Yolande Duran- Serrano. Los Angeles (III)

Yolande Duran- Serrano. Los Angeles (II)

Yolande Duran- Serrano. Los Angeles (I)

Silence...

Skurktur

This vision, this thing makes you do things with such

intensity that you… that all you can do is be. No need to think about your life:

you observe, and things keep on and on happening spontaneously. Always

within this intensity which varies from one minute to the next. And you

abandon yourself more and more, you are more and more confident, since in

any case everything is taken care of.

Silence Heals

Dans l'éternel Silence

Meetings in Eternal Silence with Yolande Duran Serrano

San Francisco Bay Area June 16th to 22nd, 2014

The power of Silence: "Life takes care of us" Silence heals the idea of: "I am my story"

In 2003, without having any prior knowledge of spirituality, Yolande was overtaken by a spontaneous awakening to reality and her true nature. A state of profound Silence or “ego death”, so profound that even the tragic death of her only son, two months after her awakening, did not pull her out of the Silence, a Universal Consciousness that is ever present.

She is a living example of Love, infinitely gentle presence manifesting on earth and walks in this world as a reminder that the power of Silence and Love can heal and transform our lives. Since her awakening, Yolande has dedicated her life to guide spiritual seekers who have a deep desire to remember who they truly are and who want to experience Freedom, Love, Joy, and Peace in their lives - she has been giving solace and peace to all of those who come in search of comfort, healing and wholeness.

“The most loveliness is inner Silence. The Silence releases us. The Silence helps and heals us.”

She is originally from France and she is the author of two books: “Silence Heals” and “In Love with Silence”.

To learn more about Yolande, please visit her website: www.yolande.info and to purchase her books: www.amazon.com

Dates and Locations

•   Monday, June 16th, 7 - 9 p.m. ($20 to $25 donation)
Unity in Marin, 600 Palm Drive, Novato, CA 94949 - Marin County

•  Tuesday, June 17th, 7 - 9 p.m. ($20 to $25 donation)
First Unitarian Universalist Society, 1187 Frankling St. at Geary Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94109

•  Wednesday, June 18th, 7 - 9 p.m. ($20 to $25 donation)
Cultural Integration Fellowship, 2650 Fulton St. at 3rd Ave., San Francisco, CA 94118

•  Thursday, June 19th, 7 - 9 p.m. ($20 to $25 donation)Open Circle Center/Choch Mat Halev, 2215 Prince St., Berkeley, CA 94705 - The East Bay

•  Friday, June 20th, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. ($25 to $35 donation)
Open Secret Bookstore, 923 C St., San Rafael, CA 94901 - Marin County

•  Saturday, June 21st, Retreat 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. ($40 to $70 donation - sliding scale)
Retreat House, 8476 Sonoma Ave., Sebastopol, CA 95472 - Sonoma County Near Highway 116 and Graton Road. Daylong retreat, please bring lunch.Limited to 25 people, please reserve in advance by emailing tommy@sonic.net

•  Sunday, June 22nd, 9 a.m. - 12 Noon. ($30 to $40 donation)

Swedenborgian Church, 1422 Navellier St., El Cerrito, CA 94530 - The East Bay

No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

For more information, please contact Sandra at (650) 270-3681

Silence… so you feel… alive.

"It is really so light. It is this intensity, this simplicity that allows you to remain neutral. This is what joy is. You feel yourself… and it is neutral. It is intense, but it is neutral. You cannot say you are either happy or unhappy. On a psychological plane you are dead, and at the same time, you feel things you

have never before felt in your life. You feel the heart beating, the blood in your veins, the pulsation at the tips of your toes… These bodily perceptions are thousands of times more subtle than ever before and you feel them constantly, at the same time as the variations in your energy… so you feel… alive. Alive like never before."

#SilenceHeals 

Silence...

"In my experience the intensity is at its highest during yet another experience which also takes place when I am alone and I lie down… it is instantaneous. All of a sudden, you don’t feel anything more of the world at all, neither your body, nor anything else. You have lost your five senses. You don’t see, you don’t hear, you don’t “feel” –not in the way we usually feel things. It doesn’t remove the deeper feeling, what I mean to say is, perceiving continues, being perception, but not through the filter of the bodily senses, such as you know them. So, you no longer see anything appear, but you still have this intense feeling. And what is so terrifying is… (silence)…"

Silence Heals

Djalâl ad-Dîn Rûmî

‪Maurits Cornelis Escher‬

"Ever since happiness heard your name, it's been running through the streets trying to find you."

Djalâl ad-Dîn Rûmî

Silence Heals

There you are doing nothing, alone or with someone, and all of a sudden there is this intense upsurge of energy… activating all the senses at the same time… it’s like an explosion, ecstasy… it takes over whenever it likes, in front of a flower, an armchair… or nothing. Sometimes it happens several times in a day, or for several days at a time: then nothing for a whole week. The intensity increases, then decreases, you can’t do anything about it. It is truly wonderful.

#SilenceHeals

You are warmly invited to join us for a wonderful event at

Maha Yoga Studio, 13050 San Vincente Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90049

on Friday, March 14^th from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

  to sit in Satsang with Yolande Duran-Serrano.

Yolande is visiting from France, where she gives satsangs all over Europe. We are privileged to have her here in Los Angeles, Ojai and Santa Barbara for the first time.

Sitting in Silence with Yolande has a 'tuning fork' effect, redirecting our awareness to the stillness within us that is already present. We are already free; we may just not notice it.

Be forewarned! Sitting with Yolande unravels all our concepts of « who we think » we are.

From the book, Silence Heals, published in 2012 by Non-Duality Press:  On a summer’s day in 2003, Yolande Duran-Serrano was going about her normal daily activities in her apartment in France, thinking the usual mundane thoughts, when suddenly she was struck by a Silence in her mind.  “How is it that I’ve never noticed this before?” she wondered.  In the blink of an eye her thoughts moved to the background of awareness, while an ineffable Silence moved to the foreground.  There, it quickly began to establish itself as the ground of peace that would soon take over her life.

In my end is my beginning: I have come home again.  Without bearings, I move forward, carried by this lightness, guided by this Silence—this Silence that manifests through presence, and through absence.  — Yolande

For the last ten years, Yolande Duran Serrano has been living an unspeakable experience, a sudden shift, eternally repeated, resulting in her whole being now rooted in the depths of Being. This state, this non-state, shows itself by an intense Silence, a void, a fullness simultaneously so simple and so extraordinary that for a long time she had no words to speak about it. Allowing herself to be gradually guided and taught by this Silence, more and more she feels a thirst to share this way of being in a world infused with lightness and simplicity. She testifies here to this spontaneous internal liberation, the shock by Ultimate Reality of oneself and of all that is, which is : “the ultimate healing since it heals the idea of being a person…” To learn more, please visit: www.yolande.info or  https://www.facebook.com/SilenceYolandeDuran or https://twitter.com

Our meeting will be partly in Silence, and also open for questions and answers. Yolande only speaks French, but speaks best in Silence; however, we will have an interpreter.

Donation: $20.

Happy Valentine!!

Silence Heals

#SilenceHeals...

Sometimes the vibration is so strong, that I am shaken by it, so startled that I open my eyes. And the vision is gone, immediately. But as soon as I reclose my eyes, I sink into this space and it all starts up again… people appearing and disappearing… waves of energy…

When this happens to me, I am unable to sleep for about two or three hours afterwards. I am too full of energy. As if this vibration that had seized me, had in fact, re-charged me.

faith

C’est une foi totale en ce que tu vois – mais pas avec tes yeux, ni avec aucun autre sens. Ce n’est donc pas une perception. Pas plus qu’une déduction mentale… Voir avec cette conviction profonde, c’est découvrir le détachement de tout ce que l’on croyait être, c’est l’ego qui ne peut plus se reconstruire… Et plus l’éclaircissement se fait, plus tu t’aperçois que tout le manifesté, même les arbres, le prétendu réel, vient de cette chose en amont, vient de cette Réalité pure.

Le Silence Guerit

It is total faith in what you see… not with the eyes, nor with any other sense organ. Thus it is not a perception, nor a mental concept… Seeing with this profound conviction is to discover that you are detached from everything you thought you were. The ego can no longer reconstruct itself…. And the clearer it gets, the more you see that everything manifested, even the trees, this alleged reality, comes from this thing that preceded it, comes from pure Reality.

Silence Heals

Silence Heals

At first, this was not so clear. Some things were clear, for example, the lack of attachment to thoughts, emotions, memories. But your body, or the objects surrounding it, you believed they were still real, had a separate existence…

More recently, everything is becoming more and more obvious, and much simpler: this thing really and truly encompasses everything.

Silence Heals

Au début, ce n’était pas si clair. Certaines choses l’étaient, par exemple l’absence d’attachement à tes pensées, tes émotions, tes souvenirs. Mais ton corps, ou les objets autour, tu les croyais encore dotés de réalité, d’une existence à eux…

Ces derniers temps, tout devient de plus en plus évident, de plus en plus simple : c’est bel et bien cette chose qui englobe tout.

Le Silence Guèrit

l'intensité

Faire confiance à ce qu’on est, tous, au fond de nous. Vivre pleinement l’instant présent, dans l’intensité. "Le silence guérit"

Trust what you are, what we all are, deep inside. Live the present moment fully, with intensity. "Silence Heals"

Le Silence

Jeune fille à la fenêtre - Salvador Dalí

"Et tout ce qui se passe ne fait que me confirmer, à chaque instant encore plus, qu’il ne faut surtout pas essayer d’être autrement. "

Yolanda Duran & Laurence Vidal: "Le Silence Guérit". Éditions Almora

"And everything that has happened only confirms, again and again, that most of all I must not try to be anything other than the way I am."

Yolanda Duran & Laurence Vidal: "Silence Heals". Non-Duality Press Edition

Silence

"Au fond, je n’aurai rien dit, ni vous ni moi n’aurons rien compris. Le silence en dit tellement plus…"
Yolanda Duran & Laurence Vidal: "Le silence guérit". Éditions Almora


"In fact, I would have added nothing; neither you, nor I, would have understood anything. Silence says so much more…"
Yolanda Duran & Laurence Vidal: "Silence Heals". Non-Duality Press Edition