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ACCESSING YOUR INTUITION
Becoming Unbound: Sensing as a Channel to the Extraordinary
BY MICHAEL JAWER
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Wanda Lasseter Lundy
Learning At Its Best! Lasseter Lundy Institute is:
The Lasseter Lundy Institute is an educational organization that provides a full curriculum for intuitive healers to be certified as Lasseter Lundy Method practitioners and to become faculty members of Lasseter Lundy Institute. We provide learning for becoming a master of intuitive healing. The course material is unique to Lasseter Lundy Institute and provides a comprehensive education in energy healing, intuition and combining the two skill sets. You will understand how intuition and energy work, how these skills can be fully developed, and you will become more enlightened in the process.
• Harness the frequencies required for clearing • Consciously create the flows that allow for redistribution and clearing • Determine how the energy distribution has changed • Determine when balance, and not just fullness, has been achieved Time: 12:00 pm–6:00 pm (Both Days) Tuition: $350 if paid by September 16, 2021: $380 if paid later To Register: call Wanda at 812-705-5135 or email Katie at katielynn3492@gmail.com December 4 & 5 - Intuition & Energy Part 2 This class builds on the base course on energy Energy Structure and Mechanics (Parts 1 and 2) by explaining how intuition works as a function of energy and how to become competent in the use of intuition. Learning includes: • The energy of intuition and how it works • The energy structure and flows involved in using intuition • How the body reacts to vibration & the resulting transfer to the psychic senses • Using intuition to sense and interpret energy as information • The brain and reading energy • Forms of intuition • How to use intuition on demand • Skill building exercises Time: 12:00 pm–6:00 pm (Both Days) Tuition: $350 if paid by November 15, 2021: $380 if paid late To Register: call Wanda at (812)-705-5135 or email Katie at katielynn3492@gmail.com Future Classes: Y February 19, 2022 – Becoming A Healer: Clearing Energy (Level 1) Y March 19 & 20, 2022 – Working With Angels, Guides, and Masters (Level 2)
Upcoming 2021 Courses: Level 1 Becoming a Healer: Energy Issues – September 18 This class provides an explanation of how energy congests in a person, causing energy blockages. You will learn about the thought forms and emotional patterns that cause energy congestions, how congestion harms the body and how to detect energy problems in the body and aura. Date: Saturday, September 18 Time: 12:00 pm–5:30 pm EST Tuition: $140.00 if paid by August 13, $170.00 after. Registration: Call Wanda at 812-705-5135 or email Katie at Katielynn3492@gmail.com Becoming a Healer: Energy Flows – November 20 This class explains the use of flowing energy as the essential healing tool. Energy flow is the primary method for decongesting a client’s energy. Learn how to create a flow of energy from outside the body to inside the body and how to redistribute energy from one place to another within the body. Experience how energy flows and what it does as it flows. Date: Saturday, November 20 Time: 12:00 pm–5:30 pm EST Tuition: $140.00 if paid by October 15, $170.00 after. Registration: Call Wanda at 812-705-5135 or email Katie at Katielynn3492@gmail.com Upcoming 2021 Courses: Level 2 October 16 & 17 – Energy Redistribution, Clearing, & Balancing This class is about achieving the frequencies and flows necessary to clear someone’s energy, including your own. You will learn to: • Connect to the levels of consciousness • Assess the healing needs
For more information and to see more on our upcoming classes, Please visit our Website and Facebook Page: Website: https://lasseterlundy.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lasseter-Lundy-Institute-115595590132572/
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HERB CORNER
What I Learned In My Year As A Budtender
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ferent strains and end up changing the way they use cannabis. The same people who were initially just trying to get as high as possible are now asking for strains that aid with pain, focus, anxiety, insomnia RUZKDWHYHUVSHFL¿FUHOLHIWKH\UHTXLUH Like me, for example. I will declare, unashamed, I love smoking ZHHG,WKLQNLWLVVXSHUIXQIRUODFNRIDEHWWHUZRUGDQG¿QGWUXH enjoyment in both the selection and consumption process. I also use it to treat OCD, anxiety and the chronic inability to focus or relax— things I have struggled with my entire life — and found relief from in cannabis. I'm someone whose cannabis use falls in both the recre- ational and medicinal categories. $QGWKHPHGLFDODSSOLFDWLRQVRIFDQQDELVDUHWUXO\GL̇FXOWWRXQ - derstate. At the risk of sounding incredibly corny, cannabis really is a miracle drug. I served countless patients who were using cannabis DVDQDOWHUQDWLYHWRRSLRLGVIRUZKDWHYHUVXUJHU\LQMXU\FKURQLFSDLQ they struggled with. One of my patients had a severe spine condition and transitioned from a ridiculously high daily dose of oxycodone to exclusively cannabis, which provided the same pain relief without the groggy, disorienting, and potentially addictive properties of opioids.
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The Changing Face of Yoga: The Practice of Self-Inquiry BY CLAUDIA NEUMAN YOGA TODAY
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EDUCATION NEWS
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