Saniel and Linda's Events

Regional Area Events
In 2012, Linda and Saniel will again offer several 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:

Upcoming Live Events

• Let's Talk Sex
• Healing Your Spirit/Matter Split weekend retreats
• The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart for Advanced Practitioners
• Heart Gatherings with Saniel in Berkeley
• Why Waking Down in Mutuality Can Work for YOU
• Heart Gatherings with Saniel & Linda in Sonoma
• The ROSE of Your Heart 3-Hour Mini-Retreat
• The ROSE of Your Heart 3-6 Month Immersion for Accelerated Evolution

Home-Study Courses

• Key Questions & Core Distinctions telecourse
• 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 Legacy Circle

Let's Talk Sex

Love, Trust, Boundaries, Initiation, Masculine-Feminine Character, Intimacy, Tantra, Transformational Partnership, and More... in Our Awakening and Awakened Life

an 8-session telecourse with Saniel & Linda

Available live April 17–June 12, or by recording anytime

Hear the intro seminar “Let's Talk Sex: Taking the Lid Off“

In many recent conversations we've had with practitioners, sex and its innumerable issues and questions wind up claiming a lot of attention. Seems like it's time for us to offer and host some straight, no-holds-barred conversation about sexuality and its possible modes and expressions in our embodied Way.

Sexual-relational trials and delights often intensify in the charged atmospheres many of us stumble into, sometimes quite helplessly and unawares, in Waking Down in Mutuality practice. The challenges increase in part because in many cases we haven't yet really comprehended -- not just intellectually but whole-bodily -- how different this Way is at its core from other approaches. We tend to get confused by all kinds of teachings, processes, and disciplines we have previously learned or are currently being exposed to.

Here are key themes and topics we'll address in the wide-ranging conversations of LET'S TALK SEX. Whatever we're talking about in the sessions, we'll continually emphasize the Heart-essence of love and trust -- for ourselves, one another, and the mystery of Being -- as the core and foundation of the whole journey:

• Meeting possible partners "from the inside out" and why boundaries are all the more necessary when your Feeling of Being knows no bounds
• "Getting f***ed by God or the Goddess" (to use the exact words of a couple of Awakened practitioners) -- the many modes of possible tantric sexual initiation in this Way
• Does size matter in consciously embodied sexuality? And while we're at it, what about smell, taste, shape, weight, skin texture, fantasy ideals of all kinds, and other messy unmentionables in most spiritually correct conversation?
• Why it's so crucial for both men and women to deeply embody both their feminine and masculine natures in their own unique ways -- and why much traditional and contemporary sex/spirit teaching is misleading and insufficient for WDM practitioners
• Why trust trumps love and any sexuality that does not prioritize trust is missing the mark, no matter how energetic and blissful lovers get
• Erotica, porn, and the politics of arousal: getting clear about what's really obscene, and what is and isn't anybody else's business
• Why open-ended commitment comes last in wise yet inevitably daring explorations toward enduring transformational partnership -- and what we have to be willing to risk to find the love and trust we desire
• The fetishistic preoccupation with subtle energetics and idealized transcendence of ego in traditional, hypermasculine, subtly dissociative tantric sexuality
• Why both "skilled" and "superlative" qualities are so necessary for truly evolutionary intimacy
• Multidimensional mysteries of sexuality and love in the realms of devotional awakening and communion, past and present
• Transformations of your sexuality and intimacy as you age and, when Awake, undergo increasing yogic refinement and become more innately identified with the All of trans-egoic Existence
• Through all this and more, learning how to think about and interpret all the possible phenomena of your unique experience as an authentic lineage-holder in our kind of tantric yoga

We sense that this telecourse is going to have a life of its own, and we want to respond to and work with its natural flow. So, we're not pre-planning which topics we'll focus on during which sessions. We will cover everything we've mentioned above.

Participants may choose to take the course live or listen to the recorded sessions. There will be a private email forum only for participants.

Please dare to take this telecourse -- and make your own real contributions to its vital explorations! Nothing like it has ever taken place before, and we don't plan on doing it again; certainly no time soon.

Prerequisites: Open to anyone interested, whether you're in a sexual relationship, are sexually active, or not -- even if you just want to be part of or listen to these conversations.

Basic familiarity with the teachings of Waking Down in Mutuality is necessary.

Bonus:
All registered participants receive as a gift, the ebook of Saniel's manuscript in progress, The Tantra of Trust: Skilled and Superlative Intimate Relating for 21st Century Woman and Man.

Let's Talk Sex telecourse
Tuesdays, April 17 - June 12, 2012 excluding May 22
6:00–7:45 pm PDT
presented by Saniel, with Linda at some sessions
Fee: $198

Healing Your Spirit/Matter Split weekend retreats

with Saniel Bonder & Linda Groves-Bonder

a direct, rapid path to your Embodied Awakening and unique purpose, through Waking Down in Mutuality

with free introductory lectures open to the public

Free introductory teleconference call:
    "Are You Ready to Wake Up by WAKING DOWN?"
Thursday, June 11, 4–5:15 pm PDT (7–8:15 pm EDT)

June 15 & 16 in Boston, MA
June 17 in Westport, CT
June 22 & 23 in New York, NY
July 1 in Philadelphia, PA
July 5 & 8 in Washington, DC

Spirituality has been evolving new, remarkably potent, Heart-full ways for us to realize our total potential more than ever before. One of those transformational technologies is our own Way of Waking Down in Mutuality (WDM). Through this radically innovative process, over the last two decades hundreds of everyday people have entered into stable, non-separate, whole-being Awakeness -- most within several months to several years of beginning this work.

In the traditions of enlightenment it's long been assumed that "only a few in any generation ever Awaken." In those contexts, this many people truly realizing so deeply and with such relative ease is unheard of. But in our work, it's happening all the time. And this marvelous, immense, simple yet most profound shift can take place at the core of your entire existence too.

That's what we focus on all day or all two days of these potent Healing Your Spirit/Matter Split workshop-retreats. If you haven't yet Awakened, the workshop will help you quicken and streamline your path. If you've already entered this kind of whole-being Unity, then your time with us will help you "own" it more clearly and fully than ever before.

Saniel, the founder of Waking Down in Mutuality, will present each workshop, on some occasions joined by Linda, a leading WDM senior teacher. We'll offer our wisdom and evolutionary Heart-blessing with the help of local Waking Down teachers, mentors, and other leaders.

Each event includes "Heart-seat" (rather than "hot-seat") conversations with several individual participants in the large group context. These interactions give everyone a feeling for just how individualized and "un-cookie-cutter" the process and practice of WDM is -- and for how the two of us work with people personally. The events also include:

• dynamic verbal and non-verbal exercises,
• small group work,
• an "Amazing Effectiveness Panel" featuring locally-based Awakened practitioners,
• movement and music, and
• the hallmark, transformation-catalyzing WDM "gazing" transmission and meditation

Throughout the workshops we present our potent "Human Sun" teachings and mandalas. Over the last decade this transmission-based training has given thousands of people an at once conceptual, visual, and heart-full understanding of how Waking Down in Mutuality really works. It inflames the fire of Being-Consciousness, the "Light beyond lights," in your Heart, helps you integrate your split-off, seemingly anti-spiritual parts, and shows you how to refine a unique practice of integrity and discernment in your daily living.

Many people today yearn for embodied Awakening, not a state apart from life. This includes a lot of folks who aren't self-styled spiritual seekers. They hunger for a spirituality that seamlessly infuses their everyday lives, relationships, responsibilities -- and doesn't add a whole other bunch of bullet points to their crowded to-do lists!

Waking Down in Mutuality is leading the way in democratizing this deeply grounded quality of realized existence. Again: people are "waking up by Waking Down" here all the time. So if you are interested in embodied Awakening, or simply in living a life of authentic integrity and conscious contribution to humanity, come join one or more of these extraordinary retreats with Saniel, Linda, and other WDM leaders.

Fees:

• For all 1-day courses except NYC: $148, $98 early registration. Early registration expires exactly 1 month before the course date, at midnight Central time.
• For NYC: $90, no early registration.

EVENTS SCHEDULE

Free introductory teleconference call:
"Are You Ready to Wake Up by WAKING DOWN?"
Thursday, June 11, 4:00–5:15 pm PDT


Boston, MA
"Are You Ready to Wake Up by WAKING DOWN?"
Free introductory lecture: Friday, June 15, 7pm at Walker Center, 144 Hancock Street, Auburndale, MA 02466
For local info, email Rick Mignone or call 508-563-6266

"Healing Your Spirit/Matter Split" 1-day retreat:
Saturday, June 16


New Haven, CT
"Healing Your Spirit/Matter Split" 1-day retreat:
Sunday, June 17
For local info, email Rachel Felson or call 650-534-5206


New York, NY
"Are You Ready to Wake Up by WAKING DOWN?"
Free introductory lecture: Friday, June 22, 7pm
at The TAI Group, 150 W. 30th St., NYC
For local info, email Gena Netten or call 609-731-9130

"Healing Your Spirit/Matter Split" 1-day retreat:
Saturday, June 23


Philadelphia, PA
"Healing Your Spirit/Matter Split" 1-day retreat:
Sunday, July 1
For local info, email Dorian Schiller or call 610-692-3929

Baltimore, MD
"Are You Ready to Wake Up by WAKING DOWN?"
Free introductory lecture: Friday, July 6, 7pm
For local info, email Sheldon Pearlman or call 443-418-6105

"Healing Your Spirit/Matter Split" 1-day retreat:
Saturday, July 7


Washington, DC
"Are You Ready to Wake Up by WAKING DOWN?"
Free introductory lecture: Thursday, July 5, 7pm
For local info, email Elijah Petersen or call 734-276-0249

"Healing Your Spirit/Matter Split" 1-day retreat:
Sunday, July 8


In-person consultations with Saniel and Linda may be available 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 weekend course. 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

The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart for Advanced Practitioners

special all-day intensives for serious practitioners:

• Sunday, June 24 in Long Island, NY [sold out]
• Monday, July 2 in Bryn Mawr, PA
• Thursday, July 12 in Friendsville, MD

A very limited number of people intensely involved in our Way, ready to go deep, may attend this intensive. Second Birth awakening is not required, but serious, committed practice of Waking Down in Mutuality is. Everyone will have a half hour in the "White-Hot Heart-seat." We, Saniel and Linda, will lay out the foundations of "The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart for Awakened World-Changers" as the planned ultimate curriculum category in Human Sun Institute. (Again, Second Birth not required for this session.) And we'll get practical, real and direct with each participant about what that might mean for you in any area of your life and process. We'll refer to some crucial integral and organismic frameworks, reference our Tantra of Trust (relationship) and Force of Destiny (life-purpose) teachings as needed...and mostly, all day, focus with you and on you.

The day starts with a brief gazing and a very long meditation (75–90 minutes) and goes late into the afternoon with a break for lunch. Will include silent solitary investigation, small group work, and in-depth embodiment exploration with music and movement, alone and in mutuality.

Come uncork -- and go deep with us into the White-Hot Yoga of the Heart!

Registration
A maximum of 15 people will be permitted to enroll, first come, first served. So we suggest you take advantage of the early registration discount to apply early.

Course hours are 10am - 6pm. Course fee is $198, or $158 for early registration. Early registration expires exactly one month before the event, at midnight Central time.

For the Friendsville course, an additional day-use fee of $50 ($40 for early registration) is assessed, which covers three meals and camping on the grounds. Pre-registration for day use by July 2 (June 15 for early discount) is required so meals can be planned. Register online at sacred-celebration.com.

Why Waking Down in Mutuality Can Work for YOU

For people who want a direct, rapid path to embodied awakening

Saniel and Linda are offering free, live (and also recorded), weekly 1-hour teleseminars introducing Waking Down in Mutuality to you more fully, and helping you explore why and how it can work for you. Whether your goal is embodied awakening; greater connection with others, Nature, and the Divine; a deeper sense of integrity and authenticity in your daily life and relationships; finding others who can be true companions on your transformational life-journey; or all of the above, you'll find important information here. Each teleseminar:

• focuses on one or another aspect of the Waking Down in Mutuality teachings and transmission through Saniel and Linda's "Human Sun" visual and conceptual framework for understanding this in many ways unique transformational process


• welcomes as guest speakers one or more Waking Down teachers, mentors, regional leaders or other advanced practitioners from around the world


• fills you in on the wonderful variety of events and other offerings that the whole WDM network is making available at the time of each teleseminar or soon after

The more of these voices of awakened and extraordinarily clear and radiant men and women you hear, the more apparent it will become that you too can benefit greatly from exploring -- or deepening your engagement with -- the Waking Down in Mutuality work. Each session also gives simple next steps you can take to go forward, whether you are new to this whole adventure or a longtime practitioner.

Click for more information and to get Saniel's "Ten Reasons Why Waking Down in Mutuality Works So Well" for people who want to awaken whole bodily and live an authentic conscious life.

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: Wednesday, May 16
Time: 7:30 - 11:00pm
RVSP: Tovie Bentley at toviejosephine@gmail.com
Fee: by donation

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 13
Time: 10:30 am–1 pm
RVSP: linda@sanielandlinda.com
Fee: $25

The following additional dates are tentatively scheduled:

June 17, July 15, August 12, September 23, October 21, November 11, December 2.

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!

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

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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 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.