This course examines the energy centers (chakras) that correspond to major nerve plexi in the body and how they positively or negatively influence consciousness every day. During our nine months together we will learn and practice the techniques which best realign your body, mind and spirit. Come prepared to "get down" to the core issues and strengths of each of your chakras and use the most effective Biospiritual energetic, yogic, sound, and inner reflective exercises to get you humming with harmony. This healing group is based on the clinical expertise of Jim Morningstar, Ph.D. using the texts of Anodea Judith, Ph.D. foremost authority on the chakra system and energy work.

How to diagnose the exercises or deficiencies in these centers which could lead to anxiety and/or depression
Perform simple physical, emotional, mental and spiritual exercises to bring one's personal system into balance to help maximize vitality, productivity and joy
Teach energy balancing techniques to appropriate clients

MEETS: Nine Saturday afternoons from 2 - 5 pm September through May
FEE: $450, $500 with CE credits

In this seminar you will explore and begin integrating the psychological principles of total success, financial mastery, and harmony in mind, body and spirit. You will open the door to your true business sense, and create an operational holistic business plan for yourself over the next year.

To distinguish holistic from linear or causal thinking
To use analysis game with business goals
To create a personal statement of purpose
To create a holistic business plan for the next year
To be conversant with Integrity Checklist and Financial Accountability Forms

MEETS:10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Second last Saturday in October
FEE: $75, $100 with CE credit

This series of seminars lays the foundation for a holistic approach to life, giving caregivers the philosophy and tools to offer those they serve from this perspective. Six major life areas are examined to infuse a greater sense of self-responsibility, creativity and thus balanced healthy approach to well being.

Infuse creative thinking into major areas of life purpose through analysis, affirmation and effective goal setting,
Understand and use the body as an energy conducting system, means of communication and product of one's thoughts,
Work effectively with prosperity principles including earning, spending, saving and investing,
Recognize major psychological and emotional patterns in relationships and apply creative thought principles to change,
Explore realms of conscious awareness beyond consensus reality,
Address psychological factors that undermine spiritual fulfillment including birth trauma, parental disapproval syndrome and the unconscious death urge.

Identify one's attitudes toward self responsibility,
Read messages from sensations and structure of one's body,
Specify family attitudes toward prosperity and their present influence,
Identify eight familial relationship patterns,
Experience and use the technique of multilevel awareness,
Name five "biggies" of incompletion,

MEETS: 12:30 pm - 5:30 pm first Sunday of the month November - April
FEE: $450, $500 with CE credit

The Personal Effectiveness Principles training is a series of eight two and one half hour classes enabling participants to gain clarity about their life goals and success in achieving them. Class members learn and practice: principles for thinking clearly, acting passionately and responsibly and obtaining fulfilling results in their unique way, how to help create an environment that will sustain ongoing positive life changes for themselves and others.

Learn and practice the two basic time-honored principles empowering one to rewrite the formula for one's personal success.
Engage in the process which uncovers the hidden personal beliefs which undermine one's effectiveness.
Gain expertise in creating personally designed tools for mental mastery and life change.
Apply the Four P's of effective goal setting and craft a blueprint for balanced responsible accomplishment.
Learn the use of the Manifestation Wheel to monitor and maintain progress in manifesting results through challenges along the way.
Recognize communication traps; practice healthy ways to to engage others and strengthen environmental support.
Use tools to uncover "personal law" and sort out six major relationship patterns in yourself and others.
Complete the life purpose exercise and an implementation plan for ongoing progress beyond this course.

MEETS: Dates TBA
FEE: $320, $370 with CE credit

These holistic practices have been developed over the past 30 years. Caregivers will be introduced to the theory and practice of reading and releasing characterological and their corresponding physical energy holding patterns. Cues from the body, family history, symptomology and behavior of the client will be interrelated. This gives the practitioner several avenues of intervention in helping increase the client's self-awareness and self care. Specific verbal, postural, movement, and attitudinal interventions are demonstrated to assist in effecting positive changes more readily and more permanently than just verbal or physical intervention alone. Bio-spiritual energetic awareness and many of the techniques can be integrated effectively into clinical practice.

use your own body as a vehicle for mental, emotional and spiritual awareness,
expand your range of expression and ability to respond to life in creative,
integrated and resourceful ways,
identify body types and their characterological counterparts in yourself and others,
identify breathing patterns in self and others and facilitate release of restrictions,
apply the skills of body energy reading and releasing to your life work.

Identify goals of the Bio-spiritual energetic approach
Specify Psychic Sensitive holding patterns and life themes
Bio-spiritually assess the Empathetic Nurturing strengths and weaknesses
Delineate treatment goals for clients with strong Inspirational Leader traits
Learn exercises and interventions specifically for Steadfast Supportive clients
Specify Gender Balanced holding patterns and life themes
Bio-spiritually assess the Energetic Grounded strengths and weaknesses

MEETS: sessions are 2 and 1/2 hours on Eight Mondays evenings
Tuition: $320, $370 with CE credits

Integrative psychology has antecedents in the fields of psychotherapy, systems theory and communications that have paved the way to more essential contact between human beings. Some of the most clear and effective theories and practices from the psychological domain are presented here. They open the doors to and interface with spiritual traditions that have been wise enough to train the mind rather than demonize it or try to eliminate it. Students will apply these practices to their own lives and relationships and learn first hand how to tailor the tools to their psyche as well as alter them for others.

Several foundational systems approaches presenting holistic paradigms for spirit/mind integration will be studied. This will include Family Systems Theory and General Systems Theory as practiced on a personal and organizational level. Students will study their own systems as well as their personal communication patterns as well as learn the techniques for assisting those they serve.

To effectively use goal setting and scheduling as tools to self-knowledge and spiritual growth
To identify ineffective communication patterns in self and others and to remedy them
To understand and employ family systems theory
To use basic breathwork techniques
To be conversant with general systems theory and levels of consciousness applications

MEETS: 9 am - Noon three Saturdays of the month November - April
FEE: $810, $860 with CE credit

The theory and practice of breathwork will be presented along with readings and techniques for integrating the practices into ones life and profession. Over the past 25 years, there has been an explosion in the blending of ancient breathing techniques for health and spiritual awareness with contemporary growth and therapeutic practices. The result has been the evolution of powerful and incisive healing and consciousness changing modalities. This has given birth to the field of breathwork that has promoted significant advances in medical, psychological and spiritual domains. The call for professional training and supervision in theory and practice is immanent as breathwork is emerging as a primary technique in the practice of Spiritual Psychology. The Breathwork Practicum is a foundational course in this training.

Students will be exposed to the core theory and techniques of breathwork. Adaptation to one's current professional service will be addressed. Should a practitioner choose to additionally complete all the Level 1 Breathworker requirements including direct supervision, certification at that level could be obtained. The course text is: Morningstar, Jim (1994), Breathing in Light and Love, Your Call to Breath and Body Mastery. Wisconsin: Transformations Incorporated.

Define breathwork as a healing art,
Be conversant with the applications of breathwork,
Create effective healing contracts,
Identify healthy and unhealthy breathing patterns,
Relate body types to breathing styles,
Address resistance in a breathwork session.

MEETS: 4 pm - 6 pm one Friday of the month November - April
FEE: $270, $295 with CE credit

The purpose of this training is to introduce breathwork skills to professionals in the healing arts. Breathwork is a conscious breath monitoring process which is used by health care professionals around the world to explore, release and integrate mental, emotional and physical material that maybe impeding a clients ability to:
Resolve chronic holding patterns in mind, body and spirit,
Release emotional material stored within the cellular memory,
Unravel relationship patterns that interfere with a sense of personal well-being,
Experience self love in their bodies.

Identify ineffective breathing patterns,
Teach healthy breathing skills,
Use breathwork to address issues of depression, anxiety and addictions,
Integrate breathwork into standard clinical practice,
Monitor and release personal holding patterns that interfere with clarity as a clinician in the healing arts.

MEETS: Friday evening through Sunday afternoon last weekend in June even numbered years
FEE: $250, $275 with CE credits

This training prepares the practitioner to give wet breathwork sessions. Both theory and supervised experience are given in profoundly moving method of healing and growth. The stages of pre natal growth, recognizing and releasing patterns which develop from them are detailed.

Identify four prenatal stages
Conduct a breathwork session in water
Identify effects of birth trauma in breathing patterns
Select proper equipment for wet breathwork

Meets: 12:30 pm - 8 pm Saturday in August even numbered years
Tuition: $160, with CE credit $185

Understanding and working with group dynamics, creating group sessions, use of music, movement, art, successful teamwork, and supervision in facilitation will all be addressed in this day long training.

Name principles of group breathwork
Know types and styles of facilitation
Utilize music and artwork in group setting
Organize and orchestrate a group session

Meets: 9 am - 5:30 pm Sunday in August even numbered years
Tuition: $160, with CE credit $185

Participants will learn the foundational mechanics of healthy breathing and how to coach positive changes in dysfunctional patterns. The schools and styles of breathwork techniques will be presented and experienced so practitioners may choose the methods that fit themselves and their clients best.

Name main traditional sources of breathwork practices
Know two modern schools of dyadic breathwork
Outline anatomical features of diaphragmatic breathing
Specify what chemical imbalances are related to deregulated breathing
Meets: 9 am - 5:30 pm Friday in August even numbered years
Tuition: $160, $185 with CE credit

Participants will be trained in hands on and hands off energetic release work, reading body types and facilitating exercises for maximizing their strengths and integrating these techniques into the breathwork session. Application from infancy through adulthood will be addressed.

Know the breathing patterns of the six body types
Facilitate release exercises for each body type
Sensitively enter a client's body energy field
Identify one's own body type strengths and weaknesses

MEETS: 9 am - 5:30 pm Friday in September even numbered years
TUITION: $160, $185 with CE credit

In this module participants will learn safe and effective methods of freeing the breath via energetic contact. Variations from non physical touch, use of sensory objects, to deep touch and body movement will be demonstrated and practiced.

Know the breathing patterns of the six body types
Facilitate release exercises for each body type
Sensitively enter a client's body energy field
Identify one's own body type strengths and weaknesses

MEETS: 9 am - 5:30 pm Saturday in September even numbered years
TUITION: $160, with CE credit $185

In six seminars over four months, the issues and techniques of holistic counseling are explored and developed. For students and practitioners who want to expand awareness and gain skills as counselors. Experience in current methods of effecting change in the whole person. Group and individual exercises in and out of class will enhance effectiveness as a nonintrusive change agent.

Know principles of successful contact and contracts
Distinguish holistic diagnoses and ethical guidelines
Identify spiritual elements of counseling
Clarify personal purpose and practice goals as a holistic counselor

MEETS: Six Fridays: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. January - April, even numbered years
TUITION: $270, $295 with CE credit

This seminar series is designed to enhance your skill in group leadership and prepare you to lead support groups. Learning how to facilitate group energy to bring out the best in each participant, create a holistic context and accomplish group goals is the focus for this class. Students will study group process from a variety of theorists including making contracts and effective contact, boundary setting, handling challenges and coming to completion. In addition members will construct a group relevant to their skills and interests that they will prepare to present in their community if they choose.

Identify four types of facilitated groups
Practice effective boundary setting in groups
Learn techniques to deal with major challenges in group leadership
Prepare a group series as a potential facilitator

MEETS: Six Fridays 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. January - April odd numbered years
FEE: $265, $290 with CE credit