Ignite Your Spiritual Life - Spring 2017
2017-04-19 18:00 - 2017-05-31 19:30 (America/Chicago)
Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT

Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT

Healing Love Healing Money: Free Intro WebinarWith Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle We are offering two different date/time options you can join: Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) Or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST) You can join a session both as a standalone webinar as part of our 2026 drop-in series Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times, as well as a taster for our 4-day course Healing Love, Healing Money running October 1–4 in partnership with Tamera Peace Village.

You check your bank balance and feel your stomach tighten. You know your finances aren’t actually a crisis, but your nervous system doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. You find yourself avoiding the number, or obsessing over it—there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. If money brings up more fear than facts, this session is for you. What We’ll ExploreThis session explores a simple but rarely examined question: what if our struggles with money are not primarily financial…but relational? Economic uncertainty doesn’t just live in our bank accounts—it lives in the body. We’ll explore how fear around belonging, intimacy, security, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic behaviour—and how meeting that fear with steadiness, rather than control or avoidance, opens a doorway into deeper spiritual practice. In this hour together, we’ll explore: Why money anxiety is rarely just about money—and what it’s often protectingHow scarcity and fear live in the nervous system, not just the spreadsheetThe surprising parallels between our wounds around money and our wounds around loveSimple practices for meeting financial fear with presence rather than avoidanceHow healing trust—in ourselves and in community—may be essential for real changeYou’ll leave with tools for meeting financial uncertainty with more presence, and a taste of the deeper territory we’ll explore together in the full course this October. This is session 5 of our 2026 online drop-in series – see here for future sessions Staying Whole: Meditation Tools For Fragmented Times series.

Session DetailsWhen: Join either Wed 16th Sept 2026 7-8 pm MDT (6-7 pm PST) or Thu 17th Sept 2026 10-11 am MDT (9-10 am PST)Format: Live online via Zoom (recording available)Cost: Free

Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT

Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT

Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean

"You can read and try all sorts of things by yourself, but doing it with a group, and with Karen and Duncan as wonderful teachers who really know what they are doing, will set you up to get closer to the direction and peace that you so deeply crave."
Erika RasmussenWriter and Film Maker

What to ExpectEach session in the series weaves together: Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice, adapted for real-world applicationGuided practice you can use immediately and return to between sessionsReflection & dialogue with others navigating similar terrainIntegration tools designed for daily life, not just the cushion

Photo courtesy of Ava Maclean

Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT

Join Thu 17 Sept 10-11 am MDT

Going Deeper: The Full CourseThis webinar is a taster for Healing Love, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture—a four-day live online course (October 1–4) offered in partnership with Tamera Peace Village, a long-term intentional community in Portugal known for its decades-long exploration of trust, intimacy, and love. Hosted by Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky, together with Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera, the course goes deeper into the territory this session only begins to open: how fear around belonging, intimacy, security, and survival shapes both our relationships and our economic lives, and why healing trust at the community level may be essential for real change. Watch: Karen and Duncan sat down with Monika and Benjamin for an unscripted conversation about why they created this course—watch it here (link to video once live).

Learn more about the full Healing Love Healing Money Course Oct 1-4

Your Guides For The SeriesDuncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”), and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict, collaboration, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on building mindfulness, resilience, and trust. Karen McAllister has practiced meditation since the 1990s and studied Buddhist Dharma for over 25 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei. She was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and has been a resident since 2018. Karen has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 13 years through Awaken in Toronto, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”), and Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness and Money & Spirituality programs. Through the ongoing practice of living in intentional community, navigating relationship, conflict, and shared responsibility, she has learned firsthand what it takes to stay grounded and whole in uncertain and changing times. Alongside her teaching, Karen serves as Co-Executive Director of Clear Sky and leads the funding of the Temple project, supporting a long-term vision of refuge and deep practice for generations to come. She is also the founder of Mindful Money Coaching, where she supports people in the helping professions and mission-driven fields to transform their relationship with money, bringing awareness to how they give, receive, and steward resources in alignment with their values and purpose.

"Duncan and Karen are wonderful instructors who help everyone, from beginners to people with more experience, practice meditation and self-care. As I joined remotely, I appreciated how the online participants were engaged through conversation and breakout rooms."
Kristi

Join Wed 16 Sept 7-8 pm MDT

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