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Monthly Embodied Gatherings
We Can Know Love: Being Together , a Zoom retreat Matrix Integration: A Ten-Month Exploration (2022 details coming soon!)*****************************
Monthly Embodied Gatherings
October Embodied Gathering: Discovering Empowerment TogetherNOTE: Many of you have been becoming for a while, and I am so grateful that we get to journey together through the gatherings. The past many years I have been hosting the gatherings no matter how many sign up. I have loved doing this so much as it matches with my purpose to serve Love. Many of you know that Mom has had a stroke, and my brother who lives with her is also struggling. To honor my own humanness as I support them I am requesting that people let me know asap when they want to come to a gathering. I will only host a gathering if 4 commit each time. If gatherings are a priority for you, I am here for it!!! When we commit to our growth, magic happens. For whomever wants it, we will continue to deepen together.It is crucial, especially in times such as these, that as we find spaces and people who listen to and believe in our stories – to our sacred, lived experiences. Your experiences are the hallowed ground of your being and will be fully honored in our sacred and carefully created container. In this group we are real with each other. We show up as we are, with whatever is going on for us- our joys, our struggles, our tears, and/or our laughter. In a world that has often tried to control us, or where we have tried to control ourselves, we learn how empowering it is to be fully ourselves. Belonging, community, connection and a healthy nervous system are crucial for our well-being, and a safe community is the perfect place to discover our relationship with life. We gather to become more intimate with, and more available for, our life. For those who would like support in their journey, this is an affordable, safe option. An empowered container for us evolve together Every day I witness a sense of empowerment when people feel safe enough to honestly connect to their actual lived experiences, when their sorrows and celebrations are allowed, named, spoken, expressed, and felt. Being heard in a supportive environment conveys and births a sense of embodied empowerment that is known from deep within the being. Neuropathways shift, one’s sense of safety in the world changes, and relationships with life are transformed. Possibilities we couldn’t even imagine reveal themselves. Join us as we gather and explore together. Using tools and practices I have developed and learned through my trainings in holding sacred circles, I will compassionately and gently hold space as we gather together. These gatherings are sacred spaces where everyone is welcome. People going through their Dark Night of the Soul experiences, survivors of abuse, people who have had awakenings and want community, people struggling in their life in various ways, and/or people simply wanting connection along their journey are likely to find home in these gatherings. Upcoming dates October: Oct. 3, 2:30pm ET and Oct. 24, 8pm ET We will meet for 60-75 minutes on Zoom. Please contact me with questions, concerns or future dates: LLMEUSER@ME.COM Investment: Sliding scale, what you can afford – $10-25 per gathering. Anything over $20 goes to my scholarship fund. To sign up please send a PayPal payment to LLMEUSER@ME.COM, subject line “Gathering” along with your email address so I can send you a link. No one turned away due to insufficient funds. Minimum participants required: 4, Maximum: 15 More Information: Gatherings focus on practical and experiential exercises specifically designed for the development of self-awareness, self-love, safety and a healthy nervous system. Each gathering is organically shaped around attendees’ needs and wants. Each gathering includes a guided rest, time for questions and sharing, ways to heal the nervous system, and ways to engage in self-inquiry. Participation is always optional. In this group we honor our experiences and we learn that we don’t have to pretend, or hide, or run. We gather together in a welcoming space where we are allowed to be exactly who we are, exactly as we are, and through slow, simple experiential practices we realize that profound safety can be found right here and now. Safety is important. Our bodies, our spirits, and our psyches function with more well-being when safety is known from within. We live in a culture that often disempowers and creates stress, a culture that conditions us to find our well-being in people, places, and superficial activities and things – without teaching us sustainable, empowering safety from the inside out. As such, we often don’t know how to cope with existing in an overwhelming world, or how to recover from traumatic experiences. Many of us have developed post-traumatic stress as a result, and have forgotten that safety is possible. We can learn. By providing a safe environment for this deliberate purpose, we can slowly and gently learn what it’s like to feel safe. We come together to find safety in our experiences and discover that we are safe – even when we have fear, trauma or loud core stories and emotions. All are welcome here regardless of political affiliation, sexual orientation, race, gender or background. You are important, and appreciated, whoever you are. From past participants: Lisa is like a cocoon for expansion and love. I really love working with her. She walks her talk and creates a space for acceptance and non-judgment and I’m better able to accept and not judge myself and others. My heart has opened in my work with her. So grateful. It is quite breathtaking to experience you working with a group; watching and listening to your communion with who-they-really-are. You have a gift, Lisa. You represent what Adyashanti talks about: “A safe place for the world to come and rest.” You are that safe, benign presence in the world. I have listened to the recording many times since our gathering. It continues to support me. I have discovered writing as a way to connect with myself and others. I didn’t know I had these words inside of me! About me. To read more about embodiment check out my blog. *****************************************************************************************************
We Can Know Love: Being Together on Zoom! (edited)
New edit from September 20th: This will now be an online event! Please keep reading (or watch the interview I did a couple weeks ago) to learn more, and read about the process of changing from live to on-line here. Edited to add: Ana Maria Pardo and I had a conversation about the upcoming retreat! You can watch it here!!! ****** ****** I’m so excited to tell you about the upcoming Zoom retreat in October 22, 23, 24! But first, let me tell you about what’s important to me: Connection. Connection with Self. Connection with Others. Connection with All. Growing up this is what my heart deeply yearned for, as if I somehow knew the connection that existed between all things. Watching the birds. Staring into the trees. Looking at the faces around me and in my dreams. I was trying to find what I knew was there, but instead- in spite of my curiosity- I often felt separate and empty. And alone. I learned how to push through. Past my yearnings. Past my fear, past the pain of disconnect. I learned to pretend, but I couldn’t run from suffering. Maybe you know what that’s like. Maybe you’re like me, in some way or another. I was raised within a utilitarian, practical and “work hard!” paradigm. Immigrants coming fresh out of the depression or WWII, my family members were survivalists- often making the most they could from almost nothing and fighting hard to get ahead. They were good people, wanting to do good in the world. The gratitude I have for their work ethic is deep. I have learned so much from them and would not be where I am today without them. AND Growing up this is what was centered: scarcity, not enough-ness, attention as love, punishment, fear of being excluded, a deep sense of exasperation and worry, competition and burdened struggle. I saw life through a filter of dread and kept mysef small to stay safe. Nevertheless. Amidst the layers of oppression which infiltrated my psyche, beyond the lie of separation, something in my system knew there was more, as all humans are designed to know there is more.This is good news. Despite the layers of oppression that exist within our families of origin and culture, we have tasted from the wells of abundance, well-being, unity, and co-creation in some way or another, as they are part of our very essence as human beings. In my own journey, the more I tasted from these wells, the more my inner world transformed, and kept transforming because once the nervous system knows what else is possible, it keeps moving towards well-being. I started to Know more and more, simply and experientially: Joy. Abundance. Goodness. Compassion. Allowance. Love. We-ness. This is what I have found with clients as well: the human system desires to be gently nudged awake to our own inner knowing of these territories and wants to discover what is possible beyond what we’ve known. THANK GOODNESS. Look around… I think we can all agree that it is time for us to evolve past the violence that is prevalent wherever we look. It is time, AND it is possible. We need to consciously Know and embody, from deep within ourselves, these essences of well-being if we want to evolve past our suffering, and WE CAN. I’m going a step beyond that. For the sake of our species, we NEED to Know and then LIVE our lives centering the truth of Connection and Love. When we pause and look around at what is going on around the world, this becomes self-evident. We can experientially learn to center the truth of connection rather than lies of separation. I know this to be true because it is at the center of my work with Matrix Integration over the last ten years. Curiosity invites me to ask… What if?-
- What if we could get to know a Love which is not tied to action or deed, but is experiential and Known from within?
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- What if we were able to see things through the eyes of Love, that everything is connected, interdependent on everything else, and is being co-created in a perfection all its own?
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- What if we knew not to take discomfort as a personal failure, defect, or problem, but as something to learn from and be with?
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2022 Matrix Integration I have been receiving inquiries for 2022’s Matrix Integration Exploration, where, over 10 months you’ll have the opportunity to get conscious of the patterned thoughts that determine your life and cause nervous system dis-regulation, and learn how to consciously and intentionally rewire them, slowly over time, and discover what other possibilities exist as your nervous system learns how to sustainably stay in regulation. BOOM. This is transformational work, and you will have a community of practice to support you along the way. Included in our time together, we will:-
- Learn about the dominant oppressive narrative and how it influences your daily life, and what other narratives might be possible
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- Learn how to do simple consensual inquiry (an inquiry that I developed) with oneself so as to get more self-aware with that dominant oppressive narrative
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- Use practices which increase self-awareness, and start to pave the way for remembering another co-existing reality
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- Actively engage in a transformative wisdom-based narrative that centers well-being
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- Learn how to be present with oneself through a compassionate lens of allowance
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- Learn how to be held by another person in Presence, and how to be that person for others
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- Learn how to use consensual and simple inquiry to support another person
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- Learn that it is safe to connect to other human beings through our community of practice
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- Learn how to be empowered, conscious and active change agents in the world
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- so much more!
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- 20 (60-90 minute) private sessions
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- Personal email and text exchanges as needed
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- Approximately 15 group gatherings (all group calls will be recorded, which will be yours to review as resonates) ranging from 60 to 120 minutes
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- Support staff and guest teachers to augment your learning and practicing
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- My collection of videos, audios and blog posts
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- Book, audio, and video recommendations
Retreats
1:1 retreats are available. If you are interested in a more immersive and in-depth experience, please contact Lisa for details.