Spring Intensive Feedback
The teachings by John in his May Intensive were (and are) transformational. I had tears of joy streaming down my face as I drove back to Cincinnati and started to comprehend the significance of the deeper work and connection with my soul and oversoul. I will never forget the picture of the row of piano keys my soul showed me during one of the meditations. Life definitely has its highs and lows, and the techniques I learned in this workshop will help me to "play" in harmony. I had no idea my soul could be this much fun to hang out with! (Bad English, but I couldn't find a better way to say it.) I love decoding messages from the pictures, words and synchronicities I receive from "ebony and ivory". This Intensive helped me to discover the "key" piece of the puzzle missing from my life.
-Debi Cain |
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Hello. I'm DaniLynn from Columbus, Ohio.
I have been earnestly striving to incorporate the techniques of Basic Psychic Development into my life since 1999. Through much ego struggle and emotional turmoil, personal internal wins and losses, I have strived to be "in current time" and utilize the "tools" this system teaches for situation after situation in my life. In so doing, I feel I have personally failed myself terribly and succeeded beyond measure, all while learning a great deal. Thank goodness we often seem to get an opportunity to do better.
Each life situation offers yet another opportunity to learn and grow, gain, let go and move on. Recognizing these opportunities to heal ourselves and grow is a key factor. I truly believe that by holding myself accountable, with a measure of compassion which has been learned over time, that my core essence has truly changed for the better. The changes are from miniscule to gigantic in nature. I've learned that reality as I thought I understood it from the mass amount of filters we live within is often completely different when we are able to neutralize the "mind chatter" and "instinctual emotional reactions" to view the situation from a new, albeit neutral (often considered safer), perspective.
By utilizing the tools taught in this system while continuing to build friendships with people who seek to better themselves as individuals as I do, I have changed my life significantly for the better. If you are not currently a student of guided meditation I invite to you wade in and give it a try. This process truly deserves consideration.
Blessings. D |
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Karen DiTrapani
Shamanic Healer, Coach, Psychic
Karen brings to her practice decades of study, experience and seasoned insight as a shamanic healer/coach, intuitive psychic and organic herbalist. Karen makes real for her clients the potent healing methods of shamanic "soul retrievals" and psychic awareness modalities. She has spent many years studying and working with natural healing methods and shamanic journeying techniques, including extensive mentoring by some of the most highly esteemed metaphysical masters in the country. She completed shamanic and psychic apprenticeship programs in Arizona and New Mexico, and herbal apprenticeships in the North and Southwest.
Karen's role is to assist individuals in their journey to realize their own potential for self acceptance and healing on the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual levels. She works with all walks of life in all stages of development.
After traveling and fine-tuning her skills across the country, upon her return to New England, she has performed readings and healings regionally, taught classes in psychic development on Cape Cod, at Pathway to Healing & Tranquil Minds and among various other outlets along the South Shore of Boston. Currently, she maintains a Healing and Shamanic Coaching Practice, known as Sapientia Rosa (the wisdom of the rose) in Easton, Massachusetts. |
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Call for Contributors!
We welcome you to share your experiences with your fellow seekers through this publication. The Grounding Cord is not only a vehicle to communicate about scheduled classes, it is a way to share and foster this amazing community and our wealth of talents and ideas. It is a reminder of our gifts and challenges.
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Southeast Michigan Schedule
Mark Your Calendars!
Meditation Practice (Level I & II) is held the second Tuesday of every month. Reading Practice (Level III) and Channelling Practice (Level IV) alternate months, and are held the fourth Wednesday of every month at Genesis of Ann Arbor (2309 Packard, Ann Arbor, MI 48104).
6/23 - 6/24 New Students:This is for YOU
Foundations in Psychic Development I
with Violeta Viviano
Gretchen's House (2625 Traver Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105)
Saturday 9 a.m. - 6 p.m./ Sunday 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
$175 with $50 deposit
If you have taken level 1 with John Friedlander, you can repeat with Violeta for 1/2 price - $87.50 with $30 deposit
6/27
Level III or IV Practice
Details above
$10
7/10
Level I Practice
Details above
Please mark your calendars!
$10
7/14 - 7/15
Health and Happiness NEW
with John Friedlander
Ann Arbor Area, Mich.
Contact Rose at rose_m_48105@yahoo.com to R.S.V.P.
$175 with a $50 deposit mailed by June 30 to John Friedlander at John Friedlander, 7026 Suncrest, Saline, MI 48176.
PLEASE RSVP if you are interested in HEALTH AND HAPPINESS |
| Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky Schedule
6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25
Meditation and the Chakras (Level 1)
with JoAnn Wess
Burlington, Ky.
Mondays, 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Tuition negotiable
For information or to register call Boone County Parks, 859-334-2117
or JoAnn Wess 859-586-5982
7/21 - 7/22
Health and Happiness NEW
with John Friedlander
Location: Dez's home in Kennedy Heights (Directions will be sent with registration)
Early registration: $175 with a $75 deposit postmarked by June 23, 2007
Regular registration: $195 after June 23, 2007
To register, please send to, and make your check out to Gloria Hemsher, 6134 Cherokee Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45243. (513) 561-2113 |
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Minnesota Schedule
6/30 - 7/1
Foundations in Psychic Development IV: Channelling
with John Friedlander
Bloomington, Minn.
Friday 7 p.m. - 9 p.m./ Saturday 11 a.m. - 7 p.m./ Sunday 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Contact Russ Smiley at russell.smiley@normandale.edu or call C or Russ at (952) 897 1847.
Payment using Visa or MC is available through PayPal. Call for instructions.
$220 regular registration / $200 early registration with $50 deposit postmarked by June 11. $50 deposit is non-refundable.
September 14, 15, & 16, 2007
Health and Happiness NEW
with John Friedlander
Bloomington, Minn. |
Foundations in Psychic Development I: Boundaries and Flow
Learning how to be aware of, and how to transform our aura transforms our love and life experiences. In this seminar, every exercise furthers the development of at least one of the two basic abilities: finding one's own psychic energy (one's own authentic impulses); and clearing blocks to progress. Students learn how to ground and run energy, how to clear blocks, how to find, clear, and repair the chakras, and how to explore deeply the entire volume and frequency range of the aura (called the layers of the aura).
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Foundations in Psychic Development II:
Space, Seniority, Neutrality and Spiritual Fuel
In this two-day workshop, we will develop a deep understanding of how we use our own aura space to create our reality. We begin with psychic explorations that familiarize us with our space, and how we subdivide it through resistance to others. We can then learn to create our aura space through awareness rather than resistance. In the resulting neutrality, we become able to create our reality less and less through resistance to another, and more and more from our own spiritual fuel.
Prerequisite: Level I |
Foundations in Psychic Development III: Seeing Auras
In this two-day workshop we will explore the psychic anatomy of clairvoyance, or seeing auras; how to activate and empower this perception; and several ways to use this ability in making decisions, in healing oneself and others, and in deepening one's understanding of oneself and others. We will then move to actually doing comprehensive, systematic psychic readings in partnership with fellow students. Participants usually find they can easily increase their ability to perceive genuinely useful aura energies in just this one weekend, and that they are well started on the adventure of a lifetime.
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Foundations in Psychic Development IV: Channeling
Learn the clairvoyant mechanics of skillful channeling -- how to prepare your space for channeling by running an ever clearer white light vibration while still owning and governing who and what occupies your space. This requires clearing psychic agreements, karma, and thought forms that distort both ordinary awareness and channeling.
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 Health and Happiness: Completely New, Connect with Your Body!
"Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood," said baseball great, Satchel Paige. This amazing athlete was so in touch with his body that he could actually sense the health, or lack of health, of his blood stream. We also can begin tracking aspects of our body not normally available to conscious awareness such as: where in our body do we have imbalances of heat, cold, damp, etc. as spoken of in Chinese medicine; where is a there a blood vessel that could use a healing; or what "hormones" can we mentally increase or decrease for better health or mood, and how we can, in fact, influence their flow and amount.
Developing such an awareness allows us to heal ourselves and others more effectively. Great healings can be done without this kind of physical awareness by using energies of higher planes, and in other seminars we study how to access and use those higher plane energies. However, something unique and richly meaningful is added when we stretch our awareness and gain that intimacy and direct experience of the body in its own realm.
As part of this overall exploration of the body in its natural realm, we will explore how different emotional states like sadness, hunger, joy and happiness arise in the brain and body, and begin to explore how we can alter these states, to some extent, intentionally. One benefit of developing such an awareness is that we become less rigid in responding to emotional states, we become more creative, appreciative and playful with our emotions.
This seminar will allow you to begin to develop a skill set over time to connect with and benefit your body in ever deeper, more meaningful and more joyful ways.
Prerequisite: Level I |
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