All times listed are Eastern Standard Time. Look below for helpful links.

7:00 – 7:30 am – Centering Prayer – With Rev. Anne Blanchard
Centering Prayer is a method designed to seek the true Self by deepening into the intention to recognize and promptly empty ourselves of what is not true and, in turn, abide more and more fully in the heart as a symbol of the Truth of What We Are.

 7:30 – 8:30 am – Being Aware of Awareness Meditation – Led by Rev. Anne Blanchard
One of the core practices of the Awakening Together community is Awareness Watching Awareness meditation. Those words can inspire as much confusion for some as they do clarity of purpose for others. This program provides an opportunity to be in community with others who will to find that place of no-place, that attention to our natural attentiveness, that innate humanness that can often be overlooked. Rev. Anne will lead participants through gently guided Being Aware of Awareness Meditation. Rev. Anne Blanchard  facilitates this program on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

8:30 – 9:00 am – Contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening – A Daily Devotional Practice with Rev. Michele Hojnacki and Sami Ross
This program is a daily, year-long devotional practice that focuses on contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening.  This group will meet every morning at 8:30 am ET for 30 minutes to share our insights from the previous day’s contemplation with our inner teacher.  The facilitators are Rev. Michele Hojnacki and Sami Ross.

11:30 am – Willingness – with Sami Ross
During this half hour we will listen together, either in meditation or contemplation, with eyes opened or closed, as a beautiful prayer of willingness is spoken. We will notice without judgement what is present, the “yesses” and the “noes”, with open curiosity.

12:00 pm – I Think, Therefore…  – Rev. Cyndi Krupp
In this program, Rev. Cyndi will explore how we can use the Conditioning Loop (What I think, I see, what I see, I experience, what I experience I think) to shine a light on how the little self works to keep us in the dark. She will be using personal stories, contemplations, and wisdom teachings. Join Cyndi in using the world that we see and the thoughts that we think to Awaken Together.

12:30 pm – Living The Undefended Surrender Experiment – Rev. Rhoda Makled
With humor, love, and open-hearted awareness, Rev. Rhoda Makled explores her own take on the Surrender Experiment as coined by Michael Singer. Raw, authentic, and faithfully she is uncovering the path to living in the undefended Heart.

Rev. Rhoda digs into topics she is exploring in her life such as what it means to live the experiment of being surrendered. Feeling every feeling and seeing every thought she can, Rhoda shares the journey of studying, journaling, contemplating, being inspired by, and surrendering to Truth. Inspired by so many teachers including those here at Awakening Together, Rhoda shares her contemplations and invites you to come and discuss your experience with your own surrender experiment. This undefended dialogue with Inner Wisdom is just one more way to observe, as the self is undone–the intention being to leave space only for awareness of Awareness and release everything that covers Truth.

In this program, Rev. Rhoda explores the teachings of Michael Singer, Regina Dawn Akers, Paul Hedderman, Roger Castillo, Helen Hamilton, and many more.

1:00 pm – Cancelled today: Unfiltered – Rev. Anne Blanchard
Rev. Anne Blanchard shares her experience of purification and awakening, unfiltered and as it happens. Raw, reflective, brave, and infused with clarity, Anne’s open honesty inspires us all to dive deep into the spiritual journey instead of simply skimming the surface.

2:00 pm – Devotional Non-Duality – Joseph Schmitz
Joseph invites us to delve deeper into the unknown, embracing the journey with curiosity, love, and trust.

Dr. Hawkins wrote that “…the essential required qualities needed for following the pathway of nonduality are humility, surrender, and devotional dedication to the pathway.”

Awakening Together is an assembly of equals joined in a common purpose: awakening to one true Self. While many teachings remind us that we already are that Self—unchanging, whole, and complete—why does it often feel so difficult to live from that as our direct experience?

One suggestion is that it is due to the fear of the unknown. No matter how challenging the circumstances of life might be, it’s still mostly familiar territory in that it’s “my” life, these are “my” circumstances, and this is “my” territory.

Exploring unknown territories can be both dangerous and adventurous. We will journey ever deeper into the unknown guided by the wisdom of spiritual teachers such as Dr. David Hawkins, Angelo DiLullo, Regina Dawn Akers, Adyashanti, as well as the insights found in music, poetry, and the intuitive wisdom within us all.

2:30 pm – CSI: Back to Basics – Rev. Doreen Bonnet
Join Rev. Doreen Bonnet as she uses the tools of CSI….contemplation, silence (meditation), and inquiry. Using her spiritual aspiration as a pointer, Doreen calls upon Inner Wisdom to navigate life and share her discoveries.

3:00 pm – Sangha Led Contemplations – Hosted by Jo-Ann Crane-Rodrigues
Please join us as we continue to contemplate Out of the Stillness & The Seven Steps to Awakening.  Each week, we will share from Regina Dawn Akers’ published journal, Out of the Stillness. It was written as a personal journal over 8½ years as she contemplated quotes from spiritual masters and practiced the insight she realized through contemplation. The quotes Regina contemplated were collected by Michael Langford and published in The Seven Steps to Awakening. Both books are used in this program.

A new facilitator will also be assigned each week. Please email Jo-Ann if you feel to volunteer as a facilitator at  [email protected].  The facilitator will be the one to facilitate the program during the following week. The facilitator will lead by reading the quotes, calling on participants who wish to share their contemplations. They may also share their contemplations if so moved. To be a facilitator you will need both books.

Any questions asked, will be posed to the group and inner wisdom will be brought forth from the sangha in response. We invite anyone who feels called to join us as we step into the vision of a highly effective sangha.

4:00 – 5:30 pm – Awakening Together Sanctuary Closed

5:30 – An Hour Tonight! A Lot to Say About Nothing – Rev. Billy Sintiris
In this weekly program, Rev. Billy will expand on Awakening Together’s Core Value Number One by utilizing inspirational writings by various authors, including awakened masters, poets, and personal guests. Words alone, being subject to duality, cannot transform in and by themselves. But when paired with seeing and looking within, we can go beyond their limits. “A Lot to Say About Nothing” is about surrendering self (personal identity). Words can only point to the Truth of the Whole Mind. He will look deeper into the many words used to take us home to the One. NOTE: This program will be an hour long on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, beginning a half an hour earlier at 5:30 ET.

6:30 pm – Gentle Healing Year 3 – Facilitated by Rev. Sharon Hepburn
Rev. Sharon Hepburn guides committed students who would like to make consistent, gentle progress toward genuine peace, joy, and love. Year 3 is based on The Seven Steps to Awakening.

7:30 pm – Explorations of the Unbound – with Revs. Sharon Hepburn and Shawna Summers
Please join us for this half-hour program in the Sanctuary Explorations of the Unbound, which will be a live, spontaneous contemplation, between Revs. Shawna Summers and Sharon Hepburn. They will explore and unhinge what constricts the opening to the joyous movement of the unbound. This will be an ongoing weekly program.

8:00 – Joy Enfolding All in Love – Laura Joy Bedford
Join Laura Joy as she joins in wholeness and worthiness with the Presence of God’s Unconditional Love and our True Divine Self. Laura Joy shares what is alive in her awareness during the program and enfolds it in Love if it seems to be different from the astounding and eternal Love of the Divine, so that it is dissolved and the Light that had been invested in it is returned to Source. Participants are warmly invited to join and share in Divine Presence and in opening to what Divine Love is revealing.

8:30 pm Sanctuary Closed
All Times listed are Eastern Standard Time –  See helpful links below.
Enter the Sanctuary or see the complete listing of speakers.
How to Enter the Sanctuary

8:30 to 9:00 am – Contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening – A Daily Devotional Practice with Rev. Michele Hojnacki and Sami Ross
This program is a daily, year-long devotional practice that focuses on contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening.  This group will meet every morning at 8:30 am ET for 30 minutes to share our insights from the previous day’s contemplation with our inner teacher.  The facilitators are Rev. Michele Hojnacki and Sami Ross.

All times listed are Eastern Standard Time – See links below to join us in the Sanctuary

8:00 am – Centering Prayer – Sami Ross
Sami Ross leads us in Centering Prayer on the weekends! This method is designed to seek the true Self by deepening into the intention to recognize and promptly empty ourselves of what is not true. In turn, we abide more and more fully in the heart as a symbol of the Truth of What We Are.

9:30 am – Prayer Circle hosted by Revs. Jane Sobel and Melody Brauninger
Jane and/or Melody will share a reading about prayer from different non-dual points of view or personal insight. Time will be given for participants to offer their prayer verbally to the group; a time for those wishing to offer their prayer in silence; and then time for everyone to be with all prayers as we sit in a virtual prayer circle.
Every other Sunday, 9:30-10:00am ET / 7:30-8:00am MT

10:15 am – Weekly Gathering – Rev. David Hemphill
Topic: “Nurturing Your Mind – A Homily on Ego Suicide”

Description:
It’s confounding how, by some accounts, ego appears to vanish at enlightenment, and yet by way of other accounts, it is only the ego who walks the path and who ever becomes enlightened anyways. Which is it: Does ego vanish and the True Self come to the forefront of life, or does ego wake up to its own true nature and become the vessel of God? Are we on a path of ego suicide?

11:30 am – Weekly Fellowship Time – Hosted by Rev. Laura Joy Bedford
This is the time when Awakening Together joins together in fellowship as a community. We share what is on our hearts and minds from the recent homily or anything else that is truly inspiring us.

1. What does it really mean to have spiritual awakening as part of my path?
2. What is my unique path?
3. Why do parts of my path feel uncomfortable?
4. How do I navigate the uncomfortable parts?
5. Where is the inherent bliss and joy on my path that spiritual awakening says is there? How do I access it now?
6. Why does my bliss come and go? Why do the bad parts always come back?
7. How do I get “unstuck” if I’ve been on this path many years and yet still have the same issues I’ve always had?
8. What is “Self-will” and why do I need to pay attention to it in order to get unstuck?
9. What is the nature of “desire” and “aversion,” and how are they related to stuckness?
10.  Once I understand everything, or if I already understand everything, how do I actually make the realization happen?
11.  What are paradoxes and how should I react when I find one?
12.  What specifically is it that will permanently lead to spiritual awakening? How do I cultivate this?
    If any of these seem interesting, then I hope to see you there!

1:00 pm – Sacred Inquiry – Rev. Shawna Summers
Rev. Shawna demonstrates the art of Sacred Inquiry in real-time. Join her as she asks to see with Clarity, questioning each layer of the thinking mind, to see what beliefs are hidden in the sub-conscious. She opens deeper into beginners’ mind with humble curiosity. This is an evolving process, as she discerns for the vibrational level of each thought, exposing the source. She invites all listening to join her in their own Inquiry to experience the strength of this powerful and often surprising spiritual practice.

1:30 pm – Freedom Practice Sangha – Hosted by Rev. Anne Blanchard from Ajijic, Mexico!
A host will lead the Sangha in the practice of looking directly at our beliefs and  Inquiring into the root cause.   With the recognition that the sharing of that work with others who are undergoing the same process can be enormously beneficial and supportive. This will be a time of sharing our inquiries, insights, and challenges, listening to others, or just knowing that we are in community, as we find that undefended place within ourselves that longs to be free.

2:30 – 5:00 pm – Sanctuary Closed

All times listed are Eastern Standard Time. Look below for helpful links.

7:00 to 7:30 am – Centering Prayer – Sami Ross
Centering Prayer is a method designed to seek the true Self by deepening into the intention to recognize and promptly empty ourselves of what is not true and, in turn, abide more and more fully in the heart as a symbol of the Truth of What We Are.

12:00 pm – I Think, Therefore…  – Rev. Cyndi Krupp
In this program, Rev. Cyndi will explore how we can use the Conditioning Loop (What I think, I see, what I see, I experience, what I experience I think) to shine a light on how the little self works to keep us in the dark. She will be using personal stories, contemplations, and wisdom teachings. Join Cyndi in using the world that we see and the thoughts that we think to Awaken Together.

12:30 pm – Living The Undefended Surrender Experiment – Rev. Rhoda Makled
With humor, love, and open-hearted awareness Rev. Rhoda Makled is exploring her own take on the Surrender Experiment as coined by Michael Singer. Raw, authentic, and faithfully she is uncovering the path to living in the undefended Heart.

1:00 pm – Unfiltered – Rev. Anne Blanchard
Rev. Anne Blanchard shares her experience of purification and awakening, unfiltered and as it happens. Raw, reflective, brave, and infused with clarity, Anne’s open honesty inspires us all to dive deep into the spiritual journey instead of simply skimming the surface.

2:00 pm – Devotional Non-Duality – with Joseph Schmitz
Joseph invites us to delve deeper into the unknown, embracing the journey with curiosity, love, and trust. Exploring unknown territories can be both dangerous and adventurous. We will journey ever deeper into the unknown guided by the wisdom of spiritual teachers such as Dr. David Hawkins, Angelo Dilullo, Regina Dawn Akers, Adyashanti, as well as the insights found in music, poetry, and the intuitive wisdom within us all.

2:30 pm – The Inner Hexagram: Mapping the Mind’s Weather – with Rev. Meghan Reinhart
In each present moment, a deeper Intelligence gently reveals the patterns beneath our perceptions, inviting us to rest in an awareness beyond all constraints. Through the living mirror of the I Ching, we discover a sacred conversation that transcends easy answers and guides us to align with the unchanging truth within.

Meg’s program will be on the first, third and fifth Wednesday of each month. The Inner Hexagon is a gathering where we pause, draw a hexagram, and allow this ancient oracle to reflect our shared spiritual guidance. Each session becomes an inquiry into the shifting currents of the mind – a chance to notice how a loving, subtle presence rearranges our thoughts and beckons us toward higher understanding.

With poetic reflection and open inquiry, we explore the weather of the mind, not to define it but to listen. Wisdom meets us where sincerity gathers, revealing truth between the lines.

Join us as we draw the hexagram, attune to the quiet presence some call the Holy Spirit, and map the mind’s weather together, reaching the peace that surpasses all understanding.

3:00 pm – In The Company of Truth – Helen Hamilton
This program is Awakening Together’s ‘In the Company of Truth’ Satsang with Helen Hamilton. Helen’s core message is that the Realization of the True Self is possible for everyone, no matter what background you may have as long as you want it more than anything else. After all, we are only returning to our natural state, to what we already are. We are only coming to live as that Truth consciously.

4:00 – 5:30 pm – The Sanctuary is Closed

Cancelled today: In The Flow – Rev. Andy Walker
In this program, Andy will be engaging in a simple exploration and discovery about connecting with guidance, insights, wisdom, and motivation that arise naturally out of the flow of life (rather than from the thinking mind).

5:300 pm – A hour today: A Lot to Say About Nothing – Rev. Billy Sintiris
In this weekly program, Rev. Billy will expand on Awakening Together’s Core Value Number One by utilizing inspirational writings by various authors, including awakened masters, poets, and personal guests. Words alone, being subject to duality, cannot transform in and by themselves. But when paired with seeing and looking within, we can go beyond their limits. “A Lot to Say About Nothing” is about surrendering self (personal identity). Words can only point to the Truth of the Whole Mind. He will look deeper into the many words used to take us home to the One. NOTE: This program will be an hour long on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, beginning a half an hour earlier at 5:30 ET.

6:30 pm – Gentle Healing Year 3 – Facilitated by Rev. Sharon Hepburn
Please be aware that Gentle Healing Years 1 and 2 are prerequisites for participation in this program. We don’t recommend Year 3 for anyone who has not completed Year 2. This is because the contemplations build a clear understanding of the spiritual teachings that are taught in Year 1 and Year 2. This course is based on The Seven Steps to Awakening.

7:30 pm – Explorations of the Unbound – with Revs. Sharon Hepburn and Shawna Summers
Please join us for this half-hour program in the Sanctuary Explorations of the Unbound, which will be a live, spontaneous contemplation, between Revs. Shawna Summers and Sharon Hepburn. They will explore and unhinge what constricts the opening to the joyous movement of the unbound. This will be an ongoing weekly program.

8:00 pm the Sanctuary is Closed
All Times listed are Eastern Standard Time –  See helpful links below.
Enter the Sanctuary or see the complete listing of speakers.
How to Enter the Sanctuary

8:30 to 9:00 am – Contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening – A Daily Devotional Practice with Rev. Michele Hojnacki and Sami Ross
This program is a daily, year-long devotional practice that focuses on contemplating the Thoughts of Awakening.  This group will meet every morning at 8:30 am ET for 30 minutes to share our insights from the previous day’s contemplation with our inner teacher.  The facilitators are Rev. Michele Hojnacki and Sami Ross.