Dylan Newcomb has spent the last ten years researching and developing new ways to blend the movement arts with elements from other fields such as Yin-Yang Theory, Energy Psychology, MBTI Typology, contemporary Integral Theory (Ken Wilber et al) and Spiral Dynamics (Clare Graves) to form new conceptual models and trainings for both personal development, social activism, and the arts. He teaches a full mind-body approach to personal development in workshops around the world to people from all walks of life, as well as to professional artists at top conservatories in The Netherlands and abroad.

Dylan has been a core faculty member of the School of Synnervation - a training organization of the Dutch branch of the Center of Human Emergence; he is a founding member of Danslab - an institute for dance-based research in The Hague; and he serves on the board of the Todays Art festival.

Dylan was raised on a farm in Maine, and trained at the Juilliard School in both dance and music composition, after which he moved to the Netherlands, where he danced for eight seasons with the Netherlands Dance Theater. For the next eight years, he choreographed and composed Dance-Theater productions, largely through the Korzo Theater in Den Haag. He has won several major Dutch awards for his art, including the Lucas Hoving production prize, the Silver Dance Prize, and the Phillip Morris Prize. Newcomb’s choreographies, from solos to large group works, have been shown throughout Europe, Asia and America. A long time practitioner of Buddhist Vipassana meditation and several styles of Yoga, Dylan is certified in Psych-K and HBLU. Additionally, he maintains a private practice as using UZAZU together with Energy Psychology, to assisting people to make significant breakthroughs on the mental, emotional, and physical levels. He currently spends much of the year teaching workshops and seminars in UZAZU around the world.

Terry Patten is a vital, leading voice in the fields of spiritual practice, leadership, integral development and evolutionary spirituality. He speaks and consults internationally, inspiring, challenging, and connecting evolutionary leaders and institutions worldwide. A gifted communicator, community-builder, successful entrepreneur, and author of four books, Terry has worked for over three decades as a philosopher, activist, coach, and teacher, helping leaders embody higher consciousness in practical actions that transform complex systems. His radio show draws a large, world wide audience as he explores the fundamental life questions with the likes of Ram Das, Diane Hamilton, Gangaji, Jean Houston and Dan Millman. Terry has an inviting smile and a warm heart. He is the author, with Ken Wilber, of Integral Life Practice. His personal web site is www.integralheart.com .

Linda Groves-Bonder is Saniel’s full partner in The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart transmission and teachings and a Founding and Senior Teacher of the Waking Down in Mutuality work.

Linda was never attracted to join any formal spiritual organization but rather gravitated to an experiential path, learning life lessons through meditation, reading, and attending seminars and workshops. Upon first attending Saniel’s meditation gatherings in October 1994, she was deeply attracted to his work. She soon became moved to teach, eventually giving up her career to concentrate in transmitting and teaching the Waking Down in Mutuality process. Linda swiftly became a partner to Saniel not only in practical instruction of others but also in deep “holding” of the White-Hot Being-force and spiritual space of the work as a whole. In the Waking Down community she is honored for her immense compassion for all creatures and all Life.

Linda is a founding member of the Integral Institute and a charter member of the Integral Spiritual Center . Linda is also the author of Conversations with Margaret: A True Story of Self-Love, Conscious Awakening, and the Power of the Heart. Please see her page at www.wakingdown.org .

Saniel Bonder is the author of Healing the Spirit/Matter Split and the founder of the Waking Down in Mutuality work. He has been a pioneer in the widespread embodiment and mutual, evolutionary exploration of awakened consciousness for over a decade. After he received a B.A. in Social Relations from Harvard in 1972, a quest for spiritual enlightenment had become the focus of his life.

During the years of his search he benefited from both Eastern and Western teachings and transmissions — as well as from the training in integrity, tolerance, compassion, and perseverance he received from his parents and secondary school mentors. His quest culminated in December 1992 in the awakening he calls his Second Birth. A year and a half later he entered the mysterious further intensification of bodily and cosmic enlightenment in love that he refers to as “the White Heat. ”Since awakening, Saniel has dedicated himself to democratizing this embodied, nirvanic aliveness and exploring with others how to create a sane human culture on its foundation. Saniel calls the total advanced teachings he and Linda personally offer “The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart,” or, more simply, “The White-Hot Way of Trust.”

Recently he has begun to speak of this total orientation as “Radical Organismic Spiritual Evolution™” or, with an acronym, “ROSEwork™. Saniel is also a tantric and a shaman, an eco-entrepreneur, an activist for nuclear disarmament, a golfer, and a flute player.

Saniel is extremely proud of the transitions he and Linda and their Heart-colleagues in the Waking Down in Mutuality community have accomplished. Please see The Spirit of Our Work, letters about this transition Saniel has written over the past year and more, and other relevant communications at www.wakingdown.org. With Linda, Saniel is a founding member of the Integral Institute and a charter member of the Integral Spiritual Center.

Thomas Hübl is a contemporary spiritual teacher. He represents an uncompromising clarity, which brings the enlightened potential of a new “Culture of WE” into the light. His workshops and trainings invite people to experience a deeper dimension of self-awareness and individual responsibility.

The radical path of transcendence from the ego-centric world opens the door to deeply authentic expression, service to the world and to the focus on the absolute. Experiencing a driving force to take part in evolutionary processes, people apply their gifts into the world in a concrete way.

Thomas is the initiator of the Celebrate Life Festival and the Synchronized Humanity Tour. He founded the Academy of Inner Science in 2008, creating a space for the exploration of contemporary mysticism, which directly contributes to a waking culture. The Academy offers an engaging invitation to all, who feel the call to awaken and wish to manifest this in the world. The programs of the Academy focus not only on personal transcendence, but also on the active commitment to respond to the challenges of the human condition, which we face in today’s post-modern world.

Chloë Goodchild is passionate about voice and sound as a vehicle for Spirit. She founded The Naked Voice in 1990. The Naked Voice is a unique method that explores the human voice as a source of individual and collective self-discovery linking to the most profound levels of human wisdom. It practices interweave silent, spoken and sung communication skills that build self-awareness, confidence and trust, leading to the creation of sound human values through co-operative relationships and compassionate service in the world. Your naked voice is deeper than your social or personality voice. It is the mouthpiece of your soul. You don’t have to be a “singer“ to express it. It's as easy as breathing. Something magical happens when you move from speaking to sounding. It stills the mind, opens the heart, dissolves fear and separateness and brings you home to the present moment. As you learn to embody your voice, new seeds of non-judgmental listening and self–acceptance emerge and you find yourself communicating with the world around you in ways you never imagined possible.

Chloë created the “Singing Field” a unique meeting place inspired by participative sound and song and Rumi’s poem, which became the Singing Field anthem: “Out beyond ideas of right and wrong doing, there is a field, a singing field. I’ll meet you there”.

Chloë works internationally and has directed and performed for world events such as V-Day, The Vagina Monologues in Madison Square Garden with 70 of the top actresses of the world; the celebrity-led Transforming September 11th at the Royal Opera House, London; and The Way of Peace with HH Dalai Lama in a multi-faith event in Northern Ireland.