term 4 2011

Our second course introduces you to the stage (the houses) and backdrop (the signs) of the birth chart, against which our planetary characters appear. The chart can be likened to a circular theater, with the planets interacting upon it to evoke the drama of our own individual lives. We will look at the nature our solar system, and how our relationship to the cosmos can be mapped back down to us here on earth through the horoscope. We will learn about the houses of the chart, and how they describe all aspects of everyday life. We will be introduced to the basic building blocks of astrology, including polarity, mode and element. Then we will explore the Zodiac signs and the Ascendant to discover which areas of life they influence, and so come to an awareness of why we act the way that we do in certain situations.

Astrology 3 – e learning

The final major piece of information is put in place with the theory of aspects. We will learn how planetary characters interact through aspects, and so create the unique dialogue of the individual chart. Essential skills in chart interpretation are developed through chart shapes and aspect patterns. You will learn how the planets communicate with each other through dignity and aspects, enabling you to understand how the birth chart describes unique personality patterns and karmic challenges. We will explore how planetary relationships describe psycho-emotional themes. Time is allocated in class to support students develop comprehensive chart synthesis skills.

Astrology 4 – e learning

Astrology 4 introduces the dynamic nature of astrology, and its’ predictive cycles. The theories of transits and progressions are explained, and the skills already developed in chart synthesis are developed and refined. We’ll look both into the past and into the future to help understand how each planet affects the individual journey. We will also define the 8 lunar phases, summarizing their importance in describing the pulse of the birth chart. This leads us to explore the progressed Lunation Cycle, a fundamental component of predictive astrology. By the end of this term you will be ready to experiment with predictive cycles in your own chart, and understand how chart themes develop and grow over time.

Astrology 4

Astrology 4 introduces the dynamic nature of astrology, and its’ predictive cycles. The theories of transits and progressions are explained, and the skills already developed in chart synthesis are developed and refined. We’ll look both into the past and into the future to help understand how each planet affects the individual journey. We will also define the 8 lunar phases, summarizing their importance in describing the pulse of the birth chart. This leads us to explore the progressed Lunation Cycle, a fundamental component of predictive astrology. By the end of this term you will be ready to experiment with predictive cycles in your own chart, and understand how chart themes develop and grow over time.

Diploma of Energetic Healing (year 1)

Intuitive Awareness 4 - Dates: Sun 16 Oct, 20 Nov, 4 Dec Times: 9.00am to 5.00pm Cost: $460

Transformative Meditation 4 - Dates: Mon evenings 10, 17, 24 Oct, 1, 7, 14 Nov. Retreat 28 – 30 Oct Times: Mon evenings 6.15pm to 8.45pm, Retreat Fri 11am to Sun 3pm Cost: $790

Vibrational Remedies - Dates: Starts Wed 12 Oct (break 16 Nov), Sun 23 Oct.Times: Evenings 6.15pm to 8.15pm, Sun 9am to 4pm Cost: $440

Monthly Energetic Healing Group: Dates: 5 Oct, 16 Nov, 5 Dec Times: 6.15pm to 8.45pm Cost: $150

(Plus 1 mentoring session per term paid at time of session Cost: $88)

Energetic Healing Group (year 1)

In this group students practice their skills being developed throughout the training. The skills learnt in each subject are practiced with each other under supervision. There is also the opportunity to explore relevant themes and issues emerging from the experiences of the course.

Gluten, Dairy and Sugar Free Cooking

Naturally Delicious!

Do you have food allergies and need to change your diet? Are you overwhelmed and wondering what’s left that you CAN eat? Learn how to combine healthy eating, elimination diets and fabulous food. This workshop will detail which foods are suitable and how to read food labels for hidden ingredients. Discover an enormous range of foods that you can prepare simply and deliciously. Learn to easily make tasty gluten free bread, cakes that don’t crumble, biscuits, desserts and main meals.

Having a nutritionally balanced diet and eating well for sensitive digestions can be simple, tasty and easily accessible. This is a very practical and interactive workshop where the preparation of many foods are demonstrated, then tasted. Bring your appetite! Lunch and snacks are provided.

Jacqui Bushell is a Naturopath and author of ‘A Loving Spoonful Cookbook’ .

Intuitive Awareness 4 – Co creating your Future

In this term students will learn to apply the laws of attraction to bring success and happiness into the here and now. Awareness work will extend to assessing and releasing non productive energetic attachments, and support will be provided to enhance intuitive insight, address limiting beliefs and challenge old values. There is the opportunity to refine meaning associated with significant life events, and participate in the use of ritual/ceremonies for rites of passage, including celebration.

Kitchen Herbs and Foods for Healing

“Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food”. Hippocrates

Your kitchen and your garden can be a pharmacy. Simple foods and common herbs are a rich source of potent medicines, wonderful for promoting health and healing for all sorts of ailments from colds and flu, candida, stress, digestive problems, urinary tract infections, insomnia, cuts, bruises, rashes and itchy bits. Come along to this very practical workshop with Naturopath Jacqui Bushell to find out how to turn your kitchen into a place of healing and nourishment! In this very practical workshop many commonly grown ‘back yard’ herbs will be brought in for clear identification and how to make them into medicines such as tinctures and ointments.

“Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food”. Hippocrates

Your kitchen and your garden can be a pharmacy. Simple foods and common herbs are a rich source of potent medicines, wonderful for promoting health and healing for all sorts of ailments from colds and flu, candida, stress, digestive problems, urinary tract infections, insomnia, cuts, bruises, rashes and itchy bits. Come along to this very practical workshop with Naturopath Jacqui Bushell to find out how to turn your kitchen into a place of healing and nourishment! In this very practical workshop many commonly grown ‘back yard’ herbs will be brought in for clear identification and how to make them into medicines such as tinctures and ointments.

Meditation on all 5 Elements Workshop

Pre-Christmas Polish up – all five elements in one intensive workshop

Prepare yourself to approach the festive season with clarity and balance. Explore powerful practices to purify and balance Earth, Water, Fire and Air and lead you into the fifth element – Ether, also known as Akasha. This can take the form of a sea of blue-white light, where present, past and future are recorded and is the home of the ‘sweet inner sensation of subtle sound’.

Natural Creams, Lotions and Potions- natural skin care

Learn to make your own natural beauty products for professional or home use. Fresh fruit, grains, spices, lush nut butters and oils can all be made into uniquely nourishing, gorgeous smelling, chemical free skin care. Work with a wide range of organic botanical ingredients including aromatherapy oils and essences, learn about their properties, combinations for different skin types and where to source them.

From the basic elements you will learn to make your own creams, ointments, balms, gels, face masks, exfoliants, body scrubs, massage oils, facial oils, with natural preservatives. Make your own fantastic, cost effective Christmas gifts for your friends and family and yourself of course!

You will need to bring:

some jars to take product home.

pen and notepad

Wear comfortable clothes that you don’t mind getting messy. This is a very hands on experiential fun day.

Polarity Therapy 1

Polarity Therapy is an integrative non-invasive Holistic Healing System that affects Body, Mind and Spirit through the 5 elements of Ayurvedic Traditional Medicine Ehter/Air/Fire/Water/Earth.

Dr Randolf Stone developed Polarity Therapy during 60 years of study which included Naturopathy, Reflexology, Osteropathy and ancient knowledge of the role that energy medicine plays in health and healing. This complementary therapy uses hands on healing techniques.

On a physical level polarity therapy can increase a client’s physical energy, relieve fatigue, stress, relax muscular tension, balance the metabolic and nervous system whilst releasing deeply held emotional patterns. This complementary therapy is also ideal to enhance the results of other therapies or modalities currently used by energy and natural therapy practitioners.

Psychic Development (day class)

This course is for anyone who has wanted to learn how to develop their psychic abilities or to enhance their current psychic skills. You may be thinking of using your natural psychic ability to enhance your personal and/or work life by becoming more intuitive or to develop offer people readings. We all have the natural ability of psychic awareness, it is just that for most people it is a skill that has been forgotten or perhaps a bit neglected.

The course is offered in a small supportive and fun group environment with plenty of opportunity to practice.

Reiki Circle

Come along to our new Reiki circle, facilitated by the lovely Jacqui Bushell. Book early as this class fills up fast!

For anyone who’s completed Reiki I, II or Master, this afternoon is a fantastic refresher opportunity to practice your Reiki and glean guidance if it’s been a while since you’ve practice.

Reiki 1

Do you wish to experience more joy, love and compassion? The healing art of Reiki teaches us to work in balance and harmony with the Universal Life force, allowing energy to flow through us and be of benefit unconditionally to self, others, animals and our environment. Reiki is much more than a therapeutic tool, it is a path of self empowerment, a spiritual journey inviting us to be deeply centred in the heart. Practicing Reiki we develop greater connection with our true nature. As you radiate love and joy, it allows others to connect with their own love, joy and healing.

In this six-week course we use the time-honoured technique of Shamanic Journeying to access sacred healing realms. From the shamanic or indigenous perspective, most forms of sickness in our ordinary lives, have a basic spiritual cause. Healing of the spirit can lead to dramatic improvement in body, mind and emotions. Shamanic or soul journeys offer ancient techniques to to access information, guidance, support and healing. Through this course, we learn to bring these gifts back to help us manage our health in a more intuitively skilful way.

summer solstice guided meditation and ritual

Summer Solstice celebrates the fullness of summer and the peak of the wheel of the year. The seed of promise that was planted at Winter Solstice now reaces fulfilment. Meditation and ritual allow us to feel the movement and heartbeat of the earth and connect with the radiance of the light and our own divine brillance. By allowing this love and abundance to be an overflowing chalice, we offer a gift, a blessing and hope for the earth and all beings.

Together let’s celebrate our creativity and its source in the deep rythyms of the breath of the cosmos. May we live passionately, vibrantly and in beauty.

Bring something to share for a light meal afterwards and  a small gift.

Transformative Meditation 4 – The Path of the Teacher

Be a leader in this great leap of consciousness. The Path of the Teacher trains you to ethically and safely lead groups in the development of transcendent consciousness through meditation. It also equips you with powerful techniques to hold a ‘soul space’ for your students/clients and for yourself as your teaching role blossoms into your own spiritual path.

Vibrational Remedies

Vibrational remedies are transformational tools of consciousness made from the immersion of a flower, gem or other object in water and left to infuse in sunlight. The resultant water contains an imprint of the flower or gem. Essences interact with our subtle bodies triggering resonance through all aspects of our being. They encourage the awakening of our dormant qualities, inspiring transformation and alleviating our fears and limited perceptions. Essences invite opportunities for profound healing and change at all levels. In this course you will explore making, prescribing and communicating with essences. There is a strong focus on practical experience, personal empowerment and awakening to nature.

Whole Chart Synthesis Tutorial

The art of astrology lies in the ability to synthesize potentially disparate pieces of information. A good astrologer learns to combine intuition with empirical data to produce satisfactory results. In this workshop, we will explore how planets, signs, houses and aspects come together in the whole chart. We will explore how dominant chart patterns allow us to create a psychological portrait that powerfully describes the psycho-emotional themes running through an individual’s life. This is a practical workshop, with an emphasis on real-life examples. You will practice applying the tools and techniques needed to interpret the chart as a whole. This workshop prepares the student to undertake the FAA chart interpretation exam.