Workshops & Programs:

Healing the Spirit/Matter Split
The Force of Destiny Events
Extended Programs
The Tantra of Trust
HeartSpeak Audio Subscription
HeartCircles of Grateful Mutual Support

Healing the Spirit/Matter Split

Based on Saniel’s new audiobook, Healing the Spirit/Matter Split workshops are a basic introduction to Waking Down in Mutuality and our total work. They include gazing meditation, presentations and Q&A, and experiential exercises, and can be customized for different groups and venues. We often combine them with the core teachings of The Human SUN Experience, an initiatory journey into Waking Down in Mutuality through conceptual and potent mandala transmissions.

For the current schedule of Healing the Spirit/Matter Split workshops, please check the Calendar.

The Force of Destiny Events

I. The Force of Destiny Weekend

The Three Activations of The Force of Destiny

are a unique way of framing our entire approach. They stimulate a whole new understanding of the human condition and possibility – of all that it means to be a human and divine being.

Each Activation includes a lively yet structured combination of teachings, small group experiential exercises for dyads or triads, Q&A, and other modalities. The exercises include music, movement, and physicality; we’re jump-start this Force of Destiny with you every which way we can! Each Activation also ends with a simple, meaningful ritual ceremony to “seal” the initiatory power of that work for each and all of us.

FIRST ACTIVATION. “Radical Embodiment: Unleashing Awakened Evolutionary Power into Your Life.”This opening exploration will help anchor your understanding that radically embodied 21st century spiritual awakening is a paradox. This First Activation challenges many common beliefs about spirituality and life with humor and “what if?” curiosity, and equips you with several newly emerging paradigms for Radical Embodiment.

SECOND ACTIVATION. “Extraordinary Money: Mastering Multidimensional Currency Exchanges in All Your Relations.” Extraordinary Money weaves a holistic new view of our participation in life based on the principle of simultaneous “currency exchange” at all levels of our being and in all relations. Such holding of a multidimensional view of life as a singular weave of conscious exchange on all levels at once is what makes this view of "Money," or "enrichment value," truly extraordinary. In this Activation we explore ways to balance and heal the deep feminine and true masculine that, we’re confident, have never been presented before.

THIRD ACTIVATION. “Astounding Destiny: Magnetizing Unimaginable Fulfillments of Your Purpose and Your Dreams.” The first two Activations build a foundation for the third, which in turn magnetizes us forward into expression of our greatest purpose and potential. Destiny trumps Self-realization, infuses living with meaning, and is the antidote to memory and karma. It’s “astounding” not because everyone’s destiny is grand or conventionally momentous, but because, with all these pistons firing, the Force of Destiny becomes the primary engine in a life we never could have imagined even if we wind up where we thought we were headed! We spend nearly a whole day on this Third Activation; it includes Linda’s Active Dreaming presentation and exercise.

II. The 6-Month Force of Destiny Intensive Activation Group

III. The 6-Month Force of Destiny CD/Teleclass Program is available by teleseminar and downloadable PDFs and audio/video.

IV. The Force of Destiny: On Magnetizing Radical Embodiment, Extraordinary Money, and Astounding Fulfillment of Your Calling and Your Dreams is a book Saniel is writing, scheduled for publication in 2007. The book’s parts address the primary “activations” focussed on in the Weekend Event. Course participants have exclusive access to Saniel's new writings as they emerge, and help shape the book by their participation. The themes to be explored in the book are:

Introduction – 21st Winds of Change Transforming the Force of Human Destiny

First Activation – Radical Embodiment: Unleashing Ultimate Evolutionary Power into Your Life

Second Activation – Extraordinary Money: Mastering Multidimensional Currency Exchanges in All Your Relations

Third Activation – Astounding Destiny: Magnetizing Unimaginable Fulfillments of Your Calling and Your Dreams

For dates of upcoming Force of Destiny events, please check the Calendar.

Extended Programs

Each year we usually offer one or two Extended Programs for a group of 16 - 18 participants. In 2005 we offered a 3-month Human SUN Experience and a 9-month White-Hot Yoga of the Heart Intensive. In 2006 we offered the 6-month Force of Destiny Intensive Activation Group.

We are not offering any Extended Programs for groups in 2008. However, we are offering extended duration Personal Apprenticeship programs for individuals and couples. Please inquire at info@sanielandlinda.com.

For info on the Human SUN Experience, click here.

For info on the Tantra of Trust, click here.

For the current schedule of programs, please check the Calendar.

Here are some comments from participants in previous Extended Programs:

“I am so grateful for the mind and heart opening that happened over the course of the nine months. I am in awe of the breakthrough I had in my understanding and experience of consciousness. ”

“I am not feeling a ‘retreat is over’ withdrawal or loneliness; I am feeling the juice and the focus of relatedness, containment and mutuality for my continued being realizing and unfolding. ”

See the Appreciation page for other participants' acknowledgments.

The Tantra of Trust workshops

“Saniel and Linda offered the most intimate, profound understanding of my nature as a woman, and transmitted such deep honoring of my needs and challenges in relationship. In my vast experience in personal growth work, The Tantra of Trust is unique. It stands alone in its compassion and whole-being approach to the male-female dance.”

Your entry into the Tantra of Trust, a unique approach to intimacy and relationship for 21^st century humans…

What if trust and love — far more than self-applied energetic and psychological disciplines — turn out to be the most powerful accelerators of growth we can possibly cultivate?

What if our longing for intimate sexual partnership and true love — far from being detrimental to our spiritual destiny — is in fact the divinely human Spirit's most marvelous engine for manifesting its ultimate potential in each of us?

The Tantra of Trust: an exploration of "Skilled and Superlative Intimate Sexual Partnership for 21^st Century Woman and Man". For couples and singles…

The Diamond-Cornerstone Skills

• Quantum Wakefulness — why Heart-awakeness is crucial for the most loving and transformative relationships possible…and how you can develop or deepen the Wakeful life now and continually refine it from now on.


• Heroic Endarkenment — how our shadow issues, traumas, wounds, and “buttons” are actually immense gifts to our development of trust in self, trust in other, and trust in Being.


• Chaordic Embodiment — how, when the Tantra of Trust is activated, each of us embodies at once chaotic and orderly (so, “cha-ord-ic”) expressions of our unique, divinely human nature—for instance, animal totems or god and goddess archetypes—and how this discovery goes hand in hand with each of the first two Diamond-Cornerstone Skills.


• Divinely Human Relativity — on these foundations, the extraordinary yoga (way of endless union) that we can develop with our partners and with all others, even life itself, with a dramatically different, profoundly positive way of understanding who we are and how we’re each showing up in life and in relationship.

So much of the current so-called “liberating wisdom” around sexuality and transformative relationship is, from our perspectives, something we wind up having to help people liberate themselves from! We respect our colleagues in the field, and surely everyone is doing their best, and we’re all trying our best to make sense of this incredibly challenging part of life. But we have only decided to offer these workshops so that people can have a sane, divinely human alternative to much of what is otherwise being offered. Linda and I invite you to come get our take on all this. Some of the topics we may address:

• The astonishing differences between men and women spiritually as well as biologically


• The potentially tragic violence we do to others and to ourselves when trying to “practice” meeting idealized standards of what a woman or a man “should” be


• The deeper connection in our most intimate identity between our hearts and our sexuality, especially our genital anatomy


• The genesis of the human embryo and the remarkable way that sexual differentiation occurs, and when – and what all this means for us in our adulthood and our awakened lives


• Why a “skilled and superlative” partner is as much a pre-requisite for a truly fulfilling divinely human life as conscious spiritual awakeness


• How the four “Diamond Cornerstone-Skills” apply to the whole panorama of our lives in relationship at every level of Being, not merely or only in our intimate sexual experience


• The enormous challenges of dealing with what we call “broken zones” and brokenness of the soul in achieving skilled and superlative partnership


• The potential impact on society – even life itself – of our authentic intimacies


• The positive, yogic function of sexual desire and activity for Tantra of Trust yogis and yoginis – and why it’s so crucial to start thinking and discriminating as such a yogic initiate, rather than merely on the basis of your relatively unconscious low (or inflated) self-esteem


• The significance of trust in self-transformation and relations with others


• Why serious commitment cannot be required to compensate for and help us cope with insecurities – in other words, why “commitment shows up last”


• Tantric initiation of Spirit-force and why it can be so disorienting


• The radically positive view of certain kinds of sexual dysfunction, from the perspective of the Tantra of Trust

A final note: the Secret of The Tantra of Trust…

What makes this Tantra workshop especially powerful for you is that we, Linda and Saniel, are not only living the process we teach and speak, but we are also directly and continuously transmitting its Heart-essence to you. This is true all the time we are together and will continue to be so afterward. It’s true now, except that the special blessing and grace of drinking deep of this whole approach in our personal company is the most potent activator of the whole process. So come drink deep with us, and learn firsthand the secrets of The Tantra of Trust!

For the current schedule of Tantra of Trust Workshops, please check the Calendar.