Compassionate Inquiry: A Meditative Approach

Join Heena Vasani, author and practitioner of the Compassionate Inquiry method, as she guides you to explore and understand your inner world by paying close attention to your bodily sensations, thoughts, emotions, and beliefs.

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

It gently unlocks the door to Self-awareness, which holds the key to initiating profound change, silently reshaping your life.

In this 4-part live and interactive series with Heena, you'll unpack:

Accessing The Body's Wisdom: An introduction to body sensing
Live May 6th

Beliefs: Distilling our stories in a felt somatic experience
Live May 13th

Coping Mechanisms: How have you coped as a result of your past experiences?
Live May 20th

Integration: Living daily life as Love's Presence
Live May 27th

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

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

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 completes her training in compassionate enquiry this May with Dr Gabor Mate, and will go onto the six month Facilitator Training Course thereafter. 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.

Four Steps to Awakening: Cultivating the Qualities of Spiritual Enlightenment

with 

STEVE TAYLOR

About Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor, PhD, is the author of many best-selling books on psychology and spirituality, and a spiritual poet. His new book is DisConnected: How Connection Can Heal the World. His other books include Extraordinary Awakenings, The Clear Light and The Leap. His books have been published in 20 languages, and he writes blog articles for Scientific American and for 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.