Saniel and Linda's Events

Regional Area Events
In 2011, Linda and Saniel will again offer several Take Heart! Tour regional workshops and retreats in North America and abroad. We also 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 Personal Consultations with Saniel or Linda. Email info@sanielandlinda.com to schedule an appointment.

In addition to these in-person events, Saniel and Linda offer on-line home-study and live interactive conference call courses including the following:

Special Invitation

• Human Sun Institute Legacy Circle

Upcoming Live Courses

• The ROSE of Your Heart weekend retreats
• Key Questions & Core Distinctions telecourse
• Why Waking Down in Mutuality Works
• Heart Gatherings with Saniel & Linda in Sonoma
• Heart Gatherings with Saniel in Berkeley
• The ROSE of Your Heart 3-Hour Mini-Retreat
• The ROSE of Your Heart 3-6 Month Immersion for Accelerated Evolution

Home-Study Courses

• Treasure Map of Your Awakened Life
• Masters of the Heart
• The She-Mystery & You
• The Human Sun Experience & the Integral View
• Get Fierce! Cultivating Consciousness & Discriminative Intelligence
• An Integral Look at Opening the Gateway of Mutuality
• Full-Length Guided Meditations for Heartgazing™
• The Great Relief Hero's Journey
• The Human Sun Experience

Human Sun Institute Legacy Circle

Supporting the Heart-awakening and empowerment of leaders for the Third Millennium

If you appreciate the remarkable work Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder are offering through Human Sun Institute (formerly Extraordinary Empowerments) and their ongoing contributions to the whole Waking Down in Mutuality movement that Saniel founded, please consider joining our Human Sun Institute Legacy Circle.

It's a single circle because everyone who contributes to help this work move more fully and effectively into the world to any degree at all, whether financially or through service or both, is participating in the same heartfelt gesture of giving to something that exists to give to many others.

Each year we will provide an annual report that lets you know how the work is proceeding and where the Legacy Circle contributions are going, what they are helping make possible. We'll also send out a quarterly Human Sun Institute Legacy Circle newsletter for members only.

Why join the Human Sun Institute Legacy Circle?

One possible motivation to contribute is because you have a personal appreciation of Saniel and Linda's work, a sensed need to be of support to them and that work because you feel they have been of support to you. Another is that you have a personal calling to participate in an endeavor which has been of such great value to many people, and you can see that there's a need for many more to come.

On our part, we personally hope that a primary source of your motivation to contribute is simply for the joy of giving, of helping serve this work that is so dedicated to serving the divinely human Heart of every body. Don't give out of obligation or any kind of sensed pressure.

There are no special levels of giving that require certain amounts of money to be contributed. We simply assume that you will give as you are so moved. However, it is our pleasure to offer everyone who gives $100 or more in a single gift or $10 or more per month ongoing, a gift subscription to our monthly audio magazine, HeartSpeak (for more info about HeartSpeak, click here).

Right now, Human Sun Institute is still just a tiny seedling. Please help us water and feed it, so it turns into a mighty oak that supports the Heart of humanity for many, many generations to come! Simply fill in the short form below.

Key Questions & Core Distinctions

an 8-session telecourse with Saniel Bonder
focusing on your questions and the core differences between ROSE-WDM and other life-paths

Available live or by recording

February 7—March 27, 2012

As we enter deep winter here in the northern hemisphere, it's a good time for deep contemplation of life's mysteries. Each session of this first-quarter 2012 "teleseminary retreat" will be in two parts. By popular request of previous telecourse attendees, the bulk of each session will be devoted to questions put forward by participants. This is an opportunity to ask Saniel, the founder of Waking Down in Mutuality and originator of the ROSE (radical organismic sentient emergence) framework, questions that you feel will further your own development and that of other participants.

In the remainder of the session, Saniel will discuss one of the core distinction between our whole approach and other life-paths, in terms of worldview and practice. Here is the current list of core distinctions he plans to address in the 8 sessions, subject to change at the behest of Saniel or participants:

1. Non-separateness vs. non-duality in Second Birth awakening
2. Ego, Being, & the spectrum of identity: is there a "True Self"?
3. Past shadow and future shadow in radical organismic shadow work
4. Activism and service: do these have a place in our Way?
5. The tantric tension between autonomy and mutuality
6. When "down" ceases to be your real "direction"
7. The next challenges facing the WDM culture
8. What differences the White Heat does -- and doesn't -- make

Course Structure
Each session will begin with a 20-25 minute presentation on core distinctions by Saniel. After Q&A, he'll respond to selected pre-submitted questions from course participants. Each session will include a breakout group on the Maestro teleconference platform (unless participants choose not to have one during a given session).

Bonus gift for early registration
Some people have told us that they're a bit shy about sharing their personal experiencse and reflections, or even asking questions, during telecourse sessions or in the telecourse email forum. For them, and anyone else who wants to partake, Saniel is offering a free 20-minute personal consultation session to the first 20 people who register for "Key Questions & Core Distinctions." Your session, which would normally cost $75, is redeemable any time before June 30, 2012.

The Heart of the Matter intro teleseminar
In this introduction to the Key Questions & Core Distinctions telecourse, Saniel discusses distinctions between the Spirit/Matter split or hypermasculine dissociation and the "Core Wound/ Wellness Mystery," and how all these relate to traditional concepts of human sin, suffering, ignorance, and illusion. The recording of this live teleseminar is available now at greatreliefsecrets.com/heart-of-the-matter

Key Questions & Core Distinctions telecourse
Dates: Tuesdays, Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28; Mar. 6, 13, 20, & 27
Time: 6 - 7:30 p.m. Pacific time
Fee: $200
To register, click here

The ROSE of Your Heart
Finding Your Unique Evolutionary Paradigm

weekend retreats
February 3 - 5, in Ashland, OR
March 4 in San Diego, CA
April 6 - 8 in Seattle, WA

A new, naturally evolutionary framework for understanding reality and participating in life is emerging in many fields. This orientation is "organismic," based in a whole-organism rather than a mental or partial perspective. One of its first clear expositions has been Rupert Sheldrake's "new science of life," rooted in the organismic recognition of morphic resonance and morphogenetic fields. Ken Wilber's Integral philosophy, which recognizes matter as "the exterior of all interior occasions" rather than the lowest, meanest, and least spiritual rung on the "Great Chain of Being," makes crucial theoretical room for organismic developments.

Other cutting-edge organismic approaches include Richard David Hames's five "literacies" of global leadership, which goes beyond both conventional and relatively integrative or holistic management practices, and maverick physicist Nassim Haramein's "Resonance Project," proposing a post-Newtonian orientation to theoretical physics and cosmology that may even be post-quantum.

It's been our great privilege and blessed calling, along with that of our friends and colleagues in Waking Down in Mutuality, to pioneer one of the most exciting and powerful organismic developments today in the whole field of spirituality, awakening, and personal and relationship transformation. We've begun to use the acronym "ROSE" to identify primary, bio-spiritually natural attributes of such accelerated evolutionary growth:

• Radical -- coming from the root-source of both our spiritual and material natures
• Organismic -- characterized by whole-being processes and shifts (sorry, no, that's not "orgasmic")
• Sentient -- attuning to all dimensions of consciousness yet always deeply identified with our bio-material nature, rather than dissociating from it, and
• Emergent -- always newly appearing and continuously evolving in each one's unique, co-creative participation and experience.

“Thank you so much for The ROSE of your Heart weekend. This new evolution in your work feels so right, and so on target! “Since my Second Birth I haven't really been called to your work, until now... I'm compelled once again to connect and reconnect and reconnect with you and Linda as the transmission of the next evolution of your work feels so powerful, opening, and deep. “The transmission I experienced this weekend was far beyond what I anticipated, and I expected a lot. It was deeply transformative. My body/mind/spirit are still metabolizing this powerful primal nutrition. “The day after the course I experienced a radical shift in my being that I'm still adjusting to. I came to know that I'd been relating to others with a continual and completely unconscious undercurrent of worry which caused accommodating in a way I never knew was there. This was a whole paradigm shift for me! HUGE! For two days I cried tears of relief and release as more and more of Me came through, the frozen places thawed, and the hold that this pattern had on me dropped away. “The transmission brought so much Being into me that there was no more place for this contracted pattern in the new, bigger me. “THANK YOU both for an awesome weekend. I can't wait for the next one! — Liz Kennedy Administrative Assistant

Join some of our awakened and awakening students and us for a direct, personal, highly enlivening empowerment of and/or further advancement upon your unique ROSE paradigmatic path. In this weekend retreat we will:

• focus on each of the three principles of Waking, Down, and Mutuality as generic and bio-spiritually natural to organismic evolution
• share why and how the Heart is a secret key to ROSEwork-style transformation for you
• balance our presentations with plenty of personal share-time, Q&A, and dyad, triad, or small-group work
• help each participant recognize and begin to embrace at least the currently visible outlines of his or her own paradigmatic, organismic journey

We love engaging with people and find that our best work most often comes through live interactions. You'll encounter cutting-edge ideas that may challenge some of your most taken-for-granted assumptions. Yet the whole event will be conducted and held in a heart-space that fills the room with mutual honoring, love, and respect for who each and all of us are, and are becoming. So this is going to be a deep, memorable, possibly life-changing day for many participants. Come join us!

“I first met the Bonders at the Integral Spiritual Experience 2 and was instantly riveted by their articulation of the Waking Down in Mutuality process. It beautifully captured my own Self-revealing process. To experience this profound synchronicity in their presence was humbling and inspiring. It also just happens to demonstrate the validity of the ROSE teaching. “When I attended The ROSE of Your Heart 1-day workshop, I received Saniel's crystal clear mirroring. His compassionate transmission helped me own, and immediately metabolize, a phase of my 'wakedown shakedown' process that has been both terrifying and beautiful – a phase of 'heroic endarkment' and 'chaordic embodiment,' to use Saniel's terms from his book, 'The Tantra of Trust.' “I am immensely grateful for Saniel's keen perception and gracious shepherding of my personal ROSE process, as well as for the way in which he skillfully mediated our collective learning. The workshop was dynamic, rich, heart-full, and 'quantum-atomic.' “Given the breadth and dynamism of this teaching, I highly recommend The ROSE of Your Heart workshop to anyone, irrespective of where you might be in your incarnation process.” — Susan Hodges Certified Integral Coach, Bio-spiritual Midwife, Whole Performance Synergyst

Upcoming Courses
Dates: February 3 - 5, in Ashland OR
          Sunday, March 4 in San Diego, CA
          April 6 - 8 in Seattle, WA
To register, click here.

Free introductions to The ROSE of Your Heart retreat. These audios are for ROSE retreat participants and anyone else interested:

1. What ROSE Has to Do With Waking Down in Mutuality — and What It Can Mean for You
2. How the ROSE Retreat-Workshop Can Help You "Occupy" Your Life

To listen, click here

In-person consultations
Saniel and Linda will be available for personal consultations during their visits. Email info@sanielandlinda.com to schedule an appointment.

“I felt honored and blessed to be with Saniel and Linda and all those beautiful, shiny people for The ROSE of Your Heart weekend. The vibration in the room, the transmission, was so strong. I felt completely held. I was so moved as each person shared -- my heart opened as their faces went from troubled and cloudy to bright and radiant. I witnessed the transformational power and nourishment of mutuality. “During the weekend I was also blessed by a glimpse into my own realization process. And in sharing this glimpse in mutuality, Saniel and Linda graced me with their insights and encouragement, clarifying for me where I am in my waking down process. “I left the weekend feeling more clear and grounded in my heart. Afterwards, as I talked to my son and his partner over dinner, I realized how 'tanked up' I was on love and transmission. They remarked at how radiant I looked. “Thank you so much for your sweetness and generosity. I am grateful to have found you and Waking Down.” — Sugandhi Artist

Why Waking Down in Mutuality Works

for people who want embodied awakening
Click for more information

Monthly Sunday Heart Gatherings with Saniel & Linda

at their home in Sonoma
Because Saniel and Linda are welcoming you into their home, this gathering is open only to people they're acquainted with.

Seating is limited and is available by reservation only. If you'd like to bring someone new, ask at least several days in advance.

Date: Sunday, February 12, 2012
Time: 10:30 am - 1 pm
RVSP: linda@sanielandlinda.com
Fee: $25

The following additional dates in 2012 are tentatively scheduled:

March 11, April 22, May 13, June 17, July 15, August 12, September 23, October 21, November 11, December 2.

Wednesday Heart Gatherings with Saniel

in Berkeley

We start with an introductory Q & A period, then a brief gazing meditation, followed by a longer silent meditation of up to 40 minutes, and finally, exploration of more advanced issues.

Space is limited. RSVP for location and directions.

Date: TBD
Time: 7:30 - 11:00pm
RVSP: Tovie Bentley at toviejosephine@gmail.com
Fee: by donation

The ROSE of Your Heart 3-Hour Mini-Retreat

for groups of 3-5 people

A new, naturally evolutionary framework for understanding reality and participating in life is emerging in many fields. This orientation is "organismic," based in a whole-organism rather than a mental or partial perspective. It's been our great privilege and blessed calling, along with that of our friends and colleagues in Waking Down in Mutuality, to pioneer one of the most exciting and powerful organismic developments today in the whole field of spirituality, awakening, and personal and relationship transformation. We've begun to use the acronym "ROSE" to identify primary, bio-spiritually natural attributes of such accelerated evolutionary growth:

• Radical -- coming from the root-source of both our spiritual and material natures,
• Organismic -- characterized by whole-being processes and shifts,
• Sentient -- attuning to all dimensions of consciousness yet always deeply identified with our bio-material nature, rather than dissociating from it,
• Emergent -- always newly appearing and continuously evolving in each one's unique, co-creative participation and experience.

We continue to get strong feedback from many people that understanding the ROSE perspective is unexpectedly enlivening. It's helping them take stronger, clear ownership of their ongoing transformation. It also reveals substantial differences between Waking Down in Mutuality and nearly all other paths available today -- distinctions that enable them to grow in crucial new ways. It's like a martial artist suddenly discovering a whole new range of moves for her repertoire!

If you are looking into or already practicing Waking Down in Mutuality, learning about the ROSE orientation could accelerate, streamline, clarify, ease, and/or intensify your awakening process or your post-awakening evolution; help you bring enhanced sensitivity and effectiveness into your relationships; and ignite or fan the flames of your unique service to others and the world.

Course structure and format

ROSE Mini-Retreats are available for groups of 3, 4 or 5. They are open to those newly interested in this work and to experienced participants. For those at a distance from our home in Sonoma, CA, the retreat can take place via conference calls or, if all the participants are in one place, via Skype video. Alternatively, if we are visiting your regional area during our tour, they may be set up as an in-person event in your area. For those who live near Sonoma, the retreat can be scheduled to take place in person at our home.

Saniel will lead these Mini-Retreats with occasional assistance from Linda. The session will begin with a short period of meditation, introductions and statements of intention from participants, then a brief introductory presentation by Saniel and perhaps also Linda. The rest of the session will consist mainly of dedicated personal share time for each participant and responses and suggestions from us. There will be a 15-20 minute break about halfway through, in addition to 3 full hours of our work together.

How to schedule a ROSE Mini-Retreat

1. Convene the 3, 4 or 5 people who want to do the mini-retreat together.
2. Have each participant register for the appropriate course at our webstore.
3. Agree on at least three 4-hour blocks of time within the next month that would work for all participants.
4. Designate one person as the retreat coordinator. Have that person email us at info@sanielandlinda.com with the names of those in the group, the suggested times, and the participation format (in person, via teleconference, or via Skype). We will respond by email to confirm the retreat parameters and address any other questions you may have.

Prerequisites

Before your ROSE Mini-Retreat, each participant should:

1. Listen to the audio recording What ROSE Has to Do with Waking Down in Mutuality -- and What It Can Mean for You
2. View at least the first 8 clips of Saniel's YouTube presentation Core-Generated Spiritual Transformation.

Course fees
    ROSE Mini-Retreat for 5: $198 per person
    ROSE Mini-Retreat for 4: $238 per person
    ROSE Mini-Retreat for 3: $278 per person.

The ROSE of Your Heart 3-6 Month Immersion for Accelerated Evolution

for individuals and couples

These extended duration programs are for individuals and couples who want to get the greatest possible benefit out of working with us over time. These programs build upon the huge success we had earlier this year with our Awakening Acceleration Intensives. Several of the participants actually did pass through their Second Birth awakenings during their 3-month intensive. All of them expressed deep gratitude for the growth they underwent.

If you are interested in exploring the possibility of a ROSE of Your Heart Immersion for Accelerated Evolution with us, we're willing to schedule one as short as 3 months long, but we strongly recommend a full 6 month commitment on your part and ours.

If you are seeking your own Second Birth, this is a superbly effective and direct way to focus on bringing it about. If you are awake and are looking for wise counsel and quickening Heart-transmission for your next steps of growth, in any and all areas of your life, a ROSE Immersion with us is one of your best possible choices.

Too busy and obligated? The ROSE Immersion for Accelerated Evolution is specifically designed for highly engaged, responsible people. We're happy to work with those who have more leisure time available. But our whole approach to awakening and ongoing transformation is ideal for people who can't realistically graft any additional time-consuming pursuits onto their already overly busy days -- even for as high a priority as spiritual awakening or post-awakening growth.

Each program will include:

• an hour or half-hour private consultation session with each of us, Linda and Saniel, each month,
• a program of minimally time-consuming, maximally empowering study and practice, using our books, online courses, or other materials chosen specifically to serve your needs and wants,
• an optional Residential Retreat with us for you (and your partner, if you're doing the Immersion as a couple) here at our home in Sonoma, CA, scheduled sometime during or shortly after your program.

For more information, listen to this free introduction to ROSE work: What ROSE Has to Do With Waking Down in Mutuality — and What It Can Mean for You.

How to schedule a ROSE Immersion
Email us at info@sanielandlinda.com and ask for a free ROSE Immersion consultation. Because each ROSE Immersion is custom-designed for the participant, you and we need to discuss your precise needs. If we all agree a ROSE Immersion for Accelerated Evolution is a good path to pursue, we'll design yours together!

A Treasure Map of Your Awakened Life

Exploring the organismic stages and developments possible in our kind of Awakened life

9 audio sessions plus introductory and bonus materials. Presented via the internet

For several years Saniel has been presenting, in bits and pieces, a tentative map of the post-Awakened life in our ROSE way of being and becoming. During the Masters of the Heart telecourse, it became clear to him that it was now time to bring forth a more complete, comprehensive communication of these possibilities for practitioners of Waking Down in Mutuality.

We call it a "treasure map" because, for one thing, we're all still early in the first generation of people who are discovering such a process and living it out. We're still within the first two decades of what could prove over time to be a radically distinctive transformational tradition, for individuals, communities, whole cultures.

But at a deeper level, a treasure map is a very good metaphor for the nature of this "radical, organismic, sentient and emergent" unfolding. It can't be definitively mapped the way a Google map can lay out a whole neighborhood, region, or planet. These kinds of transformations and development are inherently emergent, which makes them mostly unpredictable. Anyone else's description of it is at best like a pirate's hastily scrawled sketch of barely explored territory. In many particulars it's completely unknowable in advance of your own arrival.

The 9 Course Sessions

1. The Heart, the Amrita Nadi, and the Four Bio-Spiritually Natural Stages of the Second (Awakened) Life
2. Stage One: The Awakened "Study of Being" (Divinely Human Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence, No Matter What Your Chronological Age)
3. Stage Two: The Awakened Householder's Life-Embracing Yoga (Divinely Human Early to Mid Adulthood)
4. Stage Three: Transition to Sublimity (Divinely Human Maturity)
5. Stage Four: Ecstatic Eldership (Divinely Human Blessing-Rest for the Wise and Ancient)
6. Fifty Years Out: Our Awakened Culture in 2061 -- An Interactive Visioning, and Recommendations for Further Study
7. Interactive Course Integration #1
8. Interactive Course Integration #2
9. Interactive Course Integration #3

Course Topics
Here are a few of the themes, topics, and parameters Saniel explores:

• Our bio-spiritually natural anticipation of the four likely life-stages of post-Awakened development
• How these stages may replicate, in our Awakened living, paths and practices that traditionally have been embraced as ways to get to Awakening or liberation
• The two primary perils of divinely human post-realization: premature transcendence and immature immanence
• The three developmental post-conventional "stages of faith" or "ages of trust" and how they might likely unfold for most Awakened practitioners
• Why the very skills and specializations that have made Waking Down in Mutuality possible can potentially become limitations to our further growth and transformation
• Awakened devotion, yoga, shamanism, mysticism, and more: How do these come into play in our style of post-awakened living?
• What all this can mean for you: How to find and cultivate your own, completely unique post-awakening evolutionary paradigm

Course fee: $198
To register, click here

Free introductory seminar
"Six Things about Awakened Living in Mutuality You Might Never Have Imagined, and May Really Need to Know"
To listen or download, click here

Masters of the Heart

The Lives, Work, and Times of Ramana Maharshi and Adi Da Samraj

8 audio sessions plus introductory and bonus materials. Presented via the internet

During the nearly two decades he's been teaching, Saniel has often acknowledged and spoken of these Heart-Masters. But until now, he's never been inclined to share many of his personal experiences, especially with Adi Da, with whom he studied for 19 years. At last the time has come for him to tell his stories and to offer a unique perspective on these remarkable adepts, based on the pioneering attributes of his own work.

Course information
For more information, click here.

The She-Mystery & You

Cultivating a Juicy, Transformational Partnership with the Divine Feminine

8 audio sessions plus introduction and bonus materials. Presented via the internet

Are you ready for a whole new kind of adventure in your relationship to – and simultaneous embodiment of – the Divine?

Linda and Saniel live this relationship with Her in their own distinct ways. If you don't already, you can too. As they know Her, She won't accept anything less than your own utterly unique recognitions and moves in a Dance of utterly equal-in-Being partnership with Her. Yes, you can grow into the challenges, joys, and paradoxes of peer divinity with the Great She. But She is hungry for your ultimate flowering into nothing less.

That's right: this is about your incarnation of God-Goddess mysteries and your totally singular activation of all your gifts and contributions in response to Her gifts to You. Guess Who needs You fully here and contributing at least as much as you do?

In this course we take a lively, experiential, and interactive deep dive into the very Heart of our existence. We go freely, fiercely, sometimes pretty wildly into what our relationship with the Great She can become when we're available to encounter all experience as a Divine event -- and to meet that She-Mystery as any number of Others great and small, as well as in the core of our own Self.

Course structure

The odd-numbered sessions introduce the 8 Key Steps for Your Unique Dance with the She-Mystery, discussing two or more steps per session. The even-numbered sessions expand upon the previous session's material. Each session includes questions, comments, and personal sharing from the live course participants. The final two sessions each include a special presentation from another Waking Down in Mutuality teacher, one of whom was a live course participant.

“I have taken numerous courses offered by Saniel and Linda, which have each been incredibly valuable to my process of unfoldment as an embodied human being. The She-Mystery & You course came at the perfect time in my life and took my understanding and heart-fully embodied experience to new depths. The 8 course topics resonated initially with my intellect, however, as the course proceeded it engaged and awakened in my heart a conscious new tender strength that I have never experienced until now. The She-Mystery started calling from both within and without. Her qualities (both human and divine) have begun to awaken more and be appreciated more consciously within me. “I know that this course marks a key turning point in my life and will support me in my role as a mother of four, in my relationship with my partner, and in my work with school children and young offenders. My heart is "breaking open" with compassion, love, and an all-embracing tenderness for myself and others. As a result of taking the course, I feel as if some of the key puzzle pieces hanging out there in my life are finally coming together to make a whole picture - ME - a reflector, appreciator, marvellor, and lover of the Great She-Mystery that exists within us all. “The knowledge from Saniel and Linda, and that shared by every-one on this course, was profoundly moving and enriching. Whether I was on the live calls or listening to recordings of sessions I missed, I noticed the same impact from the powerful and profound transmissions that moved me every time. Thank you from all of my heart to all the participants, and especially to Saniel and Linda for offering this beautiful course!” — Lynn Taylor Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Canada

Course materials

• The She-Mystery & Me, an intimate talk by Saniel on his relationship with the Great She in unexpected forms, including Mary Magdalene; the living presence behind the title of his new novel Ultimaya 1.0; and a 19th century American "Miss Liberty" dime,
• An Introduction to the She-Mystery & You Telecourse in which Saniel and Linda introduce the 8 Key Steps for Your Unique Dance with the She-Mystery, and Linda shares a few of the stories of her own relationship with and embodiment of the Divine Feminine, especially in the form of Quan Yin, the Chinese goddess of compassion
• The She-Mystery & You 8 recorded course sessions,
• An e-booklet of Saniel's poems, Under Her Feet: Tantric Love-Poems of a Mater-Realistic, De-Lighted Fool,
• The recording of a live reading of these poems by Saniel and his commentaries and conversations with a small group of live listeners.

All these materials are included in the course.

Course fee $168
To register click here

The Fierce Mystery Courses

• An Integral Look at Opening the Gateway of Mutuality
• Get Fierce! Cultivating Consciousness & Discriminative Intelligence
• The Human Sun Experience & the Integral View

We're pleased to introduce these three audio courses. Two of them explore the interface between our work and Integral, the third develops or strengthens radical conscious awakeness and fierce discriminative intelligence.

To understand why we're putting so much attention on the connection between Integral and our work, see sanielandlinda.com/integral for a brief explanatory letter. Look below for course descriptions and registration links.

An Integral Look at Opening the Gateway of Mutuality – a 3-session audio course

Downloadable audio recordings

Hans Plasqui of Belgium has been a student of Ken Wilber's Integral teachings and, more recently, a practitioner of our WholeHeart Way work. In London last August, he gave Saniel a copy of a paper he wrote for his Integral Studies work at JFK University. Titled "Opening the Gateway of Mutuality: An Introduction to the Trans-Lineage Path of Saniel Bonder," it's an Integral evaluation of Saniel's writings and our work.

In February 2010, Saniel and Hans anchored a no-holds-barred discussion of the work based on Hans's paper. They discussed it point by point and fielded comments and questions from participants. This course is a recording of those sessions.

Prerequisites: This course is free and open to everyone. It'll be to your advantage, however, to have at least a general awareness of both the Integral and Waking Down in Mutuality teachings.

When you register, you'll be sent a PDF download of Hans's paper. Please read it before starting the audio course material.

To register, click here.

Get Fierce!  Cultivating Consciousness & Discriminative Intelligence – a 7-session audio course

Downloadable audio recordings

For years we've been observing that, even in our own Waking Down in Mutuality work, many seekers of embodied spiritual Awakening don't seem to really get the "consciousness piece." Conversely, many who are ardent meditators on consciousness don't understand the hidden weaknesses of approaches to realization that value transcendence to the exclusion or disdaining of everyday human life and ordinary personal identity. This leads to two closely related and unfortunate outcomes:

• a lack of confidence in embodied Being, in those who have awakened, and persisting confusion about how to relate to consciousness and to material life at any stage of awakening and post-awakened living, and
• a weakness in discriminative intelligence or whole-being discernment, when life throws its inevitable curve balls right at you.

This 7-session audio course with Linda and Saniel, recorded February through early April 2010, was developed in response to this need and to an ardent request from a practitioner and enthusiastic interest from others.

It begins by revealing or refreshing for you the foundations of consciousness exploration in our Way. Then, in sequence, we walk you all the way through understanding the awakening into "embodied feeling-witness consciousness" and the non-dual seamlessness of the Second Birth – and, beyond that, into advanced considerations of awakened living and the "White Heat." Includes our "post-hypermasculine" and often dissenting perspectives on traditional and contemporary approaches to non-duality.

Suggested readings and audio material from our work are given.



Here's a testimonial from a woman who registered to attend the live version but was not able to be on the calls, and so listened to the downloads afterward:

“I just listened to the 4th session of the Get Fierce course. Wow! This is so helpful. I also feel like I am right there in the room with you even though I am listening to a recording. What specifically is so helpful for me regarding the course includes: Linda's suggestions about inquiring into my consciousness nature, Giving clarity to the differences in Waking Down from the idea of an 'Authentic Self' as described by certain other teachers, and the problem with labeling part of ourselves as the 'False Self.' I have definitely experienced this having studied with teachers and exposed myself to approaches that emphasize those kinds of categories of our being. The reminder that the 'Broken Zones' need to be integrated and that this is as divine as the joy. I feel like I have been ingrained with the beliefs that the divine is all sweetness and light and that despair, loneliness, sadness, or hopelessness cannot possibly be divine; that if I am experiencing some of this, this means there is something wrong with me and I need to make these emotions go away. I can see that I feel ashamed and apologetic if I am not happy and smiling all the time and saying everything is wonderful when it's not. I can see that I have also assumed that if I am experiencing my broken zones it means that I am failing in someway, that I am not with the program! Yikes!!! “I must say that I appreciate your graciousness regarding other teachers and traditions and how we have all been ensconced in the Spirit/Matter split or what you call 'hypermasculine consciousness.' After so many years of going in circles in what now feels like unnecessary suffering and confusion, I am not at a place yet where I can solely speak with heartfelt gratitude and respect for the teachings I received. I do recognize that even though they seem now like so many dead end streets, they did help me get to where I could find you and Waking Down. “Thank you again for doing this course. It is excellent, well organized, and the sequence of the material presented is very useful and powerful for me.” — Barbara Witney Psychotherapist Los Altos, CA

If you want to get and stay fiercely confident in your ownership of radical, embodied, conscious awakeness, take this course!


Click here to see a full course outline

Course materials: When you register you'll receive free ebook versions of Saniel's Healing the Spirit/Matter Split and The Conscious Principle.

Prerequisites: Open to everyone, but you should have a basic grounding in our teachings. Please read the course materials before starting in on the audios.

Fee: $148
To register, click here.

The Human Sun Experience & the Integral View
a 6-session, 11-hour audio course with Saniel

Downloadable audio recordings

This is an exciting, provocative course, memorable... maybe groundbreaking! The Human Sun Experience is a 6-month, multimedia online-based immersion in Saniel and Linda's essential transmission and teachings on his revolutionary approach to embodied awakening, "Waking Down in Mutuality." In The Human Sun Experience & the Integral View, we look at each of the 12 Human Sun Experience "gateways" through lenses offered by the Integral vision as extensively developed by Ken Wilber... and then turn around and look at the Integral vision from the post-hypermasculine perspectives suggested by that particular Human Sun gateway.

We're not aware of any other well-developed, distinct teaching or Dharma (sustaining life-way) that has undertaken such an in-depth exploration of potential mutual contributions between the Integral vision and itself, in a way that invites participants to co-creatively help integrate the two "maps." We welcome you to be part of it and learn along with us!


Prerequisites: Open only to those who have taken or are presently enrolled in The Human Sun Experience course. Click here for information on The Human Sun Experience.

Course outline: Click here for an outline of the course's key points.

Fee: $148.
To register, click here.