Beloved Friends
We left the Costa Rican late summer heat, with the leaves falling from the trees. To arrive in the Oregon spring-mix of snow and occasional, hopeful sun. Where all of the first buds and flowers of spring, together with our grandson, are bravely beginning to emerge.
Through the January online retreat opportunity, we embarked on an exploration into the Eternal Wholeness of form and emptiness. Compassionately reflecting upon the "I'm not good enough", core belief of unworthiness that maintains the sense of a separate identity living as a "me". And willingly experiencing the vulnerability and fear that comes with surrendering this belief as it transmutes in the light of indiscriminate, essential Love.
The Costa Rica "Love Embodied" retreat was also a precious opportunity to deepen into the sense of an indwelling Love beyond and before, but also amidst and amongst, all the individual expressions. Awakening to and in our True Nature, involves the relinquishing of the false sense of security we find in separateness.We can spend so much time defending, compensating, and coping, from a sense of division and lack. While each moment is existing AS a fertile circumstance to give-way in conscious communion with the Way of Wholeness, Fullness and Love. From the Eternal Heart we unfold and bloom AS our unique expression of Divinity for the benefit of All.
The recordings from the January online retreat and the Costa Rica retreat can be found here at FULLCIRCLEFAMILY.US under the Teachings tab. Deep Gratitude and Namaste' for those who participated.
MAY WE SHINE IN/FROM/THROUGH/and AS ABIDING LOVE
SILENT RETREAT
May 12-18, 2022
There is still space available to join in our first 7 day silent retreat!
In beautiful Cove, OR. Ascension camp is a quiet, peaceful facility devoted to time apart. It provides an inviting, simple and supportive container for inquiry and contemplation. The rooms are comfortable and bright with views of the surrounding valley and mountains. The food is fresh, home-cooked and prepared with love. Most special diet requests can be accommodated.
Throughout the retreat we will be giving each other the gift of silent, supportive, compassionate togetherness. The combination of not talking, silent sitting, togetherness, shared intention and guidance from a teacher creates a potent atmosphere for realization. During retreat we have the opportunity to set aside - preconceptions, identifications, roles, routines, stories. There are no goals around fixing, solving, changing, achieving or naming psychological patterns and personal problems. It is a time to rest from our allegiance to the comings and goings of the mind’s endless narration. In this willingness to rest and listen, without seeking, without searching, without agenda, there exists a precious opportunity to directly encounter and deeply experience the Ground of our Being, the fundamental Reality. This encounter with our true nature, the loving and peaceful present moment, naturally inspires and enlivens the potential to live from, and as, a unified, compassionate loving-ness.
UPCOMING SILENT RETREAT DATES:
September 29 - October 3, 2022||April4-11, 2023||October 12-17,2023
COSTA RICA with Sharon Landrith, TBA, 2023
Offerings
All offerings are an invitation to devote ourselves to the remembering of the uncaused LOVE at the heart of matter. To then consciously inhabit this liberating discovery through our actions and choices. Uniquely and authentically expressing Self realization in/through/AS our sacred lives. Mark your calendars!
Evening Gatherings
Select Tuesdays, 6-8pm PDT, via ZOOM
April 5; June 7th; July 5th; August 9th
ONE TO ONE DISCOVERY SESSIONS
I am excited to be offering in-person as well as Zoom sessions. Giving voice to one's journey is a vital aspect of the realization process. TESTIMONIALS
Deep Dives
An opportunity to take a deeper look into facets of the Self realization process. The content will hopefully be driven by your inquiries, curiosities and sharing.
June 18 ; 1-4pm PDT, ZOOM
MORE....
May 1st. Time TBA. Gathering at Heartbeat Wellness in Enterprise, OR. In-person and ZOOM
Spring by Mary Oliver
Somewhere a black bear has just risen from sleep and is staring down the mountain.
All night in the brisk and shallow restlessness of early spring
I think of her, her four black fists flicking the gravel, her tongue like a red fire touching the grass, the cold water.
There is only one question: how to love this world.
I think of her rising like a black and leafy ledge to sharpen her claws against
the silence
of the trees.
Whatever else my life is with its poems and its music and its glass cities,
it is also this dazzling darkness
coming down the mountain, breathing and tasting;
all day I think of her -—
her white teeth, her wordlessness, her perfect love.
COSTA RICA 2022 memories
The first annual retreat with Sharon Landrith and Jennifer Tyler, Love Embodied, was extraordinary and precious. One participant called it "dazzling and extravagant". Our days were filled with Pura Vida. Mountain energy, river melody, flower power, gourmet food. And the heart-felt potency of coming together through meditation, inquiry and sacred togetherness.
Body is nothing more than emptiness, emptiness is nothing more than body. The body is exactly empty, and emptiness is exactly body.---excerpt from the HEART SUTRA
Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours,Yours are the eyes with which He looks Compassion on this world,Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good,Yours are the hands, with which He blesses all the world,Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,Yours are the eyes, you are His body.— St. Teresa of Ávila
Right here, right now we are whole, indivisible and essentially free. The fundamental Love that we are, is not far, distant, separate or unavailable. It is infinitely, eternally abundant and the essence of all expression. Willingly give into this peace, this inner silence. In the discovery of uncaused Love there is a wisdom and intelligence that is beyond the stories, causalities and descriptions of the thinking mind.--- fullcirclefamily.us
Jennifer's beloved teacher, Sharon Landrith (a teacher in the lineage of Adyashanti), has confirmed her as a teacher in the lineage. And encouraged her to be a guide for those genuinely moved to remember and inhabit the essential nature of uncaused Love. Jennifer's joy is to be of service. Lending Presence and whole-heartedness to one's unfolding evolutionary/involutionary journey through: private meetings for spiritual-inquiry, group silent retreats, online discovery courses and evening gatherings.