A Comfort Zone of the HEART
Where "Comfort" Also Means "Presence with Strength"
A Comfort Zone of the HEART
Where "Comfort" Also Means "Presence with Strength"
Eight Tuesdays on Zoom
March 11-April 29, 5-6:15 pm PT
with both of us, Saniel and Linda
And a teaser about another offering coming up in May...
In these extremely challenging times, we're happy to announce that these gatherings got underway as scheduled on Tuesday, March 11. A wonderfully wise and heart-ful group of what we call "sentinels for the sacred" has begun creating an authentic "comfort zone" with one another in two really positive ways.
Yes, it's a virtual place for healing, holding, and nurturing communion, for self-care and caring for each other.
It's also a kind of communal Heart-dojo, where we help one another cultivate and fortify our bold, resilient "presence with strength." That meaning of "comfort" comes from its Latin roots: "con" or "com," "with"; and "forte," "strength."
In recent mailings we spoke about coming together in these sessions as "sacred sentinels," or sentinels for the sacred in human and all life.
A guardianship, a stewardship protecting and nurturing the deep Heart of humankind, is already becoming quite apparent among us. It will likely become increasingly prominent over our coming weeks together in this event.
> Each meeting will include brief gazing and meditation, a short talk by one or both of us (Saniel and Linda) and conversations, guided practices, and/or creative sharings.
> Now that the event is underway, registration is closed.
Possible themes in the 8 sessions for our brief intro talks and then personal sharing and/or group conversations (subject to change — we invite your suggestions):
1. When taking self-care is the best gift and example you can give to others — and why skillful de-pressurizing is so important now
2. How the "sacred marriage" of consciousness and all psycho-physical phenomena contributes to our positive Comfort Zone
3. The power of giving, serving, and loving for authentic presence with strength
4. The limbic loop and the "sinoatrial sync" for comfort in — and the comfort of — the self+other field of our connections
5. Crucial differences between evolutionary and conscious mutual sharing of our painful stress, and regressive wallowing in it
6. Is there a part of you, maybe a big part, that feels you don't deserve to enjoy comfort as both ease and strength — an "I am not worthy" factor?
7. "The lure of the lore": are there sources of influence and conditioning in your life, in the past and currently, that lead you to feel that pursuing comfort is self-indulgent, less than spiritual, deluding, and/or karmically dangerous?
8. Becoming deep-feeling, protective guardian-sentinels together for the sacred in human consciousness, character, and culture, and in all sentient beings
Authentic sharing and being together, even virtually in these relatively brief meetings, infuses a strong antidote to the shocks and threats we're undergoing in our personal and collective living. Especially when our strengths come alive as pro-active sentinels for the sacred!
We're already finding that, sure enough, our simple being there is contributing to everyone's real comfort, in all positive senses of the word.
And all of us being in these meetings and, between sessions, in the connections we're establishing or refreshing together, is a way of standing watchful, deep-feeling guard for the fierce, tender values and blessings of the Heart in everyone everywhere.
Here's a teaser about a second offering, which is coming up in May:
Something New? Eight Great Matters of the HEART for Our Evolutionary Development and Potential
Saturday and Sunday, May 17-18 on Zoom,
10-12:30 PT each morning and 1:15-3:45 each afternoon,
led by Saniel with Linda's assistance
"Something new?," as a question, came to mind as we contemplated putting this workshop together.
From the earliest years of his work, Saniel began to recognize and speak about it as in some crucial ways a breakthrough beyond what other traditional and contemporary teachings were making available.
"Breakthrough" may not be a helpful word here. For this purpose, we feel it's better to frame a question to investigate than declare a claim to be proved.
So this event will explore how the Human Sun HEART Work may — or may not! — show itself over time to be "something new": a perhaps uniquely self-democratizing innovation in human consciousness, character, and culture, human being and becoming.
Stay tuned on this, more info to come! If it sounds like something you might want to plug into, hold that weekend of May 17th and 18th open in your calendar.
And, whatever it takes, please do hang in there in these very strange, testing times. Not just you but the whole world needs your greatest joy, peace, resilience, discernment, boldness, and radiant lovingkindness.
Please find your best ways to "maximize" all of that!
We send you our love and Heart-blessings, and we hope you'll join us in A Comfort Zone of the HEART!
Saniel & Linda
Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder
Co-founders, Human Sun Institute
Teacher-coaches, Maximizing Joy™ and Waking Down in Mutuality®
