Rev. Anne Blanchard is a Trustee on the Awakening Together Member Board. She grew up in a family where EST training was a part of daily life. Many years later, in 2016, she began attending the Center for Conscious Living in Moorestown, New Jersey, where she refamiliarized herself with various New Thought and nondual teachings. Anne jumped with both feet into sincere and dedicated full-time spiritual practice when she joined Awakening Together on an India Pilgrimage in 2017. Anne teaches regularly in the Awakening Together Sanctuary.
Rev. Melody Brauninger has been graced with a smattering of mystical experiences throughout her life beginning with early childhood. She honors these as divine phone calls from the Beloved reminding her to come Home. She was a seeker most of her life, studying metaphysics in adolescence, trying different churches, pursuing a family and career, alcohol, relationships, “helping others,” and so on, attempting to find true happiness, until a revelation in 2015 which led her to A Course In Miracles. In 2018 Melody was led to Awakening Together and is continually awed by the perfection of each path. Her only true desire now is perfect devotion to the Beloved, and she is profoundly grateful to have the Mighty Companions who comprise Awakening Together.
Rev. Dawn Green follows a determination that began in childhood to find the “something more” that stands beyond daily experiences of life. Her pathway includes a childhood grounded in a traditional Christian religion, followed by various types of metaphysical teachings. She was also immersed in the study and practice of Buddhism for twelve years which lead her to a focus on universal non-dualistic teachings and practice. She is a 40 year student and practitioner of the teachings of A Course in Miracles.
Dawn is an ordained Awakening Together minister, a Choose Again facilitator and counsellor and a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor in Canada.
Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert is Awakening Together’s Spiritual Curriculum Director, an Awakening Together Ordained Minister, and a founding Trustee. She grew up in a family dedicated to the exploration of the mystical side of spirituality and has continued to pursue an ultimate understanding of the Self through numerous nondual teachings.
In 2018, Jacquelyn moved to Pueblo, Colorado to study more closely with Founding Minister, Rev. Regina Dawn Akers. However, what’s happened since she has dedicated herself more deeply, is the teaching she needs has started to come to her directly from within. She asks a question of the Holy Spirit/Inner Wisdom, and deeply profound answers arise. Through this process, she is looking at herself with new, open, clear eyes of awareness, discovering the falsities she has believed, realizing the truth that resides within, and sharing that with others through her teachings with Awakening Together.
Rev. Rhoda Makled is the President-Minister of Awakening Together. Rhoda joined Awakening together in 2019, when she fell in love with the community. She dove in head first, seeking ways to volunteer and support the community. In 2024 she gratefully accepted the role of President-Minister with the vision of supporting the community and in the heart of service.
Rhoda shares her journey with humor, love, and open-hearted awareness in the sanctuary as well as guiding meditation on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Rev. Saina Fernandez is an Ordained Minister through Awakening Together since June of 2020. She was honored to be the Awakening Together Sanctuary Director for 5 years from 2018-2023. Additionally, she is trained to be a spiritual mentor through Awakening Together and the Spiritual Mentoring Workshop. Her desire and passion is to be a living embodiment and testimony to the vision that Regina Dawn Akers had where wherever we are on the spiritual journey we can reach our hand back to help lift another up and help them to rise higher in Consciousness. Saina feels called to be of service to those whom Spirit brings that are hungering for Truth but just need a gentle hand to (virtually) hold, encouragement along the way, and the spark to help them remember the Truth of themselves and that the Mystery is indeed always and already available to help nourish us, move us forward, and help us have that breakthrough that can remove the obstacles to Love’s Presence. She also has a website that is in service to the Awakening process called www.centeredinbliss.com. There you can also connect and learn more about her offerings on one-on-one personalized meditation programs based on the Radiance Sutras in order to help you to reignite your passion and desire to meditate and/or deepen your already existing meditation practice.
Rev. William (Billy) Sintiris is an Awakened Together minister, known for his transformative presence at the Sunday Weekly Gathering and as the host of “A Lot to Say About Nothing” on Wednesday evenings. His journey, marked by overcoming fears of insufficiency and uniqueness, has shaped him into a beacon of guidance and strength.
Since his recovery began on February 18, 1993, Billy has embraced absolute surrender, evolving from recognizing the problem to understanding it has already been solved. His path from “There is a God and you’re not it” to “Be still and know You are God” reflects his deep spiritual evolution.
Wherever you are on your path, Billy’s compassion and empathy will meet you there. He guides you to your inner mentor, leading you to absolute surrender where life unfolds naturally. Through his firsthand experience, he navigates beyond fears of perfection, self-loathing, and low self-esteem, helping balance masculine and feminine energies, and transcend addictions of all forms.
Billy’s approach integrates dualistic purification with the oneness of non-dual consciousness. He will guide you through resistance to awaken your willingness, where everything is possible. Embrace the challenge, and discover a mentor who doesn’t just teach but transforms.