iSpirit: Integral Relationships and Sexuality, May 28th-30th, Denver, CO with Marc Gafni, Guest Appearance by Ken Wilber
iSpirit presents: Our Second Integral Spirituality Seminar
The Integral Evolutionary Tribe will be gathering Memorial Day weekend for three days
of powerful community, friendship, love, deep study and reality condiseration, spiritual practice, great food and drink and ecstatic dancing into the night.
The Topic:
Evolutionary Integral Relationships and Sexuality:
On Living the Integral Masculine and the Integral Feminine in Your Life
We all engage in relationship. They are the basic monad of our existence. Successful Relationships give heart, joy and passion to our lives. In many ways successful relationships are life itself. Failed relationships foster most of the pain, heartbreak and even disaster in our lives. In many ways failed relationships are death itself.
By relationships we mean a wide variety of interactions. But the core of all relationships is between the masculine and the feminine. This may show up in relations between lovers, teacher and student, parent and child, in romantic relationships, in friendships, in business relationships and more. The masculine and feminine show up in sexual relationships in both straight and gay relationships. Moreover the masculine and the feminine, in their shadow and light forms, are principles at play in the politics love and sex no less then in the politics of economics, globalization, and the environment.
In this weekend we will engaged through heart, body, and mind Four core topics:
- Masculine Power and Masculine Shadow in Love Relationship
- Feminine Power and Feminine Shadow in Love Relationships
- Evolutionary Integral Models for Teacher Student Relationships
- Evolutionary Integral Models for Marriage and Sexuality
The Teachers:
Anchor Teacher, Marc Gafni, co-founder iEvolve, Growing a World Spirituality, Author, On the Erotic and the Holy, The New Enlightement: Awaken Your Unique Self, Soul Prints and more…
Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconoclastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni’s teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni’s path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and sacred audacity that he teaches.
Guest appearance by Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books, translated into some 30 foreign languages, including the recent Integral Spirituality. He is the first philosopher-psychologist to have his Collected Works published while still alive, and is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. He is the founder of Integral Institute, Inc. and the co-founder of Integral Life, Inc.
Fielding Graduate Universities.
The Weekend will be chaired by Zak Stein and Curated by Kelly Sosan Bearer and Nicole Fegley. Guest appearance by dj sosan.
Guest teaching by Mariana Caplan
Mariana Caplan, PhD, is a counselor speciailizing in somatic approaches to psychotherapy. She is a professor of transpersonal and yogic psychologies, and the author of seven books in the fields of psychology and spirituality, including Eyes Wide Open, Halfway Up the Mountain and Do You Need a Guru?. She has degrees in cultural anthropology, counseling psychology, and contemporary spirituality, and is a lifelong practitioner of yoga.
She has spent the past two decades researching and practicing in the worldâs great mystical traditions, and has lived in villages in India, Central and South America, and Europe. Mariana resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has a private practice in counseling in Marin County. She also teaches yoga philosophy and transpersonal psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and yoga ĂÂsana classes at Yoga Mountain Studio in Fairfax, California.
Kelly Sosan Bearer is the Executive Director of iEvolve: Global Practice Community. She is the C co-curator of Integral Life Spiritual Center and Integral Spiritual Experience. Previously, Kelly worked for Integral Institute from 2003-2008 and has been a student of Integral theory and practice for over a decade. Kelly is an ordained Zen Monk and studies with Zen Master Genpo Roshi. She is a published author in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. She completed her graduate studies at Naropa University with Master’s in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology.
Nicole Fegley is a co-curator of Integral Life Spiritual Center and Integral Spiritual Experience. A former restaurant owner, she has worked for Integral Institute and Integral Life for the past 4 years and is currently studying in the Integral Coaching Canada certification program. She is a writer and the co-owner of Core Integral, Inc, dedicated to comprehensive and accessible training in Integral Theory and Application.
