Together we will explore the path of the heart – the path of devotion, lovingkindness, forgiveness, compassion and gratitude.

• Meditative and experiential exercises for cultivating and deepening an open heart.

• More deeply receiving love as well as giving love.

• Trusting the vulnerability of your heart even in the midst of suffering.

• Working with both what blocks our heart and with bearing the radiance of our being.

• The importance of easing suffering for all beings, which includes compassion for ourselves, for those we love and for those we have a hard time with.

• Dualistic, tantric and non-dual devotion.

• When talking about loving and forgiving ourselves, which self are we actually taking about?

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare,

but if it is safety you seek, stay upon the shore.

– Sa’di

RamDev Dale Borglum has immersed himself in the practices of devotion, meditation, and contemplative prayer for over forty years studying with many of the greatest masters of the last century including Neem Karoli Baba, Suzuki Roshi, Anandamayi Ma, Kalu Rinpoche, the 16th Karmapa, Dilgo Khyentse, Mahasi Sayadaw, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Trungpa Rinpoche, Goenka, Dudjom Rinpoche, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Founder and Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in the San Francisco Bay Area, RamDev is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement and has worked directly with thousands of people with life-threatening illnesses and their families for over 30 years. In 1981, Dale founded the first residential facility in the United States, The Dying Center, for people who wished to die consciously.

Dale has taught with Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, Joan Halifax, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Rev. Wayne Muller, and many others. His life’s work and passion has been and continues to be the healing of our individual and collective relationship with death and using our mortality as an inspiration for spiritual awakening.