sundance & katie
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Sundance and Katie's teaching is an expression of their loving devotion, the illumined mind and Still Heart. They have been taking adventures and sharing Truth since 1988. Formerly from Seattle, Washington, they moved to Hawaii in 2004 to write two books. With their desks side by side and the Pacific Ocean before them, Sundance created Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being and Katie inspired Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment. Both books will publish in December 2007 with a release date soon.
Mission completed, to ritualize their union as Beloved for sixteen years,, they were married in Hawaiian tradition on the shores of Maui, surrounded by their four children, their family, and a small group of friends.
Sundance was taken by the fire of Truth and awakening in 1982. He was born in Seattle, Washington and is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Gonzaga School of Law. A skilled athlete, he played collegiate tennis and soccer. Sundance was on a business trip to San Francisco, when he unexpectedly met his first teacher and awakening occurred. Then, he encountered unexpected events and experiences that propelled his life into a search for the final question, "Who am I?" After many years of futile search, "Sundance" disappeared in the absence of a truthful answer.
Until 1986, Katie's life as a secondary school teacher, an operator of aerobics studios and a mother was as "normal" as any other life story. While growing up, she had profound spiritual experiences, but had never been a seeker of Truth. In fact, she had never heard of "awakening." The awakening occurred while teaching aerobics. She was stunned by a subtle synergy and it seemed like she was sensing an ethereal, new dimension. It seemed as though she was falling through a numinous and vast spaciousness that was absolutely quiet, exquisite and vibrantly alive. She has no memory of what then occurred. When she became aware, the aerobics class seemed far above her. She was no longer sourced in her body and was detached from thought. She sensed an unconditional bliss that was beyond her understanding without any intellectual reference whatsoever.
Sundance and Katie met in 1988, when her aerobics studio was destroyed by fire. As Rumi so poetically writes, their "glance" was love at first sight and realized as Beloved. In 1998, Katie woke one morning and her body was rigid and would not move. After months of this immobility, she recognized the subtle separation of Awareness being vigilant unto That and noticed a remaining reference point of subject consciousness. The witnessing consciousness was obliterated and the void became overwhelming fullness. Subsequently, all dissolved into full integration.
Sundance and Katie began offering Awake Essence in the form of satsang in their home in Kirkland, Washington. The community grew and so did the teachings to offer gatherings almost every night of the week. They continue to offer Awake Essence events on the West Coast, in the Southwest and Hawaii in the United States, Canada or wherever invited.
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Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being, author Sundance Burke
Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment, author Katie Davis
Free Spirit & Awake Joy are available HERE
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