In this first class with Sarah, you’ll define for yourself — and what it means to be wise, selfish, and real.

You’ll inquire, gently and courageously, into what’s working and not working in your life right now.

What feels uncertain, unfulfilled, or unsettled? What’s been stirring within you, that you want to give more voice to? What are your desires, what brings you joy (and how can you experience more)? Where do your fears live inside you?

Rather than demanding answers of yourself, you’ll simply allow these questions to be, as you “meet” your selves. Sarah will introduce you to the three essential realms you’ll be working with in this journey — and how to powerfully engage with them.

In this first class, you’ll:

• Discover a simple, elegant, internal map to help you navigate the journey ahead
• Give yourself permission to be wisely selfish — ultimately the path of true service to others
• Develop a safe container in which to reflect on your current relationship with yourself and your life and to connect more deeply with Source
• Experience an innovative, simple, and effective meditation practice that will set the stage for accessing your many selves

Your Primary Self has been the main one directing and negotiating your life (without much input from “you”) for years… yet, you are SO much more than this — a complex configuration of (often conflicting) needs, desires, beliefs, emotions, and habits. However, these many “selves” can create a lot of inner confusion. Your Primary Self may feel lost or unsettled, and use self-criticism or shame to try to manage the chaos or force answers.

When you begin to accept the psychological chaos, observing it all with loving awareness, your internal landscape begins to organize itself around your deeper Self and Source. Divergent desires, passions, and needs can coexist and be celebrated.

In this second class, you’ll:

• Explore your inner landscape with wonder and curiosity rather than judgment, shame, and fear
• Celebrate your complexity rather than be overwhelmed by it
• Experience freedom from inner confusion or the sense that you’re “crazy”
• Discover a powerful somatic practice that allows you to be present to all of your emotions and thoughts

Despite years of spiritual practice, if you find you’re unable to “go with the flow,” and move through your day with conscious awareness, your Inner Witness is ready to assist you. The act of being witnessed by Loving Awareness is the most direct way to transform your sense of self.

This simple, profound act must be practiced to become second nature. In this class, Sarah will guide you to distinguish between “normal” self-consciousness and self-awareness, based on neuroscience research. You’ll begin to witness, rather than judge, your interior experience — and receive a daily somatic practice for developing more Witness Consciousness.

In this third class, you’ll:

• Differentiate between self-consciousness and self-awareness
• Develop your capacity to witness your emotions, thoughts, and body sensations
• Apply tools to awaken and stabilize Loving Awareness
• Discover the neuroscience of self-awareness

The latin word inspirare means “to breathe or blow into.” In this class, Sarah will guide you to explore any limited beliefs around God or Source, calm your overactive mind and touch into the source of your wildness, allowing inspiration to move through you.

Deepening your relationship with your Higher Self and with Source — you’ll receive support and wisdom to open you to the full picture of who you are and what you want to create next.

In this class, you’ll:

• Feel yourself AS breath, the inspiration for the life you want to create
• Explore the parts of you that are open to the Mystery and those that are closed
• Begin to heal any wounds or sense of betrayal by “God”
• Learn a simple meditation to settle your mind and reconnect with Source
• Tap into your creative wildness, inviting all of your selves to contribute

When you have an understanding of the building blocks of an authentic life, the fun begins — and so does the messiness. With the proper perspective, soon the messiness begins to take on its own artistry, and the ups and downs of life no longer throw you into confusion, panic, or despair.

If you’ve been afraid of making mistakes, being too big, too wild, or too loud, this is the time to take risks (creatively, not recklessly) and revel in the messiness of a life well-lived.

In this class, you’ll:

• Experience the artistry of a conscious mess
• Learn the distinction between wise risk-taking and reckless risk-taking
• Work through fear and feeling torn between conflicting desires — through a powerful technique called Polarity Mapping
• Share and commune more deeply with the sisterhood for support and validation

Coming home to ourselves is a lifelong journey. You now have a set of tools, practices, and daily rituals to support you. In this class, you’ll identify ways you might slip into old habits, address any new fears, and continue working in the three realms of Self, Source, and Witness as you artfully create this new phase of your life.

You’ll begin to create the perfect recipe for YOU in each realm so you’ll continue to grow as an artist. As we prepare to end the course and spread our wings, you’ll feel grounded in your ability to take this work forward in ways that are authentic to you. You’ll trust yourself as the artist of your life.

In this class, you’ll:

• Finally rest in the comfort of knowing you can do this
• Begin to create a lifestyle that supports the mastery of your Self
• Understand the value of being wisely selfish
• Define your spiritual path for yourself
• Learn the Selfistry embodiment practice

Through a deep listening to Source, a confident capacity to maintain and cultivate Loving Awareness, and a deep abiding love of yourself, you’re well on your way to mastering the art of being human.

This class will focus on stepping into your sovereignty — with all of your complexity, passion, curiosity, and wildness. Coming home to all of your selves, you can clarify what really is YOURS to do…

In this final class, you’ll:

• See sovereignty and self-authorship as gateways to real change within the collective
• Discover how you can have a wisely selfish life and make a difference in the world
• Create clear intentions and plans for moving forward with this newly gained understanding of who you truly are
• Access an unabashed willingness to have a life that matters and helps heal the planet
• Reclaim your childlike wonder and curiosity

As a long time student and teacher of Zen meditation and an accomplished practitioner and facilitator in the field of human development and conflict resolution, Diane Hamilton brings depth and wisdom to any conversation. In this discourse, Sarah and Diane share their common ground on how important meditation practice is to one’s capacity to show up well for life. They also playfully celebrate that the path of any artist — including and especially the artist of the self — is bound to meet healthy challenges along the way.

Diane Musho Hamilton is an exceptionally gifted mediator, group facilitator, and one of the authentic contemporary spiritual teachers of our time. Combining decades of innovation in conflict resolution with an enthusiasm for life, she knows how to address the challenges of our modern experience with an uncommon spiritual perspective. With extraordinary warmth, depth, and insight, she encourages us to consciously evolve beyond old and limited ideas of who we are so we might discover our own unique expression of wisdom and compassion in this time.

These times demand passion and patience. Meeting the complexities facing us individually and as a species is calling forth the depth of our capacities and wisdom. In this conversation, HeatherAsh and Sarah explore the particularly nuanced perspective of women as it relates to these times and how the reclaiming of our feminine ancestral lineage can serve us personally and collectively. Sisterhood: what’s it made of?

HeatherAsh Amara is dedicated to inspiring depth, creativity, and joy by sharing the most potent tools from a variety of world traditions. She studied and taught extensively with don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements, and continues to teach with the Ruiz family. Raised in Southeast Asia, HeatherAsh has traveled the world from childhood and is continually inspired by the diversity and beauty of human expression and experience. She brings this openhearted, inclusive worldview to her writings and teachings, which are a rich blend of Toltec wisdom, European shamanism, Buddhism, and Native American ceremony. She loves traveling and sharing warrior glitter and goddess wisdom.

In Being Selfish we meet Sarah facing a second unplanned pregnancy at the age of 22. Her conservative Jewish, politically liberal, middle-class American upbringing fails to provide her with meaningful comfort or guidance. Depressed and disillusioned, she sets out on a 20-year pilgrimage to explore sex, God, and herself. Her forays into orthodox Judaism, the sex trade, and new age spirituality don’t satisfy the depth of her longing for authenticity. Then she meets Sam, a New York baby boomer turned monk, living a life unplugged from society in remote rural Oregon. When Sarah realizes what Sam is up to, she abandons her career, friends, and family to dive into a disciplined life of meditation, yoga, fasting, and silence. It wasn’t her original intention to spend a decade in isolation, but that’s what it took for Sarah to discover who she really is, though not without paying a price.