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Upcoming workshops with Anodea Judith

Nicole G — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:05:02 GMT

Hi everyone,

Here is a note from Anodea along with some information on her upcoming events. You can go directly to www.sacredcenters.com for more information...

Greetings,

It's been a busy summer with two Psychology Intensives and lots of travels to the East coast and Pacific northwest. Students have been wonderfully inspiring, getting great value from the courses. I spent two whole weeks in the Yukon of northern Canada, a still untrameled land of earth and sky, where lives chakra co-heart Bev Gray, who will soon graduate as the next Sacred Centers teacher.

I am ending the year with these summer and fall workshops, then traveling to India in December to speak at the Global Congress of Spiritual Scientists in Bengalore, India, Dec 25-31.

Weary of travel, I hope to keep a lighter schedule next year to work on other projects and teach closer to home.

However, for those of you in Europe, mark your summer 2009 (tentatively July 3-10) for a weekend chakra workshop and 5-day Techniques of Mind Body Integration at Venwoude near Utrecht in Holland. (taught in English). For other workshops next year, see the schedule on the website by clicking the link on the left of this article.

Hope to see your shining chakras in one of these transformative experiences.

in love and light,
Anodea

CHAKRA YOGA WORKSHOP

Yoga tree San Francisco, CA
August 23, 24 1-4 pm each day
Yoga Tree Valencia

Dance your way up the spine with Anodea's bioenergetic yoga, graced with the breath, and topped (literally) with divine consciousness.

A great mini workshop that gets your feet grounded and your core energy moving from base to crown.

$50/advance, $60/door, $90/both days

1234 Valencia St.
415-647-9707

SEVEN WINDOWS TO THE SOUL

2008 Schedule New Hope, PA
September 26-28

Los Angeles, CA
Dec 5-7

Take a journey through the sacred architecture of your soul and learn this profound formula for wholeness and template for transformation that the chakra system provides.

Sacred Centers basic chakra weekend is a good place to start to incorporate both theory and practice in your chakra study. Muscle your way up the spine as you learn yoga asanas for each chakra, experience your core energy with bioenergetic exercises, lift your soul with breath, chanting, meditation, and enlighten yourself with illuminating information about how to self-diagnose and treat excess and deficiency in each chakra.

Yogaphoria Studio, New Hope
215-862-4041

City Yoga Studio, LA
323-654-2125

TECHNIQUES OF MIND-BODY INTEGRATION

2008 Schedule
Kripalu Yoga Center, Lenox, MA
October 19-24

This dynamic course is a primer in body-based psychotherapy, suitable for healers of all stripes as well as those on their own healing journey. These principles can transform the way you work with clients and how you view and process your own issues -- bringing deeper results more quickly than you can imagine.

By learning to work with the basic life force or "charge" of the body, you will learn about the principles of charging and discharging, the basic bioenergetic character structures, working with post-traumatic stress, and the symptomatology of disease.

There is so much info in this course that most people want to take it two or three times, but you will have time to practice and experience each piece as you learn it.

Kripalu Yoga Center
800-741-7353

ASSOCIATION FOR COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY

October 25, 2008, Toronto, Canada

INTO THE HEART OF IT:
The Chakra System as a Path to Our Future

This Saturday evening keynote will be a stunning visual journey through the chakra system of our collective consciousness, examining the incredible precipice we are approaching in our cultural evolution at this time. Having a map to navigate this journey can help us all move things more rapidly in the direction of a sustainable future.

This is no less than the dawning of humanity's rite of passage from the power of love to the love of power, based on the award-winning book by Anodea Judith: WAKING THE GLOBAL HEART.

Tickets sold separately or as part of the conference.

Conference info

Waking the Global Heart trailer and website

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Looking for variation on Chakra balancing morning meditation

Nicole G — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:31:37 GMT

I just posted this on the chakra tribe and thought it would be a good one for Sacred Centers...

I try to do a visualization to balance my chakras in the morning several times a week. I most often do it while I'm still in bed which is fine but I find that visualizing the vertical connection from earth to heaven is a little more difficult when I'm horizontal as opposed to seated. I start with a grounding cord that is connected to the base of my spine and travels straight down to the center of the earth. I send all non-productive, chaotic energy down the grounding cord so it is taken away from me and absorbed in a healthy way by the earth. Then I visualize roots emanating from Chakra 1, also at the base of the spine, down my legs and out to the earth through the dirt and around rocks and other roots. This provides a very stable base and allows me to draw the creative energy up from the earth that I need to do my own creating.

When the energy hits Chakra 1, I meditate on the color, a deep red, and on the things a healthy Chakra 1 represents: a strong, healthy body that I feed nutritiously, completing tasks needed for my survival (work, paying bills, cleaning house - all things that honor Chakra 1), etc. Then I visually pull the energy up to Chakra 2 and continue that way up to Chakra 7. I can do this very quickly in just a few short minutes, or I can take around 30 minutes depending on how much time I have or how much I feel I need. When I get to Chakra 7, I send the column of energy all the way up into the cosmos, to the center of the universe. I call on infinite wisdom to send the information I need to continue my evolution and I picture the wisdom as flecks of light that drift towards, into and down my energy beam.

I then visually include a channel of energy that travels from the cosmos down through my chakras. Hitting Chakra 1 brings me back into my body which wakes me up...and now I'm ready for the day!

I'd love to hear variations on this. Any suggestions?

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Chakrassage integration from Jason

Nicole G — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:00:46 GMT

Howdy y'al...

I was lucky enough to receive a chakrassage from Jason Auer-Sears at the last Sacred Centers workshop I attended in Mill Valley several months ago. One element that made a lasting impression was Jason's use of vibration from his voice. The transference of vibration from the sounds he made to my body was, to me, a revolutionary massage technique.

Soon after the workshop ended, I received the following letter from Jason which explains how he integrated some of the information he received at the Sacred Centers workshop into his work. Inspired and inspiring. Thanks to Jason for taking the time to share with us.

If you have any questions or comments, post 'em.

Enjoy!

Inner and Outer Awareness: Integration of Sacred
Centers Coursework into a Bodywork Session

Elements of these courses were integrated:

• Energy Awareness (EA), Glenn Hartelius
• Sacred Centers Coaching (SCC), Lion Goodman
• Guiding the Journey (GJ), Selene Vega

This case study is an example of how this year's Sacred Centers Immersion courses are well integrated into a bodywork session. Let's call the client Jenna and me JAS.

Jenna has been a client of mine for at least 6 years. She has been seen routinely for chronic mid and upper back pain and hypertonicity. Last week was the first session she's had for over 10 months, which is unusual. Ordinarily Jenna attends to herself meticulously, but a parent passed away last year and she climbed into a soul searching desolation. Pushing her relatively lively personality away with her “big sister” character, she has become quiet and discreet. Jenna arrived saying she was ready to integrate her two distinct personalities.

Jenna was laying supine on the massage table. I performed general trigger point acupressure to her shoulders, chest, and upper back while we talked. Occasionally I would take my hands off of her, so she could focus on herself without interruption.

JAS: Jenna, I would suggest that you close your eyes and begin to breathe deeply. Notice which muscles are tight as you inhale fully. Notice which muscles are relaxed. And notice them with appreciation and without judgement (SCC and EA). Now, with your eyes closed, drop your attention from your head down into your 4th and 5th chakra area. With your mind's eye, do an internal scan of the area and see if you notice any energy patterns, like blocks or shapes that might interfere with your energy body (SCC and EA).

Jenna: (almost immediately) There is a disc, or a bowl.

JAS: And know that giving it descriptive qualities is an act of willpower and focus of your attention (SCC). Does the bowl have a specific location?

Jenna: ...It is between my chest and back, slightly off to the left.

JAS: Which way is it facing? Is it concave to your chest?

Jenna: It is concave to my back, convex to my chest. It is about the size of my two fists. (she held one fist inside the other hand)

JAS: Okay, great, does the bowl have any other noticeable qualities? Does it have a color?..a temperature?..a texture?

Jenna: It is smooth and warm on the outside. It!s red!..on the outside. It's cold and dark on the inside.

JAS: Notice these qualities with enthusiasm and appreciation, much like an artist who is studying this energy shape and preparing to paint its likeness on a canvas. Does it have movement?

Jenna: No. It is still.

JAS: Okay, with enthusiasm and appreciation, move with your attention like a laser beam directly into the center of the bowl. (SCC) Do you have that? Okay, notice if the energy shifts or if any of its qualities change with your attention in the center of it.

Jenna: It's bigger than I thought. It's a cave.

JAS: How does it feel to be there?

Jenna: It is quiet and safe. A little lonely.

JAS: Enjoying the quiet and the safety of the cave (GJ), perhaps you might ask what the cave is keeping you safe from.

Jenna: From other people!s needs. People's needy energy.

JAS: With enthusiasm and appreciation, ask the cave if it has any information for you.

Jenna: It says that I need to pay attention to me again. It wants me to move in.

JAS: Good, can you imagine for a moment what that would look like, and fill the inside of the cave with that vision? Great, now ask the cave if it needs anything from you.

Jenna: It wants a fire.

JAS: Can you do that? Great, now from the center of the cave, look around...has any kind of shift occurred?

Jenna: There is more color than I thought. And now it is warm and cozy.

JAS: And isn't it wonderful to have both safety and protection and color and warmth? (GJ)...........Looking around from the middle of the cave, perhaps you find yourself asking it if it needs anything else to help this integration.

Jenna: It's a he. And he wants some water....and water is trickling from the walls and running past me, toward the exit. It sounds nice. It's refreshing.

JAS: And isn't it magical to have the balance of all the elements present in the cave? Earthen stone, warm fire, trickling water, the sound of your breath. (GJ)

Jenna: Oh, I am sitting on a large velvet cushion, the purply color of my curtains in my apartment.

JAS: With appreciation and gratitude, begin to sketch or paint this complete image on your canvas.....let me know when you have done that.....okay, now I am going to ask you to move with your awareness out to the outside of your cave and bring your attention to your 4th chakra. Breathe in through the back body and out through the front body (EA). As you inhale, draw energy in through the back and pass it through the front like an energy floss. And here you are in the center of the cave next to your fire, and suddenly a gentle warm breeze moves through the cave, creating sound and a dance of light. And isn't it good to know that your awareness can be in all three locations at the same time (GJ), truly embodying yourself?....Inside the cave with the fire and your cushion...outside and around the cave, embodying your chest and upper back, and out here in your personal space, where you can regulate flow and contact....With appreciation, dive into the center of this energy and feel whether or not this feels complete for now. (SCC)

It was complete for the moment. Jenna then turned onto her stomach. After more acupressure, I found it appropriate to place my singing bowl on her upper back. We heard it echo through and around her cave. I encouraged Jenna to actually draw her images. She does this quite often, so she agreed. I have had about six session much like this over the past week. I combine it with other Chakrassage techniques, such as Bodymantra (assisted stretch with vocal toning and visualization) It has all been quite dynamic. I will share more soon.

Jason Auer-Sears
May 24, 2007

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how do I post the photo?

Suzann — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:48:06 GMT

Hello others from Sacred Centers. . .
What's happening? I am just learning to use this site and hope that others will also?
Suzann

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Anodea's 1 minute Video

Nicole G — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:11:45 GMT

Here is a great video describing humanity's shift from the love of power to the power of love as a new organizing principle. To find out more about Anodea Judith's book Waking The Global Hearth, visit www.wakingtheglobalheart.com

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jzVBQFx6Hjk

Here's another one. It's a clip from the DVD The Illuminated Chakras

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3770mslc_18&feature=related

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Real world application

Nicole G — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:47:33 GMT

I've only been back from the Immersion Course for two days and I've already balanced two sets of chakras and helped a friend change a negative belief. I met with a friend/business partner (which can be a difficult combination) and asked if we could attune before our meeting and she agreed. We burned a little sage, I took us through a visualization to open and balance our chakras and then we set our intentions for the meeting. Wow! What an amazing way to bring us into harmony. If only I could do that in my real estate biz!

I did the same exercise today with my daughter. I'm so grateful to have this to share with her. As she gets older, our interactions change. It's not as easy to connect with a 17 year old as it is to connect with a 7 year old. Balancing our chakras together is a way for me to confirm my commitment to her well being and that makes me feel really good.

I used a tool from Lion's coaching course to help my friend see her belief about a difficult relationship in another way. I can't tell you how fun it was to pull out the worksheet and turn to the second page...the one where she would turn her belief back on herself...and know before she did that something profound was about to happen. Very, VERY fun to watch her go "hmmm" and think about what just happened.

This is big stuff, peeps!

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