Weekly Guided Meditation and Q&A with Sami

Weekly Guided Meditation
and Q&A with Sami

Saturdays, 9:30am - 10:30am EST

Where: Zoom

Suggested Donation: $10-$40

Join us weekly for a short, guided meditation followed by an open Q&A with Sami. The intention is to provide additional support and grounding to those interested in a practice of Self- Inquiry. This is a drop-in series. Join whenever you feel called to join us!

Join Our Weekly Guided Meditation
and Q&A with Sami

Instructions to Prepare:

Please arrive at least 5 minutes early to settle in and honor the container so we may begin on time. We will use the same Zoom link every week.
Sit in a way that supports both alertness and ease—on a cushion, chair, or supine, however your body feels most supported and awake.

Together, the intention is to experience present moment awareness and perhaps discover the veils that obscure this state of presence.

The cultivation of present moment awareness progressively leads to that state being grounded and rooted within us. Having achieved an unwavering stability in, and as, this awareness, Self can rest and experience all phenomena without dissolving into false identification.

This meditative and contemplative approach brings forth inquiries that may be formulated by the Mind but are answered by the Body as our felt, known experience.

This offering is donation-based and open to individuals of all levels from novice to advanced practitioners. No formal training nor prior meditation experience required.

Self-Inquiry:

Self-Inquiry is the interest and capacity to examine one's direct experience. Said in another way, it is the capacity to take a perspective on one's perspective. It is the capacity to bring forward a witness or an observing presence that can reflect on one's direct phenomenal experience.

Collective:

A non-hierarchical energetic field that emerges from and between all participants in a shared experience.

Collective Awakening:

Expanding a group’s consciousness toward greater unity with All That Is. The only type of complete awakening there is.

Field:

A subtle and shared collection of energy or expression of consciousness that arises from interrelatedness.

Being:

Being refers to the state of pure existence beyond the mind's habitual patterns, roles, or identities. It’s an experience of presence that is timeless, formless, and unchanging. In this state of Being, one rests in a deep sense of wholeness and peace, untouched by the external circumstances or the fluctuations of thoughts, sensations, feelings and emotions. Being is often described as our true nature or the divine essence within, beyond the ego or personality.

Presence:

The experience of residing in the eternal Now.

Somatic:

Comes from the Greek word soma, meaning "body." In general, it refers to anything related to the body, particularly in the context of physical sensations, experiences, and processes. It is often used to describe how the body stores, processes, and expresses emotions, trauma, and other psychological states as an embodied knowing.

* self *:

The small self, that which we have been conditioned to identify with and orient to others and the world from. It operates from the perspective that there is a me and a you that are separate.

Self:

The Universal self, that recognizes that it exists beyond any limitations, is timeless, eternal and not bound by form. It operates from the perspective that all existence is an emanation of itself. Separation is non-existent.

Sami Badawy, M.D.

Psychospiritual Counseling

Training and Education

Writing

A lifelong interest in the source of human suffering has been my personal journey. I have been a life-long meditator, starting a practice at the age of 12. My path has been as a householder engaged with the world and taking on many roles as son, brother, husband, father, physician, etc.

Around 2009, I encountered a period of personal difficulty to which I could find no insight or resolution. As life would have it, I was introduced that year to working in expanded states of Consciousness. In the years that followed, I had direct experiences of the content of the spiritual texts that had informed my life early on. These insights and revelations were transformative. They led me to progressively shift my life toward supporting individuals who are seeking greater clarity, understanding and freedom from the vicissitudes of life. The path that I offer points towards Self-inquiry and Self-realization.

Given the western Mind’s inclination toward rational and psychological thought, I work with both psychological as well as spiritual developmental frameworks; thus the term psycho-spiritual counseling.