A universal assembly for true discernment
We’re offering an opportunity for anyone interested in leading a meditative or contemplative program in the Sanctuary. It would be for every other Sunday from 9:30–10:00am ET / 7:30–8:00am MT.
If you feel called to share a practice or reflection during this time, we’d love to hear from you!
If you are interested, please reach out to us here: Click Here
We’re excited to announce that Awakening Together’s new website will officially launch this Monday!
The new site features the same easy-to-navigate structure you’re familiar with, but with a refreshed homepage and a more intuitive design to help you find what you need with ease.
We want to reassure you that everything you currently use on the website is still available—you’ll still be able to access audios, the sanctuary, course information, events calendars, and more. Nothing is going away, just becoming more accessible.
We know change can take a little getting used to, and we’re here to help. If you have any questions, we’ll be available to offer support.
If you’d like to take a sneak peak before Monday, here is [a link.]
We’ll also be giving a brief introduction to the new website during this Sunday’s Weekly Gathering.
That said, if you’re ever looking for something and can’t find it, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re here to help, and we appreciate your patience and understanding as we evolve.
Please join us for our Ministerial candidates ordination ceremony on Sunday, April 27th at 1:30 pm ET/11:30 am MT live in the Sanctuary. President-Minister Rhoda Makled will host the ordination & Board Chair Rev. Joanne Schneider will be the guest speaker.
The Ministerial candidates who will be ordained are:
Mary Dugan
Fran Hamilton
Rona Marren
Elaine Wilson
We look forward to honoring their commitment and completion of the Ministerial Preparation Program (MPP) in their ordination ceremony. Come be a part of this momentous occasion!
Beginning Wednesday, April 30th, 2025, Rev. Sharon Hepburn’s Gentle Healing Group will continue their journey together with a new program titled Directly Inward. They warmly invite anyone interested to join them for this next chapter. The program will take place weekly on Wednesdays 6:30-7:30 PM ET / 4:30-5:30 PM MT.
This will be a group exploration of practices expanding from book learning to Direct Experience. Facilitation will be in the Sangha Led model of rotating hosts each week. Everyone is welcome!
Weekly on Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm ET / 4:30-5:30pm MT
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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
Please watch this informative video for our 40-Day & 40-Night Practice-Intensive of “Watching the News for Healing, Not Hate”.
📅 Begins Monday, May 12 and Ends Friday, June 21
⏰ Time: Check the “News for Healing” Calendar for time each day.
📍 Location: Online Sanctuary
Are you avoiding the news like your life depends on it? 😰
Have you told yourself, “I must protect my energy”?
Do you believe that avoidance and denial are not only useful—but imperative in these times?
If so, you are unconsciously reinforcing your subconscious programming. You’re teaching yourself that fear is true, that it must be obeyed. That’s not what you came here to do. That is not what you’ve been called to realize, to live from, to be. 💫
In a world where the news often triggers overwhelm, anger, or despair, this 40-Days and 40-Nights Practice-Intensive offers a radically different path.
You’ll learn—and immediately practice—methods for navigating both:
Real-time activation (while news is actively coming in), and
Post-event processing (when your nervous system is still stirred afterward).
The result? A shift from reactivity to clarity, from emotion to discernment, and from overwhelm to peace.
We will use the news as a vehicle for deep spiritual practice, giving it, its true purpose: healing the mind. 🧠💖
“We need a program by which we become realized in the totality of our Being, not merely with manifestation…
We must consciously include the vast realm of the unmanifest.”
— Margaret Coble
This practice-intensive is not just another course—it’s an invitation to a course correction. Through guided sessions, practical tools, and community support, you will:
✅ Build a Presence Toolbox
✅ Learn to process emotional triggers
✅ Develop a more compassionate response by abiding in your true nature
Built on an apprenticeship model, this journey encourages mastery and offers an opportunity to step into the role of facilitator in the final phase.
This is the first time we are offering a program like this to everyone—with no set fee required. 👐
We are experimenting with a donation-based model to keep the experience accessible, while inviting you to consider becoming a monthly sustaining donor in support of the free, high-quality spiritual resources we offer to all.
💡 Our mission is to help people become Self-reliant on their own inner wisdom.
We’re inviting anyone who has experienced a practice they use during or after being triggered to sign up as a facilitator.
Each 60-minute session includes 3 segments:
Teaching or demonstrating a practice
Perceiving a piece of news together and applying the method
Sharing reflections and insights in community
📅 Facilitators: Sign up now using our booking calendar:
👉 Choose your date, time & title your session → (booking calendar link)
Please include:
📝 Title — the practice you’ll share (e.g., Being with what is, Rest Accept Trust, journaling, Trusting our purpose, Mantra, Breathing techniques)
🧾 Description — a brief synopsis of the practice
(e.g., “This practice is used while watching the news and helps you observe thoughts and feelings as they arise. This practice is used for post-activation processing and helps calm the nervous system.”)
⚠️ Only one session per day. If appointment times are visible, that means the day is still open and the available times do not conflict with Sanctuary programming.
All facilitators and participants are invited to offer a donation in support of this program and Awakening Together’s work. There is no sign up required to participate.
🎁 Make a One-Time or Monthly Sustaining Donation → (donation link)
Your generosity keeps offerings like this open and accessible to all.
Facilitators are offering their time and teaching as a gift of service to our community.
This is not just another program—💫 It’s an invitation to transform through participation in Beloved Community*
The Awakening Together radio computer is being replaced. Thank you for your patience as we replace and set up the radio computer. We anticipate that the radio will be offline for the next week-ish.
Please feel free to join us in the sanctuary whenever we are broadcasting live. Here’s the link to the sanctuary schedule and the link for zoom instructions.
Satsang Reflections is a monthly dialogue held after the Satsang. This installment will be on Monday, April 21, 2025, from 11 am – 12 pm ET. Joseph Schmitz will facilitate this installment.
The purpose of this program is to share what was most impactful. Hear from others about what they took away, and deepen into the teaching from the Satsang interview with Unmani where she was interviewed by Anja Janssen.
We hope you will join us live to discuss and dive deeper into the inspiration that was shared during the Satsang with Unmani. Or, just listen in and hear all the biggest highlights and see if this particular Satsang might inspire you in some way.
Use this link for information on how to enter our Zoom sanctuary.
We hope you can join us on Sunday, April 20, 2025, at 1:30 pm ET/11:30 am MT for Reflections from Freedom from the Judge Online Retreat that was facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert. During this program participants will reflect on the retreat with each other and also with friends joining to hear more about the retreat.
The participants will have the opportunity to share how this retreat helped them learn to recognize the voice of the judge and how they came to see that it is not their voice. They will also reflect on how they have engaged with the judge and the practices that help to disengage from it.
For more information about our upcoming retreats, please: click here
📅 Begins Monday, May 12 and Ends Friday, June 21
⏰ Time: Check the “News for Healing” Calendar for time each day.
📍 Location: Online Sanctuary
Are you avoiding the news like your life depends on it? 😰
Have you told yourself, “I must protect my energy”?
Do you believe that avoidance and denial are not only useful—but imperative in these times?
If so, you are unconsciously reinforcing your subconscious programming. You’re teaching yourself that fear is true, that it must be obeyed. That’s not what you came here to do. That is not what you’ve been called to realize, to live from, to be. 💫
In a world where the news often triggers overwhelm, anger, or despair, this 40-Days and 40-Nights Practice-Intensive offers a radically different path.
You’ll learn—and immediately practice—methods for navigating both:
Real-time activation (while news is actively coming in), and
Post-event processing (when your nervous system is still stirred afterward).
The result? A shift from reactivity to clarity, from emotion to discernment, and from overwhelm to peace.
We will use the news as a vehicle for deep spiritual practice, giving it, its true purpose: healing the mind. 🧠💖
“We need a program by which we become realized in the totality of our Being, not merely with manifestation…
We must consciously include the vast realm of the unmanifest.”
— Margaret Coble
This practice-intensive is not just another course—it’s an invitation to a course correction. Through guided sessions, practical tools, and community support, you will:
✅ Build a Presence Toolbox
✅ Learn to process emotional triggers
✅ Develop a more compassionate response by abiding in your true nature
Built on an apprenticeship model, this journey encourages mastery and offers an opportunity to step into the role of facilitator in the final phase.
This is the first time we are offering a program like this to everyone—with no set fee required. 👐
We are experimenting with a donation-based model to keep the experience accessible, while inviting you to consider becoming a monthly sustaining donor in support of the free, high-quality spiritual resources we offer to all.
💡 Our mission is to help people become Self-reliant on their own inner wisdom.
We’re inviting anyone who has experienced a practice they use during or after being triggered to sign up as a facilitator.
Each 60-minute session includes 3 segments:
Teaching or demonstrating a practice
Perceiving a piece of news together and applying the method
Sharing reflections and insights in community
📅 Facilitators: Sign up now using our booking calendar:
👉 Choose your date, time & title your session → (booking calendar link)
Please include:
📝 Title — the practice you’ll share (e.g., Being with what is, Rest Accept Trust, journaling, Trusting our purpose, Mantra, Breathing techniques)
🧾 Description — a brief synopsis of the practice
(e.g., “This practice is used while watching the news and helps you observe thoughts and feelings as they arise. This practice is used for post-activation processing and helps calm the nervous system.”)
⚠️ Only one session per day. If appointment times are visible, that means the day is still open and the available times do not conflict with Sanctuary programming.
All facilitators and participants are invited to offer a donation in support of this program and Awakening Together’s work. There is no sign up required to participate.
🎁 Make a One-Time or Monthly Sustaining Donation → (donation link)
Your generosity keeps offerings like this open and accessible to all.
Facilitators are offering their time and teaching as a gift of service to our community.
This is not just another program—💫 It’s an invitation to transform through participation in Beloved Community*
