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SUMMARY:Free Info Session: Inexplicable Magic: Meditation for Mystics
DESCRIPTION:Free Info Session\nJune 11th at 7pm et\nRegister here\nMeditation changes us in ways we do not expect. \nWe may begin practice hoping to become less stressed\, more focused\, or more peaceful. And those things may happen. But over time\, many practitioners discover something else unfolding. A greater sense of connection. More compassion. More bravery. A deeper relationship with mystery itself. \nMy new book\, Inexplicable Magic: Meditation for Mystics\, explores these less conventional aspects of meditation practice. In it\, I share seven principles that run counter to much of what we are told meditation is “supposed” to do. \nThis is not about becoming perfect\, transcending your humanity\, or turning into some kind of spiritual wizard. It is about learning to relate to your life\, your mind\, your relationships\, and your world with greater intimacy and awareness. \nOn June 11\, I’ll be offering a free live webinar to explore these seven principles with you and talk more about the ideas behind the book. \nWe’ll discuss:\n• Why ritual matters in meditation practice\n• Why your ego is not the problem\n• How ordinary acts can become part of the spiritual path\n• What meditation may actually awaken in us over time\n• How mystical experience can arise within ordinary life \nI’ll also share more about the writing of the book and answer your questions live. \nI hope you’ll join me. \nAll who register will receive access to the recording\, whether or not you can attend live. \nReserve your spot here. \n 
URL:https://openheartproject.com/event/free-info-session-inexplicable-magic-meditation-for-mystics/
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SUMMARY:Proclaiming Basic Sanity: Living the Bodhisattva Path (A Retreat)
DESCRIPTION:Drala Mountain Center \nIn these turbulent times\, how do we live with wisdom\, compassion\, and courageous clarity? Join me and Michael Carroll for a week-long retreat dedicated to bringing the heart of practice off the cushion and into everyday life. Together we’ll explore what it means to embody the bodhisattva path now — through meditation\, community\, deep inquiry\, and discussion about sustaining an open heart in the world. \nWe’ll study the six paramitas\, clarify true compassion vs. “idiot” compassion\, strengthen resilience\, and learn practices that help us stay awake and engaged with suffering — our own and others’. This program offers extended sitting meditation\, yoga and qi-gong\, and opportunities to touch what it means to act with fearless kindness and sanity in a confused age. \nRegistration details here.
URL:https://openheartproject.com/event/proclaiming-basic-sanity-living-the-bodhisattva-path-a-retreat/
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SUMMARY:Free Info Session: 7 Days of Fearless Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Free Info Session\nSeptember 30th at 7pm et\nRegister here\nCrystal and I are offering a new program this fall called 7 Days of Fearless Creativity\, and we’re bringing meditation and creativity together. For seven straight days\, we will gather in community for regular meditation and creativity practice. \nWhen meditation makes us more available to the world\, creative practice gives us a way to respond. Some of you may be familiar with what Crystal has termed the “Artyana”: the idea that creativity can be a natural flowering of practice. I love this because it puts creativity right in the middle of our lives\, not as something extra. \nYou don’t need to be an artist or have any particular skill. We’re interested in what happens when you pay attention\, get curious\, and make something from that. \nOn September 30 at 7pm ET\, Crystal and I are hosting a free info session. We’ll talk about the program\, what we’ll do together\, and why we think this matters. We’ll answer your questions too. \nReserve your spot in the info session here. If you’re interested but can’t join live\, register anyway and you’ll receive a link to the recording. 
URL:https://openheartproject.com/event/free-info-session-7-days-of-fearless-creativity/
CATEGORIES:Susan's Calendar
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SUMMARY:7 Days of Fearless Creativity
DESCRIPTION:7 Days of Fearless Creativity\nOctober 18–25\n7 Days of Fearless Creativity\nWith Susan Piver & Crystal Gandrud \nA Week of\nMeditation. Creativity. Community. \nIt’s hard for most of us to get to our deepest work. Whether it is writing\, painting\, composing\, or dreaming\, we put it off. And put it off again. Why? \nCreative work is a kind of magic. Author of The Artist’s Way\, Julia Cameron\, said\, “the first rule of magic is containment”. What if meditation and creative practice within community created this container? \nAfter publishing a combined 13 books (and Susan teaching Fearless Creativity retreats for over a decade)\, Susan Piver and Crystal Gandrud have concluded that it does. \n\n\n\n\nJoin them for a 7-day experience exploring creativity as a way to be in deeper relationship with yourself\, your work\, and the world around you.\nThis is not a course about becoming a better writer or artist. It is an invitation to wake up to your own creative power and give that power a form. \nFor seven straight days\, through daily meditation\, dedicated time for creative practice together\, conversation\, and community\, we’ll look at what it means to center inspiration in daily life. \n  \n  \nMeditation teaches us to pay attention. Creativity compels us to do something with that attention. When we become more receptive\, we start to notice more: beauty\, difficulty\, contradiction\, possibility\, the things we might otherwise miss. Crystal calls this the “Artyana” (yana is a Sanskrit word that means vehicle)\, a way to understand creative practice as a natural expression of awakening. \n  \n\n\nWhat we’ll explore:\n\nMeditation and creativity: how awareness supports creative work and how making things deepens awareness\nRadiating Outward Incrementally by Crystal Gandrud: using lojong (mind training) as a creative prompt and exploring the relational qualities of creativity\nThe world around you: what happens when we let the world affect us rather than try to control our experience of it\nBeauty: not as decoration or perfection\, but as a way of encountering and participating in life\nFearlessness: what becomes possible when we stop trying to get rid of discomfort and work with it creatively instead\nCommunity and collaboration: how relationship can shift what we see\, make\, and understand\n\n  \n\n\n  \nThis is a practice\, not a performance.\nYour creative practice might be writing\, painting\, music\, cooking\, movement\, photography\, gardening\, working with your hands\, walking outside\, or something else entirely. All are welcome. \nThere is no particular outcome we are trying to achieve. Instead we’ll bring greater attention to what is already happening and give it room to take shape. Sometimes the thing we most want to get rid of is precisely the material we need. \n  \nWhat’s included:\nOpening Talk\nThursday\, October 15\, 7pm ET \nTwo Live Sunday Summits (meditation\, journaling\, creative practice and community)\nOctober 18 and 25\, 3 to 5pm ET \nDaily Spiritual and Creative Practice\nMonday through Saturday\, 10 to 11:15am ET \nCommunity\nConnect with other participants through Signal \nClass Forum\nJournal and creative practice prompts to keep going between sessions \n \n\nCome practice with us.\nYou don’t need to know what you’re making.\nYou don’t need to call yourself creative.\nYou don’t need to have a plan.\nYou only need curiosity\, willingness\, and a desire to see what meditation and creativity reveal when you practice them together. \n7 Days of Fearless Creativity is an invitation to pay attention\, make something\, and see what becomes possible when you listen to the inner voice. \nChoose the price that works best for you:\n$108\nSupporter of the teachers and the teachings \n$216\nSustainer of the Open Heart Project \n$324\nBenefactor for those with financial abundance who wish to make sure this work continues \nRegister Here\nIf you are unable to pay one of the suggested amounts\, please contact us to figure out a price that works for you. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
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