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Jeannie Zandi ~ It Takes a Village: Community & the Embodiment of Awakening
Awakening may reveal the truth of our essential oneness, but it is in relationship that this realization is tested, deepened, and brought to life. Other people have a wonderful way of showing us exactly where love has taken root and where we are still defending, hiding, accommodating, controlling, or insisting that life go our way. In this two-hour gathering, we’ll explore the essential role of community in the embodiment of awakening. Jeannie Zandi is a non-dual spiritual teacher and guide for embodied awakening, inviting students to fully inhabit their human lives with presence, clarity, and love. Known for her fierce tenderness, irreverent wisdom, and unwavering presence, she creates powerful spaces for transformation, where truth is met in the raw, and awakening moves beyond concept into lived reality.
Sunday, October 18, 2026 @ 10:00am-12:00noon (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Dorothy Hunt ~ Chasing the Absolute, Returning to Love the Relative ~ Half-Day Retreat
Tasting the Absolute, experiencing spirit, reading or hearing teachings from spiritual masters, many seekers of truth develop ideas and illusions that Awakening means judging, denying, or by-passing the challenges, messiness, feelings, thoughts, and beauty of our human expressions. They chase an identity called “the Absolute” or being a “someone” always “resting as Awareness.” There IS a Source, but this awake Mystery claims no identity. The real freedom of Awakening is deeply experiencing that all of life is an expression of an undivided Mystery—one the intellect will never “know” yet opens the Heart to intimately love its own expressions. Dorothy Hunt currently serves as Spiritual Director of Moon Mountain Sangha, teaching at the request and in the spiritual lineage of Adyashanti. The flavor of her teaching blends Advaita and Zen with a deep welcoming of the human expressions of the Mystery.
Saturday, October 24, 2026 @ 9:00am-12:30pm (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)Arian Mateo ~ Open Meeting in Presence
An open meeting in presence. We sit together in loving awareness. There is guidance, inquiry, and shared reflection. You may listen, speak, ask questions, or simply sit. All experiences are welcome. Silence, thought, emotion, sensation. Arian Mateo is a spiritual guide, psychologist, and therapist who shares an integrative approach to awakening, healing, and self-realization. He supports others in fully embodying their highest potential. He is the founder of the Awareness Method, where he integrates profound spiritual insights with deep psychological understanding to bring about embodied and lasting liberation.
Thursday, October 29, 2026 @ 8:00am - 10:00am (Pacific Time) at Online Video Meeting (phone access also available)
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