Morning Star Classes and Workshops

Classes and Workshops

Amazing Soups with Sue Moon

Be Conscious of what you are eating. Learn many recipes for fabulous tasting soups that help to heal and nurture your body. This class is educational and very experiential. We will all be in the kitchen, laughing/talking/chopping veggies and more!

What could be more satisfying on a cold winter day than a warm bowl of soup? That is why Sue has developed many comforting combinations of different soups. During this class we will discuss the nutritional and emotional benefits of soup. Different tastes to evoke different feelings. Adding simple ingredients can boost your immune system and strengthen your body. Wake up your body with light but satisfying cuisine!

Take home recipes and new ideas to make your food preparation happier, healthier and easier.

Sue has been counseling people on diet and nutrition in this area since 1985. She knows how difficult changing a diet or lifestyle can be and offers her insights and wisdom to make these transitions smoother and fun!

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Art As Meditation

This class is about Seeing, not the technical mastery for a piece of art.  We will explore the peacefulness that pencil and paper can provide.  All are welcomed, but the class is designed for those with no experience at all. All supplies included.

Ann Pape, Facilitator

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The Art of Letting Go

The Art of Letting Go- is a two week class. “Letting go is a central theme in spiritual practice, as we see the preciousness and brevity of life. When letting go is called for, if we have not learned to do so, we suffer greatly, and when we get to the end of our life, we may have what is called a crash course. Sooner of later we have to learn to let go and allow the changing mystery of life to move through us without our fearing it, without holding and grasping.” Jack Kornfield

Letting go of what no longer serves us sounds so simple, but can be a difficult process. We hold on to past hurts, relationships that we have outgrown, and patterns and belief that no longer serve us. There can be a sense of safety and security in the old ways. And the question of “Who am I without this?” keeps us holding on. There is a fear of the unknown, of expansion , of losing control and a lack of trust that we are supported on this journey. And yet, to open to our destiny and our Divine nature, learning to trust and let go is an essential part of this process.

This 2 week course is to help explore the art of letting go. There will be many processes and meditations designed to help you become aware of what you’re holding on to on all levels and releasing what no longer serves your highest good.

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Astral Travel

Out of body travel, sometimes referred to as astral projection, is a means by which our consciousness leaves the physical body and its limitations. Our consciousness is then not under the restrictions of time or space, and in just moments may move halfway around the world or into outer space, exploring and observing. Often when you go to a new place and feel as if you had been there before, you have traveled there earlier to check it out first. There are three different kinds of out of body travel, Astral, Mental and Soul. During this class we will utilize meditation techniques to travel all three ways. This is an experiential class that the participants will experiment and enjoy the freedom that astral projection affords.

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Astrology — Evolution of the Soul

This course if for anyone who has wanted a deeper understanding of what their lives mean.  Whether or not you have studied astrology before, this class promises to inform and enlighten. This class is open to students of astrology and beginners.

Class meets one Sunday afternoon a month for 6 months  12noon - 4pm:   5/23, 6/20, 7/18, 8/15, 9/19, 10/17

The planets are an intuitive link to understanding yourself and your reason for incarnating here at this time. Much can be gathered from this data even tracking the journey of your Soul. Your Soul’s evolution is a joy filled journey of evolution through learning. The lessons you have chosen to grow through in this life are revealed like the sides of a many faceted gem through studying the birth chart, the aspects, the transits, the progressions and much more.

Each month we will focus on understanding how our own individual chart reveals who we are, this is a personal journey into self-realization. Book purchases recommended: Planets in Transit by Robert Hand; Astrology-The Basics by Kevin Burk; Delineating the Horoscope by C.C. Zain; Planets in the Houses by Robert Pelletier.

May - Signs/Planets/Houses-memorize them, meditate on them and they reveal their inner nature to you. How to delineate the Horoscope.

June - The Ephemeris (charts of the planet movements or Transits) and the Aspects. The mathematical degrees planets/Moon/asteroids etc are apart show how they relate to each other. In this class we will learn how to read these aspects and apply that knowledge to our own charts and to others. You will need to bring yours and another person’s birth data to this class.

July - Karma revealed! Vertex, Lilith, North & South Node, Chiron and the Planets show Karma or the balancing of our journey’s energies. This is a deeply revealing class that will help you understand why certain places/people/things are in your life and how best to work with that.

August-The Outer planets or The Big Kahunas: Jupiter-Uranus-Saturn-Neptune-Pluto. Saturn the Stern Teacher and the Saturn Returns mark major forks in the road of our destinies and so do the other outer planets. We will study the “Returns” in this class and apply that as predictive astrology; how we can tell the future.

September - In this 5th class we will study the inner planets: Mercury; Venus, Mars. We will also study the retrograde patterns of planets and what that means in terms of getting anything done and how best to use those “quieter” times.

October-The Moon phases. How fitting to be covering the New Moon/Full Moon; Lunar Eclipses this month as it is Sue’s birth month!

This workshop will give you great information on your own personal chart and how these energies will be affecting you. Many meditations to flow into the planetary pull you will be experiencing to learn even more information on the new directions your life will be taking

Class meets one Sunday afternoon a month for 6 months (no drop ins for this class)
12noon to 4pm: May 23, June 27, July 18, August 15, September 19, October 17

Payment options: 1) $450 prepaid    2) 2 payments of $240    3) $85 a month

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Awakening at Mid-Life

“Midway upon the journey of my life I found myself in a dark wood, where the right way was lost.”–Dante

Don’t let anyone fool you. Mid-life is not about shrinking back or becoming less than who you used to be. It is not about the loss of beauty and vitality. The energy that comes to a woman during midlife is one of transformation and power. It is one of rebirth and renewal. There is such a richness to this stage of life that calls forth a return to our natural state of wisdom, sensuality and beauty at the deepest levels. We can no longer be bound by limitations that constrict our energy. We can no longer be bound by myths about this stage of life that keep us small. This is our time of evolution.

This class is for women who want to learn how to use these powerful energies in a way that honors their spirit and aligns with their purpose.

Honoring your life story is an important way to acknowledge and accept this phase of your life.

This 4 week course will focus on the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual needs and accomplishments you are living through at this time. For Women mid-life is generally 35-60, though through poor health may even start as early as the 20’s. We will offer approaches to help you identify what areas you need to address now to make this transition the powerful one it calls to be. Now is the time to build a strong foundation for the rest of your life!

Physical health demands to be cared for now. Emotions can show you that you are not enjoying your life as you should be. Deep shadows longing to be healed emerge and beg for the Light. This is a time of POWER… a time of letting go of any part of your life that doesn’t glorify that power in you.

This is a journey that can only be undertaken alone. There may be conflict between opposing choices in careers or relationships as this is the time of transition. Much has been written about this time and it has been called mid-life crises by some. Awakening is what you are being called to do. Awakening to your strength, power, beauty and the timelessness of you that goes on forever.

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Awakening to the Divine

The issues and concerns our soul is seeking to heal are found in the blocks and distortions in our energy field. These are caused by trauma, self judgement and limiting beliefs, and block our connection to the Divine and our true nature. By opening up to the spiritual energy that is present, we are able to release these blocks and allow them to come in to balance and alignment. Unresolved issues that are being held on the deepest levels are often released with the additional components of self forgiveness and bringing in the Light of the Holy Spirit. This class teaches a process for accessing the spiritual field that surrounds you and aligning with the energy field of higher consciousness for healing on all levels.

Facilitator: Dixie Clark

CEU’s available for LMHP professionals

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Beginning Meditation with Breathwork

Follow the breath gently into the body to find your inner peace. There are a variety of different breathing techniques that help to open areas of peace inside of you. These simple techniques can be learned by anyone. As the mind is calmed in this way, it allows you to step into deeper states of meditation.

When you allow the breath to move uninterrupted through the body, many wonderful things can happen; pain can be alleviated, stress reduced, and much more. Intructor: Sue Moon

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Chair Yoga for Seniors

Chair Yoga for Seniors a gentle but very effective method of stretching the body to better health and flexibility. In this hour long class you will learn how to stretch safely using the chair as support. The many benefits of stretching have been well documented and include increased circulation, mental clarity, stronger nerves and more.

Instructor: Stephanie Watson

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Chakra I

Guided Meditations thru the 8 major chakras. Learn how to access these important energy centers that hold so much information about your life.

Root-origins/family, the earth

Sacral-creativity/sexuality

Navel-emotions

Solar Plexus-power/destiny

Heart-Aspects of love and your will to live

Throat-Will/communication/truth

Brow-clarity of vision

Crown-connection to spirit

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Chakra II

The Chakra System of meditations can bring a great deal of clarity to your life. The seven energy systems will be explored in Chakra Journey. Explanations of what they are and how to meditate on them will be given. In Chakra Meditations II, we will explore deeper aspects of this energy system and learn about other chakras in the body. Chakra Journey is not a pre-requisite to Chakra Meditations II.

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Chakra Miscellany

There are many more chakras in our energy system than the main 7 most people know about. We have hundreds of these energy centers all over our bodies. Learn to work with chakras that show whether there is chaos in our lives or peace and much more. Did you know there are actually 7 eye chakras? And inside each shoulder blade are chakras that keep you open to higher learning……………..or, if closed, keep higher learning out.

This class will focus on the many unusual and very interesting “other” chakras in our human energy system.

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Change Your Reality by Changing Your Beliefs

This 2 part series is designed to assist you in aligning with your true nature by releasing beliefs that no longer serve your highest good.

Beliefs form the foundation of our view of the world and our reactions to events.  What we manifest is in part due to our beliefs. Our beliefs allow in love and abundance or keep us stuck in unsatisfactory relationships and scarcity. They can help us move forward or sabotage our change.

The beliefs we hold shape our behaviors, our perceptions our concept of who we are and the patterns we keep repeating. Change is difficult if there is an unconscious limiting belief holding the old pattern in place. When we understand that we created these beliefs as a way to make sense of the world or to stay safe, we no longer have to feel like a victim to life's events or because "that's just the way I am."  We can open up to our loving nature and see it all as part of our journey. This class provides tools to assist you in becoming aware of the limiting beliefs in your life, and ways to help you open up to new beliefs that serve who you are at this stage in your life.

Week 1: We will explore how beliefs are formed and how your current reality is a reflection of the beliefs you hold. These beliefs are part of the karmic patterns we’re here to clear.  Through muscle testing and other methods of accessing unconscious information, you will learn to identify the limiting beliefs you’re holding on the deepest level that continue to sabotage moving forward.

Week 2: This class will teach powerful methods that assist in changing beliefs and releasing old patterns.  You will learn to align all levels of consciousness to allow you to integrate the new beliefs into your life.

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Christmas in Your Heart – Opening to Christ Consciousness

The energy of Christmas has little to do with the outer trappings and everything to do with the gifts of the spirit from within. We've all experienced this in moments of our lives where we open up to the Christ Consciousness and feel that sense of peace. Many meditations and processes will be utilized to help you go within and connect to your inner Christ.

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Clearing Negativity from your Energy Field

The energy that surrounds us and flows through us is a powerful life force.  It connects us to Spirit and to all levels of consciousness.  This energy is also constantly being affected by the negativity of those around us, toxins in our environment and by our own emotional blocks.  When the flow of energy is blocked, it distorts our perceptions, creates negativity and fatigue, and separates us from our true nature.  Clearing our energy field frequently helps this energy to remain strong and vibrant.   

This class teaches simple and powerful techniques to help you release blocks and distortions in your energy field to help you become more aware in each moment and see life more clearly.

Facilitator:  Dixie Clark

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Communicating with Your Unconscious

Our unconscious holds the keys to why we keep repeating the same patterns, sabotage some of our goals, and have fears about moving forward. We all have the ability to communicate with this part of ourselves and release the blocks that keep us from moving forward. This workshop teaches specific skills to help you begin to change the unconscious programming that has been interfering with your life. Instructor Dixie Clark, MS, LMHP Licensed Counselor and Certified Health Practitioner in NLP.

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Crystal Bowl Meditation

Along with Sue Moon, Sue McCarthy of the Crystal Hearts plays the Crystal Bowls for an hour of meditation and healing. If you have not experienced the peace and bliss that comes from meditating with these pure sounds of light, now is the time. Sue is an accomplished bowl player and is intuitively guided to play these bowls to facilitate in the clearing of negative energies, especially from the chakra system.

The use of singing bowls in Tibet is the subject of much debate and many stories. Some people say they were used for meditation while others say they were magical tools for transformation of self and of matter.

Crystal Toning Bowls, through their healing power of sound, send out positive energy frequencies combined with the energy of the positive intent of the person receiving, and the therapist playing the bowls, that assist in helping the person to become relaxed, centered and receptive to letting go and receiving. The frequencies of the Bowls can help release the energy associated with traumas without having to relive the experiences, and is a way to help the release of anger, fear, anxiety, jealousy, frustration, and resentment, any of the lower destructive emotions, for it is working on all systems and levels.

Scientific information is even coming into agreement that the sounds of the Crystal Toning Bowls, the sounds of the voice toning, and certain music can aid in changing the condition of the body, mind, and emotions. Many modern scientists and doctors are incorporating this type of therapy into their medical practice. Mitchell Gaynor, M.D., director of Medical Oncology and Integrative Medicine at the Strang-Cornell Cancer Prevention Center, uses crystal toning bowls and voice toning in his practice with cancer patients. He chronicles an intensive study of sound healing and a holistic approach to mind-body healing. For more of the scientific explanation of the effect of the Crystal Toning Bowls, toning with your voice, and certain music, read Dr. Mitchell L. Gaynor's book "The Healing Power of Sound."

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Do It Now – Strategies for Motivation

Do you have trouble motivating yourself to get things done?  Is it hard for you to get started or complete projects?  Does it seem as though you have no control over your procrastination?

The consequences of procrastination can affect every aspect of our lives. When we have trouble motivating ourselves it can block our energy, affect our relationships and self-esteem, and keep us from moving forward in life.  Motivation is more than just having a strong will and forcing yourself to follow through. Following through with outcomes involves co-operation between both the conscious and unconscious minds. This class uses techniques of NLP and energy work to teach you proven strategies for motivation to reach outcomes, and techniques to release barriers that caused you to be stuck in procrastination.  Instructor: Dixie Clark, MS, LPC.

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Ebb and Flow – Working with the Energies of Your Life

For everything there is a time.  There is a purpose behind what we are going through.  During July we have an opportunity to move through old patterns and create new ones. The energies of this time are designed to bring us into a point of stillness while the new is manifesting and coming in.  This time of stillness can be uncomfortable and cause us to feel like we are doing something wrong. 

When we get into judgment, that simply blocks us further. The energies coming in behind this stillness will impel us into new projects and exciting ideas. Understanding that there is an ebb and flow in your life helps you to accept and work with what is happening at the time.

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Energy Alignments

Our body is designed to heal itself physically and emotionally when our life force energy is flowing freely and naturally. However, when it becomes blocked, we can experience disturbances such as headaches, pain, illness, anger, depression, anxiety etc. This 6 week course works with the physical system and it's accompanying energetic system, i.e., Circulatory System/Heart Chakra, Nervous System/Crown Chakra, Kundalini, etc.

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Finding the Peace Within

"Peace is a natural state. It’s an innate part of who we are, to live in peace and be at peace. It is we who interrupt that process and separate from what leads to peace."

— John Morton, Spiritual Director institute for Individual and World Peace

These are times of great change as well as uncertainty. It is easy to lose our center and get caught up in fear and negativity. Peace within is our natural state. We don’t need to learn how to feel peace. We just need to allow ourselves to tune in to it. This is a series that you are invited to attend, whether it’s one class or all of them. Each one is different, and teaches processes to align with your center, change your level of consciousness, and release negativity in order to align with the peace that is present.

Going Green

It can be so confusing to know which direction to take in living more ecologically sound and healthy. Learn how to lesson your impact on the environment and help your body release toxins. Sue Moon began to study and live alternatively in 1968. She has run the gamut of living without electricity, inside water & plumbing, communal living, organic farming/gardening, French Intensive Gardening and more. This class will teach simple, inexpensive ways that you can take a more proactive role is safer, less toxic living. Learn how to live a little more simply and not harm yourself or the environment quite so much. Facilitator: Sue Moon

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Growing Older Gracefully — Tools for Youthful Living

What does growing older mean to you?

Some people live in denial about growing older.  Others feel their best years are behind them.   And, there are those who have a healthy belief system about who they are at each stage of life, and learn to listen to what their body needs.

This workshop explores the mind/body connection to maintaining a vibrant, youthful energy throughout your lifespan. You will learn to identify and change the beliefs you hold about growing older and how they are part of creating your reality.

This class also teaches specific tools to take care of your physical body and honor what you need.

Let us not buy into stereotypes about growing older, but rather step into our true power and grace during this stage in our lives.

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Hatha Yoga

Hatha is an easy-to-learn basic form of yoga that has become very popular in the United States. Hatha Yoga is the foundation of all Yoga styles. It incorporates Asanas (postures), Pranayama (regulated breathing) and meditation. It has become very popular in America as source of exercise and stress management. The ideal way to practice the Hatha Yoga poses (asanas) is to approach the practice session in a calm, meditative mood. Sit quietly for a few moments, then begin the series, slowly, with control and grace, being inwardly aware as the body performs the various poses selected for the practice session. Do not overdo the asanas or try to compete with others. Take it easy and enjoy. Facilitator: Stephanie Watson

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Healing States of Consciousness

Whether your intention is relaxation, a sense of peace, healing or connection to Spirit, it can often be difficult to silence our minds long enough in order to access these states. And, there are times that our lives are so filled with stress that it feels like our normal state is one of anxiety. Yet deep within each of us are all the resources we need to deal with life’s issues, solve problems, open up to a sense of peace. We just need to know how to quiet our minds and feelings of stress in order to access these healing states of consciousness available to us all.

This class teaches tools from NLP, Energy Psychology, Theta Healing and Noetic Field Therapy(soul centered). They can be used to deepen your meditation and spiritual practice as well as increase your creativity and problem solving abilities.

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Holistic Healing

This six month program is designed to deepen your spiritual practice as well as learn mind/body techniques from different modalities to assist you in clearing negativity on all levels.  It is appropriate for those who facilitate healing with others and/or those who are on a path of their own spiritual and personal transformation. 

The morning will be spent in deepening your awareness of self as Soul, and strengthening your connection to Spirit. In the afternoon, you will learn specific mind/body/energy techniques that will help you move through stuck emotional states or old limiting patterns. 

The class meets 1 Saturday a month beginning in September.  Times are 9:00-1:00.
Dates:  Sept. 18; Oct. 20; Nov. 13; Jan. 22; Feb. 19; March 19

Certificate of completion after course.  Also meets the criteria for 27 CEU’s for LMHP’s.

Payment options: 1.  $450 if prepaid or,  2.  2 payments of $240 or,  3.  $85 per month.
Cost includes hand-outs, and certificate, CEU’s, and optional 30 minute consultation each month.

Please call Dixie Clark at 884-0621 to register or for more information.

Dixie Clark, MS, MSS, LPC is a licensed counselor and ordained minister, and brings a loving, compassionate energy to her work. She holds a masters’ degree in both counseling and spiritual science, and is currently obtaining her doctorate in Spiritual Science.  With over 26 years experience in mind/body therapies, she combines psychology and spirituality to help people release emotional blocks, heal past trauma and change limiting beliefs to open to soul awareness.

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Honoring Resistance in Clients

Physical and emotional healing depends on a variety of factors. As health care providers, we have the opportunity to be part of this process with our patients and clients. In our work, it is important to recognize the many ways we influence patient recovery and cooperation with treatment. We will be learning how to gain rapport on all levels; the effects of beliefs (clients and practitioners) on healing;use of language patterns; and, how to utilize the internal motivational and decision making strategies for more effective treatment. This workshop is designed to explore how to Influence with Integrity those whom we serve. This workshop meets the criteria for 4.5 contact hours for both nurses and LMHP's.

Instructor: Dixie Clark, MS, LMHP

CEU’s available for LMHP professionals and Nurses

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Influencing with Integrity

Physical and emotional healing and change depends on a variety of factors. As health care providers, we have the opportunity to be part of this process with our clients. In our work, it is important to recognize the many ways we influence healing and cooperation with treatment. This workshop is designed to explore how to influence with integrity those whom we serve.

Objectives:

1. Recognize how to develop rapport on all levels, both verbally and nonverbally.
2. Demonstrate the power of language and beliefs on healing and cooperation with treatment.

This workshop meets the criteria for 3.0 contact hours for LMHP’s, and is appropriate for all health care practitioners. The tools learned here can also be applied to teaching and parenting roles, for those who are interested in strengthening their skills in those areas.

Instructor: Dixie Clark, MS, LMHP

3.0 CEU’s available for LMHP professionals

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Integrative Breathwork

Integrative Breathwork is an ancient spiritual practice both in the east and west.  It is a powerful healer that opens the psyche by removing us from our ordinary state of consciousness, where we are anchored by the way we perceive ourselves and the world around us.  Breathwork is a technique that has been used in many primitive cultures for spiritual awakening. emotional healing, and self empowerment and is treated as a normal and necessary feature of human existence. Our culture is unique in its exclusion the of the altered state experience.  We consider waking, dreaming, and deep sleep as a necessity to our psychological well being, but without accessing this fourth state, we may be depriving ourselves of a basic "nutrient" of a healthy, integrated life. This fourth state provides us with a much expanded view of our human experience.  It is through deep connective breath and the use of evocative cultural music, meditative auto-hypnosis, intuitive bodywork, and symbolic artwork that the deeper strata of the unconscious mind opens and pours out its gifts bringing healing and wholeness.  The combination of these factors evokes feelings and memories that resonate at the same vibration level as the body's cellular memory through the seven levels of consciousness or chakras.  Research has shown that this "non-ordinary" state has a profound therapeutic affect and not only carries the memories of our biological past, but transcends time and space connecting us to the divine mystery, the part of Self that holds much inner wisdom and enlightenment.

Saturday, September 18, 6 - 7:30pm *Free

Instructor: Deb Jacobson

www.BreatheIntoHealing.com    

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Introduction to the Laws of the Universe - The Seven Spiritual Laws

Introduction to The Laws of the Universe-The 7 Spiritual Laws:  This is the introduction to a 6 month course of study into the ancient universal laws that are known as the Hermetic Laws of the Universe.  They are attributed to the Egyptian philosopher/teacher Hermes Trismegistus.  These Laws are the foundation of our beliefs and the study of them helps us understand why some things work and others don’t.  In this two hour intro we will look into the meanings of these laws and utilize meditation techniques to see how we are applying them in our lives.  The 7 Laws are: 

1) The Law of Mentalism:Living God  

2)  The Law of Correspondence:  Inner and Outer Universe

3)  The Law of Vibration-Everything in Motion

4)  The Law of Polarity:  The Answer is in the Question

5)  The Law of Rhythm:  All of Life is a Dance

6) The Law of Cause & Effect:  As You Sow, So Shall You Reap

7)  The Law of Gender:  Yin/Yang and Everything in its Own Time

Instructor: Sue Moon

Sunday, September 12,  2 to 4:00 pm  $45/40 adv

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Introduction to NLP

Come for an evening of fun and learning about NLP!

The techniques of NLP are absolutely magical in their ability to help people transform their lives. NLP is known as the study of excellence,
and has proven to promote gentle, rapid changes in people on both a conscious and unconscious level. Uses for NLP include personal and spiritual development, transforming limiting beliefs, changing communication patterns, releasing past traumas and negative emotions, and creating compelling futures. Not only is NLP effective in releasing blocks and healing trauma, this method is able to install new strategies, beliefs and behavior that is more effective at each stage of life.

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Intuitive Eating

There is a lot of information out there on health, eating, exercise and more. It can be confusing if you haven’t done some pretty extensive research. Sue Moon began the study of nutrition and its affect on the body in 1968 and has continued that study through the years, also teaching cooking classes on macrobiotics, vegetarianism and more. This class will teach you how to tune into your own intuition to see which foods are good for you.

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Journey through the Seven Chakras

Chakras are energy centers in the body that are powerful tools for self-discovery, transformation and awakening spiritual awareness.

Further your journey of self-discovery through the study of your Chakras. In the traditional chakra system, there are seven primary chakras and many secondary ones. The information accessed from these centers provide gateways to understanding the many aspects of soul and ego.

Each chakra reflects an aspect of consciousness that is essential to our lives.
Chakras are powerful tools of self-discovery!

We will be using the tools of visualizations & movement through very basic yoga postures and meditation.

Root Chakra-our connection to Earth, family, tribe
Sacral Chakra-sexuality, creativity, playfulness, empathy
Solar Plexus Chakra-very complex center: self esteem to co-dependence
Heart Chakra-loving aspect of your life from conscience to service and all that lies in between
Throat Chakra-living your truth, the will center
Brow Chakra-Clarity of Vision
Crown Chakra-Opening to Spirit

Wear comfortable, loose fitting clothing that allows you to gently stretch. Bring a journal and pillow if you like.

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Kids and a Parent Yoga

This is a really fun class for a parent/parents/guardian/aunt/uncle etc. to share with one or more of your beloved children. Ages 5-12 during this class we will learn many animal poses that kids just love! Dog, cobra, snake, crane, cat and so much more! There is a lot of laughter in this class and the bonding that occurs with adult and child is very special to watch and be a part of. Teaches flexibility with care, relaxation techniques that kids can do, and learning about their bodies so they have more awareness of how they move. Not only do the kids benefit greatly from this, but the parents leave these sessions “glowing”.

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Kundalini and the Chakras

Kundalini is the energy in each individual that pushes for growth. During releases of the Kundalini energy you may experience great creative times in your life. We will learn to gently release more of this energy to help in your search for deeper meaning, balance, creative energy and more. Kundalini fuels your chakras and helps you to release old negative patterns of resistance that keep you from your happier states. This class teaches many techniques, meditations etc. to access and use this energy for your highest benefit. Sue Moon began teaching Kundalini classes in 1979.

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Kundalini I

Whether you are aware of it or not everyone has Kundalini or evolutionary energy flowing in their systems. This is the energy that pushes you to grow towards the light or God. In Kundalini I techniques and meditations are taught to guide or direct this energy. Kundalini is one of the energies that fuels our Chakra system and we will work with the 7 main Chakras in this class.

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Kundalini II

The second part of this mini series will teach more specific meditations and work with many other chakras. Your spiritual nature is brought into balance with your earthly nature resulting in a more balanced approach to life. The phrase, “We are spiritual beings having a human experience”, explains the Kundalini/Spiritual connection. These guided meditations lift you into the higher dimensions where greater wisdom can be accessed.

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Listening To Your One True Voice

"You can drop everything that is not speaking truth inside of you, now, and return to the divinity that waits with infinite patience for your homecoming."   — John-Roger with Paul Kaye from The Rest of Your Life.

Within each of us is a voice that holds our deepest wisdom and brings Divine guidance. Our One True Voice. The one that allows us to speak the truth of who we are in the world, and whispers which choice to make for our highest good. We often override the messages we receive from this part of us by listening instead to the voice of our fears, the voice of addictions, or the voice of other people’s opinions and expectations. We learn to give ourselves away out of the need for approval from others or fear of making a mistake. This class is about learning to reconnect with our deepest wisdom and trusting ourselves once again.

Facilitator: Dixie Clark

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Living By Design — According to the Law of Attraction

For Men & Women who feel stuck, ready to take back their power, feel there is more to life, and have a deep desire to change. When you change yourself you change the world as far as you are concerned, for you are your own world.  "The interior and the exterior are the same." — V. Howard

This course is designed to help transition from old paradigms of lack and separation to creation and abundance. Join with other like minded women and men to learn to use your energy to manifest "on purpose" and step into the life you have longed to live.

What we focus on we attract.  Are you focused on what you don't have, don't want or on what is wrong in your life?  If so, your life will attract more of the same.

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Living Your Soul's Intention

“I recognized, finally, that I had always been in touch with my Soul and divine nature. I had never been separate from it. It had always been present, as the best part of me. It was my laughter, my loving, my enthusiasm, my devotion, and so much more. It was the part of me that I really liked.”   —   When Are You Coming Home? A Personal Guide to Soul Transcendence

Beneath the fears and negativity of our ego/personality, lies the intentions that our Soul has for us in this lifetime.  Intentions are different than goals or resolutions.  Our intentions have a quality of expansiveness and align us with our Divine nature. They are like a beacon or guiding light through all situations. When we open up to the intentions from this soul level and bring them forward in to our daily lives, we begin to create an energy field in and around us that’s of a higher level.  And when our energy, thoughts, emotions and actions are in line with our intentions, we begin to open to the flow of life, living “On Purpose.”    This class assists you in opening to the intentions that are for your highest good at this time, integrate them on all levels, and develop a strategy for dealing with the people, situations, and negativity that pull you out of these intentions.

Facilitator: Dixie Clark

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Loving Your Heart Open

“The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live.” — Norman Cousins

On this physical level, we have all experienced disappointments, rejection, and betrayal. We’ve had our heart broken in many ways. We often respond to these situations by losing trust, not fully engaging in life and shutting down our heart. Our true essence is one of loving and joy. When our heart is closed, it creates a void that can only be filled from within.

This class will help you on your journey of healing and help release the patterns that block your connection to Spirit, and to who you truly are.

Facilitator: Dixie Clark

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Meditation

“Meditation is quite often thought of as something unique to the Eastern religious tradition. It is however, a practice open to all. Basic meditation is a state of being which brings stillness to a person.” — Meditation and Human Growth by Genevieve Lewis Paulson

The class teaches ancient and current techniques for achieving a calm state of being through the practices of Hinduism, Buddhism, visualization, and much more.

Sue Moon has been a meditation teacher for 30 years and skillfully guides the participants to their own place of peace within. When these pathways are created, the individual can go back on their own anytime they sit in silence.

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Muscle Testing/Kinesiology

Muscle testing is one way to help you determine if a thing (food, herbs, therapies, etc.) is good for you. The body never lies, we just need to hone our intuitions to hear it. Sue studied Kinesiology for ten years with local herbalists Don and Marge Bahr, and has used it with wonderful results in her 20+year massage and herbal/vitamin practice. Various forms of muscle testing are used in different healing modalities here at the Center and elsewhere. These sessions are designed to inform you of different options and to take back your power when it comes to your healing.

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Nutritionally Yours — How to Thrive Instead of Just Survive

Many people take their health for granted until something goes wrong. It is only then that they start to look more closely at what has brouht them to this position. Your body has a natural ability to maintain good health and heal itself if it is given the right conditions in which to do so. In order to understand how you can use your bodys natural protective abilities it's important to understand some basic facts. Sue Moon has been actively involved with nutrition/herbs/vitamins/cooking classes for over 30 years. May people have experienced better health and well-being by her non-threatening approach.

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Partner Yoga

Sweetheart Yoga on Feb. 14 was such a success we are doing it again!  This is a fun class for all types of couples, no one excluded, all you need is a partner.  We will move and stretch in fun and easy ways, helping your body lengthen and experience deeper peace.  The fun part about couple’s yoga is the tenderness that can accompany it along with some great bouts of laughter!! 

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Past Life Regressions — Your Journey Through Time

On your soul’s journey back to it’s Divine source you flow through many lives, many ways, many places…………..rich, poor, wise, foolish, kind, cruel, spiritual etc. All for growing and evolving to gather greatness to the light of your soul- that you may know your Divine source. Meditations tools to help you journey back into several of your own past lives for greater understanding of who you are and what your journey is about. If you have felt that something was holding you back, blocking your path to happiness and personal fulfillment, you may find understanding in this class. We all carry attitudes/karma from one life to another, sometimes repeating past mistakes and reliving fears, until we become aware of these patterns and take positive action to change. In this class you will learn to enter into your own meditative state to explore the cycles of your life, release negative karma, change belief systems that hold you back and build up energy to achieve your goals.

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Psychic Heat — Tummo

Tummo is an energy, like Kundalini, Reiki and more, that has vast effects on our well-being and development. If you feel weary or have a buzzy kind of feeling with dry hot flashes, you may be experiencing a tumo flash! Tummo is an excellent healing energy and can bring great strength to the body on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.

This workshop will give basic information and meditations on Tummo so that the participants can use it immediately as a healing tool in their lives.

Wikepedia has this to say about Tummo: Tummo is a Tibetan term for a suite of advanced sadhana, contemplative practice, spiritual energetic work or meditation of the Himalayan traditions of Vajrayana and Bön.

In common currency, Tummo is related to the description of intense sensations of body heat, that are held to be a partial effect of the practice of Tummo-meditation. Tummo is taught as one part of the six yogas of Naropa. Stories and eyewitness accounts abound of yogi practitioners being able to generate sufficient heat to dry wet sheets draped around their naked bodies while sitting outside in the freezing cold, not just once, but multiple times. These observations have also been discussed in medical articles (Ding-E Young and Taylor, 1998).

Tummo, also spelled Tumo, or Tum-mo; sanskrit, a Tibetan word literally meaning "Fierce Woman".

The Tummo practices were first described in writing by the Indian yogi and Buddhist scholar Naropa, though the Buddhist tradition holds that the practice was actually taught by Shakyamuni Buddha and passed down orally until the time of Naropa. The Tummo practice is also found in the Tibetan Bön lineage. One of the most famous practitioners of Tummo according to the Tibetan tradition was held to be Milarepa. The biography of Milarepa is one of the most popular among the Tibetan people (Evans-Wentz, 2001). Modern western witnesses of this practice include the adventurer Alexandra David-Néel (David-Néel, 1971), Lama Anagarika Govinda (Govinda, 1988), and anthropologist Dr. John Crook.

While the physiological effects of Tummo are well known, they are not the primary purpose of the meditation practice. Tummo is a tantric meditation practice that transforms and evolves the consciousness of the practitioner so that wisdom and compassion are manifested in the individual.

It is not considered wise to engage in the practice of Tummo, or any other intense form of meditation, without the supervision of a credible teacher or guide, or without thorough psychological and physiological preparation. Intense, or unsupervised forms of meditation, might sometimes lead to substantial meditation-related problems.

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Psychic Protection

Have you ever:

• felt drained of energy around certain people?
• suddenly began having bad dreams or thoughts you can't seem to let go?
• felt angry or out of control for no reason?

Being out in the world makes us vulnerable to picking up psychic influences or having our energy affected in a negative way by those around us. It's important that we maintain a strong energy field and have ways of staying in balance so that we can recognize when we're being pulled off center and influenced by something outside of ourselves. This class focuses on recognizing signs and symptoms of psychic influences, methods of building protection in to your daily routine, and ways to align spiritually. Instructors: Dixie Clark and Sue Moon

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Reiki

The Reiki attunement process opens the individual to channel Universal healing energy.  That energy can be used to heal the self, family, friends or clients.  Reiki removes blocks that inhibit the individual from moving forward in their lives, it also helps to clear toxins out of the body while reducing stress.  The teaching of this technique is done is three levels; Reiki I, healing for the physical body; Reiki II, healing on the emotional/mental levels; and Reiki III, Master/Teacher level.  For deeper knowledge read "Reiki for the New Millennium", by William Rand

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Reiki – Level I

Reiki (pronounced Ray Key) is the art and science of channeling the universal life force to promote spiritual, mental, emotional and physical healing.

Reiki is Spiritually guided. It is not limited by the practitioner.

In Reiki 1st Degree you learn the history of Reiki, suggested hand positions you will receive four attunements at the Chakra level that activate your healing energy.

Sue Moon has been a Reiki Master/Teacher over ten years.

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Reiki – Level II

Reiki I works on healing the physical level, with Reiki II we move to the emotional level of healing. It takes us further into ourselves and gives us more powerful tools for self-discovery. We learn to allow the universal life energy to flow more efficiently. The second degree initiations work on a higher level than the first degree, mainly on the etheric body. Distance healing or absentee healing will be learned. Thoughts, emotions and energy travel just like electromagnetic waves from one point in space to another. The second degree turns us into energy-transmitters across time and space.

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Releasing Fears and Phobias

What are the fears you have that seem to control you at times? How often do you experience anxiety? Does a phobia disrupt your life on a regular basis? Reoccurring fears and anxiety can have many causes and can become programmed on both a physical and emotional level. These fears can interfere with our work, relationships, enjoyment of life, and connection to Spirit. This class teaches some simple yet very powerful tools to release the energy of these fears and raise your body’s vibration to move beyond your previous reactions to these situations and in to enjoyment of life.

This class is appropriate if you are just beginning to address these issues in or yourself or can be used in addition to any treatment you may already be receiving. Instructor: Dixie Clark, MS, LPC.

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Releasing Patterns of Resistance

There is nothing that has happened in our lives that is bigger than us. Nothing. And everything that happens can be used for our learning, up-liftment and coming into a state of wholeness.

However, through our ego, we create patterns of resistance to what is or what has been, if it doesn’t meet our expectations. Our fears, negativity and judgment create an energy pattern that keeps us stuck. This state of resistance is from our lower consciousness, or lower vibration, and blocks creativity, abundance and connection to Spirit.

Releasing patterns of resistance helps us open up to the flow of life and align with a higher level of consciousness.

This class helps you become aware of your areas of resistance that block you, and exercises to align you with a higher level of consciousness to release old programming that no longer serves you.

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Releasing the Shadow

The "shadow" is a concept describing all the things about ourselves we do not like, accept, or wish to look at. These are the parts of ourselves we have judged as unacceptable and keep locked away, often out of our own awareness. The soul's purpose is to become complete and longs to become unified with all parts of us.

“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.” –Rainer Maria Rilke

"Looking into the darkness or living with shadow awareness is not an easy path, a road on which the debris has been cleared and the direction lies straight ahead. Rather, to live with shadow awareness we follow detours; we walk into the debris, groping our way through dark corridors and past dead ends. We look for the key where it is difficult to find. Shadow-work asks us to turn in that direction.

It asks us to stop blaming others.

It asks us to take responsibility.

It asks us to move slowly.

It asks up to deepen awareness.

It asks us to hold paradox.

It asks up to open our hearts.

It asks us to sacrifice our ideals of perfection.

It asks us to live the mystery.

We suggest that you relate to the Shadow as a mystery, rather than as a problem to be solved or an illness to be cured." –Connie Zwieg

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Renewing Your Purpose

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Rock and Roll Your Soul

A meditation experience to wake you up!

Join with Sue Moon for this special workshop designed to shake up the energies in your body and your life and move you forward in an exhilarating way! This will be a day of touching your soul with you own energies of kundalini-tumo-chakra-nadis-auras!! And you don’t even need to know what they are or where they are to access them! Sue does, and she will guide you into altered states of ecstasy!!

The day is designed to get you moving……

connected to your soul level energies……

inspire you, desire you, re-fire you for your life!

Call 884-0621 to reserve your space

Bring a friend, or relative……..space for 15

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Sacred Tones

This uplifting workshop introduces a series of simple meditative techinques as shared by John-Roger in his book, Inner Worlds of Meditation. These techniques can assist in calming and healing the emotional, physical and mental levels from the stress experienced in today's world.

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Sacred Women^SM

Deep within all women is a yearning for healing and connection to Spirit….There is knowledge on a cellular level that all of life is sacred, and the role of being a woman is to be honored. We can become less than who we truly are in service of the agenda of others. The purpose of this workshop is to help women awaken to their own true nature, and to teach them to direct their power and spirit in service of their highest Self.

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Sacred Women – The Art of Letting Go

Letting go of what no longer serves us sounds so simple, but can be a difficult process.  We hold on to past hurts, relationships that we have outgrown, and patterns and belief that no longer serve us.  There can be a sense of safety and security in the old ways.  And the question of “Who am I without this?” keeps us holding on.  There is a fear of the unknown, of expansion , of losing control and a lack of trust that we are supported on this journey.  And yet, to open to our destiny and our Divine nature, learning to trust and let go is an essential part of this process.

This retreat is to help explore the art of letting go.  There will be many processes and meditations designed to help you become aware of what you’re holding on to on all levels and releasing what no longer serves your highest good.

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The Seven Levels of Consciousness

Ancient and current wisdom teaches of the 7 levels of consciousness that we are all functioning on.

Since all vibration is interpenetrating, it is useful to see these not as linear rankings of levels, but as co-existing states of consciousness. We can be thinking, feeling, and acting all at the same time, as well as being loving and inspired. From one point of view, we are all existing on all the levels and Planes simultaneously all the time.

These levels are the Physical, Emotional/Astral, Mental/lower & higher, Buddhic/Love, Atmic/Spirit, Monadic/Archetype, Adi/Divine

During this class each participant will experience their own 7 levels thru breathwork, visualization and meditation. These are powerful tools for healing and transformation. Robert Wilkinson writes eloquently of these levels: “All we know is vibration. From the grossest to the subtlest, the densest to the most ethereal, everything we think, feel, perceive or imagine is vibration. We are told in "esoteric philosophy" that there are 7 "frequency zones" that describe our entire reality and that which is beyond. Today we begin an exploration of what are called the "7 Planes" of our individual and collective existence.

We begin with the dense Physical Plane. This is the plane of matter in all its forms, where all physical structures exist. The second Plane, more subtle than the Physical, is the Astral, or emotional plane. This is the plane of feeling, less dense than the Physical, but more dense than the next plane, the Mental plane.

The Mental Plane is the plane of thought, and is divided into two areas, the Lower Mental and the Higher Mental. The lower mind shows as logical, rational thinking, concrete thoughts about things, feeling, and ideas. The Higher mind is the arena of abstract or subtle thoughts, ideals, aspirations, and philosophical awareness’s.

The 4th Plane is the even more subtle and rarified Buddhic Plane, or Plane of Soul. These are the higher, subtle, evolved loving feelings that we all have all the time, even when the lower thoughts, feelings, and things momentarily distract us from these higher loving feelings. These feelings are altruistic, compassionate, and powerful. This plane is where we are naturally lovingly wise and wisely loving.

The 5th Plane is the Atmic Plane, or the Plane of Spirit. While virtually unsubstantial in a physical, emotional, or mental sense, it is the Plane where "the spark that ignites" originates, inspiring us and changing our lives forever. Some are never sensitive to this plane while alive, while others are touched by it once or even many times.

The 6th Plane is called the Monadic Plane, our Oneness beyond division, our "Father-Mother God in Heaven which is ONE indivisible." This is the Plane of our Divine Archetype. When we pray to Deity, it is this plane we seek to experience and see made manifest. It is associated with the "Anupadaka," from the Sanskrit "parentless", "self-existing", a self-created arising of Eternal existence.

The 7th Plane has no name other than the Divine Plane. It is associated with the "Adi," from the Sanskrit "the first." Other possible associations are "the original," "the creator," "the Source," and "the beginning of existence." Since all vibration is interpenetrating, it is useful to see these not as linear rankings of levels, but as co-existing states of consciousness. We can be thinking, feeling, and acting all at the same time, as well as being loving and inspired. From one point of view, we are all existing on all the levels and Planes simultaneously all the time.

Also, besides all these levels of awareness being active all the time at the same time in all of us, each of these has 7 subplanes within its frequency zone. Thus there is a physical sub-plane, an emotional sub-plane, a mental sub-plane, a Buddhic sub-plane and so forth in each of the 7 Great Planes of Consciousness.

Each sub-plane is a distinct frequency zone in itself. For example, the physical sub-plane of the Physical Plane is matter, the astral subplane of the Physical is water and other liquids, the mental sub-plane of the Physical is air, the Buddhic sub-plane and higher are the sub-planes of Ether in its various stages.

The physical sub-plane of the Astral are dense feelings, often referred to as "emotional thoughtforms." The astral sub-plane of the Astral plane are feelings about feelings, while the mental sub-plane of the Astral are feelings about thoughts, or feeling-infused thoughts. There are feelings about Soul and "higher" feelings, feelings about inspiration and oneness, and feelings about the unknown.

And so it goes, with each Plane having distinct sub-frequencies with their specialized qualities. Various sub-planes resonate with various other sub-planes, as well as Planes, much as certain notes on a piano resonate with other notes, since many similar notes are shared between various keys which may or may not be in harmony or discord with one another.”

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The Seven Light Bodies – A Journey in Consciousness

There are seven basic bodies (auras) which we use to progress from very basic energies to highly developed levels. The first 3 are the Physical, Emotional and Mental, then we get into the more spiritual realms from 4 to 7-Love, Intuition, Will, Divine etc. Learn how to tune into your various energies for information and even sense these auras thru guided visualizations and instruction.

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The Soul's Journey

When the Soul’s purpose is seen through the pattern of our lives, life becomes a celebration.

The journey of each lifetime brings forward many situations and people to fulfill our soul’s agenda and learning.  All that we do and experience is designed to bring us to a place of wholeness on our way “home.” 

This course is for those who are ready for a shift in their reality to living a soul-centered life. It contains many processes and meditations to assist you in deepening your connection to Spirit, understand the patterns of your lives and open up to Soul Awareness.

Areas covered:

• Opening to soul awareness
• Moving through karma and clearing negativity
• Seeing your life as a reflection of your soul’s agenda
• Exploring the developmental stages of the soul and personality to help transform blocks.

This course meets one Saturday morning a month beginning in September. Times are from 9:00-1:00.

Dates:  Sept. 25; Oct. 30; Nov. 20; Jan. 29; Feb. 26; March 26

Payment options:  1.  $450 if prepaid    2.  2 payments of $240   3.  $85 monthly

Please call Dixie Clark at 884-0621 to register or for more information.

Dixie Clark, MS, MSS, LPC is a licensed counselor and ordained minister, and brings a loving, compassionate energy to her work. She holds a masters’ degree in both counseling and spiritual science, and is currently obtaining her doctorate in Spiritual Science.  With over 26 years experience in mind/body therapies, she combines psychology and spirituality to help people release emotional blocks, heal past trauma and change limiting beliefs to open to soul awareness.

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The Spherical System

We live in a sea of Energy. Chakras, Auras, Acupuncture Meridians and so much more.

We also have access to a Spherical System that not too many people know about. This is an ancient system that is not traditionally taught. But times are changing and we need all the information we can get just to evolve in grace and light.

There are 8 wonderful Spheres of Energy we can tap into for information. These energy centers are full of wonderful information and just waiting for us to access. My personal favorite is the Subconscious Sphere which clears any past, present or future energies that are ready to give us information etc.

I learned about this spiritual practice many years ago from my mentor, Genevieve Lewis Paulson. I now happily pass it on to you.

In this 4 hour workshop you will learn how to access these energies, to balance them and spin them in their proper alignment.

It is a very powerful and empowering experience.

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The Spiritual Path of the Chakra’s—Your Life’s Journey

We are much more than the physical bodies we see……we are also beings of light energy. In this “light” body are various energy centers called chakras.

“Chakras are vortices through which energy flows both in and out. When developed they rotate like a spinning wheel. Most literature on chakras discusses 7 main chakras, but we actually have hundreds, located all over the body. Each acupressure and acupuncture point is an energy vortex and therefore a chakra. The energy which powers these vortices comes from a number of sources, one being our own Kundalini or evolutionary energy, another being the spiritual force within us.” — Kundalini and the Chakras by Genevieve Lewis Paulson

Learn how to direct your own evolutionary energy for greater peace and happiness in your life.

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Spring Creative Cooking Class

Eating can be a lovely, happy and creative process with just a little effort. Sue has been guiding people in this way for many years and offers a light hearted approach to cooking. In the spring everything is turning green and there are so many delightful foods to choose from. Eating by the season is a healthy way to stay in touch with your body. Learn how to eat green vegetables in a tasty way!

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Summer Cooking – Fresh Food from Local Growers

Sue Moon and John Mixan are joining together for their second cooking class. Individually Sue and John bring a lot of information, talent, knowledge and many years of study and teaching to this class.

John has always had a love of health and wellness….. after a scare with cancer he began to take his health seriously and went to the Mischio Kushi Institute to study macrobiotics. His study continued with living at the Optimum Health Institute in San Diego where he learned about cleansing using wheat grass and raw foods. Further learning was acquired in a Yoga Ashram in Virginia. Next training in Life Coaching with Maria Nemeth and most recently has graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City. John offers Life Coaching with an emphasis on health and wellness. With his gentle and easy manner, many are led to feel better and heal.

Sue has a lifetime of gardening, harvesting, preparation and serving of healthy foods. She has studied nutrition and the effects of food on the body in many venues through a Nursing career, Macrobiotic studies and independent studies. She supervised the kitchen at Kripalu Yoga Ashram, was the organic wholefoods cook at a Retreat Center in Arkansas and has taught cooking classes in this area for over 20 years. Sue has offered nutritional consultations since 1985. She knows how difficult changing a diet or lifestyle can be and offers many helpful tips acquired over a lifetime.

This day will be infused with love of food, fun in the kitchen and the joy that comes from preparing and sharing food in community. Attendees can expect to leave the class with a comfortably full stomach as well as some recipes and concrete suggestions as to how they might begin to make lifestyle changes.

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Thanksgiving — Living in Gratitude

Two key aspects of the spiritual path are thanksgiving for the past and gratitude for the blessing to come. The vibration of thanksgiving and gratitude heal, transform and connect to Spirit. We often get bogged down in day to day struggles, details and concerns, and block this wonderful energy. During the holiday season, it is easy to be triggered by old patterns and lose sight of what’s truly of value. This class is designed to assist you in tuning into the higher vibrations of gratitude to open your heart during the holiday season.

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Tools for the Journey^SM

4 week groups designed to teach specific skills to release emotional blocks and allow movement through each stage of the journey of life.

Forgiveness-A Path to Healing
Holding onto anger or guilt creates a stuck energy pattern that keeps us locked in to the past. The path to healing will open when we release resentment or others, as well as forgive ourselves for what we've done, and what we've left undone. When we learn to release what no longer serves us, we can give ourselves permission to develop fully.

Speakeasy-Communication Skills for Women^SM
Historically, women have not learned effective communication skills. We have learned to suppress our feelings, avoid conflict, and to deny our internal reality. Alternatively, some take the opposite route by being aggressive, blaming others for our emotional state, and, lashing out in anger as the only way we know to protect ourselves and set limits. The objectives of the course are: identify patterns of communication that are no longer effective; awareness of components of communication (body language, voice tone, intent, energy); identify limiting beliefs that keep you from your outcome; and integrate new skills into daily life. The purpose of this 4 week course is to provide tools of communication that allow women to express their feelings, ask for what they want, and express who they truly are in each relationship.

Coping with Daily Life-Transforming the Energy of Stress

It is not the major events in our lives that create the most stress. Often, it is the seemingly small, day to day stressors that tend to build up and create problems for us physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually. Our thought patterns, how we treat ourselves and others, how we deal with our emotions, and how we react to events are some of the major determining factors to health and life satisfaction. This 4 week course teaches simple, practical tools to deal with events in your life and manage your energy to allow you to feel more in control and enjoy life.

Transforming Anger and Guilt

There is a positive intention behind any feelings of guilt or anger that we have.  Often we learn these responses when we are very young, and get stuck in these patterns, even though we have many more resources as an adult to find other ways of dealing with situations.  For many of us, there are moor stakes in letting go of anger, because we feel we get something out of hanging on to it.  These "secondary gains" are frequently unconscious and very powerful until we become consciously aware of them and find healthier ways to honor this intention.

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What is Your Body Telling You?

Our bodies hold a deep wisdom from knowing what foods to eat to knowing where emotional blocks are stored in the system. Not only does our body hold this information, it also communicates with us when we are out of balance. When we listen to our bodies we can prevent serious illness and emotional distress. Objectives: 1. To become aware of your body's language. 2.To identify ways your body communicates with you. 3. To develop a deeper connection to your body.

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What is Your Life Reflecting?

(This is designed as a 3 session workshop,
although each session can be taken individually)

If you believed that your life is a mirror and is reflecting your unconscious programming, beliefs and karma, what would your life be reflecting to you? This workshop series deals with the principle that we continue to create our own reality. We will be exploring the ways in each soul is seeking wholeness by bringing the situations and people into our lives that will help us heal. Instead of suffering from the question of “why is this happening to me?”, we can begin to transform our lives by learning to understand, interpret and change our reflection.

Session 1: Your Unconscious Need for Expression

The energy in our unconscious seeks expression. Whether it’s an unresolved emotional pattern, a past trauma or an undeveloped quality that is part of our destiny, this energy needs to express itself. This often comes in the form of continuing to attract the same type of people in our lives who “push our buttons”, or those whose qualities we admire and wish we had. It also presents itself in the reactions we have that we swear we will never do again. We will continue to get the opportunities to release these patterns until we make new choices. This class helps you become aware of the ways in which your unconscious is expressing itself in your life, and teaches tools to help release these stuck states and make new choices.

Session 2: The Creations of Your Beliefs

Beliefs form the foundation of our view of the world and our reactions to events. What we manifest is in part due to our beliefs. Our beliefs allow in love and abundance or keep us stuck in unsatisfactory relationships and scarcity. They can help us move forward or sabotage our change. Change is difficult if there is an unconscious limiting belief holding the old pattern in place. When we understand that we created these beliefs as a way to make sense of the world or to stay safe, we no longer have to feel like a victim to life’s events or because “that’s just the way I am.” This class provides tools to assist you in becoming aware of the limiting beliefs in your life, and tools that help you open up to new beliefs that serve who you are at this stage in your life.

Session 3: Turn and Face Your Karma

When we are out of balance in thought, word or deed, we create karma. Simply put, karma is the law of cause and effect, meaning whatever we send out comes back to us. Karma is not “bad”, nor is it a form of punishment. This energy returns to us in order for us to come into balance and wholeness and allow each soul to learn through all experiences. We are not on this earth to “suffer” through our karma, nor can we avoid it. Our purpose is to transform this energy and learn what we need in order to let go and move to a higher level of consciousness. This class helps you become aware of how karma is set forth in your life and to help learn to let go of resistance and move through these situations with grace.

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When Just Saying No Doesn't Work – Growing Beyond Addictions and Compulsions

Being stuck in the grip of an addiction or compulsive behavior can cause life to feel out of control and very limited. How we approach this situation can either help us grow beyond feeling trapped or keep us stuck. This class teaches specific tools that help shift the energy field surrounding these issues, change the way the brain is coding these impulses, and reprogram subconscious beliefs and decisions. You will be learning techniques from Neuro linguistic Programming, Energy Psychology, and Noetic Field Therapy (spiritual healing). This class is appropriate if you are just beginning to address these issues in yourself or can be used in addition to any treatment you may already be receiving. Instructor: Dixie Clark, MS, LPC.

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A Woman's Journey Within – Awakening to Our Source

The evolution of our soul's experience is occurring at a faster rate than any other time in our history.  Part of this evolution is the re-emergence of the feminine spirit which is asking us to come in to balance at a higher level.  There are a multitude of women who are being accelerated far beyond what their mental or spiritual state can actualize, and are going through some major crises on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.

If you are feeling vague discomfort in your current life, the feeling of being isolated, not fitting in, feelings of despair, a sense of longing or yearning for something more, feeling disconnected, in a spiritual void, this is happening to you.

Our work is dedicated to the Sacred Women of the Earth and integrates that with the energies of power and grace.  –  Dixie and Sue.

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Woman of Substance – Transitions

When the old ways of life no longer fit, or are not there…and the “new” you has not yet formed, it can lead to questions of “Who am I now?” “ Where do I fit in?” “What’s my purpose in life?” The difficulties in transitions arise when we hold on too long to people, situations and beliefs that no longer serve our growth. This course teaches methods for moving through all stages of life’s transitions on both a conscious and unconscious level. Instructors are Dixie Clark and Sue Moon.

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Woman of Substance^SM

“Don’t be afraid your life will end, be afraid it will never begin.” Each of us has fears and limiting beliefs that sabotage our energy and block our growth. Too often we go through life on auto pilot without conscious awareness of who we are, and the direction our life is taking. Life is meant to be more than routinely lived. The purpose of this workshop is to help women identify areas in their life in which they’re giving away their power, and help them learn to honor themselves.

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Women and Relationships – Releasing Co-Dependency

Women often attract the same unsatisfying, even destructive relationships into their lives, and then attempt to change the other person in order to improve them.  We often define ourselves by how others see us, and can feel desperate to receive love and approval from others, often at the expense of our physical and emotional health.  This can be called Codependency.  Symptoms can include: preoccupation with problems of others, persistent anxiety and feelings of dread, avoidance of interpersonal risk, including low trust for others, controlling behavior, over responsibility, manipulative attempts to alter the behavior of others, especially drinking behavior.

This is a very enlightening four week course on your journey to self discovery and learning to love yourself from the inside out, while allowing others their own space to grow and evolve.....loving and letting go.

Instructors: Sue Moon and Dixie Clark

Working With the Noetic Field: Opening Your Sacred Heart

Noetic Field Therapy is a spiritual approach to personal development and evolution that helps awaken us to our soul, align with our destiny and develop our natural spiritual power. Noetic means spiritual mind, and the noetic field is the psychospiritual energy that surrounds us. The issues and concerns that our soul is seeking to heal are found in the blocks and distortions in our energy field, caused by physical and emotional trauma, self-judgment and limiting beliefs. By opening up to the spiritual energy that is present, we are able to release these blocks and allow them to come in to balance and alignment.

Issues that may have been dealt with in the past, but still unresolved on a cellular level, are often released with the additional components of self forgiveness and bringing in the light of the Holy Spirit. It is such a gentle, compassionate method of healing.

Objectives for this presentation:

• Teach the process of accessing the noetic field and aligning with the energy field of higher consciousness.
• Provide an awareness of the blocks in the energy field that represent judgments, distortions and limiting beliefs, and the role self-forgiveness plays in their release.
• Provide an understanding of the issues contained within each chakra and how each center serves the soulj's activity in specialized ways.
• Teach specific focus statements and processes that help clear these blocks and align and balance the energy field.

Instructor: Dixie Clark

Yoga For Your Aching Back

This workshop offers a safe and effective approach to back rehabilitation without drugs or surgery.  You will learn simple yoga stretches to help heal your back.  We will use props for your own individual needs and to bring greater awareness to your body.  The state of your back is influenced by your genes, your home, work play and more.  Your whole body and lifestyle affects your back.  Postures to help alleviate sciatica and chronic neck pain will be given.

This class is open to 6 participants.  Reserve your space by calling ahead 884.0621

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YOGA/Meditation for Beginners

“When the body is finally listened to, it becomes eloquent. It’s like changing a fiddle into a Stradivarius.” -Marion Woodman

Habits have shaped our lives. Especially the habits of posture, movement and stress. These are patterns that reveal you and show the direction your peace of mind and good physical health are going.

In these yoga classes at Morning Star harmony and balance are sought and achieved by many for short and longer periods of time. We learn to skillfully and gently stretch the body relieving tension and bringing greater circulation/healing to “stuck” body parts. The meditation/relaxation allows the practice of asanas (postures) to be fully integrated, leaving you feeling wonderful. Especially at this time of year when emotions and over-eating can weigh heavily on the body, a simple practice done even weekly brings greater harmony to the life.

Give yourself, or someone you love, the gift of yoga

Anytime you miss a class, you can make it up in another class that week

All classes are ongoing, sign up for a 4 week ($60) or 12 week ($144) pass.

Drop-in $16

Please call 884-0621 to register

Mondays,        6 to 7:30pm Beginning Yoga/Meditation - Moon

Tuesdays,       6 to 7:30pm Beginning Yoga/Meditation - Moon

Wednesdays,  3 to 4:30pm Off Site in Council Bluffs - Moon

                       6 to 7:30pm Beginning Yoga/Meditation - Moon

Thursdays,       1 to 2:30pm Beginning Yoga/Meditation - Moon

*NOTE All yoga classes are on-going….drop in, sign up for 4 weeks or 12 weeks anytime
Purchase a new Morning Star Yoga Card - 12 classes for $144 - $12 per class (on-site classes only)
12 classes for $156 - $13 per class for Council Bluffs

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Your Human Energy Systems

With progress in modern sciences, we are becoming more and more aware that the human organism is not just a physical structure made up of molecules, that we are electrochemical and electromagnetic beings made up of energy fields.

The high energy output that surrounds the human being is not only a means by which we nourish ourselves by attracting other energy of the same frequency and amplitude; it is also a means of protecting ourselves because nothing from a lower energy field can enter a higher energy field.

Chakras are part of this energy system and these centers make the aura brighter and brighter or dimmer and dimmer, depending on their activity.

Auras are another part in the human energy, energy coming in is called the ray, and the output is known as the aura.  Everything that your particular energy field has experienced through the ages has produced patterns in your auras.

We will learn exercises that can be practiced to facilitate seeing the auras..

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