- Level 300
Natural Awakening: Dancing in Totality
Explores Natural, Nondual Awareness
- Saturdays | 5:00 – 6:30 PM Pacific Time
- September 5 – October 10, 2026
- Open to all
Live, Interactive Sessions
Engaging 90 minutes classes with experienced Instructors
Supportive Community
Connect, share, and learn in a private online community
Session Recordings
Watch anytime with access to recordings for six months
First Class Guarantee
Free cancellation available after the first class
Course Description
This six week course explores natural, nondual awareness that is free of concepts, structure and reference points yet coextensive and unified with empirical and conceptual universes.
We will explore how language and inquiry can be used as refined tools for revealing nonconceptual awareness in real-time. We will use the penetrating tool of unfindability inquiry to enter thought and presence its fundamental nature. We will be discerning, unconstrained and bold in transcending conceptual limits and extremes. We will be suspicious and circumspect about acquiring merely conceptual understanding of the matters at hand.
We will explore a set of polar opposites that represent different ways in which the spiritual path and ultimate goal become refied and concretised by the dualistic mind and limited conceptions of wisdom.
You will gain fluency in proactive deconstruction and the effortless ways of natural release. We will explore how these tools can bring nonduality to therapeutic healing, and arrival within the intended goal of mindfulness and other meditative practices.
We will also explore expansion into the cosmic body that happens through dissolution of self and other, and inside and outside.
Course Format
Course participants will meet online with Peter for six weeks, for 90 minutes a week. Meetings are recorded and you will have access to the recordings for six months. Meetings will integrate guided induction, dialogical inquiry and resting in great ease. An online community portal, and free, additional half-hour sessions each week will provide an additional opportunity to practice with fellow students.
The themes and questions we will experientially explore include:
Seeing through and natural release as basic tools
Is real practice effortful or effortless?
Beginning at the end-state dismantling the distinctions of path and goal
Is progress gradual or instantaneous?
Is awareness divisible or divisible, something or nothing?
The neither real nor illusory
Radical freedom within embodied existence
Finding comfort and ease in the liminal zone at the limits of thought
Inhabiting the cosmic body
Instructor
Dr Peter Fenner
Dr Peter Fenner (peterfenner.com) has a multifaceted practice as a writer, spiritual coach, and innovator in deep Buddhist philosophy. He has a Ph.D. in the philosophical psychology of the Madhyamaka school of Buddhism. He has taught Asian philosophy inside and outside of academia for over 50 years. Peter bases his experiential work on the nondual Perfection of Wisdom (Prajnaparamita) tradition of Mahayana Buddhism.
Peter is known for his capacity to reveal our emotional and intellectual fixations, and for the dynamic and engaging way he deconstructions the obstacles to pure awareness. He is known for the precision of his work and for the way he dismantles the dualistic mind in real-time, such that there is no time-lag between dialog and realization.
Peter’s skill lies in his capacity to embed “pointing out events” in free-form dialog. “Free-form,” in this context, means that Peter moves seamlessly between a penetrating dialog with participants and experiences of a deep, still and natural silence that reveals the unperturbed nature of unified awareness. Peter’s books include Natural Awakening: An Advanced Guide in Sharing Nondual Awareness (Sumeru, 2015), Radiant Mind: Awakening Unconditioned Awareness (Sounds True, 2007), The Edge of Certainty: Paradoxes on the Buddhist Path (Nicolas-Hays, 2002), Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy (Co-editor, Omega Books, 2010).
A full-length documentary about Peter’s work titled Awareness has been recently released for free viewing at awarenessmovie.org
- Level 300
Natural Awakening: Dancing in Totality
- September 5 – October 10, 2026
- Saturdays | 5:00 – 6:30 AM Pacific Time
- Recordings available for six months after class
- Free cancellation after first class
