Candace Verlee

"When you approach your relationships as a spiritual practice in becoming more conscious rather than looking to relationships to make you happy or to fulfill you, a powerful shift takes place. You move from being identified with your reactions, disappointments, and entitlements to developing your capacity to evenly witness whatever arises.  In this practice, you do not become distant and detached as some people fear.  Rather, this practice helps you to experience your mind like a mirror.  A mirror receives but does not grasp.  In this state, compassion, clarity and grace may enter."

Candace has offered counseling, support groups and facilitated workshops for over fifteen years.  After receiving a Bachelors Degree in pyschological counseling from The Evergreen State college, she worked as an advocate for survivors of domestic and sexual violence, offering individual counseling, support groups and educational classes.

Candace has been teaching Solsara courses for ten years. She offers individual sessions as well as group intensives.

 

Larry Kaplowitz

"Solsara (which means to bring light to what is), is a practice that embodies the journey that I have been on for most of my adult life: to develop my ability to see myself and others clearly, and, through this clarity, to experience love, joy, connection, freedom, peace, and a deep sense of purpose. I attribute much of the joy and satisfaction I have experienced in my relationships, family and work to this practice. 

While I have followed many passions and visions in my life, I keep returning to this work as the most satisfying, meaningful, and fulfilling thing that I do. In  these times when it is clear that the awakening and evolution of human consciousness is essential to our survival, teaching Solsara is how I believe I can make the biggest difference.”

Larry has been teaching this work for nearly 30 years, in places including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Portland, Seattle, Eugene and many intentional communities and festivals. He has also worked as an artist and designer, spent ten years as program director at Lost Valley Educational Center, a community-based nonprofit educational center focusing on ecological living skills, co-produced the magazine, Talking Leaves: a Journal of our Evolving Ecological Culture, and, along with his partner, Luna Marcus, created Luna & Larry’s Coconut Bliss, an organic, vegan ice cream available widely throughout North America. Larry is father of 3 children, and, along with Luna, is developing a community and retreat center just outside Eugene.