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Awakening Together April Satsang with Unmani

April 22, 2025

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We were honored to welcome Unmani as our April 2025 Satsang guest. Her conversation with Anja Janssen was both inspiring and insightful, offering profound reflections that resonated deeply with our community.

Here is some information about Unmani:
Meeting with Unmani is meeting with yourself in the most real and alive way. Unmani is originally from the UK, but has lived in many countries around the world. Since she was a child, Unmani didn’t identify with being a separate individual, but assumed there was something wrong with her, until she came across the expression of Satsang and nonduality. Truth has always been her passion. Unmani had teachers including Osho, Dolano, Nathan Gill, Tony Parsons, Gangaji and several other amazing people who are not considered ‘teachers’.

In 2013 she met her husband, the wonderful musician, and courageous lover of life, Robert Hanuman. In 2015 their son, Sky, was born. On 3rd January 2018, Robert Hanuman died suddenly from a heart attack while they were in India. Robert Hanuman’s presence deeply influenced Unmani’s teaching, and in the time they were together it evolved into a more human expression of the courage to live the paradox of the Absolute, living as this human. Robert put Unmani’s words to his beautiful classical guitar music and Unmani still plays his songs at her meetings.

Unmani has been holding meetings and retreats all over the world for since 2003, and in this time people have been deeply touched by her work: She meets each person exactly where they are at, and in whatever they need at the time, while at the same time holding them in the truth of who they really are beyond it all. This combination, and paradox, of the personal and impersonal, brings so much depth, openness and healing to people’s lives. They wake up to who they really are, and discover how this is lived and integrated into their daily lives.

Unmani has written 3 books “I am Life itself“, “Die to Love” and “The Courage to Come Alive”. Unmani holds regular meetings and retreats several times a year as well as monthly webinars on different themes.

For more information about Unmani’s work go to: www.die-to-love.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Unmani

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unmani

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unmani_hyde/

Robert Hanuman’s music can be downloaded on iTunes here: https://music.apple.com/nl/artist/robert-hanuman/1329878840?l=en

Satsang Reflections Program
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Satsang Reflections is a monthly dialogue held after the Satsang. This installment was on Monday, April 21, 2025, hosted by Joseph Schmitz. During the program, members shared their insights and takeaways from the Unmani Satsang.

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Awakening Together March Satsang with John Mark Stroud

March 17, 2025

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We were honored to welcome John Mark Stroud as our March 2025 Satsang guest. His conversation with Joseph Schmitz was both inspiring and insightful, offering profound reflections that resonated deeply with our community.

Here is some information about John Mark Stroud:
A single unexpected moment in John Mark’s mid 20’s left him with a vast sense of emptiness.

He would spend the next 15 years immersed in worldly activity, trying in vain to fill this emptiness. His “normal” life of businessman, husband, and father had all the hallmarks of great success. But that vast emptiness keep haunting him.

Finally, in 2007, he was compelled by some greater force to sell his business and begin the inward search for the true peace and happiness that had always eluded him. Almost immediately he was swept up in a tidal wave of Grace.  For a man used to control and responsibility, it was particularly unsettling that these miracles began to move and direct his life into uncharted waters.

In 2009, he was guided to “A Course in Miracles.” Instinctively, he knew this was what he had been searching for. It was as though it had been written just for him. The Course in Miracles led him to the direct experience of God’s limitless Love and Perfect Peace.

For more information on John Mark Stroud, please visit his website: onewhowakes.org

Satsang Reflections Program
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Satsang Reflections is a monthly dialogue held after the Satsang. This installment was on Monday, March 17, 2025, hosted by Joseph Schmitz. During the program, members shared their insights and takeaways from the John Mark Stroud Satsang.

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Awakening Together February Satsang with Brother James Twyman

February 16, 2025

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We were honored to welcome Brother James Twyman as our February 2025 Satsang guest. His conversation with Lin Castaldo was both inspiring and insightful, offering profound reflections that resonated deeply with our community.

Here is some information about Brother James Twyman:
Brother James Twyman, also know as “The Peace Troubadour”, is a Franciscan friar and Episcopal Priest who founded Namaste Village in Ajijic, Mexico. He is a NY Times bestselling author, having written twenty-two books, and has recorded over nineteen musical albums.

James Twyman is known for his work in non-dualistic spirituality and has traveled to conflict zones around the world to share prayers of peace. He has also initiated world synchronized meditations in countries like Bosnia, Iraq, Northern Ireland, and Syria.

Namaste Village is an interfaith contemplative community that focuses on spiritual teachings and practices, including A Course in Miracles, A Course in Love and the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi. The community gathers for meditation, sharing, singing, and other activities aimed at fostering spiritual awakening and compassion.

For Brother James Twyman’s books, please visit Amazon: Click Here
For more information on Brother James Twyman, please visit World Peace Pulse

Satsang Reflections Program
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The Satsang Reflections program is Monday, February 17, at 11:00 am ET. This program will be hosted by Joseph Schmitz.  Join us and share your insights and takeaways from the Satsang with Brother James Twyman!

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Awakening Together January Satsang with Regina Dawn Akers

January 19, 2025

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We were delighted to welcome our founding minister, Regina Dawn Akers, as our January 2025 Satsang guest. Regina was interviewed by our President Minister, Rev. Rhoda Makled.

Following one of Regina’s recent homilies, Rhoda found herself writing to Regina to inquire about some of her statements during the gathering. What followed was a conversation about some of the questions Rhoda found herself not posing publicly with others. Following this written exchange Regina graciously offered to participate in a Satsang.

For those who are not as familiar with Regina’s story, please click this link for her full Bio: Regina Dawn Akers Bio

Books from Regina, all which can be purchased through Amazon:
The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI)
The Teachings of Inner Ramana
Thoughts of Awakening: 365 Thoughts for Contemplation
Out of the Stillness: Realizing Non-Dual Truth One Step at a Time

Tao Te Ching: An Interpretive Translation to Live By

Satsang Reflections
This is a monthly dialogue held after the Satsang.  Please enjoy this audio of the gathering:
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Awakening Together December Satsang with Josh Putnam

December 16, 2024

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Josh Putnam was our December 2024 Satsang guest. He was interviewed by Joe Schmitz.

Here is some information about Josh Putnam:
Josh is a highly experienced professional with over 25 years of teaching experience in the fields of acting and spirituality. Initially trained as a teacher, actor, and director. He spent over two decades as an esteemed acting coach, running a successful theatre company. Along the way, Josh embarked on a personal spiritual journey, exploring the universe and eventually finding a path within the non-dual context. After a transformative encounter, Josh dedicated himself to guiding individuals along their spiritual path. In concert with his wealth of experience and intuition Josh is able to meet people exactly where they are on their journey, offering direct and personalized support and clarity. His clients describe him as authentic, exceptionally skillful, warm, indispensable, compassionate, and enlightening, authentic and direct. With Josh’s guidance, you’ll learn to be present and embrace every moment of life.

For more information on Josh Putnam, please visit his website: soawake.org

Satsang Reflections
This is a monthly dialogue held after the Satsang.  Please enjoy this audio of the gathering:
Josh Putnam Satsang Reflections

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Awakening Together November Satsang with Jeannie Zandi

November 18, 2024

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Jeannie Zandi was our November Satsang guest. She was interviewed by Rev. Anne Blanchard.

Jeannie is the director of Living as Love, a nonprofit organization dedicated to seeding a culture of the Heart on the planet, inspiring, teaching and supporting people to live from their essence as Love.  A year before the birth of her daughter, Jeannie was plunged into a dark night of the soul that culminated in a radical shift of consciousness.

She is known for her fearless clarity, tender mercy toward humanness, and a juicy, poetic and often humorous style that draws from Advaita Vedanta, Sufism, Christian mysticism and the ongoing revelation of fully engaged living.

For more information on Jeannie Zandi, please visit her website: www.jeanniezandi.com

Jeannie Zandi’s School: school.jeanniezandi.com

Links to upcoming classes:
Trust Your Truth Daylong 11/23 – navigating gaslighting https://school.jeanniezandi.com/courses/trust-your-truth

Mindful Merriment Daylong 12/8 – conscious approach to holidays https://school.jeanniezandi.com/courses/trust-your-truth

Solstice Silence Guided Meditation  – 12/20 https://school.jeanniezandi.com/courses/solstice-soothie

Anchored in Love Guided Meditation – recording (free) https://school.jeanniezandi.com/courses/anchored-in-love-soothie

Wisdom & Felt Sense – 2 hr recording of a recent meeting, self guided https://school.jeanniezandi.com/courses/wisdom-felt-sense

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Awakening Together October Satsang with Dr. Christiane Michelberger

October 21, 2024

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Satsang Reflections

Dr. Christiane Michelberger was our October Satsang guest. She was interviewed by Yvonne Unger on October 20th, 2024.

Dr. Christiane Michelberger is a retired physician and psychoanalyst. In 1975 she embarked on the spiritual path after having been confronted with death. She studied Zen with the Zen Masters Prof. Nagaya Roshi and Willigis Jäger (Kyo un Ken). She was then issued a teaching permit from Willigis Jäger in 2002. Later, she turned to the teachings of the historical Buddha which are laid out in the Pali Kanon.

Having been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, her search became urgent. She found Kevin Schanilec, who had made the path to awakening accessible again. On the final leg of her journey, she used the path through the ‘Ten Fetters’, a concept that is laid out in the Pali Kanon. Two years later, what she hadn’t thought possible had happened. The self was fully gone, the truth was seen, and all suffering had ended.

To learn more about Dr. Christiane Michelberger, please visit: findingawakening.com

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Awakening Together July Satsang with John Mark Stroud

July 22, 2024

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John Mark Stroud was our July Satsang guest. He was interviewed by Joe Schmitz.

Here is some information about John Mark Stroud:
A single unexpected moment in John Mark’s mid 20’s left him with a vast sense of emptiness.

He would spend the next 15 years immersed in worldly activity, trying in vain to fill this emptiness. His “normal” life of businessman, husband, and father had all the hallmarks of great success. But that vast emptiness keep haunting him.

Finally, in 2007, he was compelled by some greater force to sell his business and begin the inward search for the true peace and happiness that had always eluded him. Almost immediately he was swept up in a tidal wave of Grace.  For a man used to control and responsibility, it was particularly unsettling that these miracles began to move and direct his life into uncharted waters.

In 2009, he was guided to “A Course in Miracles.” Instinctively, he knew this was what he had been searching for. It was as though it had been written just for him. The Course in Miracles led him to the direct experience of God’s limitless Love and Perfect Peace.

For more information on John Mark Stroud, please visit his website: onewhowakes.org

We look forward to being with all who are able to join us!

📅 Date: Sunday, July 21st, 2024
🕢 Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. MT
📍 Where: Awakening Together’s Zoom Sanctuary

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Awakening Together Satsang with Stephan Bodian

June 16, 2024

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Stephan Bodian was our June Satsang guest. He was interviewed by Anja Janssen.

Stephan Bodian is a teacher in the non-dual wisdom tradition of Zen, Dzogchen, and Advaita Vedanta. Since 2007 he’s been offering the annual School for Awakening, a multi-month intensive program in spiritual realization and awakened living.

As a licensed psychotherapist, he brings a deep appreciation of the impact of early conditioning on the process of spiritual unfolding and offers individual counseling and mentoring in psychospiritual integration. Trained as a Buddhist monk, he spent many years studying with Advaita master Jean Klein, and in 2001 he received Dharma transmission (authorization to teach) from Adyashanti. His books include Wake Up Now, Beyond Mindfulness, and the bestselling guidebook Meditation for Dummies.

To learn more about Stephan Bodian, please visit: stephanbodian.org

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Awakening Together Satsang with Dan Wetzel

May 20, 2024

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Dan was interviewed by Rev. Anne Blanchard live from the Retreat House on May 19th, 2024.

Here is some information about Dan Wetzel:

I was raised in a family of devout Catholics where I felt a deep connection with Jesus. After High School, I joined a Catholic order of priests with the intention of becoming one myself. However, after completing four years of college, I decided to leave the church as I did not feel that I was getting all the answers that I sought.

In 1977, I Came Upon A Course in Miracles. I felt that I had found my path. The Course made sense to me. I studied, applied and taught the Course for the next 40 years.

Compelled to go deeper in 2017, I left my long time marriage and joined the Living Miracles community in Chapala Mexico, where I stayed for a year and a half. When I felt complete there, I moved to Namaste in Ajijic Mexico, and over a year later moved again to Villa Del Angel as I felt Guided by Spirit.

During my time in Mexico, I learned of Awakening Together and the teachings of Regina Dawn Akers. I was ready and willing to take the next step which was profound. Clarity ensued and self inquiry assisted in the deepening understanding of any beliefs that I held about myself and seeming separation from God.

I continue to learn that my awakening is a gradual revelation that the awareness had always been present, but was mixed with emotions, sensations and thoughts and experienced as the personal self called Dan. Stillness and peace increase daily with meditation and contemplation.

Presently, I reside near Mighty Companions with whom I join frequently for support and prayer and the inward journey back to the One Self. I trust that the universe is conspiring to do me good. Allowing everything without judgment, to accept “what is”, is Holy Spirit’s (Inner Wisdom) purpose for the dream world of duality, replacing the ego’s purpose of separation. Accepting that only Oneness is real is the Atonement, the end of the dream of separation, life and death, and is the experience of the Happiness that We are.

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