🕊️ A 40-Day & 40-Night Practice-Intensive | Donation-Based Offering

✨ Becoming Realized in the Totality of Our Being

📅 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. 💫

🧘‍♀️ A Transformative Approach

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. 🧠💖

📣 A Call to the Totality of Our Being

“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.

💝 Donation-Based Offering

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.

🙋‍♀️ Want to Facilitate a Session?

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:

1. Teaching or demonstrating a practice

2. Perceiving a piece of news together and applying the method

3. 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.

💖 Make a Donation to Join or Support the Program

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*

Join us for our next Movie Watcher’s Group, facilitated by Rev. Laura Joy Bedford , on Sunday, April 27th, 2025, at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT.

Free Guy is a 2021 action film starring the ever-delightful Ryan Reynolds playing Guy (“Blue Shirt Guy”). Guy is an “NPC, ”a non-playable character in a video game, who realizes and lives his True Nature as Love.

It would be wonderful to have you with us for our movie watchers discussion group. Here’s how it works: Watch the film on your own, then tune in on the last Sunday in April to share your insights and hear the insights of others on the film Free Guy.

Witness Guy opening beyond his programming and becoming increasingly curious, filling with a deep sense of love and wonder, accompanied by an emerging awareness of something greater. He begins exercising the ability to choose something different than his programming… expanding…stepping outside the box…and, along the way, affecting not only himself, but everyone around him.

Themes such as the ages-old identity question, “What exactly am I?” “What is awareness?” “What is the phenomenal world?” and, “What is possible?” are explored.

As Guy fearlessly embarks on being his True Self (Love), and naturally extending love, he returns over and over to his programmed conditioning, yet still remembering something so powerful.

The film includes many more themes than mentioned here. It addresses what can happen when the creative impulse is transmuted through the egoic filter. Witness the innocent, yet painful, egoic-hunger for validation due to not remembering what we are already…which is already and always unimaginably whole, perfect, complete and inherently valuable.

Observe a being who longs to be seen and validated by the “bigger ego,” believing that this mixed-up kind of validation is where happiness “is.” The film is also a beautiful example of an innocent, yet ego-identified being becoming vicious when its personal kingdom feels threatened, which is a call for Love by a soul in who cherishes the egoic wish and is not yet interested in awakening to Oneness, our Divine nature. Witness how the ego listening being responds to life and how Love responds to life.

Guy symbolizes the ever-potent realization that there must be another way to live. If you’re feeling called to attend, you’re invited to don a blue shirt (optional, of course 😊) and head into the sanctuary Sunday, April 27 at 8 PM EST/6 PM MST.