Turning Points is a podcast style series featuring a different interview each month. This month features Amikaeyla Gastan, a singer, activist, and executive director/founder of the International Cultural Arts & Healing Sciences Institute. In order to register for this event participants must register for 6 or 12 months of the Turning Points series (recordings are available).

Join us for a 1 hour info session where you will learn about the SI community, it's mission, and our various participation and service opportunities.

In the meeting we’ll return to Dogen Zenji’s classic teaching: Enlightenment is intimacy with all things. We will look beyond words like enlightenment, awakening, and God-realization to find the living spirit of love and wisdom that true sages embody in the world. It is this aspiration that motivates so many of us to study, practice, and serve in the ways that we do. Without being perfectionistic, we’ll celebrate the “perfect imperfection” of our humanness and intimately embrace the part of everyone that is a center of transcendent awareness.

Turning Points is a podcast style series featuring a different interview each month. This month features Raghu Ananthanarayanan, a healer, behavioral scientist, and organization consultant.

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, celebrated for his work in ecumenical dialogue and Jewish Renewal, was the chief instigator of the movement for conscious aging and was at the forefront in defining its aims and means. Building on an account of his extraordinary life, this presentation will review the concerns that led to his seminal publication, in 1995, From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older.

Based on the book A Year to Live by Stephen Levine, the group will undertake a practice of living for one year as if each member was given an unspecified medical prognosis of having one year to live. The group will meet monthly to work with what emerges. There will be guided meditations at the beginning, middle, and end of the year and monthly facilitated discussions based on the content of the book and the recommended monthly practices. While reading the book is recommended, it is not required.

Turning Points is a podcast style series featuring a different interview each month. This month features John Sorenson, co-founder of the Elders Action Network.

Young people look outward and act in the world. When we become elders, and our body loses strength, we can turn our attention inward, into the spiritual realm. This is why Sage-ing is, at heart, an inner journey. As one delves into her or himself through deep awareness, s/he discovers the truth that lies beneath the surface. Then, like a deep-sea diver returning from the deep with discovered treasure, s/he can share the treasure with others. This is the true essence of a sage. In this two-hour workshop, a specific, multistep method of deepening and focusing awareness will be taught through which one can discover a deep inner silence filled with joy and illumination.

Join us as we explore how the inner work we have done (or can still do) guides and strengthens us not just in the good times, but through the hard times as well.

Please join Marilyn Loy Every, DMin, in exploring fertile probabilities at the soul of creative expression. While considering art as a “personal companion,” this 6 session series offers opportunities to liberate creative potential; hence enlivening, healing, and adding beauty to your life.

Raines Cohen, one of Sage-ing International’s Certified Sage-ing Leaders (CSL) will interview Chip Conley, best-selling author, with a focus on navigating transitions, cultivating purpose, owning one’s wisdom, and reframing our relationship with aging by being “age-fluid.”

For older adults, travel is often one of their greatest pleasures. But while a stay in an exclusive resort is one way to satisfy that wanderlust, author Lori Erickson argues instead for more soulful types of travel. In doing so she draws inspiration from arguably the oldest form of travel: pilgrimage. In cultures across the world and throughout history, trips to sacred sites have been a central part of the process of growing older. From Christians traveling to Rome and Muslims making the Hajj to Mecca, to Jews visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem, these journeys can be profoundly transformative.