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Miranda Macpherson
Monday, May 20
Have you hungered for an authentic spiritual realization that allows you to release your seeking, grasping and struggling – and find yourself at home in the palpable presence of the Divine?
If so, it may be your time to let go of the search and truly discover yourself as an aspect of God, a beautiful and unique facet of a dazzling diamond that is filled with light, wisdom and boundless love. 
When you continually grapple for a connection or fear that God has abandoned you, you wrap your identity around a very limited idea of who you are.
You are more than a struggling, confused, hurt or insecure seeker.
You are a magnificent Soul, filled with the love-presence that is the Divine.
You are always held in the arms of a vast and universal love, even when you feel most alone.
Indeed, you actually ARE that boundless love.
Mystics throughout the ages have told us that we have forgotten our true nature and become lost in lesser identities.
We become convinced by these limited identities and forget the core of who we are, which is radiant majesty and indescribable beauty.
But you CAN remember, reclaim and rejoice in this deeper wisdom. You CAN come home to your Self. You CAN be enveloped in the warm embrace of God.
As you learn to truly relax into God, the roots of your fear and doubt begin to dissolve away.
You may hear these words and be skeptical that you could experience such a spiritual realization. You may have had openings before, but eventually returned back to depressing old habits. That is completely normal and part of the ebb and flow of true spiritual awakening.
But you can make a permanent shift to knowing yourself as Divine.
This deep, lasting relaxation into God doesn’t solve all of life’s challenges. Navigating the worlds of family, business, community, and the world’s suffering still requires clarity, focus and discernment.
But when you can do so in the deeper security of Who You Are – and know yourself as the love that animates this world – it makes the journey far more graceful and enjoyable. Your relationships thrive. Your work is more fulfilling. And you feel spiritually at peace.
So How Does this Shift Become Real?
While there are no guarantees on when this shift will happen within you or anyone, you CAN create the circumstances in which you unwind your old beliefs, unravel your old habits of striving, and open to a deeper awakening.
And that is what the Relaxing into God course will provide you: a loving and supportive path that leads to your spiritual awakening.
During the 14 weeks, you will learn to embrace ALL aspects of your being, which are all aspects of the Divine within you. You will learn the power of defenselessness, the real path to humility – and the ecstatic capacities of your heart.
You will learn to drop judgment, open to the unknown, and expand your sense of trust.
You will be called and arrive HOME.
The Power of an Authentic, Awake Teacher
The Relaxing into God program is led by a remarkable female mystic who underwent a life-changing spiritual awakening that shifted the core of her being – and eventually led her to be able to catalyze deep shifts in others.
Her name is Miranda Macpherson, and her story offers a uniquely modern tale of awakening that builds upon the lineages of the past, but also blossoms in new directions.
When Miranda underwent a great unraveling of her ego identity during three weeks in Arunachala, India (beginning in the same cave where Hindu sage Ramana Maharshi underwent his journey of awakening), her husband at the time heard an inner voice say, “The female mystic has landed.”
They both knew that nothing would ever be the same again. A vast, loving, deep presence began to open within her. It then took years to stabilize this opening, begin to live from it, and guide others in making this same shift.
In the years since, Miranda has emerged as a truly global spiritual teacher. She speaks with the refreshing candor born of her Australian roots. She draws from her deep study of world religions and practices as an interfaith minister. And she is well-versed in many modern systems of psycho-spiritual growth.
Miranda’s teaching methods marry an exquisite and piercing capacity for clear insight with an overflowing, loving heart that helps you release your aversion to any aspect of yourself.
She guides you in shedding the conditioning that obscures the truth of who YOU really are, and helps you approach the path with tenderness and self-forgiveness.
In Relaxing into God, she will offer you a distinctly feminine perspective on non-dual realization that leads to the discovery of new dimensions of grace – and the possibility for you to embody and live everyday life from the deeper ground of being.
At The Shift Network, we were first made aware of Miranda by veterans of the spiritual path who have sat with literally every major teacher of the last 30 years, and said, “You HAVE to meet Miranda. She is the real deal.”
And we found ourselves dazzled by the luminosity and loving realization of this teacher.
In service to your awakening, Miranda brings a wealth of extensive teaching experience – over 20 years – 10 of which she served as spiritual director of a groundbreaking program, training over 600 interfaith ministers and spiritual counselors.
In recent years, she has been guiding groups of advanced aspirants who are ripe for a deep and lasting spiritual awakening.
During this 14-week journey with Miranda, you’ll be able to relax into a larger field of grace – feeling the healing balm of unconditional love AS yourself – and learn why so many of your efforts to improve, grow and evolve leave you unsatisfied.
She will share how you can empty out, again and again, to allow grace to fill you up in a way that creates a lasting sense of fulfillment.
By learning to let go of your habits of control, you can become receptive to grace at a deeper level than your mind.
In the space beyond your strategies, you can discover that strength, clarity, wisdom and love are abundantly present – allowing you to meet life’s personal and collective challenges with spiritual maturity.
During the course, Miranda will share her “Pillars of Awakening” that cultivate the perennial virtues that ripen your soul.
These pillars help you connect to the boundless stream of inner nourishment where you gain access to everything you need to thrive.
If you want to unwind the roots of suffering in yourself and access a limitless stream of spiritual nourishment, this program was designed for you.
What You’ll Discover in These 14 Weeks
Course sessions are on Mondays at 12:00pm Pacific.
In this 14-week transformational training, Miranda will offer you grounded guidance on how to go deeply into yourself and better understand your consciousness, limitations and core patterns so you can open to more love and joy. The course will guide you to experience a substantial shift in your center of gravity, leading to a genuine unwinding of your core patterns that produce suffering and a whole new way of moving through each day.
Each weekly contemplation and training session will build harmoniously upon the next, so that you’ll develop a complete, holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles you’ll need to awaken to your divine nature and savor the majesty and beauty at your core.
The Universal Spiritual Invitation
Module 1: The Practice of Ego Relaxation
We begin our 14-week journey together by exploring the paradox of the spiritual path – while we are asked to surrender, the one who is often trying to surrender is the one in the way! How do you genuinely open to access the boundless love, peace, wisdom, clarity and liberating pure awareness that all great spiritual traditions promise is at the core of your being? How can you become receptive to God (Sacred Presence) as your inherent foundation? How do you take the inner “bunjee jump” into deeper dimensions of consciousness? Miranda will introduce and begin to unpack the central invitation of her feminine approach to non-dual realization – ego relaxation:
You will learn how to:
- Receive the transmission of ego relaxation that invites you to deeply rest in God right now: “Be nothing, do nothing, get nothing, become nothing, seek for nothing, relinquish nothing. Be as you are – Rest in God”
- Discriminate the subtle ways your ego interferes with grace through constant trying, seeking, proving and chasing after particular conditions we hope will bring us freedom and fulfilment, but keep us seeking but never finding
- Explore what exactly blocks you from deeper direct contact with God within. What is alive and ever-present in the space beyond this? How can you stretch into that space?
- Taste the possibility of truly being here, being still and, thus, receptive to a grace deeper than your mind
- Integrate the practice of holistic self-inquiry, with devotion and meditation, so that all parts of your being are completely welcomed and included on the journey home
Module 2: The Power of Defenselessness:
Learning to Let Yourself BE
Deepening on your spiritual path asks you to substantially “look within and let go.” It sounds simple, and on one level it is, yet we all meet powerful forces of defense that developed out of our survival instinct’s response to overwhelm and pain. Unless you gain awareness and capacity to work with your defenses, they will automatically bump you back to the surface of your ego, causing unnecessary limitations and frustrations in your practice. In order to gain deeper access to the jewel of your pure being, you must compassionately deal with your defenses and open through them.
In this class, you’ll be guided in:
- Understanding your primary habits of closure and defense. How these protect against your ego’s sense of deficiency: feeling separate from the love, strength, power, value, peace and joy of your true nature – and how the disconnection itself offers you a direct path back
- Learning how to stay present with everything that arises. Opening, softening and allowing your experience – without getting overwhelmed or taken out by it
- Appreciating your survival instinct’s orientation to avoid pain and chase after pleasure – through the activities of grasping, rejecting and checking out – and strengthening your spiritual resolve as you turn INTO your vulnerability
- Accepting the ticket price of realization – learning to feel everything. Understand how this depth of undefended presence allows absolutely every experience, from the most painful to the most beautiful, to become a gateway to deeper liberation
- Learning not to leave yourself as an act of your deepest love AND power
Cultivating the Virtues that Make You Spiritually Ripe
Module 3: Trust
We cannot force surrender, but we can cultivate the virtues that make us spiritually mature, giving us the tools we need to harness everything as a gateway into deeper direct experience. Any one of the "pillars" has the power to take you all the way, and yet together they function as a supportive container that encourages a holistic awakening and integration of your realization, facilitating ego relaxation and helping prevent spiritual crisis.
In this class, Miranda will introduce the central role of TRUST. This virtue so powerfully determines our capacity to allow for the constant change and transformation that authentic spiritual awakening requires. Trust is the antidote to fear, and when it opens fully you know in your bones that you are held in an ocean of love and inseparably part of it. This makes you courageous and confident so that you can surrender into the mystery and know that even though you are not in control, that all is well.
This week, you’ll be guided in:
- Unpacking the challenges to deep trust: your personal history around loving that creates instinctual closure, doubt and fear
- Your soul’s need for the mother aspect, and letting your mother-wounding unwind in the arms of the Divine Mother, so your limitations to trust can melt in a deeper embrace of total compassion
- When it is wiser NOT to trust, and discerning trust from naivete
- Learning to trust yourself, AND opening to trust the grace of God as the underlying beneficent force of life
- Receiving the boundless holding that is independent of your history, through the practice of turning your attention to recognize present love
Module 4: Loving the Truth & Curiosity:
The Heart of Inquiry
When trust opens up, it feels like being held in an infinite embrace of love. Truth cuts through our illusions to liberate deeper awareness. Together, trust and love blend to become devotion without an object. This love of the truth is the engine of inquiry, blending Bhakti with Jnana yoga. It births in us the true strength to face everything within ourselves and walk the path with dedication. Curiosity, the third “pillar,” opens your mind beyond fixed positions, opinions and preconceptions that keep your awareness bound in ego patterns.
During this module, we will:
- Contact the flame of your heart that loves Reality, God and Truth – and open it deeper through devotional practice, to become the guiding impetus of your life
- Inquire into your self-images – both idealized and shadow – that cause you to live out habitual unconscious reactions and pull you away from living your deep heart identity.
- Cut through your own self-betrayal, relishing honesty with yourself and others, and inquire beyond “your” truth and “my” truth, to open to Truth itself
- Learn how curiosity supports right use of mind and turns your awakening process into a joyful adventure – and discover what kinds of questions expand the horizons of your consciousness, bringing new depth and dimension
- Experience the dynamic power of holistic self-inquiry and open up to a deeper direct experience of God and your true nature
Module 5: Non-Attack:
“Dropping the Knife” of Judgment
Since opening up deeper dimensions of God and our true nature asks us to go towards our vulnerability, it is vital that we cultivate deep compassion for our humanity so that our inner environment is a supportive one. Our ego is a huge call for love. Yet what blights the way of even the most sincere spiritual aspirants is superego judgment: the internalization of all the negative messages we absorbed in childhood from parents, teachers, spiritual authority figures, elder siblings, etc. These messages form the outer layer of your ego identity and serve to hold it in place – like a psychic condom over your ego structure. As you deepen beyond your familiar identity, this inner aggressive force gets stimulated – often manifesting as ego kickback reactions.
This module will help you to:
- Discover how to “drop the knife” you use against yourself
- Discriminate what your judgment revolves around, and its basic message to you
- Re-claim your heart’s true inner authority to say “NO” to the voice of self-attack and “YES” to the intrinsic compassion of your own deep heart
- Harness loving-kindness, humor, your vital aliveness and your true will to build an inner altar of protection for your own humanity
- “Drop the knife” you use on others and the world, and come to see everyone and everything through forgiving eyes that are no longer blinded with prejudices and divisiveness
- Rest in the presence of “unconditional allowing” that lets everyone and everything be as they are
Module 6: Humility:
Opening into the Unknown
This week, you will learn specific tools and techniques for deepening your sexual, romantic, emotional and spiritual connection to people who are good for you. Exciting research findings and current intimacy theory offer us tremendous opportunities for bringing greater passion, erotic joy, tenderness and humanity to the way we love.
You will:
- Discover and learn to embrace one of your essential sexual core gifts
- Learn the AHA technique – a powerful, simple technique to profoundly deepen intimacy in your romantic relationship, or any relationship at all
- Receive specific research-based techniques for developing and intensifying sexual and romantic connection with a partner
- Expand your capacity to work with attractions that threaten to knock you off-balance
- Learn the two most important questions for bringing deeper humanity, love and sexual depth into your relationship
Module 7: Willingness & Patience:
Beyond Control and Pushing
“One's dedication needs to be as equal to that of a person kept under water while trying to rise to the surface to breathe.” Willingness helps cultivate true dedication, through activating the power of our choice. It is the shift away from ego efforting; that stressful pushing for “my will be done,” to allowing a more genuine surrender into “Thy will.” Turning your personal will back to the origin of your being opens a whole universe of support for your life and path. This can feel like you are sitting within an immense mountain that gives you true stability in the ground of being itself.
Patience assists us in dealing with the pernicious trap of trying to push ourselves into some concept of an enlightened condition. It invites you beyond control, beyond practicing with some subtle agenda to be special, powerful or to fulfill some attachment. Patience is an aspect of love that supports a deeper surrender.
During this module, you will learn to:
- Discern between genuine willingness versus will-full-ness – and engage more deeply with your true desire to help you stay faithful to your practice
- Explore what causes you to feel alone and unsupported – and bring your beliefs and past experiences around support (typically linked to our father wounds), to the light of awareness for healing
- Harness the power of prayer and willingness to bring everything to the inner altar of Truth
- Turn your awareness to recognize and receive the infinite support of the universe – and be introduced to the “mountain of presence” meditation practice that helps you relax down into true universal support
- Cultivate patience and relinquish your ego bargaining
Module 8: Review on the Pillars of Awakening
Each “pillar” offers a whole world of support for you to engage your heart’s deepest intention, and there is way more than you will have had the chance to cover so far. During this module, we will explore how the pillars function together, offering you a true container for the practice of “diving in and through” our direct experience and opening all the way into non-dual realization. Miranda will help you identify your areas of development and your weak spots, and give guidance on how to work with them so that you can safely progress into more explicit ego dissolving with balance and safety.
During this module, you will:
- Learn how to recognize where your spiritual musculature is strong and weak, and which practices to turn towards that support better balance
- Experience each “pillar,” not just as an orienting principle, but as an active PRESENCE you can recognize and access to support ego relaxation
- Gain greater precision in the practice of self-inquiry, including what is likely to derail you (given your individual spiritual musculature)
- Review and re-commit to your daily spiritual practice
EGO IDENTITY
Module 9: Unwinding Your Core
Ego Identity
In an atmosphere of real love, we will explore together the core structure of your ego to gain deeper understanding of your story of separation from your true nature – how it takes shape and is held in place. Miranda will lead you step-by-step through her powerful “diving in and through” process that has been likened by many mature practitioners as “unlocking the Rubik’s cube of your ego.”
Together, we will harness a persistent pattern in your life, and turn it into fuel for profound transformation. This process has the power to turn even your more stubborn patterns of suffering into deeper wisdom.
During this module, you will:
- Discover that whatever seems to be IN the way, IS the way – and how the inner challenge you might have been spending a lifetime trying to get rid of is actually your gateway home
- Inquire into the root of your ego deficiency: your personal experience of separation from the love, strength, support, joy, value and peace of your true nature
- See how your unconscious mind makes meaning from experiences that you don’t understand, turning ego experience into identity
- Let pure awareness pervade and permeate your assumptions of being “not good enough,” “flawed,” “nothing,” “bad” or “wrong”
- Learn to look deeper without fear at the very core of your sense of “me,” and, thus, up-root the patterns that cause unnecessary suffering in your life
Module 10: "Diving In and Through" Process (Part 2)
Building upon our previous module, we will continue to explore the underpinnings of your ego identity. You will learn to let pure awareness and love’s presence penetrate through the foundations that pattern your life. During this module, we will continue working through the “diving in and through process,” to see the actions and projections we move toward that hold our suffering in place. Through these practices, you will learn to:
- Awaken through your more subtle defenses to see how you keep your deficient ego identity in place through the activities of grasping, rejecting and checking out
- Understand how projection works to keep you contracted and dis-empowered in your own story, and how to suspend all blame
- Discover your subtle attachments to your own suffering and what your core knowledge of suffering helps you avoid
- Feed what you truly want to feed now through your devotion
Module 11: Who Are You Deeper than "Me"?
Now that you have seen the structure of your core ego identity and gained some clarity about the forces within you that generate pernicious patterns, you can harness this awareness to explore who you are more deeply. You access this not by jumping over anything, but engaging the practice ego relaxation in a more substantial way to support surrendering in and through the identity itself. Miranda will share with you the HOW, by taking you step-by-step through the principles of unwinding. Learning to accept the source of all love and compassion, we can meet the layers we have discovered and rest undefended with everything. We learn to contact everything without reaching for a single defense strategy, and instead, just let ourselves be, and see who we are afresh.
During this module, you will:
- Contact your core suffering in a compassionate embrace that allows you to open, soften and allow everything to come home
- Let grace penetrate all the way through your body, heart and mind
- Explore the space deeper than your history, deeper than any idea or imprint
- Learn how to meet absolutely everything from deeper ground of being
- Experientially explore the question that all spiritual practice ultimately leads back to in the end: “Who am I?”
- Welcome the whole world, everything and everyone to rest along with you
Module 12: Overcoming Resistance & Dealing with Kick-Back Reactions
Everyone on the path encounters resistance and ego kick-backs at times. This can manifest in many ways: sometimes as distractions to engaging your practice consistently, despite sincere intentions. Sometimes it is like a detox reaction flushing up another level of your attachments and fears. Sometimes you just hit a glass ceiling, as if some hidden identity is saying ”go no further” and bumping you back up to the surface of our personality mechanisms. Understanding the primary dynamics of resistance, such as the “unholy trinity of sin-guilt and punishment,” fear of the void, loss of control, fear of not functioning, fears from your personal history. Miranda will share how to open to the presence of self-forgiveness that dissolves these obstacles. This is a perfect focus as we close the year 2014 and prepare for the new.
During this module, you will learn to:
- Recognize resistance and ego kickback reactions, and inquire into their causes
- Deal with your split desire: your hidden conflicts and fears of surrendering into what you say you love and want
- Dissolve the “unholy trinity of the ego” – the existential foundation of sin, guilt and punishment
- Open to the presence of self-forgiveness that liberates the cause of so much resistance
- Overcome your fear of no control
Module 13: Embracing Emptiness:
Whatever You Leave Empty, Grace Can Fill
In this first module of the new year, we will explore the dance between emptiness and grace (boundless presence of all love, joy, beauty, power, etc.) that is the cosmic “Yab-Yum of Reality” – working through your fears of space, emptiness – and how it releases the blessings of existence to come forward from within you.
Whatever you leave empty, grace can fill. Now that we have opened through some of the more dense knots in our consciousness, we will not stop at just feeling a bit freer when there are whole universes of grace to abide in and embody into our world. This all becomes available to you when you are no longer afraid of the void. When you relish the silence, the empty spaces. Yet your ego tends to associate this with death, but nothing real can be threatened in truth. Only your self-image dies and this allows for a true life, where more of God takes up full residence as YOU.
During this module, we will:
- Explore our relationship with emptiness itself and learn to befriend it to support abiding in the innermost sanctuary of BEING
- Overcome the fear of the “void” – allowing death of the familiar as part of the natural liberation process
- Orient our day to support space to feel, receive, stop and BE
- Sense into the space in which everything arises....shifting your attention from a “someone” in the space, to just being the space – and abiding in and as That
- Recognize that there is nothing to be, do, get, become, seek for, relinquish – and learn to truly be as you are
Module 14: Living from Grace
On this final module of our journey together, we will explore what you need to ground your realization into the ordinary activities of daily life. We’ll look at how to turn absolutely everything you normally do – emails, working, cooking, making love, relating, listening, the activities we enjoy and the activities that are less joyful – into the path of awakening. We will explore:
- Practical pointers to help ground your realization into every corner of life
- What to do when you get lost, derailed from your practice or sidelined by some unexpected life event
- Working with the challenges to your embodiment and supports you can place in your life that are truly helpful
- Recognizing that in reality we are all grace delivery devices, profound manifestations of the deep mystery here to extend all love, beauty, creativity, brilliance, depth and much more, to support the liberation of everything and everyone – and how to regard yourself this way and greet everyone as this as well
The Relaxing into God Bonus Collection
In addition to Miranda’s transformative 4-month virtual course, you’ll also receive these powerful training sessions with the world’s leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions are being offered to further complement what you’ll learn in the course – and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
The Heart of Spiritual Surrender
Audio Dialogue with Miranda and Gangaji
In what promises to be a lively dialogue between Miranda and Gangaji, they will discuss their approaches to SURRENDER: the heart of the spiritual path, and the challenges of living from spiritual depth in daily life. How do you engage the perennial invitation to “be still” in our fast-paced world? They will also share what it’s like to be female spiritual leaders in a field that, until very recently, has been dominated by the masculine perspective.
Gangaji was born in Texas in 1942, and grew up in Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1964, she married and had a daughter. In 1972, she moved to San Francisco where she took Bodhisattva vows, practiced Zen and Vipassana meditation, helped run a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center, and had a career as an acupuncturist. Yet, despite her successes, she continued to experience a deep and persistent longing for fulfillment. In the wake of her disillusionment, she made a final prayer for true help. And in 1990, the answer to that prayer took her to India to the banks of the river Ganga, where she met Sri H.W.L. Poonja, also known as Papaji, who helped her to open the floodgates of self-recognition. Today, Gangaji is a teacher and author, who travels the world speaking to seekers from all walks of life about her own experience of awakening and that it is really possible to discover the truth of who you are and be true to that discovery.
A Feminine Approach to Non-Dual Realization
Video Teachings with Miranda MacPherson
In this series of extra teaching videos, Miranda shares important aspects of her integrated and feminine approach to spiritual realization. Speaking directly to you, she articulates how your soul inherently contains the intelligence to unfold out of ego structures into who you are, her holistic approach to self -inquiry that invites you to relax rather than try to kill off the ego, and how important spiritual practice is to living a rich and real life. Videos include:
- The Practice of Ego Relaxation
- Your Soul Knows the Way
- What Is Holistic Self-Inquiry
- Spirituality is Not a Side-Dish
Awakening the Soul Meditation
Meditation with Miranda Macpherson
Vast Heart/Vast Mind
The human heart is the axis point between heaven and Earth. Through breath and focused attention this 27-minute meditation, accompanied by lovely bells, helps loosen the cobwebs of closure within your heart so as to liberate the vast compassion, love, beauty and joy that is your essential heart. Opening up inner space, you are invited beyond ordinary mind to pure awareness, knowing and pristine clarity.
Unwinding Your Core Ego Identity
This is a powerfully transformative practice to harness your core knot of suffering as a gateway to deeper ground of being. Listen whenever you find yourself caught in any kind of ego reaction that disturbs your peace of mind. It begins by grounding you deeply in unconditional love and support, from which you can inquire in and through your sense of disconnection: the specific ways you lose yourself in a deficient self-image. Listen and be guided in meeting your history, feelings, beliefs, defenses and avoidances that typically bump you back up into your story, from undefended presence. Then you can inquire into who you are deeper than your personality, to abide in the indestructible pure presence prior to “Me.”
Music Composed and Produced by Gary Malkin.
Recorded, Mixed and Co-Produced by Timothy Surya Das.
“Om of the Goddess” Drone tracks used by permission, by Steve and Jody St. Clair.
What People Are Saying About Miranda Macpherson...
Of all the new spiritual teachers I’ve met in the last year, Miranda stands out as the most luminous – truly embodying what she teaches and speaking with clarity, love and revelatory depth. She transmits a divine quality of consciousness, while also not getting caught up in the trappings of being a guru. She’s accessible and masterful at the same time. A true gem!
– Stephen Dinan, founder, The Shift Network
Miranda is the “real deal.” She is a standout as a spiritual teacher and she is a “stand up” as an individual in that she truly walks her talk. Life is not perfect, and Miranda lives that with a grace and authenticity that is unparalleled by many teachers. If there is a thing as angels walking the Earth, then Miranda is one. Do not be mistaken in assuming her softness and beauty is as deep as she goes. Miranda is a powerhouse and a force for change in this world.
– Laura Bergman Fortgang author of Living your Best Life
In an ocean of spiritual guides all over the planet, rarely do you find a jewel that emanates the likes of Miranda’s integrity, depth, and impact. Rooted in the world’s wisdom traditions, yet contemporary and fluid in her approach to assist awakening to the One during these highly complex and constantly challenging times, Miranda is the epitome of what we most need in post modern spiritual guide:kick-ass honesty, no nonsense mirroring, and rock star tenderness. Whether you access her teachings through her moving meditations, satsangs, retreats or virtual courses, Miranda will leave an indelible impression that will have your friends wondering how you became so present, compassionate and mindful so quickly. You can let them know that you can attribute it to the work you’ve elected to do, with a spiritual “friend" who knows that her only job description is to remind us that we already have everything we need within us to live a fulfilling, connected and rewarding life. And she does it with such simplicity and grace!
– Gary Malkin, Emmy Award-winning Composer/ Producer
I was fortunate to find Miranda at a time when I’d been brought to my knees by unexpected life events. Through her spiritual teachings and loving guidance she helped me to deeply explore aspects of my heart that needed compassion, healing and growth. Obsolete defense mechanisms dissolved and I came to once again embrace my true evolutionary edge with courage, dignity and peace.
– Raz Ingrasci, Chairman of Hoffman Institute International
Miranda is one of the clearest, purest, most eloquent voices for spiritual truth I know. She courageously shares both gritty challenges and lofty visions, and weaves them into powerful teachings from which we can all benefit.
– Alan Cohen, Author ofA Deep Breath of Life
Miranda is a rare teacher in that she is able to facilitate direct realization in others that many teachers can only speak of. Her work carries forward the direct invitation I have offered for many years that ushers us into deep contact with God-within. She is a luminous being and a gifted teacher.
– Eileen Caddy founder of the Findhorn Foundation
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Fourteen 90-Minute Recorded Class Sessions with Miranda Macpherson
Experience a rare opportunity to be mentored and learn with contemporary spiritual teacher Miranda Macpherson – from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a video and guides you to learn the specific skills and insights to awaken your spiritual potential.
Fourteen PDF Transcripts of Each Class Session
In addition to the high quality MP3 audios and videos, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format after each session is completed. This way you can review, print and highlight the most important insights and practices that you’ll learn.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
After each lesson, you will then have the option to do related exercises and answer questions in order to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
The Relaxing into God Bonus Collection
- The Heart of Spiritual Surrender
Audio Dialogue with Miranda and Gangaji - A Feminine Approach to Non-dual Realisation
Video Teachings with Miranda MacPherson - Awakening The Soul Meditation:
Vast Heart/Vast Mind
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Relaxing into God Virtual Course
We, at The Shift Network, feel deeply honored that Miranda Macpherson has chosen to partner with us on this exclusive online training. As you may know, this is a rare opportunity to learn directly from a renowned spiritual teacher whose methods marry an exquisite and piercing capacity for clear insight with an overflowing, loving heart that helps you release your blocks and open to divine grace and love.
Through this powerful online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations and meals – which would cost thousands of dollars), you’ll also be able to benefit from Miranda and her guests’ incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home – at your own pace!
If you’re ready to take the next step in your spiritual awakening, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
More Praise for Miranda Macpherson...
Miranda Macpherson is the embodiment of wisdom and compassion. I continue to learn from her depth and to be touched by the expansiveness of her love. She integrates a rigorous clear seeing mind, the beauty of art, and the wisdom of reflection and years of clinical application, making her teachings potent and transformational. She invites a new way of seeing and living, recognizing the non-dual nature of reality as well as working with people exactly where they are and honoring the sacredness of each moment and each experience. This work has the power to transform our individual and collective lives. I give Miranda Macpherson my highest recommendation.
– Shauna L. Shapiro, PhD Professor, Santa Clara University, Author of The Art and Science of Mindfulness
Miranda’s presence and teaching brings to life the spiritual wisdom of the ages. In my life, she is is a shining light.
– Susan Jeffers author of Feel the Fear & Do It Anyway
Miranda works with a blend of penetrating insight, profound intuition, expertise in spiritual tradition and psychology, a deep grounding in somatic awareness, and an almost angelic transmission of pure, radiant, soul-stirring LOVE. Working with her, and being lead lovingly and masterfully back to direct experience of the divinity within me, has been a literal Godsend. I feel blessed, deeply, by her guidance and presence.
– Hilary Illick, Hoffman Process Teacher, Writer and Coach
Miranda Macpherson embodies a deep compassion and wisdom, vast intelligence, and the ability to hold a space for genuine unfolding like nobody else I’ve known. Spending a week with her is like diving into the source of love and healing, anchored by deep spiritual practice and connection to the divine. Miranda is a rare gift to us all.
– Devi Cavitt Razo, Director of The Hoffman Process
Miranda is an authentic honest embodiment of the divine feminine. Her work brings together spiritual depth and psychological understanding delivered with precision, care and loving-kindness. I recommend her whole-heartedly.
– Lama Palden Drolma, Founder of Sukhasiddi Foundation
About Miranda Macpherson...
Miranda Macpherson is a contemporary spiritual teacher, counselor and author of the spiritual guidebook Boundless Love (Random House 2002). Miranda has been teaching internationally since 1995 and is known for her depth of presence, clarity, and refined capacity to guide people into direct experience of the sacred.
Miranda’s work is a synthesis of self-inquiry, spiritual psychology, devotion and meditation practice, offered with feminine grace that embraces our everyday human experience as a gateway into the depths of our true nature. Through a blend of silent transmission and articulate teaching, she leads retreats and on-going programs oriented to guiding people into direct spiritual experience, while providing a practical map for actualizing our realization into daily life. Drawing from the ancient lineages of Advaita, mystical Christianity with more recent wisdom teachings, such as A Course In Miracles, Miranda leads from the ground of unconditional love and compassion for our humanity, emphasizing receptivity, discrimination and surrender.
Miranda is founder of the ground-breaking OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation in London, and today, leads the Awakening Love and Wisdom sangha in Marin and Sonoma counties. She teaches retreats in the United States and in Europe, and is working on a new book, Tasting Grace. She lives in the San Francisco/Bay Area, and is married to Bob Duchmann, a teacher of the Diamond Approach (A.H. Almass’ Ridwhan School).
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a phone line (or an equivalent voice service). If there is more than one person in your household taking the course, you will each need your own line. We use MaestroConference to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions, participate in groups, and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
Please note that dialing MaestroConference from your phone is a regular toll call to California, and your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. You can also use Skype credit/subscription or Google Voice to dial in to MaestroConference, and you’ll need to use your virtual keypad to enter your PIN and to indicate that you want to ask a question. Other options include calling cards and discount long-distance carriers, and we also have a webcast which is free to use from anywhere in the world.
Q: Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can download the recordings and transcripts of all course sessions from our online media archive, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage the full community and leaders on our private community website.
Q: Can you tell me about the Private Course Group?
A: We will have a private community group for all course participants on Facebook that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, completing homework assignments and exchanging information about events and other activities that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the Course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this Training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, giving preference to those in developing countries or doing important but underpaid work to which they can apply the training material immediately. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What is your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! If you find that the course is not meeting your needs, please visit our support site and submit a request at support.theshiftnetwork.com so that we can address your concerns. We offer a satisfaction guarantee for a full two weeks so that you can try out the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is before the start of the third class on October 6, 2014. To request a refund please click on this refund request form and fill out a short form about the reasons for your return. Your request will be processed within three days and we will send you a personal reply on the status of your refund.
Q: How can I reach Customer Support?
A: Please visit our Customer Support Center, where you should be able to find the answer to your question or the solution to a problem. And if you can’t, you can submit an online request form and we’ll get right back to you.
Q: What are the benefits of telling my friends to join the program?
A: You can sign up as an Affiliate of The Shift Network and receive 20% for anyone that you introduce who registers for the virtual event. If you bring five friends into the event, you can cover your own! Register at theshiftnetwork.com/affiliate and you’ll receive a promotional link to use.
