Marianne Williamson
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Andrew Harvey
Grandmother Flordemayo
Shiva Rea
Corinne McLaughlin
Gordon Davidson
Saniel Bonder
Linda Groves-Bonder
Anodea Judith
Lisa Schrader

Do you know, deep in your soul, that you are called to live a truly sacred life – one filled with beauty, love, wisdom, and delight?

Do you sense that you are here to be part of creating the larger Shift on planet earth from a society based on fear, greed, and scarcity to one based on generosity, oneness, and abundance?

The Sacred Awakening Course is for people who want an initiation into sacred living through deep engagement with top spiritual teachers, weekly personal practices, and a supportive team of fellow awakeners. It’s for people ready to make the Shift, at every level of their being.

It is truly time for us to create a peaceful, sustainable, healthy, and prosperous global culture. Are you called to help pioneer the way?

Course Benefits include:

  • Receive the best insights of 13 top teachers of transformation - all without leaving home.
  • Learn principles and practices to create balance, radiance, and wholeness in your life.
  • Align your life with your highest purpose and develop rhythms, disciplines, and practices that help you operate at your peak.
  • Release old patterns, ideas, and identities.
  • Enhance your ability to create sacred, fulfilling, transformative relationships
  • Engage organizations, communities, and society from a stance of sacred leadership

This is the only time this course will be offered in 2010, which will make it a uniquely powerful seven-week journey.

  • Truly world-class faculty that offer expertise in each area of living a sacred life.
  • Highly interactive exchanges with faculty and each other, which allows you to more deeply engage and transform than through passive study or listening.
  • Awakening teams to create accountability and mutual learning.
  • A curriculum that distills key principles and practices for you to engage and apply each week.
  • Library of recordings and transcripts that you can use for years to come
  • Community of support with people from around the world, facilitated by experienced guides.

Each class will build upon the previous one. We’ll feature weekly and daily practices, as well as create supportive teams with you and other participants. For every Course session, Stephen and Devaa will offer practices and teachings in addition to those brought in by the guest faculty. We will make this Course as interactive as possible, harnessing the best of MaestroConference technology and web community. There will also be weekly readings offered and opportunities for collaborative co-creation.

Class One (Tuesday, July 13th – Class starts at 4 pm)
Sacred Activism
Faculty: Andrew Harvey
Mystic scholar and activist Andrew Harvey will show us how to ignite the dual fire of the passion for God and the passion for justice; he’ll show how to create that marriage in this class:

  • What is Sacred Activism?
  • Why is it so important for our evolution?
  • What are the kind of practices a Sacred Activist needs?
  • How can Sacred Activism be organized to create a grass roots revolution?

Class Two (Thursday, July 15th)
Creating a Sacred Society
Faculty: Barbara Marx Hubbard
Barbara Marx Hubbard is recognized as one of the foremost visionaries of our day. Her teachings are central to birthing the larger Shift in our world.

  • Seeing the World with Evolutionary Eyes
  • Understanding that our current crisis is a "birth" of a more universal co-creative humanity...or not!
  • Making the shift in consciousness and creativity, especially how to discover our vocations or soul's code with the emerging social order
  • Developing new social processes for social synergy, such as the SYNCON model.
  • Evolving toward a "synergistic democracy" in which each person is encouraged to fulfill their spiritual and social potential

Class Three (Tuesday, July 20th)
Sacred Relationship
Faculty: Saniel Bonder & Linda Groves-Bonder
Saniel and Linda have one of the most beautiful partnerships we know, both as spiritual teachers together and as deeply devoted husband and wife. Some key teachings:

  • Sacred Relationship as "skilled and superlative" transformational partnership
  • How to practice your transformational partnership skills, which are more important than beliefs
  • How your personal "age of trust" is more important than your spiritual experiences or states and even how attracted you are to each other
  • Your demonstrated capacity to hold and be with one another's 'stuff' makes lasting commitment possible -- not the other way around
  • And your personal and shared callings to service are ultimately more important than even your capacity to hold and be with each other's stuff

Class Four (Thursday, July 22nd)
Sacred Citizenship
Faculty: Marianne Williamson
We’ll continue our journey with one of the most celebrated authors and spiritual leaders of our day looking at the most powerful ways we can engage our spiritual practices and the needs of our time. Marianne offers a potent call into spiritual leadership and active engagement in the world – we have both been called to our highest service through her admirable work.

Class Five (Tuesday, July 27th)
Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine
Faculty: Stephen Dinan and Devaa Haley Mitchell
We have engaged our partnership as an awakening practice for ten years and in this class will share key insights into how to honor and respect the differences between sacred masculine and sacred feminine:

  • The key elements to cultivate in taking masculine qualities to their highest expression.
  • The key elements to cultivate in taking feminine qualities to their highest expression.
  • How to respect and balance the differences in relationships
  • Integrating the other polarity in our own being

Class Six (Thursday, July 29th)
Sacred Leadership
Faculty: Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson
The co-founders of the Center for Visionary Leadership and co-authors of The Practical Visionary have been at the forefront of many of the evolutionary movements of our day. They’ll offer their core teachings about spiritually-based leadership from their work with leaders around the world:

  • Leading from your intuition and core spiritual values
  • Embracing your power and your unique leadership expression
  • Developing the three qualities of effective visionary leaders
  • Balancing vision with practicality through your chakras
  • Key practices for practical visionaries and sacred leadership

Class Seven (Tuesday, August 3rd)
Seven Sacred Practices
Faculty: Anodea Judith
The single bestselling author on the charkas, Anodea Judith, takes us on a deeper journey into understanding this map of our energetic systems and how to engage practices that awaken all levels. Key teachings:

  • Learn how the chakra system describes the architecture of the soul and provides a map for your journey to wholeness.
  • Learn how this map provides a link between personal and collective evolution, with important guidelines for our time.
  • Discover the ancient Tantric roots to this powerful system of practices.
  • Learn about the underlying energy currents of liberation and manifestation and how they work together.
  • Learn seven simple practices that you can do at home to gain deeper access to your inner temple.

Class Eight (Tuesday, August 10th)
Sacred Sexuality
Faculty: Lisa Schrader
Lisa Schrader was the first sacred sexuality teacher to be featured on Oprah and offers an embodied, beautiful, and accessible set of teachings for honoring our sexuality as part of our divinity. Key teachings:

  • Awaken to the power of sexual energy as creative fire for spiritual growth, heart opening and greater joy.
  • Reclaim your relationship with your body and your sexuality as a form of activism for healing the planet as a whole
  • Cultivate expanded states of pleasure as a way to attune yourself to the frequency of divine love.
  • Learn simple practices to use in lovemaking to move sex from “below waist” to whole body ecstasy.
  • Melt open the heart as a gateway into the sacred gifts hidden in the womb of women.

Class Nine (Thursday, August 12th)
Sacred Embodiment
Faculty: Shiva Rea
Shiva Rea is one of the most celebrated yoga teachers of our day and she brings a wild, delightful, radiant spirit into her classes, teaching people how to inhabit their bodies in a truly divine way. We have LOVED being with her and know that you will as well!

Class Ten (Tuesday, August 17th)
The Sacred Healing Arts
Guest Faculty: Grandmother Flordemayo
Grandmother Floremayo has trained from a young age as a healer within the Mayan tradition and is a member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. She’s a beautiful and wise elder who will share the heart of healing with us. Key teachings:

  • How to live in a more reverential way with the Earth
  • How to connect more deeply with the wisdom of plants and to use them in a medicinal way
  • Opening to higher guidance and knowledge
  • Key practices for self-healing and treating your body as sacred

Class Eleven (Thursday, August 19th)
Key Principles for Sacred Living
Faculty: Stephen Dinan & Devaa Haley Mitchell
This class will explore different aspects of personal embodiment, including:

  • Honoring the many archetypes or sub-personalities within us
  • Time management and creating structures that sustain us
  • How to work with everything as a divine teacher
  • Physical, energetic, emotional and mental clearing
  • Bridging between higher state experiences and daily reality

Class Twelve (Tuesday, August 24th)
Conclusion
Faculty: Stephen Dinan & Devaa Haley Mitchell
The last class will cover key insights from our journey and identify both personal and collective next steps, as well as celebrate our successes.

  • Twelve 75-minute class sessions with Featured Faculty, including interactive question and answer time
  • Twelve 15-minute Principles and Practices modules with Stephen and Devaa that synchronize with recommended weekly practices.
  • Eleven 30-minute group engagement sessions with your “awakening team” for the course.
  • Weekly emails with practices, readings, and suggestions for implementation in your life.
  • Unlimited access to recordings of all class sessions (listen online or download the mp3 file to your iPod or audio player)
  • PDF transcripts for each class session
  • Participation in a private online community with other course members and course facilitators
  • Advance excerpts of Sacred America: The Next Evolution of Our Country by Stephen Dinan

Title: The Sacred Awakening Course
Dates: Seven Week Course with 13 sessions, with Class sessions on every Tuesday and five Thursdays from 5-7 pm - 13th, 15th, 20th, 22nd, 27th, 29th, and August 3rd, 10th, 12th, 17th, 19th, and 24th.  The one exception is July 13th, which starts at 4 pm Pacific.
Price: $287

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Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher. Her latest book, The Age of Miracles hit #2 on the New York Times Bestseller list. Among her other 9 published books, four of them -- including A Return to Love - were #1 New York Times Bestsellers. A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure" - often misattributed to Nelson Mandela's Inaugural address - is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.

Marianne's other books include Everyday Grace, A Woman's Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, The Gift of Change and Emma and Mommy Talk to God.

She has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America and Charlie Rose.

Marianne is a native of Houston, Texas. In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. Today, Project Angel Food serves over 1,000 people daily. Marianne also co-founded The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation to establish a U. S. Department of Peace.

In December 2006, a NEWSWEEK magazine poll named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers. According to Time magazine, "Yoga, the Cabala and Marianne Williamson have been taken up by those seeking a relationship with God that is not strictly tethered to Christianity."

Buckminster Fuller has called Barbara Marx Hubbard “the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.” Widely regarded as his philosophical heir, Barbara is a social innovator, speaker, author, educator and leader in the new worldview of conscious evolution. She is founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.

She is currently the producer and narrator of an award-winning, DVD series entitled “Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together.” Through the Foundation for Conscious Evolution she developed the Gateway to Conscious Evolution, a global educational curriculum enrolling participants in the developmental path toward the next stage of human evolution.

In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the vice presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket, calling for a “Peace Room” as sophisticated as our war room, to scan for, map, connect and communicate what is working in America and the world.

Andrew Harvey was born in south India in 1952 where he lived until he was nine years old. It is this early period that he credits with shaping his sense of the inner unity of all religions and providing him with a permanent and inspiring vision of a world infused with the sacred. He left India to attend private school in England and entered Oxford University in 1970 with a scholarship to study history. At the age of 21, he became the youngest person ever to be awarded a fellowship to All Soul’s College, England’s highest academic honor.

By 1977 Andrew Harvey had become disillusioned with life at Oxford and returned to his native India, where a series of mystical experiences initiated his spiritual journey. Over the next thirty years he plunged into different mystical traditions to learn their secrets and practices. In 1978 he met a succession of Indian saints and sages and began his long study and practice of Hinduism. In 1983, in Ladakh, he met the great Tibetan adept, Thuksey Rinpoche, and undertook with him the Mahayana Buddhist Bodhisattva vows; later, in 1990, he would collaborate with Sogyal Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney in the writing of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

In 1984, Andrew Harvey began a ten-year-long exploration and explication of Rumi and Sufi mysticism in Paris with a group of French Sufis and under the guidance of Eva De Vitray-Meyerovitch, the magnificent translator of Rumi into French. In 1992, he met Father Bede Griffiths in his ashram in south India near where Andrew Harvey had been born. It was this meeting that helped him synthesize the whole of his mystical explorations and reconcile eastern with western mysticism.

Andrew Harvey has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality as well as the at various spiritual centers throughout the United States. He was the subject of the 1993 BBC film documentary The Making of a Modern Mystic and appears also in Rumi Turning Ecstatic and The Consciousness of the Christ: Reclaiming Jesus for A New Humanity.

Andrew Harvey is Founder Director of the Institute of Sacred Activism. He also has a spiritual counseling practice in Chicago and is available for spiritual direction via phone.

Flordemayo is a "Curandera Espiritu" (healer by divine spirit). Born in a small town in the big highlands of Central America. She grew up in a family of traditional healers, learning the art of “Curanderismo” in the traditional way: taught from mother to daughter, generation to generation. She worked from age four as her mother’s apprentice. She works with the sacred breath, laying on of hands, and application of herbs.

Flordemayo has worked with alternative western healers, Native American and Mayan healers. She recieved her mayan priest training from Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj a respected spiritual leader, and head of the Quiche Maya Council of Elders. Flordemayo is now recognized as a “priestess” by the Maya. She is a founding member and President of the Institute of Natural and Traditional Knowledge.

Flordemayo has been a featured speaker on Curanderismo at many conferences on traditional medicine; both within the United States and internationally in addition to alternative healing practitioners, medical doctors, nurses and medical institutions have recognize her knowledge and natural healing skills. Flordemayo is a frequent presenter at international conferences such, as the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Bioneers and recipient of the Martin de la Cruz Award for Alternative Healing, a prestigious honor given by the International Congress of Traditional Medicine.

Since 1999 Flordemayo has been a part of the Wisdom of the Grandmother’s Foundation. Currently Flordemayo is a member of the Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Flordemayo and the grandmothers have traveled around the world uniting people in a circle of prayer.

Shiva Rea, M.A., is a leading teacher of transformational Prana Flow Yoga and Yoga Trance Dance™. She began exploring yoga at the age of fourteen as a way to understand her name, given to her by her father, a surfer and artist. Her studies in the Krishnamacharya lineage, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Kalaripayattu, world dance, yogic art and somatic movement infuse her approach to living yoga and embodying the flow. She is known for bringing the roots of yoga alive for modern practitioners in creative, dynamic and life-transforming ways and for offering the synthesis form of vinyasa flow out in the world.

As a global adventurer, she has led over 70 retreats and pilgrimages nationally and internationally as well as served as a creative catalyst for conferences, festivals and actions for the environment, yoga and the arts including the third annual Yogini Conference of Kripalu and Omega. Shiva writes for Yoga Journal and is the author of award-winning CD's and DVD 's to empower and transform yoga home practice. She lives with her family near their favorite surf break at Sunset Beach in Pacific Palisades, California.

Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson are co-authors of The Practical Visionary, Spiritual Politics (Foreword by the Dalai Lama), and Builders of the Dawn. They are co-founders of The Center for Visionary Leadership in California, and co-founders of Sirius, a spiritual and ecological community in Massachusetts. Corinne directed a national task force for President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development. Gordon was the Founding Director of the Social Investment Forum and of CERES, The Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies. They both are Fellows of The World Business Academy and The Findhorn Foundation.

Gordon Davidson and Corinne McLaughlin are co-authors of The Practical Visionary, Spiritual Politics (Foreword by the Dalai Lama), and Builders of the Dawn. They are co-founders of The Center for Visionary Leadership in California, and co-founders of Sirius, a spiritual and ecological community in Massachusetts. Corinne directed a national task force for President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development. Gordon was the Founding Director of the Social Investment Forum and of CERES, The Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies. They both are Fellows of The World Business Academy and The Findhorn Foundation.

Saniel Bonder is the author of Healing the Spirit/Matter Split and the founder of the Waking Down in Mutuality work. He has been a pioneer in the widespread embodiment and mutual, evolutionary exploration of awakened consciousness for over a decade.

Born in New York to Jewish parents in 1950, growing up mostly in North Carolina, Saniel felt from early on that he “was going to be part of something that would change the course of human history — for the better.” By the time he received a B.A. in Social Relations from Harvard in 1972, a quest for spiritual enlightenment had become the focus of his life.

During the years of his search he benefited from both Eastern and Western teachings and transmissions — as well as from the training in integrity, tolerance, compassion, and perseverance he received from his parents and secondary school mentors. His quest culminated in December 1992 in the awakening he calls his Second Birth.

Saniel and Linda are co-authoring their first book together, The Sun in Your Heart Is Rising: Twelve Gateways to Your Unique Awakening, Evolution & Destiny, due out in 2011.

Linda Groves-Bonder is Saniel Bonder’s full partner in The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart transmission and teachings and a Founding and Senior Teacher of the Waking Down in Mutuality work.

Linda was born into a large family in the Midwest. As a young child, she recognized inconsistencies in the teachings of her native Catholicism. In adult life she was never attracted to join any formal spiritual organization. She gravitated to an experiential path, learning life lessons through meditation, reading, and attending seminars and workshops. From her childhood, her intuitional support and compassionate counseling of others took place quite naturally.

Upon first attending Saniel’s meditation gatherings in October 1994, she was deeply attracted to his work. She grew quickly in the process, entering her Second Birth in August 1996. She soon became moved to teach, eventually giving up her career as a professional photo-stylist to concentrate in transmitting and teaching the Waking Down in Mutuality process. Linda swiftly became a partner to Saniel not only in practical instruction of others but also in deep “holding” of the White-Hot Being-force and spiritual space of the work as a whole.

Saniel and Linda are co-authoring their first book together, The Sun in Your Heart Is Rising: Twelve Gateways to Your Unique Awakening, Evolution & Destiny, due out in 2011.

Anodea Judith, Ph.D. is a best-selling author, international workshop presenter, psychologist, yoga teacher, philosopher, and evolutionary activist, whose passion is awakening humanity to its amazing potential before we throw it all away. Ordained as a priestess in 1985, she served in the Church of All Worlds for 20 years, as president and founder of its teaching organization, Lifeways, which led to her research in ancient history, mythology, and Goddess traditions.

Since her first book on the chakras (Wheels of Life, 1987) became a classic, her many books have been translated into 16 languages and spawned the birth of her current organization, Sacred Centers. Having spent two decades as a somatic psychotherapist working with individuals, she left her practice to teach worldwide and address the issues that affect us all. Her latest book, Waking the Global Heart: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love charts our social evolution to the current time and won two literary awards for best book on social change and mind-body-spirit.

She also produced an award-winning DVD, The Illuminated Chakras, which has traveled the world in 7 languages, delighting audiences everywhere.

Lisa Schrader is a sacred sexuality teacher, author, and coach and the founder of Awakening Shakti. Her work has been featured on Oprah, Oxygen and VH1. She is the author of "Kama Sutra 52: A Year's Worth of the Best Positions for Passion and Pleasure" from Quiver Books. She's a certified coach with the International Coach Federation and has been in private practice for over 10 years supporting women and couples with awakening their sacred sexual power.

We live in a culture deeply conflicted about sexuality, both obsessed and repressed. Like junk food addicts, we gorge on empty calories in a futile effort to feed some deeper hunger. Sometimes we starve ourselves. We long for the deep nourishment of soulful, sacred union with ourselves and with our Beloveds. Our sexual energy, kundalini, life force or "Shakti," is the most potent form of energy we have access to. As we heal, honor, and awaken our sacred sexual energy, we can channel this power into serving greater joy, pleasure, love, creativity, and transformation in our lives.

Stephen Dinan is the founder and CEO of The Shift Network and a member of the prestigious Evolutionary Leadership Council. As the former Director of Membership and Marketing at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, he was the driving force behind the Shift in Action program, which grew to 10,000 paying members, and the One Minute Shift video series, which was seen by more than one million. He is also the author of Radical Spirit (New World Library), and a forthcoming book Sacred America. Stephen directed and helped to create the Esalen Institute's Center for Theory & Research, a think tank for leading scholars, researchers, and teachers to explore human potential frontiers.
Devaa Haley Mitchell works as a spiritual guide and leadership coach. She runs ongoing programs to support women in awakening to their full potential through the organization she founded, Radiant Essence Services. Recently, Devaa led the Inspiring Women Summit, the largest virtual summit of women in history. Over 29,000 women from more than 121 countries gathered together in dialogues and networking circles to expand the capacities of women. Previously, Devaa served as the Director of Member Engagement at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), an organization bridging science and spirituality. Previously, she was the Founder and Executive Director of the Full Circle Fund, dedicated to building a new generation of civic leaders. Devaa was ordained as an interfaith minister by the Chaplaincy Institute and also received a BA in Anthropology with Honors and an MA in International Development from Stanford University.

Q: Can you tell me more about the audio recordings and transcripts?
A: We will post these on the Course Media site for you to download and keep.

Q: Can you tell me about the Community Site?
A: We will have a private community for all the participants in this Course, which will support you in making connections between each other, sharing insights, engaging discussions, and exchanging information about events and other activities. You’ll have the ability to blog about your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the Course. We strongly encourage you to post a photo and some things about yourself.

Q: What is your refund policy?
A: Our refund policy is to offer you a 100% refund, minus a $20 processing fee, up until the start of the second class at 5:00 pm on July 15th. You can withdraw with a $40 processing fee up to the start of the third class on July 20th and for $60 up to the start of the fourth class on July 22nd. After that time, there will be no further refunds. Cancellation requests to support@theshiftnetwork.com

Q: How can I reach Customer Support?
support@theshiftnetwork.com or (415) 439-0003.

Q: What are the benefits of telling my friends to join the program?
A: You can sign up as an Affiliate of The Shift Network and receive 20% for anyone that you introduce who registers for the Course. If you bring five friends into the Course, you can cover your own! Register at www.theshiftnetwork.com/affiliate and you’ll receive a promotional link to use.

Q: Can I use Skype to dial in to the sessions?
A: Yes, you can use SkypeOut from anywhere in the world to dial in to the MaestroConference line we will use. You’ll need to use the Skype keypad to enter your PIN and to respond to questions posed that require raising your hand. Just go to www.skype.com We’ll provide more detailed instructions for those in the course.

Q: Can I invite others to participate with me after I register?
A: Each registration is for one person to be part of the Course. You will have just one registration, one account on the Community Site, etc. If others would like to participate, please encourage them to register separately.

Q: If I need to miss a class, how can I make it up?
A: Each class will be both recorded and transcribed, so you can easily make-up any content that you missed live. The recordings will generally be available within 48 hours, with transcriptions available within a week. That said, you won’t be able to make up the break-out sessions and group dialogue. This is a critical piece, where the course participants are able to support each other in our leadership and in manifesting our projects in the world. So we really encourage you to attend LIVE so you can participate in all of the interactive portions.

Q: Can I share audios with others?
A: We ask that you respect that everyone is paying for this valuable Course and not to share the media products with other people.

Q: Is this Course appropriate for people with psychological disorders?
A: We do not offer therapy or counseling in this course – it is educational in nature and is thus not appropriate for people who need personalized help with psychological disorders or intense trauma. We do engage personal growth processes and inner work, but we expect that most people attending are operating at a high level already and simply want to go to the next level of their spiritual path.