Miranda Macpherson – Life of Grace

During this profound journey, you’ll:

• Discover teachings that help you be truly present and undefended with what IS… in body, heart, and mind
• Recognize the activity of your ego that blocks the flow of grace in your life, and learn to say “yes” to what life is asking of you
• Begin to distinguish between the wisdom of your survival instinct and the anxious mind-stream of fear
• Address the roots of your fear down to the level of identity (who is it that is afraid?)
• Learn to relax and allow ego structures to dissolve, and trust to blossom in your body, heart, and mind
• Discover what’s alive in the space beyond your fear and control
• Bring greater compassion and precision to the way you meet your defenses
• Liberate ego fantasy that often gets mixed into acts of service — forgiving, understanding, and relaxing into the purity of your desire to be of service
• Receive initiation into the Maha Lakshmi mantra that makes you receptive to infinite blessings upon your sincere heart’s prayer
• Discover how true forgiveness dissolves the lens of guilt, hatred, and projection, dissolving the inner violence that distorts your vision and wreaks havoc in our world
• Forgive your taboo emotions such as hatred, anger, and envy, and lovingly contact the spiritual poverty underneath them
• Journey through the 6 stages of forgiveness, both as principles to support your release and as a practice of spiritual transformation

In this session, Miranda will introduce you (or share further nuances) to the transmission of ego relaxation that gives you an instantaneous vacation from the incessant and often unconscious ego activity that is always trying to grasp, reject, fix, or rearrange its experience.

You’ll begin the ongoing practice of ego relaxation that allows true surrender to take place. Present and undefended, you can re-enter the flow of Grace and reconnect with love, peace, clarity, awareness, strength, and joy.

This feminine approach to non-dual realization and spiritual surrender is deeply compassionate yet potent. Miranda will transmit the state of ego relaxation and guide you to bring awareness to subtle resistance to what is.

You’ll:

• Receive teachings that help you be truly present and undefended with what IS… in body, heart, and mind
• Recognize the activity of your ego that blocks the flow of grace in your life, and learn to say “yes” to what life is asking of you
• Expand your capacity to ground in the support that is always available, no matter what emotions your current or past circumstances trigger
• Engage ego relaxation as a practice of effortless meditation, holistic inquiry, and a “re-set” amidst a busy day

To live a life of Grace, you must become aware of the dense forces of your ego that cause you to contract back into fear and habitual reactions to life. Miranda will guide you to begin to differentiate between the wisdom of your survival instinct and the anxious mind-stream of fear.

In an atmosphere of unconditional love and compassion for your frightened ego, you’ll engage in the practice of ego relaxation while turning directly towards your fears — the forces that hold it in place — and observing who you become when you contract.

Meeting all of this with love, you can then explore what’s alive in the space beyond your familiar identity and its fear. Dissolving the roots of fear helps produce a quiet mind, a more settled nervous system, and a more open, trusting heart.

You’ll:

• Begin to distinguish between the wisdom of your survival instinct and the anxious mind-stream of fear
• Address the roots of your fear down to the level of identity (who is it that is afraid?)
• Learn to relax and allow ego structures to dissolve and trust to blossom in your body, heart, and mind
• Discover how your fear has been limiting you, and relax into the spacious, loving presence of Grace that naturally holds you
• Discover how to take a deeper seat in your meditation practice through ego relaxation

When we are not awake to Grace as the primordial ground of our being and all being, it feels that we must contract into a strategy of control to offset the vulnerability of feeling separate. We believe that we need to push, tighten up, and muscle through, from the perspective of our separate “me,” to stay safe and get things done.

Left unaddressed, these unconscious presumptions that we are who we take ourselves to be, create unnecessary stress and block us from the flow and guidance that helps us access the clarity we need.

Often, hidden strategies of control trigger efforting or pushing by your ego. In this session, you’ll explore the relationship between personal will and Divine Will, and what it takes to come into alignment where the two become one.

You’ll:

• Be invited to melt the grip of control by relaxing with vulnerability and opening to total support
• Discover what’s alive in the space beyond your fear and control
• Bring greater compassion and precision to the way you meet your defenses, and the driving forces beneath them
• Abide in the presence of Grace, which is always available, even when you’re feeling triggered and off-balance

Overly ambitious or driven by the compulsion to try to fill your “holes” with over-eating, over-shopping, or busyness, you may keep seeking while never finding true fulfillment.

In this session, you will be initiated in the Maha Lakshmi mantra, an ancient Vedic practice for opening to the Grace that ends any sense of lack or unnecessary struggle in your life. The focus is on allowing a deep relaxation of any residue within you of inner agitation or not quite being able to access what you need to flourish and enjoy life.

You’ll:

• Journey into your sincere heart’s desire — both in your inner life and in your practical life circumstances
• Receive initiation into the Maha Lakshmi mantra that makes you receptive to infinite blessings upon your sincere heart’s prayer
• Discover how to work with this practice to awaken the felt sense of being blessed by life

In this pre-recorded 90-minute class, in lieu of a Q&A session, Miranda will share an extended exercise to inquire further into what you’re experiencing with this subject.

However, often it does not occur to us that we can ask for help, or even that we should. In this session, we will explore celestial help and how you can gain access to it, even if your conceptual mind does not fully understand how this is possible.

In this deeply mystical, nourishing session, you’ll explore the nuances of your inner calling and learn to make contact with the subtle forces that can truly fill your inner cup. Miranda will open with a powerful teaching on working with prayer and devotional practice from a non-dual perspective. You’ll also experience a meditation that opens your subtle body to significantly amplify your current meditation and spiritual practices.

You’ll:

• Explore your relationship with asking for the help you need, and learning to actually receive it (without making demands or reverting to ego grasping)
• Freshly explore your relationship with the Divine (even if you already know you are not separate from the Source of all Being)
• Listen more deeply to what name, face, or presence most activates the gates of your soul
• Learn to drink subtle light as a plant drinks water

A 15-minute summary of the previous two sessions will follow. Miranda will then work experientially with participants in satsang style to support deeper integration of the material and transmission of the themes.

You’ll:

• Discover how true forgiveness dissolves the lens of guilt, hatred, and projection, averting the inner violence that distorts your vision and wreaks havoc in our world
• Understand your taboo emotions such as hatred, anger, and envy, and lovingly contact the spiritual poverty underneath them
• Journey through the 6 stages of forgiveness, both as principles to support your release and as a practice of spiritual transformation
• Open to the mystery of true forgiveness that restores you to inner peace, wholeheartedness, and right relationship to one another
• Access the heart-cave of Absolute Love that Ramana Maharshi spoke of as our true home, our unified Reality that shines undisturbed underneath the emotional heart
• View the impossible sufferings of the world as a gateway into the transforming grace of divine love

There is no question or challenge that does not contain, at its core, the perennial spiritual question “Who am I”? Commonly, the first answer that arises is, “I am me.” But who is this “me” really?

In this session, Miranda will take participants on a deep and often humorous journey of inquiry and exploration of our central attachment: the familiar construct of self that drives the felt sense that we need to fix ourselves.

From the vantage point of self-forgiveness and compassion, you will meet all that you find with love, unhook from the storylines of suffering, and, with witnessing awareness, open into the space in which the story of “me” has been happening.

Miranda will also guide you in the Vast Heart meditation and share a powerful mantra.

You’ll:

• Inquire into the nature of “me and I” and unhook from storylines that keep you in spiritual bondage
• Experience the Vast Heart meditation
• Begin to let go of the familiar construct of self as a problem that needs to be fixed
• Witness with loving awareness and humor the central attachment of an unawakened state of mind

In this pre-recorded 90-minute class, in lieu of a Q&A session, Miranda will share an extended exercise to inquire further into what you’re experiencing with this subject.

In this session, you will explore the ways you are called to serve. What are you inspired to give your precious life force to?

Often, our most noble intentions can become co-opted by our ego, so how do we keep them fully intact?

You’ll discover what structures help keep your intentions pure, and prioritize staying grounded and present with all that arises. You’ll discover how to be awake to where you’re vulnerable to reactivity, and how to reset quickly when needed.

Miranda will also share a simple but powerful somatic practice for sensing into presence — to brings more substance to the embodiment of your intentions amidst daily life.

You’ll:

• Receive a powerful and playful inquiry practice to ‘flush out” any hidden motivations for serving or for beginning any creative endeavor
• Sense into loving presence and stabilize your intentions within this energy
• Liberate ego appropriation that often gets mixed into acts of service — forgiving, understanding, and relaxing into the purity of your desire to be of service

Russ Hudson is co-founder of The Enneagram Institute, and is one of the principal scholars and innovative thinkers in the Enneagram world today. He’s also President of Enneagram Personality Types, Inc. He’s been co-teaching the Enneagram Professional Training Programs since 1991, and is a founding director and former vice-president of the International Enneagram Association. Russ is co-author of The Wisdom Of The Enneagram, Personality Types, Understanding the Enneagram, Discovering Your Personality Type, and The Power Of The Enneagram. Russ also assisted Don Riso in writing Enneagram Transformations. He holds a degree in East Asian Studies from Columbia University in New York, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Mountain of Presence
In reality, you exist within a mountain of boundless support, powered by the life force that births everything you see into existence. This is a central concentration practice recommended as a powerful antidote to the multi-tasking distractedness of modern life. Listening daily will help you stabilize in presence, quiet your mind, settle your emotions, and dissolve into deep silence.
Music: Harmonium by Miranda Macpherson; tamboura and bells by Richard Quinn.

Vast Heart, Vast Mind
The human heart is the axis point between heaven and earth. Through breath and focused attention, this 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.

Neal Rogin is a multi-award winning writer, filmmaker, humorist, and social observer whose work has reached millions of people around the world. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a unique ability to conceive and communicate ideas that move people to action and change the way they think. He’s a founding board member of The Pachamama Alliance and a member of the Turning Tide Coalition with Lynne Twist, John and Ocean Robbins, and Vicki Robin, and the Transformational Leadership Council, a group founded by author Jack Canfield, and that numbers among its members Marianne Williamson, John Gray, and Michael Beckwith.

Lean into the mantras as you lean your head into the pillow at night. Dissolve into the mantra and it draws you back into the origin of your being. As you chant, feel into your own prayers — your truest yearnings for yourself and for the world. Intoning these ancient sounds, you join with all beings throughout time who have ever prayed these prayers. Now your prayers are part of a continuing stream of the awakening heart. May they become part of your daily life — supporting you to reside AS the heart of Being.

In this special bonus, you’ll receive recordings of:

• Om Nama Shivaya: A powerful version of the Hindu mantra for surrender, the god Shiva is part of the trinity consisting of Brahma (creation), Vishnu (sustenance), and Shiva (destruction)
• Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya: This is the Hindu mantra meaning, “I bow to the God within, the divinity of my true nature. Please remove all obstacles.”

Here’s What You’ll Receive

An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Life of Grace Virtual Training

We feel honored Miranda Macpherson has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a rare opportunity to learn from a contemporary spiritual teacher and internationally renowned mystic whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.

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 be able to benefit from Miranda’s incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home — and at your own pace!

If you’re serious about ending your struggle to “awaken,” opening to all of your humanness, and walking the true spiritual path of surrender, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.

If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.

About Miranda Macpherson

Miranda Macpherson is a contemporary spiritual teacher, counselor, and author of The Way of Grace: The Transforming Power of Ego Relaxation. Miranda, who also authored the spiritual guidebook, Boundless Love, has been teaching internationally since 1995. She 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 ongoing 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 and mystical Christianity, as well as from 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.

She is founder of One Spirit Interfaith Foundation in London, where she trained and ordained over 600 ministers. Today, Miranda leads the “Living Grace” sangha in northern California and holds retreats in the United States and internationally. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Bob Duchmann, a teacher of the Diamond Approach (A.H. Almaas’ Ridhwan School).