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Practical Intuition
Discernment is one of the keys to using intuition

Mel Doerr

Intuition has a practical aspect to it that is important to recognize. While your gut and Higher Self may provide you intuitive guidance, checking out what you intuit enables you to be clear about what you should follow. Practice guiding principles to know when to follow your intuition and when to use common sense. Find out when you are not clear about what the Universe is telling you. Discernment is one of the keys to using practical intuition.

Course 082109
Date Monday, October 13
Time 9:30 - 11:30 AM
Cost $35/25 payment 10 days in advance

The Work: The End of Stress and Suffering
Feel stress melt away and experience freedom

Paul Zavagno, M.Ed

The Work is a simple method of identifying and questioning the thoughts that cause all the stress and suffering in the world. Developed by Byron Katie, this easy to learn, but radical set of four questions and a turn around can release your suffering and open up a world of peace. Your mind encounters and can then respond to the questions: Is it true? Can you absolutely know that it is true? How do you react when you believe that thought? Who would you be without that thought? Feel stress melt away and experience freedom with this profound and life-changing process. Experience The Work yourself and learn to facilitate others with using it.

Course 082110
Date Thursdays, September 4, 11, 18, 25
Time 9:30 - 11:00 AM
Cost $70/60 payment 10 days in advance

Clear Your Clutter & Achieve Your Goals
Clutter is more than a physical manifestation

Martha Hayden, LMT

This highly motivating 4-week series, based on Karen Kingston’s international bestselling book, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, guides you through the steps of radically transforming your relationship to clutter. You will be inspired as never before as you understand the immense benefits of living a clutter-free life. Clutter is more than a physical manifestation, it also affects you emotionally and spiritually. Use tried and tested techniques for clearing clutter and let go of stuff that has been holding you back for years. Gain a new sense of freedom and joy in your life as you release yourself from old habits, patterns, or relationships. Clutter clearing is essential to achieving long-term goals and is a fast-track method to getting there. Attain confidence and clarity to make decisions and take action in your life.

Course 081156
Date Thursdays, June 5, 12, 19, 26
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost $70/60 payment 10 days advance

Soul-Mind Fragments
Fragments carry a part of your energy

Frani Rubens

Fragments of yourself split off when the conscious you is not prepared to deal with an emotional experience. This can happen as a result of a situation that was so painful you could not deal with it at the time, for example, when you were a child. As an adult, when you ended a relationship it may have felt like you left a part of your heart with the other person. The fragments that split off carry a part of your energy that then can attach to another person, animal, or object. Discontinue splitting off your energy to reclaim and restore to wholeness. Prerequisite: Prior personal growth work.

Course 081158
Date Saturday, June 7
Time 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Cost $40/30 payment 10 days advance

Meditation for Beginners
Techniques help you reach a meditative state

Nancy Grace Marder, MA

Relieve your stress and achieve a sense of calm, clarity, and peace of mind with meditation. Practice the basics to support you in beginning a meditation practice. Each class presents a different meditative technique for you to practice including candle gazing, chanting, affirmations, mala beads, and breath work. Meditation is one of the most supportive life skills you can develop. Bring balance and focus to every aspect of your life.

Course 082112 CEUs available
Date Mondays, June 9, 16, 23, 30
Time 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Cost $75/65 payment 10 days advance

Enlightening the Mind
Every thought you think radiates a spiritual power

Barbara Y. Martin with Dimitri Moraitis

To begin any type of spiritual transformation, you first make changes in your way of thinking. To effectively do that, you need to understand exactly how the mind works from the spiritual perspective. Discover how the brain is the instrument through which the mind flows and how every thought you think radiates a spiritual power that comes through in definite colors and hues. Using energy techniques, you will become more inspired and enlightened. The three levels of the mind will be carefully explored, as well as how to strengthen your emotional nature in order to gain more power and vitality to your thoughts. Gain an understanding and experience of:

  • The different levels of mind in your aura and how they work
  • The auric relationship of thoughts and emotions
  • Creativity and inspiration
  • The secret of genius

In addition, make the subconscious your best friend and build greater willpower and self-confidence to put divine inspiration into action. Tap into your higher mind for greater wisdom, guidance, decision-making, and creative inspiration. Select aura readings as time permits.

Course 081159 CEUs available
Date Saturday, June 28
Time 10:30 - 4:30 PM, lunch on your own
Cost $95/85 payment 10 days advance

Discovering Your Cosmic Contract
Tap into Your Own Intuition and Assess Your True Purpose

Robert Ohotto, Professional Intuitive and Astrologer

Prior to your birth, you forged an agreement with the Universe that shapes the unfolding of your earthly life’s purpose, functioning as a contract to co-create within this time and space dimension. This cosmic contract includes the selection of a unique creative destiny, archetypal patterns to be used as creative allies, and being born at a specific time. This effectively weaves your soul into the fabric of the Earth’s consciousness, cycles, timing, and laws.

To fulfill your creative task, your cosmic contract demands discovering within yourself a unique inner design etched on your soul that defines the trajectory of your purpose. It is only then that you can begin to manifest the unique grace that you came here to deliver to the world through your contract. Empower and create your life differently by discovering your inner design in a conscious and meaningful way.

You are standing at a threshold of immense challenge and change, both as an individual and as a collective, making the fulfillment of your cosmic contract all the more urgent. Yet, your capacity to change your life and live authentically within this world, honoring your cosmic contract, is proportionate to your ability to perceive your life as a symbolic, mythic, and archetypal journey. Discover what it means to perceive your life with these new coordinates of your soul. Tap into your own intuition and assess your true purpose through symbolic eyes. Only then can you perceive beyond the purpose your ego would like to live out and glimpse at your soul’s true creative task.

In mapping your psyche in this ground-breaking workshop, professional intuitive and astrologer Robert Ohotto guides you into your cosmic contract, while teaching you tools that transform buried creative forces within into transformative agents of destiny.

Course 081161 CEUs available
Date Saturday, June 14 SOLD OUT
Time 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, lunch on your own
Cost $85/75 payment 10 days advance

The Presence Process
Explore the Present Moment as a PortalOpen to You Now

Michael Brown

The presence process places the heart in the context of human evolution. No rites, rituals, outer tools, or ceremonial practices rescue you from having to face the authentic condition of your heart. You are responsible for your experience and the condition of your heart is the causal point of your experience. By carrying anyone else, or allowing yourself to be carried by anyone or anything, you risk being inauthentic, irresponsible, and heartless.

As you go through life, you gain insights according to your level of awareness and experience. Trace the pathway of awareness of your emotional, mental, and physical attributes. Examine the pathway necessary to reclaim your spontaneous authenticity and integrity to embrace life through the frequency of intimacy.

There is a deliberate energetic pathway your awareness travels to enter your experience of life upon earth. Its existence is right in front of your nose, yet it remains hidden until shown to you. Enter a full encounter with life upon this earth emotionally, mentally, and physically. Explore the present moment awareness as a portal that is open to you right now. Honor every aspect of your life as an opportunity to intimately explore the unlimited potential of your humanity. Entering this paradigm requires transforming from unconscious reactivity to conscious responsibility. Authentic peace can be realized in surrendering to this moment. Be part of your present moment.

Course 081162 CEUs available
Date Sunday, June 29
Time 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, lunch on your own
Cost $85/75 payment 10 days advance

Non-Violent Communications:
Creating Peaceful Interactions Interact through language to convey
feelings and needs

Ann Bruckelmeyer, LCSW, CADC

Non-Violent communications (NVC) is known as compassionate communication or the language of the heart. It contributes to the awareness of your compassionate nature with a process of interacting through language to convey feelings and needs. NVC strengthens your ability to inspire compassion by responding compassionately to others and yourself. NVC guides you to reframe how you express yourself, hear others, and resolve conflicts by focusing your consciousness on what you observe, feel, need, and request. It transforms you from habitual thinking with demands, blame, guilt, and shame to practical applications of expressing words that do not encourage reactions from others. Based on the 40-year transformative peace work of Marshall Rosenberg, founder of the Center for Non-Violent Communication, the work facilitates healthier interactions with partners, children, co-workers, and others while aiding resolution of conflicts.

Course 082113 CEUs available
Date Thursday, July 10
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost $25/20 payment 10 days advance

Intuitive Spiritual Connection

Mel Doerr

When you see a cloud formation, a license plate related to exactly what you need to see, or a person you’ve been thinking about calls, you may wonder if the event has any meaning. The answer is yes. Intuitive spiritual connections occur regularly. It is just a matter of learning how to read information within your field. Spiritual connections can be experienced by opening inner channels of spiritualism and transcending into the unseen realms. You will experience three methods of accessing Spirit uncommonly taught—altered states of consciousness, receiving messages from Spirit guides, and channeling—to further develop your ability to read messages on many levels.

Course 082115 CEUs available
Date Sunday, June 8
Time 9:30 - 1:00 PM, bring a snack
Cost $60/50 payment 10 days advance

Karmic Responsibility

Mel Doerr

Karma is the law of cause and effect—what goes around comes around. Each person has a responsibility for his or her actions that can help break karmic patterns. However, you may find that your patterns and cop-outs keep producing the same results or karma. See your own patterns, your ego interference, and how you may carry someone else’s karma around. Keep yourself clear from taking on other people’s karma and find our how to recognize and deal with your own.

Course 082117 CEUs available
Date Sunday, August 10
Time 9:30 - 1:00 PM, bring a snack
Cost $60/50 payment 10 days advance

Metaphysical Clearing

Mel Doerr

If you continue to do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. Shift out of levels that hold you back when you sell yourself short, empty your tank or hook you into someone or something. Clear obstacles on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels to achieve your goals. Change your patterns and lift off difficulties. Replace challenges with mindful and spiritual empowerment in a clear and accessible way. This powerful workshop gives you the confidence and understanding you need to take spiritual risks to visualize and practice clearings on each of four levels. Lift out of your holdings and negativity, feel less scattered and be comfortable with change. Achieve this by clearing what is in your way.

Course 082116 CEUs available
Date Sunday, July 20
Time 9:30 - 1:00 PM, bring a snack
Cost $60/50 payment 10 days advance

Mediumship

Mel Doerr

Mediumship—or as it is sometimes called channeling—is the process of communicating with spirits who are not currently inhabiting bodies. You will learn and practice several ways to access intuitive information using a dependent voice, one which Spirit speaks through you, semi-trance, and trance states, and materialization. Understanding how you receive intuitive information and how it comes through you will enhance your ability to receive and give it.

Course 082118 CEUs available
Date Saturday, September 28
Time 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM, bring a snack
Cost $60/50 payment 10 days in advance

July 23: The Most Powerful Day of the Year
The vortex of the goddess opens and floods the earth

Sharyl Noday

On July 23, the vortex of the goddess, the Sirius vortex, opens and floods the earth in every cell and neuron of your body with Light. The Sirius vortex—through which all energy enters and leaves the universe—connects with your Higher Self. Work with this vortex in your daily life. Discover this phenomena, its origin, how the ancients used it, and what this can mean for you. Through exercises, meditation, and channeling, you will heal and deepen your loving state. Recalibrate yourself to receive and allow in the energy of Sirius, the vortex to the goddess. Contact your future self in deep states of meditation and trance to allow in the love of Spirit.

Course 082125
Date Wednesday, July 23
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost $30/25 payment 10 days advance

The Wisdom of Your Face: Chinese Face Reading
Gain information about others just by looking at their face

Jean Haner

The ancient Chinese believed that your face reflects why you think, feel, and behave as you do. Chinese face reading offers you simple ways to gain information about those just by looking at their face. Find out what your cheeks say about finding your perfect romantic partner. Discover how your child’s ears reveal how you can best help them with stress. Understand how the shape of your eyebrows can boost your confidence. See that your boss’s jaw determines your best bet for a raise. Gain clients’ trust by reading the secret information their mouths reveal. Reduce conflict among staff by observing the shape of their noses. Understand how people’s foreheads show their decision-making behavior. Discover how your face shows the best way for you to do your work in the world. People in a wide range of careers including counselors, consultants, medical professionals, holistic health practitioners, therapists, realtors, human resources staff, even professional matchmakers have used this easy knowledge in their everyday work. Recognize the wisdom your face reveals to help you find the life path that brings you joy, relationships that nurture you, and most of all, a way to feel true compassion for yourself and everyone you encounter.

Course 082161 CEUs Available
Date Saturday, September 13
Time 10:00 - Noon
Cost $25/20 payment 10 days advance payment

Past Life and Future Life Progression
Understand your past & future lives and make enlightened choices

Susan Wisehart and David Birr

Understand your past and future lives so you can make more enlightened choices to heal present physical and emotional problems. Your future lives are flexible so the choices you make now will determine the quality of life when you return in another lifetime. Experience a group guided past life regression and future life progression going out 100, 500, and 1000 years into the future. Past life and life between-lives cases from Wisehart’s forthcoming book Soul Visioning: Clear Your Past, Create Your Future will illuminate further understanding of your soul’s purpose. Please bring a pillow and blanket.

Course 082123
Date Saturday, July 19
Time 1:00 - 5:00 PM
Cost $66/56 payment 10 days advance

NLP: Communication Excellence
Gain the skills & knowledge of NeuroLinguistic Programming

Jim Accetta, MA, CPCC

Gain the skills and knowledge of NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) and the power of unconscious rapport. Varied perspectives provide new insights and solutions to avoid common relationship challenges. Improve your ability to gain rapport and influence. Understand the power of language and how you create meaning in your life. Each class will take you through a deeper usage of NLP that includes:

Class 1 Presuppositions of NLP, step into the model, goals and inten- tions, and pointing your brain in the direction you want.

Class 2 The meta model, NLP language patterns, understand language communication and behavior, your portal to the world, rep- resentational systems words and your inner world reflections.

Class 3 Representational systems, behavioral patterns, rapport, struc- ture of meaning, tonality, and hypnotic language.

Class 4 Criteria, what is really important, meta programs, introduction to exquisite maps, future pacing, and putting it together in your future.

You will receive a handbook of information during the first class to support the classes.

Course 082124 CEUs available
Date Mondays, July 21, Aug. 11, Sept. 22, Oct. 20
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost $90/80 payment 10 days advance

Crystals for Healing, Clearing, & Altered States of Consciousness
Use crystals to facilitate healing and balance

Brent Baum, STB, SSL, ICDC, CCH

Crystals and minerals are pure energies that can profoundly affect the energy flow of the meridians of the body and mind. Their use can facilitate healing and clearing on all levels: reduce the impact of trauma, ease induction into meditation and other altered states of consciousness, and work with both the conscious and unconscious. You will be given an opportunity to learn about crystal healing properties and experientially explore states of consciousness. You will break up into small groups and do stone layouts on the body to facilitate healing and balancing. Specific techniques will be taught to facilitate integration of the properties of the stones into the fields of the body. You are welcome to bring your own preferred crystals and healing stones to use during the workshop. Brent, who is from Arizona, has a collection of rare and powerful stones and minerals, some of which will be used during this workshop. Use and appreciate the power of crystals as a healing resource. Please bring a massage table if you have one.

Course 082114
Date Sunday, July 13
Time 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM, lunch on your own
Cost $100/90 payment 10 days advance

Enneagram: The Depths of Personality
Enneagram provides profound insights and practical tools

Harriet Porter, LCSW

Your personality is one of your most valuable assets. The Enneagram is a powerful and dynamic personality system that describes nine distinct and fundamentally different patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. The Enneagram connects your psychological level of life to your spiritual level and demonstrates how to integrate them. The Enneagram personality typing system can provide you with profound insights and practical tools to improve your relationships with everyone in your life. This applies to marriage, friendships, and professional relationships—to everywhere people interact. The Enneagram is a model that helps individuals and professionals. The skills you will acquire are:

  • Basic understanding of the nine types—healthy and unhealthy expressions
  • Opportunity to discover your own type
  • Knowing how your personality masks your true identity
  • Meditative experiences using the Enneagram

The second day focuses on the spiritual applications of the Enneagram. You will quickly and clearly recognize life-long personality road blocks and observe these blocks without judgment. Develop specific practices to help you grow spiritually. Identify red flags with problem areas and issues. Build on your strengths to integrate and transform your personality into essence.

Course 082127 Saturday only CEUs Available
Course 082128 Saturday and Sunday CEUs Available
Date Saturday, July 26, and Sunday, July 27
Time 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, lunch on your own
Cost Saturday only $80/75 payment 10 days in advance
Sat. and Sun. $150/130 payment 10 days in advance
Note You can take Saturday only but must take the class Saturday to be eligible to take the class Sunday

Power of the Breath
Breath is the bridge that connects body and mind

Jonathan Knipping, CYS, CMTI, Nidan Aikikai

The breath is the body’s primary source of energy and your best tool for reducing stress and promoting efficient mental and physical processes. Conscious breathing exercises can facilitate a variety of physiological effects such as calming and focusing the mind, relaxing the body, promoting healing, energizing the body, developing concentration, and creating efficient physical actions. Breath is the bridge that connects body and mind. Explore this connection through a variety of conscious breathing exercises found in classical hatha yoga, Zen, and other mindfulness traditions. Use breath in your everyday life to enhance your well-being.

Course 082130
Date Tuesday, July 29
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost $25/20 payment 10 days advance

Lighting the Shadow
Bring your true self out of the shadow and into the light

Ellen Katz, MS, LMFT

The shadow aspect of yourself is the unconscious mind. None of us has 360 degree vision, so we all have blind spots and that is exactly what is in the shadow—the disowned and denied parts of yourself. It also holds the greatest potential for your growth. Discover these treasures without falling into the pitfalls of shame, fear, or denial. Find useful, accessible ways to connect with and understand the value of your shadow parts, either negative or positive. Access deeper layers of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and empowerment. Bring your true self out of the shadow and into the light. Integrate the parts of yourself that you have been hesitant to show.

Course 082122 CEUs available
Date Thursday, July 17
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost $25/20 payment 10 days advance

Karmic Clearing
Release negative patterns from your current life or past lives
Pamela Arwine, Holistic Therapist

If you sometimes feel life is something that just happens to you and that karmic remnants, patterns, and memory traces pull you in directions that do not make you happy, you are invited to step into your divine inheritance and learn karmic clearing. You are a perfect Divine Being, God Essence. It is your true nature to have anything you desire to be, express, or create. If there is something you are not able to manifest, look for the energy blockages, karmic or otherwise, and remove them. It is possible to explore and release negative emotional and physical patterns, stemming from your current life or past lives, that inhibit you from expressing your true nature. Discover the peace and joy of your divine nature as you clear away the past.

Through a powerful energy activation, deep meditations, and contemplation of the true nature of karma, you can find the patterns that are blocking you and eliminate them. Choose a life of grace and a consciously created life.

Course 082134

Date Saturday, August 2
Time 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, lunch on your own
Cost $85/75 payment 10 days advance

Tea Leaf Reading
You will be astonished by the accuracy & relevancy to your life

Charlene Verstat

Look at your destiny with one of the oldest forms of divination, tea leaf reading. Reading tea leaves is an art used to develop intuition. You will learn to identify symbols represented by tea leaves as you access your subconscious. As the steeped leaves settle in your cup, you will be astonished by its accuracy and relevancy to your life. Tea leaf reading helps deepen your life in a fun, unique, and meaningful way. Bring your own tea cup that is plain on the inside of the cup and learn how to read the leaves. Two for tea and tea for you, an incredible journey into destiny.

Course 082136
Date Saturday, August 16
Time 10:00 AM - Noon
Cost $30/25 payment 10 days in advance

Palmistry: Your Life at Hand
The lines in your hands make up your past, present, and future

Charlene Verstat

The lines in your hand are your unique blueprint. Some people have many lines while others only a few. The majority of hands have the four major lines: the fate, life, heart, and head line. Explore the map of your hand by making a print of it and finding the significance of its shape, texture, mounds, and lines. Using an instruction chart, you will go over the major points that determine your unique characteristics. Your life is in your hands, making up your past, present, and future. Evaluate your character and future by reading your palm.

Course 082137
Date Saturday, August 16
Time 1:00 - 3:30 PM
Cost $30/25 payment 10 days in advance

7th Heaven: Guided Journey with Sound & Essential Oils
Remove blocks and bring about balance

Cheryl Good Zavagno, MAT,CAEH

Annointing the body with precious essential oils has been used throughout history for spiritual awareness and connection. Diverse cultures chose some of the same fragrances and oils to intensify their communion with the spiritual realm. This opportunity for spiritual alignment continues today through the application of 7th Heaven essential oil blends that positively affect the body and mind, remove blocks, and bring about balance. Experience greater vision and clarity with the application of the oils that is amplified by the transformational waves of live music of Tibetan singing bowls, gong, harp, and flute. Bring a yoga mat or blanket to lie on and wear comfortable clothing as you are immersed in oils complemented by gentle sounds.

Course 082139
Date Thursday, August 21
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost $30/25 payment 10 days advance

Integrating Goddesses Within
Identify the goddesses within you

Elizabeth-Anne Stewart, PHD

Drawing on the work of Jean Shenoda Bolen, explore goddess archetypes that exist within you, regardless of your age, gender or culture. After an overview of the history of the goddess, we will focus on contemporary manifestations of the divine feminine in the modern world. Identify goddesses that are active within you and discover ways these archetypes influence your decisions, shape your actions, and affect your relationships. Persephone, for example, may lead you into the underworld and when combined with the spontaneity and seductiveness of Aphrodite, can be a very dangerous archetype. Artemis, on the other hand, helps you set goals and achieve great tasks, but unless it is coupled with the compassion of Demeter or the loyalty of Hera, she may not be very helpful at nurturing significant relationships. Determine how your goddesses help or hinder your daily life. Through sharing, a greater perspective will ensue as everyone is affected by these potent forces. Map out new strategies for integrating your goddesses in your life.

Course 082141 CEUs Available
Date Thursday, August 28
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost $30/25 payment 10 days advance

Trance Channeling
Connect with guides in the spirit world

Sharyl Noday

Channeling takes you beyond the physical world to make contact with the spiritual realm—where your guides and angels reside. The desire to channel is as old as humanity itself. Channeling with the gods in a trance was highly developed among ancient cultures. Prophets, saints, and holy ones received divine guidance through channeling and you can too.

Experience trance channel and go into the spiritual realms through deep states of meditation, intention, and breathing. Expand your intuition and imagination with exercises to cleanse your aura and prepare for spiritual guidance. Go beyond what is known in your life and make connections in the spiritual realms. Hear and receive information that will open you up to channeling. Release blocks to create an openness that enables you to receive valuable information and guidance. Sharyl will channel her guides and everyone in the class will be given group and personal attention with questions and answers.

Course 082142 CEUs Available
Date Saturday, September 6
Time 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, lunch on your own
Cost $85/75 payment 10 days advance

Timeless Intelligence and Power of the Heart
Access the core of your heart

Bonnie Moore, Licensed HeartMath Trainer

Combining ancient wisdom teachings with modern science and
spirituality, you will be shown the science, spiritual power, and
intelligence of your heart—how it works and how to access it. This information is a power tool for real life that can be added to any
modality or spiritual path you currently use. Utilize it at your job, for spiritual growth, parenting, healing, and relationships. Consistently access your heart or go deeper into the core of your heart which is your larger mind of Oneness. In these times, living from your highest intelligence all the time is becoming more important. It is your portal to a timeless and real reality called heaven on earth and has been sought after by people throughout history. Enter this pathway through various means including HeartMath tools, wisdom teachings, current science, and the use of computer software to see the heart in action in real time. Use tools of the heart in your everyday life.

Course 082148
Date Sunday, September 7
Time 1:00 - 5:00 PM
Cost $55/45 payment 10 days advance

Spiritual Transformation in Time of Need
Traumas cause you to at look things differently to heal
Barbara Grace, PHD, CACHt

Sooner or later most people reach a place in life where they feel stuck, frustrated, or helpless. Often this is referred to as the dark night of the soul that proceeds a great spiritual transformation. The source of these serious crises in life can be something happening in your life now, such as ill loved one, something that happened in your family of origin that you may not even remember, or something you brought with you from a past life. The spiritual purpose of all these traumas helps you look differently at your life and heal your beliefs, thoughts, and emotions so you can remember who you are—a spiritual being having a human experience. Discover and process every phase of your transformation through Heart Centered Hypnotherapy on your personal journey. Embrace your spiritual transformation using this process of healing and karmic release to free you up to live a truly happy life.

Course 082150 CEUs Available
Date Tuesday, September 9
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost $25/20 payment 10 days advance

Wake Up Now to Your True Self
Awaken to who you really are and your life will change significantly

Stephan Bodian

According to the timeless wisdom traditions of the East, the spiritual journey involves awakening from the dream of separation and realizing the peace, love, and joy of your essential spiritual nature, which is pure, radiant awareness or consciousness. Only by awakening to your essential nature can you experience complete relief from suffering and dissatisfaction.

Join Stephan Bodian, spiritual teacher and bestselling author of Meditation for Dummies and Wake Up Now: A Guide to the Journey of Spiritual Awakening. Through guided meditations, self-inquiry, talks, dialogues, and didactic exercises, you will experience this spiritual awakening for yourself. Once you’ve awakened to who you really are, your life will change in significant and powerful ways. You don’t have to exert tremendous effort or spend years on a meditation cushion to awaken—you just need to have the willingness to look deeply into your own heart and mind.

Gain a deeper appreciation and possibly even a direct glimpse, of your natural state, your timeless spiritual nature. Understand the awakening journey and what it requires of you. Recognize the nature of spiritual awakening and how it differs from other spiritual and psychological states. Use meditations that will invite the experience of awakening as well as bring relaxation and peace.

Course 082156 CEUs Available
Date Sunday, September 14
Time 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, lunch on your own
Cost $85/75 payment 10 days advance

Powerful Openings for Psychic Abilities
Shift to the frequency of rainbow children for yourself or others

Christine Sonnen, ATP

Rainbow children are sensitive and incredibly intuitive children, teens, and young adults. A rainbow child is a child born with infinite wisdom and the ability to change the world around them. Since the time of the ancients, the world has waited for the extremely loving and adaptable rainbow children to come in with their boundless love and patience. Change the world around you as the rainbow children do and shift away from negativity. As well, anyone who works with or has children will resonate with the empowered abilities you will develop to enhance a child’s intuitive skills.

Part 1 Master ways to connect to the Creator. Use a wide range of ThetaHealing techniques such as belief work, create positive feelings, empathic readings, healings of the body and the soul, guided meditations, and future and guardian readings. Through the seven planes of existence, communicate with angels and plants, heal with crystals, develop telekinesis and empathic reading skills, and know how to see auras and heal animals.

Part 2 Experience a Native American drumming ceremony to connect to power animals and totems. Participate in the ancient exercise of crystal scrying to see the magic of crystals as they reflect spirits who have come to visit. Experiment with essential oils, communicate with your Higher Self, and elementals. This phenomenally fun and powerful class also includes how to remember your future, heal the broken soul, and connect to the sixth plane to move objects with your mind. Do a crystal layout for a deeper visual experience to connect to angels, loved ones, your council of twelve, and a past life.

Vianna Stibal, the founder of ThetaHealing, developed these techniques to connect you with your own deep levels of intuition and provide guidance for children in your life. Appropriate for 16 year olds or older individuals. You can take only the first part, but to take the second part, must have taken the first part.

Course 082158 Part 1 CEUs Available
Date Sat., Sept. 20 and Sunday, Sept. 21
Course 082159 Part 2 CEUs Available
Date Sat., Nov. 1 and Sun. Nov.2
Time 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, lunch on your own
Cost $240/220 for each part payment 10 days advance

Exploring Freedom
Transform your painful memories and energize yourself with joy

Lawrence Lanoff, PHD

Freedom requires choice and choice requires more than one option. Exploring freedom dives deeply into the conscious and unconscious pain points caused by the collision of stories, beliefs, and mythologies that result in psychological, emotional, and spiritual pressure or tension. The pain points are generally stored memories; that is, markers of extreme states structured by the filter or frame being held during the original event. Identify some of the myths that have been holding you hostage. A symbolic change meditation will guide you to choose a myth or symbol that is causing you pain or discomfort; then transform the memory and belief in the symbol by choosing a different symbol to replace it. Energize your symbol with freedom, pleasure, and joy to let go of memories no longer serving you.

Course 082160 CEUs Available
Date Thursday, September 11
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost $30/25 payment 10 days advance

Connecting with Your Higher Self
Your higher self brings you purpose and deep fulfillment

Linda Kroll, JD, LPC, MS

Connecting to your Higher Self enables you to access your inner wisdom from a higher spiritual source—Spirit, God, nature, Buddha, or angels. Your Higher Self moves beyond pain to enable healing from your past to create a life filled with peace, balance, and joy. Guided meditations and tools will show you how to access your personal source to foster acceptance, forgiveness, and understanding of yourself and others. All your relationships will be enhanced by your compassion and clarity. Instead of constant striving, expectations, disappointments, and being overwhelmed, appreciate life as a series of serendipitous events that lead you in the direction of your highest purpose and deepest fulfillment.

Course 082163 CEUs Available
Date Wednesday, September 24
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost $25/20 payment 10 days in advance

Digital Dharma: Chakra Communications
Using technology as a metaphor & gain focus and openness

Steven R Vedro, MA, CAEH

Combine the language of communications networking with those used to describe the esoteric bodies. Explore the collective digital dharma—the spiritual and psychosocial development challenges embedded in the media technologies of everyday life. Look at the social and spiritual challenges reflected in your cell phone needs, the love/hate relationship with the foolish heart of television, the impossibility of finding the truth over the internet, and the challenge of deep seeing brought to you by high-definition digital broadcasting.

Using technology as a metaphor, gain focus and openness through guided visualization, meditation, sacred sound, and movement. Cleanse and empower each chakra by opening to transmission and reception capacity. Listen to and release the old messages and false beliefs that block the full radiance of full chakra communication potential. Facing outwards to the world and inwards to your personal energetic matrix, explore the themes of broadcasting your aliveness, untangling the cords of relationship and finding your inner iPod. Understand the difference between compassion and co-dependence and the need for appropriate energetic spam filters. Observe the matrix, and download from the divine grid. You will have an opportunity to both work in small groups, practicing intuition, energetic awareness, and have time to journal your experience.

Course 082168 CEUs Available
Date Sunday, October 5
Time 9:30 - 4:30 PM, lunch on your own
Cost $85/75 payment 10 days in advance

Astral Traveling
Discover how hard or easy it is to astral travel

Martha Hayden, BA

Astral traveling conjures vague notions of a kind of traveling that one does without one’s physical body when one is asleep. According to models of several Western esoteric traditions, the astral body is the vehicle of mental consciousness or awareness. When this consciousness leaves the physical body this is astral traveling proper. When this happens, people can see themselves by the side of their bed or floating above it. As this happens quite spontaneously for most of the people who first experience the phenomenon, they are quite surprised to suddenly be able to see their physical body from the outside. Explore the astral body in the four-fold model of subtle bodies. Discover how hard or easy it is to astral travel and what realms you can actually visit. Learn how meditation and a technique called night practice can facilitate your ability to travel.

Course 082170
Date Thursday, October 2
Time 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Cost $25/20 payment 10 days in advance

Soul Visioning™: Clear Your Past, Create Your Future
Use seven steps to live your soul’s purpose

David Birr and Susan Wisehart

Soul Visioning™ is a guided process, based on Susan Wisehart’s soon to be released book, that allows you to envision and create in holographic time—where all realities exist—your ideal future in the areas of work, career, relationships, finances, health, and spirituality. This process uses higher soul guidance, the part of your mind that is lucid, wise, creative, and inspired. These processes combine the best of hypnotherapy, energy psychology, and soul work to access and heal deep unconscious limiting beliefs. Ground breaking tools will be provided to enable you to continue the envisioning process to more fully express your divine potential that includes:

  • Manifesting your soul’s vision on mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual levels
  • Taking a journey into your ideal future to envision your highest soul’s desire
  • Meeting your ideal future self as a guide for you now
  • Using an extraordinary but simple method for clearing
  • unconscious limiting core beliefs and cellular memories that
  • sabotage your soul’s vision and purpose
  • Discerning the presence of the soul
  • Understanding how past life and life between lives regression
    can heal this life

With all of your positive affirmations, positive thinking, and visualizations you still may feel stuck. Go beyond the laws of attraction and manifestation to identify major obstacles to create your ideal future. It is not enough to raise your vibrations without addressing the unconscious mind that holds limiting beliefs, repeating patterns, and cellular memories from this life and past incarnations. Enter the timeless realm of the soul and anchor your ideal vision on a cellular level. Connect deeply with your soul to assist your co-creation on all levels of your life.

Course 082172 CEUs Available
Date Saturday, October 18
Time 10:30 - 5:00 PM, lunch on your own
Cost $100/90 payment 10 days in advance

Evolve Your Brain
Make significant changes in your life by re-wiring your brain

Joe Dispenza, DC

Rewire your brain by taking a journey in brain evolution—scientifically proven neurophysiological principles. Join Joe Dispenza, featured in What the BLEEP Do We Know? and bestselling author of Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind and explore the multi-faceted relationship between your brain and body. Multimedia presentations and interactive processing enables you to begin to make important changes in your body-mind connection.

You will be given the important steps to overcome destructive emotional states such as insecurity, unworthiness, and anger. Replace those emotions with new states of mind as you are guided through a step-by-step process of personal change to transform yourself from thinking to doing to being. You will interactively discover the 10 steps to rewiring your brain—the basis of Dispenza’s upcoming book, due for release in 2008. Also discover:

  • How neural nets are assembled
  • What is mind
  • How to evolve your brain by changing your mind
  • How to break unwanted emotional patterns
  • What is attention and how you can improve it
  • What is the relationship between your mind and your life
  • How to create new patterns and habits in the brain and body

Make significant changes in your life by re-wiring your brain, 100 billion neurons firing into infinite patterns. Utilize tools to enable you to apply this process at any time in the future. Your mind is your brain in action. Change your mind, change your brain; change your brain, change your mind.

Course 082173 CEUs Available
Date Sunday, October 19
Time 10:00 - 4:30 PM, lunch on your own
Cost $110/100 payment 10 days in advance
Place Highland Park Country Club for directions

Co-sponsored with ARE of Illinois