SAND18 US — Clear Teachings from the Tibetan Tradition

In a rare meeting of minds, and a rare exploration of whether there is a predilection for spirituality, Gabor Mate asks Adyashanti to expand on passages from his recent book My Secret Is Silence.

20:00 – FREE

The Utter Simplicity of What Is - Part I

With Mauro Bergonzi

When even the sense of being collapses into the utter simplicity of what is.

53:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Human as the Wormhole to the Mysteries of Existence

With A.H. Almaas

To think of the human stage as simply for enlightenment shortchanges the potential of humanity.

23:00 – FREE

From Quarks to Love in Ancient Hebrew Mysticism - SAND19 US

With Zvi Ish-Shalom

Discover the esoteric relationship between form and formlessness embedded within the Shema

9:00 – FREE

Nothing to Achieve

With Éric Baret

Eric replies to questions at his Amsterdam retreat

1:29:00 – FREE

A Case for Wise Hope in Dark Times

With Joan Halifax

This excerpt from the The Strange and Necessary Case for Hope is rare medicine for our dark times.

22:00 – FREE

The Awakening of the True Body

With Ellen Emmet

In this interview with Zaya Benazzo from SAND Italy, Ellen Emmet talks about the relationship between self-enquiry and the exploration of the body through tantra.

50:00 – FREE

A Wildly Free Aliveness

With Mauro Bergonzi

It is the mind that turns now into past, present and future, and there is no way to leave the now.

31:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Trauma and the Unbound Body

With Judith Blackstone

Nonduality and Healing from Trauma - The Realization Process

39:00 – FREE

A Spiral of Inclusion

With Shakti Caterina Maggi

Zaya Benazzo interviews Shakti Caterina Maggi at SAND19 Italy

36:00 – FREE

What is Tantra? What is Truth?

With Éric Baret

Yoga does not bring us to truth, truth expresses itself through yoga.

35:00 – FREE

To Free the Body

With Ellen Emmet

Ellen Emmet explains her understanding of the role of the body in our exploration of truth...

18:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Spontaneous Creativity: Manifesting Your Positive Qualities

With Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Creativity can be seen as a state of natural flow...

3:00 – FREE

Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

With Éric Baret

Final teaching at Opening to the Unknown, Amsterdam 2018.

1:32:00 – FREE

From Sex to Source

With Layla Martin and Aubrey Marcus

At the core of Layla’s teachings is the process of releasing judgment surrounding sex

33:00 – FREE

The Path of Feeling

With Turiya Hanover and Zaya Benazzo

SAND co-founder Zaya Benazzo interviews Turiya Hanover, co-founder of The Path of Love

7:00 – FREE

How to Choose Your Teaching

With Éric Baret

"There are so many teachings on the internet today – How am I to choose?"

20:00 – FREE

Deepening Our Feeling for "Us" - SAND19 US

With Lama Tsomo

Lama Tsomo teaches us the ancient Tibetan compassion practice of Tonglen, one of the Four Boundless Qualities

27:00 – FREE

The Reality of Surrender

With Aisha Salem

Aisha Salem talks of being willing to let go of our limitations, of keeping ourselves small, and of living our individuality

14:00 – FREE

Beyond the River of This World

With Parvathy Baul

Performing at the opening night of the 2019 SAND gathering in Italy, Parvathy Baul sings and dances

11:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Powerful Mantras

With Nadeshwari Joythimayananda

How can Knowledge take us to Silence?

29:00 – FREE

Linking Diversity and Unity

With André Riehl

Is it possible to live a life of activity while holding the perception of unity and fulfillment?

33:00 – FREE

The Discovery of Shakti

With Mark Dyczkowski

Everything in the universe is shakti and spiritual life is the discovery of shakti.

20:00 – FREE

Two Steps to the Not-Two - SAND19 US

With Swami Sarvapriyananda

Exploring, Understanding and Applying Advaita Vedanta

36:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Silence and Substratum

With Pamela Wilson

Silent awareness is mostly drawn to light, sound, color, beauty, movement, patterns and contrast.

21:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Is Nondual Awareness at War with our Humanity?

With Dorothy Hunt

Awakened living realizes that the absolute and the relative dimensions of our Being are simply “not-two.”

10:00 – FREE

Mountain Monks

The Yamabushi in northern Japan practice a once forbidden ancient religion. While their tradition is at risk of disappearing, it offers a way for those seeking a different path in Japan‘s society.

FREE

SAND18 US — The Mystery of Life

With Francis Lucille

Francis Lucille answers questions from the audience at SAND 18, bringing his intelligence and wit to a variety of topics

1:32:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Appreciating the Human

With A.H. Almaas, Kabir Helminski, and Robert Sapolsky

There is no awakening without humans

1:02:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - Ethics and Spiritual Teaching

With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer

What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?

40:00 – FREE

Embodied Spiritual Love - SAND19 US

With A.H. Almaas

In most spiritual traditions, love is seen only as universal or cosmic love.

36:00 – FREE

The Trika Shaivism of Kashmir

With Mark Dyczkowski and Zaya Benazzo

Zaya Benazzo interviews Mark Dyczkowski on the history of Tantra

FREE

SAND18 US — Rest in Natural Great Peace

With Peter Russell

Peter Russell explains that most human beings—unlike animals—focus on the past and the future, which means they spend their time in a state of discontent.

24:00 – FREE

All the Names are Names of God
SAND19 US

With Francis Lucille

Francis Lucille answers questions at SAND19 US.

44:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - The Centrality of the Heart in Being Human

With John Prendergast

Being fully human requires the awakening of the deep Heart as well as the full embrace of the vulnerable human heart.

3:00 – FREE

Goddess Worship Is The Path to Bliss

With Sally Kempton

Sally Kempton combines the wisdom of the tradition of Kashmir Shaiva Tantra with the practical understandings of contemporary psychology

29:00 – FREE

The Essence of Nonduality - SAND19 US

With Rupert Spira

Rupert explores the perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions

20:00 – FREE

Holding the Thread of Life - SAND19 US

With Michael Meade

The challenges we face and the changes underway signal a genuine transformation of the world

3:00 – FREE

The Unknowable Reality of Things

With Rupert Spira

An immersive visual meditative journey with Rupert Spira

32:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Being Divine, Becoming Human

With Shakti Caterina Maggi

"It is not a person that is waking up, it is consciousness."

36:00 – FREE

Make Your Life into a Prayer

With Parvathy Baul

It is said in Bengal that the Baul tradition originates from a time unknown, beyond what human history can trace

Embracing the Flame of Longing

By Mirabai Starr

Mental Inner Game: Mind—Opening Frames for Peace and Creativity

By Alexandra Sheren

“You can not open your heart, it is already open. It is the mind that is closed, and which must open to the heart.”

Love Language: The Inter-Spiritual Heart of the Mystics

By Mirabai Starr

For decades I was conditioned to believe that to engage a mature spiritual life I needed to “pick one tradition and go deep,”

Consciousness is Intrinsic in the Universe

By Paul Mulliner

It’s easy, during our everyday life in the world, to forget how extravagantly remarkable a human being actually is.

1:20:00 – FREE

Psychedelic Science

With Sam Harris and Roland Griffith

Sam Harris speaks with Roland Griffiths about the current state of research on psychedelics.

Three Methods for Working with Chaos

By Pema Chödrön

Times of chaos and challenge can be the most spiritually powerful…

There is No Doer

By Eric Baret

What do you mean when you say there's nothing to be done?

Tantra vs Vedanta

By Eric Baret

Could you explain the difference between Tantra, Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism?

Why Scurry About Looking for the Truth?

By Lao-Tsu

It vibrates in every thing and every not-thing, right off the tip of your nose.

1:32:00 – FREE

From Sex to Source

With Layla Martin and Aubrey Marcus

At the core of Layla’s teachings is the process of releasing judgment surrounding sex

The Gentle Art of Blessing

By Pierre Pradervand

Gentleness is a state of consciousness.

In Honor of Ram Dass
1931–2019

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn’t who I am.

Let the Moon Be Free – Conversations on Kashmiri Tantra

By Eric Baret

Shaped and sustained by the nondual tradition of Kashmir Shivaism, Eric Baret’s words take us back to the simple observation of our felt sense of emotion and, ultimately, to pure listening.

1:29:00 – FREE