We’re so excited to have the following Waking Down teachers and mentors be joining us for the Sacred Summer Celebration! Have a look at what they’ll be offering during this special event. If you are interested in setting up private sessions, it might be best to wait until after our loose “schedule of events” is posted in early July.
Saniel Bonder, WDM founder
Saniel is the founder of Waking Down in Mutuality. After awakening in late 1992 and discovering a living spiritual transmission flowing from his Heart, he found it necessary and inevitable to chart a new, mutual, in some ways revolutionary course. Ever since, he has pioneered and championed the democratizing of non-dual, embodied, “divinely human” Heart-awakeness and collaborative emergence. Saniel helped birth the idea of the Sacred Summer Celebration, and believes a gathering like this, on a piece of property owned by a practitioner, will create a qualitatively different feeling of embodiment for all of us.
Offerings: Workshop on Thursday, July 12th, entitled “White-Hot Yoga of the Heart”, private sessions, sittings, morning meditation
Talent to share: Flute playing
Contact information: saniel@sanielandlinda.com; 877-783-3873
Website: sanielandlinda.com
Linda Groves-Bonder, WDM senior teacher & Saniel’s wife and teaching partner
Linda has a “compassionate passion” for students who are dedicated to their awakening and ongoing integration as divinely human beings. She’s also well known in WDM for her profound expertise in helping each one awaken into embodied consciousness. With an immense love for all living creatures, she is uniquely nurturing and inspires us to feed all of Life from the Heart. She’s also a professional singer/songwriter, and creator of “Joy of Being” her new toning CD. Andrew Cohen, the founder of EnlightenNext writes of it: “Haunting, evocative, hypnotizing, profound, and penetrating, Linda Groves-Bonder’s original vocal toning awakens the spiritual heart and gives us a glimpse of eternity.”
Offerings: Sittings, private sessions
Talent to share: Singing/toning
Contact information: linda@sanielandlinda.com; 707-933-8398
Website: sanielandlinda.com
Dan Will, WDM teacher
From self-proclaimed bull in a china shop to being known for his big heart, the teacher Saniel Bonder refers to as “most visibly transformed,” Dan Will embodies a dependable style of everyday awakening that deeply welcomes all of who we are from the unlimited to the profoundly human.
Offerings: Sittings, discussions, private sessions
Talent to share: Creative expression using watercolors
Private session fees: sliding scale $25-50/hr
Contact information: dwchair79@yahoo.com; 703-200-0078
Allan Morelock, WDM interning teacher
Allan’s presence and tender holding leaves us feeling soothed and nurtured. He’s been described by practitioners as a “poem in motion” and a “mountain stream where you can find deep nourishment for your soul” as well as a “modern day mystic” by Saniel Bonder. For his day job, Allan owns a tree and lawn service and landscaping business and is known as “the tree guy” and even “the tree whisperer.” He’s got a deep and sacred connection with Mother Earth, especially trees.
Offerings: Sittings, tree talks, meditations, private sessions
Talent to share: Poetry reading
Private session fees: sliding scale $20-40/hr
Contact information: allan@embodiedheartawakening.com; 732-249-8796
Website: embodiedheartawakening.com
Susanne West, WDM interning teacher
“Susanne West brings to her service as a Waking Down in Mutuality teacher an extraordinary combination of seasoned experience as a counselor and professor of psychology, deep intellectual exposure, training in numerous psychospiritual approaches, a superbly tempered discernment that she helps others cultivate in themselves, and a highly skilled ear and heart as a listener. She’s a bright star in the Waking Down in Mutuality circle of teachers, one whose radiant humanity feeds and enriches the lives of those who come to her.” – Saniel Bonder
Offerings: Sittings, private sessions
Talent to share: Deep Writing
Private session fees: $25/hr
Contact information: susannewest888@yahoo.com; 415-721-0766
Website: http://wakingdown.org/susannewest/
Gayatri Schilberg, WDM mentor
Gayatri took her time oozing into her awakening, learning to appreciate how the “feeling sense” is critical for this awakening process and for living life more fully. Influences that are valuable to her include Hakomi, Radical Forgiveness, the Enneagram, Osho, Avatar, Ken Wilber’s Integral teachings, complementary medicine, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and New Feminine Power. By day Gayatri is an economist and consumer advocate in the energy field. She is also Secretary of the Board of the Institute of Awakened Mutuality (IAM) and hosts IAM’s teleconference calls, presenting various WDM teachers.
Offerings: Assist at sittings; private sessions
Private session fees: Free of charge
Contact information: gayatrischilberg@yahoo.com; cell: 916-213-3681
Website: http://wakingdown.org/GayatriSchilberg/
… and more to be announced soon!