Practical sessions and classes that draw from the ancient practices of meditation, pranayama, and yoga, and modern psychology:

• Meditation, Pranayama, & Prana: Awakening Awareness & Life Force
• Sacred Dimensions of Relationship: Deepening Connection with Self & Others

Practice Sessions

Open to individuals, partners, and small groups up to 6 participants. For those new or for continuing students to deepen their practice. While best taken in order as a series, sessions can also stand alone with no prior experience.

Fee : $150 for 1½ hour session. (Sliding scale available) Individual and couples therapy sessions also available by appointment.

Session 1: Cultivating Sacred Dimensions Relationship: Self Awareness and Mindful Connection

What is sacred in relationship? Generate wise intention and compassionate action. Connect with one's center and awakened heart in stillness and connection.

Session 2: Creating Safe-Authentic Space: Intentional Safety, Respect, and Openness

Create the physical and emotional conditions to be present and connected with yourself and another.

Session 3: Conscious Communication: Expressing Truth, Deep Listening, & Attuned Connection

Create trust, authenticity, acceptance, and compassionate witnessing. Embrace and transform fear and resistance.

Session 4: Cultivating Aliveness: Awakening and Expanding Energy

Explore breath & life force energy in movement, stillness, and connection.

Session 5: Witnessing the Storm: Compassionate Presence, Inquiry, and Self Awareness

Develop external and internal boundaries, non-verbal presence, and energetic connection. Embrace the cycle of harmony & disharmony. Transform blocks to intimacy. Cultivate the art of inquiry and deep listening.

Session 6: Healing, Honoring, and Empowering the Temple of Your Body

Transform physical challenges and honor the wisdom of your body. Tonglen meditation

Session 7: The Sacred Art of Touch: Awakening Physical Awareness

Intention, boundaries, and reverence for sensory awareness and conscious touch. The gift of giving and receiving.

Session 8: Yin & Yang Energy: Awakening the Feminine and Masculine Aspects of the Self

Embrace opposites with compassion & self awareness. Balance the under-developed polarity in relationship & life.

Session 9: Energetic Connection: Developing Non-verbal Presence

Deepen attunement through breath & life force energy in movement, stillness, and authentic connection.

Session 10: Awakened Heart: Expanding Wisdom and Compassion

Open to inherent wisdom and compassion through integrating and embracing healing, intimacy, and transformation.

Monthly Practice Days

Practice Days are half-day workshops for those new or for continuing students to deepen their practice. While best taken in order as a series, they can also stand alone with no prior experience.

Note: Practice Days have been postponed. Should they resume, they likely will be held at:
Yoga Garden Studio in San Anselmo, a sanctuary to nourish body, mind, heart & soul.
Stress Management Center in Larkspur, specializing in therapeutic yoga for health and wellness.

Meditation, Pranayama, & Prana:
Awakening Awareness and Life Force
(click to see full description and details)
Third Saturday of the month.
Practice Day 1: Meditation & Pranayama I
Practice Day 2: Meditation & Pranayama II
Practice Day 3: Meditation & Awakening Prana
Practice Day 4: Meditation & Transforming Energy
(The mindfulness and body-breath-energy awareness cultivated in this Meditation class is a valuable preparation for Sacred Dimensions of Intimacy.)

Sacred Dimensions of Relationship:
Deepening Connection With Yourself and Others
(click to see full description and details)
Practice Day 1:
The Art of Intimacy: Self Awareness, Mindful Connection & Sacred Space
Practice Day 2:
Conscious Communication: Expressing Truth, Listening Well, & Attuned Connection
Practice Day 3:
Compassionate Presence: Witnessing the Storm & Embracing Opposites
Practice Day 4:
The Temple of the Body: Transforming Obstacles and Awakening Physical Awareness

Continuing Education Units: Each Practice Day is approved for 4 CEUs for Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists and Licensed Clinical Social Workers as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. (#PCE3734)

Assistants: One assistant is needed for each workshop, participates in the practices, and attends at no cost. Priority is given to former students.


Weekend Retreats
Soquel (other locations available)

Immerse and deepen in meditation & breath or sacred dimensions of intimacy in a setting of beauty and tranquility. Sacred shrines, vegetarian meals, and acres of hiking trails through redwoods and oak. Retreats have been held at Land of Medicine Buddha – a center for healing and developing a good heart. 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel, CA

The retreats have been postponed, hopefully to resume in the future.

• Meditation, Pranayama, & Prana:
Awakening Awareness and Life Force
Silent Retreat

• Sacred Dimensions of Relationship:
Deepening Connection With Yourself and Others
(click to see full retreat description and details)

Continuing Education Units: The weekend retreats are approved for 18 CEUs for Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists and Licensed Clinical Social Workers as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. (#PCE3734)


Additional Workshops

Other workshops designed to meet your interests are offered in a one-day or weekend format in the Bay Area and beyond.

Registration

Call for more information or to register.
Cancellation Policy: Full refund up to one week before workshop, credit thereafter.

Call Marilynne at (415) 492-1042 or email marilynne@dharmaspirit.com .

Ethical Standards & Guidelines

Marilynne researched and co-wrote the SkyDancing Tantra Ethical Standards & Guidelines to preserve and uphold the highest level of integrity for teaching and practice.