The ROSE of Your Heart:
Finding Your Unique Evolutionary Paradigm
weekend retreats with
Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder
About ROSE work
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. One of its first clear expositions has been Rupert Sheldrake's "new science of life," rooted in the organismic recognition of morphic resonance and morphogenetic fields. Ken Wilber's Integral philosophy, which recognizes matter as "the exterior of all interior occasions" rather than the lowest, meanest, and least spiritual rung on the "Great Chain of Being," makes crucial theoretical room for organismic developments.
Other cutting-edge organismic approaches include Richard David Hames's five "literacies" of global leadership, which goes beyond both conventional and relatively integrative or holistic management practices, and maverick physicist Nassim Haramein's "Resonance Project," proposing a post-Newtonian orientation to theoretical physics and cosmology that may even be post-quantum.
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 (sorry, no, that's not "orgasmic")
- Sentient — attuning to all dimensions of consciousness yet always deeply identified with our bio-material nature, rather than dissociating from it, and
- Emergent — always newly appearing and continuously evolving in each one's unique, co-creative participation and experience.
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“Thank you so much for The ROSE of your Heart weekend. This new evolution in your work feels so right, and so on target!
“Since my Second Birth I haven't really been called to your work, until now... I'm compelled once again to connect and reconnect and reconnect with you and Linda as the transmission of the next evolution of your work feels so powerful, opening, and deep. 
“The transmission I experienced this weekend was far beyond what I anticipated, and I expected a lot. It was deeply transformative. My body/mind/spirit are still metabolizing this powerful primal nutrition.
“The day after the course I experienced a radical shift in my being that I'm still adjusting to. I came to know that I'd been relating to others with a continual and completely unconscious undercurrent of worry which caused accommodating in a way I never knew was there. This was a whole paradigm shift for me! HUGE! For two days I cried tears of relief and release as more and more of Me came through, the frozen places thawed, and the hold that this pattern had on me dropped away. “The transmission brought so much Being into me that there was no more place for this contracted pattern in the new, bigger me. “THANK YOU both for an awesome weekend. I can't wait for the next one! — Liz Kennedy
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About The ROSE of Your Heart weekend retreats
Join some of our awakened and awakening students and us for a direct, personal, highly enlivening empowerment of and/or further advancement upon your unique ROSE paradigmatic path. In these weekend retreats we will:
- focus on each of the three principles of Waking, Down, and Mutuality as generic and bio-spiritually natural to organismic evolution
- share why and how the Heart is a secret key to ROSEwork-style transformation for you
- balance our presentations with plenty of personal share-time, Q&A, and dyad, triad, or small-group work
- help each participant recognize and begin to embrace at least the currently visible outlines of his or her own paradigmatic, organismic journey.
These events are going to be deep, memorable, and possibly life-changing for many participants. Come join us!
“I first met the Bonders at the Integral Spiritual Experience 2 and was instantly riveted by their articulation of the Waking Down in Mutuality process. It beautifully captured my own Self-revealing process. To experience this profound synchronicity in their presence was humbling and inspiring. It also just happens to demonstrate the validity of the ROSE teaching.
“When I attended The ROSE of Your Heart 1-day workshop, I received Saniel's crystal clear mirroring. His compassionate transmission helped me own, and immediately metabolize, a phase of my 'wakedown shakedown' process that has been both terrifying and beautiful – a phase of 'heroic endarkment' and 'chaordic embodiment,' to use Saniel's terms from his book, The Tantra of Trust.
“I am immensely grateful for Saniel's keen perception and gracious shepherding of my personal ROSE process, as well as for the way in which he skillfully mediated our collective learning. The workshop was dynamic, rich, heart-full, and 'quantum-atomic.' “Given the breadth and dynamism of this teaching, I highly recommend The ROSE of Your Heart workshop to anyone, irrespective of where you might be in your incarnation process.” — Susan Hodges
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Upcoming Courses
The ROSE of Your Heart weekend retreat:
Finding Your Unique Evolutionary Paradigm
Times: Friday 7 - 10 pm, Saturday 10 am - 6 pm, Sunday 10 am - 4:30 pm
Course fee: $325
To register, click here.
In-person consultations
Saniel and Linda will be available for personal consultations 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 ROSE of Your Heart weekend. 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
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The ROSE of Your Heart Introductory Teleseminars
1. What ROSE Has to Do With Waking Down in Mutuality— and What It Can Mean for You
Recorded October 20, 2011
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Saniel, with Linda's additional comments and insights, first presents a concise introduction to Waking Down in Mutuality, both as a process for awakening and transformation, and as a growing community network around the world of many diverse practitioners. Then they make clear that "ROSE" — radical organismic sentient emergence — is a way of understanding not only Waking Down in Mutuality but also other, related teaching-streams and life-paths that may come into expression.
In biological terms, ROSE is the underlying "genus" of which Waking Down in Mutuality is the first substantially developed "species." Saniel and Linda explain how appreciating your transformation as radical, organismic, sentient emergence can grant you a lot more clarity, ease, and power as you go through the experiences life brings your way. It can help you free yourself more and more from the conditioned reflexes of how you learned to interpret and relate to experience through exposure to mechanistic and formulaic teachings still based in the Spirit/Matter split, even if only to a degree.
This 80+ minute recording also includes questions from several of the participants on the live teleseminar.
In biological terms, ROSE is the underlying "genus" of which Waking Down in Mutuality is the first substantially developed "species." Saniel and Linda explain how appreciating your transformation as radical, organismic, sentient emergence can grant you a lot more clarity, ease, and power as you go through the experiences life brings your way. It can help you free yourself more and more from the conditioned reflexes of how you learned to interpret and relate to experience through exposure to mechanistic and formulaic teachings still based in the Spirit/Matter split, even if only to a degree.
This 80+ minute recording also includes questions from several of the participants on the live teleseminar.
2. How the ROSE Retreat-Workshop Can Help You "Occupy" Your Life
Recorded November 7, 2011
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In this conversation, Saniel explains how the ROSE retreat-workshops are structured, and why. But the highlight moments come from the comments of the small group of participants in the live call with Saniel, who range from a man brand new to Waking Down and the ROSE evolutionary perspective, to a Waking Down teacher who is feeling called to a ROSE retreat for himself and potentially to more in-depth training with Saniel and Linda.
Participants include women and men practitioners from very different backgrounds and life-experiences: a woman who grew up a devout Christian, a man with deep Buddhist training, a man who very recently experienced his "Second Birth" awakening in Waking Down.
So you may find that this recording speaks to you in unexpected ways about how attending a ROSE retreat-workshop can be a wonderful "co-journey" you take with a remarkable group of other people -- each of whom, like yourself, is engaged in the sacred transformational passage into "occupying" your unique life.
Participants include women and men practitioners from very different backgrounds and life-experiences: a woman who grew up a devout Christian, a man with deep Buddhist training, a man who very recently experienced his "Second Birth" awakening in Waking Down.
So you may find that this recording speaks to you in unexpected ways about how attending a ROSE retreat-workshop can be a wonderful "co-journey" you take with a remarkable group of other people -- each of whom, like yourself, is engaged in the sacred transformational passage into "occupying" your unique life.
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