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How to live from the ground of presence, being yourself in peace with others, and yet do what needs to be done? In cultivating a restful wakefulness, that embraces each moment of our life with acceptance and wisdom, we can come in intimate contact with the very nature of things, our true nature. With a spirit of curiosity and kindness, and through the immediacy of our personal experience, we'll explore the fundamental elements of inquiry; embodied presence, open-ended awareness, direct understanding, not-knowing and the love of truth. This six-part series is a deep dive into essential and human qualities such as: love, compassion, courage, inner peace, ease, and clarity. We'll investigate what obscures, and what supports the outflow of qualities of essence.

Each retreat day includes meditation, sensing and movement practice, teaching, and inquiry. We will work with teachings from the book Spacecruiser Inquiry by A.H. Almaas, and we suggest that participants read that book in tandem with our explorations to deepen understanding. 

Presence is an actual sense of hereness - beyond our emotions, beyond the mind, beyond our ideas. 

In presence, we can know ourselves in a way that is authentic, which means that we are knowing what is real in us.  -A. H. Almaas

Taught in Stockholm by Leela Sarti and visiting co-teachers Britta Szymczek, Kristian Lindberg, Maria Heimbucher and Synnøve Seim