Miranda Macpherson
Stop sabotaging your own fulfillment — and walk through the world as the graceful human being you were made to be.
You have a fundamental drive for fulfillment. Every human does.
At the end of our time on this earth, we all want to feel we...
Gave and received real loveDid our very bestShared the gifts we were blessed withMade a meaningful contribution to others Found our true purpose
So why do we keep pushing a truly meaningful life away with both hands? Sabotaging the Grace in our lives that’s trying to break through — that’s been right within our reach, all along?
According to spiritual teacher Miranda Macpherson, your ego has built up powerful defenses against receiving the very things that will bring you true fulfillment...
In fact, your deep desire to open to the nourishing presence of Grace in your life is actually what’s bringing up such fierce resistance.
It’s so much easier to live each day distracted by our culture’s enticing invitation to chase after more, more, more...
Yet, expecting to find meaning in external conditions — a “perfect” relationship, dream job, financial windfall, or similar shiny object — is like expecting to grasp a sparkling jewel by reaching into the mirror that reflects it.
Real meaning cannot be found in outside sources; it can only be discovered by looking within.
In a powerful online program, you’ll explore exactly WHY you resist the force that’s always trying to bless you...
... and be guided to take transformative steps to finally get out of your own way — so you can come home to your deepest nature, and live a life of purpose and Grace.
During this experiential course, you’ll:
- How to spot the false idols that direct you into an endless loop of constantly seeking meaning without ever feeling fulfilled
- Specific ways you’re likely sabotaging love and holding back on letting “the good” fully into your life
- How divine love melts your ego’s defenses — making you feel vulnerable AND more transparent to Grace
- The transforming power of what Miranda calls Ego Relaxation — learning to stay present and undefended with what IS
- The ways that Grace can manifest through us in unique ways you might not have considered
- Why service — sharing the good with others — brings us the deepest meaning in life
- How to harness everyday triggers for joy, as a way to enter more fully into the source of them
- How to practice ego relaxation in moments of expansion: as you walk in nature, cook a meal, hang out with loved ones, enjoy music or art, and more
- How Grace is completely unconditional — not coming through any filter of personality... it’s just always there, waiting patiently for you to receive it
- How the Ego always has conditions around love and fulfilment, relating to pleasure as a “reward” and pain as “punishment”
- The ways you can be free of the running commentary in your head about how well (or not well) you’re doing
- How, in the end, spiritual practice — and indeed, life — invites you to say YES to the invitations that come knocking at your door
What You’ll Discover in These 9 Modules
In this 9-module, self-guided transformational intensive, Miranda's course guides you through the fundamental skills you’ll need to rediscover your deepest nature of luminous love, joy, and peace.
The Beauty of On-Demand
This course features step-by-step teachings and experiential practices from Miranda. Each session builds harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to come home to your deepest nature, and live a life of purpose and Grace. Your purchase includes 24/7 ongoing access to your course content, allowing you time to review the materials at your own pace and integration.
Session 1 Relaxing the Chase for "More"
In this session, Miranda will share why it is an intrinsic part of the human journey to lose contact with the radiant presence at the core of your being, develop a personality and end up living on the surface of ourselves.
However, life also calls us to re-discover the luminous love, joy and peace that is our deepest nature, relax out of our ego and walk through this world as the graceful human beings we were made to be.
For this to happen, you must address the obstacles to turning more substantially within, surrender our resistance and open to a Grace deeper than our mind...
In this session, you’ll discover:
- Why the human default is to merely live on the surface of ourselves, disconnected from the natural joy and fulfillment of our own heart
- How the main obstacle to fulfillment is the drive to find it in particular conditions externally, even in trying to “do” spiritual awakening
- Ways to spot the False Idols that imprison you into patterns of seeking but never truly finding
- Seeing and surrendering the forces that drive you to seek externally, — and instead, turning more substantially into your own heart
- How to practice Ego Relaxation with your most important material: learning to stay present and undefended with what IS
- A potent meditation and inquiry practice to illuminate your external seeking and the driving forces within it...and how to relax more substantially into the Grace that is always available at your core
Session 2 Understanding Your Resistance to Nourishing Goodness
We all say we want more love, joy, fulfillment — yet if we examine our actual behavior honestly, it seems there is another part of us, a hidden Self, that is swimming against the currents of Grace, resisting the flow of fulfillment.
This week, Miranda will guide you to compassionately explore your ego’s defenses to receiving, that relates to our pre-verbal history with our earliest source of Love and Nourishment – our mothering figure. Discern how a genuine need for fulfillment attained from the outside is a truth at one stage of our development, and how it becomes an obstacle at another.
With Miranda’s guidance, you’ll address your relationship to deep vulnerability that practicing Ego Relaxation inevitably elicits. Learn how to befriend the power of vulnerability in a manageable way, empowering you to truly move beyond spiritual sabotage:
In this session, you’ll discover:
- Ways you’re likely sabotaging love and holding back on letting “the good” fully into your experience
- What happened during your first stage of ego-development, when you relied on your mothering figure to fulfill your every need — and how this impacts your life and practice today
- How Divine Love melts your ego defenses — making you feel vulnerable BUT ALSO more transparent to Grace
- Leaning into the support beyond the web of your mind to stay present in the face of vulnerability, without collapsing
- How sensing into your immediate direct experience helps you relax out of defensive mental activity
- An inquiry practice to compassionately dissolve your obstacles and allow nourishing goodness to permeate your heart, mind and life
Session 3 Unwinding Allegiance to Your Conditioning (Pre-record)
At this point in your journey, you will have seen through your false idols that keep you seeking for fulfillment in the external world. You will be learning to relax some of your ego defenses, addressing your resistance to receiving nourishing Grace.
This week, you’ll address the third greatest obstacle to true fulfillment: your unconscious loyalty to the conditions around love, joy and fulfillment introjected from your childhood authority figures — parents, teachers, culture, religion, and more.
In this session, Miranda will guide you in a potent and juicy teaching on becoming divinely dis-obedient to the “rules” of your super-ego: the outer layer of your ego structure that manifests as the nagging inner commentary made of conditions, judgment and all things “should”!
You’ll explore how the intro-jected “rules” of your conditioning blocks true fulfillment, and why you’re often powerfully attached to these out-dated rules.
You’ll explore how you might unconsciously relate to joy and pleasure as a “reward” and pain as “punishment”.
Prepare to step out of line with the navigation system of your past, stay present with the fears underneath this, and emerge authentically into the now, with a peaceful, quiet mind.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- How Grace is completely unconditional — not coming through any filter of personality... it’s just always there, waiting patiently for you to receive it
- How the Ego always has conditions around love and fulfilment, relating to pleasure as a “reward” and pain as “punishment”
- Common ways people obey the super-ego’s rules — manifesting as limiting beliefs about what you deserve in life
- How you can be free of the the running commentary in your head about how well (or not well) you’re doing
- A juicy practice to become divinely dis-obedient to anything that keeps you believing you must become worthy of receiving the blessings of Grace
- Moving beyond the paradigm of being spiritual “good/bad boys and girls,” to just being unconditionally as you ARE
Session 4 Integration Session & Extended Satsang
This week is an opportunity to integrate the realizations from the previous three teaching sessions that illuminate the three primary obstacles to True Fulfillment.
Miranda will give deeper nuances on these teachings, responding to themes emerging within the group to help you gain the very most from the teachings and practices.
Then, she’ll give a full hour of satsang – working experientially with participants’ most important questions – while demonstrating how the practice Ego Relaxation opens the gate to ever deepening love and wisdom.
Session 5 Receiving the Divine Force Upon Your Deepest Prayers
The more you practice ego relaxation with the ego patterns and resistance that you find as you turn more substantially within, the more your sense of being a historically based “somebody” who has to earn, deserve or become worthy disappears.
Not only does this lift you out of unnecessary suffering, it also lifts you into an infinite expanse.
As the curtains of your consciousness open, and you befriend the feeling of vulnerability, you discover what seems like a parallel universe within you, where true fulfillment and freedom abound unconditionally.
Many mystical scriptures of the world’s wisdom traditions speak of Grace in terms of “wine,” “living water,” “nectar,” and “amrita.” These terms speak to a blissful subtle substance that is not physical, but has a powerfully rejuvenating effect upon our soul – like gentle rain has on a dry plant.
While no one can ever fully understand the mystery of Grace, you can nevertheless lean into a felt sense of being powerfully blessed into a more fulfilling experience of life.
Whether you come to the path through an established spiritual tradition or have no affiliation to a particular lineage, this session invites you into the possibility that Divine love and celestial blessings are available to support your to expand spiritually, address your life situation intelligently, and also help you practically to manifest your fullest potential in life.
With Miranda’s guidance, you’ll access a state of deeper receptivity to Grace through non-linear means that include a specific meditation and mantra practice.
In this session you’ll discover:
- The reasons you often feel a sense of lack — even when you know intellectually that, compared to so many on the planet, you’re blessed
- What you can learn from how the Divine is expressed in Vedic cosmology — each deity is really an essential aspect of our radiant core.
- How the substance of your soul returns to its natural clarity, fluidity and freedom as your practice of Ego Relaxation develops...melting out of ego density and into greater transparency
- Opening to the Shakti (Divine force) of Lakshmi, whose Grace is abundant love, nourishment, harmony, beauty and blessings on both the spiritual and the material dimensions of life (and how to work with within your own theological framework)
- Opening to infinite auspiciousness to bring you into the flow of synchronicity and what it is you truly need to thrive in your life
- Contacting your heart’s deepest prayer, and how to discriminate this from ego grasping for “more”. Then, receiving the Divine Force upon your deepest prayer with a powerful meditation and mantra initiation
- A recorded version of the Maha Lakshmi initiation to keep as part of your deepening homework
Session 6 Experience Joy Independent of Circumstance
The more you relax the search for “more” in the world “out there”, and cherish conscious contact with your immediate direct experience, sincerely opening to the Divine Force upon your prayers, it is inevitable that you start to experience a natural sense of joy, even though life continues to bring its inevitable ups and downs. This is because joy is the natural fragrance of your deepest heart.
The sense of dissatisfaction that is the basic state of ego gives way to a simple satisfaction. Ordinary life takes becomes richer and more meaningful, but at the same you become less attached to particular conditions, as you learn to liberate joy from its triggers. You become more naturally optimistic, resilient and intelligently responsive to life’s invitations. Furthermore, your presence exudes a relaxed, beautiful fragrance that is also satisfying to be around.
In this class, Miranda will share how to practice ego relaxation with all that life brings – including moments of ego contraction, and also in moments of great beauty. She will share how important it is to recognize and also unabashedly pleasure in the blessings of your life, harnessing ordinary moments of simple pleasure as a form of worship and gratitude. Deepen into your bliss, relish every sensation as you learn to receive more fully the blessings of life:
Discover: how to differentiate the triggers for joy from their Cause – which is the nourishing nectar of your own heart. Deepen into your bliss, relish every sensation as you learn to receive more fully, the blessings of life:
- Experience “Ananda” – the fulfilling love, joy and bliss of your deepest heart
- Harnessing the everyday triggers for joy, as a way to enter more fully into the Source of them
- Practice ego relaxation in moments of expansion: as you walk in nature, cook a meal, hang out with loved ones, enjoy music or art, and more
- Receive and recognize the blessings of your life
- Walking this world in gratitude & generosity
Session 7 Meaningful Service Minus "Me-Go"
In your journey so far, you’ve been learning to surrender in and through our blocks to true fulfillment, and instead harness all that life brings as an invitation from the Divine Force to grow, heal and expand us.
You’re likely recognizing that life, even with its challenges and complexity, is a precious gift, and are learning to relish it more fully in and amidst the imperfection of your own life
All authentic traditions understand the importance of serving our fellow human beings in some way. This helps us evolve out of self-centeredness and it also supports us to embody our love, and find not only fulfillment but a deep sense of meaning and purpose in our existence. Embodying out love in some way, even if it is simple, is key to a life of fulfillment
This class is dedicated to supporting you to explore what within you most wants to be shared in the service of others at this point in your life. You’ll explore why you can’t truly integrate the gifts that you have until you share them...
... and how to discover the true, natural, effortless, and generous giving of your gifts — minus the filter of a separate “me”.
Miranda will share a potent teaching story Ramana Maharshi gave about recognizing and staying close to the recognition of Who it really is that is the do-er of all our actions.
This opens up a new possibility for sharing your gifts, minus the stress and struggle, in creative and juicy new ways...
In this session, you will discover:
- Letting your inner inspiration come alive into loving action, minus the “should”
- Discriminating the difference between serving from your ego, and effortless embodiment of your being that simply extends the gifts
- The ways Grace can manifest through us in unique ways we might not have considered
- Why service, sharing the good with others, brings us the deepest meaning in life
- How the ego can co-opt the concept of service as just another ego strategy to earn, bargain, or prove ourselves. How to reset when this happens
An inquiry practice to uncover the possibilities for your giving to flow freely minus the filter of a separate “me”
Session 8 Experiencing the Divine Everywhere
As you near the end of this course, you’ll be equipped to understand and explore — with ongoing curiosity and compassion — the many ways you block the flow of fulfilling Grace.
You can now meet, and lovingly understand, the stubborn places where you just do not want to let go and open up.
And at this point in your journey, you’re still trying to get the good stuff while holding onto your “me-go”. It’s time to see this for what it is, and let the healing Grace touch it.
Furthermore, to recognize that everywhere you go, Grace and all of the gifts you could possibly need to flourish and thrive, are present.
This class is dedicated to helping you experience the Divine everywhere – in yourself, in others, and everywhere. This provides the spiritual platform from which to be a graceful human being.
In this module, Miranda will guide you to explore:
- How, in the end, spiritual practice — and indeed, life — invites you to say YES to the invitations that come knocking in your door
- How Ego Relaxation makes you more capable of yielding when the mystery of life asks you to let go
- Why you should keep saying YES to that which fertilizes your soul — cherishing the practices that help you stay intimate with trust, close to your own heart, and tuned in to its wisdom amidst your daily life
- What you can learn from the profound mystery of how everything is always happening at once — for instance, right now someone is dying and someone else is being born
- Why Grace will always deepen, season and bring out the very best in you — and you are its embodiment, now and forever
- How to recognize the Divine everywhere, walking through life with this realization
Session 9 Integration & Final Satsang
In this final session, Miranda will expand further on the last four sessions, that have invited a significant expansion of our consciousness. She will speak to any themes occuring in the group, clarifying confusions and teasing out further nuances that serve you gaining the most out of our material, so you can stride forward in your life beyond this course. She will spend a full hour working experientially with your grappling points and questions, and end the program with a guided meditation in which you’ll ask yourself — what was most nourishing for you in this course? What was your most important insight What obstacles to true fulfillment do you want to keep an eye out for? What can most support you to live into a life of True Fulfillment and freedom from this point forward.
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Miranda Macpherson’s transformative 9-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
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Walking the Mystical Path With Depth & Substance
Be Still & Know
Excerpt From The Way of Grace
2 Chapters From the Ebook by Miranda Macpherson
Many of us struggle to truly live a spiritual life. What if it’s not about trying harder, though? The Way of Grace is a guide to spiritual surrender and nondual realization based on the practice of ego relaxation ― a holistic, feminine approach to welcoming all of your experience and responding with compassion and wisdom in a world in need of your unique gifts. As you’ll discover, grace will always deepen, season, and bring out the very best in you. Although not required, reading Miranda’s entire book will enhance your experience in this course.
Resources: Mantras for True Fulfillment
Sometimes, ordinary language cannot accurately express the deepest dimensions of our being — the love for the sacred mystery that is boundless being and bliss. Yet, we can contact our nonlinear depths through sound, silence, and prayer. This is the way of devotion. It opens up courage, compassion, and joy, and supports true fulfillment.. Sanskrit mantras are ancient syllables that exert precise positive effects on the body, heart, and mind.
Lean into the mantras as you lean your head into the pillow at night. Dissolve into the mantra and it draws you back into the origin of your being. As you chant, feel into your own prayers — your truest yearnings for yourself and for the world. Intoning these ancient sounds, you join with all beings throughout time who have ever prayed these prayers. Now your prayers are part of a continuing stream of the awakening heart. May they become part of your daily life — supporting you to reside AS the heart of Being.
Please listen to these special recordings:
Resources: Guided Meditations
What People Are Saying About Miranda Macpherson…
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Author of A New Republic of the Heart and coauthor of Integral Life Practice
Director of the Hoffman Process
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Seven Pre-Recorded 120-Minute Sessions
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Nine PDF Transcripts of Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive session transcriptions. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
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Author of Living Your Best Life
Author of A Deep Breath of Life
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About Miranda Macpherson
Miranda Macpherson is a spiritual teacher, interfaith minister, and mystic who shares a feminine approach to surrender and nondual realization based on the practice she calls Ego Relaxation™. Her wisdom and palpable transmission invites others to become more graceful human beings through inquiry, meditation, devotion, and psychological integration.
Grounded in extensive study of the world’s wisdom traditions, and inspired by Sri Ramana Maharshi, A Course in Miracles, and the Diamond Approach, Miranda has been guiding others into direct experience of the sacred for over 30 years.
In her twenties she founded the OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation in London, where she trained and ordained over 600 ministers and counselors. Today, Miranda leads the Living Grace Global Sangha, leads retreats internationally, and serves as advisor to the Association for Spiritual Integrity.
Her books include The Way of Grace: The Transforming Power of Ego Relaxation… Boundless Love… Meditations on Boundless Love… and the Cultivating Grace card deck. Miranda is also a kirtan musician with two mantra albums: The Heart of Being and Streams of Grace: Mantra Medicine for Yoga and Inner Peace.
Unapologetically feminine, joyful, and down-to-earth in her way of being, Miranda is dedicated to loving people all the way back into the freedom and wholeness of our true nature.