Awakening in the Heart
A live, online retreat day, inquiring into the role of the heart in awakening.
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For technical reasons, the links to the sessions can only be posted on the day of the event, in the minutes leading up to the session.
Also, this is a one-woman show... once the retreat has started, I won't be able to respond to your e-mail messages ... but if you look on this page, you will find all that you need to participate in it. Thank you for understanding!
If you can't participate live, the Youtube videos from the sessions will be available afterwards.
For technical reasons, the links to the sessions can only be posted on the day of the event, in the minutes leading up to the session.
Also, this is a one-woman show... once the retreat has started, I won't be able to respond to your e-mail messages ... but if you look on this page, you will find all that you need to participate in it. Thank you for understanding!
If you can't participate live, the Youtube videos from the sessions will be available afterwards.
Participating live in this retreat:
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Read the latest blog... on an experience that led me to reflect on how Awakening in Heart unfolds in our lives.
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Heartfelt thanks! |
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Retreat program and links: Sunday 6 December 2015
The sessions with Jon Bernie, Unmani, and Will Pye have two parts: 1) conversation about the topic of the session, 2) response to questions from retreat participants. They are about 90 mins long except for the session with Unmani, which is 75 mins long.
Grace Bubeck
Opening session: Awakening in the Heart (Length: 1 hour)
9.30 am Pacific, 12.30 pm Eastern, 5.30 pm UK, 6.30 pm Europe (>> CLICK HERE for other time zones)
How does the heart awaken? Can we trust its call for love and surrender? Its pull into devotion and service? Its movement of ever greater opening to what IS? Is this a way of awakening, or is it an 'after effect' of knowing our true nature? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this session.
Opening session: Awakening in the Heart (Length: 1 hour)
9.30 am Pacific, 12.30 pm Eastern, 5.30 pm UK, 6.30 pm Europe (>> CLICK HERE for other time zones)
How does the heart awaken? Can we trust its call for love and surrender? Its pull into devotion and service? Its movement of ever greater opening to what IS? Is this a way of awakening, or is it an 'after effect' of knowing our true nature? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this session.
LINKS FOR THE OPENING SESSION:
*** NB: The links for the YouTube page and the Google hangout will only be 'live' a few minutes before we start! ***
*** NB: The links for the YouTube page and the Google hangout will only be 'live' a few minutes before we start! ***
- TO WATCH: >> CLICK HERE to get to the YouTube live broadcast page.
- TO ASK A QUESTION or contribute live in some other way: >> CLICK HERE to join the Google hangout.
- To see all the ways you can participate live: >> CLICK HERE.
- For instructions how to join us live on the Google hangout: >> CLICK HERE.
Jon Bernie
Awakening: The Heart-Centered Way
11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern, 7 pm UK, 8 pm Europe (>> CLICK HERE for other time zones)
There is no spiritual work to be done, only human work. When we can bring acceptance, patience, compassion, forgiveness and love to ‘what is’, the heart naturally opens and the spirit naturally radiates.
Awakening: The Heart-Centered Way
11 am Pacific, 2 pm Eastern, 7 pm UK, 8 pm Europe (>> CLICK HERE for other time zones)
There is no spiritual work to be done, only human work. When we can bring acceptance, patience, compassion, forgiveness and love to ‘what is’, the heart naturally opens and the spirit naturally radiates.
LINKS FOR THE SESSION WITH JON BERNIE:
*** NB: The links for the YouTube page and the Google hangout will only be 'live' a few minutes before we start! ***
*** NB: The links for the YouTube page and the Google hangout will only be 'live' a few minutes before we start! ***
- TO WATCH: >> CLICK HERE to get to the YouTube live broadcast page.
- TO ASK A QUESTION or contribute live in some other way: >> CLICK HERE to join the Google hangout.
- To see all the ways you can participate live: >> CLICK HERE.
- For instructions how to join us live on the Google hangout: >> CLICK HERE.
Unmani
Living as Life Itself
1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern, 9 pm UK, 10 pm Europe (>> CLICK HERE for other time zones)
There are two aspects to Awakening: The waking out of the dream of who you think you are, and realising that in fact you are Life itself. Then, including the human experience and waking up in that also. Living in the world, in your daily life, with your daily problems, issues, relationships, work, family, without believing in, and being limited to, what you think, you no longer know how to live in this world. And living without knowing how to live, is the endless and continuous waking up in this human experience.
Living as Life Itself
1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern, 9 pm UK, 10 pm Europe (>> CLICK HERE for other time zones)
There are two aspects to Awakening: The waking out of the dream of who you think you are, and realising that in fact you are Life itself. Then, including the human experience and waking up in that also. Living in the world, in your daily life, with your daily problems, issues, relationships, work, family, without believing in, and being limited to, what you think, you no longer know how to live in this world. And living without knowing how to live, is the endless and continuous waking up in this human experience.
LINKS FOR THE SESSION WITH UNMANI:
*** NB: The links for the YouTube page and the Google hangout will only be 'live' a few minutes before we start! ***
*** NB: The links for the YouTube page and the Google hangout will only be 'live' a few minutes before we start! ***
- TO WATCH: >> CLICK HERE to get to the YouTube live broadcast page.
- TO ASK A QUESTION or contribute live in some other way: >> CLICK HERE to join the Google hangout.
- To see all the ways you can participate live: >> CLICK HERE.
- For instructions how to join us live on the Google hangout: >> CLICK HERE.
Will Pye
Heart -- Center of Intelligence
2.30 pm Pacific, 5.30 pm Eastern, 10.30 pm UK, 11.30 pm Europe (>> CLICK HERE for other time zones)
We typically consider the head the center of intelligence and are encouraged to 'think things through'. Yet neurocardiology confirms what perennial teachings and our direct experience indicate, that to 'get to the heart of the matter', we need to feel. Similarly whilst awakening may begin in the head, it will ultimately work its way through the heart that we may know ourselves as Love Itself.
Heart -- Center of Intelligence
2.30 pm Pacific, 5.30 pm Eastern, 10.30 pm UK, 11.30 pm Europe (>> CLICK HERE for other time zones)
We typically consider the head the center of intelligence and are encouraged to 'think things through'. Yet neurocardiology confirms what perennial teachings and our direct experience indicate, that to 'get to the heart of the matter', we need to feel. Similarly whilst awakening may begin in the head, it will ultimately work its way through the heart that we may know ourselves as Love Itself.
LINKS FOR THE SESSION WITH WILL PYE:
*** NB: The links for the YouTube page and the Google hangout will only be 'live' a few minutes before we start! ***
*** NB: The links for the YouTube page and the Google hangout will only be 'live' a few minutes before we start! ***
- TO WATCH: >> CLICK HERE to get to the YouTube live broadcast page.
- TO ASK A QUESTION or contribute live in some other way: >> CLICK HERE to join the Google hangout.
- To see all the ways you can participate live: >> CLICK HERE.
- For instructions how to join us live on the Google hangout: >> CLICK HERE.
Grace Bubeck
Closing: meditation and sharing
4.30 pm Pacific, 7.30 pm Eastern, 12.30 am UK, 1.30 am Europe (>> CLICK HERE for other time zones)
A brief session of about 30 mins, bringing the retreat to a close.
Closing: meditation and sharing
4.30 pm Pacific, 7.30 pm Eastern, 12.30 am UK, 1.30 am Europe (>> CLICK HERE for other time zones)
A brief session of about 30 mins, bringing the retreat to a close.
LINKS FOR THE CLOSING SESSION:
*** NB: The links for the YouTube page and the Google hangout will only be 'live' a few minutes before we start! ***
*** NB: The links for the YouTube page and the Google hangout will only be 'live' a few minutes before we start! ***
- TO WATCH: >> CLICK HERE to get to the YouTube live broadcast page.
- TO ASK A QUESTION or contribute live in some other way: >> CLICK HERE to join the Google hangout.
- To see all the ways you can participate live: >> CLICK HERE.
- For instructions how to join us live on the Google hangout: >> CLICK HERE.
This is a free event, and there is no need to register.
For technical reasons, the links to the sessions can only be posted on the day of the event, in the minutes leading up to the session. Come back to this page on the day, and you will find the links underneath the listing of the sessions.
If you can't participate live, the Youtube videos from the sessions will be available afterwards.
For technical reasons, the links to the sessions can only be posted on the day of the event, in the minutes leading up to the session. Come back to this page on the day, and you will find the links underneath the listing of the sessions.
If you can't participate live, the Youtube videos from the sessions will be available afterwards.
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Please consider making a donation towards the cost of offering these free events.
Heartfelt thanks! |
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Teachers:
Jon Bernie, author of Ordinary Freedom, is a contemporary spiritual teacher who offers a compassionate, heart-centered approach to spiritual awakening. A former Zen monk with decades of training in the Buddhist and Advaita traditions, Jon was formally asked to teach by Adyashanti in 2002. Jon is also an experienced healer and teacher of somatic embodiment, and guides people intuitively on a deep energetic level to foster emotional healing and alignment with their true nature. Jon offers retreats and satsang in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, as well as private sessions in person or by phone or Skype. Free videos and podcasts of his teachings are available at his website: www.jonbernie.org.
Unmani is originally from the UK, but has lived a nomadic life in many countries around the world from the age of 18. Since she was a child, Unmani never identified with the role she seemed to be playing as a person living a life. However, she felt very lost and alone in a world that everyone else seemed to take so seriously. Unmani's main inspiration has come from Osho and Dolano. After years of searching to find a way out of pain, she met the German Zen master, Dolano in India. With her, Unmani recognized that what she had been searching for had always been right here. She woke up to the dream, time stopped and the search ended. Unmani began holding meetings and retreats around the world 3 years later She is the author of two books ‘I am Life itself’ and ‘Die to Love’ and is now writing a third book. www.dietolove.com.
Will Pye inspires realization of the joyful peace present in each moment and love at core of experience. Connecting people with purpose he empowers thriving lives of service. Communicating with groups globally as social entrepreneur, teacher, coach, speaker and author his work is summed up by 'integrating'; integrating psychological wholeness and spiritual awakening , science and spirituality, reason and intuition, personal growth and wellbeing with collective evolution and social justice. Insights from 15yrs study, practice and exploration into consciousness and transformation are shared with humour and love as Will facilitates tension, problem and despair into peace, opportunity and joy. www.willpye.com
Grace Bubeck: A psychologist (MSc), philosopher (PhD), and certified massage therapist by professional training and work history, I left a first career in academia at the London School of Economics to become a body-mind therapist and a personal development and meditation teacher. My healing journey branched out into an intense spiritual search until I found my teacher Gangaji. She took the wind out of the sails of searching and the drama of ‘me and my life’. Awakening is deepening as I’m finding a way of living it in this life. I offer in person therapy and workshops as well as online groups and retreats. www.gracebubeck.com.