With all that's happening in our lives and in the world today, it's easy to question: "How do we support ourselves and how do we support each other in these complex times?" Maybe times have always been complex, but it certainly seems to feel more tangible today.

You may have read or heard phrases like 'I am not my thoughts,' 'I am not what I think about myself,' and 'The world is not what I think about it.' There is something more fundamental to my Being, and your Being, and everyone's Being. When we sit with that, there's a great sense of Peace and Harmony, even with all of life's challenges.

It's not that the practice makes everything that's happening okay - because there certainly is sorrow and pain. What is being offered is not to avoid or deny that reality - it's to explore together what is true, what is actually happening beyond our conditioning.

The mind can be a distraction. It creates problems and then solves the problems, and then creates more problems and solves those, and so on. It is so full of opinions, that it creates busywork for us. In relationships, we try to solve problems through thinking and dialogue, and often find that it doesn't work or we keep having the same conversations. One mind's opinions are trying to reach another mind's opinions, and ultimately it's impossible.

With this series, we discover that we have a choice to shift our attention out of the narrative of the mind to something that’s more True in this moment; like our breath, sensations in the body, feelings, or to something even more fundamental - to the open awareness, to the totality of our Being. This is where we are interconnected, this is where we are “One,” in our direct knowing of our Being. Here we can join each other and feel that interconnectedness without our opinions and judgements.

With light, of course, there is shadow. When we shine a light on ourselves, wounds are brought up from within our shadow and present an opportunity. We have the privilege, individually and as a collective, to shine the light of our awareness on the shadow that is arising, and ultimately realise that at the core of our Being we are Light - luminous, shimmering Light. This is more True then anything our minds imagine about ourselves.

We are interested in what it would it be like to sit with people and navigate together through life like that. What's great about this practice is it's not for just the "special ones." It was thought once that enlightenment was only for the "special ones," but that may be the grossest thought there is. Enlightenment is for everybody. This practice is the most sane way we've found to come back to our nature; in fact, we believe this is what sanity is.

Peace, harmony, a feeling of home, and groundedness - we can explore this together through a direct experience. Then life begins to live itself through you, rather than you struggling to live life and having a constant need to figure stuff out.

Allow Source to lead, and be in awe.