Saniel and Linda's Events

Regional Area Events
In 2010, Linda and Saniel will again offer a variety of regional workshops and retreats in North America and abroad. Some are listed below and others will be posted as they become available. 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 Consultations with Saniel or Linda. Email info@sanielandlinda.com 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

• The Fierce Mystery Telecourses
• Dancing with the She-Mystery: A Tantra of Trust Retreat for Men
• Take HEART! Tour regional workshops, 2010
• Monthly Heart Gatherings with Saniel & Linda
• Full-Length Guided Meditations for HEARTgazing™
• The Great Relief Hero's Journey
• The Human SUN Experience

The Fierce Mystery Telecourses

Two to explore the interface between our work and Integral, the third to develop or strengthen radical conscious awakeness and fierce discriminative intelligence:

NOTE: All telecourse sessions will be recorded and participants will receive links to download them for future listening.

I.   An Integral Look at Opening the Gateway of Mutuality – a free 3-session telecourse

February 2010

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 in Walnut Creek, CA. 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.

At Saniel's suggestion, he and Hans are anchoring this no-holds-barred discussion of the work based on Hans's paper. They'll discuss it point by point and invite your comments and questions.

Note: 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.

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.

Course sessions: Saturdays, Feb. 6, 13, and 20,
8:00 - 9:15 a.m., Pacific time

Click here to register. When you register, you'll be sent an email with call-in instructions plus a PDF download of Hans's paper. Please read it in advance of the course.

II.   Get Fierce!  Cultivating Consciousness & Discriminative Intelligence – a 7-session telecourse

February-March 2010

For years we've been observing that many practitioners of Waking Down in Mutuality don't seem to really get the "consciousness piece" -- including some who have passed through their Second Birth. This leads to two closely related and unfortunate outcomes:

• a lack of confidence in realized Being, and
• a weakness in discriminative intelligence or whole-being discernment, when life throws its inevitable curve balls right at you.

Developed in response to an ardent request from a practitioner and enthusiastic interest from others, this 7-session telecourse with both Linda and Saniel will reveal or refresh the foundations of consciousness exploration in our Way. Then, in sequence, we'll 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, plus suggested readings and additional audio material from our work.

If you want to get and stay fiercely confident in your ownership of radical, embodied, conscious awakeness, don't miss this course!

As a bonus, you'll receive gift ebook versions of two of Saniel's books, Healing the Spirit/Matter Split and The Conscious Principle.

Prerequisites: Open to everyone, but you should have a basic grounding in our teachings before the course starts. Please read the two bonus books in advance of the course.

Course sessions: Thursdays, Feb. 11 - March 25, 2010:
February 11, 18, 25; March 4, 11, 18, 25,
6:00 - 7:15 p.m., Pacific time

Fee: $238. Click here to register. When you register you'll receive call-in instructions and other details for the course, including the two bonus ebooks and possibly other downloadable written and audio materials.

"Woo hoo! I'm so excited this course is happening. The opportunity to do this live telecourse with Saniel, the founder of Waking Down in Mutuality, and Linda, who has herself helped so many people directly awaken into Consciousness, is amazing. The transmission alone is going to make such a difference for everyone who participates -- not to mention Linda and Saniel's powerfully liberating teachings and responses to our personal questions.

I'll be on the calls even though it'll be 3 a.m. for me!"

  — Sara Jones, Spain

III.   The Human SUN Experience & the Integral View – a 12-session telecourse

May-August 2010

This is going to be an exciting, provocative course, memorable and 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 these 75-minute sessions we'll look at each of the 12 Human SUN Experience "gateways" from multiple 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 won't even try to get into details of what we'll be covering -- in fact, it's all in process right now, an emergent Dharma dialogue. Some of our friends and students who are "fluent" in both the Integral and Human SUN perspectives are helping us structure this telecourse. The audio recordings will then become an optional Integral module for everyone taking The Human SUN Experience in the future.

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 its own -- 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. Click here for information and registration details on that course.

Course sessions: Tuesdays, May 25 - August 10, 2010:
May 25; June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; July 6, 13, 20, 27;
  August 3, 10,
6:00 - 7:15 p.m., Pacific time

Fee: $378. Click here to register. When you register you'll receive call-in instructions and any downloadable materials you'll need. Additional material may be emailed to you over time.

"For those looking to awaken in a thoroughly Integral manner, the Waking Down in Mutuality Human SUN Experience process is exemplary. My experience so far, after only a couple of months (and after many years and many modalities of, in effect, integral practice), is that witnessing consciousness is not only deepening and stabilizing into a Sun-like Brightness, but doing so right here, right now, integrated with all form and not other than my all too human self; all this with the unearthing and healing of shadow at a depth I never imagined (despite all the prior work), unfolding as it is at a breakneck pace -- what in all feels like an Integral Realization of my Unique Self.

"What is especially important is that awakening is in the end a results game. The Waking Down-Human SUN process, increasingly refined in its presentation over the years, has had statistically over the top success for the better part of two decades -- with the "second birth" happening for most participants rather quickly. Why then not dare to Integrally Awaken and take the leap onto this time-tested Wake Down Express!"

  – Michael Schwarz, Aesthetic Editor, Integral Life; Professor, Augusta State University, Georgia