We were honored to welcome Yvonne Unger as our June Satsang guest. Her conversation with Rev. Anne Blanchard was both inspiring and insightful, offering profound reflections that resonated deeply with our community.

About Yvonne
Yvonne Unger spent decades searching desperately for a way out of this life – and ended up in awakening. Then came the awakening from awakening, and even the spiritual identity had to go.

Today she works with people who have been on the spiritual path for years – and find themselves exhausted, disillusioned, or somehow still not arrived. Holding space for the paradox of how spiritual experiences can become hiding places, and what it means to truly arrive in being human. Her approach turns 180° from most spiritual traditions – not transcendence, but incarnation. Not escaping the human experience, but arriving in it completely, often for the first time.

Her work is somatic and trauma-informed, grounded in the understanding that integration requires a regulated nervous system – and that without safety in the body, even the deepest openings cannot land. She works without fixed methods or stages: experiential, precise, and adapted to what arises.

Please visit Yvonne’s website at: https://www.yvonne-unger.de/en/

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We were honored to welcome Saja Fendél as our May Satsang guest. His conversation with Joseph Schmitz was both inspiring and insightful, offering profound reflections that resonated deeply with our community.

Information about Saja

Saja is the founder of The Thought Dojo, a contemplation studio designed to help truth seekers build a healthy relationship with their mind & heart post awakening – Encouraging reason, logic, and devotion as a path to unconditional happiness.

His approach extends and complements his teachers Rupert Spira & Francis Lucille alongside his early teacher Ram Dass. Saja’s core teaching is about the awakening of the heart and the head, encouraging the embodiment of one’s imperfect humanity over the embodiment of an enlightened state.

To learn more about Saja, please visit his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@sajafendel

To join Saja’s free community, please visit: https://www.skool.com/thethoughtdojo/about

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We were honored to welcome Emeline Lambert as our March 2026 Satsang guest. Her conversation with Rev Laura Bedford was both inspiring and insightful, offering profound reflections that resonated deeply with our community.

About Emeline Lambert:

Emeline’s search for truth began early, shaped by a persistent sense of not belonging in a world that felt unreal and without meaning. Beneath years of striving, artistic performance, and inner struggle with depression and anxiety was a question she could not avoid: Who am I? A pivotal retreat experience marked a profound shift in her understanding of self, opening into a deeper recognition of presence and true nature.

Since then, meditation, self-observation, and acceptance have grounded her path, transforming her relationships and reframing suffering as part of awakening rather than a detour from it.

Emeline speaks about surrendering to what is, and allowing awakening to unfold beyond the mind’s narrative of separation. She emphasizes the role of nature, compassion, and service in spiritual life, and views realization not as a personal achievement but as an ongoing, shared movement of consciousness.

Email to reach Emeline: emwlambert@gmail.com

~ As an option, Emeline suggests donating to any charity you feel like donating to so that the energy of this exchange continues. ~

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We were honored to welcome Suresh Ramaswamy as our February 2026 Satsang guest. His conversation with Joseph Schmitz was both inspiring and insightful, offering profound reflections that resonated deeply with our community.

About Suresh Ramaswamy

Suresh Ramaswamy is a transformational teacher and visionary entrepreneur passionate about igniting and catalyzing the transformation of humanity.

He is the author of Just Be: Transform Your Life and Live as Infinity. Just Be has been honored with numerous awards, including the Nautilus book award and the International Soul-Bridge Body-Mind-Spirit award.

With his background as an electrical engineer and technology executive, Suresh brings an inspired yet pragmatic approach to elevating consciousness on our planet. Held in high regard by people around the world, Suresh’s light-filled presence and guidance awakens them to their innermost essence.

For more information about Suresh, please visit: sureshramaswamy.org

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We were honored to welcome Rastal as our January 2026 Satsang guest. His conversation with Yvonne Unger was both inspiring and insightful, offering profound reflections that resonated deeply with our community.

About Rastal

Rastal is a consciousness researcher and creator of the Deepening Framework, a practical approach to lasting inner peace that accelerates what traditionally takes years into weeks or months.

For more information about Rastal, please visit his website at: https://rastal.me/

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Satsang Reflections is a monthly dialogue held after the Satsang. This installment, on Monday, December 22nd, was hosted by Joseph Schmitz. During Reflections, members shared their insights and takeaways from the Satsang with Murray Kennedy.

If you haven't had a chance to listen to the Satsang yet then this could be an opportunity to catch the highlights and see if it might inspire you in some way.

About Murray Kennedy

Murray Kennedy is a householder, husband, father, and grandfather—and for more than four decades, he has also been devoted to offering Enlightenment Intensives. Since 1982, this work has been his vocation and service, and he remains actively and wholeheartedly engaged in it. Murray is more practical than philosophical, and a lifetime in this work has left him both humble and profoundly grateful.

The Enlightenment Intensives are self-inquiry retreats modeled on Zen sesshin and koan practice, designed to create the optimal conditions for awakening. Over the course of three to fourteen days, participants engage in long hours of focused contemplation. Working in dyads, one person contemplates a question such as “Who am I?” and communicates what arises, while the partner listens and receives without judgment or commentary. Every five minutes the roles reverse, and each 40-minute dyad concludes with partners rotating and beginning again.

Murray’s role is to teach the practice of inquiry and contemplation, and to inspire and support people in their own process—so they can discover the truth for themselves. The work is deep, powerful, and remarkably pure. It brings both gradual purification and sudden awakenings, which are both beautiful.

For more information about Murray and the Enlightenment Intensives he offers, please visit: https://murintensive.com/

Link to Satsang with Murray Kennedy

Murray Kennedy conversed with Joseph Schmitz during our December Satsang. Here is the link to the Satsang:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4NhThyPWCka4rk1c8GvAnU?si=xNaFRmzoSBKgpYDNXUD5ng

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We were honored to welcome Murray Kennedy as our December 2025 Satsang guest. His conversation with Joseph Schmitz was both inspiring and insightful, offering profound reflections that resonated deeply with our community.

About Murray Kennedy

Murray Kennedy is a householder, husband, father, and grandfather—and for more than four decades, he has also been devoted to offering Enlightenment Intensives. Since 1982, this work has been his vocation and service, and he remains actively and wholeheartedly engaged in it. Murray is more practical than philosophical, and a lifetime in this work has left him both humble and profoundly grateful.

The Enlightenment Intensives are self-inquiry retreats modeled on Zen sesshin and koan practice, designed to create the optimal conditions for awakening. Over the course of three to fourteen days, participants engage in long hours of focused contemplation. Working in dyads, one person contemplates a question such as “Who am I?” and communicates what arises, while the partner listens and receives without judgment or commentary. Every five minutes the roles reverse, and each 40-minute dyad concludes with partners rotating and beginning again.

Murray’s role is to teach the practice of inquiry and contemplation, and to inspire and support people in their own process—so they can discover the truth for themselves. The work is deep, powerful, and remarkably pure. It brings both gradual purification and sudden awakenings, which are both beautiful.

For more information about Murray and the Enlightenment Intensives he offers, please visit: www.murintensive.com

Invitation: Free Introduction to Dyads

Isa Salman offers an introduction to dyads every Sunday. These sessions are free and held online. All are welcome. https://mailchi.mp/a791dea95d34/sunday-tuesday-and-thursday-dyads-retreats-11044935

A Link to Satsang Reflections

Satsang Reflections is a monthly dialogue held after the Satsang. During this program, hosted by Joseph Schmitz on Monday, December 22nd, members shared their insights and takeaways from the Satsang with Murray Kennedy. https://open.spotify.com/episode/21h239adtKL2FQVeO8hzq0?si=C73zAJZOSP2ofEWxS7-_JA

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