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Namaste!  These offerings of Group Meditation and Sangha arise because I see the longing for students and friends to gather and share ourselves from the beautiful stillness of meditation.  It is our highest selves that we share when we, as Adyashanti puts it, "rest as awareness."  The small self  falls away and we see ourselves, and each other for who we really are... beautiful beings of pure love, truth and Oneness. 
It's a simple thing really... it's resting in our extraordinary ordinariness. 



So I won't be teaching much in the way of meditation techniques or practices.  Though I'm happy to give gentle guidance if it is requested.  I will lead some simple Pranayama and chants if that is well-received.  No experience required!
Bring yourself, whatever your state of being at the time; happy, disheveled, wounded or celebratory, it doesn't matter!  Your truth, your sense of aliveness at any moment will be embraced and appreciated.  We are mirrors for each other, after all, whatever the experience we have all been there.
See you soon at Sri Mata, my home Yoga cottage in Maplewood. 
Om Shanti, Dear friend!

MORNING GROUP MEDITATION: begins Friday, April 30  ~ ~ ~  MONTHLY SANGHA:  begins Thursday, April 29

“All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.” ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

♥ Join Supriya, Master Meditation teacher, and Sherry Summers, Yoga/movement teacher, for a weekend of joyful immersion in the Freedom of your being...We will guide you into times of tranquil stillness, yoga, gentle movement and community; chanting, sounding, playing and moving...You will have time to sink deeply into the release that nature brings. San Damiano sits on a bluff high above a river with the porches facing the beautiful view. No matter what your level or experience, if you are called to join us, you will be warmly welcomed! ♥



“Our vision for the community gathering on the beautiful land at the San Damiano Retreat Center is to begin to recognize the place within you - where your life is alive and free.  To be "held in grace" is to stabilize the experience of the essence of you and to live your life from that place continually and effortlessly. Together, we will explore the intelligence, the life that wants to be fully expressed in the eternal moment.” ~Supriya

Please contact Sherry: 314-378-5942 or SherryYogaBliss@yahoo to register or for more information.
        Rates:     $355 before April 25, $385 thereafter  (inquire about special rates for couples and families, children welcome!)
        Includes all lodging & meals which are wholesome & vegetarian
        To register, mail a check for $100 to: Sherry Summers, 2231 Richert Pl., St. Louis, MO 63143

Supriya’s passion is sharing and creating with others to experience life from naturally resting in awareness, authenticity, freedom, and love.  Supriya is an Ishaya monk and a teacher of teachers. She leads seminars on consciousness and healing, and works with groups and individuals nationally and internationally who are committed to naturally creating environments which call forth being, implementing stateshifts, and thus impacting the quality of our everyday lives. Supriya created and founded The Baraka Building in St.Louis in Feb., 2001. It has evolved into an oasis for transformational community work, creative play, art, and delicious food.  She currently resides in San Francisco.

Sherry teaches Yoga privately and for group classes and facilitates workshops and retreats based in Tantra Hatha Yoga (as taught by Rod Stryker in the Himalayan tradition), Thai Yoga Massage, intimate connection, and experiences with movement and sound in her home studio in St. Louis, and elsewhere around the country. She gathers community for movement, expression and celebration, co-facilitating with teachers of consciousness of all sorts including Advaita, NVC, Clarity Breathwork, therapists, and musicians of all types. She is most passionate about awakening to one's true nature of love and joy and facilitating that in others.  For more about Sherry, see:
http://cherylsherbs.com/SherryYogaBliss.htm

San Damiano is a lovely retreat center with 30 cabins located on almost 200 acres at the southern tip of Illinois, surrounded by the beauty of nature and her bounty. The deck of each cabin overlooks the magnificent Ohio River flowing 200 feet below the cliffs. The center is located 3 hours Southeast of St. Louis, nestled close to the Shawnee National Forest. See:  http://sandamianoretreat.com/index.htm

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