Annual Immersion

Sacred Centers Immersion weeks are annual retreats for diving deeper into the advanced curriculum. Designed primarily for students working towards Certification as teachers, healers and coaches, these retreats offer several specialized courses in one week, in which students can deepen their learning on a more personal level. Throughout the week students come together each morning for yoga taught by students in the teacher track, and in the evenings for community events, entertainment, and special presentations, as well as sharing each meal. Some classes happen simultaneously, as students enter smaller workshops designed for their special track. What is most special is that the Sacred Centers community of co-hearts flourishes throughout the week, for a memorable experience of love, light, and transformation.

Sacred Centers Annual Immersion 2010 is happening on the East Coast this year. With amazingly little effort we have found an ideal location, the Elkins Estate. 10 miles from Philadelphia and a 30 minute train ride from the airport; Elkins Estate is strikingly beautiful, serene, very affordable and meets all of our space needs. Check it out at Elkins Estate.

So…fellow co-hearts, mark your calendars for next September 17-26. We hope to create a truly unique event over the next months, so keep checking back so you hear of our evolving plans.

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NOTE: Some of the classes require pre-requisites – and you will need to follow the Apply Now link to apply. It is a short survey so we can determine your level of expertise and get to know you better. If you are ONLY taking Sacred Leadership or Energy Awareness I (no pre-requisites) you can register by clicking on either one of those workshop links below.

Question? Contact Shanon – Office Manager.

Immersion Schedule at a Glance

Here are the courses we are offering this year, during the week of September 17-26. Please note that some workshops happen simultaneously.

Class dates/Times: Fri, 9/17 Global Heart Conference begins

• Waking the Global Heart Conference: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love. Several workshops featuring: Anodea Judith, Selene Vega, Lion Goodman, Lynne Michelson, & Maria J Garcia. Explore the Global Heart Conference Workshops

Class dates/Times: Sat, 9/18 10:00 am – Sun, 9/19 6:00 pm

• Energy Awareness I (Glenn Hartelius) 14 class hours
  Course Fee: $315

• Sacred Leadership (Lynne Michelson & Bill Kegg) 12 class hours
  Course Fee: $275

Class Dates/Times: Mon, 9/20 10:00 am – Thurs, Sept 23 1:00pm

• 302: Chakra Therapy (with Anodea Judith) 21 class hours
  Course Fee: $475

• Intro to Sacred Centers Coaching: Chakra Coaching (w/ Lion Goodman & Lynne Michelson) 21 class hours
  Course Fee: $475

• 202: Guiding the Journey (with Selene Vega) 21 class hours
  Course Fee: $475

Class dates/times: Thurs, 9/23 3:00 pm – Sun, 9/26 4:00 pm

• Chakrassage – Body Fusion (with Jason Auer-Sears) 21 class hours
  Course Fee: $475

• 201: Advanced Chakra Yoga (with Anodea Judith) 21 class hours
  Course Fee: $425

• Advanced Energy Awareness (Glenn Hartelius) 21 Class hours
  Course Fee: $475

Daily Schedule

8-9 am – Yoga
9-10 am – Breakfast
10-1 pm – Morning session
3-6 pm – Evening session
6-7 pm – Dinner
7:30 – 9:00 – Evening programs

Food & Lodging

Pricing includes 3 gourmet vegetarian meals:

• Double Occupancy (Large room with private bath): $95 per day
• Single Occupancy: $155 per day
• Commute fee plus meals: $45 per day

We will calculate your costs according to the workshop(s) chosen and the number of nights lodging at your preference level. After you fill out the application form, we will send you a notice of acceptance and a rendering of your total cost. However you can estimate your costs based on the lodging prices below and the workshop fees listed next to each workshop. Meals are based on arrival and departure time at Elkins Estate.

Cancellation Policy

We schedule classes, purchase plane tickets, and reserve classroom space based on numbers of registered participants. Cancellations can be problematic, so please keep your commitment if at all possible and read our cancellation policy carefully. Thank you for understanding.

• Cancellation before August 10: full refund minus a $75 administration fee.
• Cancellation before September 10: 50% refund of total program cost.
• Cancellation after September 10: NO refund.

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Immersion Facilitators

Dr. Anodea Judith

Anodea Judith, Ph.D. is the founder and director of Sacred Centers, and a groundbreaking thinker, writer, and spiritual teacher. Her passion for the realization of untapped human potential matches her concern for humanity’s impending crises — her fervent wish is that we “wake up in time.” She holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Psychology and Human Health, is a 500 hour registered yoga teacher, with lifelong studies of healing, mythology, history, sociology, systems theory, and mystic spirituality. She is considered one of the country’s foremost experts on the combination of chakras and therapeutic issues and on the interpretation of the Chakra System for the Western lifestyle. She teaches across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Central America.

She is best known for the chakra classic, Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System, (Llewellyn, 1987, revised 1999), an illustrated 435 page manual that has come to be considered the definitive work on the subject. With approximately, 200,000 U.S. copies sold and additional printings in 12 languages. A second book, co-authored with Selene Vega:The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body, and Spirit through the Chakras (Crossing Press, 1993, 289 pp.) arose out of the popular Nine-Month Chakra Intensive, taught by Judith and Vega for over two decades. Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self, released by Celestial Arts in February 1997 charts childhood development, related difficulties and techniques for healing them, all within the chakra model and is a popular text in healing schools across the country. In March of 2000, she released a six-tape audio course called: The Chakra System: A Complete Course in Self-Diagnosis and Healing through Sounds True, Inc., followed by the popular boxed kit: Chakra Balancing. Her artistic expression combines with her mystic passion in her award winning DVD, The Illuminated Chakras, a co-creation with her son, artist and animator, Alex Wayne.

Her most recent book won two literary awards in 2007. Waking the Global Heart: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love charts the history of human development into our present crisis and necessary transformation, with an inspiring message of hope for our future.

Anodea conducted a private healing practice in California for over 20 years, but traveling has taken her healing efforts into the workshop mode.

And finally, on the more personal level, Anodea Judith is a dynamic individual with many talents: teacher, healer, priestess, musician, artist, yogini, and co-heart. She is well-loved for her integration of mind, body, and spirit. She feels deeply concerned about the state of our world, in terms of ecology, ethics, politics, and religion. Feeling that individual and cultural transformation are intrinsically related, Anodea supports a path to empowerment and balance through teaching of life-affirming paths of wisdom. This is achieved through a reclamation of our bodies and minds, the environment, and our connection to both Heaven and Earth. She is a dynamic and experienced speaker, workshop presenter, and visionary, dedicated to healing our world and evolving human consciousness.

Read more about Anodea’s story: Discovering the Rainbow Path

Contact Anodea Judith.

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Maria J Garcia

The Founder and Director of Sacred Centers East Maria J Garcia was born in Spain and raised in Buenos Aires, Maria’s passion for service to humanity began at a very early age and has been a driving force in her life. As a young woman in New York City she was introduced to yoga, meditation, macrobiotics, Science of Mind and other transformative modalities. These studies marked the beginning of a thirty year journey in conscious living and service to those seeking transformation and spiritual awakening.

Maria is a visionary thinker, Transformational Coach, workshop leader, yoga teacher, wife and mother. She is co-founder of The Way Of The Butterfly – Sacred Passage From Girlhood To Young Adulthood and has also worked in business, marketing, non-profit management and the arts. For five years she lived and worked at “Kripalu at Sumneytown,” a residential yoga and holistic health center serving a worldwide community. Here she played many roles, eventually becoming executive director.

Several years ago she began a focused exploration of her experience of the Divine Feminine. From this deeply personal work emerged an awareness of the chakra system as a framework for understanding the Self and as a map for healing and empowerment. This understanding and her connection to the creative feminine principle inspire her work, which she is committed to bringing to all people, not just yoga enthusiasts.

Maria has trained with many inspiring and powerful teachers throughout her life. Her training on the Chakra System was done with Anodea Judith, world renowned author and teacher with whom she is now in creative partnership, and Anodea’s life long teaching associate Selene Vega. Her Chakra Coaching training takes place under Master Coach Lion Goodman. Contact Maria

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Lynne Michelson, MSW, LCSW, CPCC

Sacred Centers Certification Coordinator

Early in life Lynne spent 2 years in Europe and then lived in an intentional community in the US, and was fortunate during that time to study with some of the world’s eminent spiritual teachers. She has taught meditation, awakening practices and transformational psychology. Lynne has been a psychotherapist and relationship coach for over 15 years, a workshop facilitator, a national speaker, and created several non-profits that bring community, service, and fun together. Lynne was Director of Marketing and before that Director of Training at the Relationship Coaching Institute. She is committed to helping her clients and group participants grow from the intrinsic place inside each of them of creativity, curiosity, and light.
Contact Lynne

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Selene Vega, PhD. LMFT

Selene Vega, PhD. LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist (Marriage and Family Therapist). Since 1972 she has led individuals and groups on journeys into the realms of psyche and spirit, combining her extensive background in dance, yoga and other movement forms with her work in hypnotherapy and ritual to assist people in being fully awake and conscious on their path through life. Former editor of the Spiritual Emergence Network Newsletter, Selene’s writings include chapters in Walking in Two Worlds (Ed. Gilligan & Simon), The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook (Ed. Khalsa & Mijares), and co-authoring The Sevenfold Journey (with Anodea Judith). Selene and Anodea have been teaching together since 1985. She is currently psychological consultant for an online fitness community in addition to workshop teaching and individual coaching. Contact Selene.

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Lion Goodman

Lion Goodman is a an Evocateur — one who evokes the best in others. He is a life and business coach, a published author, workshop leader, and entrepreneur, who has spent his life studying human consciousness and personal development. He has been President of the Goodman Group, a corporate executive consulting firm, for more than 25 years, a member of the World Business Academy, and an active agent in the men’s movement. He was a teacher of the Avatar Course, a belief management system, for six years, and now coaches individuals in life manifestation and personal choices and advises leaders in sustainable business. Contact Lion.

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Jason Auer-Sears

Jason Auer-Sears completed his schooling at Eastwind School of Holistic Healing in Iowa City. He joined forces with a chiropractor and a naturopath to co-facilitate the leading wellness clinic in his home area, The Bradley Center, a leading clinic in the area, where he has worked for the last seven years with a variety of practitioners, building a practice as a Certified Chiropractic Assistant, Reiki Master, and practitioner of the Aaron Mattes method of Active Isolated Stretching. As creator of Chakrassage and a student of Anodea Judith, Jason integrates manual therapy, stretching, vocal toning, visualization and bioenergetic concepts with the wellness model of the seven chakras. Contact Jason.

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Glenn Hartelius, PhD.

Glenn Hartelius, PhD. is a master healer and a scholar. As a pioneer in transformative psychology he brings a radically simple and practical understanding of how to create profound inner change, uncover your root issues, unlock your forgotten potential, and unleash the power to be fully present in your life. Glenn holds an M.A. in religion, and a Ph.D. in East-West Psychology, and has particular expertise in the anatomy and disorders of chakras. Glenn currently teaches in the residential doctoral program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California. He is co-editor of the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, and serves as Secretary-Treasurer for the International Transpersonal Association. He teaches workshops internationally, and publishes in the fields of transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies. Past teaching experience includes instruction at the Ph.D. level for the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, in the online Masters’ program at Naropa University, and at the undergraduate level for Laney College in Oakland. As a somatic counselor and practitioner, he has treated more than 10,000 clients during 27 years of private practice.
Contact Glenn.

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William (Bill) Kegg, CPCC

Bill Kegg is an international coach and workshop leader. He has led hundreds of workshops and teleclasses worldwide training over 6,000 coaches and leaders to lead from their sacred core. “At the core of everyone is a sacred leader. This is our birthright. The chakras provide an elegant roadmap home to our Right To Lead.” -Bill

Coaching Coaches and Leaders who want to be their best.

Contact Bill
914.533.2427 USA (EDT)

Next years Immersion!

2011 Immersion at Haven
240 Davis Rd, Gabriola Island, BC, V0R 1X1, Canada
September 23 – October 2, 2011

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