Event Title:

Organization:

  Health & Wellness

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  5/29/2025

End Date:

  5/29/2025

Start Time:

  6:00 PM

End Time:

  7:30 PM

Event Info: 

  In John J. Prendergast's decades of experience as a psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, the area of the body that's most difficult for people to connect with -given our survival fear and trauma-is our physical and energetic ground. This area in the lower belly and at the base of the spine corresponds with the root chakra in the Indian subtle body tradition, the lower dan tien in Taoism, and the hara in Japanese martial arts. While most spiritual traditions focus on opening the mind and the heart, they tend to avoid or undervalue the opening of the ground.

In John's experience, this area remains largely unconscious and deeply defended. However, with the correct understanding and quality of attention, we can consciously open our multidimensional ground and, as a result, experience a felt-sense of inner safety and stability that supports the full flowering of inner peace, freedom, and loving awareness-a truly embodied spirituality.

Join John for a conversation that dives deep into our personal, archetypal, and universal ground. Sharing insights from his latest book, Your Deepest Ground, John explains how we can begin to see through the false ground of our early conditioning and limited identity. Drawing from his teaching, and years working in sensing and inquiry practices, John invites you to begin your ground-opening exploration.

https://www.ciis.edu/events/opening-your-deepest-ground-livestream

Location:

  Online

Room:

Address:

  Online

Phone:

  415-575-6175

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA