The Spiritual Practice of Authentic Connection

Please come just as you are. Your tired self, your shy self, your anti-social self, your frustrated self, you're skeptical self, you're desperate for community self, you're looking for friends self, you're playful self, you're "I love free tea" self, you're lost self... all of you is welcomed.

You don't have to be your best self in order to belong.

I'm hosting this event in my home, with lots of tea and the fireplace going. I'll have a few ice breakers, we'll have a few break out groups, and then we'll have a full non-structured social hour to just be and get to know each others. The conversation will revolve around what's going on in our lives from a place of what we're healing, learning, going through, on the other side of, grateful for, and/or mastering.

This is a practice in self-awareness, self-acceptance, mindfulness, authenticity, honoring self and honoring other, discovering what we resist in ourselves and others... all as a spiritual practice that deepens our capacity to connect.

This is a structured gathering to start, and an unstructured hangout in the 2nd half.

Please consider bringing some fruits/veggies to share (vegan and gluten-free friendly snacks so everyone can enjoy), or $5-10 in cash to help pay for Meetup's ridiculously expensive monthly fees, utilities, and restocking the tea.

If you cannot offer anything this time, please still come.

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According to one of my clients in a hypnosis session where he channeled from a higher perspective, the entire point of life on Earth is to go through this dance of separation to connection, separation to connection, separation to connection until we can stay connected with ourselves long enough that we see separation is an illusion.

This is why I believe that authentic connection is a spiritual practice. To be deeply with ourselves deepens our capacity to be with another. To be deeply with another reveals to us that we're not so different after all. When we realize we're not so different, we move through the illusion of separation back into connection, not just with the other but with ourself. Connection with self is key to living from the heart. The heart knows beyond duality.