It is best to resist the urge to hurry up awakening. The point is to stay on track remaining focused on your spiritual practice. Digging one well deeply is what yields fruit. It is easy to become addicted to the internet thinking that your spiritual growth will come from taking in outside content. Your own connection to source is what is important. Over time, embodying Truth changes you, emptying you out and revealing a more …

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In this Open Circle Center Hosted Online Meeting, Susanne walks one through landing in the here and now firstly in the body, then placing attention on the power of noticing, leading to awareness being aware of itself. Whether you are an advanced practitioner, or newly entering the spiritual stream, one can always use the simple (yet profound), essential practice of resting one’s attention on presence. As you may know, what we sincerely give our attention …

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Learning how to be true to oneself rather than giving over to how one imagines one should behave, helps one to align to Truth. Remain home within yourself, and see what kind of response comes from there. Audio clip taken from Susanne’s Truth Unveiled May 2024 Crestone Retreat. You may purchase the entire 7 night retreat package on her Premium audio page.

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A skill worthy of learning has to do with noticing the natural in and outgoing of your breath. With the in-breath, we are here and exist, and with the out-breath, we let go and release into emptiness. Audio clip taken from Susanne’s May Truth Unveiled 2024 Crestone Retreat. You may purchase the entire 7 night retreat package on her Premium audio page.

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In this meditation, Susanne walks one through the steps of how to drop below identification via being in awareness of noticing. Noticing without interpretation is a doorway to freedom and is something one can practice. This meditation was especially loved by those who attended Susanne’s Taos retreat. Recorded live at Susanne’s Taos Retreat, September 2022.

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In this guided meditation, you are invited to tune into what presence feels like in the body via the sensing body. This helps ground presence consciously so that one can know what awareness is not only in an abstract way through the mind, but also in an understandably direct and sensorially manner via the body. This audio as well as the video titled: Non-Dual Awakening of the body, are taken from an online 4-part course …

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In this meditation, Susanne walks one through sinking into the aliveness of presence by using a simple, yet powerful, Sanskrit seed mantra: Soham (I am That). This clip is taken from an online 4 – part series titled: Focused Spiritual Practice Support Sessions. The entire  series is available for sale under Susanne’s Premium Audio page.

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There is a very simple method to realizing your true nature, and that is in order to wake up and have truth stabilize within, you have to not only desire it with your whole heart, you also have to one pointedly work towards it. There is a saying in Zen that the Buddha lies at the base of the hedgegrow. What this is pointing to is that truth is locatable, bit in order to find …

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In order to advance spiritually, we do need to open in trust to the inner guidance that is intent on bringing you back home to your undivided true nature. In this meeting, you are invited more fully into letting go of control, so that divine intelligence can support your inner unfoldment. A poem from Shar which emerged following the online meeting: One day walking life, next moment walking life. One day loving life, next moment …

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Susanne and friends exploring the topic of how the impact of crisis can be met within the realm of awakening. Living our daily lives under ordinary conditions, when the unexpected never materializes and is very far from our active mind, often doesn’t reveal undiscovered territory within one’s conditioning. This reveals itself in its full, if often unwanted, glory when a major incident takes place. The opportunity held within such times of one’s life unearths hidden …

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