A Comfort Zone of the HEART

A Comfort Zone of the HEART

Where "Comfort" Also Means "Presence with Strength"

Eight Tuesdays on Zoom
March 11-April 29, 5-6:15 pm PT
with both of us, Saniel and Linda

And a teaser about another offering coming up in May...

In these extremely challenging times, we welcome you to come gather weekly with other kindred spirits and us. Together we'll create an authentic "comfort zone" with one another in two really positive ways.

Yes, it'll be a virtual place for healing, holding, and nurturing communion, for self-care and caring for each other.

It'll also be a kind of communal Heart-dojo, where we'll help one another cultivate and fortify our bold, resilient "presence with strength." That meaning of "comfort" comes from its Latin roots: "con" or "com," "with"; and "forte," "strength."

In recent mailings we spoke about coming together in these sessions as "sacred sentinels," or sentinels for the sacred in human and all life. 

There's a guardianship, a stewardship protecting and nurturing the deep Heart of humankind that we may find becomes more apparent over the course of our two months together in this event.  

We hope you'll join us and be part of that guardianship.

> Each meeting will include brief gazing and meditation, a 10-15 minute talk by one or both of us, and conversations, guided practices, and/or creative sharings.

> You can still register and join us until the first session gets underway on Tuesday, March 11, at 5 pm PT.

> The fee is $198.

Please note: if finances are tight and you want to attend, contact us at [email protected] and let us know what you can offer. 

These are tough times for a lot of us, and getting tougher. We'll help you make sure the event is affordable for you.  

> All are welcome! Though it could be helpful, no previous exposure to our teachings is required.

> The sessions will be recorded but will never be made available in part or in full to anyone except this live event's registered attendees. And, if you'd rather not be recorded, just ask and we'll put the recording on pause. 

Some possible themes of our brief intro talks and then group conversations in the 8 sessions (subject to change — we invite your suggestions):

1. When taking self-care is the best gift and example you can give to others — and why skillful de-pressurizing is so important now

2. When and how the Heart becomes a Cinderella to the brain-mind — for you

3. The power of giving, serving, and loving for authentic presence with strength

4. The limbic loop and the "sinoatrial sync" for comfort in — and the comfort of — the self+other field of our connections

5. Crucial differences between evolutionary and conscious mutual sharing of our painful stress, and regressive wallowing in it

6. Is there a part of you, maybe a big part, that feels you don't deserve to enjoy comfort as both ease and strength — an "I am not worthy" factor?

7. "The lure of the lore": are there sources of influence and conditioning in your life, in the past and currently, that lead you to feel that pursuing comfort is self-indulgent, less than spiritual, deluding, and/or karmically dangerous?

8. Becoming deep-feeling, protective guardian-sentinels together for the sacred in human consciousness, character, and culture, and in all sentient beings

We'll create this "Comfort Zone of the HEART" in community together. 

Authentic sharing and being together, even virtually and in these relatively brief meetings, can infuse a strong antidote to the shocks and threats we're undergoing in our personal and collective living. Especially when our strengths come alive as pro-active sentinels for the sacred!