The Gift of Retreat
The Gift of Retreat welcomes your mind home to its natural resting place. In the sanctuary of your heart, endless treasures await. Giving yourself to stillness over sustained time allows for discoveries that surprise and delight.
Trusting the Unknown in Uncertain Times
What is trustworthy in the midst of uncertainty? What is the truth? Where do we place our reliance?
These questions are the foundation of our exploration for this two-day retreat. Each meeting will begin with 15 minutes of silence.
“Before Everything”~ On-Line Silent Retreat
“Before everything, I AM.”
Held in the sanctuary of Silent retreat, the momentum of your mind can gently wind down to a necessary stop. Within your sacred intention to close the gate of speech, your attention and energy used for conversation and relating are kept still, at home in their Source.
Before everything, before every thought, what remains is what you love the most and always HERE.
“Freedom & Vigilance”
Vigilance is the precious crest jewel of pure Awareness. To be free is to be vigilant, no matter what ... to your dying breath. Deeper than your concepts, notions, ideas, or ideals, true Freedom is beyond the mind and wild imaginings. It is your capacity to be vigilant at the moment of intention.
The quieter you are, the easier it is to recognize the impulse to move away, against, or toward yourself and others. Wisdom is choosing to remain still.
“Life is Not a Plan”
To surrender is to close the door on the future.
What is the positive intention or purpose of future planning? What if you lost your ability or power to plan? What's here when all planning disappears? At rest in this precious presence, you can realize what lives you; timeless and free.
“Value Beyond Price”
What do you value most deeply in yourself?
This inquiry will guide our attention over the coming weeks, offering the extraordinary chance to retreat from the world and rest in what you long for most. All you need is your willingness to be as you are and tell the truth. In this meeting with yourself, you realize You are the value beyond price.
“Surrender~ The Gateway of Freedom”
In surrender, we let go of all concern for any outcome. And, somehow we know that everything is okay. In our willingness to tell the truth, we expose the isolation, pain, fear, anger, despair, and self-loathing to the Light of our own Grace.
Exactly the opposite of what we have been conditioned to believe, all that has been turned away from, ignored, and denied; now accepted, becomes the very force that opens the gateway of freedom and deep peace.
“Love is Calling Your Name”
It’s so simple.
These meetings of Self-inquiry offer the extraordinary chance to retreat from all that distracts you from what you long for most. All you need is your willingness, to tell the truth; to be as you are. In this meeting with yourself, you recognize you ARE Home, free from all doubt.
Wisdom Mirror of the Enneagram
You can only see who you are not from who you Are!
Drawing from the unequaled support of the Enneagram of liberation (distinct from the more popular Enneagram of personality), you have the unique opportunity to see all the way through the illusion of who you are not and experience your true Self.
Upcoming: Saturday, December 9 ; “Unveiling the ‘Five’ Fixation”
“Life is the Teacher”
Meeting with Linda is a rare invitation to simply fall back into yourself. Without fixing, helping, or teaching, there is the opportunity to explore and have a direct experience of what you truly want.
Suggested donation of $25; and not required.
“Living Truth”
If you are reading this, then you have likely experienced more than once an extraordinary and profound state of consciousness. When consciousness returns to the ordinary state of everyday waking, many ask, “How can I keep this?” “How can I get more?” “How can I experience this all the time?”
It is rare and precious when someone asks, “How can I live this?”
Waking from the Trap of ‘Me’
Are there times when you feel trapped and there’s no escape?
The experience of Being trapped is not a matter of circumstance or a role you play. Nor is it the obligation, relationship, situation, or encounter you find yourself in. It is profoundly more simple. What if the trap is your way to freedom?
You can meet yourself in the trance of your trap and wake up!
“Life is the Teacher”
Meeting with Linda is a rare invitation to simply fall back into yourself. Without fixing, helping, or teaching, there is the opportunity to explore and have a direct experience of what you truly want.
Suggested donation of $25; and not required.
“Life is the Teacher”
Meeting with Linda is a rare invitation to simply fall back into yourself. Without fixing, helping, or teaching, there is the opportunity to explore and have a direct experience of what you truly want.
Suggested donation of $25; and not required.
“The Invaluable Grace of Support”
Left to the strategies of an undisciplined mind, we unconsciously fall into the trance of a story we’re telling ourselves. In the instant we are willing to tell the truth and meet ourselves as we are, the possibility exists to wake up.
This 5-week series focuses on the invaluable grace of support that welcomes us Home, yet again and again … no matter what.
“Life is the Teacher”
Meeting with Linda is a rare invitation to simply fall back into yourself. Without fixing, helping, or teaching, there is the opportunity to explore and have a direct experience of what you truly want.
Suggested donation of $25; and not required.
Lay Down Your Power ~ Living As Essence
“The quieter you are, the softer you are.”
What are you protecting? What happens when you lay down the powers of “me”; resentment, flattery, efficiency, melancholy, withdrawal, paranoia, planning, vengeance, indolence, and … ?
On the surface, these defenses may not seem like a power you wield. Who is here behind the shield?
Living as essence you are no longer a someone who needs or wants something. This radical and revolutionary shift in perspective is life-changing.
All you need is to lower your hand.
“Life is the Teacher”
7:00 - 8:00 pm
Meeting Linda Floan is a rare invitation to meet yourself exactly as you are. Without fixing, helping, or teaching, there is the opportunity to explore and have a direct experience of what you truly want.
Suggested donation of $25; and not required.
“Now I Can Hear” Silent Retreat
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a thousand ways.” ~ Rumi
Held in the sanctuary of Silent retreat, the momentum of your mind can gently wind down to a necessary stop. Absorbed in ever-deepening Quietude, now you can hear.
“The Lost Childhood Message”
9:00 am - 1 pm
We all want and need love. That’s what makes us even.
Equally important, we each carry some version of a lost essential message that fuels the search for fulfillment. And, it affects every encounter, event, relationship, and situation … until it doesn't.
What are you waiting to hear? What's here when you pause ... just for now … and listen?
Through Self-reflection in the wisdom mirror of the Enneagram of liberation, the lost childhood message of the nine egoic fixations will be our focus of exploration.
“Life is the Teacher”
Thursday, October 6, 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Meeting Anasuya is a rare invitation to simply fall back into yourself. Without fixing, helping, or teaching, there is the opportunity to explore and have a direct experience of what you truly want.
Suggested donation of $25; and not required.
Who Do You Become …?
In the wisdom mirror of the Enneagram, each egoic fixation is in relationship with two others. The movement to identify with the other two occurs when we are relaxed or stressed. Either state can be a trap … who do you become?
Through Self-reflection in the wisdom mirror of the Enneagram of liberation, we will explore what triggers the movements away from our essential Self. What are we protecting? Who or What is here when we stop?
Each participant will have the opportunity to explore their movements in depth.
“Life is the Teacher”
Meeting Anasuya is a rare invitation to simply fall back into yourself. Without fixing, helping, or teaching, there is the opportunity to explore and have a direct experience of what you truly want.
Suggested donation of $25; and not required.
The Space Between ~ Resolving Your Inner Conflict
Within each of us exists contradictory qualities that generate conflicting stances we take in the world to survive. In your willingness to soften into the edges of these polarities, there is the possibility to stop and let yourself fall into the Space between.
Through Self-reflection in the wisdom mirror of the Enneagram of liberation, the dichotomy of the nine egoic fixations will be our focus of exploration.
Life is the Teacher
AUG 11, 2022; 7 - 8:00 pm
Meeting Anasuya is a rare invitation to simply fall back into yourself.
Without fixing, helping, or teaching, there is the opportunity to explore and have a direct experience of what you truly want.
Newcomers are welcome!
The Joy of No Path ~ An Inquiry into Your Life Purpose
From the stillness of Self-inquiry, your way Home to yourself is free of all ways, all paths, all practices.
Through Self-reflection in the wisdom mirror of the Enneagram of liberation, the holy path and the avoidance of the nine egoic fixations will be our focus of exploration.
NOTE: Wisdom Mirror of the Enneagram explorations: Aug 27, Sep 24, Oct 29, & Dec 3. Focus of Inquiry and how to register TBA
Freely Speaking
Saturday, April 16, 1:00 - 5:00 pm PDT
During this Saturday afternoon of Self-inquiry, we will draw on the wisdom mirror of the Enneagram of Freedom. Creative exploration will guide the way as we learn to overhear ourselves and reframe our style of talking; freely speaking what is genuine, with clarity and love.