Morning Star Classes and Workshops

Classes and Workshops

The Alexander Technique

With John Macy

John Macy will be teaching the Alexander Technique at Morning Star. The Alexander Technique is a simple and practical method by which people learn how to reduce unnecessary tension while going about their normal activities. Sitting, standing, using a computer, participating in athletics and performing all become easier when a person is free from the interference of excess physical tension. Alexander Technique teachers observe people engaged in their normal activities and use a combination of verbal instructions and light guiding touch to help them regain freedom of motion.

John A. Macy, P. T. has been teaching the Alexander Technique since 1983 and is a co-founder of ATI. A 1984 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he has integrated the Technique into his physical therapy practice, assisting clients who have had strokes and other neurological problems, orthopedic injuries and surgeries, and rehabilitation from multiple trauma. He has also taught numerous workshops for artists, therapists, performers and the general public. His physical therapy practice specializes in soft tissue and movement problems, utilizing Muscle Energy, Stott Pilates, Myofascial Release, and individualized exercise programs for clients. He established the Back to Golf program in Omaha for golf-specific training.

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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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An Astrological Epiphany or Hitting the Wall

All of 2009 we are dealing with a very unusual and potentially enlightening astrology conjunction between Neptune (spirituality or deception), Jupiter (expansion or denial) and Chiron (healing wounds or going down with them).  May 21 till June 12 is especially potent for these energies.  It is important when we have the opportunity and the help to heal beyond our wounds and become more aware or who we are and what our role for change is in the world during these revolutionary times. These planets are a vital key and a vital doorway into higher healing and consciousness.

During this workshop we will look into each person’s astrological chart to see which areas are calling for healing now.  Birth date, time and place needed 1 week prior to class.  If the time is not known we can still do a chart based solely on the sun sign

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Archetypal Patterns

Archetypes are patterns of consciousness and behavior that we have all shared throughout time. They represent aspects of power we need to develop. The role of each of these archetypes is to guide us, teach us, and give us strength. These lessons come in the form of the shadow or the light. Either way, the energy is neutral and the message is the same. They are the guardians of our evolution. According to Carolyn Myss and others, there are 4 archetypes common to us all:

Victim:		Shadow: Giving your power away. Positive: To teach us strength and protection.
Prostitute:		Shadow: Selling out for safety and love. Positive: Integrity, to honor our values.
Saboteur:		Shadow: Telling yourself you can't do or have something. Positive: To believe in our ability to create what we dream.
Child:		Shadow: Wounded, feel abandoned, separate. Positive: Open, Innocent, magical

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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.

Wednesdays, March 17 & 24, 6 to 8pm   $90 ($85 if paid in advance)   Please call to register

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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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Astrological Meditations on 2009 — What Will Be Your Big Lessons This Year?

For over 20 years, Sue Moon has been leading Astrological meditations on the coming year. These are potentially exciting and very transforming times. Pluto moved into Capricorn 11/08 to stay until 2024. The last time Pluto was in Capricorn was around 1766….the Revolutionary War and the rising up of the human being over Kings and Sovereign Rulers.

This is bringing a new way of life not only to each individual but the world also. We will look at each individual’s chart to see where Pluto is and how it will affect you.

Pluto wants you to be the best you can be and will tear away things that hinder you. This is going to push everyone to take a sober look at their image in the world. And Pluto will affect everyone’s money energy!

Saturn will oppose Uranus 4 times in 2009-2010. Saturn wants a strong, good base and can be restrictive, but only so that a good foundation is in place. Uranus likes to explore and get “way out there”. You may have to just laugh when you find these two pulling away at your life in opposite directions……….laughter is certainly preferred!

Neptune conjuncts Jupiter starting March 8, 2009 on into 2010. This energy can make you “crazy” if you are tired and stressed out. Jupiter expands and Neptune can bring confusion. Don’t talk about plans until a good foundation is in place as this could blow any positive energy for them. Great energy for writing novels. Great time for poets and artists. Dreams and visions can reach new heights.

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 takingg

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Autumn Equinox Meditation Circle

Our history is rich with celebratory anchors that give structure and form for our evolving generations.  One of those celebrations is the Autumn Equinox.  This is the time for joyous gatherings after the Harvest that will feed us through the long dark of winter.

Our spirits need celebrations like this to help support the more restful time of winter.

Giving thanks for all that we have is a deep part of the meaning of the time.

We will gather together in honoring this age old holy day in meditation and giving thanks through prayer.
When we perform these rituals it fills a part of us longing for deeper meaning in our busy lives.

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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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Basic Astrology I

The first class teaches about the astrological wheel and the 12 houses that compose it. Each house contains a very specific theme, and when a person is born with planets in a house, it is very significant relative to strengths and weaknesses. For instance, Venus in the 1st House is going to give a very pleasing quality to a person’s body and personality. We will also learn about the different energies of each planet and the energy they emit. All astrological energy is neutral as far as positive and negative goes. You are the living transformer that these energies flow through and so, whether you are in a positive frame of mind or a negative frame of mind influences how it will manifest. We always have the freedom of choice.

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Basic Astrology II

This class builds on the first and we move now into the astrological signs and how each one affects a planet in a different way.  If you were born with your Sun in the sign of Cancer, for instance, you will tend to be a very nurturing and even caretaking type of individual, but a Sun in Aries will be more focused on self in a strong and invigorating way. An introduction to the transiting planets will be covered and what that means on a daily basis. We will also delve into each individual’s chart to understand the planetary placements and the signs they are in.  There will be a question and answer period for each person.

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Basic Astrology III

This continuation of basic astrological information will be about Transits. As the planets move around in the heavens, so do they move around in your chart.  “The study of transits is one of the most fundamental techniques in astrology.  That transits indicate important trends and issues in your life is one of the few points upon which all astrologers agree.

"The purpose of astrology should be to give you an understanding of your place in the universe and the kinds of energies that are flowing through you and through the physical universe.”  -R. Hand

We will look at the overall wheel and see how the transiting planets are affecting the world, with a brief look into each person’s personal chart to notice the events happening now and in the future.

Birth date, time, place is helpful.

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Basic Astrology IV

In this ongoing journey of basic astrology we will review I through III and begin the study of the North and South Node and the Dark Moon (Lillith). These classes are open for all, you do not need to take them consecutively.

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Basic Astrology V

The Solar Return…………every year we have an opportunity to peer into our own crystal ball to see the future. The Solar Return is when the Sun returns to the place it was when you were born. Often this is a day before or a day after your actual date. During the exact time meditating and praying and setting your intention for the coming year can mean you will reap the rewards instead of missing them. Where the progressed planets fall in your chart and the rulers of your houses offers amazing insight and opportunities to see what is coming. Then you can take advantage and move in the direction of success and happiness.

Saturday, March 13, 12noon to 2pm   $45 ($40 if paid in advance)   Please call to register.

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Basic Astrology VI

During this ongoing study of astrology and learning how to maneuver through the stars, we will focus on who you are by the Big Three! Sun-your vital life force, your spirit! This is the first thing anyone notices about you. Ascendant or Rising Sign-your personality with all it’s wonderful little quirks. Moon-your emotional sensor, how you live your life with passion/spirit and the way you perceive others. We will delve into each person’s chart to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and how others see us. What are our main motivating energies in this life and how to make the most out of that. Through study and feedback and guided meditations to open you up to your own true nature.

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Basic Astrology VII

We come together to create understanding of our complex human natures through the study of how the stars and planets are interwoven into our psyches, and showing that, indeed, we are all one.  In Astro VII, we delve further into a deeper comprehension of what that means for us individually. 
Every horoscope is a map of the vibrational currents which are operating at the time of birth.  These vibratory currents constitute the inner-plane weather.  In this class we will look at our psychological makeup which is synonymous with our chart.

It is important that each student have some understanding of the planets, signs and houses.  Please provide birth date, time and place for each person before class.

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Basic Meditation

Learn how to connect with your breathing and quiet your mind with easy and time honored techniques. Resting in stillness can revitalize your life and bring you joy and peace.

"We all know that whenever we become over-involved with the flow of outer experience our inner balance is disturbed. Our natural serenity is replaced by attachments and agitation. On the other hand, when our inner life is balanced the forces of attachment are weakened, the mind becomes calm, and there is a clear field into which the light and energy of the self can radiate. We are composed and naturally joyful. Meditation offers a way to accomplish this. Like watching he flow of a river from its bank a meditator learns to maintain a watchful, inner stance and from that perspective the stream of outward events can be experienced while the meditator remains centered and relaxed. This process gradually leads to a deeper core of self-awareness.” -Sovik

This is a class that is helpful to beginners and advanced alike. Sue has been teaching meditation since 1979 and many students have benefited from her classes.

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Beginning Astrology

Many people take astrology lightly or find it humorous. It can be a valuable tool to unlock the secrets of your life. Astrology is a mathematical science of the Universe and an ancient study on Earth.

If you have ever wanted to understand more of how the planets affect you, come to this class. We will learn basics of the planets, the houses, how to understand the Wheel and your own basic Natal Chart.

This class is taught in simple, easy language and will be a fun afternoon.

Join with other curious seekers of knowledge!

Sue Moon began the study of Astrology in Los Angeles, California In 1972.

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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

Friday, March 5, 9:30 to 10:30am  4wks $50  Please call to register

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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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Compassion or Co-dependence

Do you tend to over commit your time and energy?
Do you feel good about yourself only when taking care of others?
Do you often do more than is expected and feel resentful when colleagues don't do the same?

Co-dependence has been called many things, from a "crisis of spirit" to "the most common addiction". There is a fine line between compassion and codependency, and it is easy to fall into the pattern of ignoring yourself in service of others.

Ongoing patterns of codependency lead to feelings of shame, physical and emotional problems, dysfunctional relationships and a spiritual void. Only when we change our relationship with ourselves can we truly begin to heal ourselves and others.

Objectives:

• Understand how codependency develops
• Recognize pattern of codependency in the workplace
• Learn techniques to strengthen sense of self and boundaries
  

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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."

Sunday, March 14, 5 to 6pm  $15 donation (no checks please)   Please call to register

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Crystal Bowl Meditations on the Spring Equinox

The first day of spring has been celebrated for thousands of years. It is a time of rebirth and rejuvenation. The Christian Easter celebration is the first Sunday after the full moon that follows the Vernal Equinox. These celebrations are of resurrection after death, restoration of food supplies and more.

There will be 15 bowls of varying sizes from large to small played alone and with guided meditations. Sue McCarthy and Sue Moon have been playing the bowls together for the past year on two Sundays a month at Morning Star in Ralston. Many healings have been documented by Dr. Andrew Weill and Dr. Mitch Gaynor on the vibrations the bowls bring into the body. Come experience this bliss for yourself.

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Crystal Bowl Meditations on the Summer Solstice

The Summer Solstice is a time believed to be potent with possibilities for greater fortune and happier times. Because Midsummer was thought to be one of the times of the year when magic was strongest, it was considered a good night to perform rituals to look into the future. Traditionally, young people pick bouquets of seven or nine different flowers and put them under their pillow in the hope of dreaming about their future spouse. In the past it was believed that herbs picked at Midsummer were highly potent, and water from springs could bring good health. Greenery placed over houses and barns were supposed to bring good fortune and health to people and livestock; this old tradition of decorating with greens continues.

There will be 15 bowls of varying sizes from large to small played alone and with guided meditations. Sue McCarthy and Sue Moon have been playing the bowls together for the past year on two Sundays a month at Morning Star in Ralston. Many healings have been documented by Dr. Andrew Weill and Dr. Mitch Gaynor on the vibrations the bowls bring into the body. Come experience this bliss for yourself.

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Dare to Dream – Living By Design, According to the Law of Attraction Monthly Coaching Group

Morning Star is offering this 6 month coaching group to help:

• those who have taken a prior class and are ready to deepen your awareness of the Law of Attraction
• begin to live it on a daily basis and actually use it to manifest what you want in your life.

For those with an awareness of the Law of Attraction.

This group gives you a chance to share with other like minded individuals who are ready to Dare to Dream of new possibilities.

We will be focusing on MANIFESTATION.

If you have been wanting more discipline or more focus, or even just plain HELP with obtaining the life you would like, this is the course for you.

What you can expect:

• Learn about the Law of Attraction on a deeper level
• A safe space to develop your outcomes
• New processes to use your energy in a more focused way
• Group energy to hold you accountable and support you

When a group comes together, the energy is intensified and just like a magnet, what you are working on comes in faster.

Each month: new material, exercises, strategies, networking, positive reinforcing to motivate you to manifest your outcomes.

Free ½ hour phone consult each month
Hand outs
Group connection through email.

Dixie Clark and Sue Moon began teaching Living By Design in a 6 wk course format over 5 years ago. Many people have learned to work “smarter” and not harder to attain their dreams from these classes.

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Dealing with the Fear of a Life Threatening Illness

If we should hear the diagnosis of a life threatening illness, either for ourselves or a loved one, we can go into a state of shock. Sometimes we keep playing that moment over and over again. Sometimes the images of our worst fear of this disease keep repeating in our mind. The shock and fear that can occur block our body's natural healing ability. This fear can do more damage and become our greatest barrier.

This workshop teaches proven techniques to release "diagnosis shock", and manage the ongoing fears that occur when dealing with this issue in yourself and loved ones. You will also learn a process to tap in to your inner strength and resources to help you feel capable of handling this situation. Instructor: Dixie Clark, MS, LPC.

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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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The Extraordinary Self ^tm

Imagine You…consistently achieving breakthrough results….continually feeling more powerful….constantly dissolving barriers to success.

During this program, you can expect to strengthen your inner core of self-worth, clarify core values and develop the strategies of Peak Performers as you move toward breakthrough outcomes. You will gain in emotional maturity, objective thinking, improved relationships and the ability to produce measurable results. This course is designed to help you experience fewer doubts and more permission to do what you want; allow your self-image to become increasingly expansive and positive; and increase your ability to achieve results in all areas of your life.

Instructors: Dee Kinder, Director, NLP Midwest and Dixie Clark, MS, LPC

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.

Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse     Happy New Year and Hang onto Your Hats for 2010!!!

Start your New Year right with an evening of Meditation on the planetary influences of 2010…………prepare for your year ahead! We will have much to let go of in 2010 to make room for bigger changes………the world will need everyone’s cooperation to hold the Light for these fabulous transformative energies. Now is not the time to fear, it is the time to know who you are and where you want to go……now is the time to reach out and help someone………now is the time to walk your talk and be the amazing force for good that is your birthright! There will be some hard challenges in 2010. During this workshop we will delve into the meaning of some of the larger transiting planets and we will meditate on what each one will mean for us individually, for our families and for our world. Sue has been leading these Astrology Workshops on the Coming Year since the early ‘80’s. Many people return each year and find the information valuable in navigating the year ahead.

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Full Moon Solar Eclipse in Pisces Meditation

IThe Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Spiritual Pisces is a wonderful time to join together and meditate on what you would like to be doing differently with your life.  For one hour we will focus on welcoming this energy into our bodies.  Consciously working with the expansive and very spiritual energies at hand can make all of your transitions more fluid and graceful.  Sue will guide the visualizations through 11 chakras.  Opening and clearing the chakra energies releases heaviness, doubt and many fears, allowing you to step into your power with greater enthusiasm and optimism.

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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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

Tuesdays, March 2 thru 23, 9:30 to 11:00am   4 wks for $60     Please call to register

Thursdays, March 4 thru 25, 9:30 to 11:00am   4 wks for $60     Please call to register

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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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Healthy Living Lecture

Come learn how to combine healthy attitudes and styles that make you feel better, calmer and more at peace. Proven methods of thought, movement and diet will be discussed in this interactive hour. Questions are encouraged.

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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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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 February.  Times are 9:00-4:00
Dates:  Feb. 6; March 6; April 3; May 1; June 12; July 10

Certificate of completion after course.  Also meets the criteria for 33 CEU’s for LMHP’s.

Payment options: 1.  $550 if prepaid or,  2.  2 payments of $300 or,  3.  $105 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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How the Planets are Affecting Your Chakras

The influences of all the planets affect the chakras in different ways, some for long periods of time. Learning to feel the energy of the planets and then the energy of a particular chakra can bring you amazing insight into how to live according to the flow of energy without swimming against the current. During this class we will experience what each planet and each chakra feels like thru guided meditation. Bring specific questions on what you are wanting to work on, a notebook and a desire to understand yourself at a deeper level. When you work with these energies your life begins to blossom and old patterns begin to dissolve. Sue Moon has been teaching planetary meditations since 1979

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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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Innovative Techniques for Brief Therapy

In the days of managed care and reduced insurance coverage, many people want only brief therapy to make the changes they seek. It is important to have effective techniques that provide the "how to" of helping people move through their issues. This often calls for "nontraditional" processes that are safe and effective. This workshop teaches remarkable tools of NLP and Energy Psychology to assist clients to make shifts on many levels in a short period. These techniques are helpful in dealing with anxiety, anger, trauma, depression, to name a few. Many of these skills can also be taught to clients for use on their own. One hour for lunch on your own. This program meets the criteria for continuing education for licensed mental health practitioners.

Objectives:

• Awareness of the neurological levels and how they relate to change.
• Understanding of interventions and why some are not effective for change.
• NLP and Energy Psychology techniques that are effective in any treatment approach.

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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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Introduction to Noetic Field Therapy

Releasing Patterns that block connection to Spirit

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

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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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Letting Go of Guilt

The effects of guilt and self judgment can be crippling. When we hang on to things we’ve done or not done, and continue to punish ourselves, it affects us on every level. Holding onto judgment in one area also blocks the energies of joy and abundance in other areas. This class helps identify the beliefs that are creating guilt, teaches simple processes to release stuck energy, and helps align to a higher level of consciousnes.

Facilitator: Dixie Clark

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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 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 Intentions

“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.

Sunday, March 28,  5 to 6:30pm   $15 (No checks please)   Please call to register

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Meditations on the Planets Affecting Your Life

Whether you know anything about astrology or not, the planets have a huge effect on your life. Learn how to tap into the most positive aspects of what is going on in your life at this very auspicious time. Sue Moon has been leading meditations on the planets since 1979. Many people have opened to greater clarity and wisdom from these meditations. As we prepare for the coming years, especially 2012, the more you adapt to the available and very helpful astrological energies, the smoother this transition from one state of consciousness to another will be. Sue is a skillful guide on this path and has been a student of astrology since 1972. She has a very eclectic and busy astrological practice. Birth date, time and place helpful but not necessary.

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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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Nature Meditations in the Park

Guided meditations on the warm earth, feeling our connections in nature and to each other. Meditations on the 4 elements of Earth/Wind/Fire/Water. This will be a lovely day outside and in the moment, expanding and evolving in unity.

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NLP Practitioner Training

A 6 month certification course to train individuals as NLP Practitioners.  NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is the study of human excellence.  This is the cutting edge field that enhances professional development and personal performance.  Based on studying patterns of excellence found in highly successful people, NLP is about how people learn, communicate, change and grow.  These skills will allow you to:  Communicate and use language effectively, coach others, understand culture (internal and external), Innovate, Model Excellence, Partner successfully, "read" the unconscious signals sent to you by others, Negotiate win-win-win solutions, Access your personal resources, know how to resolve internal and external conflicts, gain new behavior choices,and so much more.

Instructors:

Dee Kinder, Certified International NLP Trainer, Business Consultant & Coach, Owner of NLP Midwest.

Dixie Clark, Certified NLP Trainer, LMHP, co-owner of Morning Star Center.

Guest Trainer

Judith Delozier, Santa Cruz, CA, Faculty of NLP University, M.A. Anthropology and Religious Studies. Internationally renowned author and trainer, and one of the original co-developers of NLP.

Training will be held at:

NLP Midwest (on the Lake)
8416 Kauai Dr.
Papillion, NE 68046

402-597-6981.

Email: nlpsuccess@earthlink.net

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NLP Foundation Skills

Discover through NLP “how” people learn, communicate and react to situations. Focusing on the interaction between the mind and body, and how language affects behavior, NLP has the reputation for getting results faster than traditional therapies. Developed by studying the patterns of excellence in highly successful people, NLP enhances professional development and personal performance. This training emphasizes practical techniques you can use immediately to increase your effectiveness in facilitating change. This 2 day course is appropriate for anyone seeking to promote change in themselves and influencing with integrity.

Instructors: Dixie Clark and Dee Kinder

CEU’s available for LMHP professionals

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NLP – Tools for Transformation

CEU’s offered for LMHP’s

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!! 

Sunday, March 7,  2 to 4pm      $40 per couple   Please call to register 

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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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Peace through Meditation

We live in a frantic world where the focus is usually on the external. This can leave us feeling empty and wondering just what is our life all about anyway. Meditation is a simple practice to calm the mind and bring peace into the life. Anyone can meditate. Come to Morning Star and experience the peace and love that permeate the Center. Through Sue's eclectic and loving style of teaching, many have been brought to a deeper inner peace. We will focus on stilling the thoughts with different methods of breathing and visualizations.

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The Purpose of Your Life

Why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing? Is this all there is to life?

We have all asked these questions at one time or another. Until we connect with our purpose, life can often feel incomplete. A strong intention to do what you love, together with the willingness to be shown divine will – that is the foundation for a fulfilling life....writes author Carol Adrienne.

Once in a while you will meet people whose work is inspired. They exude enthusiasm and appear genuine. They express a joy that comes from deep within. When you meet such people you realize that their work is consistent with their purpose. Connecting with our purpose brings life into a fulfilling, exciting and authentic place of fulfillment for each individual.

If your life were to end tomorrow, what meaning or purpose would you give to it? What has been your guiding force?

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Prosperity in the New Year

We can often sabotage ourselves when it comes to prosperity. And that goes for money, love, happiness etc. During this class you will be given information on some of the judgments we can make about prosperity. There are also karmic patterns that can come into play. We will use different processes and guided meditations to help clear some of that.

Astrologically this is a Capricorn year and many ideas you may have held about how to utilize and increase your prosperity will be helped by this influence. If you are open to receiving and doing the work, it will be a good and prosperous year. If you continue in old patterns that don’t work, there will be some restructuring that can be a little uncomfortable. Pluto in Capricorn is about building up your personal wealth. :

• How are you handling the energy of money now?
• Until that is in place it either won’t come or it won’t stay

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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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Intro to Quantum Biofeedback

(with Sandi Herzog)

Learn firsthand about Quantum Biofeedback and what it can do for you. Experience relaxation and balance like never before!  Pay for and attend the class for $20, and receive a $20 credit on your first Biofeedback session AND receive an additional coupon for $25 off your first session and $10 off your second session.

Initial Biofeedback 90 min. session will then be $80 (reg. $125.) Second 60 min. session will be $60 (reg. $70).

QUANTUM BIOFEEDBACK
Quantum Biofeedback is state of the art relaxation, balancing and stress reduction. We usually think of stress as being emotional. However, it can be physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. If you have a sprained ankle, a virus, headaches, PMS, are experiencing menopause, fatigue, allergies, insomnia, back pain, grief, etc. those are all stresses to your system. If you are reading this you are already aware of the body mind connection, which is how this system works. It measures you on all levels - mental, emotional, physical and spiritual by measuring your reactions at double-blind biological speeds of 1/100th of a second to scan over 10,000 functions of your system.

The EPFX Biofeedback Device is connected to the client via a head strap, wrist and ankle bands. You relax while the program does the work, sending the reactions of your body back to the device. There is a constant feedback loop between you and the device to return the most beneficial energy signatures to your body, helping your body to heal itself.

Sandi Herzog is a Certified Biofeedback Specialist and a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner who has been working in alternative healing modalities for fourteen years with a background in mental health.

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Reclaiming Your Creative Spirit

Creativity and intuition are an important part of who we are as women. When we lose touch with this vital part of ourselves, life loses its joy and meaning. As we learn to use our creativity and intuition, we are able to find new solutions to everyday problems and expand our possibilities.  Many time honored techniques will be taught to help you release your creative energy and learn to trust your intuition.

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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.

Sunday, March 14, 1 to 4:30pm   $275    Please call to register

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Relationship Journey – The Art of Communication

The quality of your communication with yourself and others determines the quality of your life. We are guided in our style of communication by many factors.

The words we use arise from our preferred method of responding to the world. We all respond from our internal map of reality, not to reality as it exists.

Learn tools to ease through this journey in all of your relationships:

• From NLP you will learn preferred communication styles and patterns under stress.
• From Astrology you will learn your overall life patterns and preferences.

These combined modalities will provide you with powerful information to understand yourself and others on a deeper level.

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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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Self Healing Alternatives . . . a Free Lecture Series

There is a tremendous amount of information available on health, eating, exercise and more. It can be confusing if you haven't done extensive studying. At Morning Star, we are sensitive to your needs and have qualified people to help you understand your evolving health concerns. Education is a key factor in retaining your own power in the choices you make. To that end we are now offering a free lecture series, including guest speakers, to help inform you on a variety of topics.

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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. 

Areas covered:

• Opening to soul awareness
• Understanding the soul’s innate wisdom
• 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 afternoon a month beginning in February. Times are from 12:00-4:00.

Dates:  Feb. 20; March 27; April 17; May 15; June 26; July 24

Payment options:  1.  $450 if prepaid or,   2.  2 payments of $240 or,   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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Spiritual Crossroads – Which Path to Take?

Naturally we think of Thanksgiving during this month close to the conclusion of 2006.  How has this past year gone?  Have we been grateful for what we have received?

We have five planets in Scorpio with a Scorpio Mercury Retrograde.  Scorpio is about transformation at the deepest levels, the transformation that comes before a birth.  Some people will be having wild mood swings or become a little desperate, but all of us will be transforming.  It is your choice how this manifests.  Watch your thoughts, what are you dwelling on?

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio allows you the time to bring out those shadows that long to be healed and it also lets you clean your closets, literally and figuratively.  I always re-organize during these times, good energy for that!!

The Mayan calendar heralds November 24th as one of the strongest energy portals since 1999.  This will heighten our intuitions and probably increase the turbulence all around the world.

Scorpio is like a snake wanting to shed its skin……….are you ready to shed your skin?

Bountiful Jupiter returns to it’s natal sign of Sagittarius on Thanksgiving-abundance-expansion of wherever you are…….so be in a good place this month and delve deeply into your therapists arms for a fresh start in your life!!!!

The Taurus Full Moon on November 5th will bring a deep desire for all of us to get past our prejudices and judgments and come into tolerance and acceptance for the good of all.  This is not an easy full moon, but it can be very transformative.

There is a Scorpio New Moon on Monday, November 20th.  I find this to be so powerful that I’m holding space for 2 hours of guided meditations at the Omaha Healing Arts Center that night from 6:00-8:00 pm.

Major life changes are possible now.  Have you learned your lessons well?  This is a SPIRITUAL CROSSROADS…….you get to decide if you have been on the right path or is it time to re-think.

Understanding and forgiveness are the themes this month and no one needs that more than you do!!

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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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Take Action for Women's Rights

We all have the opportunity to support the basic human rights of women around the world. Rights that are violated not only in third world countries, but also here in this country. We all can make a difference in the lives of others. And it starts with awareness, and each of us taking one small action step. This educational gathering provides information on how Amnesty International is supporting women’s rights through various legislation and programs. You will also learn one action step that you can take to make a difference. If you’re unable to attend and are interested in this information, please call Dixie Clark at 884-0621 or email at dixie@morningstarcenter.com

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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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Theta Healing I & II

The beliefs we hold shape all areas of our lives, from our health and relationships to what we're able to manifest. If we're not getting what we want in life or keep attracting what we don't want, often times it is because of the beliefs we hold. These beliefs are often below our conscious awareness and can be difficult to change. When we enter a Theta State, meaning lowering the frequency of our brain waves, we are able to bypass the conscious mind and enter the place where healing occurs. Everyone has the ability to enter this Theta State at will in order to create more of the life they want. This workshop teaches simple, powerful methods of Theta Healing in order to release limiting beliefs in all areas and learn to use the powerful creative force within you to bring more of what you want in to your life.

Theta II clears beliefs on a genetic and past life level and teaches a process to integrate new beliefs fully into the body.

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Those Fabulous Energies of 2010 — The Yearly Astrology Workshop

This yearly workshop deals with the coming astrological influences of 2010. We will have much to let go of in 2010 to make room for bigger changes………the world will need everyone’s cooperation to hold the Light for these fabulous transformative energies. Now is not the time to fear, it is the time to know who you are and where you want to go……now is the time to reach out and help someone………now is the time to walk your talk and be the amazing force for good that is your birthright! There will be some hard challenges in 2010. During this 3 ½ hour workshop we will delve into the meaning of some of the larger transiting planets and we will meditate on what each one will mean for us individually, for our families and for our world. Sue has been leading these Astrology Workshops on the Coming Year since the early ‘80’s. Many people return each year and find the information valuable in navigating the year ahead.

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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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Transforming Karma

Our main purpose in life is to learn. How we evolve and grow is up to us. In our journey we can flow in balance or fall out of balance, thereby creating a reaction or karmic debt. For every thought, feeling, action we send out, we receive back exactly the same. This is a universal law. This is karma. This workshop helps you learn how to transform your karma by going deep inside to your Love. Learn to move toward your own perfection, releasing negative debt. See in your perfection that there is nothing to forgive…there is only “to learn from.” Come to live in mercy, grace and compassion.

Through your Love and the blessed path of wholeness is your healing of Karma.

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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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When Love Doesn't Last...Learning to Let Go

Relationships of any type have a life span– when the time “runs out”, it is time to let go. Letting go of a relationship that is over is often one of the most difficult things for us to do.

Relationships hold our hopes and dreams and often our identity. When we care about someone we are energetically connected to them and separation can feel like a death.

This workshop teaches us to honor and find meaning in our relationships. You will learn tools to let go and move on.

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Who Do You Think You Are?  Changing Beliefs...Changing Lives

Henry Ford once said, "If you believe you can or you believe you can't….you're right." What he didn't say is that many of these "I can" or "I can't" beliefs are stored in the subconscious. The conscious beliefs we're aware of are only the tip of the iceberg. Often, they can be in conflict with each other. The beliefs we hold shape our behaviors, our perceptions, our concept of who we are, and the patterns we keep repeating. When clients seek help to change behaviors, release an addiction, or let go of past trauma, there are often beliefs operating on a subconsious level that hold the current pattern in place.

This class teaches tools to help you identify the beliefs you have on both a conscious and unconscious level that are interfering with your life. Using processes from NLP, Theta Healing and Noetic Field Therapy (spiritual healing), you will learn how to release old patterns and program new beliefs that fit who you want to be at this stage in your life.

CEU’s available for LMHP professionals

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A Woman's Circle – Remembering Our Connections

This gathering is to mark the miraculous transformations of women and their life cycles. Women have gathered together for strength and the sharing of their stories from the beginning of time. We each have our own individual story and when that is shared with others in a circle a wonderful thing begins to happen…….a sense that we are connected in ways we sometimes forget. Our hearts can open with compassion as similar stories to ours come forth. There will be guided meditations with the earth and each other…………..we will share stories………..and more.

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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 Your Aura

Just like chakras, auras hold information/energy and can be used for travel.  Especially the Aura that contains your Star Tetrahedron.  In this workshop we will use guided visualizations to access the many auric layers available for each of us for greater understanding and healing.  There are seven basic 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 auras for information and deeper spiritual connections

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

Please call 884-0621 to register

Mondays, March 1 thru 22, 6 to 7:30pm 4 wks for $60*

Tuesdays, March 2 thru 23, 6 to 7:30pm 4 wks for $60*

Saturdays, Mar. 13 thru Apr. 3, 11:30am 4 wks for $60*

Off-site classes held in Council Bluffs (New Location):

Wednesdays, Mar. 17 thru Apr. 7,  3 to 4:30pm   4 wks for $65

Off-site at Workout, Inc., 75th & Pacific

Thursdays, July 2 thru 23,  6 to 7:30pm   $65 for 4 wks     

To register call Workout, Inc at 393-3077 or Sue at 884-0621)

Mondays, Mar. 29 thru Apr. 19, 6 to 7:30pm 4 wks for $60*

Tuesdays, March 2 thru 23, 6 to 7:30pm 4 wks for $60*

*Purchase a new Morning Star Yoga Card - 12 classes for $144 - $12 per class

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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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Your Seven Auras

This class is designed to teach meditation techniques that move consciousness into the seven most important auras that each individual works with on a daily basis, whether known or not. Through the information gained in this class you will discover where some of the imbalances come from in your day to day life. These can be easily corrected thru short meditations providing a sense of harmony and lightness to life. Includes a tape of the class meditations.

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