Surja Jessup Spiritual Inquiry

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell
you must ask for what
you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth

Across the doors
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.

RUMI

Spiritual coaching offers tools to experience a state of relaxed presence, where creative solutions to life situations emerge easily. Our natural state is intelligence, trust and open responsiveness to the moment. The demands of modern life have created a false experience of stress, tension, negativity and fear based thinking.

Spiritual Coaching combines Mindfulness Meditation, Personal Inquiry, and "Practicing the Power of Presence." This allows you to turn awareness toward the present moment, noticing thoughts, feelings, and sensations from a place of witnessing and "dis-identifying". As you do this, the ego-self with its fixed positions and habitual thinking loses its hold, and a relaxed spaciousness emerges around your life. The false stories which the mind has created from defensiveness and fear can be seen through, and action in the world can then be guided by integrity, purpose aligned with trust, and creativity, rather than from fear or lack.

Surja offers Spiritual Coaching, after spending many years of study with spiritual teachers who have brought the ancient wisdom teachings to modern life, These teachers include "Papa-ji"(Hari Lal Poonja), John Kabat-Zinn, Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti, Neelam, and Ross Drago. Although each teacher presents with a unique flavor, their teachings basically are the same-pointing to the truth of what is always ever present within every person-an abiding Consciousness which naturally expresses love and truth in the world.

If you are interested in Spiritual Coaching, please contact Surja at 510-848-7519 or
e-mail her as surjajessup@earthlink.net.