14 T racks of Integral Relationship Practice at Integral Spiritual Experience 2!After last month’s post on the Top Five Reasons to Attend Integral Spiritual Experience 2, December 29th, 2010 — January 2nd, 2011 at Asilomar Retreat Center in Pacific Grove, California, we felt it was important to share an even greater reason to attend, and to give you a deeper taste of what you’ll experience at ISE 2…[more]
 The Bodhisattva Way: A 10-Week Telecourse with Diane Musho Hamilton
In Zen practice, the Bodhisattva is a person who vows to use their wisdom to help other beings awaken. Traditionally, it is said that the Bodhisattva puts off his or her complete enlightenment until all beings have crossed over to the other shore. When we consider the depth of this image, we see how it actually reflects the truth of our own life and the challenges which relationships present. We might actually believe that we could all rest thoroughly in or as Nirvana if it weren’t for those pesky ones called “others” who keep disturbing our bliss…[more]
 Lotus Lounge: The Good, True, and Beautiful: Becoming the Beauty You Already Are with Diane Musho Hamilton and Sofia Diaz
As women, our natural way of expression of being is beauty and radiance. Cultural views may have clouded our impressions and expressions of beauty, and we may have placed unwarranted expectations or resentments around it. We might be conflating spiritual reality with cultural confusion about beauty. This workshop offers an opportunity to liberate your beauty, by connecting with your inmost radiance and fully recognizing the beauty of your Unique Self as an expression in the world. Clear up your ambivalence about beauty. Give yourself permission to be beautiful and to see beauty as an expression of the Divine…[more]
 Falling in Love with the Divine: Devotion and Tantra of the Heart with Dr. Marc Gafni and Sally Kempton
For many contemporary spiritual practitioners, devotion is a missing ingredient in their practice. Yet part of what gives practice its juice and excitement is the living relationship with the personal face of the divine–the Being-Intelligence of all that is–by which you are personally addressed, loved, challenged, and held. Devotion, heart practice directed toward a divine other, or the divine other in a beloved, is a secret of inner awakening, and a key to emotional healing and evolutionary transformation. It’s no wonder that some of the greatest sages and teachers of all time, from Rumi to the Hasidic masters, were also followers of the devotional path...[more]
 Discovering Second Simplicity: A Four-Month Journey with Dr. Marc Gafni and Clint Fuhs
Have you ever wondered why topics like kindness, discernment, laughter, and obligation rarely come up in integral circles? If so, we’ve been wondering right along with you – and we’re convinced it has something to do with our propensity to get mired in dysfunctional relationships with complexity. To more deeply explore this issue, Core Integral and iEvolve have crafted an innovative four month course to help you discover what lies on the other side of complexity. Read on and learn more about what we’ve come to call the second simplicity, along with how you can reserve (with no obligation) a discounted space in this exciting course…[more] |
