Please join us for our November Satsang featuring Christina Guimond. She will be interviewed by Laura Bedford. We hope you can join us for this event on:
📅 Date: Sunday, November 15th, 2026
🕢 Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. ET
📍 Where: Awakening Together’s Zoom Sanctuary
Here’s more information about Christina:
As a child, I sensed a hidden mystery within reality, unnoticed by others. I grew up in a strongly religious household (Catholic). I felt an intuitive connection to the Divine, but the church experience itself felt strange and incongruent. As a young adult, I embraced family life, raising four children amid the usual challenges.
In my early thirties, I was consumed by an existential crisis for three years, constantly witnessing suffering and questioning its meaning. I took a TM course, and that helped for a while. In 2001, a ten-day Vipassana retreat initiated a radical shift in identity and there was a sublime inner silence. Three months later, I fell into depression. Over the next 14 years, I persevered through many more silent retreats.
Although I had gotten quite good with meditation techniques, experiencing jhanas and other extraordinary states of consciousness, I came to suspect that the meditation was somehow taking me in the wrong direction. I trusted that intuition and left the only spiritual community I had ever known. In 2015, after hitting a spiritual wall, I underwent what I refer to as a “second awakening” during a spontaneous mystical experience. Here, more of the identity structures were seen and dismantled. That year, I also stumbled upon a self-help method called TRE. This turned out to be pivotal in my own process. Without this work on my nervous system and trauma healing, I couldn’t have navigated through the necessary emotion work, nor accessed the deep equanimity needed to move into deeper stages of awakening.
In 2016, I was incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to start working with spiritual teacher Gary Weber. Gary gave me constant encouragement to keep going, by working with beliefs, attachments and conditioning. In late 2019 Gary stepped back from teaching, but by then I had accessed a level of peace and equanimity that was really extraordinary. Yet I knew that there was more. A few years later I met Angelo who guided me in accessing the intimacy of non-dual realization and shortly after no-self or full liberation.
People often ask if this is the end? My answer is no. What has ended, however, is suffering. The 19th-20th century Zen master, Harada Roshi, once said ‘enlightenment is capable of endless enlargement.’ This has been my experience. One of the great paradoxes of nondual realization is seeing that we are the Reality in which a human life is appearing, yet we must fully integrate that awakening into our human experience to fully realize that Reality.
For more information, please visit Christina’s website: christinaguimond.com