term 4 2012

summer school, term 1, term 2, term 3

available this term online:
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astrology 1, astrology 2, astrology 3, astrology 4, medical astrology 1


Astrology 4

Date/s: Mon evenings, 29 Oct, 19, 26 Nov, 3 Dec plus Sun 15 Nov Time/s: evenings 6.15pm to 8.45pm, Sun 9.00am to 5.00pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 4 evenings and 1 day
Pre requisites: Astrology 3 or equivalent Facilitator/s: Damian Rocks
Cost: $315

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.

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Astrology master class

Date/s: tba Time/s:
Location: Awareness Institute Duration:
Pre requisites: some astrology experience Facilitator/s: Damian Rocks
Cost: $50

Astrology master class

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Astrology professional practice

Date/s: Mon 22 Oct Time/s: 6.15pm to 8.45pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 1 evening
Pre requisites: Astrology 4 Facilitator/s: Damian Rocks
Cost: $50

We will finish our program with a practical and detailed workshop outlining professional practice issues for those students wishing to pursue professional astrology. Topics covered include- establishing and maintaining a practice, sun-sign astrology, client referral, income streams, small business management, and public liability. This module brings together the Diploma program and prepares the student to commence work as a professional astrologer.

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astrology student clinic

Date/s: tba Time/s:
Location: Awareness Institute Duration:
Pre requisites: all Dip subjects Facilitator/s: Damian Rocks
Cost: $

Astrology Student Clinic

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Diploma of Energetic Healing (year 1)

Date/s: various Time/s: various
Location: Awareness Institute and Retreat Centre Duration: term 4
Pre requisites: see individual subject listings Facilitator/s: various
Cost: $1,840

Intuitive Awareness 4 – 3 days
Transformative Meditation 4 – 5 evenings or afternoons plus retreat
Healing Essences – 8 weekly evening plus 1 day
Monthly Energetic Healing Practical (monthly) – 3 evenings

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

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energetic healing practical (year 1)

Date/s: 18 Oct, 22 Nov, 6 Dec Time/s: 6.15pm to 8.45pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 1 evening per month
Pre requisites: enrolment in Dip Energetic Healing Facilitator/s: Linda James
Cost: $150

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.

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Gluten, Dairy and Sugar Free Cooking

Date/s: Sun 4 Nov Time/s: 9.00am to 1.00pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: half day
Pre requisites: none Facilitator/s: Jacqui Bushell
Cost: $70 includes $15 for a lovely gluten free lunch

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’ .

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healing essences

Date/s: Starts Wed 10 Oct (break 14 Nov) plus Sun 4 Nov Time/s: evenings 6.15pm to 8.15pm, Sun 9.00am to 4.00pm
Location: Awareness Institute, Sun offsite Duration: 8 evenings, plus 1 day
Pre requisites: none Facilitator/s: Jacqui Bushell
Cost: $440

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.

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Intuitive Awareness 4 – life purpose and manifestation

Date/s: Sun 14 Oct, 11 Nov, 2 Dec Time/s: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 3 Sundays
Pre requisites: Intuitive Awareness 1 Facilitator/s: Linda James
Cost: $460

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.

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Kitchen Herbs and Foods for Healing

Date/s: Sun 4 Nov Time/s: 2.00pm to 5.00pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: half day
Pre requisites: none Facilitator/s: Jacqui Bushell
Cost: $45

“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.

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learn to meditate

Date/s: Mon 19 Nov Time/s: 6.15pm to 8.45pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 1 evening
Pre requisites: none Facilitator/s: Louise Gilmore
Cost: $50

For those new to meditation or with limited experience, we offer practical Learn To Meditate evenings once each term that explore what meditation is and how to start a regular practice.

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natural skin care – lotions, potions and creams

Date/s: Sat 17 Nov Time/s: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 1 day
Pre requisites: none Facilitator/s: Jacqui Bushell
Cost: $175 incl product samples

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.

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Polarity Therapy 1

Date/s: tba Time/s: 6.15pm to 8.45pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 8 evenings
Pre requisites: none Facilitator/s: Nancy Willis
Cost: $390

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.

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psychic development 2 (day class)

Date/s: starts Wed 10 Oct (break 14 Nov) Time/s: 10.00am to 12.30pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 8 mornings
Pre requisites: psychic development 1 Facilitator/s: Linda James
Cost: $385

Part 2 builds on part 1 with practical exercises and supports you to use your psychic or intuitive skills more productively in everyday life.  It can also take you to the next level where you confidently employ your skills on a professional basis.

The course is run in a small supportive and fun group environment with plenty of opportunity to practice.  In addition, you can join the monthly psychic development circle which provides more opportunity to practice and to learn additional skills.

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psychic development 2 (evening class)

Date/s: starts Mon 8 Oct (break 12 Nov) Time/s: 6.15pm to 8.45pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 8 evenings
Pre requisites: psychic development 1 Facilitator/s: Linda James
Cost: $385

Part 2 builds on part 1 with practical exercises and supports you to use your psychic or intuitive skills more productively in everyday life.  It can also take you to the next level where you confidently employ your skills on a professional basis.

The course is run in a small supportive and fun group environment with plenty of opportunity to practice.  In addition, you can join the monthly psychic development circle which provides more opportunity to practice and to learn additional skills.

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Reiki Circle

Date/s: Sat 24 Nov Time/s: 2.15pm to 5.15pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 1 afternoon
Pre requisites: reiki 1 Facilitator/s: Jacqui Bushell
Cost: $45

Come along to our once a term 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.

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reiki 2

Date/s: Sat 27 & Sun 28 Oct Time/s: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 2 days
Pre requisites: reiki 1 Facilitator/s: Jacqui Bushell
Cost: $320

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.

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Shamanic Healing Journey

Date/s: Wed 10, 24, 31 Oct, 7, 14, 28 Nov Time/s: 6.15pm to 8.45pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 6 weekly evenings
Pre requisites: none Facilitator/s: Louise Gilmore
Cost: $320

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.

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Shamanic Magic and Ritual

Date/s: Sun 18 Nov Time/s: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 1 day
Pre requisites: none Facilitator/s: Louise Gilmore
Cost: $160

Shamans are spirit workers who weave a soul path into health, wellbeing, joy, passion and intimacy with themselves, in relationships and with all of life.  In this workshop we will complete the Certificate program by creating and working with some powerful shamanic tools. Through them, we will rediscover the magic of ancient technologies and rituals for healing, empowerment and guidance on our life’s journey.

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summer solstice meditation and ritual

Date/s: Wed 12 Dec Time/s: 5.30pm to 8.30pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 1 evening
Pre requisites: none Facilitator/s: Jacqui Bushell
Cost: $25

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.

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Transformative Meditation 4 – The Path of the Teacher (evening)

Date/s: Mon evenings 8, 15, 22 Oct, 5, 12 Nov. Retreat 26 to 28 Oct Time/s: Mon evenings 6.15pm to 8.45pm, Retreat Fri 5.00pm to Sun 4.00pm
Location: Awareness Institute and Retreat Centre Duration: 5 evenings plus retreat
Pre requisites: Transformative Meditation 3 Facilitator/s: Louise Gilmore
Cost: $790

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.

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transformative meditation 4 – the path of the teacher (day)

Date/s: Mon afternoons 8, 15, 22 Oct, 5, 12 Nov. Retreat 26 to 28 Oct Time/s: Mon 12.00pm to 2.30pm, Retreat Fri 5.00pm to Sun 4.00pm
Location: Awareness Institute, Sun offsite Duration: 5 afternoons plus retreat
Pre requisites: Transformative Mediation 3 Facilitator/s: Louise Gilmore
Cost: $790

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.

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pay 50% deposit

Whole Chart Synthesis

Date/s: Sat 13 Oct Time/s: 10.00am to 5.00pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 1 day
Pre requisites: Astrology 2 or equivalent Facilitator/s: Damian Rocks
Cost: $160

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.

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women’s wisdom (evening class)

Date/s: Tues 16, 23, 30 Oct, 6,  20, 27 Nov Time/s: 6.15pm to 8.45pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 6 evenings
Pre requisites: none Facilitator/s: Jacqui Bushell
Cost: $320

This course is for women wanting to participate in a dynamic group experience. It is for those with a keen interest in personal growth and transformation and a desire to reawaken our inner wisdom, courage, passion and purpose through an experience of the sacred and divine within ourselves and the world.

Creating sacred space together we journey on all levels to reconnect with our source as women; learning through guided meditations, psycho-spiritual work, shamanism, the healing power of ceremony, art, tarot, lecture, film, discussions, humour and playfulness.

term 4: water
The chalice of the soul. Blessing the waters. Scrying. The transformations of water. Allowing flow. The myth of the selkie; finding our seal skin/soul skin. Connecting with the goddesses of water: Mami wata, Oshun, Yemaya. Living water.

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women’s wisdom (day class)

Date/s: Starts Tues 9 Oct Time/s: 10.00am to 1.00pm
Location: Awareness Institute Duration: 5 mornings
Pre requisites: none Facilitator/s: Jacqui Bushell
Cost: $320

This course is for women wanting to participate in a dynamic group experience. It is for those with a keen interest in personal growth and transformation and a desire to reawaken our inner wisdom, courage, passion and purpose through an experience of the sacred and divine within ourselves and the world.

Creating sacred space together we journey on all levels to reconnect with our source as women; learning through guided meditations, psycho-spiritual work, shamanism, the healing power of ceremony, art, tarot, lecture, film, discussions, humour and playfulness.

term 4: water
The chalice of the soul. Blessing the waters. Scrying. The transformations of water. Allowing flow. The myth of the selkie; finding our seal skin/soul skin. Connecting with the goddesses of water: Mami wata, Oshun, Yemaya. Living water.

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