3 Balance and Change in a World Gone Mad Monthly Workshops, Presented by Sono Hashisaki

Change is constant, and for people its one long trajectory from growing up to growing old. How we experience that can feel like forever (remember summers as a kid?) or more gradual as our gardens sprout and grow from spring to fall, nurturing a deep anticipation. When change is sudden, surprising or unexpected, it can disrupt our lives. If unwanted, such change leads to a feeling of uncertainty and we feel off balance. Right now, each day brings new and often disturbing changes that portend unknown consequences in an unimaginable future.

Balance and Change is a series of 3-monthly workshops focused on exploring what is changing in you or in your life today. How does it feel and how can you best meet that change? What does balance feel like? Is it fleeting or stable? We’ll use meditation and movement exercises from Realization Process to explore balance in our inner lives, our relationships to people and place, and in relation to change in the country and the world at large. We will experience balance as a pervasive quality of fundamental consciousness that we can access and know in each moment. All three workshops will take place at Fremont Abbey, in Seattle, Washington. Please join me for this timely offering.

Workshop 2: ‘Being with’: Balance with Other

Saturday, May 31, 2025 (9am-2pm) at Fremont Abbey

‘Being With’ is a practice of inner contact with a subtle dimension of ourselves that helps us to be present to the thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations that arise in us as we engage with people, events, and our own states of mind. We are better able to bring our whole self to the experience of our inner and outer life.

We will use Realization Process attunements and other exercises to:

deepen your contact with yourself in your body;
experience balance and stillness as essential and ever-present qualities of fundamental consciousness;
cultivate an inner ability to ‘see-feel’ in any given moment;
increase your resilience and ability to presence change, to grieve what is passing or lost, and to find joy as an eternal birthright.
‘be with’ our sensitivities, lost parts, and held patterns, without prejudice or judgment of good and bad parts of ourselves.

Please bring your questions and wonderings to this shared experience. People of all

physical abilities and backgrounds are welcome.

Cost: $90-$150 sliding fee* (*additional tuition assistance is available upon request)

SPECIAL NOTE: To support greater community access, you may also use the donation button on the registration page to pay an amount that meets your budget. All donations will be credited to my workshop.

What to bring:
- Snacks to share for a short lunch break
- Water bottle
- Journal and pen
- Chairs are provided but bring a bolster or pillow if you prefer to sit on the floor.

If you have any questions, please contact Sono: sono@springwood-usa.com

About the Facilitator:

Sono Hashisaki is a senior teacher of the Realization Process, certified in Embodiment, Meditation, Healing Ground, Advanced Trauma Repair, Advanced Therapy, and Stillness Moving. She leads workshops and offers individual sessions. Sono is also a facilitator of Family and Systemic Constellations.

Other workshops:

Workshop 1: Stillness and a Balanced Mind

Saturday, April 26, 2025 (9am-2pm) at Fremont Abbey [TICKETS HERE]

Using Realization Process practices and attunements we will experience balance as an ever-present and available quality in our deepest contact with ourselves to our everyday lives.

Workshop 3: Balance in a World Gone Mad

Saturday, June 21, 2025 (9am-2pm) at Fremont Abbey [TICKETS HERE]

"Building on the foundation of balance from workshops I and II, we will deepen into presence with tolerance, receptivity, and joy as practices for the times. We will explore subtle work and cultivate our generative capacities to share love individually and collectively with our communities, the earth, and the greater circle of life."

@ Fremont Abbey Arts Center

9am-2pm workshop

ABBEY ARTS EVENT INFO:

Fremont Abbey is ADA accessible on either level.
For most events we have a mix of padded chairs and standing room.
Seating is not guaranteed or reserved unless noted.
To respect the performing artists and your fellow attendees, please refrain from talking during the performances
Please limit photos during the show so as to not distract other attendees from the experience.
Phone and video may be permitted for some shows, from the standing area only please.
No professional cameras or cameras with shutters allowed in the venue
We are an all ages venue. Kids 10 & under are free at Abbey Arts concerts & arts events unless noted.
Equity & Inclusion - Entering the venue indicates agreement to adhere to the Abbey Respect Policy. www.fremontabbey.org/respect
Service animals as defined by the ADA are allowed. Service animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities.

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