NOVEMBER

The Gifts and Perils of Power

with Jac O'Keeffe

Each of us has personal power; it is our birthright. Do you deny your power? Are you afraid of it? Do you misuse it, have you ever abused it?

Join Jac to explore your current relationship with power and to learn all about power with heart.

Become skillful and practiced, connected and accountable. You will gain many practical insights into the right use of power. Your inner authority and capacity to be compassionate aligns with your divine nature. Jac will teach you how to bring the divine power of inner freedom into your life in a real and practical way.

DECEMBER

Enter the Stillness: Live from the Silent Heart

with Susan Telford

Silence and stillness lie at the heart of all the great spiritual traditions.

"Teach us that even as the wonder of the stars in the heavens only reveals itself in the silence of the night, so the wonder of life reveals itself in the silence of the heart. In the silence of our heart we may see the scattered leaves of all the universe bound by love." The Bhagavad Gita 

Join Susan to discover the stillness out of which all things are born and the silent heart from which all wisdom flows.

The Wholeness Experiment

(30 Days to Live and Be the True Self)

with Lisa Natoli

Have you noticed that whenever you “reach” happiness and peace, it is elusive? You “have” it, you’re “there” you have moments of joy and relaxation and ease, and then what?

You lose it. Something happens – either in your mind or in life or in the world - and you "fall back" into doubt and old habits again.

What if you were able to stay aware in every moment even (and especially!) when there is discomfort or when something doesn’t go the way you want it to go?

What if happiness and peace is not something that you “reach”, but it’s what you are and requires only recognition.

In the Wholeness Experiment, you’ll come in touch with the real you, the Self. Lisa will guide you with weekly practices that will challenge you to change your perception about yourself.

You will learn how to stay present in wholeness, peace and love even when there is chaos and confusion.

Who Would You Be Without Your Story? 

with Diederik Wolsak

Who you think you are is a blend of stories and memories, but mostly core beliefs. Core beliefs keep choosing the stories they make up to defend your identity. What if we could relinquish the story? Would that allow us to return to the Truth? The answer is, of course, a resounding YES we can and YES it would. Let's, together, explore ways to examine our story, smile, and forgive it.

The time we have together will offer you the essential tools and teachings to make a foundational shift from your perceived identity to a more deeply integrated acceptance of the Love you are and always have been, without story, without false identity.

The teaching "It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain." must lead to an inquiry as to who it is that chooses these hurtful thoughts. That 'I' is not you. The real 'I' waits patiently for the story to fall away.

Diederik invites you to make a huge start together, with him and the whole Community. 

The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together

with Caverly Morgan

 This workshop is about the act of being. It’s about knowing a happiness you can’t explain because you have no reason to point to. The joy of pure
being. Together we’ll explore knowing who you are, resting in presence, and what it means to act in the world on behalf of
this deep knowing.

We’ll give our attention to the pleasure of being aware of being aware, and seeing what gets in the way of this—personally and collectively—while exploring how to let it go, to undo, to realize freedom together.

This workshop will consist of a guided meditation, a teaching, and a group discussion. It is based on Caverly’s new book: The Heart of Who We Are.

From Fear To Joy

with Shakti Caterina Maggi

The sense of separation leads us to live in a contraction of fear that we feed into our everyday life and dynamics. The heart is the great alchemist that transforms fear into the natural joy of being.
In this course, we will explore how the process of integration of spiritual awakening can allow us to embody this radical transformation and bring our spirituality down to earth. The course will be both theoretical and experiential.

The Simplicity of Being

with Anne Sweet & Amir Freimann

The simplicity of Being or awakened consciousness is your very essence revealed, and is already something known, intimate and familiar to you. So known and familiar in fact that you continue to miss it and dismiss it, all the while seeking and searching and hoping and longing for something else, something grander and more significant. In these sessions, Anne and Amir will discuss why this is so, and how to recognise and return to the natural simplicity of Being.

We are One, not #1

with Isira 

Ngaligumerra is one of the sacred teachings in the Australian indigenous traditions. It translates as, “We are One, not #1.” Indigenous wisdom teaches that everything in life is sacred. Sadly, our modern world has lost touch with this essential truth, which is why we are facing so much chaos and disruption. To restore a sense of peace, harmony, and joy, we must reconnect to the sacred—respecting, honoring and loving all of our experience.

Discover why understanding Indigenous wisdom is essential for our awakening, and how we can access this wisdom through what Isira calls the “Four Sacred Pillars of Life.”

While one of these four pillars is the Self or Spirit, these pillars go beyond just the Self to include our interconnected relationship with three other essential dimensions of life—the second is nature or earth; the third is kinship or others; and the fourth is the cosmos or universe. 

Move out of the mind into a lived experience in which the sacred is restored to each aspect and moment of your day-to-day life.

Unconditional Openness:

The Way of Freedom

with Amoda Maa

Discovering our essential nature as openness is the foundation of true freedom — but how can this freedom be known in our direct experience?

By offering potent pointers to the liberation from ego-identity, this openness can be recognized as our natural state. And by bringing to light some of the veils of perception that create psychological suffering, we can begin the journey of abiding as this openness in all circumstances.

Amoda offers the direct path — inviting and supporting you in living as freedom now.

Embodiment and Integration

with Louise Kay

The journey of spiritual awakening comprises two principal understandings, which are somewhat paradoxical in nature. On one hand there is nothing to do, nobody to do anything and a profound recognition that there is only this moment, which is totally and completely divinely perfect as it is.

On the other hand, as this understanding is lived experientially, namely by allowing the attention to rest continuously as pure awareness and consistently abiding as that, the natural and effortless consequence is that a process of healing and integration takes place on the level of form. This process, which happens in time and space, leads to transformation on all levels of physical life; physical, emotional, mental and circumstantial.

Living in Not-Knowing

with Jenny Beal

 The inherent peace, happiness and freedom of our true nature is our birthright. It is available to all of us all the time – not as just a peaceful state of mind, but as the felt reality of our being.

Investigate, uncover and dismantle the limiting beliefs that veil your true reality. Rather than replacing unhelpful beliefs with new, spiritual beliefs, you will discover the joy of abandoning all beliefs and living in not-knowing. The approach will be primarily experiential, and will include guided experiments to check out new ways of thinking, perceiving and relating. This teaching is not fixed – it unfolds uniquely every time in answer to questions. So Q&A will form an important part of these sessions.

Awakening to the Truth

with Helen Hamilton

What if you are not at all what you think you are? How would you find out what you really are? These are the questions you explore with Helen Hamilton. 

Dive into what awakening actually is and how you can experience it for yourself and begin to find peace.

Helen will guide you to look at how to awaken to what is real and essential about you so that you can finally be free of all fear and come to know your timeless, infinite nature.