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Saniel and Linda's Events

Regional Area Events
In 2009, Linda and Saniel are offering a variety of regional workshops and retreats in the US, Canada and abroad. For the regional workshops in your area, see the Take HEART! Tour for events in the US and Canada, and the Living the HEART Tour for events in the UK.

In addition, we welcome you to consider extended duration Personal Apprenticeships with Linda and Saniel, as well as Residential Retreats at their home in Sonoma, California. You may also schedule in-person or phone Consultations with Saniel or Linda. Write for more information.

Home-Study Courses
In addition to these in-person events, Saniel and Linda offer on-line home-study and live interactive conference call courses including The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart live teleseminar, and the home-study courses Great Relief Hero's Journey and the Human SUN Experience, which include continuing follow-up conference calls, and HEARTgazing™ Transmission of the Heart: Extended Meditations downloadable audio recordings.

Upcoming Courses & Regional Events

Beyond the Power of NOW: Empowerment of the HEART

a 3-session telecourse with Saniel

Three Thursdays: July 2, 16, & 30
6 - 7:30 p.m. Pacific time

This mini-telecourse follows up on Saniel and Linda's interview by Bill Harris on his online course at MasteringThePowerOfNow.com. That interview led many of you to learn more about our work through our own free online course Transmission of the HEART at heartgazing.com. 

Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now and, more recently, A New Earth and his worldwide webinar hosted by Oprah Winfrey, have catalyzed an unprecedented phenomenon. Tens of millions of people worldwide are now trying to master what, since ancient times, has been one of the most profound, austere, and difficult approaches to personal self-transcendence and spiritual awakening ever devised.

Our approach to "Empowerment of the HEART" spontaneously activates heroic journeys of personal and relational self-mastery. And, in the lives of many hundreds of people over the last 17 years, it has led to unprecedented, unshakable awakenings of embodied, "non-dual" consciousness. These immense shifts have then triggered ongoing evolutionary transformations they couldn't have merely willed or expected.

In these sessions, Saniel respectfully explores similarities and differences between the two approaches and answers questions from participants. Using a new, interactive teleconference system, the course will also include small group discussions among you, and more.

Bring your most real, vital, leading edge concerns about how to deal with ego, mind, the pain body and broken zones, desire and reactivity, will and letting go, awakening and life-purpose! This is going to be lively, deep, and for some, a momentous turning point in your journey. 

Course fee: $45 USD 
The call-in number will be sent to you before July 2.
For questions, write us at info@sanielandlinda.com.
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Saniel & Linda's Take HEART! and Living the HEART! Tours

Extraordinary Blessing, Inspiration & Empowerment for Challenging Times

In the USA and the UK, Summer 2009

Saniel and Linda begin the second phase of a tour that fulfills a desire they've had for a long time, to bring their work to a lot more people all over the world, face to face and heart to heart, in person.

See listing of events below.
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Saniel & Linda's Take HEART! Tour in the US

  • Empowerment of the HEART events
    • Two evenings with Saniel and Linda:

    Saturday, June 20, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
    Naples, FL
    For info and directions, contact Raj at raj@e-4it.com.

    Thursday, June 25, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
    Chapel Hill, NC
    For info and directions, contact Cathy at capascal@aol.com.

    Recommended donation: $20 or more.
    A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a local charity.

  • HEARTgazing™ and the White Heat
    • — two unique events of divinely human Joy

    Wednesday, July 12, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
    Sonoma, CA
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    Wednesday, July 15th, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.
    Ft. Collins, CO
    Click here to enroll.

    These events are open to anyone who hungers for a deeper connection to self, to life, to Nature, to God, to others, regardless of your religious faith or spiritual practice... or lack of these.

    They are also a special opportunity for new people to experience Saniel and Linda's transmission of the HEART in person and to meet others involved in Waking Down in Mutuality™, the transformational Way that Saniel founded in 1992.

    Recommended donation: $40 or more.
    A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a local charity.
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  • A "3-D" day in the HEART with Saniel & Linda
    • for Advancing Waking Down in Mutuality practitioners

    Saturday, July 11th, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
    Sonoma, CA
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    Saturday, July 18th, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
    Ft. Collins, CO
    Click here to enroll.

    In these all-day events specifically for experienced Waking Down in Mutuality practitioners, Saniel and Linda explore the '3 D's':
    1. a DEVELOPMENTAL understanding, commitment, expectation, and expression
    2. DISCRIMINATIVE intelligence, or "whole-being common sense"
    3. a sacred culture of DELIGHT – both before and after one's awakening.
    We're looking forward to every practitioner being there!

    Course fee: $125.
    $20 early-bird discount for registration by July 2.
    (Please note that the discount is applied in the shopping cart at check-out.)
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Saniel & Linda's Living the HEART Tour in the UK:

August 21 - 30, 2009, London and the South West

Three day-long retreats are scheduled and one shorter evening event in addition to two introductory events.

For more information on any UK event, call Alison at 01367 242855 or email alison@foss.net.

Monthly Heart Gatherings with Saniel & Linda

at their home in Sonoma

The following Sundays are tentatively scheduled:

Aug. 16, Sept. 13, Oct. 11, Nov. 15,
Dec. 20 – Winter Solstice HEART-Fire Ceremony

Note: Because Saniel and Linda are welcoming you into their home, this gathering is open only to people they've already met. If you'd like to bring someone new, please RSVP at least several days in advance.

Limited seating. RVSP linda@sanielandlinda.com.
$25

Full-Length Guided Meditations for HEARTgazing™

"HEARTgazing™ Transmission of the HEART" extended meditations

Now available as downloadable audio recordings

From early on in his work, Saniel implemented the ancient technique of communicating spiritual energy and consciousness by glance or gaze. This has become a tradition among all the Waking Down in Mutuality teachers. And it's at the core of our HEARTgazing™ offerings.

If you've taken the Transmission of the HEART course with Saniel Bonder & Linda Groves-Bonder, you've already been introduced to their meditations to access the living essence through HeartGazing. Now Saniel and Linda are offering four extended HeartGazing meditations to bring your whole Heart alive and awake in your own unique way, at your own pace.

Click on each link for purchase information:
  1. Receiving Heart-Transmission Through Gazing Meditation
  2. The Six-Step Recognition Yoga
  3. Active Conscious Dreaming™
  4. The Falcon's Glance Meditation for Awakening Consciousness
Or purchase the complete set of Full-Length Guided Meditations for HEARTgazing at a special price.
"HEARTgazing with Linda and Saniel, and participating in the force-field of their spiritual blessing, has opened up new experiences in my heart and my entire essence – the sense of my expanded consciousness and presence. I am experiencing life and its events more fully in my entire being and feel more grounded, open and aware. My personal spiritual journey has increased in its breadth, depth and velocity since I began this process with them.

Barbara Musser, D.Div., founder of Evolutionary Healing

Great Relief Hero's Journey

a 10-Week Audio Initiation into the Core "Wound-Wellness Mystery" of Your Life

This course is based around the study of Saniel Bonder's book Great Relief: Nine Sacred Secrets Your Body Wants You to Know About Freedom, Love, Trust, and the Core Wound of Your Life.

The experience of settling deeply into these sacred secrets, guided by Saniel and Linda's grounding wisdom and supported by their empowering presence, imparts a bodily understanding that most of us don't know we're missing.

Course is comprised of:
  • 10 instruction audios keyed to the text,
  • an ebook of Great Relief,
  • a 1½-hour conference call with Saniel and Linda,
  • on-going local or virtual facilitated study groups (optional).
This is a self-paced course; participants may start at their convenience. Allow 3 weeks for delivery.

Click here for more information.
Click here to enroll.

“The Great Relief Hero's Journey will connect you with a deep feeling sense and warm embrace of the personal dimension of your life here on earth, bringing great inner relief and sense of ease in being human, and leading to deep recognition of your individual existence and connection with all human beings.

Rod Taylor “The Human SUN Experience provides a magnificent framework, profound, groundbreaking knowledge, and powerful guidance toward direct experience of whole-bodied awakening in these modern times. You personally meet Saniel and Linda through their friendly, open, self-giving style of conversing in the audio recordings. Members of a study group I facilitated while taking this course were surprised by the warm loving transmission that exuded through the recordings and their down-to-earth explanations. Also, the carefully organized consolidations of Saniel's transmission-rich writings are priceless.”

— Rod Taylor
Waking Down in Mutuality Interning Teacher,
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

The Human SUN Experience:

An Initiation into Healing Your Spirit/Matter Split Through Waking Down in Mutuality, as Transmitted and Taught by Saniel & Linda

For anyone who yearns for a structured yet immensely enlivening way to either begin or deepen your practice of Waking Down in Mutuality, this course is the first-ever way you can do that from anywhere on Earth — as long as you have access to a phone, the Internet, and a mailbox!

This 14-week course offers an extended, intensive home study curriculum of audio recordings and assigned readings by Saniel and Linda, combined with four 1½ hour teleseminars with a qualified Waking Down in Mutuality Teacher and a 2 hour final teleseminar with Saniel and Linda themselves, plus a wealth of print, audio, and video materials.

Each week you will hear a 35 to 60 minute-long audio recording by Saniel and Linda presenting key points of one of the 12 Human SUN "Gateways into Awakened Freedom, Wholeness, and Love." You'll also have access to accompanying visual mandalas, which together with those key points represent the foundation principles and processes of Waking Down in Mutuality. (The first audio introduces the whole course, and the final audio summarizes it and offers perspectives for the future of your journey afterward.)

These teachings provide both visual and conceptual frameworks for understanding the unique features of the Waking Down in Mutuality process of divinely human awakening, healing, and evolution. The course includes an extensive manual of selected readings from Saniel's many books and manuscripts for you to study in the optional assignments, as well as downloadable audio and video documents, including a new "gazing" video of Saniel and Linda.

The 12 Gateways are divided into 4 Triads, depicted in the Human SUN Mandalas by specific triangles representing whole dimensions of the Waking Down in Mutuality process. As a participant, you will have access to a 1½ hour teleseminar covering each Triad (a total of 4 such teleseminars) with a designated Waking Down in Mutuality teacher who will take you and a committed group of fellow participants through the course. Then, toward the end of the entire Practicum, you and your group will also be invited to join Saniel and Linda for a live 2 hour teleseminar with them personally.

This study is combined with an in-depth presentation of teachings from Saniel's book Healing the Spirit/Matter Split (2006) and a more recent follow-up series of interviews with Saniel and Linda on Waking Down in Mutuality conducted by awakened Waking Down in Mutuality practitioner and Integral Studies master's candidate Lola McCrary.

The "Human SUN-Healing the Spirit/Matter Split Practicum" opens an important depth and breadth of exploration of Waking Down in Mutuality – as both study and practice – for many who have never had access to such an investigation before. It's also highly recommended for long-term practitioners, including Second Birth realizers, who want to take their understanding and capacity for discriminative discernment under the challenges of awakened living to much more profound levels.

Its additional advantage of either a local, in-person or virtual (phone, email) cohort group of fellow participants adds a wonderful human context in which to embrace the work. Some of these connections will almost certainly become long-term if not lifelong friendships for you and the other participants.

This is a self-paced course; participants may start at their convenience. Allow 3 weeks for delivery.

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