Waking up Together : Intimate Partnership on the Spiritual Path

Waking Up Together is written for those who want to journey to new depths ofntimacy, both spiritually and in their love relationship. The book shows how committed, long-term relationship can enhance spiritual development and howelationships can be transformed by spiritual practice. Written by two Zeneachers married for thirty-seven years, it shows that relationships and allhat arise from them can be a help - not a hindrance! - as we seek greaterreedom and joy. It is possible to wake up together! Going far beyond merelyecommending skills and strategies to improve relationships, Waking Upogether serves as a guide in our ongoing process of spiritual discovery andntimacy. Throughout the book the authors intermingle stories and poems alongith anecdotes from their married life, empowering couples to awaken to anver-expanding experience of relationship that is full of spontaneity,ystery, awe, love, and unlimited possibility. Waking Up Together will beseful for couples of all persuasions. It affirms and encourages couples toultivate the richness of their own relationship, and open to the unbounded

Ellen Birx, a Zen teacher, has a Ph.D. in psychiatric-mental health nursing and for the past twenty years has been a professor at Radford University. She is the author of Healing Zen. Charles Birx, also a Zen teacher, has an Ed.D. and has worked for many years as a reading specialist and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at Radford University. The Birxes are cofounders of New River Zen Community. They have been married for thirty-seven years and live together in Radford, Virginia.