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Jeannie Zandi ~ Love Beyond Gender ~ Liberating the Heart from Gender Conditioning
From the time we're very young, we absorb countless messages about what it means to be a woman or a man, which emotions are acceptable, how we're expected to love, speak, lead, care, and belong. Beneath these learned roles is a heart that longs to love freely and live truthfully. As we bring this conditioning into awareness, the heart naturally starts to reclaim the qualities it has hidden, and we discover a way of being that is more authentic, more whole, and more deeply aligned with our essential nature. Jeannie Zandi is a non-dual spiritual teacher and guide known for her fierce tenderness, irreverent wisdom, and unwavering presence. Rather than transcending life, she calls us to root in it, maturing into authentic expressions of love, serving the whole with wisdom and heart.
Sunday, September 13, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00noon (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. ~ “Being Absolutely No One and No Thing” (In-Person)
When we know that we are no thing, we are free to be as we are –- both as spacious, loving awareness and as unique, individuated being. Through silent and guided meditations, a talk, meditative inquiry, and experiential conversations in community, we will explore seeing and feeling through who we have mis-taken our self to be and discovering what remains. John Prendergast, Ph.D is a spiritual teacher, retired psychotherapist, and retired Adjunct Professor of Psychology at CIIS, well known for his pioneering work in integrating non-dual wisdom and psychotherapy. He studied with the European sage Jean Klein for many years, as well as with Adyashanti, who gave him dharma transmission in 2023. He is the author of The Deep Heart (2019), In Touch (2015), and his latest, Your Deepest Ground: A Guide to Embodied Spirituality (March, 2025).
Saturday, September 19, 2026 @ 10:30am-5:00pm (Pacific Time) at First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael
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