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Rhoda ~ Living the Undefended Surrender Experiment, “Living Undefended Surrender” 01/17/24

January 17, 2024

With humor, love, and open-hearted awareness Rev. Rhoda Makled is exploring her own take on the Surrender Experiment as coined by Michael Singer. Raw, authentic, and faithful she is uncovering the path to living in the undefended Heart.

Rev. Rhoda will dig into topics she is exploring in her life such as what it means to live the experiment of being surrendered. Feeling every feeling and seeing every thought she can, Rhoda will share the journey of studying, journaling, contemplating, being inspired by, and surrendering to Truth. Inspired by so many teachers including those here at Awakening Together, Rhoda will share her contemplations and invites you to come and discuss your experience with your own surrender experiment. This undefended dialogue with Inner Wisdom is just one more way to observe as the self is undone–the intention being to leave space only for awareness of Awareness and release everything that covers Truth.

In this program, Rev. Rhoda will explore the teachings of Michael Singer, Regina Dawn Akers, Paul Hedderman, Roger Castillo, Helen Hamilton, and many more.

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Wednesdays 12:30-1 pm ET
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Rev. Anne Blanchard ~Unfiltered, “Living the Law of Love” 01-17-24

January 17, 2024

Rev. Anne Blanchard shares her experience of purification and awakening, unfiltered and as it happens. Raw, reflective, brave, and infused with clarity, Anne’s open honesty inspires us all to dive deep into the spiritual journey instead of simply skimming the surface. She continues to share deeply from various non-dual teachings and teachers.

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Reminder for Our January Satsang with Jeff Bailey

January 16, 2024

As we begin 2024 we are thrilled to announce the first Satsang of the year. Please join Jeff Bailey who will be joining us for our January Satsang. This special event will take place on Sunday, January 21, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. MT in our Zoom sanctuary. Jeff will be interviewed by Rev. Cyndi Krupp.

Jeff is not only a guest for our January Satsang but he is also beginning a new sharing in the sanctuary on January 10 @ 5:30 p.m. ET called “The Yoga Mind” as well as leading a retreat at the Awakening Together Retreat House in La Veta, CO called “Healing through Yoga and Prayer.” If you’re a long time yoga practitioner or a newbie Jeff’s gentle integrated approach promises to support you.

Here’s more information about Jeff Bailey.

He has been a student of A Course In Miracles since 1990. One of its principle messages corresponds perfectly with The Yoga Sutras: to identify and resolve the obstacles to peace and lasting freedom. His consistent dedication to our shared, eternal truth has inspired Avita as a unique and healing approach to yoga. Jeff has found that yoga can heal almost anything with a reflective, self-forgiving approach.

Jeff is the founder of Avita Yoga. He has a long and diverse yoga background that began in 1985 in Gunnison, CO. The son of a rural veterinarian, Jeff developed an early appreciation for anatomy and physiology, both of which form a basis for the practical nature of a yoga practice. He can reduce the complexities of the body and mind to simple, understandable terms and works with people of all ages to relieve chronic pain and bring more joy to life.

We look forward to being with all who are able to join us:

📅 Date: Sunday, January 21, 2024
🕢 Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. MT
📍 Where: Awakening Together’s Zoom Sanctuary

For more information about Jeff go to his website: https://avitayogaonline.com/

Rev. Marisol Landin ~ As I Am, “Being Honest About Where I Am”

January 16, 2024

Join Rev. Marisol as she dives deeper into self-acceptance. She shares her journey toward compassion and love within the human condition. This is an ongoing practice of forgiveness, love, and trust as we all welcome the Light within together.

Live in the Sanctuary 1st, 3rd, & 5th Tuesdays 8:00-8:30 pm ET
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Rev. Jacquelyn & Connie – Early Insights, “Be Patient with Resistance” & “The Service Principle”

January 16, 2024

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert and Connie Poole play Regina Dawn Akers’ Early Teaching videos and invite those in attendance to contemplate those teachings along with them.

Because these teachings are so helpful, Jacquelyn and Connie plan to slowly review them by playing one or two of them each week and contemplating them in a group format.

Live in the Sanctuary Weekly on Tuesdays 6:30-7:30 pm ET
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Here’s a link to RDA Early Teaching that will be played next week: Special Relationships

Audio & Homework ~ Gentle Healing Year 1 with Rev. Dianne Scott – Week 2

January 16, 2024

Rev. Dianne Scott guides a group of committed students through year 1 of Gentle Healing who want to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group meets weekly on Tuesdays at 3-5 pm ET/1-3 pm MT. All members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.

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Homework for week 2:

Homework Assignment A: ACIM Workbook Lessons 8-14. Read Regina’s Tips for Lessons. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own. Here’s a direct link: https://devwp.awakening-together.org/interact/gentle-healing-group/reginas-tips/
Homework Assignment B: Read NTI Romans Chapters 1-7 (p261-270.)
1. Do not read all at once. Read a little each day contemplatively. No need to read the Bible.
2. Explore the reading through journaling. Journal clarity, questions, confusion, resistance, willingness, etc.

Read Regina’s Tips. The tip should be read after reading the lesson on your own. Here’s a direct link: https://devwp.awakening-together.org/interact/gentle-healing-group/reginas-tips/

Heart Explorations: Embracing the Whole Show ~01/16/24

January 16, 2024

During our time together, we will explore what it takes to live from an open, undefended heart. Naturally, any true exploration of living from the heart necessarily entails taking a deep and sustained look at what prevents us from keeping our hearts open. Grounded in the knowledge that the essence of us, our true nature, is the very lovingness within us all, we will explore how to recognize and release egoic energies by cultivating open-hearted awareness practices which support us in directly experiencing our true Self. By leaning into willingness, steeped in self-honesty, and with a consistent dash of courage, we endeavor to open to whatever life brings, as it brings it, that is, on life’s terms. In so doing, we trust that everything – absolutely everything – is here for us to use for healing, for purification, and for learning to live from the heart. We look forward to supporting each other in our individual explorations of how we truly embrace the entirety of this show we call life.

To deepen further into the teachings from Heart Exploration here’s a link to the Being Aware of Awareness meditation podcast. In these meditations, the reading from Heart Explorations is contemplated.

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Live in the Sanctuary Weekly on Tuesdays, 9-11 am ET
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Audio & Homework~ Gentle Healing Year 1 with Rev. Michele Hojnacki – Week 48

January 15, 2024

Rev. Michele Hojnacki guides a group of committed students through year 1 of Gentle Healing who want to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. This group meets weekly on Mondays at 5-7 pm ET/3-5 pm MT and all members are committed to specific assignments and practices between group meetings.

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Homework for week 48:

Homework Assignment A: Workbook lessons 320-326 including the tips. Practice daily awareness-watching-awareness, Loving Consciousness or Abandon Release Method meditation for 20-30 minutes each day. Practice the “Loving All” Method.
Homework Assignment B: Read NTI Revelation, Chapters 1-6, pgs 461-470. Read the Bible whenever a Bible icon is provided.

Tao Te Ching, Chapter 26, 01-14-24

January 15, 2024

Awakening Together’s Vice President-Minister, Rev. Rhoda Makled, and Rev. David Hemphill share from the Tao as they contemplate its principles in order to fully embody them.

The Tao Te Ching (The Way), written by Lao-Tzu (Old Teacher), is a guide to enlightened leadership. While most people believe effective leadership lies in knowledge and power, the Tao teaches it lies in emptiness, stillness, and presence.

The pair are using three books including interpretations by Derek Lin, Wayne Wang, and Stephen Mitchell. And now they are excited to add Regina’s translation to their contemplations of the Tao and you are invited to join them each Sunday.

Taught Live in the Sanctuary Weekly on Sundays 6:00 – 7:00 pm ET

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Join Us for this Month’s Movie: “Mr. Nobody”

January 15, 2024

Join us for our next Movie Watcher’s Group which will be facilitated by Joy Bedford & Pieter van Prooijen on Sunday, January 28, 2024, at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT.

Mr. Nobody is a 2009 science fiction drama starring Jared Leto. The film explores the search for what we really are: love and its natural, deep happiness. The holy relationship, as well as concepts of loneliness are explored through choices made which often lead to delusion.

This film tells multiple potential life stories of Nemo Nobody, a 118-year-old man who is the last mortal on Earth after the human race has achieved quasi-immortality. Nemo, which is Latin for “nobody,” explains that at the moment of his conception Angels of Oblivion who erase children’s memories, forgot about him, allowing him to remember different possible futures for himself. But, as his memory begins to fade, he tells a doctor and journalist about his three main loves and his parents’ divorce and the subsequent hardships he endured.

The speculative narrative frequently changes course to investigate the alternate life paths that could have resulted from his making different decisions in his life, focusing on when he is nine, fifteen, and thirty-four. The film has a nonlinear narrative that incorporates the multiverse hypothesis. Leto described the role by saying, “Mr. Nobody is everyone and no one all at the same time, an illusion, the product of his own dreams.”. We witness Nemo’s decision-making tree through multiple potential lifetimes based on his conscious and subconscious beliefs about what he thinks he wants or needs. Will the choice for love or fear be his ultimate decision?

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Mr. Nobody can be viewed free on Tubi, Vudu, Crackle, Roku, Redbox and Plex. It can also be viewed through subscriptions on Hulu and Philo or can be purchased on YouTube, Amazon Prime, Google Play Movies and Apple TV.