She lives in Chicago. Joan offers a monthly gathering in Chicago, and is available for workshops, speaking engagements, and the like. She is happy to hear from people. For one instant, abandon all formulas, answers, beliefs, expectations, and efforts to achieve a result of any kind. In our search for the extraordinary, we overlook the miracle of every moment, of presence itself.
Awareness includes everything and clings to nothing.
It has no boundaries or limits. We imagine that we are a separate somebody, that something is lacking, that we have to get somewhere, that we have time to do this in. In fact, there is no time and no where else to go. We are always already here, totally complete. Nothing is missing.