What is an Awakening Stream?
If you just imagine for a moment all the experiences in your life where you experienced an opening that led you to feel more awake, joyful, peaceful, clear, creative, loving, and present, you were most likely guided by a tiny yet expanding tendril of grace and surrender. This allowed you to open and unravel a stream of awakening energy that led to the experience you had, which was revealed to you. This Awakening Stream is available to us all. It’s like a frequency that we can learn to listen to and tune into our spirit and soul channels. It is the place where everything that is awakening, opening, evolutionary forwarding, suffering unraveling, heart enlivening, mind elucidating and clarifying lives, presently streams forward from. This growing spiritual community gathering and guidance work is an offering dedicated to the continued enlightening of all our Awakening Streams that keep evolving us all forward compassionately, gracefully, and ultimately to our true home within.
Awakening Streams Gatherings
The Awakening Streams Gatherings are a sacred opportunity to come together with other fellow beings clearly on the full-on awakening path or desire to be so. This includes a recognition that every part of our humanness is here to be an ally, support and portal directly into the heart of our own awakening to our authentic Self. Participants, privately invited, come together to share in a gathering sacred circle style format with Joanna, sharing their deepest questions, concerns or heart longings. Her heartful and clear guidance allows them to access the stream of their own awakening-ness and to rest, abide and take refuge in this sacred channel of opening, deepening, surrender, compassion, and love.
One Student’s Experience of Joanna’s Awakening Streams Spiritual Guidance Work and Process
“There are many well-known spiritual teachers out there these days, both embodied and departed, guiding us to the inconceivable mystery at the end of our psychological suffering. Those who have had the greatest impact on me have included: Nisargadatta Maharaj, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche, Papaji, Gangaji, Adyashanti, Eckhart Tolle, Michael Singer, Tony Parsons, Mooji, Ceanne DeRohan, and Joanna Intara Zim. What distinguishes Joanna among these greats, masters all, is the intricacy of the path she illuminates in you — through the knots, canyons, twists, and turns of your conditioning — to the openness beyond it.
Her presence and her teaching is a huge emergent gift to humanity right now, particularly in the West. We in the West suffer with unbearably complicated and persistent psychological & emotional patterns. What I discovered is that the misery that is these patterns can appear to remain locked in place no matter how much the remedy of awareness is applied. Joanna’s teaching brings us directly & specifically through every nook and cranny of our humanness, without ever allowing our mind to conclude that we will at some point transcend it. Prodigious psychodynamic skill and ruthless compassion combine in Joanna. When you work with her, you’ll feel your way to peace and the aliveness that is waiting to pour out of you.”
Awakening Streams Gatherings Schedule
New Series begins January 2011
Sundays 10:30 am to 12:00 noon
Location TBD – Petaluma, CA
Please bring a meditation or other seating cushion for your comfort.