Teachings

  • Spiritual Bypassing–the danger of neglecting your humanity

    Being in Presence can become a high, a state you want to maintain. Recorded at the Spring Retreat 2015 in San Rafael CA. Topics:  ~ shakti ~ trauma work ~ nonduality ~ therapy and spirituality ~  spiritual maturity ~

  • The Reality of Connection

    Connection is our true nature. It’s an aliveness, a presence, a vastness. The reason we come here — the reason we *are* here — is to discover that for the first time; or to rediscover it; or to deepen into what is already present for us.

  • Cracking the Paradigm–part 1 of the spiritual laboratory

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  • Developing Energetic Consciousness: part 2 of the spiritual laboratory

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  • Each Moment is New: part 3 of the spiritual laboratory

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  • Trusting Your Internal Guidance System: part 4 of the spiritual laboratory

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  • Turning Awareness On

    Suffering is when we’re very identified, when we’re so contracted in our beliefs that there’s no sense of humor, no lightness. It’s heavy. It’s a bummer! But you can bring awareness in such a way that opening happens; you can question in such a way that the mind dissolves. And when you’re fully here the…

  • Being Available for Connection

    When we are here–not in the future–we are available for connection…which is our true nature. We need love–to feel connected on a human level–not just this groovy bliss of spirituality…that’s just the beginning….The follow-up is the ongoing healing of transformation. Being open is the ability to be with that mystery as it unfolds. Recorded at…

  • Noticing with the Heart

    The noticing that I’m describing is free of judgment, interpretation, comparison, analysis. So bring yourself back to a place where there’s spacious awareness. Widen your field to find that place where there is no resistance. Feel your heart opening, moving, unwinding. Feel your mind relaxing. There’s nothing like being unburdened. It’s fresh, and it’s always…

  • How to Be Here

    The fundamental teaching of being here is… just being here. No grasping; no holding; no trying. No understanding. No mind, no body; no nothing! Just being. Those are not concepts; rather, they are descriptions of how it is when *just being* is happening.