Discover the Four Steps to Awakening

Join spiritual psychologist, author and poet Steve Taylor, for this 4-part, live and interactive teaching series based on his new book, The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening.

Through meditations, contemplative group exercises, visualization and interactive discussion, you’ll cultivate the qualities of spiritual awakening, you'll gain contact with the spiritual essence of your being, and experience a profound sense of peace and harmony that will naturally carry through all experiences in you daily life.

Together you'll explore:

Disidentification from the ego-mind
Live July 8th

> How NOT to listen to the ‘voice inside your head.’
> How to step outside your story
> Learn meditative exercises like the ‘Riverbank Exercise’ and ‘The Process’ meditation

Gratitude
Live July 15th

> How to overcome the ‘taking for granted syndrome’?
> Identifying and appreciating the blessings in our lives
> Visualisation - travelling to the moon to appreciate life on Earth
> How to extend gratitude more and more widely, from our personal lives to the world and the universe
> How to cultivate gratitude for the body and for life itself

Presence
Live July 22nd

> Learn the Three States of Being: Abstraction, Absorption, Awareness - How to spend more time in a state of awareness
> Return to the childhood state of natural presence
> ‘Nudge yourself back’ into the present; conscious attention in everyday life
> The importance of presence in relationships

Acceptance
Live July 29th

> Identify the areas of your life where you practice resistance
> Experience ‘The Alchemy of Acceptance’
> What is the relationship between ‘transformation through turmoil’ and acceptance?
> Learn the difference between acceptance and resignation
> Be guided through a simple process of transforming resistance into acceptance

Live sessions take place each Monday in July from 3:00 pm-4:30 pm ET 

And remember if you can't join Steve live, you can access the replay videos at a time that is convenient for you. 

About Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor, PhD, is the author of many best-selling books on psychology and spirituality, he is a lecturer, teacher and and a spiritual poet. His newest book is The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening; and his other titles include: Extraordinary Awakenings, The Clear Light,  Out of the Darkness, Back to Sanity, The Calm Center, The Leap and Spiritual Science. His books have been published in 20 languages, and his articles and essays have been published in over 100 academic journals, magazines and newspapers. Steve also writes blog articles for Scientific American and Psychology Today.

Eckhart Tolle has described his work as ‘an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet at present.’ 

Steve lives in Manchester, England, with his wife and three children.

Expectation and Surprise Along the Way

with

JAN FRAZIER

 It is beneficial for a seeker to have conscious awareness of underlying assumptions and desires regarding awakening. Something motivates a person to want to wake up in the first place.

What do we suppose awakening will be like?

What will it relieve us of?

We may think we know what it will be like to live as an awake person, that after the dramatic turning point, things inside will be the same ever after. A good part of what we believe or long for is below the surface of conscious awareness. To the extent that we can lift such imaginings into the frank light of recognition, our explorations along the way -- before and after waking up -- will bear more fruit.

About Jan Frazier

In 2003 Jan experienced a radical transformation of consciousness. While she lives a fully embodied human life, she does not suffer. Her new podcast is "Dear Heart: Sitting with Jan Frazier." Jan's books are When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening, The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is, The Great Sweetening: Life After Thought, and Opening the Door. Her new book (tentatively titled Love Incarnate: 20 Years after Awakening) will be released in 2023. Jan is available for consultations.

Awakening the Sleeping Mind

with

 LISA NATOLI 

Lisa will use a combination of teachings from A Course in Miracles, Advaita-Vedanta as well as her own personal experience to facilitate a direct experience and clear understanding of the simplicity of what awakening is.

Lisa's approach to healing and awakening involves being completely present in the body, completely present to whatever emotions are arising in your experience as a doorway to realization of Self.

This is an opportunity to engage in intimate dialogue, ask questions, investigate, explore and gather with others who are interested in waking up to their true nature and living an awakened life.

About Lisa Natoli

Lisa Natoli shares her story of healing and awakening in a way that is down-to-earth, simple and easily understood. She was an alcoholic, cigarette smoker, food addict, type-A personality with roller-coaster emotional mood swings which all got healed with A Course in Miracles. Even though she felt happier than before, sober, living life in a more conscious loving way, she knew deep down there was more to the journey. But no matter how devoted she was to forgiveness work and spiritual development, she could never quite reach the goal of complete happiness, peace, and freedom which she knew was available to us all. She still was stressed out, overwhelmed, and filled with guilt even though she “knew” intellectually she should “let go” of these emotions.

In 2013, she got sick with an incurable autoimmune disease that conventional medicine, alternative approaches, and spiritual practices could not heal. This ended up being the best thing that ever happened to her. After trying everything to heal with no success, she began to welcome the pain and symptoms starting in October 2018. This practice of welcoming led to an interest in nonduality teachings which led to practices of inner investigation & self-inquiry which led slowly and gradually to the recognition of Consciousness as the true Self, our real Self which is complete happiness with no suffering or sorrow. She writes on the topics of mind-body healing, transformation, enlightenment, and consciousness.

The Four Major Movements on the Awakening Journey

with

ANGELO DILULLO

(Live Class took place in January)

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There are many ways to describe the awakening journey. Ultimately the right way to wake up is the way you will wake up. There are as many paths as there are people.

With this said, there are key insights and motifs that are shared among all who awaken.

In this series with Angelo, you will investigate these key insights characterized by four major movements: Recognition, Identity as Consciousness, Traversing the Shadow, and Dispelling the Fundamental Illusions.

About Angelo DiLullo

At the age of 24, after years of intense internal suffering and an intuition that something about the way we interact with our thoughts causes a lot of unnecessary suffering, Angelo had a fundamental shift in the way he experiences reality. This was a pervasive transformation and was life-altering at every level. It suddenly became clear that thoughts, and the way they “paint” our experience of ourselves, time, and space, are essentially unreal, something like ghosts. What replaced this world of thought, struggle, and suffering, was boundless clarity and intimacy with all immediate textures of phenomena. It became clear that this is simply the natural state of things and that it is true for everyone, even when veiled by thought.

Letting Stillness Reveal Itself

with

DAN SCHMIDT

(Live Class took place in March)

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Dan Schmidt, the creator of the renowned Samadhi movies, brings you on a guided meditative self inquiry experience, leading to choiceless awareness or "just being" in the present moment.

The conditioned mind is full of unconscious processes, like little programs running in the background.

By making the unconscious habit patterns of the mind conscious, they are able to drop away.

Learn to observe the operations of mind, making the unconscious conscious, and dis-identifying from all of the phenomena so that you come to realize all processes of mind to be empty of self.

In this way we create the conditions which make awakening more likely.

In these 4 replays you'll explore:

Observing the conditioned mind as it is.

The various forms of resistance.

Allowing flow of subtle sensations.

Non-doing and direct pointing.

About Dan Schmidt

Daniel is the creator of the award winning film “Inner Worlds Outer Worlds” the “Samadhi” film series and is also one of the creators and speakers in the Awakening Mind series. It is Daniel’s intention to convey the one perennial teaching that is inherent within all of the spiritual traditions. Daniel created the Samadhi Center in Ontario Canada and the Awaken the World Initiative as an outer reflection of his inner world. His approach combines self-inquiry with traditional forms of meditation so that participants have the opportunity to simultaneously realize their transcendent nature, and to purify themselves of conditioned patterns so that the human vessel becomes permeable to their true nature. Daniel emphasizes that Samadhi can be experienced not merely as a temporary “state” but as a “stage” of development. 

The “pathless path” is to realize an ever-deepening development process within the self-structure, and to simultaneously realize the emptiness of the self-structure. When these are realized as one, it is Samadhi.

Self Inquiry: A Meditative Approach 

with

HEENA VASANI

(Live Class took place in May)

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Self Inquiry welcomes our direct experience, exactly as is invoking deep self-exploration and Self-discovery through the integration of our mind, heart, and body.

Self Inquiry is an experiential, meditative practice that invites you to explore and understand your inner world by paying close attention to bodily sensations, thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. It gently unlocks the door to Self-awareness, which holds the key to initiating profound change, silently reshaping our lives from the inside out.

About Heena Vasani

In her early 20's Heena faced a serious health problem and was put on a waiting list for a kidney transplant. This life-altering experience led her to question the meaning of life, birth, and death. On the day of her transplant, she had a profound glimpse of her true nature, which caused her to reflect on the responsibility attached to receiving a donated organ.

She embarked on a spiritual journey spanning over 25 years, exploring consciousness through non-dual paths like A Course in Miracles and Advaita Vedanta. Meditation, body-mind disciplines, and in-depth psychology have helped to integrate these teachings into her life. Her core teachers include Chloe Goodchild, Rupert Spira and AH Almaas.

Her late grandmother, a devout Hindu, also played a significant role in shaping her path by inviting her to explore motherhood as a spiritual practice. This brought her face-to-face with her own conditioning and childhood trauma, leading to transformation and a deeper connection with her true self and the oneness of life.

Remarkably, after 25 years, her transplanted kidney remains healthy, which caught the attention of her consultant, leading to the suggestion that she share her story and meditation techniques with others.

Heena trained in compassionate enquiry with Dr Gabor Mate. She has also trained in Enquiry, and non dual meditation with Richard Miller PhD, a former student of John Klein, and founder of the IRest Institute where she has been educated in Yoga Nidra, and body sensing through the 7 kosha’s or Sheaths of identity. She remains a student of the Ridhwan School, Diamond Approach where she studies Diamond Enquiry with AH Almaas. Her book Fragrance of Freedom discovering Peace Through Mothering was published in October 2023.