Motherhood has many meanings to each of us from "mother out there" to the "mother within" regardless of gender, and whether we have birthed children or not. Often, it is a relationship that spans, plunges and rises through love, compassion, complexity and hardship. As we commemorate Mother's Day, let us take a loving and healing journey back to us through ...
With Centering Prayer as our model we will share a bit of guidance exploring and clarifying our intention, joined with a bit of practice and reflection that leads to deeper intimacy with GUS…gaining through letting go. Expect to come away from this practice feeling a sense of calm, clarity, creativity and heightened intuition. Practice Testimonials "As always Charles led a ...
“To be in contact internally with our body is, at the same time, to be open to our environment. Everywhere we are in contact with ourselves within our body, we are alive and responsive to the world around us. This produces a lived experience of continuity and connection with everything and everyone we encounter.” -Judith Blackstone Through a cultivation of ...
Cultivating Spiritual Discernment is the ability to differentiate clearly between the limited personality traits of our type and our limitless true being. Join me on May 11 at noon EDT when we will take some time to re-establish a deeper connection with our true nature. Join Lynda for a monthly facilitated practice group designed specifically for Enneagram 8’s, where we ...
Each time we meet, we will explore an aspect of Integral Recovery. I am the author of an award-winning book called Integral Recovery: A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction, and most of the time we will follow the text of the book -- but not necessarily. Every time we meet we will also meditate together using ...
During this session, we'll engage in exercises around the theme of wisdom. Together with your fellow participants, you'll be invited to reflect on how you personally embody wisdom in your own life. Join Lee for a monthly facilitated practice group designed specifically for Enneagram 1’s, where we will support each other on the path of becoming discerning, accepting and hopeful. ...
Many spiritual traditions speak about a balance of mind, body, and spirit. But let's face it - today's culture is all mind, mind, mind. It feels like we've lost connection to something deep: our inner guiding voice, the "North" point in the compass of our soul - in a word, the intuition. Join mindfulness teacher Nate Macanian for An Intuition ...
Spiritual development is often seen as a solitary affair. Yet we live in community. When we practice together, we open up and focus on the space between us. We will practice a Sufi form of awakening called Sohbet, where we come together and slow down—to what integral teacher Terry Patten calls “super slow motion” — where we notice each sensation, ...
As 9s there can often be a tendency to easily abandon one’s own primary agenda, focus, and direction in favor of secondary agendas for others that don’t hold as much meaning, weight, or impact for what we uniquely want. This next session is tailored to looking at a weekly practice that can help us stay on target with our own ...
Join Lee Mason to learn how to skilfully manage the existential challenges of navigating a rapidly changing polarized world. Practice Testimonials "Lee is so organized; thorough, succinct, and thoughtful. He helps me ground and be present. When I heard 'so many steps to follow' he immediately buffeted with a split-screen option to refer to in the breakout. I can model ...
April Theme: Exploring Intimate Relationships This month we'll explore type Five's focal points - from commitment to loneliness, detachment and avarice - in intimate relationships. What have you learned and how have you grown from past experience? Where is your developmental edge right now? Join Jordan for a monthly facilitated practice group designed specifically for Enneagram 5’s, where we will ...
“Every bad feeling is potential energy toward the right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness.” So said Eugene Gendlin, the originator of the Focusing practice. And given the current circumstances: pandemic, racial tensions, political unrest, just to name a few, it’s likely that you’re experiencing some so-called “bad feelings” and wish that things ...
Zero to Awake is a gradual practice sequence that lubricates, unwinds and enlivens the mind, body, heart and subtle energy system so we can stably abide as non-dual Awareness. Every step along the way we enjoy intimacy with the universe. New and seasoned practitioners will find nourishment in this pointing- out instruction style guided meditation. Meet Your Practice Leader Adam ...
The Ladder doesn’t go anywhere. The race isn’t real. The things we have are not as important as the grooves we carve. Deep down, we know this. Yet, we do nothing. We’re called to something more in our life, yet we’re anchored to the life we have. Most of us would prefer to have a calling, but we’re unwilling to ...
Although our capacity for deeper connections actually increases with self-development, many of us have found that as we progress on our journey of growth that the friendships we once enjoyed no longer nourish us in the same way. Wouldn’t it be nice to develop friendships with women who share your values of waking up, growing up, cleaning up and showing ...
Feelings are the communication of life. They make us feel alive. When feelings can communicate their messages, we can act accordingly, but we lose their wisdom when they are blocked and suppressed. In the interactive Unity Within practice, we let feelings speak in the first person to distill their data to us using the Big Mind Method. In each session ...
We all have unconscious bias - those blindspots that cloud our judgment, robbing us of our power. We all experience discomfort hearing that we have biases that prevent us from living our potential. In spite of everything, self-awareness is a definite possibility and the only way to reclaim our destiny. Imagine what can be different when you become more skilled ...
Each time we meet, we will explore an aspect of Integral Recovery. I am the author of an award-winning book called Integral Recovery: A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction, and most of the time we will follow the text of the book -- but not necessarily. Every time we meet we will also meditate together using ...
In a world of social distancing, polarization of beliefs and clashing worldviews, connection has felt hard to come by. Yet the only way we are going to heal the rift is to find a way through. Join Lee for a session designed to increase your ability to connect from a place of wisdom and compassion with other people whose worldviews ...
Ken Wilber once said, “It is lonely at the top”. By "top," he meant the higher reaches of the developmental stages where there are fewer and fewer self-identified integral folks...like us! He encouraged embracing this evolutionary space with both pride and humility. Let’s face it…the integral community is tiny. We aren’t always surrounded by a like-minded and like-hearted integral community ...
Isn't tea an amazing thing? In times of joy, tea reminds us of what's worth celebrating. In times of sorrow, tea can help us see the path to wholeness. Sipping this wonderful plant nourishes the innate part of us that's gentle, flowing, and easy. It's almost impossible to sit peacefully with a cup of hot tea and get stuck thinking ...
How does your core fear of being unworthy of being loved or your core desire to to be loved show up in your daily experience? What triggers you to repress or avoid your own needs and feelings to maintain the self image of being "helpful?” How often do you adapt or change yourself to earn approval? How often are you ...
Join Grant for a hybrid kata that combines movement and stillness to open the heart-mind for increased vitality and compassion. The arc of the practice starts with getting in touch with our deepest inspiration for practice, performing light calisthenics, energization exercises, moving through all 3 bodies (gross, subtle and causal). Once we’re warmed up, we engage a seated practice with ...
