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From exhaustion to surrender

“Whatever it is, stop trying to figure it out now.
Let it remain unresolved a little while.
Stop trying to fast-forward to the ‘answer’ scene in the movie of your life;
trust the present scene of ‘no answer yet’.
Allow the question itself space to breathe and be fertilised.
Relax into the mysterious ground of Now.”  
~ Jeff Foster

Being a “person” can be so exhausting, can’t it! But is a separate “person” who you really are? Are you limited to your beliefs, your feelings, your history and your future? Or are you much vaster than you ever imagined? Are you Life Itself?

We try so hard to control and understand life, to fit in, to succeed, to reach our goals. We try so hard to be perfect, to be happy, even to be enlightened or awakened, and often we can feel so far away from where we think we ‘should’ be. Often, no matter how hard we try, life doesn’t go according to our plans. Sometimes we feel exhausted, fed up, or depressed. We feel like a failed ‘self’, so far from home. We long to rest deeply, but we just don’t know how. But perhaps it’s not even a question of ‘how’….

Join Jeff Foster for a day of laughter and tears, a day of remembering who you truly are, and have always been. A day of rest and deep acceptance. A day of truth and openness, of coming home…

Jeff’s message is this: You were always perfect from the very beginning – perfect in your total imperfection! Your imperfections, your quirks, your flaws, your weirdness, your unique and irreplaceable flavours, were what made you so loveable, so human, so real, so relatable. Even in your imperfection, you were always a perfect expression of life, a beloved child of the universe, a complete work of art, unique in all the world and deserving of all the riches of life. 

It was never about being a perfect ‘me’. It was always about being perfectly Here, perfectly yourself, in all your divine strangeness. “Forget your perfect offering”, Leonard Cohen sings. “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

This will be a day of talks, restful meditative silence, exploring feelings, and intimate dialogues on the theme of exhaustion and surrender – a day of seeing your struggle, your fears, your suffering in a new light. Permission to rest deeply, no matter what is going on in the story of your life. A day to fall in love with where you are…

“Every moment 
 Is a brand new invitation
 To let go of the story
 To crucify history
 To breathe
 To remember presence
 To come back to life
 To resurrect 
 Every moment.”
~ Jeff Foster

SATURDAY:

From exhaustion to surrender

“Whatever it is, stop trying to figure it out now.
Let it remain unresolved a little while.
Stop trying to fast-forward to the ‘answer’ scene in the movie of your life;
trust the present scene of ‘no answer yet’.
Allow the question itself space to breathe and be fertilised.
Relax into the mysterious ground of Now.”  
~ Jeff Foster

Being a “person” can be so exhausting, can’t it! But is a separate “person” who you really are? Are you limited to your beliefs, your feelings, your history and your future? Or are you much vaster than you ever imagined? Are you Life Itself?

We try so hard to control and understand life, to fit in, to succeed, to reach our goals. We try so hard to be perfect, to be happy, even to be enlightened or awakened, and often we can feel so far away from where we think we ‘should’ be. Often, no matter how hard we try, life doesn’t go according to our plans. Sometimes we feel exhausted, fed up, or depressed. We feel like a failed ‘self’, so far from home. We long to rest deeply, but we just don’t know how. But perhaps it’s not even a question of ‘how’….

Join Jeff Foster for a day of laughter and tears, a day of remembering who you truly are, and have always been. A day of rest and deep acceptance. A day of truth and openness, of coming home…

Jeff’s message is this: You were always perfect from the very beginning – perfect in your total imperfection! Your imperfections, your quirks, your flaws, your weirdness, your unique and irreplaceable flavours, were what made you so loveable, so human, so real, so relatable. Even in your imperfection, you were always a perfect expression of life, a beloved child of the universe, a complete work of art, unique in all the world and deserving of all the riches of life. 

It was never about being a perfect ‘me’. It was always about being perfectly Here, perfectly yourself, in all your divine strangeness. “Forget your perfect offering”, Leonard Cohen sings. “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

This will be a day of talks, restful meditative silence, exploring feelings, and intimate dialogues on the theme of exhaustion and surrender – a day of seeing your struggle, your fears, your suffering in a new light. Permission to rest deeply, no matter what is going on in the story of your life. A day to fall in love with where you are…

“Accept your non-acceptance in the moment. 
Forgive your inability to forgive. 
Surrender to your lack of surrender. 
This is the pathless path!”
~ Jeff Foster 

SUNDAY:

Therapy, healing & depression

“True healing has nothing to do with ‘you’. It reveals itself when ‘you’ – the apparent controller of life, the one who thinks they know all the answers – get out of the way, and the vast, incomprehensible intelligence energy that is life itself is allowed to move freely. True healing is prior to the healer and the healed. It is the absence of a separate ‘you’ – and this absence we could also call love.”
~ Jeff Foster

“We can view depression as a profound and very misunderstood state of deep rest, entered into when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own identity. It is an unconscious loss of interest in our story. It is a profound call to let go of the old, and plunge into the new…” 
~ Jeff Foster

Join Jeff Foster for this full-day meeting, in which we will explore the true meaning of depression and healing from a unique, awakened perspective. Whether you are struggling with your life and are looking for peace and space amidst the chaos of life, or you are a healer or therapist interested in meeting your clients in a new way, this meeting is for you.

This will be a day of talks, restful meditations, exploring feelings, and intimate dialogues on the theme of exhaustion, depression, healing and therapy. A journey pointing you back to the absence of ‘you’, and guiding you towards a more open and loving way of living and relating with yourself and with others. It’s a day to fall in love with where you are…