Sharing Retreat week in France, June 4-12

Dear Friends,

Being together honestly – simple and real – something truly magical happens. We can feel the potential of  life’s mystery as it is revealed within us and beyond us in an intimate connection with everything and everybody, alive, complete and without limits.

Each year in spring we immerse ourselves into the intimacy of being together for a Sharing Group week. This conducive environment helps us to slow down, open up and become more present to the moment. Being authentic and honest with each other, we naturally become more of ourselves and dive into a seamless exploration and celebration of life.

Our group will have some structure around sessions and meal times. However, we do not know the details of what will happen during this week but feel happy and excited to see how the group will unfold as we go along creating it together.  Read more »

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Jeff Foster talks about the unspeakable

by Mike Larcombe

Listening to Jeff helps me remove my concepts, including my spiritual concepts. In his presence I realise, that whatever I think is not true. The way Jeff is and lives his life feels very natural to me. I find him to be an example for “not doing” but allowing life to unfold. In February I am organising two events with Jeff. Come and join me!

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Vulnerability

I feel moved by Brené’s talk. Dropping into our vulnerability reminds me of us being together in Sharing Group. Tomorrow evening is our next Intro if you want to come.

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Zen Brain

I am so captivated by the crossover between the neuroscientists and the meditators. The Upaya Zen Center linked below has graciously made their conferences available online. My fascination and curiosity with the brain, mind and consciousness has never been greater. The map of how we think, how we are programed and how we transform has never been clearer and yet all the science still wonderously leads to the Mystery that is beyond maps and any explanation. I have never felt more at home in this Insecurity.

This link is from the second Zen Brain conference (part 2 of 19) from the site so if you’re really interested search for the previous year, as well.

Zen Brain part 2 of 19

This second link was also recorded at Upaya with Dr. Dan Siegel, a brilliant psychiatrist who makes this dense material very easily understandable.

Mindsight Series: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Awareness

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Taoist meditation with Bruce Frantzis

There are a myriad of traditions, teachings and systems easily accessible to us these days. I feel very grateful for this variety, which supports my unfolding through study and continuous opening to more insight, depth and knowledge.

Back in March I went on a week long meditation retreat with Taoist Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis. It was a wonderful experience. Bruce guided us artfully through the Taoist Water Method of Dissolving into Inner Space. To me this practice is a true gift, especially if things are going not quite as ego would like them to go.

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Then and Now?

by Spencer Barron

Reading through some old emails, this one was found about sharing group, it was written nearly two years ago, wow! who was that person? how was he connected to words like that? who is that person now? Feels like he’s falling into not knowing, into humaness, into innocence.

hi love
thanks for your message
always lovely to hear from you
feel in to my connection with you and it’s very sweet, expansive, open…
i really appreciate your e-mail as there’s a lot of energy coming through about sharing group so i’m just going to let what wants to be said flow… Read more »

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Satori Process with Clare Soloway

We are delighted to annouce that Clare Soloway will once again be facilitating the powerful Satori Process.

Clare Soloway

Finkenwerder, Germany, August 15 – 21, 2010

The Satori Process

The name Satori is Japanese and means a “direct experience of truth”. It is based around some very fundamental life questions, the most basic and enduring one for all of us being “Who am I”?  Read more »

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Where have you got to?

Another great email from Paul Lowe to his list today:

… to get an idea at least, imagine this…

The planet is in serious, serious trouble, and we can’t fix it. (Not much imagination needed so far eh). Extra Terrestrials say they could save us, but it would take a lot of resources – so they would need to be sure that we are worth saving. So they come down to take ‘a sample human’ to check to see if we are worth the trouble. And they pick you!

Good example? Of course they would not just ask questions, they would have the facility to read your mind, and inner self. Negativity? Resentments? Caring? Spending appropriate amount of time, money and energy into evolving. Living life fully? Putting back at least as much as you are taking? Honest?

You could try being truthful with yourself – both ways – and see how you feel about yourself?

Love…

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Invitation to our Intro to Sharing Group

For upcoming dates please click here to see our calendar

Next Tuesday we’ll be holding another Intro evening to Sharing Group. I am excited about it and would love for as many of you to come as possible. Especially if you thought of trying it for a while now. It is a great opportunity to find out what Sharing Group is about and what it means to us.

In one way you could say there is no introduction needed. What we do can only be recognised but not really understood with the mind. There is no leader, no facilitator, no hierarchy, and no obvious rules. To me it’s a feeling of a rather intangible joint aspiration. Read more »

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