Work with Saniel and Linda

Personal Work with Saniel and Linda

• White-Hot Evocation of Your Next Evolution
• Personal Consultations with Linda
• Residential Retreats

Upcoming Live Events

• Waking Down in Mutuality Transfiguration Retreat
• Days of Heart-Transmission with Saniel on the East Coast
• Days of Heart-Transmission with Saniel & Linda in NM
• The Sun in Your Heart is Rising 5-day retreat
• Heart Gatherings with Saniel & Linda in Sonoma
• Master Classes with Saniel in Oakland

Home-Study Courses

• While Jesus Weeps
• Cultivating Confidence in Embodied Consciousness
• The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart for Awakening & Awakened Agents of Change
• Key Questions & Core Distinctions
• 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

Special Invitation

• Human Sun Institute Benefactors' Circle

White-Hot Evocation of Your Next Evolution

a new format for personal work with Saniel
for those who feel powerfully called and inspired

From Saniel:

It's an honor and a privilege to welcome you to consider this new opportunity for personal work with me: a "White-Hot Evocation of Your Next Evolution." It's also a deep joy. I'm ecstatic at the possibility of engaging with you in this new way to serve your divinely human emergence in your unique life.

Your next evolution: what are you hungry for?
"Evolution" is a buzzword these days. "Evolve" simply means to "turn or roll out," to unfold. Today the vanguards of both science and spirituality hold that each of us, and every particle and energy in manifestation, is continually evolving, changing, transforming. In that sense your next evolution is already underway. Every part of who you are is unfolding spontaneously.

As human beings, we also get to participate consciously in our evolutionary changes. We get to co-create them with the power of Life that's always moving in us. And that's where the "white-hot evocation" process I am offering might serve you well. You might long to:

• quicken your spiritual awakening and embodiment of consciousness, or your post-awakening integration and passage into fuller divinely human incarnation
• learn skills of both deep listening and communicating with others and speaking your truth to them
• discover or more fully express your gifts for making a difference in the world as an agent of change
• have an extended experience of being listened to, seen, heard, appreciated, acknowledged, and honored by me, personally, as the founder of Waking Down
• get into the "white-hot" element of our transmission and work in ways you haven't been able to before
• reframe what you feel are negative aspects of your personality and character, so that you stop beating yourself up about them and work with them as paradoxical, evolutionary positives
• appreciate more fully the spiritual and cultural lineages, philosophies and approaches that make this work possible and help you understand its position in world spirituality
• clarify your relationship to one or more animal totems, mythic or divine archetypes, or elements or places in Nature in ways you may not have imagined possible
• explore practical options for your next moves, including some that might never have occurred to you -- whether baby steps, quantum leaps, a combination of the two, or actions that are somehow both

To serve those or any number of other evolutionary shifts, the specific new service I'm announcing here could be crucial for you.

White-hot evocation: I see and call forward who you are becoming
"White-hot" refers to an uncommon fusion of Spirit and Matter that I am blessed to enjoy, transmit and teach. It also acknowledges that there's a living, spiritual fire here that could quicken and ease your transformations. It doesn't mean I'm not an ordinary person or that I don't have clay feet. (Not a chance!) Even so, the white-hot presence and view of life I'm graced to embody tends to activate, accelerate, and streamline big evolutionary shifts in those who come into deep connection with me.

Did you ever see the movie The Sixth Sense? Where the young boy says of his gifts, "I see dead people"? I sometimes jokingly say, "I see living people." More precisely, I see who you are and have been, and especially who you are becoming in your unique life. And I call and spiritually magnetize you to come forward. "Evoke" means "call out." I do this by my presence and attention to you personally, as much as by my words.

So, "white-hot evocation of your next evolution" is what I have always done with people I serve personally. Many friends, clients and colleagues acknowledge this. I feel incredibly blessed and privileged to be able to serve you this way. I love to do this work with people, I thrill to it, I thrive on it. Always have.

What's new now is the next expression of that work and its particular format.

“I began working with Saniel four years ago with a deep intuition that he had something special to offer me. Since then, my world and self have been repeatedly expanded, deepened, and blown open by his one-of-a-kind seeing and empowerment. “Our work together has allowed me to claim and step into my divine greatness and purpose in a way that I could have never predicted. He is a rare and unique Gift and it is my profound wish that many people receive what only he can offer.” — Jed Bentley Interning Teacher of Waking Down in Mutuality

Details of a White-Hot Evocation of Your Next Evolution

Here are the basics:

• A "White-Hot Evocation of Your Next Evolution" is a specific 1 to 2 month process of direct personal interaction between you and me.
• It's for people who feel a very strong attraction, even a calling in their own heart and soul, to work with me personally in this fashion.
• There is a several step protocol for determining whether we should engage in this work together: first you submit a written application; if I accept it, we schedule a complimentary Mutual Discovery Session of 30 to 90 minutes to see if a White-Hot Evocation of Your Next Evolution is right for us both at this time. (If I can't accept your application, I'll let you know why and suggest other options.)
• Participating will require serious commitment and investment on your part, in ways that honor your other commitments, involvements, and capacity.
• The actual White-Hot Evocation process involves 9 hours of one-on-one mutual exploration, starting with an intensive of 3 or 6 hours, ideally in person though skype or even phone sessions are possible. The remaining sessions of generally 90 minutes each are scheduled over the following 1-2 months.
• I'll use all the skills and capacities I have to help you achieve whatever evolutionary changes you desire that are possible in this format of our time together. We'll gaze, meditate, talk, engage in or suggest exercises, rituals, or ceremonies, find ways to optimize my listening to and seeing you and your reception of my Heart-transmission and counsel, and end with clear next steps for your further growth.
• At the conclusion, we will determine whether to continue working together, and if so, how.

“My experience of Saniel Bonders transmission is that sitting with him is like having living, liquid concrete poured into my body. I become aware that the Divine Consciousness or Consciousness Itself is fully present in and as the cells, molecules and atoms that make up his body and mine. “Saniel more strongly embodies Living Consciousness than any other person I've ever met or experienced.” — Jonathan Labman Licensed Professional Counselor

What do I do next?
To get the ball rolling, please email us at info@humansuninstitute.com and put in the subject line, "Please send my Mutual Discovery Session Application." When you get your application, complete it and send it back to us ASAP. Again, that session will be complimentary.

An important note on your options: In our community, there are nearly three dozen radiant, wise, and powerful teacher-transmitters of Waking Down in Mutuality. One of them might be a far more appropriate choice for you than me. They offer brilliant, transformative help on a more affordable and less demanding basis than I can in a White-Hot Evocation for you. For the time being, at least, Linda herself works on such a basis. She is in fact now accepting new students and looks forward to serving them.

Spaces are limited — first come, first served
Thank you for your attention. I am so happy to make this offering available. I can also accept only a small number of people to serve this way as a white-hot "evocateur." First come, first served.

If you think there's even a possibility for you to connect and work with me this way, please don't wait! This will probably be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you and me both.

If you are a qualified candidate, I will do everything I can to find a way to perform this powerful ceremony of White-Hot Evocation of Your Next Evolution with you, for you, with all my Heart.

Blessings,

To participate in your own White-Hot Evocation, write to info@humansuninstitute.com and request a Mutual Discovery Session Application.

Days of Heart-Transmission with Saniel & Linda

two day-long intensives on the East Coast and a weekend intensive in New Mexico

To be human is to live the paradox of being simultaneously limited physical matter and limitless spirit — and everything energetic and psychic "in between." In Waking Down in Mutuality we call this paradox the Core Wound. This Wound can manifest as the frustration that something is always missing — in ourselves, in our day-to-day relationships, and in the wider context of political or cultural society. Saniel has spent decades investigating the Core Wound and refined his understanding by helping many hundreds of people to integrate the mystery of the paradox into a more whole, seamless, increasingly joyful, empowered and ecstatic existence.

We invite you to show up just as you are — activated, triggered, or worn out; moved, inspired, overjoyed; or all of the above at once.

We encourage you to step forward in your individual experience and expression so you can take your next steps inward and outward into the world.

Come to experience Saniel's well-seasoned wisdom and Heart-transmission in what promises to be a fierce and delicious journey of heart opening, consciousness raising, mutuality deepening together.

I. Days of Heart-Transmission on the East Coast

A Day of Heart-Transmission with Saniel
in Somerset, NJ [audit only]
Saturday, July 20, 2013, 10 am – 6 pm
Early registration discount valid through June 20
NOTE: This course is sold out for full participation and is available for audit only.


A Day of Heart-Transmission with Saniel
in Bryn Mawr, PA
Sunday, July 21, 2013, 10 am – 6 pm
Early registration discount valid through June 21

Fees:

Full participation: $198; $158 with early registration
    — 13 seats available per course

Audit (no heart-seat share time): $148; $98 early
    — 4 seats available per course

II. Days of Heart-Transmission in New Mexico

A Weekend of Heart-Transmission
with Saniel & Linda in Albuquerque, NM
Saturday-Sunday, September 21-22, 2013
Early registration discount valid through August 21

A Day of Heart-Transmission
with Saniel & Linda in Albuquerque, NM
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Early registration discount valid through August 21

Fees:

Two-day intensive: $445; $375 with early registration
    — 14 seats available

One-day intensive: $265; $225 early registration
    — 10 seats available

Waking Down in Mutuality Transfiguration Retreat
June 23 - June 30, 2013
at IONS, Petaluma, CA

An invitation from Saniel:

Dear Waking Down in Mutuality Friend,

I'm writing personally to "beat the drum" and welcome you to do whatever you possibly can to attend this year's Transfiguration Retreat in late June. Many of us who've been involved in this work for a long time see signs that a huge current of very positive change and development is happening. Recently, at what was a highly auspicious 3-day retreat of the WDM Senior Teachers and myself, it struck me forcefully: "This TR is itself going to be a tipping point. We're going to cross some kind of 'great divide' for our whole emerging tradition. And as many of us as possible need to convene there, to serve, be part of, benefit from, and help activate and also witness whatever this shift proves to be."

I hope every serious practitioner of this Way will do whatever they can to attend, as well as those who are relatively new and starting to deeply engage the process. If you are part of a local regional community, please make sure that as many members of your community as possible attend, so they can bring back the stories and the transmission of what takes place. If you're part of an online conversation, please compare notes, see who's coming, and encourage anyone who's thinking about it to take the step if they possibly can. If you're alone out there in some WDM-less "wilderness" – come to this, the single most crucial WDM community gathering of each year. At the TR, you'll see how big and extraordinary our sacred "tribe" really is!

The Institute of Awakened Mutuality is doing everything it can to provide partial gift scholarships to worthy applicants, and they will certainly take your request seriously if you need to make one. Whatever mountains you need to move to be here, if you feel a strong calling, dare to commit to it – and see just whether and how much Providence may prove willing to remove your obstacles.

I can't guarantee anything dramatic or even obvious is going to take place. That's not the point. From the very beginning 14 years ago, I explained that I named this retreat "Transfiguration" because having so many deeply awakening and awakened, mutually embodying human beings together in one place "cooking" in this process for a week is already itself a miracle. The act of our gathering guarantees an extraordinary current of truly transfiguring Grace will move in, as, and through us all there, also affecting everyone else involved in our work worldwide - and everyone everywhere, in the Heart of Being. So from my point of view, we're literally creating "critical mass." Let's maximize the human "tonnage" of our bodies in that one place, taking that mysterious Journey together, and let's see what happens!

I'm sure I speak for Linda and all the other teachers and mentors who'll be on staff in welcoming you with all my heart. I look forward to seeing you there!

Heart-blessings and much love,

Saniel Bonder
Founder, Waking Down in Mutuality

For more information and to register, go to awakenedmutuality.org.

The Sun in Your Heart is Rising

5-day residence course with Saniel and Linda
at Kripalu Center in western Massachusetts
Aug 18 - 23, 2013

Don't miss "The Sun in Your Heart is Rising: Activating Your Embodied Awakening, Wholeness, and Unique Purpose," the ultimate course on the Human Sun transmission and teachings to date. We'll have 4½ days at the gorgeous Kripalu Center in the Berkshire mountains, to go way deep together in activation of our divinely human awakenings, integrations, and gifts to the world. It's going to be delicious, leisurely, serene yet intense, massively empowering, joyful...

Open to everyone, new and advanced — no prerequisites or previous experience necessary.

To register and for course information, go to our Kripalu registration page. Also see Saniel's Kripalu bio page and Linda's Kripalu bio page.

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, May 26, 2013
Time: 10:30 am – 1 pm
RVSP: linda@sanielandlinda.com
Fee: $25

The following date is tentatively scheduled:

June 16.

Master Classes with Saniel

in Oakland

This is a master class for people who are established and committed practitioners of Waking Down. We start with 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 - 10:30pm
RVSP: Zach Schlosser at zacharyschlosser@gmail.com
Fee: $25

While Jesus Weeps

audio event and transmission
by Saniel

— a ritual honoring of every spiritual person's dark nights of the soul and a celebration of the divine and human roots of the Christian tradition

From Saniel:
I originally wrote this book, While Jesus Weeps: Conversations in the Garden of Gethsemane, as a play when I was 21. It imagines what the Apostles might have gone through together in that Garden. The Gospels only tell us that they fell asleep — twice, with Jesus coming down from his anguished prayers once to sternly awaken them, and then leaving again for more solitary prayer.

What if they were deeply shocked after recent events, including his telling them just before this at the Last Supper that they would all betray him? What if they couldn't sit still and pray, but instead had to talk? At that meal they all swore they would never fall away from him. Yet, later, when Judas brought the Romans to arrest him, every single one did. What could they have encountered in themselves and one another in the meantime, while he was off suffering his own doubts and even wishing he could avoid the fate he had foretold, of his crucifixion and more?

Recently, I felt called to do a reading on Good Friday as a ritual honoring of the Apostles' tests of faith that night, and every spiritual person's dark nights of the soul on the way to authentic resurrections of living Spirit. What resulted was an intense and challenging experience. Consider it a fire ceremony of a kind, where we all sit as priests before the heat of a sacred fire revealing and transmuting the undersides of all spiritual quests and practices, and especially honoring these formative moments of one of our world's great religious and spiritual traditions, Christianity.

“Listening to Saniel read his book While Jesus Weeps felt like a kind of sacred ceremony in itself, a sacred and symbolic reenactment: both a sign of respect, love and acknowledgement of Jesus and the Disciples for who they were and their impact on our lives, and also an acknowledgement of our place as contemporary participants in and holders of the Divine Flame. “The energy transmission of that night was at once palpable, mysterious and poignant, with all of us feeling drawn in a new and profound way into the unique Spiritual Experience that is Good Friday. I can truly say that I will not forget the feeling of that night. “It's wonderful that with this audio now others can share that experience. As you listen, and enter into the experience, know that you are joining our intimate circle as we touched something beautiful together. We warmly welcome you, with open hearts.” — Steve Burch Antioch, CA

While Jesus Weeps audio event and transmission
Prerequisites: None. Open to everybody
Fee: $48 intro price through May 2, $68 afterwards
To purchase, click here.

Other comments about the While Jesus Weeps event

“This was a night to behold. The book is brilliant and inspired, and Saniel's reading lively, entertaining and alight with spiritual fire. The Heart shines through and as it all, providing hours of 'primal nutrition' for the hungry, or for the curious.” — Tyler Keith Oakland, CA

“Listening to Saniel Bonder read his 'While Jesus Weeps' is an experience not to be missed. For many lifetimes, Jesus has been my master teacher, and I have often felt very critical of the apostles for falling asleep, twice no less, on such a night. So I found myself marveling at the artistry of both Saniel's revelation of what they might have gone through -- which really humbled me -- and his reading itself. “More than an amazing story of Jesus' apostles, this is an energetic, spiritual transmission filled with Divine Life! PRICELESS!” — Eileen Eisner-Burch Antioch, CA

“During Saniel's performance of his revolutionary play While Jesus Weeps, I felt a new and mysterious aspect of his transmission more than ever. As he fully gave himself to the unique expression of each Apostle, his passionate vulnerability and embodiment of Christ Consciousness touched me at the core of my Being. “All of us began an unforgettable and transformative pilgrimage into the Heart that evening and we haven't stopped since.” — Tovie Bentley Oakland, CA

“I fell asleep during the While Jesus Weeps reading (mostly). But I was in constant contact with Saniel. I was surprised how thick the room felt. How magical and satisfying it was to be read a story. How insightful the story was and how energized Saniel became. “It was a beautiful ritual event, a sacred, intimate gathering. I had a ton of fun.” — Zach Schlosser Oakland, CA

Cultivating Confidence in Embodied Consciousness

a new audio course with Saniel Bonder

• Do you feel a need for a stronger, even unshakable anchor amid the increasing uncertainty and insecurity of 21st century living?
• Do you experience the tide of relatively lifeless information you're exposed to as junk food to the soul as well as the mind?
• Do you find the speed, urgency, and force of irresistible change pervading just about every part of your life, and sometimes overwhelming you?

A lot of people who'd answer "yes" to one or more of these questions are, as a result of all this, feeling more pressed than ever before to uncover and take refuge in Whatever exists which, once truly known, cannot be lost or forgotten.

Some have already been blessed to discover an unshakable feeling of non-separation from that greater Mystery that is everything and everyone. Yet they can't completely "own" it. They don't yet know with unshakable confidence that they are also actually being that Mystery, with a fully conscious sense of identification.

In response to these deep needs, Saniel led an evening-and-a-day workshop on "Cultivating Confidence in Consciousness" in San Diego at the beginning of March, 2013. He was assisted by local Waking Down in Mutuality Interning Teacher Geri Portnoy and by Greg Aurand, founder and CEO of CLAIM (Communities Living And Inspiring Mutuality). It was limited to a dozen participants all of whom were committed Waking Down practitioners, even if relatively new to the work.

"My wife and I flew all the way from Hawaii to San Diego to attend Saniel's workshop Cultivating Confidence in Embodied Consciousness. It was our first Waking Down event. We were not disappointed.

"After the course I started having some awareness of Being: on the bus riding to the airport and in the plane. This continued at home, fading in and out, but recently mostly in. Speaking with WD teachers several times since the course has helped confirm the experience.

"It is a good beginning: subtle, but real. I am completely satisfied with my inner progress and looking forward to more. Thank you, Saniel and Geri."

— John Hoover, Volcano, HI

Though he hadn't planned on it, the teaching that Saniel offered at this event elaborates on the principles of "the Core and the Periphery" that he's been voicing over the last several years. And it does this principally through his responses during the brief "Heart-Seat" share times of each of the individual participants. Their very personal and unique conversations with Saniel may touch your heart and inspire your own deeper work in ways no one can know in advance.

One of the most startling passages comes at the end of the day when, with no warning, Saniel suddenly erupts in a challenging, fierce shout at one of the participants, Bradford Dewan. (Some salty language too about the limitations of much religion — as Saniel says, "Sometimes profanity is the most sacred language you can use.") Bradford, a generally reticent and quiet man, winds up shouting back at the top of his lungs. His comment about the exchange is below.

"I truly had a fierce and very energetic exchange and interaction with Saniel towards the end of this course. This resulted in my jumping up with my arms, filled with energy, stretching toward the sky. I was fully emboldened and energized.

"This interaction with Saniel — thanks to his insight as to how to 'bring this out of me' — has allowed me to give myself permission to express, feel and apply this 'fierce' energy towards the work I need to do in Waking Down in Mutuality. To use Saniel's metaphor in The Conscious Principle, I believe I became, at least at this moment, the bobcat going after the rabbit, my own consciousness.

"From this I learned that yes, I need to learn how to hold myself with comfort and caring, but there may also come a time (and probably times) when I need to reach within for the fierce energy to move forward.

— Bradford Dewan, San Diego, CA

(TIP: Though you might be tempted to skip ahead to this intense interchange, to fully appreciate it we recommend you listen to the whole course in its precise sequence.)

Cultivating Confidence in Embodied Consciousness

• Prerequisites: None. Open to everybody
• Course fee: $258
• To purchase, click here

SPECIAL OFFER: First 15 purchasers get free the quite different and wonderfully complementary audio course Get Fierce: Cultivating Consciousness and Discriminative Intelligence — a $198 value — or any other audio course of their choice priced the same or less.

The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart for Awakening & Awakened Agents of Change

a recorded 3-day course with Saniel Bonder – in streaming video or downloadable audio

"The most exciting leading-edge offering in the WDM world I've seen in a long time. Thank you for continuing to move our community forward, helping it to be even more inclusive and purpose-driven."

— Zach Schlosser, Oakland, CA

We are thrilled to announce that the audio and video recordings of our major new 3-day event from late last year are now available! Some, maybe many WDM practitioners wished they could have been there or have heard about it since, and will want to take advantage of this opportunity.

Many times over the years practitioners have asked us how they can best realize the intense Spirit-Matter unity we call 'the White Heat.' We've explored different possible answers, never satisfied. Finally we arrived at the one that became the premise of this event. It's simple but startling – in some ways, even to us. And it's something we had never before put to the test in action with committed WDM practitioners, like we did at this event. That premise is:

The most direct, rapid, and sure way to realize White-Hot fusion of Spirit and Matter is to wholeheartedly practice Waking Down in Mutuality with a steady focus on discovering and expressing your unique gifts, and to do this in concrete ways in association with others. Focusing on your life-purpose in this outward-looking, collaborative way quickens and streamlines your process, whether before or after your Second Birth. And it serves a most profound consummation of the sacred marriage of Spirit and Matter, consciousness and phenomena, the great union of your ultimate passion and the whole world in which you appear: the White Heat.

This approach takes a different orientation from focusing on relatively subjective conditions or skills – such as attaining the Second Birth, integrating your shadow and broken zones, or even discovering and refining mutuality skills. Of course those developments are extremely important. But they serve a larger purpose: your capacity to be an "Awakening or Awakened Agent of Change."

Part of the secret of making that practice fruitful is to concretely situate your expression of your gifts in the real human world of exterior systems, institutions, and collective interchanges. The transmission and trainings you'll get from these audio or audio/video recordings can help you get that process going in ways you may not have been able to before.

"This topic and format allowed me to be more fully here like never before. The heart intimacy felt different. More of my vision came online. I feel deeply rooted in my commitment to what is coming. Big home run!"

-- Kathy Young, Salt Lake City, UT

"Being in the awakened and awakening field we created together and exploring the topics presented by Saniel and Linda allowed me to let go of my feeling of being stuck and receive inspirations of new possibilities. Linda's 'Active Conscious Dreaming' practices helped me feel and clarify how I do and would like to contribute to Life. The guest speakers were very moving and inspiring!"

-- Sylvia Woods, Waking Down in Mutuality Teacher, Seattle WA

The Life of the Party
This event was a celebration. In some ways, and for some participants, the presentations and formal structure were secondary to the deep, vibrant celebration of our emerging "change agency" as Awakening or Awakened human beings. It was an intensely juicy several days, full of challenges as well as delight for most everyone who attended. Some were startled by the immediacy of the love and joy we were sharing.

Situated at a retreat center on the mountain that is a sacred touchstone for Saniel's founding of this Waking Down work, many of us felt the Heart of Spirit and Matter being profoundly unified in, as, and through us at a deeper level. And that's the sacred context and essence of what we hope you'll encounter as you watch or listen to these recordings.

The Structure and Content of the Course
The course is based around three themes, one per day:

    Day 1: Embody
    Day 2: Commit
    Day 3: Trust

Each day includes presentations by Saniel and Linda speaking to the theme of the day, and by one of the three special guest presenters: John Records, executive director of COTS, a renowned homeless charity; David Lesser, our executive confidant and a WDM "graduate"; and Jennifer Mayol, a Waking Down senior teacher and fine artist. Presentations include:

• Who Are We, Each and All – and, What Are We Doing Here?
• Where The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart for Awakening & Awakened Agents of Change Fits in Human Sun Institute and WDM - and What It Can Mean for You
• Your Unique Character and Temperament, The Difference(s) You Are Here to Make – and, How Will You Do It?
• The Great Work of Our Awakening Lives (John Records)
• "Multidimensional Money™" and Our Unique Mutual Will to Change the World
• Active Conscious Dreaming™, Using Conscious Skillful Will, Visualization, and Drawing for Manifesting Your Heart's True Calling
• Taking Your Place in the World (David Lesser)
• The Ages of Commitment for White-Hot Change Agents
• Strange Grace and the Dark Boon Lady (Jennifer Mayol)

The course also includes an Agents of Change panel with Saniel and Linda, daily HeartSeats, and several question & answer sessions.

"This weekend intensified the relaxation into who I am and will be in this world, clarified it and the path (next steps) forward in multiple ways, and surprised me with growth, connections, and insights I didn't know were possible!"

-- Timothy Ford, Frederick, MD

"The parts of the event that challenged me most were also the most profound for me: dropping in as The Divine during meditations and Active Conscious Dreaming, realizing Being as a Blessing is vital to any 'doing' of service for me, accepting Who I am, and also running into my lack of sovereignty/worth/valuation of my gifts & and my broken zone of abandonment. Dropping in as Divine Mother-Avatar-Goddess, I felt the pain of metabolizing and fusing all the persecution, hierarchies, human vs. divine, fear, repression of self in family of origin brokenness. And I realized that that Divine One gets to show up as peer partners with other Divine beings. WOW."

-- Lauren Hughes, Frederick, MD

Prerequisites
This course will only be truly useful to you if you:

• understand the fundamental principles and practices of Waking Down in Mutuality very well – so that you need no instruction in the basics of the process
• have attended at least one group WDM multiple-day event led by one or more WDM teachers
• know you are "here to make a difference," to become or continue to be an agent of change and transformation in the world, whether in visible, outward ways or more simply just through your own presence and transmission.

The White-Hot Yoga Heart-Team
A dozen of the attendees at our live 3-day event went on to become pioneering members of the year-long White-Hot Yoga Heart-Team, a Mastermind-style group that began in January 2013. The next open enrollment date for joining the Heart-Team is July 1. Announcements of the application process will be made early this spring.

If you wish to apply to be part of this intensive program, featuring Saniel and Linda's personal guidance and leadership, along with an extraordinary tribe of fellow change agents, you must either have personally attended the original 2012 White-Hot Yoga of the Heart for Awakening & Awakened Agents of Change 3-day event, or else have listened to or watched all of the recorded modules in this course.

"The focus of the retreat – the White-Hot Yoga of the Heart for awakening or awakened people who want to make a difference – was an overall highlight, as were Jennifer Mayol and the other guest speakers. The 'uncorkedness' of the space we created together was fantastic as well. I had profound experiences of feeling the oneness of the Earth-Heart and connection with suffering taking place anywhere – and moved deeper into a commitment to face into that with my life.

This retreat was a much needed push and illumination of my greater unfoldment and life-purpose. I'm so excited to have this collective energy entering into the WDM matrix."

-- Jed Bentley, Waking Down in Mutuality Mentor, Oakland, CA

Purchase Information
The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart for Awakening & Awakened Agents of Change recordings are available through our webstore in two formats:

1. Streaming video: 19 on-line videos for $398, or $298 early purchase
   To register click here,
2. Downloadable audio: 6 on-line audios of the complete 3-day event for $258.
   To register click here.

You can also buy both courses bundled together for $498.
To register click here.

The Bigger Picture: "All Hands On Deck!"
As you may gather from some of the comments by participants, for many of us – ourselves certainly included! – this three-day exploration was both unprecedented and life-changing. This is actually the first professionally produced video documentation of one of our events we've ever had done. In either format, it may well prove to be an unprecedented experience, and a life-changing one, for you as well. We warmly welcome you to dive in to this material and allow the uncommon, in some ways new energy of the whole event to stir you up and move you forward.

Key Questions & Core Distinctions

an 8-session audio course with Saniel Bonder

focusing on participants' key questions and the core differences between ROSE-WDM and other life-paths

Each session of this online "teleseminary retreat" has two parts:

• questions to Saniel put forward by live course participants, the answers to which they felt would further their development (some of these questions may be yours, too!),
• a discussion by Saniel of one of the core distinctions between our whole approach and other life-paths, in terms of worldview and practice.

These are core distinctions Saniel addresses in the 8 sessions:

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 fee: $198
To register, click here

Free introductory seminar
"The Heart of the Matter"
To listen or download, click here

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.

Human Sun Institute Benefactors' 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 Benefactors' 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 Benefactors' Circle contributions are going, what they are helping make possible. We'll also send out a quarterly Human Sun Institute Benefactors' Circle newsletter for members only.

Why join the Human Sun Institute Benefactors' 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.