Eyes of Love

09/04/2025

https://mailchi.mp/45f033bd68cd/a-journey-through-the-seasons

If you will join me for a few minutes, I would like to take you on a journey through 3 of the 4 seasons this past year. This was a journey of self-discovery; a journey that led me through grief and gratitude, all the way to grace; this was a journey of following Aliveness.

09/01/2025

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05/02/2025

Join Us for the Following Aliveness: Summer Retreat -

“Myosei and Josh create a truly spectacular retreat. Every detail from the beauty of the living altar to the nourishing meals, inspired mandalas, and thoughtfully curated gift package (complete with a journal and art supplies for your journey) is infused with care and intention. The retreat’s fl...

03/04/2025

Hello my dear friends,

There are only 3 more days left to register for the Following Aliveness Spring Retreat that I will be co-facilitating with my dear friend Joryu Myosei from March 12th-16th, 2025 near Boonville, California.

If you’ve been dreaming of taking a few days away from the busyness of life and the complexity of our world to pause, reflect and renew, now’s your chance!

Registration closes this Thursday, March 6th at 11:59pm PT. So, if you feel called to join, please register now with the link in my bio.

I would absolutely love to see you there!

02/06/2025

Reflections on Winter - Invitation to Spring -

I had the great privilege of attending the Following Aliveness Winter Retreat as a participant at the very beginning of 2025. This incredible retreat was led by my dear friend Joryu Myosei and supported by our beloved mentor Riyaz Motan, who joined as her guest teacher. I now have the honour of gett...

01/31/2025

Hello my friends, I am so excited to announce that I will be joining my dear friend and colleague, Joryu Myosei, to co-lead the Following Aliveness Spring Retreat, March 12th-16th in Boonville, California!

If you want to learn more and register for the retreat, please follow the link in my bio.

In this nature-based, spiritual retreat we will practice fully embracing the energies and potential of spring to discover, create, and grow in our embodiment and expression of true nature in our lives, work, and relationships.

If you feel called to slow down and attune to the nurturance and wisdom of our Sweet Mother Earth, please consider joining us for this incredible journey!

10/07/2024

Hello my beloved friends and community, I finally feel ready to share this painful news with you. My dear mom, Debbie Harris-Funfer, left her body on Tuesday, September 10th at 6:22pm. She died at 75 years old from Corticobasal Syndrome, which is a rare form of Parkinson's Disease.

We will have a Celebration of Life ceremony and gathering for my mom at the Lion's Club on this upcoming Saturday, October 12th (103 Bonnet Ave, Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2K8). Everyone who knew my mom, and/or was touched by her kindness, directly or indirectly, is most welcome. The doors open at 3:30pm, the service will go from 4pm until 5pm, and then we will have a reception with appetizers and drinks from 5pm until 7pm. If you want to join us in celebrating, honouring, and loving my dear mom, please come.

My mom was my fierce protector, my teacher, my role model, my champion, and one of my best friends in this world. She was the best mom I could have ever wished for in my wildest dreams. Words cannot even begin to describe how lucky I feel that I got to have such an incredible woman bring me into this world and raise me.

I know that the ripples of her kindness stretched out and reached so many people in this community. She created, founded, and built Treasures of the Heart, the metaphysical gift store in Ganges here on Salt Spring Island. She welcomed everyone into her store as though they were a dear friend. She wanted her store to feel like a temple, and to be a sanctuary where anyone who needed it could find peace, comfort, and healing.

My mom was fearless, committed, generous, and incredibly kind. Throughout her life, she traveled the world, she started 4 businesses, she taught and inspired children, she comforted the dying, and she was always a passionate spiritual seeker.

She lived an incredible life and she showed me by her example that anything is possible and that there is nothing I cannot do if I take a leap of faith and give myself to it. But the greatest gift she ever gave me is unconditional love. Thanks to her, I know in my bones what it feels like to be adored for exactly who I am. And I will spend the rest of my life sharing that gift with as many people as I can.

I miss her so much, but I know that she lives on in all the people whose lives she has touched. I Iove you mom, with every fibre of my being.

03/29/2023

Hi my dear friends! I am really excited to tell you that I will be giving my first in-person talk on Salt Spring this Saturday, April 1st from 3:30pm-4:15pm at the Wellness Fair, hosted Mahon Hall in Ganges! Please come join me!

In this talk, I will share with you some of the guidance I offer to both my clients and my students. Together, we will practice: 1) dropping into your heart, 2) listening from your heart, and 3) speaking from your heart. I will start by sharing a little about myself and my counselling practice - seeing through eyes of love. I will then discuss the importance of listening from your heart, and share some daily practices to help you ground in it. Finally, I will guide you through a meditation/active visualisation to help you drop into your heart.

This process of opening your heart helps you to listen with greater compassion to both yourself and to others, so that you can really begin to take in the beauty of this world, this life, and the simple yet profound connections that are waiting to be discovered around every corner.

12/18/2022

In this latest episode, of Eyes of Love - “A Ball of Experiencing”, I talk about the winter holidays and how important it is to take advantage of this down time to recharge and give thanks. I then remember my time on retreat with two of my cherished teachers: Jeff Foster and Matt Licata and my experience with finding Presence in nature. Finally, I describe the difference between the mindfulness idea of being present versus the greater awareness of pure Presence. Link to this episode in my bio.

12/02/2022

Hi my dear friends, have you ever been burned so badly by someone, or by life itself, that you've lost your sense of trust?

In this new episode of "Eyes of Love," called "The Courage to Trust," I talk about how important it is to trust in ourselves and in our dying world, despite all the hardship and suffering, and how, like prince Ash*taka in Princess Mononoke, we are called to walk our journey with “eyes unclouded by hate and fear.” To listen, please follow the podcast link in my bio.

11/22/2022

Hi my dear friends, the fourth episode of my podcast series - "Eyes of Love" with Gregory is NOW AVAILABLE! It is called "Do Your Duties, Playfully". To listen, please follow the podcast link in my bio.

In this episode, I talk about my early love of knowledge and how that led me to study western philosophy at McGill University. As I immersed myself in that heady and cerebral world, I learned to find the pearls of wisdom that resonated the most for me — the idea that we’re radically free but choose to believe otherwise, that we need to find meaning in whatever we do and, above all, to value the art of questioning.

I hope you also find some pearls of wisdom in this episode!

Thank you all so much for your love and support.

Episode 04 is the first episode behind our paywall of $5USD per month or $50USD per year. (The first three episodes of each season are always free).

If you are touched by my podcast, please consider paying this small fee that helps me make my dream happen.

If money’s an issue, drop a line to gregory@sukhavatistudios.com and we’ll set you up with a free subscription.

11/04/2022

Hi my dear friends, the third episode of my podcast series - "Eyes of Love" with Gregory is NOW AVAILABLE! It is called "Vulnerable & Honest". To listen, please follow the podcast link in my bio.

In this episode, I recount the insights I gleaned from my days at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and how each class was designed as a personal therapeutic session for the students. I talk about my love for Carl Rogers, who believed that all people should be treated with unconditional positive regard, that everyone has the potential for kindness. I also share some insight into the anxiety that many people felt during the pandemic after being forced to stay inside, unplugged from in-person social connections, and how they got to see their mind, up close and personal, perhaps for the very first time.

I hope it touches you in some way!