“Waking down” is a form of awakening that is very different from trying to rise out of this world and into some other state or dimension. In this process, you directly realize and bring the infinite divine reality to life.

Saniel Bonder, founder of Waking Down in Mutuality

Rod Taylor - Waking Down in Mutuality Teacher

From an interview with Eduardo Sierra:

It helps people to recognize that they really are an evolving being, and as an evolving being, they’re not actually learning Waking Down. They’re an evolving being that has found a teaching and people who can support their unique unfolding. It becomes so obvious to me that people are still carrying the, “OK, I’m going to this path to get what they’re offering, OK I’m going to this path, so now I’m going to the Waking Down path and they’re going to give me what they’re offering.” And it becomes so clear that no, they’re an evolving being that’s come to a place where they’re drawn to Waking Down, and their unique unfoldment can be beautifully supported by Waking Down, without them becoming It, or getting IT.

Eduardo Sierra

Waking Down in Mutuality offers powerful skillful means to help us awaken to our true nature. Yet that doesn’t displace at all whatever natural affinities we have or practices we’re involved with; rather, it gives a bright light to view their value clearly.

Waking Down is a process of Divine Conscious Embodiment. It’s not that the mind is excluded but Awakening to your identity as Consciousness and then Consciousness embracing and awakening your body and the contents and workings of your mind is incredible indeed. For example, you get to experience why you’re frightened in certain situations  – not because of some psychological concept, but because there is real, visceral, existential fear to be felt in our bodies about being alive on this planet. Every BODY knows it is going to die some day. There is real threat out there, real violence. We have every reason to be frequently frightened. There is no shame in this. The endless denials of the world are seen for what they are.

Gill Smith via Ted Strauss’ website – www.tedstrauss.com

Waking Down is a support group for people who are ready to come down into life, with all its pains and glories. It’s a place to learn how to relax into the truth of being You. If that sounds like a downer, Waking Down may not be for you. But if that sounds good, you may have just found what you’ve been looking for your whole life: You.

Ted Strauss – Senior Waking Down in Mutuality Teacher – www.tedstraus.com

Though its lineage flows from ancient traditions, Waking Down is grounded in modern Western experience and culture. Its process leads to an ongoing Whole Being integration, a grounding of Consciousness in matter, spirit and body in a seamless onlyness of Being that includes all the joys and challenges of being human.

Bob Valine – from the book, Dancing in the Fire: Stories of Awakening Within the Heart of Community

Waking Down is for people who are sick and tired of striving to be better or more spiritual, but can’t help yearning to awaken. It’s for people who have begun to realize that maybe it’s not just about waking up. The down in Waking Down means that real awakening must include realizing transcendence and physical existence. If you want to realize wholeness, you must be prepared to allow your own wholeness, including the parts of yourself you don’t like. You’re not going to find cosmic wholeness if you won’t allow yourself to embrace the truth of all your parts.

Ted Strauss – Senior Waking Down in Mutuality Teacher
www.tedstrauss.com

Waking Down is both a community and a teaching.

It is an amazingly effective set of teachings on human development and spiritual awakening with proven results of among hundreds of people. The genius of this teaching is its minimalism. It is lean and requires very little in terms of beliefs or practices and emphasizes a trust in the uniqueness of your own person and contribution. Inseparable from the teaching itself is the powerful energetic transmission that teachers of this process transmit, and the nurturing connection with its community of practitioners. These three combined are the circumstance in which a person finds themselves falling into a deep trust in themselves and life itself.

Krishna Gauci – Senior Waking Down in Mutuality Teacher – www.krishnasatsang.com

“Waking Down is an open source architecture of organic transformation in a compassionate culture that catalyzes awakened integration.”

Deborah Boyar, Ph.D., S.E.P. – Senior Waking Down in Mutuality Teacher

Waking Down is about awakening to who you are, right now, as both
limited and unbounded. For me, that entailed a free-fall into the
depths of the I/me story, in all its shadowy glory. Considering that I
spent decades pushing away and trying to not be the I/me story, the
Waking Down experience has been a pretty brutal ride.

As for the post-awakening “Wakedown Shakedown”, for me, it’s just more
of the same shit, different day. The difference, though, is that
there’s now an internal spaciousness from knowing myself as both the
story and the unboundedness in which it is unfolding (as opposed to
being bound up in and solely identified as the story.) That gives me
both some comforting distance from the story and the capacity to more
clearly see it and really delve deeply into it. IMO, it’s the perfect
platform from which to do internal work.

Alex Stanley via FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com