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Jim Newman ~ SIMPLY THIS
These meetings share the simple message that what is truly longed for is already "what is". This obvious simplicity is overlooked by a personal sense of separation that "what is" is missing something, and a conviction that something needs to happen. This sense of a personal reality can be recognized as a need for more experience or knowledge. The hope is that enough of the right experience or knowledge will lead to fulfillment or endless happiness. In the meetings this sense of a personal reality and the need for becoming as necessary is exposed as unnecessary and illusory. In his early twenties, Jim experienced an awakening that completely upended his search within the realm of what could be known. Not understanding what had happened, he turned to those who claimed to know: spiritual teachers and gurus. But it didn't work. The practices and explanations didn't resonate. Then he encountered a radical message: one that stated, without compromise, that there is no one. Upon truly hearing this, the dream and the dreamer dissolved. Never having happened. And yet, all of this being said: there is no path to what is. * You can join one date or the full Series: * Friday, Oct. 10 ~ 7:30-9pm * Saturday, Oct. 11 ~ 2-6pm * Sunday, Oct. 12 ~ 2-6pm *
Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 7:30pm - 9:00pm (Pacific Time) at Northbrae Community ChurchLynn Marie Lumiere, MFT, SEP ~ NONDUAL TRAUMA HEALING ~ A Deep Dive Retreat into Embodied Presence
We have all been touched to by trauma to some degree. Trauma can be defined as any experience that takes us out of our window of tolerance and leaves us with high levels of stress in our nervous system. It has also been defined as the inability to be present in the here and now because we get stuck in the past, or in overwhelm. Therefore, healing trauma is an integral part of our nondual awakening and embodiment process. When all of who we are is met in/as our essential nature, there is no more division and we are whole, empowered and healed. We become embodied presence. Lynn Marie will focus on awakening to true nature as well as developing a balanced nervous system, so you have more ability to remain awake and meet all that arises within the body-mind in your undivided nature. She will also provide skillful means that are often needed to be present with highly stressful experience. Lynn Marie offers a rare blend of embodied spiritual wisdom with a skilled therapeutic approach that facilitates healing of psychological trauma/wounding and the embodiment of awakening.
Friday, October 17, 2025 @ 9:00am - 12:00pm (Pacific Time), 3 Day Retreat includes Oct 17, 18 & 19 at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Pamela Wilson ~ Offer Everything to Love ~ 4 Part Online Retreat
If we offer everything to Love, then the body does not have to carry anything, especially the past. What is uncomfortable is the accumulated weight of the past. As Stillness said recently within: "The birds do not keep their old feathers, nor do snakes carry their shed skin in their mouth!" We have full permission from Stillness to be free of our own and humanity's shared history and cultural beliefs. It is okay to be free of the past! It has passed! What if Love knows best! The unwinding ribbons of constraint respond beautifully when they notice there is no time required for freedom. And no need to maintain enough conditioning to fit in. Please join your fellow sages to explore Inner Satsang, blessing all within that felt it was hiding us to keep us safe! Pamela Wilson 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 one’s identity relax.
Monday, October 20, 2025 @ 10:00am - 12:00pm (Pacific Time), part of a 4-Part Retreat, includes Oct. 20, 23, 27 & 30 at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)
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