Subject: Playful Presence on Thursdays and Sundays

Playful Presence

Where we contemplate life through meditative exploration, inquiry & conversation

with Anaïs Georgina Roman
Every Sunday and Thursday at 9 am (Pacific Time)

The intention is to sit with ourselves and our community to contemplate our experience through meditation practices. With these practices, we can learn to better understand the mechanism of our mind. If we begin to understand how mind operates, we can then intentionally cultivate our relationship to mind and our selves, allowing for new dimensions and understandings to arise.

We will normally have a brief welcome, a led exercise, and dialogue among the participants. Participants with any level of experience are welcome to join each week. As a free drop-in class, there is no requirement for participants to attend every week.

Say Yes to Experience

Our annual European retreat with Jack Petranker

October 11-16, 2022 at Neu Plaue Retreat Center, Germany

Learn how to activate the radical immediacy available within our ordinary experience.

We live in a world shaped by the stories we tell about it—stories centered on the self. Using a logic that starts with the existence of the self, we turn knowledge into a tool that we use to uphold our own limits.

In this retreat, we will question this commitment to the self and the therapeutic mindset it puts in place. Focusing strongly on practice, we will learn how to activate the radical immediacy available within our ordinary experience, if only we know how to look for it. We will learn what it means to say “yes” to experience, to discover freedom within the patterns of the ordinary and bring it into every moment.

We Are Not Who We Think We Are

A Full Presence Mindfulness retreat with Jack Petranker

October 18-21, 2022 at Kibbutz Inbar, Galilee

In this retreat, we will start by connecting deeply with our experience: how we breathe, how we see, how we hear, how we move. We will touch the ground of experience and learn to be fully present.

The next step is to expand into the whole range of how we live in the world. This includes the way we think, the emotions and concerns that drive us, the stories we tell, the 'reality' we inhabit, and the motives and intentions that determine our destiny. As we explore who we are and who we think we are, we will share our insights and discoveries.

Together, we will gain confidence in own ability to know, to care and to act, and awaken a deeper understanding and a more joyful and more relaxed way to be.

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