About Sundance Burke and Awake Spirit Teachings


Sundance Burke, Spiritual Teacher and Author, was born in Seattle, Washington under the given name, Donald Russell Burke III. He is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Gonzaga School of Law. Sundance is a former lawyer and businessman. He is the father of two children and the grandfather of two more.

Sundance Burke is the author of Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being, published in 2008. He offers public talks, video recordings, private meetings, intensive workshops and retreats for those who long to awaken from the fearful dream of human separation and suffering.

While traveling for law business in 1982, Sundance was graced with the profound spiritual experience of being the loving witness to the mind’s dream of personal existence. This awareness of impersonal being completely shattered his former understanding of self-identity and the nature of the world. In the years that followed, he found himself undertaking an intense inward journey into the heart of this realization.

In 1988, he met his future wife and teaching partner, Katie Davis, who had similarly experienced the miracle of Self-liberation. Recognizing their meeting as sacred, Sundance and Katie committed their lives to deepening in loving presence. An inseparable spirit, they adventured the awakening in private until 1999 and then began to share the Truth of Being from their home. Soon, they were accepting invitations to travel up and down the West Coast of North America.

In 2004, Sundance and Katie moved to Maui to marry and write the realization of Beloved Being. Sitting side by side, their books took form and expression. Currently, they travel worldwide sharing the presence of conscious freedom and causeless joy. Katie Davis is the author of Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment.

Sundance says, “Your Being is not a personal or temporary existence. You are the very source of the consciousness that manifests as life. Thus, you naturally love and embrace every experience of being without fear. Unborn … you are timelessly awake for the comings and goings of this consciousness. Just by the mere turning of your attention to its source and foundation, you can awaken unto the truth of who you really are.”

The AWAKE SPIRIT TEACHINGS of Sundance and Katie have helped many people throughout the world to find inner peace, wise love and greater fulfillment in their lives. At the core of the teachings is a spiritual awakening that transcends the ego-based state of consciousness into the harmony and unity of pure consciousness and then realizes the field of infinite possibility that is the Heart of all Being.
"Our essential Presence does not need to be understood any more than the smile of a child, the beauty of a flower, or the splendor of a sunset. The nature of such encounters is self-evident and the intellect does not serve to enhance such moments. In fact, if you bring thinking to a sunset, you are likely to miss its sacredness and beauty altogether. Without thinking, you are taken in. With thinking, you are seeking entrance." 
                                                                                                             ~ Sundance Burke, Author, Free Spirit
Sundance Burke   Author, "Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being"
                                                                  Spiritual Teacher and Advaita Satsang Teacher
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                                                                      Author, "Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment"