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Saniel and Linda's Events in 2008

Regional Area Events
Linda and Saniel have a full schedule of regional area events in the US and Canada in 2008, including workshops and retreats on a variety of themes. In most cases, during their visit, they will offer at least one evening event previous to the weekend, either with the local community or as an intro evening, or both. In addition, there may also be a Shamanic Touch Healing Circle on Thursday afternoon. For those who hunger for direct personal time with Saniel and/or Linda, we recommend scheduling a half-hour personal session on the day or two before the workshop begins. 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.

Home-Study Courses
In addition to these in-person events, there are home-study and conference call courses. The Great Relief Hero's Journey is continuing to be offered, and starting in January, The Human SUN Experience is being introduced as an online home-study and possible group study course, with conference calls. There will also be other conference call courses, to be announced.

New Course Format in 2008
The regional area weekend events in 2008 have a different format from the White-Hot Way retreats of 2007, introducing interesting and new ways of exploring the workshop themes and working with the individual, engaging both sides of the brain and the whole body more fully. In general, rather than each person taking an allotted time for sharing in the large group, there are:
  • large group presentations and Q&A
  • dyad or triad work
  • in some workshops, extended smaller group sessions
  • possible shamanic "spirit-work" in Saniel and Linda's particular style
  • movement, perhaps dance; and so on
The gazing meditation sessions will continue as before.

Upcoming Courses

Monthly Heart Gatherings

White-Hot Explorations with Saniel Bonder & Linda Groves-Bonder

Upcoming gatherings in 2008:

July 20, August 17, September 14,
October 12, November 23, December 14.

10:30 a.m. — 1 p.m.
at Saniel and Linda's home in Sonoma
Limited seating. RVSP info@sanielandlinda.com
$25

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.

HEARTgazing™ Celebration with Saniel and Linda

in New York City
A special evening event for oldtimers and newcomers alike.

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. Each person has a brief period of making direct eye contact with Saniel and Linda, sitting directly face to face. The intention is one of simple meeting, heart to heart and soul to soul. No manipulation of energies, no psychic maneuvering or mind reading -- just meeting in mutual respect and honoring.
"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
Monday, July 28, 7:00 PM
$77

Limited seating by reservation only. To RVSP click here.
For more information about HEARTgazing™, click here.

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.

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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 WDM 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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Living the Conscious Principle: Quantum Vision, Quantum Love, Quantum Wakefulness

A combination of more meditation/gazing than usual, including mutual gazing, and focus together on the "Waking" aspect of the process; the direct investigation of Consciousness: the embodied feeling-witness; enquiry; the function of advanced "listening" and transmission; the stages of clarification of Consciousness; why this work is so crucial to our freedom; the "Quantum" dimensions of this part of the work and a practical access to ordinary Awakeness.

We also explore crucial differences between this profoundly embodied, mutual approach and traditional transcendence, notions of killing the ego and destroying residual identification with even mental or subtle bodies while alive and after death, and so on. Plenty of room to look into the difference between the Second Birth and possible White-Hot intensifications, too. (WDM relevance: Waking.)

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Every Body Is a Village, Every Body Is a Jungle, Every Body Is a Pantheon (Say Hello to Your Many Selves!)

A very lively weekend exploration of our multiple and multi-dimensional selves, including broken zones, animal and god/goddess archetypes, spiritual character typologies, etc. Talk about juicy! We experimented with some of this in Fairfield at a workshop last January. The animal part -- no words allowed! -- was, ahem, a hoot ...

Very interactive, energizing, and just plain fun while also profound. Takes up where our friend Genpo Roshi's Big Mind in some ways leaves off, and goes at all this exploration very personally with each one.

After this workshop, we hope participants will be immunized from chronic reductive pathologizing of apparently negative qualities and also from chronic glamorizing and idealizing/divinizing of apparently positive ones. Welcome to the blithering Mystery of being yourself with other, equally Mysterious beings! (WDM relevance: Down and Mutuality.)

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