Women’s Satsang Gathering: Taking Refuge in the Divine Mother with LiYana Silver

“Seeing the world as the Mother, seeing everything as her manifestation, involves a shift in perception… you see it all as a child sheltered in the loving arms of your Mother, who is all creation. The blue sky is her mind, the green leaves pulse with her blood, the wind is her breath, the rain, her water of life.” — Ram Dass, Be Love Now

Here’s the truth of these days: we want to stay present. Heart open. Involved. We want to know what’s happening and do our part. But the volume is relentless, the news, the grief, the not-knowing,  and it does something to our nervous systems. We get destabilized. We lose the thread of what’s ours to do. And then we have to find our way back. Again. And again.

This is the practice. Not arriving somewhere stable and staying there, but the returning, over and over, to the heart.

This month, we’re going to practice that returning together — through the grounding, ancient energy of the Divine Mother. Not as concept, but as felt experience. As somewhere to actually land.

“When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that’s the optimum environment for your heart to open — because you feel safe.” — Ram Dass

We’ll do a practice to connect with that held-ness. To receive the imprint of a nervous system that knows it belongs to something larger. And to carry that back into our lives — into the hard conversations, the doomscrolling, the fog of not-knowing what to do next.

Come as you are.

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LiYana Silver has spent 24 years walking alongside women through the darkest passages of their lives — the kind of darkness where you can’t yet see the shape of what’s coming next. Through her private practice, retreats, and online courses, she has become a steady, luminous presence for women in free fall: those mid-divorce, mid-grief, mid-becoming.

She is the author of Feminine Genius and the forthcoming Waking Up in The Dark Night of Divorce. She is a dear friend of Mirabai Starr — one of the beloved teachers who helped birth the Ram Dass Women’s Satsang — and carries that same lineage of fierce, tender, women’s wisdom into everything she offers.

A former dancer, sometimes painter, and self-described aspiring underachiever, LiYana lives in Asheville, NC with her son, their cats Habibi and Kalila, and a frankly impressive number of houseplants.

She will guide women through — not around — the dark. So that we come out the other side awake, unfettered, and lit up.

 

When: Sunday, March 15th
Time: 5:00 PST / 8:00 pm EST
Who: Ram Dass Women’s Satsang

All women welcome. No experience necessary. Just show up.

Whether you’ve been with us from the beginning or are joining for the first time, you are warmly welcome—just as you are.

I can’t wait to sit together again.

With love,
Jackie D

To register, sign up for the Ram Dass Fellowship, and check “Women’s Fellowship” under the Fellowship Group Options.  You will be added to the mailing list and will receive monthly invitations to events.

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For those who identify as Women, whether CIS, Trans, or non-binary

Women’s Satsang Mission Statement

The Women’s Satsang has been formed to help cultivate heart connection and allyship among people within the Ram Dass Community who identify as women, whether cisgender, non-conforming, or non-binary women. As an autonomous group, our purpose is 

1. to deepen into the teachings of Ram Dass and Neem Karoli Baba from a female perspective
2. to foster connection and mutual empowerment within the Ram Dass Community, and 
3. bring forward the wisdom of women for the benefit of all beings and the earth.

Our Values include:

1. Lovingkindness
2. Honoring relationality and inclusivity
3. Allowing for ambiguity and mystery
4. Celebrating the light as well as the dark, embodiment as well as ascension
5. Blessing the web of interbeing that connects us all
6. Respecting people over performances