Marc Gafni at TEDx Las Vegas: Your Unique Self
June 8, 2011
We are excited to announce that TEDxSinCity – the first TedX event in Las Vegas, Nevada, was a hit. Our very own Dr. Marc Gafni offered a compelling, deep, and beautifully rich 18-minute teaching on Your Unique Self: The Future of Enlightenment. And we are truly delighted to share this video teaching with you.
The mission of TEDxSinCity is to “Evolve, Involve, Solve.”
Humanity has been in a process of evolution since the dawn of our species, and even before. This process is now vastly accelerated not just by our biology, but by the evolution of technology, and our ability to evolve our culture quickly enough to survive the self-created challenges that confront our species.
We are the first species in history that has the ability to chart the course of our progress and direct our own evolution. We might even be able to speed it up.
If we have the ability to do this, we have the responsibility to do it.
In keeping with the mission of TED, we think these are Ideas Worth Spreading.
 Dr. Marc Gafni holds his doctorate from Oxford University and has direct lineage in Kabbalah. He is a Rabbi, spiritual artist, teacher, and a leading visionary in the emerging World Spirituality movement. He is a co-founder of iEvolve: The Center for World Spirituality, a scholar at the Integral Institute, and the director of the Integral Spiritual Experience, as well as a lecturer at John F. Kennedy University. The author of seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints and Mystery of Love, Gafni’s teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni is considered by many to be a visionary voice in the founding of a new World Spirituality and one of the great mind/heart teachers of the generation. |
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November 18, 2010
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Five hundred people gathered in Asilomar, California over New Year’s Eve for the first ever “Integral Spiritual Experience” (ISE).
The ISE experience was a banquet of tasting from various sources of deep devotion, including one’s own, the experience of play, a deep koan, a sangha, a great party, a spiritual journey, and a whole bunch of other things rolled into one. Where else would you be singing “Jesus on the Main Line” with Krishna Das, chant ancient words by Moses himself with Rabbi Miriam Maron, experience a devotion to Shiva with Sally Kempton (Swami Durgananda), glimpse the breadth and depth of Ken Wilber’s understanding of our current unfolding, and take a journey back through time with Jean Houston?
I have only a sampling to offer from my perspective. For me, the Integral Spiritual Experience was…
…an experience of Unique Self playing with other Unique Selves…
We started with coming to know the unique details of lives that are inseparable from their perspective and unique awakening. What a gift to waken to the diversity of people’s stories that converged in that space! Every person has a story and for many I met the ability to “live life to the point of tears,” as Camus would say, was beautifully full. As Rabbi Marc Gafni said, “To be unique is not separate; to be unique is part of divine wholeness” and our awakenings “take place through our story as well as outside our story.”
Considering the equation that the Unique Self = True Self + Perspective, there arises for me the question, “What perspective?” There’s the perspective of each of us being the only ones to see through our eyes, to be born to our parents in the particular social, cultural and historical context. And then there’s the perspective we choose to develop—through learning, contemplation, experience, contemplation, integration. To continue with Lama Surya Das, there’s the experiencing of this moment as it is as a clear-seeing perception, sacred outlook in the Catholic tradition and the pure vision Kabir had when he said, “I glimpsed it for fifteen seconds and it made me a servant for life.” To hear stories and to see the unique selves of others is the experience of love and the recognition of love as our natural state. It is both a returning to that state and a perception to cultivate. I was struck by Rabbi Marc Gafni’s teaching that love is a perception, evoking Hafiz, “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
…an experience of deep structure holding deep chaos…
The meta-journey was crafted around the Unique Self concept, structured around “stations” of awakening sort of like, but not really, like the Stations of the Cross native to my Catholic school days. The arc loosely flowed from an understanding of Unique Self, a look at Unique Shadow, and a fruition with the offering of Unique Gifts contextualized by the obligation of gifts to live them fully in a world that needs them. Within that structure the experience of the different participants unfolded, whether one of the incredibly competent and devotionally helpful volunteer staff, wholehearted participant, or giving teacher. And then within each session, there were journeys—journey into learning of the unique self, journeying into the bodies, journeys through song, or through time.
In a strange cross between a conference and sesshin, there was a deep structure to the days that I sometimes struggled with. Sessions began at 6:30, when the morning was still dark, with a wide array of morning practices from amazing yoga with Sofia Diaz to a nature walk with Susanne Cook-Greuter to breathwork with the Venwoude quartet. (I had a dear friend stumble out of breathwork exclaiming, “I started to cry when someone gave me a hug because I needed it to remember where my body was.”) There was one form of small-group structure in the shared breakfasts with the same small group of people every day that provided intimacy within the larger community structure, and then the community structure itself would dissolve into break-outs.
Like spiritual practice, there’s a discipline required and a personal calling to balance being constrained within that structure and blooming through it rather than breaking out of it, and that was challenging in moments…especially with the wild winter Pacific sea calling from the Asilomar beach, just a short walk away.
…a smorgasbord of Integral teachings…
In the expanding and contracting accordion-like structure of the overall program, there were times when we were all together as a community experiencing a sublime experience like Krishna Das or Jean Houston, or off in an almost bewildering banquet of teachings and teachers offered. Teachings ranged from breathwork, integral coaching, yoga, chanting and chanson. To feast on this offering was like drinking from a firehose of experiences and wisdom, and occasionally left me quite limp at the end.
…an experience of healing fragmentation…
In a world of schisms and fragmentations, what exists to heal the splits? My experience was growing up with a Buddhist grandmother, Confucian parents, an Episcopalian baptism, a Catholic education in a primarily Judeo-Christian-biased world. I navigated this with forms of rejection of organized religion, atheism, agnosticism, mysticism, and a return to Zen Buddhism with Genpo Roshi. Diane Musho Hamilton, riffing off of Martin Prechtel, once said that spiritual teachers aren’t teachers because they’re necessarily more upstanding individuals but because they love the divine so much. The experience of deep love of the divine takes commitment and surrender. For a personality type that resists the narrowing of options (and also a narrowing of minds), this collaboration of so many different traditions was a banquet of the senses. It created a space where from my present Zen Buddhist integral perspective, I could again look at Christ with devotion and sing with a full heart the songs of my childhood like “Amazing Grace”.
…an experience of clarity and devotion…
Each of the teachers holds the flavor of their traditions, they exude the years of dedication and mastery and commitment, whether to a specific God, Goddess, lineage, practice, or professional calling. Spiritual teachers and students come in all shapes and forms—tricksters, sages, wise women, brilliant beings of deep humor or the quiet shine of deep grace. Different practices and traditions hone different facets of human beings and cultures, and so I came to understand a beautiful paradox—that in a way, the choice of a practice matters completely for an individual, and in a different way, it matters not at all. In a strange way, I also have the sense of interacting with the archetypes of ages as much as with the beauty of the unique selves present. I pass one woman in a hallway who holds the cherished vibe of an old friend, I feel like I recognize people there and wonder where I’ve met them before to realize I haven’t. That’s telling in a gathering like this, where the déjà vu feeling of recognition reflects another truth—that in seeing with the perception of love, we are all familiar to one another and we do recognize one another.
Deep devotion and wholeness within a tradition, that the devotion was whole, the commitment was whole, yet also of a greater whole. Rabbi Marc Gafni has a thorough steeping in the Jewish tradition just as Diane Musho Hamilton in the Zen Buddhist path, both wholly devoted to their paths and complete and full in their paths, and yet open to learning from others, seeing the lenses with which they view the world. For someone who occasionally struggles with a path of devotion, where the Zen Buddhists make the most “sense”, yet the poetry of Mirabai, Hafiz, and Rumi sing the most, and the song of Teilhard de Chardin echoes in the brain, ISE is the experience of hearing the underlying symphony of human devotion. Rabbi Marc Gafni used this metaphor, of each there with their own mastery of an instrument, necessary and complete in and of itself. The great violinist able to play the song of God with nothing wanting in its devotion, and yet complimented by the orchestra rising around that wailing sound to complete it further. ISE made living the paradox of being whole and partial in the paths of deep devotion.
…an experience of being the ones we’re waiting for…
Lama Surya Das spoke beautifully about the concept of unique self and the greater context behind the urgency to find that. He said very clearly “we have to be the ones we’ve been waiting for,” that the Buddha of the future is the sangha, the community. In a world without campaign finance limits, ongoing fights for civil rights, incomprehensible numbers of people suffering even before the Haiti quakes, the messiah to come is…us. So what does that mean? I’m still wading through it from my own unique perspective.
ISE is a beautiful beginning of a deepening into the koan of our own lives.
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Marc Gafni is a cutting edge spiritual teacher, author, television personality, mediator, corporate consultant, iconoclast, and gentle provocateur. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, which won the prestigious NAPRA award for Best Spirituality Book of 2001, and was a main selection of the One Spirit Book Club and the Amazon.com Best Book in the Jewish Thought category in 2001. This book was also made into a National PBS special and an audio series by Sounds True recordings. Soul Prints is published by Simon & Schuster. Marc Gafni’s second major English language book, also published by Simon & Schuster, is The Mystery of Love. It unpacks an esoteric Kabbalistic tradition about the profound relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. The Mystery of Love was critically acclaimed and made into an audio series called The Erotic and the Holy, published by Sounds True. Marc Gafni has been teaching and leading spiritual seminars, learning communities, training programs, and spiritual movements since he was in his early twenties. During much of that time, Marc Gafni struggled with the question of whether to teach conventional spiritual wisdom in a conventional spiritual context, or to follow a more post-conventional style of teaching and living. This tension brought great dynamism to his work, but also caused some dissonance. Now and in the future, Marc Gafni is committed to teaching a post-conventional spirituality that is rooted in traditional wisdom, yet fully adapted to the needs of a postmodern spiritual world. Like some other leaders and teachers in this age of unregulated internet conversation, Gafni has been attacked on some private websites and blogs. He has chosen not to directly respond to the blatantly false or seriously distorted accounts of his life and relationships that appear on these sites. However, Gafni takes full responsibility for any and all of his actual words, actions and subtle creations, both intentional and unintentional. His intention, now and in the future, is to do everything possible to transmute all negative energy within his being and within his circle into love, responsibility, and healing. Marc Gafni is currently the director of a private foundation dedicated to producing a library of teachings on the human spirit, designed to help create a better future for our children and grandchildren. There are seven volumes in various stages of preparation, covering a range of topics. All of these books emerge from Marc Gafni’s own experience as a human being, teacher, and student on the path of life and liberation. Several are being written with co-authors. Topics include: The Unique Self and No Self; Non-dual Humanism; The Masculine and the Feminine; The Dance of Tears–the Path of Laughter; Sex, Ethics and Injury; Shadow Dancing in the Light; Tragedy and Transformation; Sexuality and Kabbalah; Integral Judaism; Integral Kabbalah; as well as a personal sacred autobiography. Marc Gafni is also preparing a series of books on the weekly biblical reading of the Hebrew tradition as well as the sacred cycle of time as a spiritual path in the ancient Hebrew tradition.
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Unique Self: Awakened Mind with Marc Gafni, Diane Hamilton, June 4th-5th, YogaGlo, Santa Monica, CA
July 7, 2010
Unique Self: Awakened Mind
with Diane Musho Hamilton and Dr. Marc Gafni
June 4th – June 5th
Santa Monica, California
We are participating in a momentous leap of human consciousness – a momentous leap fueled by our own personal evolution, fueled by the realization and manifestation of our unique offering to this world.
Together we’ll create a space to engage a personal, hands-on guided exploration and practice of your unique life and purpose as it manifests through your passion, talents, and personal history such that you can awaken right now to what is emerging from your future.
Hope is a memory of the future. This is the place where you can remember your future and make it your present. No one else on this planet can make the contribution to humanity that you can. Become alive to your unique service by finding stillness, breaking through resistance and fear, listening to your calling, and ultimately taking full responsibility for the deep dimensions of your being and becoming.
Your enlightenment has a Unique Perspective held only by you. Your gifts flow from your own unique perspective, gifts that are desperately needed and desired by all of creation. You have unique contributions, unique potentials, and unique actions to offer the world, flowing from a source that manifests as unmistakably your own.
Do you want to realize the unique purpose of your life? Do you want to share your unique gifts with the world? If you do, then please join us this January as we gather our global practice community to deepen our exploration and journey of Unique Self.
Together we will learn and engage the biggest questions facing all of us:
- How can we awaken to the fullness of our Unique Self?
- How can we realize our unique purpose in life?
- How can we unleash the fullness of our own creativity and unique voice?
- How can we share our unique gifts with the world
- What’s the relationship between our Unique self and our Unique shadow?
- How can we best work together and support each other fully in this process?
Centered right at the heart of Integral Spiritual Practice, this intensive will deepen your integral insights and energize your commitment to growth. Using the Big Mind approach – a process used to access an authentic experience of your deepest nature – we will experience how our fullest potential is developmental. At the step of relinquishing our limiting beliefs about who we are, opening to greater identity, and bringing that awareness into our everyday life is the path.
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The New Enlightenment: Awaken to Your Unique Self
December 1, 2009
Breakthrough to your Unique Self…
The New Enlightenment:
Awakening to your Unique Self
LEVEL ONE
A 9-week online telecourse with Dr. Marc Gafni
Starts Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
10-11:30am PST, 11-12:30pm MST, 1-2:30pm EST
Investment: $299
Advanced registration: $199 (expires December 16th)
Register at http://www.iEvolve.org
What people are saying about Unique Self:
“Marc’s teaching on Unique Self completely re-framed the [spiritual] journey. I danced for joy with the transmission of the New Dharma. My practice intention is focused as preparation for ISE [Integral Spiritual Experience] – what a way to start the new year together!” – Julia S.
We are participating in a momentous leap of human consciousness – a momentous leap fueled by our own personal evolution, fueled by the realization and manifestation of our unique offering to this world.
More of us than ever before are feeling called to awaken to the fullness of our authentic power and to become active, engaged agents of evolution and change.
We’re hungry to realize the unique purpose of our lives and to share our unique gifts with the world. We sense intuitively that we have a critical role to play in shaping the future of our world – and we are right!
But what is the pathway to awakening to the fullness of our Unique Self? Where should we give our energy and attention in order to make our greatest contribution? And how might we work together and support each other in this process?
Together we’ll create a space to engage a personal, hands-on guided exploration and practice of your unique life and purpose as it manifests through your passion, talents, and personal history such that you can awaken right now to what is emerging from your future.
Hope is a memory of the future. This is the place where you can remember your future and make it your present. No one else on this planet can make the contribution to humanity that you can. Become alive to your unique service by finding stillness, breaking through resistance and fear, listening to your calling, and ultimately taking full responsibility for the deep dimensions of your being and becoming.
Your enlightenment has a Unique Perspective held only by you. Your gifts flow from your own unique perspective, gifts that are desperately needed and desired by all of creation. You have unique contributions, unique potentials, and unique actions to offer the world, flowing from a source that manifests as unmistakably your own.
Do you want to realize the unique purpose of your life? Do you want to share your unique gifts with the world? If you do, then please join us this January as we gather our global practice community to deepen our exploration and journey of Unique Self.
You can participate live or listen to the recordings later, at any time, from anywhere in the world.
Together we will learn and engage the biggest questions facing all of us:
- How can we awaken to the fullness of our Unique Self?
- How can we realize our unique purpose in life?
- How can we unleash the fullness of our own creativity and unique voice?
- How can we share our unique gifts with the world
- What’s the relationship between our Unique self and our Unique shadow?
- How can we best work together and support each other fully in this process?
Each week, you’ll have an opportunity to listen in as well as interact with Dr. Marc Gafni, gaining insights, and learning practices and tools that you can begin to apply in your own life, family and community.
What You’ll Learn in Our Level One Course
The 9 Core Teachings of Unique Self
Week 1: The Invitation and Responsibility of Unique Self
- Unique Self: The Evolutionary Context
- The Four Pillars of Unique Self
- Two Tastes: Being and Becoming
Week 2: The Glory of the Story
- Personal and Impersonal Enlightenment
- Live Your Story: Mythologize Don’t Pathologize
- Details Matter: The Time Line and Trajectory of Your Life
Week 3: False Core, False Self, and the Trajectory of Identity
- Personality Types
- False Core, False Self
- Unique Self and Ego
Week 4: Awakening: Evolution Beyond Ego - Part One
- True Self, True Identity
- Paths of Practice to Awaken Your Unique Self
- Unique Self and Transcendence
Week 5: Awakening: Evolution Beyond Ego – Part Two
- Five Differences Between Unique Self and Ego
- The Democratization of Enlightenment
- The New Enlightenment
Week 6: The Power of Your Pleasure
- The Five Levels of Pleasure
- The Paradox: Pleasure and Pain
- Pleasure Reloaded
Week 7: Unique Self: A Paradigm Shift in Loving
- The True Nature of Love
- The Four Principles of Loving
- The Three Tools of Loving
Week 8: Unique Wound and Unique Shadow
- The Shadow: Three Steps Beyond Jung
- Shadow and the New Enlightenment
- Follow Your Shadow to Your Unique Self
Week 9: Unique Gifts and Unique Responsibilities
- What is your Unique Self?
- What are your Unique Gifts?
- What is your Unique Purpose?
Don’t miss the inaugural Unique Self online telecourse with Dr. Marc Gafni, starting Tuesday, January 12th. This course is ideal for beginner-advanced practitioners and also serves as a deeper journey and follow-up to the Integral Spiritual Experience.
The New Enlightenment:
Awakening to your Unique Self
LEVEL ONE
A 9-week online telecourse with Dr. Marc Gafni
Investment: $299
Advanced registration: $199 (expires December 16th)
How to Identify Your Unique Self: Part 3 with Marc Gafni
September 6, 2009
- Artist: Marc Gafni
- Title: How to Identify Your Unique Self: Part 3
- Year: 2009
- Length: 20:13 minutes (4.76 MB)
- Format: Mono 44kHz 32Kbps (VBR)
Dr. Marc Gafni is the co-founder and teacher in residence of iEvolve: Global Practice Community (Co-founded with Diane Musho Hamilton, Sally Kempton- Durgananda and Sofia Diaz, and Executive Director Kelly Sosan Bearer), as well as the Director and a fellow at the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. Marc is The Teacher in Residence- although he is not in Residence } – of Shalom Mountain Retreat Center Wisdom School. {Shalom Mountain is a forty year old Retreat Center with a couple of thousand active members in Upstate New York founded by the wise Spiritual Elder Dr. Gerry Judd who empowered Marc in his role as Teacher at Shalom Mountain.} He is also the co-founder and Editor of Incorrect Inc. Publishing movement; Co- founded with Mary Lainer, as well as the Scholar in Residence of Pacific Coast Community Church (under the direction of Dr. Bill Little).
Jonathan Gustin, MFT is the founder of the Integral Awakening Center of San Francisco, where he teaches meditation, finding your life’s purpose and integral practice. He is an instructor at Kaiser Permanente where he teaches Mind/Body Medicine and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Jonathan has been practicing integral mentoring, purpose guiding and psychotherapy with individuals and couples for 15 years. He is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice with offices in San Francisco and San Rafael. Jonathan is also the founder of Green Sangha, a spiritually engaged environmental activist organization.
The Three S’s of Dynamic and Personal Evolution
with Diane Musho Hamilton, Marc Gafni, and Sofia Diaz
September 18th-20th, 2009
San Francisco, California
Standard Registration: $450
Advanced Registration: $299 by September 5th
Sex, Spirit, & Shadow
COUPLES SPECIAL: 2 for $549
What participants are saying about Sex, Spirit, & Shadow:
“I send blessings and my eternal gratitude to all of you who made this last week possible. Sexuality, Spirituality and & Shadow gifted me with new eyes. Eyes of the heart, of the soul and of the mind. My life has been transformed. My husband noticed it the first day and every day after it just got better and better. He is so thrilled with the dramatic change in my life that he is already making arrangements to be involved in a Men’s workshop that Rabbi Marc Gafni is doing. Thank you for facilitating a safe environment that allowed me to see into my unique self and discover how I really want to show up in this world. I love you all so much and I hope to see you again very soon.” ~ Stepheny A.
Join us as we explore. engage, and uncover the interconnection of sexuality, spirituality, and shadow. By interweaving wisdom from the three traditions of Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei, Rabbi Marc Gafni and Sofia Diaz, we will explore why it is critical to integrate sex, spirit, and shadow on the spiritual path.Through yogic practice, meditative inquiry, and interpersonal intimacy, we will deeply discover and refine how we engage these domains in our personal and professional lives.
Working in groups, with partners, and individually, we will:
* Explore the profound, provocative, and radically surprising relationship between sexuality, spirituality, and shadow
* Learn why it is vital to include these three domains in your spiritual journey
* Learn how to integrate all three of these vital domains into your practice life
* Untie knots in order to experience greater freedom, clarity, and compassion in your life
* Finally break down obstacles and melt away barriers that prevent you from living your Unique Life mission
* Uncover shadow material that has prevented you from living with an open heart
* Expand your mind and consciousness through perspective practices
* Learn how to conduct body, breath, and energy to gain greater intimacy
* Offer your deepest presence as love even when you are contracted
Rarely are contemplation, ecstatic movement, holy consideration and community evolution brought together, delighted in, and made manifest as an effective teaching vehicle.
If you crave great company, the profound pleasure of growth and laughter, and being challenged to the greatest depth of your gorgeous and evolving being, you will not want to miss this great adventure.
Sofia Diaz
is a gifted teacher of Hatha yoga, sacred movement, and feminine spiritual practice, deriving her form of teaching and body philosophy from the South Indian Temple Arts and their accompanying scriptures. She has apprenticed with dance and music masters of the Balasaraswati lineage of Devadasi Sadir. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.
Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconlastic 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 and sacred audacity that he teaches.
Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted mediator, facilitator and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She is a co-director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center and has worked with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute since 2004. Diane is the Senior Teacher for Integral Recovery. She is the lead trainer on Integral Life Practice. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.
Logistical Information and Schedule
Our event will be held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square in San Francisco, California.
To reserve a hotel room at the Hilton, visit here: http://bit.ly/35Yktv
All participants will receive a reduced rate of $25/day for parking at the Hilton Hotel. Parking is typically $52/day. Please make sure to pick up your reducted rate parking pass at registration.
To register and pay by credit card, please click on the appropriate “Buy Now” button above to register and process your card through Paypal. Please email kellysosanbearer@gmail.com to confirm your registration. You will receive a “Welcome Letter” one week before the event with more details regarding our time together.
Please also send an email to kellysosanbearer@gmail.com with your full name and email address to receive confirmation after you register.
Please note that credit card refunds are subject to 6% processing fee and may not be granted after September 1, 2009.
We will start at 6:30pm Friday with registration and begin promptly at 7pm. Saturday 7:30am-9:30pm, Sunday 7:30am-4pm.
If you are flying out of California on Sunday, it is best to leave on the last flight out to allow yourself plenty of time to travel to the airport from the hotel.
Supplies
Please bring with you a yoga mat, a meditation cushion, a journal and pen, a water bottle and anything else you may need during our time together. Yoga mats, meditation cushions, and journals/pens will not be provided.
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How to Identify Your Unique Self: Part 2 with Marc Gafni
September 5, 2009
- Artist: Marc Gafni
- Title: How to Identify Your Unique Self: Part 2
- Year: 2009
- Length: 28:22 minutes (6.7 MB)
- Format: Mono 44kHz 33Kbps (VBR)
Dr. Marc Gafni is the co-founder and teacher in residence of iEvolve: Global Practice Community (Co-founded with Diane Musho Hamilton, Sally Kempton- Durgananda and Sofia Diaz, and Executive Director Kelly Sosan Bearer), as well as the Director and a fellow at the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. Marc is The Teacher in Residence- although he is not in Residence } – of Shalom Mountain Retreat Center Wisdom School. {Shalom Mountain is a forty year old Retreat Center with a couple of thousand active members in Upstate New York founded by the wise Spiritual Elder Dr. Gerry Judd who empowered Marc in his role as Teacher at Shalom Mountain.} He is also the co-founder and Editor of Incorrect Inc. Publishing movement; Co- founded with Mary Lainer, as well as the Scholar in Residence of Pacific Coast Community Church (under the direction of Dr. Bill Little).
Jonathan Gustin, MFT is the founder of the Integral Awakening Center of San Francisco, where he teaches meditation, finding your life’s purpose and integral practice. He is an instructor at Kaiser Permanente where he teaches Mind/Body Medicine and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Jonathan has been practicing integral mentoring, purpose guiding and psychotherapy with individuals and couples for 15 years. He is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice with offices in San Francisco and San Rafael. Jonathan is also the founder of Green Sangha, a spiritually engaged environmental activist organization.
The Three S’s of Dynamic and Personal Evolution
with Diane Musho Hamilton, Marc Gafni, and Sofia Diaz
September 18th-20th, 2009
San Francisco, California
Standard Registration: $450
Advanced Registration: $299 by September 5th
Sex, Spirit, & Shadow
COUPLES SPECIAL: 2 for $549
What participants are saying about Sex, Spirit, & Shadow:
“I send blessings and my eternal gratitude to all of you who made this last week possible. Sexuality, Spirituality and & Shadow gifted me with new eyes. Eyes of the heart, of the soul and of the mind. My life has been transformed. My husband noticed it the first day and every day after it just got better and better. He is so thrilled with the dramatic change in my life that he is already making arrangements to be involved in a Men’s workshop that Rabbi Marc Gafni is doing. Thank you for facilitating a safe environment that allowed me to see into my unique self and discover how I really want to show up in this world. I love you all so much and I hope to see you again very soon.” ~ Stepheny A.
Join us as we explore. engage, and uncover the interconnection of sexuality, spirituality, and shadow. By interweaving wisdom from the three traditions of Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei, Rabbi Marc Gafni and Sofia Diaz, we will explore why it is critical to integrate sex, spirit, and shadow on the spiritual path.
Through yogic practice, meditative inquiry, and interpersonal intimacy, we will deeply discover and refine how we engage these domains in our personal and professional lives.
Working in groups, with partners, and individually, we will:
* Explore the profound, provocative, and radically surprising relationship between sexuality, spirituality, and shadow
* Learn why it is vital to include these three domains in your spiritual journey
* Learn how to integrate all three of these vital domains into your practice life
* Untie knots in order to experience greater freedom, clarity, and compassion in your life
* Finally break down obstacles and melt away barriers that prevent you from living your Unique Life mission
* Uncover shadow material that has prevented you from living with an open heart
* Expand your mind and consciousness through perspective practices
* Learn how to conduct body, breath, and energy to gain greater intimacy
* Offer your deepest presence as love even when you are contracted
Rarely are contemplation, ecstatic movement, holy consideration and community evolution brought together, delighted in, and made manifest as an effective teaching vehicle.
If you crave great company, the profound pleasure of growth and laughter, and being challenged to the greatest depth of your gorgeous and evolving being, you will not want to miss this great adventure.
is a gifted teacher of Hatha yoga, sacred movement, and feminine spiritual practice, deriving her form of teaching and body philosophy from the South Indian Temple Arts and their accompanying scriptures. She has apprenticed with dance and music masters of the Balasaraswati lineage of Devadasi Sadir. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.
Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconlastic 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 and sacred audacity that he teaches.
Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted mediator, facilitator and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She is a co-director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center and has worked with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute since 2004. Diane is the Senior Teacher for Integral Recovery. She is the lead trainer on Integral Life Practice. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.
Logistical Information and Schedule
Our event will be held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square in San Francisco, California.
To reserve a hotel room at the Hilton, visit here: http://bit.ly/35Yktv
All participants will receive a reduced rate of $25/day for parking at the Hilton Hotel. Parking is typically $52/day. Please make sure to pick up your reducted rate parking pass at registration.
To register and pay by credit card, please click on the appropriate “Buy Now” button above to register and process your card through Paypal. Please email kellysosanbearer@gmail.com to confirm your registration. You will receive a “Welcome Letter” one week before the event with more details regarding our time together.
Please also send an email to kellysosanbearer@gmail.com with your full name and email address to receive confirmation after you register.
Please note that credit card refunds are subject to 6% processing fee and may not be granted after September 1, 2009.
We will start at 6:30pm Friday with registration and begin promptly at 7pm. Saturday 7:30am-9:30pm, Sunday 7:30am-4pm.
If you are flying out of California on Sunday, it is best to leave on the last flight out to allow yourself plenty of time to travel to the airport from the hotel.
Supplies
Please bring with you a yoga mat, a meditation cushion, a journal and pen, a water bottle and anything else you may need during our time together. Yoga mats, meditation cushions, and journals/pens will not be provided.
Marc Gafni
Join us at Integral Spiritual Experience
Follow me on Twitter
Join me on Facebook
http://www.greatintegralawakening.com/marcgafni.html
http://books.google.com/books?q=+inauthor:%22Marc+Gafni%22&source=gbs_authrefine_t
How to Identify Your Unique Self: Part 1 with Marc Gafni -iEvolve.org
September 4, 2009
- Artist: Kelly Bearer
- Title: gafni-gustin-part-1
- Album: Kelly Bearer’s Album
- Year: 2009
- Length: 29:41 minutes (6.98 MB)
- Format: Mono 44kHz 32Kbps (VBR)
Dr. Marc Gafni is the co-founder and teacher in residence of iEvolve: Global Practice Community (Co-founded with Diane Musho Hamilton, Sally Kempton- Durgananda and Sofia Diaz, and Executive Director Kelly Sosan Bearer), as well as the Director and a fellow at the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. Marc is The Teacher in Residence- although he is not in Residence } – of Shalom Mountain Retreat Center Wisdom School. {Shalom Mountain is a forty year old Retreat Center with a couple of thousand active members in Upstate New York founded by the wise Spiritual Elder Dr. Gerry Judd who empowered Marc in his role as Teacher at Shalom Mountain.} He is also the co-founder and Editor of Incorrect Inc. Publishing movement; Co- founded with Mary Lainer, as well as the Scholar in Residence of Pacific Coast Community Church (under the direction of Dr. Bill Little).
Jonathan Gustin, MFT is the founder of the Integral Awakening Center of San Francisco, where he teaches meditation, finding your life’s purpose and integral practice. He is an instructor at Kaiser Permanente where he teaches Mind/Body Medicine and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Jonathan has been practicing integral mentoring, purpose guiding and psychotherapy with individuals and couples for 15 years. He is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice with offices in San Francisco and San Rafael. Jonathan is also the founder of Green Sangha, a spiritually engaged environmental activist organization.
The Three S’s of Dynamic and Personal Evolution
with Diane Musho Hamilton, Marc Gafni, and Sofia Diaz
September 18th-20th, 2009
San Francisco, California
Standard Registration: $450
Advanced Registration: $299 by September 5th
Sex, Spirit, & Shadow
COUPLES SPECIAL: 2 for $549
What participants are saying about Sex, Spirit, & Shadow:
“I send blessings and my eternal gratitude to all of you who made this last week possible. Sexuality, Spirituality and & Shadow gifted me with new eyes. Eyes of the heart, of the soul and of the mind. My life has been transformed. My husband noticed it the first day and every day after it just got better and better. He is so thrilled with the dramatic change in my life that he is already making arrangements to be involved in a Men’s workshop that Rabbi Marc Gafni is doing. Thank you for facilitating a safe environment that allowed me to see into my unique self and discover how I really want to show up in this world. I love you all so much and I hope to see you again very soon.” ~ Stepheny A.
Join us as we explore. engage, and uncover the interconnection of sexuality, spirituality, and shadow. By interweaving wisdom from the three traditions of Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei, Rabbi Marc Gafni and Sofia Diaz, we will explore why it is critical to integrate sex, spirit, and shadow on the spiritual path.
Through yogic practice, meditative inquiry, and interpersonal intimacy, we will deeply discover and refine how we engage these domains in our personal and professional lives.
Working in groups, with partners, and individually, we will:
* Explore the profound, provocative, and radically surprising relationship between sexuality, spirituality, and shadow
* Learn why it is vital to include these three domains in your spiritual journey
* Learn how to integrate all three of these vital domains into your practice life
* Untie knots in order to experience greater freedom, clarity, and compassion in your life
* Finally break down obstacles and melt away barriers that prevent you from living your Unique Life mission
* Uncover shadow material that has prevented you from living with an open heart
* Expand your mind and consciousness through perspective practices
* Learn how to conduct body, breath, and energy to gain greater intimacy
* Offer your deepest presence as love even when you are contracted
Rarely are contemplation, ecstatic movement, holy consideration and community evolution brought together, delighted in, and made manifest as an effective teaching vehicle.
If you crave great company, the profound pleasure of growth and laughter, and being challenged to the greatest depth of your gorgeous and evolving being, you will not want to miss this great adventure.
is a gifted teacher of Hatha yoga, sacred movement, and feminine spiritual practice, deriving her form of teaching and body philosophy from the South Indian Temple Arts and their accompanying scriptures. She has apprenticed with dance and music masters of the Balasaraswati lineage of Devadasi Sadir. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.
Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconlastic 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 and sacred audacity that he teaches.
Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted mediator, facilitator and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She is a co-director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center and has worked with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute since 2004. Diane is the Senior Teacher for Integral Recovery. She is the lead trainer on Integral Life Practice. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.
Logistical Information and Schedule
Our event will be held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square in San Francisco, California.
To reserve a hotel room at the Hilton, visit here: http://bit.ly/35Yktv
All participants will receive a reduced rate of $25/day for parking at the Hilton Hotel. Parking is typically $52/day. Please make sure to pick up your reducted rate parking pass at registration.
To register and pay by credit card, please click on the appropriate “Buy Now” button above to register and process your card through Paypal. Please email kellysosanbearer@gmail.com to confirm your registration. You will receive a “Welcome Letter” one week before the event with more details regarding our time together.
Please also send an email to kellysosanbearer@gmail.com with your full name and email address to receive confirmation after you register.
Please note that credit card refunds are subject to 6% processing fee and may not be granted after September 1, 2009.
We will start at 6:30pm Friday with registration and begin promptly at 7pm. Saturday 7:30am-9:30pm, Sunday 7:30am-4pm.
If you are flying out of California on Sunday, it is best to leave on the last flight out to allow yourself plenty of time to travel to the airport from the hotel.
Supplies
Please bring with you a yoga mat, a meditation cushion, a journal and pen, a water bottle and anything else you may need during our time together. Yoga mats, meditation cushions, and journals/pens will not be provided.
Marc Gafni
Join us at Integral Spiritual Experience
Follow me on Twitter
Join me on Facebook
http://www.greatintegralawakening.com/marcgafni.html
http://books.google.com/books?q=+inauthor:%22Marc+Gafni%22&source=gbs_authrefine_t
