Offerings

Do you seek to realize the nonduality of your innate nature?
Do you long to feel the utter truth of it vibrating throughout your whole body?

This summer retreat is a rare invitation to dissolve the boundaries between your inner depth and the world around you. Together, we will weave the Realization Process and traditional Taoist practices through immersive seated meditation, movement, relational touch, sound, art, dialogue, and direct contact with nature.

Ten Sessions • Tuesdays, 9:00 AM–1:00 PM Pacific
Sep 15, 29, Oct 13, 27 • Jan 12, 26, Feb 9 • Mar 2, 16, 30

Mentoring Presence is an immersive journey into the insubstantial transparency of empty space and, at the same time, the tangible quality of being or presence. This is the heart of Mentoring Presence:

• To cultivate a more stable sense of self.
• To uncover an authentic sense of your own voice.
• To become more intimately attuned to yourself, to others, and to your environment.
• To deepen contact with the felt sense of what is alive in you, what truly matters, and what is true — in yourself, in your relationships, and in your life.

Fourteen Wednesdays • 10:00 AM–12:30 PM Pacific
Sep 9 • Sep 23 • Oct 7 • Oct 21 • Nov 4 • Nov 18 • Dec 2 • (Winter Break)
Jan 27 • Feb 10 • Feb 24 • Mar 10 • Mar 24 • (Spring Break) •Apr 14 • Apr 21
Online via Zoom

How do we live in the subtle, spiritual ground of our being as messy, unique human beings — and arrive at what Judith Blackstone calls our own wild existence?

We know how to make deep contact. We know how to become more present, more authentic. And yet we still forget how to live with an undefended heart. Drawing on the Realization Process and Judith Blackstone’s The Enlightenment Process: A Guide to Embodied Spiritual Awakening as precise phenomenological maps, this course explores this simple and radical question: Can we, together, deepen into what is alive — within and between us?

Part One with Roma — May 3-7, 2027
Part Two with Judith — June 10-14, 2027

The main Realization Process practices for embodied nondual awakening, as well as specific embodiment and gentle movement practices for cultivating internal unity, balance, fluidity, presence and subtle energy within the body.

As the embodiment of fundamental consciousness, we become both empty and present at the same time. We know ourselves as the integration of awareness, emotion and physical sensation. We perceive, understand, touch, move, and express ourselves with the whole breadth of our being.

Participants will learn how to recognize and help people resolve chronic imbalances and tensions in the body that limit their embodiment and realization of fundamental consciousness.

Nine Sessions • Tuesdays, 9:00 AM–12:00 Pacific
June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20, August 3, 10, 17
Online via Zoom

Mentoring Intimacy asks: What becomes possible when we deepen our capacity for true contact — with ourselves, with others, and with life itself?

Drawing on Judith Blackstone’s The Intimate Life: Awakening to the Spiritual Essence in Yourself and Others, we explore questions such as:

• How do I stay in contact with myself when relationship becomes difficult?
• How do I open to another without merging, distancing, performing, or disappearing?
• How does love touch the places in me that have been protected?

Whether you seek to feel vibrantly alive and at home in your own body, dissolve obstacles to intimacy, or explore the depths of consciousness, I invite you to enter transformative depths in sacred heart space with me.