Saniel and Linda's Events
Regional Area Events
In 2010, 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.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
- Monthly Heart Gatherings with Saniel & Linda
- The Human SUN Experience & the Integral View
- Take HEART! Tour regional workshops in Portland & Sonoma
- 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
Monthly Heart Gatherings with Saniel & Linda
at their home in SonomaThe following Sundays are tentatively scheduled:
August 8, Sept. 19, Oct. 3, Nov. 21, Dec. 19.
Because Saniel and Linda are welcoming you into their home, this gathering is open only to people they're acquainted with.
RSVP for limited seating. If you'd like to bring someone new, RSVP at least several days in advance.
Time: 10:30 am - 1 pm
RVSP linda@sanielandlinda.com
$25
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
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 or to enroll.
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.
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.
"It's one thing to start to connect with the Waking Down in Mutuality work and feel your personal process come alive.What this course does extremely well is provide you with a clear but nuanced understanding of how the river flows and how to navigate it most effectively. It addresses the whole process from getting started all the way through advanced stages of post-second-birth life and really helps develop the discriminating understanding and intelligence so essential to making the most of the journey. Saniel and Linda are in top form and this course has something (actually a lot) for everybody."
— John Morrison
CIO, Los Angeles, CA
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 Getting 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: "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.1. Linda's suggestions about inquiring into my consciousness nature, 2. 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. 3. 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!!! "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 |
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 telecourse live with Saniel and Linda
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 or longer sessions we'll 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.In our course outline we list some of the details of what we'll be covering; however, 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.
Click here for an outline of the course's key points.
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!
This telecourse is being conducted on the new, interactive Maestro Conference platform. After you register you'll receive call-in instructions and any downloadable materials you'll need. Additional material may be emailed to you over time.
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:
Alternate Tuesdays:
June 1, June 15, June 29, July 13, July 27 & August 10
Starts at 6 p.m. PDT and goes 1¼ hours or longer
Fee: $225. Click here to see a full course outline.
Registration is closed.
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"For those looking to awaken in a thoroughly Integral manner, the Waking Down in Mutuality process, including Saniel and Linda's Human SUN Experience, is exemplary. My experience so far, after only a few months (and after many years and many modalities of, in effect, integral practice), is that witnessing consciousness has gone from 'behind' to 'in front' and is now 'coming forward,' merging with all form, and doing so in a manner that is more profoundly tantric – a marriage of She and He – than I could have ever imagined. There has also been unearthing and healing of shadow at a depth I never imagined (despite all the prior work), unfolding as it is at a breakneck pace – all in all, an Integral Realization of my Unique Self.
"What is especially important is that awakening is in the end a results game. The Waking Down work, increasingly refined in its presentation over the years, and now coming into direct and open conversation with Integral Theory, 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! 
"It's been my profound pleasure to participate in several workshops, telecourses, and online audio programs with Saniel and Linda – including The Human SUN Experience, a day exploring The Tantra of Trust, and an exploration of their work in relation to Integral theory and practice – and I can't recommend them strongly enough.
"I'll be taking both upcoming telecourses The Tantra of Trust/Integral Intimacy and The Human SUN Experience & the Integral View, and I welcome you to join me." — Michael Schwarz,
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Where Is Your HEART Taking You Now?
weekend retreats with Saniel & LindaThe Next Leading Edge of Your Ongoing Transformation – a Personal and Community Empowerment
- Sonoma, Dec. 3–5 Click here to enroll
Do you know where you're going to?For people involved in our kind of transformational and integrative work, questions like these from a song made famous by Diana Ross become very real and pressing. What about you? Do you know...?
Do you like the things that life is showing you
Where are you going to?
Do you know...?
Do you get what you're hoping for
When you look behind you there's no open doors
What are you hoping for?
Do you know...?
(Theme from Mahogany, M. Masser/G. Goffin)
The HEART is your divinely human nature, forever coming more alive and awake and prompting continual healing, growth, awakenings, and unfolding. This weekend-long intensive retreat with us is designed to address each person's "next leading edge" of ongoing transformation – in a way that empowers both that individual and also the whole community of those participating in the retreat together. We'll help you explore these questions and others like them, and may be able to help you reframe your take on what's going on in your life, why, what it means ... and where it's leading you. That, plus the infusion of divine, radiant joy and fullness that we all share, the delight in coming together with old friends and new, and the mysterious current of confidence in Being that tends to get amplified for all of us when we spend this much concentrated time face to face, will make, for most everyone who attends, a most memorable and stirring weekend.
The core of the retreat will be a block of time – around 20 to 25 minutes – when each of you will share what's presently up for you and, as adept facilitators, we'll work with you directly. We welcome you to bring up literally any issues, challenges, and enterprises, positive or difficult, that are the cutting edge for you right now, or, if you don't have one, whatever you're moved to share. Other participants will be welcome to speak but their primary role will be to hold the space for you and to take in what is happening, including how we are responding to you; that might be inspiring or instructive for them too.
Our work will include conversation and may also involve meditating, gazing, laying on of hands, or the specific kinds of "awakened shamanic" service we call "spirit invocation" or "spirit relocation." We may utilize any of our teachings – on awakening (Waking Down in Mutuality), relationship and relating (The Tantra of Trust), empowerment and manifestation (The Force of Destiny) – and any benign methods that recommend themselves in the moment in our white-hot, HEART-adept communion with you. These may include movement, dance, improvisation, music, Linda's singing and toning, Saniel's flute, and more.
These personal passages won't be our only format for the retreat work. You'll also have triad or small group time, and we'll have group meditations, a HEARTgazing session, breaks, more music, movement and dance in the large group format. We also invite you to bring musical instruments, poetry, and other modes of creative expression that we'll use during the workshop when times feel right.
Prerequisites
This event is for anyone who is seriously interested in our work, whether in the general Waking Down in Mutuality culture or with us, Saniel and Linda, personally. However, there won't be time for sheerly introductory conversations, and we expect everyone who attends to have a good basic grasp of our teachings. In advance, please:
- Read Saniel's book or ebook, Healing the Spirit/Matter Split.
- Take all 4 sessions of our free online course, Transmission of the Heart (register at heartgazing.com).
- If we haven't met you, after registering write to us at info@sanielandlinda.com to schedule a free half-hour session so we can get to know you.
Time: Friday 7pm - Sunday 4pm
Fee: $497
Early-bird discount:
$70 off, if purchased before Oct. 15
(discounts are applied in the shopping cart)
Some scholarship assistance may be available. Installment payment plans can be generated at the full fee price; contact us at info@sanielandlinda.com.
The weekend intensive retreat "Where Is Your HEART Taking You Now?" is the centerpiece of our Take HEART! Tour visits in the U.S. and abroad in 2010. We'll be announcing our other offerings soon!
Full-Length Guided Meditations for HEARTgazing™
"HEARTgazing™ Transmission of the HEART" extended meditations
Downloadable audio recordingsFrom 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:
- Receiving Heart-Transmission Through Gazing Meditation
- The Six-Step Recognition Yoga
- Active Conscious Dreaming™
- The Falcon's Glance Meditation for Awakening Consciousness
"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,
- on-going local or virtual facilitated study groups (optional).
- occasional live conference calls with Saniel and Linda,
Click here for more information.
Click here to enroll.
“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.”
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 the Internet!This 6-month self-paced course offers an extended, intensive home study curriculum of audio recordings and assigned readings by Saniel and Linda. Participants may start and pace their course at their convenience.
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 materials include fourteen audio recordings by Saniel and Linda: the first audio introduces the whole course, the last summarizes it and offers perspectives for the future of your journey afterward, and each of the twelve others presents a key point of one of the 12 Human SUN "Gateways into Awakened Freedom, Wholeness, and Love." The accompanying visual mandalas, together with those key points, fully describe the foundation principles and processes of Waking Down in Mutuality.
The texts include a key-points manual and 4 volumes of selected readings from Saniel's books and manuscripts for your optional study, as well as downloadable audio and video documents, including a new "gazing" video of Saniel and Linda.
In addition, participants, if they wish, may join "HSE-online", an email Google group, where they can converse about their experiences. This group is open to all current and former Human SUN Experience participants and is monitored by Saniel.
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. 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 Experience" 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.
Click here for more information or to enroll.
