Overview

A Path to Presence is an experiential course inviting you to radically reorient towards everyday life and awaken to greater ease, gratitude, wisdom, and love. The teachings and content will provide a clear, cohesive map supporting you to enter a practice space within community for eight weeks—regardless of how busy your life may be. You will learn to make room for the intelligence of presence to inform everything that you do. All of this is easier (and loads more fun) when we do it together! 

The structure of the course is based on the recognition that we develop gradually—a bit like a slow cooker recipe. We might have no idea what’s happening at first and may even feel doubtful about the results, but with time and consistent application, we eventually detect a wonderful aroma.  

The learning and benefits rely on a “gentle/firm” commitment to daily meditation, mindfulness practice, self-inquiry, and written reflection.

This course is open to beginners and dabblers in meditation and/or contemplative practices as well as to experienced practitioners seeking to deepen their practice. All are welcome.

Presence

We’ve all had fleeting moments of connection, being, or what may feel like an unfiltered aliveness, free of our typical interpretations, preferences, defenses, and struggles. These moments are tastes of something precious and natural within us. There are many words that uniquely refer to this state of consciousness, like presence, being, awareness, love, and more. Whatever we want to call it, we can learn to deepen our relationship to our innate presence and discover the wonders that it may offer. 

At times, our struggles may be challenging to understand and heal. While we may know that something feels “off” with our state, mood, thoughts, etc., and we may think we know what our problem is, the inner landscape is often quite hard to see clearly.

To deepen our connection to presence is to develop our capacity to see clearly, to allow for the uprooting of the causes and conditions of struggle, and to make room for new and beautiful intelligences in the heart and mind that are waiting to awaken. 

What to Expect

• Weekly live 75-minute sessions

• Half-day retreat

• Clear thematic content, short readings, practices, and instructions for daily use

• Optional private meetings

• High-quality guided meditation recordings

Weekly Sessions

The Wednesday night sessions offer a chance to receive the benefit of guided practice, teachings, and community. Sessions include thirty minutes of guided meditation, small and large group discussion based on a weekly theme, and occasional brief talks or presentations. Throughout the course, you'll share what you're learning and experiencing and hear about other participants’ journeys. Part of what makes this course so powerful is the community that grows among everyone in it.

Questions?