Dr. Marc Gafni is the co-founder and teacher in residence of iEvolve: Global Practice Community (Co-founded with Diane Musho Hamilton, Sally Kempton- Durgananda and Sofia Diaz, and Executive Director Kelly Sosan Bearer), as well as the Director and a fellow at the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. Marc is The Teacher in Residence- although he is not in Residence } - of Shalom Mountain Retreat Center Wisdom School. {Shalom Mountain is a forty year old Retreat Center with a couple of thousand active members in Upstate New York founded by the wise Spiritual Elder Dr. Gerry Judd who empowered Marc in his role as Teacher at Shalom Mountain.} He is also the co-founder and Editor of Incorrect Inc. Publishing movement; Co- founded with Mary Lainer, as well as the Scholar in Residence of Pacific Coast Community Church (under the direction of Dr. Bill Little).

Jonathan Gustin, MFT is the founder  of  the Integral Awakening Center of San Francisco, where he teaches meditation, finding your life’s purpose and integral practice.  He is an instructor at Kaiser Permanente where he teaches Mind/Body Medicine and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.  Jonathan has been practicing integral mentoring, purpose guiding and psychotherapy with individuals and couples for 15 years.  He is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice with offices in San Francisco and San Rafael.  Jonathan is also the founder of Green Sangha, a spiritually engaged environmental activist organization.

Sex, Spirit, & Shadow:
The Three S's of Dynamic and Personal Evolution
with Diane Musho Hamilton, Marc Gafni, and Sofia Diaz

 September 18th-20th, 2009
San Francisco, California

Standard Registration: $450

Advanced Registration: $299 by September 5th

                                                                                      

Sex, Spirit, & Shadow
COUPLES SPECIAL: 2 for $549

                                                                                       

What participants are saying about Sex, Spirit, & Shadow:

"I send blessings and my eternal gratitude to all of you who made this last week possible.  Sexuality, Spirituality and & Shadow gifted me with new eyes. Eyes of the heart, of the soul and of the mind.  My life has been transformed.  My husband noticed it the first day and every day after it just got better and better.  He is so thrilled with the dramatic change in my life that he is already making arrangements to be involved in a Men's workshop that Rabbi Marc Gafni is doing.   Thank you for facilitating a safe environment that allowed me to see into my unique self and discover how I really want to show up in this world.  I love you all so much and I hope to see you again very soon." ~ Stepheny A.

Join us as we explore. engage, and uncover the interconnection of sexuality, spirituality, and shadow. By interweaving wisdom from the three traditions of Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei, Rabbi Marc Gafni and Sofia Diaz, we will explore why it is critical to integrate sex, spirit, and shadow on the spiritual path.

Through yogic practice, meditative inquiry, and interpersonal intimacy, we will deeply discover and refine how we engage these domains in our personal and professional lives.

Sofia Diaz

is a gifted teacher of Hatha yoga, sacred movement, and feminine spiritual practice, deriving her form of teaching and body philosophy from the South Indian Temple Arts and their accompanying scriptures. She has apprenticed with dance and music masters of the Balasaraswati lineage of Devadasi Sadir. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.

Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconlastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve: Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni's teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni's path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and and sacred audacity that he teaches.

Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted mediator, facilitator and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She is a co-director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center and has worked with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute since 2004. Diane is the Senior Teacher for Integral Recovery. She is the lead trainer on Integral Life Practice. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.

Logistical Information and Schedule

Our event will be held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square in San Francisco, California.

To reserve a hotel room at the Hilton, visit here: http://bit.ly/35Yktv

All participants will receive a reduced rate of $25/day for parking at the Hilton Hotel. Parking is typically $52/day. Please make sure to pick up your reducted rate parking pass at registration.

To register and pay by credit card, please click on the appropriate “Buy Now” button above to register and process your card through Paypal. Please email kellysosanbearer@gmail.com to confirm your registration. You will receive a "Welcome Letter" one week before the event with more details regarding our time together.

Please also send an email to kellysosanbearer@gmail.com with your full name and email address to receive confirmation after you register.

Please note that credit card refunds are subject to 6% processing fee and may not be granted after September 1, 2009.

We will start at 6:30pm Friday with registration and begin promptly at 7pm. Saturday 7:30am-9:30pm, Sunday 7:30am-4pm.

If you are flying out of California on Sunday, it is best to leave on the last flight out to allow yourself plenty of time to travel to the airport from the hotel.

Supplies

Please bring with you a yoga mat, a meditation cushion, a journal and pen, a water bottle and anything else you may need during our time together. Yoga mats, meditation cushions, and journals/pens will not be provided.