The Course of Awakening - Spring 2011 Semester

With Loch Kelly

In this course, we will explore the direct experience of Awake Awareness, which is at the heart of the world’s mystical and non-dual teachings. Being Awake is our natural condition, not something that is created or earned. Most of us have not been aware of this overlooked dimension of consciousness because we have not known how to re-connect with it. We can rediscover the freedom that is already here as we learn how to look, where to look, what to look for and who is looking. Loch presents an easy to understand framework for the paradoxical journey of waking up from our mistaken identity, waking in to an embodied life and waking out to relationship and activity. Each class will include a talk, dialogue, meditation and inquiry aimed at helping us re-connect with Awake Awareness at any time. Each class builds upon the previous one, so that we can explore the process of awakening as it unfolds.

Attending Students - The Course will meet on the dates below in New York City. Registration for the class includes home study materials (downloadable audiobook recording and a transcript) so you can review each class, and if you cannot make any class in person you will not miss any of the material.

Home Study Option - Home Study is not a live broadcast but is available as a downloadable recording and transcript, which you can listen to and read at your convenience after each class meeting. Recordings are in audiobook (.m4b, iTunes) format, which can be played on a computer or an ipod, and can be converted to mp3 or an audio CD.  Home Students will be able to email questions, which will be integrated into the next class meeting.  This format has been extremely helpful and effective to those who have taken it from Australia to Europe to all parts of the US. Home Study students have reported that the experience of the Course of Awakening is different than listening to individual dharma talks or a series of satsang CD's, or watching a DVD of a teacher. The Course is taught in an experiential, adult-education style in order to encourage you to get in touch with and learn to rely on your own inner teacher as awakening unfolds.

I took the course as a distance learning student and never even met Loch in person. I didn’t know whether I would be able to get the benefits by just listening to recordings and reading transcripts but I did! I have had the most profound changes occur in the last year. The one I want to mention because it is unexpected is that my fear of other people and my self-judgment has diminished so much that my relationships with other people are so much closer and easier and loving.
~ Karen

Sundays: 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm

• Intro to Natural Inquiry and the Methodless Method
  - March 6th - (Open Intro, available for single-day registration)
• Class 1: Identity Beyond Ego: From Head Knowing to Awake Loving Awareness
  - April 17th (12:30 to 5:30)
• Class 2: Why Doesn't Awakening Stay? The Keys to Awareness Embodying and Abiding
  - May 15th
• Class 3: Living Here Now: Spontaneous Liberation, or How to Do Not-Doing
  - June 5th

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Cost (please select the appropriate option on the drop-down menu below):

• $85 - May 15th Only
• $325 - Attending, Four Class Series
• $300 - Attending, Four Class Series (Alumni or Current OS Student (OSIS Credit available))
• $240 - UPGRADE from March 6th to Spring Semester
• $215 - UPGRADE from March 6th to Spring Semester - Alumni
• $250 - Home Study, Four Class Series (available only to those who will not attend any sessions in person)
• $200 - Home Study, (Alumni Discount)
• Limited work-study options may be available for the Spring course. Please contact james at lochkelly dot org if you are interested.

One Spirit Learning Alliance
247 W. 36th Street, 6th floor
(between 7th and 8th Avenues)
New York, NY 10018

Loch Kelly, MDiv., LCSW has a Masters in Clinical Social Work from Columbia University and a Masters from Union Theological Seminary in Psychiatry and Religion, where he was awarded a fellowship to study Buddhism and Advaita in Sri Lanka, India and Nepal from 1981-1982. Loch was asked to teach meditation by Mingyur Rinpoche and the direct path of non-duality by Adyashanti. He is the founder of the Natural Wakefulness Center in New York City.

Register Now Registration Options - Spring 2011 May 15th Only $85.00 Attending, - General Public $325.00 Attending - Alumni or Current OS Students $300.00 UPGRADE from March 6th to Spring Semester $240.00 UPGRADE with Alumni Discount $215.00 Home Study $250.00 Home Study - Alumni Discount $200.00 Name of Registrant By clicking "Pay Now," you are agreeing that events may be recorded and released for educational purposes.