each day \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nPlease note daylight saving time in Europe has ended in time for this event\, while it hasn’t yet in the US. \nFor this reason\, we will be starting at 9:00 am Pacific time / 5:00 pm CET (Europe) / 4:00 pm UK. \nAddressing trauma and how we hold it is essential to seeing through the illusion of the separate self. Join this powerful 3-session retreat as we create a safe and supportive healing community to do this deeper work that unfolds on the path of awakening. \nUnexamined trauma is at the root of conditioned patterns and keeps you feeling stuck\, limited\, and unable to be free. You long for freedom and maybe have had a taste of your true nature\, but somehow these patterns keep getting played out automatically in your mind\, emotions\, relationships\, and choices in life. You feel caught in the painful sense of separationÉfrom yourself and the sacredness of all of Life. \nYou are welcome just as you are with your fears\, doubts\, shame\, and questions. Through practices\, inquiries\, and experiments during and between our sessions\, weÕll learn to untangle these patterns and find our way home to the ever present\, relaxed\, open space of inner aliveness. There will be plenty of time for Q&A with Gail. \n\nSession 1: WeÕll cultivate a sense of safety for those hidden\, cut off parts of ourselves to come out into the light of loving awareness. This is what heals shame and separation.\nSession 2: WeÕll bring skillful means to how we experience conditioned patternsÑin our bodies\, nervous systems\, emotions\, and beliefs.\nSession 3: WeÕll explore devotion\, surrender\, and the practicalities of awakened living.\n\nAnd weÕll discover\, over and over\, the ground of being\, your spacious true home that has never been touched by these experiences. \nStress and worryÉpeople pleasingÉpersistent relationship strugglesÉproving yourself through accomplishmentsÉthe inner criticÉthese longstanding patterns are profound invitations into liberation from the sense of separation. Together\, we discover being fully alive in our humanness as we expand into overflowing gratitude\, vibrant joy\, and deep connection with all of Life. \nGail is offering a free information session on Tuesday\, November 1 from 9-10am Pacific. YouÕll learn more about the course\, and there will be time for Q&A. Please click here for details and to join the session: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvd-CqqjItHtYEl60yYWV22isVjMsv7Ec0Ê) \nIf you have any questions or would like to know more about this course\, please email Gail directly atÊgail@gailbrenner.com. \nÒI am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy.ÊNo longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter.ÊLoving life the way it is.Ó ~Susan R. \n“YourÊwork is a bridge between practical daily life and Supreme Reality.Ó ~Henrique N. \n“You radiate such warmth\, kindness\, beauty and wisdom. I had been stuck for so long and by listening to your sage advice\, am finally starting to see and feel the light.ÊThank you for being a beacon in tumultuous times. Your light helps us to shine our own.Ó ~Julie Desmarais \nFor more testimonials\, please click here.Êhttps://gailbrenner.com/people-are-saying/ \nGail Brenner\, Ph.D.Êis your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups and is known for creating the sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration. She is the author of three books\, including the award-winning\,ÊThe End of Self-Help \nwww.gailbrenner.com \nSliding Scale: $80 to $140 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/gail-brenner-ph-d-deep-trauma-healing-tending-the-ground-for-awakened-living-3-part-online-retreat/
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SUMMARY:Matt Kahn ~ The Heart of Awakening:  A Deep Dive into Loving Presence
DESCRIPTION:Friday June 17th\, 2022 ~ 7:00pm Ð 9:00pm (PDT) \nand \nSaturday June 18th\, 2022 ~ 11:00am Ð 5:00pm (PDT) \nAttend one or both dates\, In-person or by Livestream. \nIs there an inner calling inviting you back home to the truth of love? Are you ready to explore a reality more real and tangible than the pain and fear of the world? IsnÕt it time to make more meaningful contact and deeper connections with yourself and those you know? If so\, then please join best-selling author and empathic healer\, Matt Kahn for a deep dive into the heart of awakening. \nThis Friday Night Event and Full-Day Saturday Immersion are your opportunities to: \n\nExperience a profound transmission of healing energy that eases the mind\, relaxes the nervous system\, expands consciousness\,and opens your heart to receive more love.\n\n\nExplore innovative ways that point awareness back to the truth of undivided reality in the most direct and abiding way.\n\n\nLearn how to be more naturally present\, awake\, and aware without giving the ego more things Òto doÓ.\n\n\nRelease core wounds to amplify self-worth and strengthen your sense of compassion as necessary components to the deeper stages of awakening.\n\n\nRemember how to be the grace of loving presence without denying your personal self and no matter how others around you seem to be.\n\nAbout Matt:Ê \nMatt Kahn is the author of the best-selling booksÊWhatever Arises\, Love That\,ÊEverything Is Here to Help You\, The Universe Always Has A PlanÊand his upcoming bookÊAll for Love Ð the Transformative Power of Holding SpaceÊ(release date: June 21). His books have been translated into more than a dozen different languages around the world. In 2020\, Matt was named as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World by Watkins Magazine. His second book\,ÊEverything is Here to Help You\,Êwas featured in the ÒBe KindÓ box by Ellen Degeneres. \nHe is a spiritual teacher and highly attuned empathic healer who has become a YouTube sensation with his healing and often humorous videos. Universally known as ÒThe I Love You Guy\,Ó more than 20 million YouTube channel viewers are finding comfort\, inspiration\, and relief from the challenges of daily life through his intuitive updates and helpful\, uplifting heart-centered messages. When the world gets crazy\, help is here Ð one ÒI Love YouÓ at a time. \nWhat People Are Saying: \nThe most amazing fresh\, most ahead of time and new paradigm teachings ever from the kindest most loving and humblest teacher ever.ÊÐ Sabine N. \nThank you\, Matt! I feel so supported in the most compassionate way when I listen to you. Ð Heather S. \nA beautiful speaker and spiritual teacher. Matt has helped me tremendously with letting go of blame\, ridicule\, and sabotaging thoughts and emotions I was inflicting on myself and others. And incredible at teaching me to love this within me with so much self-compassion that I can finally breathe and live easier.ÊÐ Silencio M. \nHe has a way of explaining things that makes you feel like heÕs talking to you. Just you. Right through the TV at you. He has helped me work through so much own stuff and I finally feel free. I understand how this works. And IÕm doing everything I can to embody it.ÊÐ Steven H. \nThank you Matt. Everything you say seems like missing pieces of a gigantic puzzle. You’re not just making more sense of the whole picture\, but you’re helping me see how much bigger it really is. I feel exposed to more and better mystery about the world and myself. I love everything you say and reading your books releases so much heaviness in my heart. – Amelie B. \nI recommend if your heart is in need of healing and your soul is calling out for a higher level of consciousness — then Matt Kahn is what you’re looking for. Helping to guide you to a better level of understanding. Gratitude\, LOVE\, compassion so much more. Blessed to have crossed his path.ÊÐ Donna \nmattkahn.org \nFRIDAY June 17\, 7pm – 9pm (PDT): \nIn-person attendance ~ Sliding Scale: $25 Ð $35 per person with Pre-registration \n$40 per person at the door\, if space available \nLivesteam: $20 \nSATURDAY June 18\, 11am – 5pm (PDT)\, with lunch break: \nIn-person attendance ~ Sliding Scale: $80 Ð $120 per person with Pre-registration \n$135 per person at the door\, if space available \nLivesteam: $75 \nSome partial scholarships may be available for those who cannot afford the fee. \nParticipation through YouTube Livestream: \nIf you will be joining by the view-only Livestream\, please note there will be no option to ask questions online. \n  \nREGISTER for Local In-Person Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê ÊREGISTER for Livestream \nLinks to access event recordings will be sent to everyone \nwithin a week after events\, for the dates they pre-registered for. \nFor Livestream\, to check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter \nCancellation Policy & Covid Protocols for In-Person Attendance \nLunch break: \nFor In-person attendees\, there are a variety of places to eat out or pick up prepared food within a few blocks. You can also bring your own food\, though there is no kitchen or refrigerator access. People are welcome to eat outside on the lawn. No eating is allowed indoors at the venue. List of Nearby Solano Ave. Food Places
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/matt-kahn-the-heart-of-awakening-a-deep-dive-into-loving-presence/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Matt Kahn ~ The Heart of Awakening:  A Deep Dive into Loving Presence.......In-Person & Live-Streamed Event
DESCRIPTION:Friday June 17th\, 2022 ~ 7:00pm Ð 9:00pm (PDT) \nand \nSaturday June 18th\, 2022 ~ 11:00am Ð 5:00pm (PDT) \nAttend one or both dates\, In-person or by Livestream. \nIs there an inner calling inviting you back home to the truth of love? Are you ready to explore a reality more real and tangible than the pain and fear of the world? IsnÕt it time to make more meaningful contact and deeper connections with yourself and those you know? If so\, then please join best-selling author and empathic healer\, Matt Kahn for a deep dive into the heart of awakening. \nThis Friday Night Event and Full-Day Saturday Immersion are your opportunities to: \n\nExperience a profound transmission of healing energy that eases the mind\, relaxes the nervous system\, expands consciousness\,and opens your heart to receive more love.\n\n\nExplore innovative ways that point awareness back to the truth of undivided reality in the most direct and abiding way.\n\n\nLearn how to be more naturally present\, awake\, and aware without giving the ego more things Òto doÓ.\n\n\nRelease core wounds to amplify self-worth and strengthen your sense of compassion as necessary components to the deeper stages of awakening.\n\n\nRemember how to be the grace of loving presence without denying your personal self and no matter how others around you seem to be.\n\nAbout Matt:Ê \nMatt Kahn is the author of the best-selling booksÊWhatever Arises\, Love That\,ÊEverything Is Here to Help You\, The Universe Always Has A PlanÊand his upcoming bookÊAll for Love Ð the Transformative Power of Holding SpaceÊ(release date: June 21). His books have been translated into more than a dozen different languages around the world. In 2020\, Matt was named as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World by Watkins Magazine. His second book\,ÊEverything is Here to Help You\,Êwas featured in the ÒBe KindÓ box by Ellen Degeneres. \nHe is a spiritual teacher and highly attuned empathic healer who has become a YouTube sensation with his healing and often humorous videos. Universally known as ÒThe I Love You Guy\,Ó more than 20 million YouTube channel viewers are finding comfort\, inspiration\, and relief from the challenges of daily life through his intuitive updates and helpful\, uplifting heart-centered messages. When the world gets crazy\, help is here Ð one ÒI Love YouÓ at a time. \nWhat People Are Saying: \nThe most amazing fresh\, most ahead of time and new paradigm teachings ever from the kindest most loving and humblest teacher ever.ÊÐ Sabine N. \nThank you\, Matt! I feel so supported in the most compassionate way when I listen to you. Ð Heather S. \nA beautiful speaker and spiritual teacher. Matt has helped me tremendously with letting go of blame\, ridicule\, and sabotaging thoughts and emotions I was inflicting on myself and others. And incredible at teaching me to love this within me with so much self-compassion that I can finally breathe and live easier.ÊÐ Silencio M. \nHe has a way of explaining things that makes you feel like heÕs talking to you. Just you. Right through the TV at you. He has helped me work through so much own stuff and I finally feel free. I understand how this works. And IÕm doing everything I can to embody it.ÊÐ Steven H. \nThank you Matt. Everything you say seems like missing pieces of a gigantic puzzle. You’re not just making more sense of the whole picture\, but you’re helping me see how much bigger it really is. I feel exposed to more and better mystery about the world and myself. I love everything you say and reading your books releases so much heaviness in my heart. – Amelie B. \nI recommend if your heart is in need of healing and your soul is calling out for a higher level of consciousness — then Matt Kahn is what you’re looking for. Helping to guide you to a better level of understanding. Gratitude\, LOVE\, compassion so much more. Blessed to have crossed his path.ÊÐ Donna \nmattkahn.org
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/cancelled-matt-kahn-the-heart-of-awakening-a-deep-dive-into-loving-presence-in-person-live-streamed-event-2/
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SUMMARY:Boyan Milouchev ~ Embodied Spirituality: Trusting Guidance
DESCRIPTION:All of us are looking to find our innate Peace and experience our True Self\, but also – and most importantly – to maintain this Peace throughout our day-to-day lives. Embodied spirituality is the understanding that this Presence is constant and changeless\, and results in the full embracing of what is unfolding\, moment-by-moment. \nAs part of this process of embodiment\, many spiritual traditions suggest letting go of planning and to-do lists\, tuning into intuition to receive answers and guidance\, or even surrendering our decision-making process to a “Higher Will” that knows us perfectly. \nDuring this event\, we will explore: \n\nWhat is Guidance and how it can help you release obstacles to Presence\nMaking decisions through Divination\nThe true meaning behind “the last step is taken by God”\nThe nature of reality\, processing\, and everything always unfolding perfectly\nLiving your unique purpose\n\nThe event is for you if you are ready to surrender on an ever-deeper level and see where Life takes you. It will begin with a 20-minute meditation followed by a talk and a Q&A session. \nBio: \nFrom an early age\, Boyan was fascinated by the nature of the mind and our experience of reality. After exploring NLP\, the Three Principles\, and A Course in Miracles\, his journey of seeking came to an end when he came across non-duality. Today\, Boyan supports others along the spiritual journey through one-to-one sessions and online events and programmes. He lovingly guides individuals and groups toward the understanding of the essential cause of their suffering\, and to realise their innate wholeness. His approach is gentle but direct and especially well-suited for those who are ready to embrace life and live it fully. \nwww.boyanm.com \nSuggested donation: $15 to $25 \nNo one turned away for lack of funds. \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week. \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/boyan-milouchev-embodied-spirituality-trusting-guidance/
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SUMMARY:Boyan Milouchev ~ Embodied Understanding: The Importance of Feeling Our Emotions
DESCRIPTION:Recognising our True Self – the changeless reality beyond the body\, mind\, and circumstances in the world – is essential in order to live a true\, honest\, and happy life. \nThe recognition that we are not the body or the mind is the beginning of a journey of ever-deeper embodiment of our True Nature: of re-alignment of old beliefs with what is True on the level of the mind; and of releasing tensions and becoming more intuitive and free on the level of the body. \nThis event will focus on the body and on the importance of allowing feelings to flow through the body without self-judgement and self-blame. Often\, strong feelings come with unwanted thoughts\, and it is the resistance to these thoughts / feelings that sustains them in experience. We will also talk about projection\, the world as a reflection of ourself\, and the importance of feeling into whether an action is coming from Love or fear. \nThe event will begin with a 20-minute meditation followed by a talk and a Q&A session. \nBio:  \nFrom an early age\, Boyan was fascinated by the nature of the mind and our experience of reality. After exploring NLP\, the Three Principles\, and A Course in Miracles\, his journey of seeking came to an end when he came across non-duality. Today\, Boyan supports others along the spiritual journey through one-to-one sessions and online events and programmes. He lovingly guides individuals and groups toward the understanding of the essential cause of their suffering\, and to realise their innate wholeness. His approach is gentle but direct and especially well-suited for those who are ready to embrace life and live it fully. \nwww.boyanm.com \nSuggested donation: $15 to $25 \nNo one turned away for lack of funds. \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week. \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/boyan-milouchev-embodied-understanding-the-importance-of-feeling-our-emotions/
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SUMMARY:Pamela Wilson ~ The Heart Within Everything ~ 4 Part Online Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays & Fridays:  \nMarch 2\, 5\, 9 & 12 \n10:00 am Ð 12:00 pm\, Pacific Time \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nLifeÕs love animates and sustains everything\, its stillness\, wisdom and love pulse in all forms and functions. Finding this benevolent heart within us and within all the interior movements is relaxing. Nothing is only what it appears to be!  \nThe mind\, body and emotions can live as awareness does\, free\, wise and rooted. Same\, same! One by one habits\, misunderstandings\, misidentification and aversions present themselves for inner satsang. Met with respect and kindness they self-liberate\, revealing the ancient heart that beats as resounding Silence and Love. \nJoin with Pamela and your fellow sages in being curious and listening within!  \nPamela evokes through dialogue\, inquiry and her very presence the qualities of unconditional love and radical acceptance. She is celebrated for her ability to open the heart and create a space in which long-cherished struggles and notions about oneÕs identity relax. Featured in the bookÊOrdinary Women\, Extraordinary Wisdom\, Pamela is at her best in heart-felt dialogue\, so please bring your questions! \nMore about Pamela: www.pamelasatsang.com \nSliding Scale: $60 to $120 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/pamela-wilson-the-heart-within-everything-4-part-online-retreat/
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SUMMARY:Swami Sarvapriyananda ~ The Yoga of the Awareness-Self
DESCRIPTION:The talk will introduce the ancient tradition of Advaita Vedanta. We will take an experiential journey into the very heart of our existence and seek to discover our real self. The talk is designed around meditation techniques drawn from the Upanishads and later Advaita texts. \nSwami Sarvapriyananda has been appointed as Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York\, and assumed his duties here on January 6\, 2017. He is a Nagral Fellow for 2019-20 at Harvard Divinity School. Prior to this\, he served as assistant minister of the Vedanta Society of Southern California for 13 months\, beginning on December 3\, 2015. \nSwami joined the Ramakrishna Math and Mission in 1994 and received Sannyas in 2004. Before being posted to the VSSCÕs Hollywood Temple\, Swami served as an acharya (teacher) of the monastic probationersÕ training center at Belur Math. He has served the Ramakrishna Math and Mission in various capacities including being the Vice Principal of the Deoghar Vidyapith Higher Secondary School\, Principal of the Shikshana Mandira Teacher Education College at Belur Math\, and the first Registrar of the Vivekananda University at Belur Math. \nSuggested donation: $15 to $25 \nNo one turned away for lack of funds. \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week. \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/swami-sarvapriyananda-the-yoga-of-the-awareness-self/
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SUMMARY:Ajaya Sommers ~ BEING HERE: The Alchemical Intimacy of Presence ~ Daylong Retreat
DESCRIPTION:In these day long retreats we participate by allowing ourselves permission to explore the contours of our most direct and intimate experience of Being Here; alive\, honest\, vulnerable and awake with feeling from our most divinely human center of Love. \nOur collective unresolved history\, traumas and fixation patterns are stored within the neuro-pathways of our tissues\, frozen in time\, thus clouding our direct experience. We can allow these places to thaw\, unwind and be metabolized by the warmth of our loving presence. In this way\, we discover how to participate in creating the safety and trust required to open to an embodied intimate relatedness with ourselves\, Life and one another. \nOften the deepest blessings of Life are shrouded in the intimate initiations or mystery schools we call love\, loss\, illness\, trauma\, death and all manner of things that involve not being in control. \nWhen we peer through the lens of our original developmental blueprints of our human embryo and natural law itself\, we can re-frame these inevitable initiations of Life as essential substantive blessings of nature.Ê Allowing us to be here and to be who we areÑ not as a flaw or failure to the design or the path\, but as primary ingredients to the alchemy involved in deepening our most human and divine evolution and embodiment. \nWhat shall comprise each session? \nBringing our Loving attention to Embrace what is Present: \nWe will melt below our habit patterns of the default nervous system and connect directly with our innate core intelligence. Utilizing conscious breath\, sound vibration\, subtle intrinsic movement\, embryological anatomy and provocative inquiry we enter into the inner alchemy that allows a dissolve of any out dated structures that may be obstructing our path. A psycho-spiritual somatic reorganization and higher order of self-regulation arises as our cells surrender into the all-pervasive holding ground of nature that is always present\, when we are seated in the Core.  \nWe will re-emerge renewed\, resourced and ready to re-engage our senses such that they become thresholds where the divine\, the natural world\, our culture and the mystery of being human coalesce as the dynamic dance of Life.  \nAjayaÕs unique gifts and teaching style come through her depth of presence and all encompassing embrace. Come as you are and expect to be authentically celebrated! \nAjaya Sommers\, RCST  is a gifted teacher\, author\, public speaker and creative catalyst in the field of psycho-spiritual somatic integration. For the last 26 years\, she has been instrumental in facilitating conscious evolution in thousands of peopleÕs lives. All of her programs are grounded in science\, expanded through devotional practice and made real through direct experience. Ajaya is the founder of a unique somatic discovery process called\, Core Embodiment¨ Ñ an integrated system of embodiment practices\, principles and perceptual orientations to awaken and align with the power of your human potential. She is a certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Integration Teacher\, a Trauma informed NARM practitioner (Neuro-affective-relational model) as well as an Authorized Continuum Teacher. \nwww.ajayasommers.com \nSliding Scale: $40 to $80 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week. \nYou’re welcome to join\, even if you can’t attend the live session. \nTime Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/ajaya-sommers-being-here-the-alchemical-intimacy-of-presence-daylong-retreat-2/
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Hunt ~ The Play of Presence and Personhood - Halloween Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Four Session Retreat: \nFriday\, October 29\, at 9-11 am \nSaturday\, October 30 at 9-11 am and 12-2 pm \nSunday\, October 31 at 9-11 am \n(all times shown as Pacific Time) \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nIf our mind identifies completely with Òpersonhood\,Ó we remain in a prison of our own making and miss what frees us to simply BE. In experiencing Presence\, we may feel unbound and temporarily experience peace. However\, if our mind imagines ÒitÓ must remain as Òonly Awareness\,Ó it may continually judge its human expressions\, challenges\, and conditioning\, creating endless suffering.  In this online retreat\, we will explore the play of Presence and personhood in daily life. A nondual view does not choose absolute over relative but sees the play of both as a single flowing. Celebrating Halloween on the last day of our retreat invites a reflection on the masks we wear and project onto apparent Òothers.Ó Please join us for a retreat that will include silent meditation\, experiential exercises\, dharma talks\, and discussion. \nDorothy Hunt serves as spiritual director of Moon Mountain Sangha\, teaching at the invitation of Adyashanti.  She is the founder of the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy and practiced psychotherapy from 1967 to 2020.  She is the author of Only This!\, Leaves From Moon Mountain\, Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness\, as well as a number of essays and articles on Nondual wisdom and psychotherapy.  \nDorothy has a long and deep connection to the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and the path of Self-Inquiry\, as well as the nondual teachings of Zen\, Advaita\, and the Christian mystics. In meeting Adyashanti\, she was invited beyond identification with either the absolute or relative\, finding freedom in what is awake in each of us regardless of the changing faces of experience. She is a mother and grandmother. Dorothy currently offers online satsangs and retreats\, as well as private meetings by phone.  \nFor more information\, please visit www.dorothyhunt.org \nSliding Scale: $70 to $120 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants. \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/dorothy-hunt-the-play-of-presence-and-personhood-halloween-retreat-2/
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SUMMARY:Gail Brenner\, Ph.D ~ Embodied Awakening in Everyday Life: A Weekend Intensive
DESCRIPTION:3-Part Online Intensive \nAug. 27\, 28 & 29\, 2021 \n9:00 am Ð 12:00 noon Pacific Time\, each day \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nTheÊEmbodied Awakening IntensiveÊoffers a deep dive into the practicalities of awakened living. During our weekend together\, your everyday human life will be the laboratory as we explore the myth of the separate self and how to live the deepest nondual teachings of infinite oneness.Ê \nHow do you handle a frustrating encounter with someone? How do you navigate your relationships? What about money\, sexuality\, work\, and life purpose? What do you do with feeling disappointed or hurt or bored? What about needs\, desires\, and stressful times? WeÕll carefully shed the light of awareness on your personal attachments\, bringing a loving perspective and clarity to these common life situations. \nThrough our time together in safe and supportive community\, youÕll practice staying deeply grounded in your present moment experience. From this grounded awareness\, youÕll learn to meet your programmed patterns and early traumaÑthe inner critic\, long-standing shame\, feelings of fear and insecurityÑwith intelligence and loving acceptance. This is how you begin to shed the feeling of separation so you are free to be fully alive in your life as it is right now. \nWeÕll use specific practices and experiments in our sessions and between sessions to study the living reality of non-separation. WeÕll study being in life open\, without defenses\, and free of the mindÕs need to control. This is the foundation you need for openhearted awakened living. \nHereÕs what weÕll cover in each 3-hour session: \nFriday: No self\, no problem; slowing down\, resting in inner stillness. WeÕll begin to investigate the sense of separation that appears through early trauma and conditioned patterns; \nSaturday: Finding our ground in spacious\, still awareness; navigating the mind\, emotions\, and body\, especially when weÕre triggered;  \nSunday: Practical everyday living in surrender and intimacy with Life. \nCome prepared to explore beyond your comfort zone. YouÕll discover the brilliance of embodying love\, awareness\, understanding\, compassion\, and deep connection with allÉavailable in every moment. \nÒI have found your approach really works for me. It gives me hope\, and I actually believe that that I can live\, think and feel differently\, no matter what the situation.Ó \n~F.C. \nYou are welcome to email Gail directly at gail@gailbrenner.com with questions. \nGail Brenner\, Ph.D. is your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups and is known for creating the sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration. \nwww.gailbrenner.com \nSliding Scale: $60 to $105 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/gail-brenner-ph-d-embodied-awakening-in-everyday-life-a-weekend-intensive-2/
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SUMMARY:John J. Prendergast\, Ph.D ~ Finding Our Deepest Ground: 4-Part Course
DESCRIPTION:4-Part Online Course \nMarch 7\, 14\, 21 & 28\, 2021 \n10:00 am Ð 12:00 noon Pacific Time\, each day \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nGeneral Description: When and how are we most deeply grounded? In this series we will experientially explore this vital question and discover its relevance to more fully embodying our spiritual understanding. \nMost contemplative traditions\, east or west\, tend to focus on awakening the mind and heart. However\, they often minimize or entirely ignore the belly (or hara) which includes our felt sense of the ground. As a result many long-term spiritual practitioners remain unfamiliar with this critically important domain and are subject to doubting their inner authority and being regularly hijacked by the deeply conditioned and unconscious fears embedded in this area. \nIn our shared journey\, we will explore the different dimensions of the ground Ð egoic\, soul/archetypal\, and Self (no self) Ð and our resistance to more fully opening to the ground of Being. We will also learn how to welcome our resistance from Presence and to rest in and as our deepest Ground. This brings a profound sense of inner stability\, self-trust\, autonomy\, and connection with a fundamental life current. It also provides a foundational safety for sustaining an open heart and clear mind. \nSunday\, March 7th ÒThe Multidimensional Ground: Ego\, Soul\, and Self (no self)Ó \nSunday\, March 14th ÒResistance to Opening to Our Deepest GroundÓ \nSunday\, March 21st ÒWelcoming Resistance from PresenceÓ \nSunday\, March 28th ÒResting in and as our Deepest GroundÓ \nBio: John J. Prendergast\, Ph.D. is the author of The Deep Heart (2019) and In Touch (2015)\, a retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at CIIS\, a spiritual teacher\, and a soon-to-retire psychotherapist\, who offers online and in-person (when possible) retreats. \nwww.listeningfromsilence.com \nYouTube channel \nSliding Scale: $60 to $100 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/john-j-prendergast-ph-d-finding-our-deepest-ground-4-part-course-2/
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SUMMARY:Lynn Marie Lumiere\, MFT ~ Awakened Relating
DESCRIPTION:This webinar will introduce you to Awakened Relating as presented in Lynn MarieÕs book Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships. It will apply to all relationships\, not just intimate ones. We are always in relationship\, which is where embodiment takes place. Therefore\, relationship is our greatest opportunity for healing and awakening. \nAwakened Relating offers the deepest\, most lasting solution to relationship struggles. It addresses both awakening to the presence of pure love\, and the healing of our relational wounding\, which is the source of most relationship struggles. The deepest healing is found in any relationship that consciously includes our source nature\, as well as psychological and somatic healing\, which will be discussed in this webinar. Awakened Relating takes the exploration of spirituality and relationship to the next level and guides us into embodying our loving nature in real-life relationship challenges such as conflict\, communication issues\, negative self-beliefs and projections\, intimacy issues\, and being with relational wounding and trauma. \nThis introductory webinar is in preparation for the daylong workshop on Awakened Relating that Lynn Marie will be presenting on February 26th\, 9:00 Ð 3:00. \nEndorsements for Awakened Relating: \nÒBreaking new ground\, Lynn Marie offers wise and elegant guidance in embodying our radiant\, boundless\, undivided true nature in the realm of relationships\, where relational wounding and unresolved childhood issues may make it challenging to live from the limitless love we know ourselves to be.Ó \nStephan Bodian \nÒAwakened Relating dispels the myth of romantic love and points directly to an awakened way of relating that arises from the recognition of our true nature as Love.Ó \nJohn Prendergast \nÒLynn Marie brings together a clear understanding of initial awakening\, psychotherapy\, and relationship.Ó \nLoch Kelly \nLynn Marie Lumiere\, MFT is a nondual psychotherapist\, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience as a therapist as well as with nondual teachings. She is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships and The Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment. \nwww.lynnmarielumiere.com \nSuggested donation: $15 to $25 \nNo one turned away for lack of funds. \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week. \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/lynn-marie-lumiere-mft-awakened-relating-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000
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SUMMARY:Gail Brenner\, Ph.D ~ All Is Sacred: Living our Essential Nature in Everyday Life: 2-Part Online Exploration
DESCRIPTION:2-Part Online Exploration \nDec. 30 & 31\, 2021 \n9:00 am Ð 12:00 noon\, Pacific Time\, each day \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nBy cultural norms and conditioning\, this time of transitioning to a new year prompts a reflection of the past and a view into the future. Yet\, past and future are created intervals of time that exist only in the mind. When do you experience the past or the future? Right now as you think about them. \nNo matter what the calendar says\, there is only this moment\, now\, free and uncaused\, completely fresh and new\, emerging from and infused with love. In any moment\, we can turn away from our minds and be right here to experience our full aliveness. \nCome and join this two-day retreat as we explore the possibility of consciously living from our true essence. \n\nHow do you discover it?\nHow are your relationships affected?\nWhat do you do with past conditioned patterns that arise?\nWhat about challenging emotions such as grief\, fear\, and shame?\n\nYou are wholeheartedly welcome just as you are as we share intimate\, loving space in community.ÊÊTogether weÕll explore the practical reality of awakened living in your own direct experience. Our time together will include guided meditation\, words of ancient masters\, self-reflective exercises\, small group conversation\, and plenty of time for Q&A. \nWe will investigate the myth of the separate self\, the power of the thinking mind\, and the possibility of living the moments of your human life with awareness\, freedom\, acceptance\, and love. \nQuestions about theÊprogram? Please email Gail directly atÊgail@gailbrenner.com. \nFor technical questions please reach out to web@opencircle.net \nÒI am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.Ó ~Susan R. \nGail Brenner\, Ph.D.Êis your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups and is known for creating the sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration. \nwww.gailbrenner.com \nSliding Scale: $50 to $90 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/gail-brenner-ph-d-all-is-sacred-living-our-essential-nature-in-everyday-life-2-part-online-exploration-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000
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SUMMARY:Gail Brenner\, Ph.D ~ All Is Sacred: Living our Essential Nature in Everyday Life: 2-Part Online Exploration
DESCRIPTION:2-Part Online Exploration \nDec. 30 & 31\, 2021 \n9:00 am Ð 12:00 noon\, Pacific Time\, each day \nTime Zone Converter \nEvent will be recorded and emailed to participants after each meeting. \nYou’re welcome to join even if you can’t attend all the live sessions. \nBy cultural norms and conditioning\, this time of transitioning to a new year prompts a reflection of the past and a view into the future. Yet\, past and future are created intervals of time that exist only in the mind. When do you experience the past or the future? Right now as you think about them. \nNo matter what the calendar says\, there is only this moment\, now\, free and uncaused\, completely fresh and new\, emerging from and infused with love. In any moment\, we can turn away from our minds and be right here to experience our full aliveness. \nCome and join this two-day retreat as we explore the possibility of consciously living from our true essence. \n\nHow do you discover it?\nHow are your relationships affected?\nWhat do you do with past conditioned patterns that arise?\nWhat about challenging emotions such as grief\, fear\, and shame?\n\nYou are wholeheartedly welcome just as you are as we share intimate\, loving space in community.ÊÊTogether weÕll explore the practical reality of awakened living in your own direct experience. Our time together will include guided meditation\, words of ancient masters\, self-reflective exercises\, small group conversation\, and plenty of time for Q&A. \nWe will investigate the myth of the separate self\, the power of the thinking mind\, and the possibility of living the moments of your human life with awareness\, freedom\, acceptance\, and love. \nQuestions about theÊprogram? Please email Gail directly atÊgail@gailbrenner.com. \nFor technical questions please reach out to web@opencircle.net \nÒI am now experiencing longer moments of pure awareness and joy. No longer a slave to external circumstances and inner chatter. Loving life the way it is.Ó ~Susan R. \nGail Brenner\, Ph.D.Êis your guide on this journey. She is a clinical psychologist and lover of truth with a fire that burns brightly. She brings to this work years of experience with individuals and groups and is known for creating the sense of safety and trust needed for this deeper exploration. \nwww.gailbrenner.com \nSliding Scale: $50 to $90 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/gail-brenner-ph-d-all-is-sacred-living-our-essential-nature-in-everyday-life-2-part-online-exploration/
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SUMMARY:Lynn Marie Lumiere\, MFT ~ SOMATIC AWAKENING: Body-Mind-Spirit Embodiment
DESCRIPTION:Online Monthly Group Meetings \nAlthough our true nature is not affected by all that we experience\, our human body and mind are impacted by experiences that result in emotional wounding and trauma. Any experience\, especially early in life\, that is outside our window of tolerance\, can overwhelm our nervous system and create chronic stress patterns in the body/mind. These stuck patterns can affect our spiritual awakening process by making it more difficult to relax\, trust\, be in the moment\, and allow everything to be as it isÑall of which are necessary for awakening and embodiment. \nThis ongoing monthly group will offer deep support for body-mind-spirit embodied awakening and healing so you can rest more deeply in the great peace\, love and unity that resides in all of us. \nWe will do somatic practices for balancing the nervous system and building more capacity for regulating stress and emotions. Being more regulated is very important to both healing our human wounding and our spiritual awakening. We will also use the Flash Technique to release the charge on traumatic memories and loosen the grip of the negative beliefs that they create. \nIt is encouraged to attend the live session so you can receive the support of the group as well as Lynn MarieÕs therapeutic support if needed. You are also welcome to register and attend by listening to the recording.  \nLynn Marie Lumiere\, MFTÊis a nondual psychotherapist\, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience both as a therapist and with nondual spiritual teachings. She is the author ofÊAwakened Relating: \nA Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate RelationshipsÊandÊThe Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment. \nwww.lynnmarielumiere.com \nSuggested donation for each meeting: $15 to $35 \nNo one turned away for lack of funds. \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week. \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/lynn-marie-lumiere-mft-somatic-awakening-body-mind-spirit-embodiment-3/
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SUMMARY:Lynn Marie Lumiere\, MFT ~ SOMATIC AWAKENING: Body-Mind-Spirit Embodiment
DESCRIPTION:Online Monthly Group Meetings \nAlthough our true nature is not affected by all that we experience\, our human body and mind are impacted by experiences that result in emotional wounding and trauma. Any experience\, especially early in life\, that is outside our window of tolerance\, can overwhelm our nervous system and create chronic stress patterns in the body/mind. These stuck patterns can affect our spiritual awakening process by making it more difficult to relax\, trust\, be in the moment\, and allow everything to be as it isÑall of which are necessary for awakening and embodiment. \nThis ongoing monthly group will offer deep support for body-mind-spirit embodied awakening and healing so you can rest more deeply in the great peace\, love and unity that resides in all of us. \nWe will do somatic practices for balancing the nervous system and building more capacity for regulating stress and emotions. Being more regulated is very important to both healing our human wounding and our spiritual awakening. We will also use the Flash Technique to release the charge on traumatic memories and loosen the grip of the negative beliefs that they create. \nIt is encouraged to attend the live session so you can receive the support of the group as well as Lynn MarieÕs therapeutic support if needed. You are also welcome to register and attend by listening to the recording.  \nLynn Marie Lumiere\, MFTÊis a nondual psychotherapist\, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience both as a therapist and with nondual spiritual teachings. She is the author ofÊAwakened Relating: \nA Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate RelationshipsÊandÊThe Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment. \nwww.lynnmarielumiere.com \nSuggested donation for each meeting: $15 to $35 \nNo one turned away for lack of funds. \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week. \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/lynn-marie-lumiere-mft-somatic-awakening-body-mind-spirit-embodiment-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000
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SUMMARY:Connection in Presence: Community Workshop
DESCRIPTION:During this series of facilitated Community Workshops\, we will: \n\nMeet within the sweet context of what brought us together: our shared Love of Truth\nOffer each other the gift of open-hearted listening and compassionate witnessing\nInquire into our experience through simple\, playful\, yet powerful facilitated exercises\nShare our experience and be truly heard by a welcoming\, open-hearted community\nGet to know our fellow members of the Open Circle community\n\nThe sessions will consist of: \n\nMeeting in pairs and small groups\, as well as sharing in the large group\nFacilitated interactions\, as well as free-flowing conversations\nTime for contact information exchange (for those who would like that)\, and learning more about each other\n\nThere may also be an opportunity to present any heart-based initiative you are engaged in – tell us about your work\, project\, art\, hobby\, etc. that flows from your heart. \nThis is a teacher-less event\, focused primarily on presence-based interactions between members of the community. The facilitator will offer enough structure for the event to run smoothly and safely\, leaving plenty of space for what wants to emerge naturally. There will be no lecture and no personal guidance offered _ simply a welcoming container for the miracle of True Community to happen. \nAbout the facilitator: \nSara Kasprowicz has been living in deepening dedication to Truth since Life called her to India about 8 years ago. Upon joining the team of her first teacher\, Sri Saraswathi Ma\, a life of spiritually-driven travels began. A few years (and countries) later\, she met her second important teacher\, Aisha Salem\, and spent a few years close to her Being. Sara recently moved back to her hometown Warsaw\, Poland\, and feels deeply nourished by the embrace of the Motherland. \nSara holds a Master’s Degree in Psychology\, a postgraduate diploma in Life & Business Coaching\, as well as IT and Business education. She is passionate about supporting heart-based entrepreneurs\, experienced in online media work\, as well as facilitating online and in-person workshops. Since 2018 Sara has been taking care of the online program here at Open Circle Center. \nSuggested donation: $10 to $20 \nNo one turned away for lack of funds. \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/connection-in-presence-community-workshop-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210902T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210902T000000
DTSTAMP:20260106T163536Z
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SUMMARY:Lynn Marie Lumiere\, MFT ~ Awakened Relating ~ Daylong Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This daylong workshop will go deeply into Awakened Relating\, which takes the exploration of spirituality and relationship to the next level and guides you into embodying your loving nature in real-life relationship challenges such as conflict\, communication issues\, negative self-beliefs and projections\, intimacy issues\, and being with relational wounding and trauma. This workshop will apply to all relationships\, not just intimate ones\, including the relationship with yourself. We are always in relationship\, which is where embodiment takes place. Therefore\, relationship is our greatest opportunity for healing and awakening. \nAwakened Relating addresses both awakening to the presence of pure love\, and the healing of our relational wounding\, which is the source of most relationship struggles. The deepest healing is found in any relationship that consciously includes our source nature\, as well as psychological and somatic healing\, which will be discussed in this webinar. This workshop will offer meditation and dyad work for connecting in with shared being in yourself and with others. Lynn Marie will also offer psychological and somatic practices that assist in resolving your relationship issues and relational wounding. \nEndorsements for Awakened Relating: \nÒBreaking new ground\, Lynn Marie offers wise and elegant guidance in embodying our radiant\, boundless\, undivided true nature in the realm of relationships\, where relational wounding and unresolved childhood issues may make it challenging to live from the limitless love we know ourselves to be.Ó \nStephan Bodian \nÒAwakened Relating dispels the myth of romantic love and points directly to an awakened way of relating that arises from the recognition of our true nature as Love.Ó \nJohn Prendergast \nÒLynn Marie brings together a clear understanding of initial awakening\, psychotherapy\, and relationship.Ó \nLoch Kelly \nLynn Marie Lumiere\, MFT is a nondual psychotherapist\, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and author. She offers knowledge and wisdom gained from over 30 years of experience as a therapist as well as with nondual teachings. She is the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships and The Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment. \nwww.lynnmarielumiere.com \nSliding Scale: $40 to $80 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants within a week. \nYou’re welcome to join\, even if you can’t attend the live session. \nTime Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/lynn-marie-lumiere-mft-awakened-relating-daylong-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210901T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210901T000000
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SUMMARY:Ellen Emmet ~ The Awakening Body: 3-Day Online Retreat
DESCRIPTION:We start at 9:00 am Pacific Time / 4:00 pm UK time / 5:00 pm Central European Time. \nIn this three day retreat we will explore our direct experience and let it reveal its essential reality of Awareness. Our particular focus is the body\, allowing it to be our mirror and our pathway\, our prayer and our altar\, and ultimately the shining expression of this shared identity. \nThere will be time for questions and conversation each day as our inquiry deepens. \nThere will be a 20-minute break during the 3-hour sessions. \nIn our daily lives\, the body is seldom tasted as it is. We rarely listen to its tactile and energetic language or allow it to simply unfold and blossom in its natural original intelligence. \nIn fact we have deeply disconnected from this level of experience and even when we turn back towards the body\, we come with agendas and ideas that we project upon it\, forcing the body into a new mode\, only to perpetuate a felt identification with a body\, that may seem improved\, but in fact remains a mere projections for the separate self that seems to live in its center. \nWith silence as our main shrine\, we will share gradually deepening guided tactile meditations along with simple postures\, free movements\, breathing\, and visualizations. 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 and free to unfold as they are: feelings and sensations that come and go in Awareness. We come to feel that our true identity is an open field of vibrating openness\,limitless and ever-present. \nGently and effortlessly\, in deepening waves\, the body is slowly realigned with this felt understanding. It flows as a living substence with more and more ease and transparency and reflects and expresses the ever-present freedom and silence that is its invisible source. \nEllenÕs deepest intuition was confirmed when she met her teacher\, Francis Lucille. In his presence\, she recognized the eternal\, limitless and universal nature of our shared reality. Over many years\, her understanding deepened to touch all levels of experience. The process of aligning and stabilizing all aspects of her life to this understanding has continued to unfold since then. \nToday\, Ellen offers meetings and retreats in The Awakening Body\, sharing a direct exploration of reality sourced in the tradition of Kashmir Shivaism and self-inquiry as transmitted through Francis Lucille and his teacher\, Jean Klein. In addition\, she has a private practice as a psychotherapist and facilitator of Authentic Movement. Her background of Dance Movement Therapy and Transpersonal Psychology is shaped by the non-dual understanding. Ellen lives in Oxford\, England with her husband\, Rupert Spira. \nwww.ellenemmet.com \nSliding Scale: $50 to $90 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease register early if you can. \nREGISTER \nThe event will be recorded and emailed to participants. \nTo check your local time\, use a tool such as: Time Zone Converter
URL:https://opencircle.net/event/ellen-emmet-the-awakening-body-3-day-online-retreat-6/
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