Awakening to Your True Self: A 3-Day Virtual Retreat
A 3-Day Experience filled with opportunities to sink into and rest in the Direct Experience of Self.
Video and Audio Recordings Available!
(Original Broadcast: August 18-20, 2023)
Bill shares his highlights and experience from
Awakening to Your True Self retreat.
Retreat Modules:
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Day 1
Opening with Bill Free
Meditation and What to Expect (30 min)
Beyond Perception to Pure Consciousness with Jenny Beal
Everything we perceive in the world is subject to change. The same applies to our body which is an integral part of the world. We have a deep intuition that our real nature is not subject to change. What I essentially am has always been the same. So I cannot be a body or a mind or anything that is perceived. In this session we will use a series of experiments and lines of enquiry to go beyond the mind and discover the non-phenomenal experience of pure consciousness – I, the real self.
Embracing “I Need Do Nothing” Amy Haible
When living the idea of “I need do nothing,” what pulls you in the most?
What are some tools to help us understand and live the idea “I need do nothing.”
How can we know when something needs to be done or whether doing nothing is the best choice?
What does A Course in Miracles say about the idea “I need do nothing” or living with divine guidance and how does that differ, if it does, from the non-dual teachings of Francis Lucille, Jean Klein, Rupert Spira and others?
Meetup Café with Rona Marren and Cyndi Krupp
A place to reflect, share and shout from the rooftops that something truly extraordinary is happening that simply cannot be contained. Grab your favorite cuppa something you love and share the vibe and inspiration with other lovers of truth.
Day 2
Attaining the Real World with Oliver Blue
Our session will focus on bringing the Course ‘s symbol of “The Real World” into a present day lived experience of thought, feeling, and actions that align with our True Nature.
We'll engage interactive exercises that will help us to move from an Either-or experience, to a ONE with Reality that we all share.
As the Course clearly states, the ultimate outcome of any direct experience is Peace. That is our goal in this session as well.
The Gift of Awareness with Susan Telford
The English poet William Wordsworth wrote "trailing clouds of glory do we come/From God, who is our home". All of us have an intuition that we are more than these flesh and blood bodies, these conditioned minds. Something in us longs for peace and happiness - knows it is our birthright. What is awareness? Not as an intellectual concept we have read about in books, but as a lived experience? What does A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 157 "Into His Presence would I enter now" point to? Using her signature combination of meditation, poetry and contemplative inquiry, Susan will lead you to a direct experience of the power of awareness that transcends mindfulness. You will fine tune your ability to discern inner wisdom: the infinite creative intelligence that is your true potential. Bring a journal and pen to the session.
The Quiet Answer with Bill Free
What would you give to have access to the perfect answer and solution for every problem in your life experience that you will or could ever face? You do have access to this through quiet abiding listening.
Meetup Café with Rona Marren and Cyndi Krupp
A place to reflect, share and shout from the rooftops that something truly extraordinary is happening that simply cannot be contained. Grab your favorite cuppa something you love and share the vibe and inspiration with other lovers of truth.
Day 3
Knowing God: Living Beyond the Veil of Forgetfulness with Lisa Natoli Using the language of A Course in Miracles to describe what God is, Lisa Natoli will lead this transformative 90-minute class to share her experience of knowing God as holiness and light and how this knowledge and understanding is the key to unlocking our true identity.
The Borderland of Thought with Jenny Sheehan
In the recognition of Truth, illusion cannot stand. This concept is mentioned by the world’s great religions, ancient philosophies, and A Course in Miracles.
Meetup Café with Rona Marren and Cyndi Krupp
A place to reflect, share and shout from the rooftops that something truly extraordinary is happening that simply cannot be contained. Grab your favorite cuppa something you love and share the vibe and inspiration with other lovers of truth.
Closing Meditation with Bill Free
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MEET THE TEACHERS
Bill Free
Bill Free is the founder of Pure Presence Productions LLC, a platform for thought leaders, wisdom teachers, and facilitators from nonduality, science, philosophy, and the arts to promote the expansion, understanding, and direct experience of awareness for beings around the world to awaken to their true identity.
He loves and shares the teachings of A Course in Miracles with the understanding and integration of nonduality through the Direct Path and sees the Course as a series of practices which through daily devotion will gradually refine and purify the mind of the seeming separate self until it recognizes itSelf and dissolves into the heart of Awareness and awakens to the I Am Presence.
Bill offers talks, self-inquiry guided meditations, book studies and masterclass workshops to help others discover realized awareness for themselves.
Learn more about Bill at billfree.com.
Lisa Natoli
Lisa Natoli is a teacher of Advaita-Vedanta as well as A Course in Miracles. She is the founder of The Healing Cure and the creator of The 40-Day Program for Transformation.
She teaches healing as a natural ability that can be learned by anyone. www.lisanatoli.com
Susan Telford
Susan is an Awakening Together ordained minister, poet, coach and spiritual mentor in private practice.
Susan hosts the Living an Awakened Life segment of the Awareness Podcast and manages the Evolve Community for The Teachers of God Foundation.
Learn more about Susan at: www.susantelford.com.
Jenny Beal
Jenny discovered the peace, happiness and ease of being that is inherent in our true nature through the Direct Path teaching of Rupert Spira and Francis Lucille. She has a love of science and mathematics and sees science as a set of mathematical models which express the beauty of unfolding patterns of natural phenomena, not as ultimate truth. She considers openness to examining and abandoning all belief systems to be the principal prerequisite for the understanding of our true nature.
In Jenny’s view, the spiritual path has no beginning or end. Nor is there any distinction between spiritual life and life in the world. When asked a question, she temporarily becomes a teacher; otherwise, she remains a student and enjoyer of all that is.
Oliver Blue
Oliver is co-founder and co-owner of TRULYob, LLC, a personal and professional development company, and founder of TRULY Foundation™️, a nonprofit org, where his inspired message of TRULY ~ The Real U Loves You, is the catalyst for helping humanity get unstuck and create a life of happiness and fulfillment.
Oliver was first introduced to A Course in Miracles in 2005 and became a Course student for the next 16 years until he was inspired by the mentorship of Lisa Natoli to become a Course teacher in early 2021.
Upon completion of a 39-year corporate career in 2020, Oliver received his certification as a transformational coach and now runs his personal development business with his wife Yaulanda of 32 years.
He considers himself a spiritually awakened junkie and loves sharing advanced insights into ACIM and other nondual teachings.
Amy Haible
Amy Haible holds a master's in Urban and Regional Planning and a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology from Atlantic University. She left her position as a field office manager for U.S. Senator William Cohen to raise her daughter and pursue her lifelong interest in spiritual studies.
Amy’s teachers have been wide reaching, including Seth (Jane Roberts), David Hawkins, Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Ramana Maharshi, Rupert Spira, Francis Lucille, and many others, for whom she is deeply grateful. Amy has been a student of A Course in Miracles since 2010 and is the author of Training Wheels: An Experienced Guide to the Daily Lessons of ACIM. She lives in Harpswell, Maine where she continues to teach, write, and study the non-dual path.
Jenny Sheehan
Jenny Sheehan recently left a quarter century of working in medicine, specializing in anesthesiology, to be more fully available to express the unopposed power of Consciousness/God/Love.
Jenny first became aware of this Presence at the age of 12 through a direct experience, yet decades passed before full realization of the Self brought the Peace inherent in It. Now, there is joy in sharing this understanding with everyone—there are no exceptions to Its healing power! She lives in Virginia enjoying the roles of mother, wife, and friend to many, especially her golden retriever Augusta. She can be reached at [email protected].
