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The new 7-month live video training program begins on Wednesday, August 19, 2020.

What You’ll Learn in the Next 7 Months
Miranda will take you through the core body-mind-spirit skills and competencies you’ll need to live as a really grace-filled human being who is awake, present, grounded, and open throughout this 7-month transformative intensive.

Module 1: Grounding in Grace: Yielding to the Luminous Presence Within Through Ego Relaxation Practice (Sessions 1-4: August 19 & 26; September 2 & 9)

It takes a lot of practice to realize that everything, including events, interactions, and circumstances, may be beneficial. — A Course in Miracles teacher’s handbook
These perilous times, in which our “regular” routines have been severely disrupted, provide several obstacles…

However, it also provides us with an unprecedented opportunity to embrace this moment of transition as the Divine Invitation that it is — a chance to awaken from all that does not genuinely serve you, submit to a higher intelligence that has always run the show, and allow for good transformation.

Miranda will discuss ways to view these times as a communal birthing experience in this 4-week introductory module – because as we all know, birth is frequently dramatic, chaotic, and unpredictable.

We learn to surrender INTO the process and try our best to match with it and say “yes” if we are intelligent. (The ego’s default response is always NO!)

We must learn to awaken OUT OF ego fear, control, conditioning, and defenses… and awaken INTO our basic characteristics and understand our oneness with all that exists.

When we are linked and unified from within, we naturally respond in daily life from an awareness of love and clarity. As our earth rebirths, we may rebirth into a new way of being that is tremendously loving, emancipated, and enlightened.

How can we use this predicament to help us become the most noble, gracious humans we can be? Miranda’s methodology’s “how” is the Practice of Ego Relaxation, and she’ll walk you through it through holistic inquiry, meditation, and devotional practice. The underlying premise is as follows:

Spiritual change is not something you do. Relax your resistance, and it will find you.

Miranda will introduce you to the four degrees of Grace, as well as how we use Ego Relaxation to the invitations that life is giving to you at this moment, so that they might come alive inside you.

You’ll learn how to use your current circumstances as a heavenly curriculum and adopt the mindset of a joyful student.

Miranda will teach you how to distinguish between genuine surrender and collapse.

Ego Relaxation does not encourage you to be inactive and not take necessary actions in your life; rather, it wants you to recognize and learn to relax your ego activity, which is one of the ways we frequently get in our own way by attempting to skip or push beyond our obstacles.

You’ll discover the core of the classic Sanskrit liberation mantra “Om Nama Shivaya,” which is to succumb to what IS. Such submission returns us to a receptive state in which we encounter the Grace that is always there… as our very foundation, rising up from within to provide nourishment and support.

This offers us with an instant oasis of inner peace. It is where we may find natural profound serenity, even though the outside world is trembling. You may respond in daily life from your innermost heart if you learn to relax inside.

Rest in natural tranquillity.
This tired mind, pummeled hopelessly by karma and neurotic ideas, is like the pounding waves in the boundless ocean of samsara.
Rest in natural tranquillity.
— Lama Padmasambhava’s poem (spoken in 800 A.D)
In this first module, you will:

Accept your current life circumstances as a divine curriculum, and think about what you’re being asked to wake up from — and what you’re being invited to wake up into.
Recognize the Grace that is always there, and how your willingness to submit to what IS brings the love and support you require to life.
Discover how Ego Relaxation calms your irritation, assists you in settling, and converts barriers into wisdom, allowing you to respond graciously to life’s invitations.
Develop a daily practice that will support you as you learn to root yourself in the Infinite.
As you soften, open, and allow yourself to experience life with unconditional acceptance, your defenses will be illuminated.
Learn how to meditate with Ego Relaxation — and how to use the Om Nama Shivaya chant to dissolve your resistance.
Integration and Longer Satsang
Miranda will guide you in a unique integration session in the last session of this 4-part series…

You’ll go through chanting techniques, meditation, and a review and deepening of the sessions from the previous weeks.

Miranda will next lead you through an hour of satsang, during which she will delve more thoroughly with your concerns, struggles, and realizations.

Miranda will demonstrate how everything you encounter may become a portal into ever-deepening Grace as the lessons come vividly to life in response to the group field.

Module 2 — The 3 C’s: Overcoming Obstacles with Courage, Compassion, and Curiosity (Sessions 5-8: September 16 (Pre-Recorded) & 23; October 7 & 14)

We grow spiritually most via two experiences: tremendous love and severe pain. — Rohr, Richard
We’re all navigating the collective turbulence right now, doing our best to digest the uncertainties of our future and what our world will look like at the end of this tunnel.

While these times may present us with exciting new opportunities, we must not ignore the human problems.

Human suffering must be handled sincerely with compassion, according to the spirituality that our planet need right now.

Miranda will challenge you to question yourself, “How can we utilize these moments of change and uncertainty in a way that comes from spiritual growth — rather than fear and reactivity?” in this program.

She will assist you in confronting your difficult feelings of fear and rage, as well as unconscious self-centeredness and reactivity. While these are all-too-human reactions that are unavoidable in these scary, intense times… you might instead address these obstacles with bravery, compassion, and inquiry.

You and your classmates will learn surrender together, not by fighting to transcend your ego, but by opening in and through the true truth of your immediate experience.

This module will teach you:

Learn how to create bravery, compassion, and curiosity in your human emotions — and why you react from ego rather than criticizing yourself for it.
Investigate how to confront your fears and change them into response.
Learn to be present and confront your anxieties all the way through so you can distinguish between the thinking stream of dread (anxiety) and your survival instinct, which will lead you to appropriate action.
Discover what is constantly present behind your fear.
Face your fury, changing it into power by becoming present with your rage rather than suppressing or acting it out… utilizing the energy contained inside anger to effect positive change
Investigate the gap between your good intentions and your real influence on others.
Transform self-centeredness into empathy, shifting from “I” to “us.”
Integration and Longer Satsang
Miranda will guide you in a unique integration session at the end of this second part…

She’ll start with a mantra (Om Tare Tutare Ture So Ha) and a Mountain of Presence meditation to help you stay present and encounter everything with bravery, compassion, and curiosity, followed by a review and deepening of previous weeks’ sessions.

She’ll then return to an hour-long satsang to delve more thoroughly with your questions, grapplings, and realizations. Miranda will demonstrate how everything you encounter may become a portal into ever-deepening Grace as the lessons come vividly to life in response to the group field.

Module 3 — Spiritual Resilience Nurturing: Receiving Deep Inner Nourishment (Sessions 9-13: October 28; November 4, 11 & 18; December 2)

Grace’s winds are continually blowing. It is our responsibility to lift our sails. — Ramakrishna
You will be aware of Divine Invitations emerging in your life at this time in your path. With the waves of emotion and energy coming up, you’ll discover how to practice ego relaxation…

You’ll have eliminated the “sting” from the reactivity that comes with being in the presence of immense sorrow. You’ll have increased your ability to be present and undefended with what is, as well as acquired more access to the Grace that is our basic base.

Miranda will assist you to get deep inner nutrition in this critical third module, opening to the subtle yet considerable powers available to help you rejuvenate.

She’ll walk you through her stunning lecture, “Trusting the Mystery,” and show you how this crucial virtue may be used to aid us in these uncertain times.

Miranda will walk you through the phases of trust growth given in the A Course in Miracles manual for instructors, allowing you to believe that everything is fine even when it doesn’t look that way on the outside.

Miranda will teach you about “Taking Refuge,” where you’ll connect with an enlightened person you’re called to — or work more thoroughly with a mantra you’ve examined in the previous module… to assist you gain profound spiritual sustenance and vertical support.

In this lovely, therapeutic, and caring section of the program, you’ll:

Increase your ability to notice and accept the loving kindness that is constantly there.
Receive a Ramana Maharshi teaching on the power of “admitting your inadequacy, and that you need a higher power to aid you” in the surrender process.
Relax your early childhood defenses against love and vulnerability — and allow Loving Presence to saturate your Being and dissolve “you.”
Utilize helplessness as a portal to Grace — and discover how practicing Ego Relaxation softens, opens, and humbles you… delivering you into the magnificent celestial condition of grace.
Open your heart to a Divine Helping Hand so you can get vertical assistance — and learn to sip light and sustenance like a plant does the sun’s rays.
Integration and Longer Satsang
Miranda will guide you in a unique integration session in the final week of this third module…

You’ll learn the revitalizing, enlightened Gayatri mantra — recognized as the mother of all Sanskrit mantras — complete with body motions… as you’ll discover, it’s like taking a little bath every day.

Miranda will also present a Shower of Grace meditation and go through the sessions from the previous weeks.

Miranda will reply to your questions, aha! moments, and breakthroughs during an hour-long satsang.

Module 4: The Absolute Heart: Transforming Ancient Hatred Into Present Love (Sessions 14-17: January 6, 13, 20 & 27)

The holiest place on the planet is where an old enmity has turned into a contemporary love. — The Miracles Course
You’ve opened up to seeking shelter in a level of Grace that goes beyond conceptual comprehension. You’re learning to trust the developing mystery…

In this module, you will penetrate the Heart of the Absolute, which is deeper than feeling.

The Absolute is the quiet depth where everything dissolves into immense silence. It’s the universe’s magical womb, the site of greatest repose – and deepest resolve.

You’ll probably be feeling rather humiliated after seeing some of your subtle or not-so-subtle ego defenses, self-centeredness, and reaction…

As a result, Miranda will walk you through the next stage in becoming the graceful human being you desire: confronting yourself honestly and opening yourself to correction.

This isn’t a process of righting wrongs or passing judgment, but of seeing that true forgiveness necessitates Grace, based on the non-dual premise that we’re all innocent in eternity, but not in time.

Miranda’s teaching, Grace of True Forgiveness, will be explored over two sessions — one session will address the need for self-forgiveness, and the other will address the need to let forgiveness cleanse us of our hatred and demonization of the other… even when we think we don’t have hatred within us.

Unfortunately, holding hatred (even if you don’t realize it) is quite human, and it’s certainly a significant problem on our globe today.

Hate fuels bigotry and the most heinous manifestations of the us vs. them attitude, prohibiting us from being gracious when confronted with opposing opinions and ideals.

Joy and thankfulness will become much more available to you as you go past subtle hate and experience the purifying Grace of forgiveness.

In this module, you will investigate:

The Absolute’s meaning, where duality, division, and conflict may be eliminated, as well as portions of your personal experience and the collective domain
A technique in which you will open to the presence of forgiveness inside the heart cave of Absolute Love, placing all that needs cleansing down on the inner altar.
How does it feel to be cleaned by Grace’s flowing waters, restoring your natural goodness and innocence?
Miranda’s instruction on how to find joy in every moment – even in these times of social alienation and limited connection to the places and things we care about the most.
How appreciation, pleasure, and delight are inherent traits of your inner heart that emerge spontaneously when you stop looking for stimulation and appreciate your life precisely as it is.
The distinction between forgiveness and reconciliation — and why forgiveness necessitates Grace
How to accept diversity without demeaning others
Integration and Longer Satsang
Miranda will share her Awakening the Vast Heart meditation and revisit the previous weeks’ teachings and takeaways during this special integration session…

You’ll also learn how to use the powerful Maha Lakshmi mantra/visualization technique to awaken profound appreciation and joy. This exercise strengthens your heartfelt prayers and takes you into felt acknowledgment of life’s blessings.

Miranda will conclude this session with an hour-long satsang to answer any questions you may have and to help you put what you’ve learned into practice in your life.

Module 5 — Grace Beyond Your Story: Crossing Over Onto the Shore of Freedom (Sessions 18-22 — February 3, 10, 17 & 24; March 3)

Your true nature is that of Infinite Spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as “mind.” This is the direct path for all.
— Ramana Maharshi
At the heart of spiritual transformation — and indeed, every life question we grapple with — is the perennial spiritual question… Who am I?

If you understand yourself to be your personality, the roles you play in life, the character of YOU — you’ll continue to be shaken by life’s ups and downs.

In this module, Miranda will guide you to address the bondage in your mind, unpack the layers of your ego identity, and open into the spaciousness and pure awareness that is I AM — who you truly are and always have been at every age and stage of life.

Uncovering the jewel of your true identity reveals that you are the love, peace, beauty, meaning, and freedom you’ve been seeking all along. This module is dedicated to helping you truly experience this, not just understand it conceptually.

You’ll work with Miranda’s powerful “unwinding your core ego identity” process, which unlocks the Rubik’s Cube of your familiar self and its patterns…

This work integrates psychological insight into how personality structures are constellated in our earliest childhood experiences — with spiritual understanding of the “fall from grace” that all human beings go through.

You’ll explore the curious phenomena of how the ego tends to re-constellate back to familiar stories, even after you’ve dropped through them to a deeper reality.

To determine whether a story binds you or serves you, you’ll learn to spot the difference between immediate direct experience and the meaning you give to the story. And you’ll learn to relax your attachment to adhering to this story as though it were true.

From there, you’ll stretch out and explore the spaciousness within — the pure freedom and possibility. You’ll discover there’s no beginning, middle, or end to what you are.

In this powerful module, you’ll discover how:

You can regard your personality structure as a gate to open through, rather than a problem to be fixed… and explore your true nature, the luminous truth and beauty of your pure being
Too often, our sense of security is based on others’ approval
We’re often not graceful with change because we do not know who we really are – and are thus dependent on external forces that we can never control
You can unwind your sense of not feeling good enough and harness it as a portal to discover the luminous truth and beauty at your core
The script you created to make sense of your most difficult moments of feeling separate now drives the story of repetitive patterns in your life
To open into spaciousness of non-dual awareness, where you truly know your fundamental unity as One, and recognize your divine nature
Integration & Extended Satsang
In this module’s integration session, Miranda will lead you in a chant of I AM along with two meditations, “Abiding as Loving Awareness” and a classical Advaita meditation on “I Am.” She will also offer a review and deepening of the previous weeks’ sessions.

You’ll be able to ask Miranda your questions and receive her support in reframing everything as an opportunity for awakening, and get feedback in real time during the full hour or satsang.

Module 6 — Rising Into Your Spiritual Destiny: Embodying Grace as You Walk This World (Sessions 23-26: March 10, 17 & 31; April 7)

The greatest gift God can give is His own experience.
Every object, every creature, every man,
woman, and child has a soul,
and it is the destiny of all to
See as God Sees,
Know as God knows,
Feel as God feels,
BE as God IS.
— Meister Eckhart
Just as nature continues to cycle and unfold, there’s no end to becoming more fully who you truly are.

In this final module, Miranda will show you how to embody what you’ve been realizing more deeply in your daily life — to share the blessings with your loved ones and community thriough your way of being.

You’ll recognize that there is no such thing as “your” awakening if it doesn’t contribute more truth, goodness, beauty, and virtue deeper into this world. Awakening is always about dissolving the distinction between “you” and “I.”

Now is the time to stop holding your love back, take creative risks, and share your inherent goodness, latent talents, creativity, and kindness.

You’ll explore what it means to live your life resting in Grace while becoming a refuge for others as you walk this world. You’ll stabilize your relaxation by prioritizing your practice, and discover what best serves you to stay spiritually hydrated even in the midst of intensity.

Miranda will explain the difference between trying to be graceful from within your ego structure, and remembering that your ego and its effort has actually never been the doer.

Putting this into practice, so you learn to truly become a graceful human being, is a long-term project that requries ongoing commitment.

You will be supported as you create the necessary structures in your life to prioritize staying grounded and present with all that arises, so your actions and responses are less clouded by your personality…

This includes being awake to the places in which you’re vulnerable to reactivity — and how to reset yourself quickly when needed.

Miranda will share simple, informal practices that will weave themselves organically into your life — and encourage you to find a daily rhythm that works for you as you become a more grounded, graceful human being.

When your real, effortless, joyful nature is realized,
It will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
— Ramana Maharshi
In this module, you’ll discover:

How you can serve your family, loved ones, and your community by putting all you’re learning into action in your daily life
Ways to practice unity with unapologetic authenticity — being fully who you are and living according to your deepest values, while remembering that underneath it all, you are not separate
How to walk this world in Grace and serve its evolution
How you can support others as you radiate your noble qualities and inherent goodness in your relationships, work, and life.
The master key to being graceful amidst it all: allowing doing to flow from Being
How to forgive yourself when you falter (and you will!) and reset when you need to
Integration & Extended Satsang
In this final integration and extended satsang, Miranda will lead you in chanting (you’ll choose the chant that most nourishes you, weaving it into your regular routine), meditation (on-the-spot versions of the practice that best serves you, and applying this throughout the day)…

… and a review of your journey together. Then, you can share your most important reflections, questions, and realizations from your journey.

This session will provide an opportunity to experience a rich and meaningful conclusion, and go forward drenched in blessings and rich in inner resources, radiating all the Grace you’ve received into the world around you…

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