Online Programs

The Open Path

An In-Depth Online Training

With Pir Elias Amidon

October 2025 — May 2026

Registration now open

🌟 Multi-language subtitles will be available on all live calls with Pir Elias.

The Open Path is a living path of natural “enlightenment” that belongs to all of us. As a discipline, it is dedicated, first of all, to the direct experience of our “natural state,” a state known as pure awareness, selflessness, nonduality, Oneness, rigpa, original spirit, and many other names. As recognition of our natural state takes root in us, we experience release from our insecurities, self-doubt, and judgments of others, and are better able to respond spontaneously to whatever comes up for us with equanimity, creativity, and a kind heart. 

The training will be comprised of three 2-month seminars, separated by a month break in-between each seminar. Each 2-month seminar will include five online sessions, held on alternate Sundays. All sessions will be recorded so that if one is missed it can be experienced as soon as convenient. While Pir Elias’s book, The Open Path – Recognizing Nondual Awareness, will be a primary resource during the training, the seminars will not follow the book chapter by chapter but will instead create a unique weaving of this profound material.

First Steps — This initial seminar in the series will be held during October and November 2025. Here we will be introduced to the natural state through a series of “pointings-out” by Pir Elias along with practices that serve this fundamental recognition.

Opening into Openness — The second seminar will be held in January and February 2026. While evocation of the natural state of unconditioned awareness will continue throughout all the seminars, this second seminar will be devoted primarily to practices of self-inquiry and the release of fixations and self-stories that tend to obstruct recognition.

Being Human — The third seminar, April–May 2026, will focus essentially on what all this means for how we live our lives — in our intimate relationships, work and service life, parenting, aging, and dying. Here we will open to the essence of what it is to love and to “doing the beautiful” — as in Rumi’s phrase: “Let the beauty you love be what you do.”

Pir Elias' special presentation of "The Open Path" is now available on the Waking Up app.

This program anchors the listener in some of Pir Elias' central teachings, while inviting an open receptivity and acceptance of what is flowing into one's own life right now. It also offers a prelude to the broader themes of The Open Path Training, which will begin accepting early registrations on July 15 (more below).

The team at Waking Up has graciously offered us a free trial link, so that anyone who does not yet have access to the app can listen to this series. Click below to download the Waking Up app and start your free trial.

Join Murshid Ihsan Covey for a series of insightful interviews with wisdom keepers of the Sufi Way, followed by reflective conversations with the gathered community about what is alive and real in our daily spiritual journeying. All are welcome.

2nd Wednesday of the month @ 1:00pm EST / 6:00pm UK / 7:00pm EU.

1 hour / Starts September 10th

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