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Please note the location of this event is not at The Alignment Center.
It is being hosted at The TAI Group, located at 150 W. 30th Street.


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We all:
  • long to be whole, 
  • to connect with another in an intimate and meaningful way,
  • to find our place in the world, and 
  • to be passionate about life. 

The path to these noble aspirations leads through the heart to the very depths of our soul. It awakens our awareness of the unique gift that is ours to nurture and ours to give. Rumi called this depth of soul the Beloved, that place within that:

  • can bear all sorrow, 
  • feel all joy and 
  • express our deepest calling as an expression of the One

When we touch that place of the Divine Within we can fully inhabit our body and are no longer tethered to our past or held back by our wounds.  At the same time we become aware that we are more than our sensations, feelings and thoughts without distancing from any of them. We experience our self as an Immanent/Transcendent expression of the Divine, and can become the passionate subject of our unique life. We are no longer filled with fear or focused only on our individual worries and concerns. 

  • This life,
  • in this moment, 
  • in this body 

becomes an eternal gift to ourselves, to our loves and to the world. Every great teaching aspires to this gift as a lived experience, the experience of living from our soul no longer bound by the rigid identities of our conditioned personality.

Too often, however, the teaching or practice that awakened a spiritual teacher is not the right fit for their students. Only recently have we understood both how we are alike and how we are different.  Each of us takes birth with a unique soul-print, and only by awakening to that divine template can we live into our intimate fullness and offer our unique gift.  Spiritual practice takes a new form in this light; in order for it to open our awareness to our deepest self it must be personally fitted to the blueprint of our soul. The good news is that today we have an understanding of human development that the great saints and sages of the past where unaware of, and we have access to an unprecedented range of teachings and practices from the entire heritage of human wisdom. 

Informed by the notion that "All Life is Yoga", it now becomes possible to develop an Integral Spiritual Practice (ISP) that cultivates an Integrated Body-Heart-Mind.  Such an integrated self sense is spaciously transcendent and fully embodied at the same time.  Ken Wilber refers to it as the Centaur, half animal body and half human mind that can more easily access the soul.  

This integrated body/mind is capable of shedding limiting identities and using every life experience or relationship challenge as an opportunity to wake up to our inner heart.  No one has explored this frontier more fully than Terry Patten. In his interviews with world teachers, his writings and his online course he highlights teachings and practices, ancient and modern, in a style that is easily accessible. In this 2 day intensive with his partner Deborah Boyar and his colleague Michael Pergola (powerful teachers in their own right) you will taste an approach to spiritual practice and embodied presence that was never available before in human history.

We each want a sense of belonging without sacrificing our authenticity and emotional freedom without becoming disconnected from our bodily experience. The energy that drives human development lies in two polarities:

  • one between the human drives to be ourselves and to be connected to others; and...
  • the second between our embodiment, including emotions and sensations (or immanence), and our freedom, including a capacity to transcend our emotions and sensations (transcendence). 


 

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TERRY PATTEN is a vital, leading voice in the fields of spiritual practice, leadership, integral development and evolutionary spirituality. He speaks and consults internationally, inspiring, challenging, and connecting evolutionary leaders and institutions worldwide. A gifted communicator, community- builder, successful entrepreneur, and author of four books, Terry has worked for over three decades as a philosopher, activist, coach, and teacher, helping leaders embody higher consciousness in practical actions that transform complex systems. His online teleseminar series, Beyond Awakening: The Future of Spiritual Practice, draws a worldwide audience as he explores fundamental life questions with the likes of Ram Dass, Diane Hamilton, Gangaji, Jean Houston and Adyashanti. He is the author, with Ken Wilber, of Integral Life Practice. His website is www.integralheart.com



 

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DEBORAH BOYAR, Ph.D. is a somatic educator who guides people to navigate through trauma as a gateway to awakened evolution. Through decades of immersion in spirituality, psychology, neuroscience and healing, she embodies deep compassion, seasoned discrimination and the abiding transmission of spiritual wholeness. As a bio-spiritual midwife, she helps people discover their core essence, and welcomes them to shine and incarnate their unique gifts. Her passion lies in fostering core resilience as an embodied foundation for the journey of awakened integration. Her welcoming manner and clear voice create a deep sense of safety and a platform for organic transformation.Her website is www.deborahboyar.com




 

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MICHAEL PERGOLA, MA, MBA, JD, is a lawyer, business executive, teacher, ordained interfaith minister. In the wake of 9/11, he co-founded One Spirit Learning Alliance. A long time student of consciousness, culture and spiritual development, Michael has pursued personal mastery and an understanding of people and creativity for over 30 years in order to to bring the heritage of human wisdom into every aspect of life. 

Utilizing insights from the ancient wisdom traditions , as well as from contemporary theories such as Spiral Dynamics, the Enneagram, Integral Theory and Systems Dynamics Michael works to accelerate the conscious evolution of individuals and groups in a way that incorporates heart and mind in a seamless whole.

These polarities manifest most dramatically in our one-on-one and group relationships. Most of us could benefit from a wider repertoire of skillful alternatives in these areas of our life. Often we react based on patterns from our family of origin or from an emotional wound suffered earlier in life. The most effective way to avoid this cul-de-sac is to pursue an integral approach to psycho-spiritual development. 

All of us are involved in a myriad of relationships where we are called upon to express our soul’s unique gifts. Very few of us are able to skillfully express the fullness of our being in a way that engages us in genuine connection and helps the groups we are part of evolve further along the spiral of development. Only by creating harmony between our deep desire to belong (to another, a family or a larger community), with our ambition to actualize our creative talents in a way that is simultaneously in contact with the full range of sensations and emotions without becoming a slave to them, can we move beyond the unsatisfying dilemma of isolation or co-dependence.

In this experiential weekend intensive you will begin learning to:

  • Re-pattern the reptilian brain to move beyond fear 
  • Develop a deeper sense of safety even under stress
  • Dare to soften in the face of difference or disagreement
  • Try on new perspectives without being attached to any single point of view
  • Loosen  your harsh judgments of self and others
  • Become curious about your repeated patterns of self-sabotage 
  • Develop a sense of humor and humility in the face of life’s challenges
  • Express your authentic self without giving up a sense of belonging
  • More fully feel strong sensations and emotions without loosing yourself to them
  • Find the deeper harmony beneath these tensions of apparent opposites
  • No longer become trapped in either claustrophobia or isolation
  • More fully integrate mind, body, heart and soul
  • Experience the fullness of embodied communion with yourself and with another 
  • Express your authenticity from a place of transcendent freedom
  • Develop simultaneous awareness of self and other

This experiential workshop will help you express the creative fullness of your being, while connecting in authentic relationship to yourself, others, and the Divine.  The entire weekend will offer a comprehensive approach to fashioning an Integral Spiritual Practice that takes your life as its center piece and uses a variety of specific practices and exercises to nurture the evolution of your personal soul in the context of the One Soul that unites us all. By Sunday evening each participant will more clearly experience their life as a Spiritual Unfoldment, and better understand the approaches, attitudes and practices that support (or inhibit) that endeavor.



 
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