BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Open Circle - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Open Circle X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://opencircle.net X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Open Circle REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T164052Z CREATED:20260106T164052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T164052Z UID:10000576-1633046400-1633046400@opencircle.net 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T164019Z CREATED:20260106T164019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T164019Z UID:10000566-1633046400-1633046400@opencircle.net 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T164018Z CREATED:20260106T164018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T164018Z UID:10000565-1633046400-1633046400@opencircle.net 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211001T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163929Z CREATED:20260106T163929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163929Z UID:10000546-1633046400-1633046400@opencircle.net 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210902T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210902T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163536Z CREATED:20260106T163536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163536Z UID:10000481-1630540800-1630540800@opencircle.net 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210901T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210901T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163623Z CREATED:20260106T163623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163623Z UID:10000491-1630454400-1630454400@opencircle.net 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163730Z CREATED:20260106T163730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163730Z UID:10000516-1627776000-1627776000@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Georgia Simone ~ Welcome to The Holding Space DESCRIPTION:A space where we can gather together and BE exactly as we are \nA space where the full spectrum of your human experience is invited \nCalm\, nervous\, open\, closed\, \nALL is welcome here. \nIt’s in this gentle embrace that everything can start to unravel. It’s in this open space that we can begin to unwind the strategies that no longer serve us. This is the space that early mis-attunement failed to foster\, the space where love blooms and new life can emerge. This is the space where all that quivers and shakes can come to rest\, and where all that contorts can untwist into greater alignment. \nThrough 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. \nYou can expect a deeply held space where youÕll be invited to slow down\, tune in\, and track your present-moment experience. 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. \nBio: \nThe first leg of Georgia SimoneÕs 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. \nAfter many years of wading through this marshland of conditioning\, she now shares her discoveries with others. She believes that the spiritual path is as much about arriving here fully – as an embodied human being – 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 \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/georgia-simone-welcome-to-the-holding-space/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163729Z CREATED:20260106T163729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163729Z UID:10000515-1627776000-1627776000@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Bruce Pardoe ~ Heart Fluency¨ - Directly Feel & Embody Your Awakened Nature DESCRIPTION:Do you long to continuously experience the freedom and happiness of pure awareness clearly and obviously? Are you frustrated that old patterns\, emotional wounds\, trauma or anxiety run your life and cloud over a fundamental well-being you know is possible? As it turns out\, ordinary physical space is already free and at peace with all of the qualities of pure awareness. Using Heart Fluency’s uncomplicated map we can directly sense and explore space in and around our bodies providing an accessible and comprehensive portal to awakening\, non-dual truth and emotional healing. \nHeart Fluency¨ founder Bruce Pardoe will lead this 3 hour experiential journey with group exercises\, Q&A and guided meditations to directly feel your awakened nature. With Heart Flueny’s 3 step practice you will also learn to utilize an embodied balance that harnesses the ever present\, unlimited capacities of space to allow emotional wounds\, traumas and afflictive patterns to transform into your deepest gifts. \nBio: \nFor more than 40 years Bruce Pardoe has been navigating and facilitating the path of inner healing and non-dual wisdom. Bruce’s journey through the fires of his own complex trauma led him to develop the radically accessible and gentle Heart Fluency¨ method for healing emotional wounds and opening to non-dual well-being and happiness. Heart Fluency combines neuroscience and the unconditional nourishment of pure awareness in a highly accessible\, heart-centered approach. \nAfter spending over two years on silent retreat Bruce became a meditation teacher in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhism. He has completed Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s 2 year Dharma Leader training and has studied extensively in Asia in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and Advaita. Bruce has also trained in Polyvagal Theory\, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement and Hakomi’s body-centered psychotherapy. Since 2007 Bruce has shared Heart Fluency trainings and workshops with hundreds of conscious individuals\, therapists and healers on 4 continents. \nwww.heartfluency.com \nSuggested donation: $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/bruce-pardoe-heart-fluency%c2%a8-directly-feel-embody-your-awakened-nature/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163347Z CREATED:20260106T163347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163347Z UID:10000466-1627776000-1627776000@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Living as a Sovereign Being: 4-Part Online Retreat DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays & Fridays: \nJanuary 19\, 22\, 26 & 29 \n10:00 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. \nThe word sovereign was originally understood to mean supreme ruler. Sovereign indicates that you reign and are responsible. You take your seat on your throne and are the empress or emperor of your world. Whether the realm is peaceful and prosperous or in chaos\, you are still the one in charge. You cannot abdicate. If you try\, things get worse. \nIn spirituality I have found that naturally we are thrown into owning our body-being. First we might make ourselves dependent or less-than a teacher or power. Sooner or later there must come a point where we realize\, ÒThis is my life that needs to be lived as ME and no-body else.Ó Ultimately each of us has to completely own our true nature\, otherwise we will always feel dependent on something outside ourselves. \nYou are a sovereign being. You have always been a sovereign being. For some reason along the way we have forgotten or we lost track of it. We got diverted. \nDuring this four-satsang-retreat over a period of two weeks the aim is to empower you to take ownership of your life. \nIt is important to be rooted in and as silence in our bodies and to allow pure action to come forth. When we rest as silence or source\, sovereignty naturally becomes action. That will bring forth trust\, coherence and connection. \nThese times strongly invite us to own our sovereignty and not engage in polarization\, division or separation. We are trained from birth to exhaust our energy on the outer happenings. The whole thing is out of balance. \nWhen we stand in our sovereignty we step out of the matrix of good and bad\, up or down. We step into the unified field. Now we know how to move in this world. \nDuring this retreat we will bathe ourselves in the deep silence and listen. We will practice trusting our nature and letting our felt sense of body-being take action. We are the action and we are the pure love that needs to live this life. Nobody will do it for us. \nMarlies Myoku Cocheret has devoted her life to the Beloved. She brings a potent invitation into the deep Silence that we are. The kindness of her gentle and direct teaching guides us home like a lighthouse. Marlies has been offering satsang and retreat since 2000 when Adyashanti asked her to teach. She lives in Santa Cruz\, California and works internationally as a psychologist\, Hakomi therapist and Tantric Educator. \nMarlies is interviewed in the book Awakened Relating. A Guide To Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships by Lynn Marie Lumiere\, and in the book Ordinary Women\, Extraordinary Wisdom by R.M. Robinson. \nÒWith Adya\, the bottom fell out. I deeply knew I am not this body\, mind\, thought\, psyche\, and I am also all these things as well. There was no in and/or out. All is One.Ó \nwww.marliescocheret.com \nSliding Scale: $60 to $120 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER URL:https://opencircle.net/event/marlies-myoku-cocheret-living-as-a-sovereign-being-4-part-online-retreat-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163346Z CREATED:20260106T163346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163346Z UID:10000465-1627776000-1627776000@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Jeannie Zandi ~ Living in the Moment DESCRIPTION:Mind racing forward to thoughts of the future? Mind racing backward in regret or shame? Are you experiencing the living miracle of life right now? Join Jeannie and friends to explore what it means to live in the moment. \nJeannieÕs gift for inviting people to join her in resting and rooted presence evokes a deep meeting with oneself and reality. Within that\, JeannieÕs humor and iconoclasm serve to bring people into an understanding that is beyond the intellectual. Through silent and guided meditation\, spontaneous talks and exchange with participants\, Jeannie will host a space of clarity and warmth where the richness of relating can be explored safely and your innermost questions met fully. Come join us! \nJeannie is the director of Living as Love\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to seeding a culture of the Heart on the planet\, inspiring\, teaching and supporting people to live from their essence as Love. A year before the birth of her daughter\, Jeannie was plunged into a dark night of the soul that culminated in a radical shift of consciousness. She is known for her fearless clarity\, tender mercy toward humanness\, and a juicy\, poetic and often humorous style that draws from Advaita Vedanta\, Sufism\, Christian mysticism and the ongoing revelation of fully engaged living. Residing in Colorado\, she travels widely in the US\, bringing a down-to-earth embodied teaching of living as love. \nwww.jeanniezandi.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/jeannie-zandi-living-in-the-moment-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210801T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163345Z CREATED:20260106T163345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163345Z UID:10000464-1627776000-1627776000@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Lynn Marie Lumiere\, MFT ~ Therapy For Awakening DESCRIPTION:Ongoing therapeutic support group for embodiment and awakening \nThis on-going group integrates psychology\, somatic practices and nondual wisdom for regulating your nervous system as well as releasing old traumas and beliefs. Therapy for awakening is based in the Field of Awareness where all true healing and transformation takes place. This group offers: \n\nDeepening in the direct recognition of our true nature\nSomatic practices to help regulate the nervous system and build resilience\nPsychotherapeutic processes for resolving trauma memories and negative beliefs\nSharing and dialogue in the group and in dyads\, as well as individual processing\nA different theme or topic each group that is relevant to embodiment and awakening\n\nIt is best to attend the group in person\, if possible. However\, you can also register and listen to the recording. Lynn Marie will focus the group in a way that will also benefit those attending by recording. \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 $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-therapy-for-awakening-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210701T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210701T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T164051Z CREATED:20260106T164051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T164051Z UID:10000575-1625097600-1625097600@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Pamela Wilson ~ The Heartfelt Sage: Bold\, Brave\, Clear and Strong ~ 3 Part Online Retreat DESCRIPTION:Dec. 16\, 17 & 18 \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. \nWhen we gather and look into the essence of everything we are truly functioning as a Sage. Not being fooled by appearances or forms (except occasionally)\, we look deeper into the Nature of everything! Inviting it to know itself and return to its balanced naturalness and wisdom. As forest and mountain sages have lived for millennia\, honoring nature and all animal and human beings equally\, we also honor our inner wild beings\, emotions\, sensations and the body itself as wondrously wise and equal to the cosmos. \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 $90 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER URL:https://opencircle.net/event/pamela-wilson-the-heartfelt-sage-bold-brave-clear-and-strong-3-part-online-retreat-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210701T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210701T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163857Z CREATED:20260106T163857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163857Z UID:10000537-1625097600-1625097600@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Stephan Bodian ~ Awaken to the Sacred in Everyday Life ~ 2-Part Online Course DESCRIPTION:Dec. 4 & 11 \n9:00 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. \n“That which you are seeking is always seeking you.” ~ Anonymous \n“IÕm in love with the mysteryÑand I donÕt know what it is.” ~ HWL Poonja \nThe desire to relieve our personal suffering is often the driving force behind our seeking. But once we begin to discover our natural state of pure wakefulness\, we may realize that we have been called to awaken by a deep longing of reality to awaken to itself through us. The limitless heart that originates the search is the very reality that we aspire to discover. What began as our individual journey of spiritual awakening turns into a love affair with Being itself. \nThe Beloved is calling to us in every moment of existenceÑin the sounds of the birds or the silence of the forest\, but also in the noise of traffic and the angry words of a friend. Only our limited beliefs and expectations prevent us from perceiving it. In the Buddhist tradition this sacred dimension is sometimes called bodhicitta\, at once the essential nature of existence and the deep love of Being for its expressions in form. \nIn this two-part retreat\, on successive Saturdays\, we will explore meditations and contemplations that peel back the veils and open us to connect with the sacred dimension of Being\, which is always available right now in our very own heart. This connectionÑmore accurately\, this recognition of our undivided natureÑis the ultimate medicine for the loneliness\, alienation\, and fragmentation so common in our 21st-century lives. \nStephanÊBodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition of Zen\, Dzogchen\, and Advaita and the founder and director of the annual School for Awakening\, an intensive six-month program of exploration and study. Trained as a Buddhist monk for a decade\, he studied Advaita for many years with Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001. His books include Wake Up Now; Beyond Mindfulness; Meditation for Dummies; and Buddhism for Dummies (with Jon Landaw). \nMore about Stephan Bodian: www.stephanbodian.org \nSliding Scale: $50 to $90 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER URL:https://opencircle.net/event/stephan-bodian-awaken-to-the-sacred-in-everyday-life-2-part-online-course-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210701T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210701T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163856Z CREATED:20260106T163856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163856Z UID:10000536-1625097600-1625097600@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Stephan Bodian ~ Awaken to the Sacred in Everyday Life ~ 2-Part Online Course DESCRIPTION:Dec. 4 & 11 \n9:00 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. \n“That which you are seeking is always seeking you.” ~ Anonymous \n“IÕm in love with the mysteryÑand I donÕt know what it is.” ~ HWL Poonja \nThe desire to relieve our personal suffering is often the driving force behind our seeking. But once we begin to discover our natural state of pure wakefulness\, we may realize that we have been called to awaken by a deep longing of reality to awaken to itself through us. The limitless heart that originates the search is the very reality that we aspire to discover. What began as our individual journey of spiritual awakening turns into a love affair with Being itself. \nThe Beloved is calling to us in every moment of existenceÑin the sounds of the birds or the silence of the forest\, but also in the noise of traffic and the angry words of a friend. Only our limited beliefs and expectations prevent us from perceiving it. In the Buddhist tradition this sacred dimension is sometimes called bodhicitta\, at once the essential nature of existence and the deep love of Being for its expressions in form. \nIn this two-part retreat\, on successive Saturdays\, we will explore meditations and contemplations that peel back the veils and open us to connect with the sacred dimension of Being\, which is always available right now in our very own heart. This connectionÑmore accurately\, this recognition of our undivided natureÑis the ultimate medicine for the loneliness\, alienation\, and fragmentation so common in our 21st-century lives. \nStephanÊBodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition of Zen\, Dzogchen\, and Advaita and the founder and director of the annual School for Awakening\, an intensive six-month program of exploration and study. Trained as a Buddhist monk for a decade\, he studied Advaita for many years with Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001. His books include Wake Up Now; Beyond Mindfulness; Meditation for Dummies; and Buddhism for Dummies (with Jon Landaw). \nMore about Stephan Bodian: www.stephanbodian.org \nSliding Scale: $50 to $90 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER URL:https://opencircle.net/event/stephan-bodian-awaken-to-the-sacred-in-everyday-life-2-part-online-course/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210701T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210701T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163857Z CREATED:20260106T163848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163857Z UID:10000535-1625097600-1625097600@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Stephan Bodian ~ Realize Your Inherent Wakefulness ~ 2-Part Online Course DESCRIPTION:Oct. 9 & 16 \n9:00 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. \n“Just remain as you are\, without question or doubt. That is your natural state.” ~ Ramana Maharshi \nOnce we have an initial recognition that our thoughts and feelings do not in fact constitute who we really are\, the next step is to realize our Ònatural stateÓ of inherent wakefulness\, which is never lost or gained and never sullied or disturbed by the thoughts and feelings that arise. This direct recognition\, beyond the mind\, of our essential spiritual nature is the breakthrough awakening to which the nondual spiritual traditions point. \nYet many seekers read the books and watch the videos but never come to this clear recognition\, which is traditionally transmitted\, and then confirmed\, by direct pointing in the presence of a teacher. This two-day workshop/retreat\, on successive Saturdays\, will offer meditations and pointing-out instructions to introduce you directly to your natural stateÑwhat Tibetans call the Ònature of mindÓ and Zen calls your original face before your parents were born. Once you know who you are without question or doubt\, you have experienced a major shift in identity and canÕt completely revert to your old\, dysfunctional way of being again. \nStephanÊBodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition of Zen\, Dzogchen\, and Advaita and the founder and director of the annual School for Awakening\, an intensive six-month program of exploration and study. Trained as a Buddhist monk for a decade\, he studied Advaita for many years with Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001. His books include Wake Up Now; Beyond Mindfulness; Meditation for Dummies; and Buddhism for Dummies (with Jon Landaw). \nMore about Stephan Bodian: www.stephanbodian.org \nSliding Scale: $50 to $90 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER URL:https://opencircle.net/event/stephan-bodian-realize-your-inherent-wakefulness-2-part-online-course/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163806Z CREATED:20260106T163806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163806Z UID:10000527-1622505600-1622505600@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Jeannie Zandi ~ How Do I Live This? DESCRIPTION:Join Jeannie and friends to plumb the depths of the most common spiritual question – how to embody what youÕve tasted. \nJeannieÕs gift for inviting people to join her in resting and rooted presence evokes a deep meeting with oneself and reality. Within that\, JeannieÕs humor and iconoclasm serve to bring people into an understanding that is beyond the intellectual. Through silent and guided meditation\, spontaneous talks and exchange with participants\, Jeannie will host a space of clarity and warmth where the richness of relating can be explored safely and your innermost questions met fully. Come join us! \nJeannie Zandi is the director of Living as Love\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to seeding a culture of the Heart on the planet\, inspiring\, teaching and supporting people to live from their essence as Love. A year before the birth of her daughter\, Jeannie was plunged into a dark night of the soul that culminated in a radical shift of consciousness. She is known for her fearless clarity\, tender mercy toward humanness\, and a juicy\, poetic and often humorous style that draws from Advaita Vedanta\, Sufism\, Christian mysticism and the ongoing revelation of fully engaged living. \nwww.jeanniezandi.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/jeannie-zandi-how-do-i-live-this/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163805Z CREATED:20260106T163805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163805Z UID:10000526-1622505600-1622505600@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Jeannie Zandi ~ Emptiness & Form DESCRIPTION:Join Jeannie and friends to explore the relationship between emptiness and form in embodying whatÕs true. \nJeannieÕs gift for inviting people to join her in resting and rooted presence evokes a deep meeting with oneself and reality. Within that\, JeannieÕs humor and iconoclasm serve to bring people into an understanding that is beyond the intellectual. Through silent and guided meditation\, spontaneous talks and exchange with participants\, Jeannie will host a space of clarity and warmth where the richness of relating can be explored safely and your innermost questions met fully. Come join us! \nJeannie Zandi is the director of Living as Love\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to seeding a culture of the Heart on the planet\, inspiring\, teaching and supporting people to live from their essence as Love. A year before the birth of her daughter\, Jeannie was plunged into a dark night of the soul that culminated in a radical shift of consciousness. She is known for her fearless clarity\, tender mercy toward humanness\, and a juicy\, poetic and often humorous style that draws from Advaita Vedanta\, Sufism\, Christian mysticism and the ongoing revelation of fully engaged living. \nwww.jeanniezandi.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/jeannie-zandi-emptiness-form/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163726Z CREATED:20260106T163726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163726Z UID:10000514-1622505600-1622505600@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Isira ~ Why Enlightenment is not enough: 3 Part Retreat DESCRIPTION:Three-Part Retreat \nMay 28\, 29 & 30 \n7:30 Ð 9:30 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. \nWhy Enlightenment is not enough\nBeyond the self and the meditation cushion\nThe true quest of enlightenment is to expand beyond the self\, and the transcendent experience\, to live an awakened life by fully integrating the spiritual and the physical worlds for the next level of human evolution and environmental wellbeing. \nAnd in fact\, our awakening is not complete without this integration. \nAwakening the ÒselfÓ is not enoughÊ \nWhat truly matters is how we integrate the awakening in our daily lives ~ what we do with the awakening; where and how we live with the awakening. \nOur awakening must be fully integrated and sustainable in all aspects of our lives. \nItÕs about living our awakening globally\, not just personally. \nThere are two traps committed spiritual seekers can fall intoÊ \nThe first is to focus only on the transcendent experience; believing that this will take you all the way. And that sitting in pure being is the end game. There is a sense of removal; of not being fully immersed in the world; not facing and moving through and with the shadow; the grit and the ordinariness of life. Isira calls this Òspiritual escapism.Ó \nThe second is Òspiritual self centrednessÓ to focus only on ÔselfÕ and forgetting that your awakening is intrinsically connected to everything around you – your environment\, your relationships\, and the cosmos. We do not awaken in isolation. \nIn this 3 day retreat \nIn this 3 day retreat Isira will share what it takes to not just be spiritual but to live spiritual ~ to integrate and fully live a sustainable and an awakened life. \nYou will: \n\nDiscover how to integrate the spiritual and physical worlds with ÒThe Four Pillars.Ó These are the foundations of holistic enlightenment\, an awakened society and an awakened world.\nUnderstand how to move with\, and through\, the personal and collective (global) shadow\, rather than bypass it.\nBe guided into transformative meditations that you can use again and again.\nHave your deepest questions answered.\n\nThis will support you to expand and embrace holistic enlightenment ~ to live awakening – emotionally and psychologically -Ê in your relationships\, our community and our environment. \nAbout Isira \nIsira (pronounced “I-sai-ra”) is a wisdom keeper and spiritual leader of Australian Indigenous heritage who has been ordained by His Holiness Dalai Lama. Embodying wisdom from the teachings from her ancestors\, eastern initiations\, and the many challenges of her life experience; Isira brings rare clarity and unconditional love\, to the challenges we face. \nIsira is an author\, teacher and speaker bringing the power of consciousness to people around the world. She offers a way to respond\, realign ourselves and move forward to a new more empowered life. In the words of many – she is a truly transformative presence. \nÒI am Universal. I am not of one religion\, one lineage\, one race or one country. My lineage is consciousness. My religion is love. And the world is my sacred home.Ó ~ Isira \nWatch an hour-long conversation between Isira and Open Circle’s Sara. \nwww.isira.com \nSliding Scale: $50 to $80 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER URL:https://opencircle.net/event/isira-why-enlightenment-is-not-enough-3-part-retreat-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163725Z CREATED:20260106T163725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163725Z UID:10000513-1622505600-1622505600@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Dorothy Hunt ~ Opening The Door To Not Knowing DESCRIPTION:This is an introductory session for the upcoming daylong online retreat May 22nd. \nYou are welcome to attend either one\, or both events.ÊÊ \nCan we actually know who or what anything is by thinking about it\, labeling it\, having an opinion about it? Does the word rose deliver its fragrance\, or the thought of water quench our thirst?ÊAre we expecting Truth to deliver an intellectual answer to our seeking?ÊWhat might we discover when we open the door to not knowing? Conception is not perception. We experience life more intimately\, lovingly\, and profoundly when we cease imagining our thoughts Ðeven the most ÒspiritualÓ or ÒrighteousÓ onesÑare truth. \nConventional knowledge is needed to function\, of course\, but we can so easily be trapped by our conditioned thoughts\, opinions\, beliefs.Ê We live in a virtual world of our own creation depending on our interpretations of reality. We do not need to be at war with thought to begin to see that thinking that we ÒknowÓ continually shuts the door on open perception and deep listening. This is as true in relationships as in the spiritual search. What if we approached more moments with ÒdonÕt knowÓ mind\, Òbeginners mind\,Ó realizing that thinking does not See? \nIn this Sunday satsang and daylong retreat the following Saturday\, we will explore experientially and meditatively what it feels like to approach life\, emotions\, and particularly our deepest spiritual longings\, from present moment awareness. This Presence moves as openness in the mind\, heart\, and body. The Truth we seek reveals Itself to itself and not to the idea of a separate Òme.Ó A mind open to not knowing is an awakened mind\, open to a spontaneous\, authentic and compassionate response to the moment. \nDorothy Hunt serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha\, teaching at the request of Adyashanti.Ê 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 Leaves from Moon Mountain\, Only This!\, and Ending the Search: From Spiritual Ambition to the Heart of Awareness. \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.Ê 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. Dorothy offers satsang\, retreats\, and private meetings in the San Francisco Bay area and elsewhere by invitation. \nwww.dorothyhunt.org \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/dorothy-hunt-opening-the-door-to-not-knowing-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210601T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163326Z CREATED:20260106T163326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163326Z UID:10000463-1622505600-1622505600@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Marlies Myoku Cocheret ~ Living as a Sovereign Being ~ 4 Part Online Retreat DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays & Fridays: \nJanuary 19\, 22\, 26 & 29 \n10:00 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. \nThe word sovereign was originally understood to mean supreme ruler. Sovereign indicates that you reign and are responsible. You take your seat on your throne and are the empress or emperor of your world. Whether the realm is peaceful and prosperous or in chaos\, you are still the one in charge. You cannot abdicate. If you try\, things get worse. \nIn spirituality I have found that naturally we are thrown into owning our body-being. First we might make ourselves dependent or less-than a teacher or power. Sooner or later there must come a point where we realize\, ÒThis is my life that needs to be lived as ME and no-body else.Ó Ultimately each of us has to completely own our true nature\, otherwise we will always feel dependent on something outside ourselves. \nYou are a sovereign being. You have always been a sovereign being. For some reason along the way we have forgotten or we lost track of it. We got diverted. \nDuring this four-satsang-retreat over a period of two weeks the aim is to empower you to take ownership of your life. \nIt is important to be rooted in and as silence in our bodies and to allow pure action to come forth. When we rest as silence or source\, sovereignty naturally becomes action. That will bring forth trust\, coherence and connection. \nThese times strongly invite us to own our sovereignty and not engage in polarization\, division or separation. We are trained from birth to exhaust our energy on the outer happenings. The whole thing is out of balance. \nWhen we stand in our sovereignty we step out of the matrix of good and bad\, up or down. We step into the unified field. Now we know how to move in this world. \nDuring this retreat we will bathe ourselves in the deep silence and listen. We will practice trusting our nature and letting our felt sense of body-being take action. We are the action and we are the pure love that needs to live this life. Nobody will do it for us. \nMarlies Myoku Cocheret has devoted her life to the Beloved. She brings a potent invitation into the deep Silence that we are. The kindness of her gentle and direct teaching guides us home like a lighthouse. Marlies has been offering satsang and retreat since 2000 when Adyashanti asked her to teach. She lives in Santa Cruz\, California and works internationally as a psychologist\, Hakomi therapist and Tantric Educator. \nMarlies is interviewed in the book Awakened Relating. A Guide To Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships by Lynn Marie Lumiere\, and in the book Ordinary Women\, Extraordinary Wisdom by R.M. Robinson. \nÒWith Adya\, the bottom fell out. I deeply knew I am not this body\, mind\, thought\, psyche\, and I am also all these things as well. There was no in and/or out. All is One.Ó \nwww.marliescocheret.com \nSliding Scale: $60 to $120 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER URL:https://opencircle.net/event/marlies-myoku-cocheret-living-as-a-sovereign-being-4-part-online-retreat-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T164027Z CREATED:20260106T164027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T164027Z UID:10000570-1619827200-1619827200@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Pamela Wilson ~ The Heartfelt Sage: Bold\, Brave\, Clear and Strong ~ 3 Part Online Retreat DESCRIPTION:Dec. 16\, 17 & 18 \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. \nWhen we gather and look into the essence of everything we are truly functioning as a Sage. Not being fooled by appearances or forms (except occasionally)\, we look deeper into the Nature of everything! Inviting it to know itself and return to its balanced naturalness and wisdom. As forest and mountain sages have lived for millennia\, honoring nature and all animal and human beings equally\, we also honor our inner wild beings\, emotions\, sensations and the body itself as wondrously wise and equal to the cosmos. \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 $90 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER URL:https://opencircle.net/event/pamela-wilson-the-heartfelt-sage-bold-brave-clear-and-strong-3-part-online-retreat/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163724Z CREATED:20260106T163724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163724Z UID:10000512-1619827200-1619827200@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Jeannie Zandi ~ God the Mother DESCRIPTION:Join Jeannie to celebrate God the Mother for MotherÕs Day! Explore the themes of God\, gender\, and the integration of yin and yang that is embodied human wholeness. \nJeannieÕs gift for inviting people to join her in resting and rooted presence evokes a deep meeting with oneself and reality. Within that\, JeannieÕs humor and iconoclasm serve to bring people into an understanding that is beyond the intellectual. Through silent and guided meditation\, spontaneous talks and exchange with participants\, Jeannie will host a space of clarity and warmth where the richness of relating can be explored safely and your innermost questions met fully. Come join us! \nJeannie Zandi is the director of Living as Love\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to seeding a culture of the Heart on the planet\, inspiring\, teaching and supporting people to live from their essence as Love. A year before the birth of her daughter\, Jeannie was plunged into a dark night of the soul that culminated in a radical shift of consciousness. She is known for her fearless clarity\, tender mercy toward humanness\, and a juicy\, poetic and often humorous style that draws from Advaita Vedanta\, Sufism\, Christian mysticism and the ongoing revelation of fully engaged living. \nwww.jeanniezandi.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/jeannie-zandi-god-the-mother-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163723Z CREATED:20260106T163723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163723Z UID:10000511-1619827200-1619827200@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Adam Chacksfield ~ Falling Open Together DESCRIPTION:Join Adam for Falling Open Together and invite more intimacy with the deeper movement of life through us and between us. \nÒWe are invited to receive the ultimate gift\, for which there is no substitute \, worth infinitely more than all our dreams and fantasies. We accept this gift by simply falling open. When the heart and mind fall open\, we find ourselves intimately present and completely available to what is here. Our struggle with reality dissolves into harmony.Ó \nDescribed by Pamela Wilson as Òa great messenger of truth with a unique transmission that does wonderful things for my spirit\,Ó Adam invites us to share the direct experience of the heart and mind falling open. In this effortless opening\, the suffering involved in resisting feelings and believing our thoughts spontaneously releases. This allows our natural abundance of joy\, peace\, wisdom and love to become apparent and available. Heart-centered and direct\, Adam offers a path straight into the truth of who you are. Adam Chacksfield offers retreats worldwide exploring the depths that reveal that reveal themselves as we become more intimate with our embodied experience and the vibrantly alive field of relating. He also offers private sessions online and in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nwww.adamchacksfield.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/adam-chacksfield-falling-open-together-9/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210402T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210402T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163517Z CREATED:20260106T163517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163517Z UID:10000480-1617321600-1617321600@opencircle.net 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T164026Z CREATED:20260106T164026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T164026Z UID:10000569-1617235200-1617235200@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Stephan Bodian ~ Awaken to the Sacred in Everyday Life ~ 2-Part Online Course DESCRIPTION:Dec. 4 & 11 \n9:00 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. \n“That which you are seeking is always seeking you.” ~ Anonymous \n“IÕm in love with the mysteryÑand I donÕt know what it is.” ~ HWL Poonja \nThe desire to relieve our personal suffering is often the driving force behind our seeking. But once we begin to discover our natural state of pure wakefulness\, we may realize that we have been called to awaken by a deep longing of reality to awaken to itself through us. The limitless heart that originates the search is the very reality that we aspire to discover. What began as our individual journey of spiritual awakening turns into a love affair with Being itself. \nThe Beloved is calling to us in every moment of existenceÑin the sounds of the birds or the silence of the forest\, but also in the noise of traffic and the angry words of a friend. Only our limited beliefs and expectations prevent us from perceiving it. In the Buddhist tradition this sacred dimension is sometimes called bodhicitta\, at once the essential nature of existence and the deep love of Being for its expressions in form. \nIn this two-part retreat\, on successive Saturdays\, we will explore meditations and contemplations that peel back the veils and open us to connect with the sacred dimension of Being\, which is always available right now in our very own heart. This connectionÑmore accurately\, this recognition of our undivided natureÑis the ultimate medicine for the loneliness\, alienation\, and fragmentation so common in our 21st-century lives. \nStephanÊBodian is a teacher in the nondual wisdom tradition of Zen\, Dzogchen\, and Advaita and the founder and director of the annual School for Awakening\, an intensive six-month program of exploration and study. Trained as a Buddhist monk for a decade\, he studied Advaita for many years with Jean Klein and received Dharma transmission from Adyashanti in 2001. His books include Wake Up Now; Beyond Mindfulness; Meditation for Dummies; and Buddhism for Dummies (with Jon Landaw). \nMore about Stephan Bodian: www.stephanbodian.org \nSliding Scale: $50 to $90 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER URL:https://opencircle.net/event/stephan-bodian-awaken-to-the-sacred-in-everyday-life-2-part-online-course-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T164017Z CREATED:20260106T164017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T164017Z UID:10000564-1617235200-1617235200@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Gail Brenner\, Ph.D ~ Deep Trauma Healing: Tending the Ground for Awakened Living: A 6-Part Course DESCRIPTION:6-Part Online Course \nOct. 15\, 19\, 22\, 26 and Nov. 2 & 5\, 2021 \n9:00 am Ð 11:00 am 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. \nAddressing trauma and how we hold it is essential to seeing through the illusion of the separate self. Join this powerful 6-session course 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 your 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 space of inner aliveness. There will be plenty of time for Q&A with Gail. \n\nSessions 1 and 2: 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 3: WeÕll attend to the nervous system and the body to stay rooted in present moment awareness.\nSession 4: WeÕll practice honoring and embracing difficult emotions to give them the loving attention they need.\nSession 5: WeÕll learn to challenge limiting beliefs and notice repetitive thought patterns without getting caught in them.\nSession 6: 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 any life 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 knowing of all of Life. \nGail is offering a free information session on Tuesday\, October 12 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. \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“I love the meetings; I feel so safe and connected in the group.Ó ~Judy F. \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: $110 to $170 \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-a-6-part-course-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T164025Z CREATED:20260106T163954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T164025Z UID:10000553-1617235200-1617235200@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Georgia Simone ~ Awakened Healing: Become The Space Where Healing Takes Place DESCRIPTION:As of SUNDAY morning 2 AM on NOV. 7th\, clocks in most of the USA are turned back 1 hour. \nDaylight Savings Time ends. Times shown here will be Pacific Standard Time starting early am Sunday Nov. 7 \n************* \nWelcome to The Holding Space. \nA space where we can gather together and BE exactly as we are \nA space where the full spectrum of your human experience is invited \nCalm\, anxious\, open\, closed\, \nALL is welcome here. \nIt’s in this gentle embrace that everything can start to unravel. It’s in this open space that we can begin to unwind the strategies that no longer serve us. This is the space that early mis-attunement failed to foster\, the space where love blooms and new life can emerge. This is the space where all that quivers and shakes can come to rest\, and where all that contorts can untwist into greater alignment. \nThrough 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. \nYou can expect a deeply held space where youÕll be invited to slow down\, tune in\, and track your present-moment experience. 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. \nBio: \nThe first leg of Georgia SimoneÕs 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. \nAfter many years of wading through this marshland of conditioning\, she now shares her discoveries with others. She believes that the spiritual path is as much about arriving here fully – as an embodied human being – 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 \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/georgia-simone-awakened-healing-become-the-space-where-healing-takes-place-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163953Z CREATED:20260106T163953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163953Z UID:10000552-1617235200-1617235200@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Georgia Simone ~ Awakened Healing: Become The Space Where Healing Takes Place DESCRIPTION:Welcome to The Holding Space. \nA space where we can gather together and BE exactly as we are \nA space where the full spectrum of your human experience is invited \nCalm\, anxious\, open\, closed\, \nALL is welcome here. \nIt’s in this gentle embrace that everything can start to unravel. It’s in this open space that we can begin to unwind the strategies that no longer serve us. This is the space that early mis-attunement failed to foster\, the space where love blooms and new life can emerge. This is the space where all that quivers and shakes can come to rest\, and where all that contorts can untwist into greater alignment. \nThrough 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. \nYou can expect a deeply held space where youÕll be invited to slow down\, tune in\, and track your present-moment experience. 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. \nBio: \nThe first leg of Georgia SimoneÕs 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. \nAfter many years of wading through this marshland of conditioning\, she now shares her discoveries with others. She believes that the spiritual path is as much about arriving here fully – as an embodied human being – 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 \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/georgia-simone-awakened-healing-become-the-space-where-healing-takes-place-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163951Z CREATED:20260106T163951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163951Z UID:10000551-1617235200-1617235200@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Lynn Marie Lumiere\, MFT ~ The Wounded Seeker: Meeting Trauma on the Path of Awakening ~ 4-Part Intensive DESCRIPTION:4-Part Online Intensive \nSept. 13\, 17\, 20 & 24\, 2021 \n10:00 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. \nAlthough our true nature is not affected by all that we experience\, our human body and mind are impacted by experiences that result in 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 intensive will explore how to meet trauma on all levels: body\, mind\, spirit and relational. \nPart 1:Ê The Most Important Thing: Awakening to what is already whole and free as the foundation of healing our human wounding. Includes guided meditation. \nPart 2:Ê Somatic Awakening: Building regulation and resilience in our autonomic nervous system so we can feel safe enough to be present in the body and in the now. Includes experiential exercises. \nPart 3:Ê Releasing the Past: Working with releasing traumatic memories and the conditioned beliefs and behavior patterns that go with them. Includes doing Flash Technique. \nPart 4: Awakened Relating: Exploring how relationships trigger our relational wounding and trauma and how to be with those triggers in a way that includes awakened awareness\, the Source of Love. \nIt is recommended to attend in person\, if possible\, and to do the suggested practices between sessions. 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. \nFor more information se: www.lynnmarielumiere.com \nSliding Scale: $70 to $120 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER URL:https://opencircle.net/event/lynn-marie-lumiere-mft-the-wounded-seeker-meeting-trauma-on-the-path-of-awakening-4-part-intensive-3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210401T000000 DTSTAMP:20260106T163950Z CREATED:20260106T163950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T163950Z UID:10000550-1617235200-1617235200@opencircle.net SUMMARY:Lynn Marie Lumiere\, MFT ~ The Wounded Seeker: Meeting Trauma on the Path of Awakening ~ 4-Part Intensive DESCRIPTION:4-Part Online Intensive \nSept. 13\, 17\, 20 & 24\, 2021 \n10:00 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. \nAlthough our true nature is not affected by all that we experience\, our human body and mind are impacted by experiences that result in 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 intensive will explore how to meet trauma on all levels: body\, mind\, spirit and relational. \nPart 1:Ê The Most Important Thing: Awakening to what is already whole and free as the foundation of healing our human wounding. Includes guided meditation. \nPart 2:Ê Somatic Awakening: Building regulation and resilience in our autonomic nervous system so we can feel safe enough to be present in the body and in the now. Includes experiential exercises. \nPart 3:Ê Releasing the Past: Working with releasing traumatic memories and the conditioned beliefs and behavior patterns that go with them. Includes doing Flash Technique. \nPart 4: Awakened Relating: Exploring how relationships trigger our relational wounding and trauma and how to be with those triggers in a way that includes awakened awareness\, the Source of Love. \nIt is recommended to attend in person\, if possible\, and to do the suggested practices between sessions. 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. \nFor more information se: www.lynnmarielumiere.com \nSliding Scale: $70 to $120 \nSome Partial Scholarships Available \nPlease Register Early if you can. \nREGISTER URL:https://opencircle.net/event/lynn-marie-lumiere-mft-the-wounded-seeker-meeting-trauma-on-the-path-of-awakening-4-part-intensive-2/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR