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Welcome to the 2023 Sacred Centers Annual Immersion!

This year, there will be 2 workshops at beautiful Samasati Sanctuary in Asheville, NC!

Mind-Body Chakra Therapy: Level 2

Saturday thru Wednesday
October 21-25, 2023

She Rises Leadership Weekend

Friday thru Sunday
October 27-29, 2023

Mind Body Chakra Therapy

Taught by Anodea Judith, Ph.D.

Saturday to Wednesday
October 21-25, 2023

A New Lease on Life:
Healing Trauma through the Chakras

Trauma is a big buzzword these days. That’s because nearly everyone has some kind of trauma in their past, whether mild or severe. If you are one of the rare ones who escaped it, you certainly know people around you who suffer the continuous and often debilitating effects of PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder.

The chief problem in PTSD is a dis-regulation in the flow of energy. As we know, chakras are organizational centers for managing that energy, and they will compensate or avoid in response to past experiences, bringing us out of balance, and limiting our ability to experience the full thrust of aliveness that is our birthright.

That life force can be restored through the resolution of trauma.

The body has its own way of healing – when it feels safe, respected, and guided through skilled facilitation.

This advanced workshop for Chakra Therapy students will take you deeper into the chakras, the energy body, and the healing of trauma. In an intimate and beautiful setting, limited to 14 students, you will learn theory and practice for working safely with trauma and related issues.

The emphasis is on both reception as a client, and practice as a healer, as each student will have the opportunity to both give and receive sessions during the week, with Anodea’s expert guidance. Sessions will take place within the circle, or in partners as the skill level increases. Morning yoga and bioenergetic exercises will help facilitate the flow of energy.

Students will first observe Anodea working, then in dyads work with each other with supervision. There will also be review of bioenergetic exercises, and some brush up on theory as we go, along with elements of ritual, movement, and play. The result is a whole new level of skills to use with others, as well as a chance to obtain deep work on yourself in an intimate and safe setting.

YOU WILL LEARN:

  • How to do an effective intake for diagnosing chakra imbalances, character, structure, and presence of trauma.
  • Charging and discharging techniques: do’s and don’ts
  • How to follow the charge to navigate skillfully in a charged situation
  • Getting to the core of the trauma vortex – safely!
  • Re-negotiating the trauma and re-configuring the complex
  • Bioenergetic exercises for balancing excess and deficiency in the chakras
  • How to expand the comfort zone to increase safety and resilience
  • How to work with client resistance
  • Therapist ethics and self-care

Limited to 14 people with the necessary pre-requisites*, which is at least ONE of the following courses listed below.

  • Chakras, Charge, and the Energy Body (live or online)
  • Chakra Therapy 1
  • Intro to Chakra Therapy
  • Charge Activation Training
  • Techniques of Mind-Body Integration
  • Chakra Healing Quest

*You must satisfy prerequisites to take this advanced course.

Pre-requisite reading:

Eastern Body Western Mind and Charge and the Energy Body.

This advanced workshop is limited to 14 people. It is open to anyone with the pre-requisites, however, preference is given to those in the Certification Healer Track. Each iteration of this course is different because we learn from the issues that show up in the students. If you have taken this class before, you will find a completely new set of therapeutic examples to learn from. In general however the topics covered are as follows…

This workshop is equivalent to Chakra Therapy 2, and gives credit for those in the Sacred Centers Certification Program healing track.

Workshop Fee: $795 for five days. October 21 -25, Asheville, North Carolina

The above fee covers the workshop only. Lodging or commuting and food will be at additional fees and vary upon lodging choice. To register, you must call Gianna, Anodea’s Assistant, in order to discuss your lodging or commuting options. Lodging and commuting are an ADDITIONAL fee to the cost of the workshop.

Call 707-338-4067 to register!

IMMERSION CANCELLATION POLICY (PLEASE READ)

Cancellations can be problematic, so please keep your commitment if at all possible and read our cancellation policy carefully. Thank you for understanding. We understand that some things are out of our control though, so we will try our best to work with you.

Please read below to fully understand the cancellation policy for Immersion:

  • Cancellations before September 30th: 50% refund of total program cost.
  • Cancellations after September 30th: NO REFUND.

She Rises Facilitator Weekend!

Taught by Anodea Judith & Melinda Matzell

Friday to Sunday
October 27-29, 2023

If women are to hold up half the sky,
we first have to break the glass ceiling.

  • Would you like to reclaim your superpowers as a woman by enhancing your natural gifts and talents?
  • Do you cringe at the word leadership because the established masculine models of power just don’t appeal to you?
  • Have you tried adopting to male styles of leadership and gotten burned out in the process?
  • Would you like to be part of a social movement to help women rise up and bring balance to the world?

 

In the quest for equality, women have made great progress over the last few decades. We now have more women serving in business, politics, education, law, and medicine than ever before. Yet progress lags when it comes to leadership. This bodes poorly, not only for women, but for the world.

The values of achievement, dominance, certainty, and control are largely masculine values. They have shaped our culture and defined leadership in largely masculine terms. In this paradigm women are faced with an unholy choice: adopt male styles of leadership, or be left behind.

Women lead differently than men. Therefore they need different archetypes to guide them.

Without leadership of a feminine nature, women will have little influence over the world’s transformation. Without women’s influence, the male-dominated values that are destroying our planet are unlikely to change.

Welcome to the SHE RISES MOVEMENT!

The SHE RISES MOVEMENT is calling you to reclaim archetypal aspects of your innate feminine leadership. This online training will take you from empowerment to leadership to visionary through exploring 38 archetypes of female wisdom. By learning, embodying, and enacting these archetypes, you will recognize new aspects of yourself and ignite your gifts.

The point of the training, however, is not just to give you an experience, but to empower you with the tools and training to guide others into awakening these archetypes, and join a community of like-hearted women for support and creativity. It will inspire you to create circles and events in which you can serve, profit, and influence.

Tapping Into the Power of Archetypes

Learn about archetypes and why they’re so important, and discover how women’s archetypes differ from men’s.  Meet 38 archetypes of women’s leadership, and adapt one to be your home base, helping you find your center whenever you get pushed off course.

Meet and Transform the Feminine Shadow

In patriarchal culture, many of women’s natural abilities have been rejected, and therefore relegated to the shadow. Often these traits stem from attempts to find self-determination in systems of hierarchy that put women and minorities in a one-down position of power.

Hidden from awareness, shadow aspects interfere with the healthy expression of power and may be harmful to self and others. Yet the shadow holds enormous reservoirs of energy if it is befriended and transformed.  Here you will identify your shadow, its underlying needs, and explore an archetype to balance it.

Remove the Obstacles to Energetic Freedom

Women’s power is energetic and embodied. In the body, energy flows through subtle currents in the limbs and torso and expresses itself through the energy centers known as chakras. When that flow of energy is free of blockages, you experience your natural radiance and purpose.

Through guided yoga practice and bioenergetic exercises, push through these blocks and transform the demons of fear, guilt, shame, grief, lies, illusion, and attachment.

Enacting Your Power Base Archetype

Saturday night will be a special ceremony where you will get to enact your archetype in a sacred, feminine field and witness and meet the archetypes that play through others. Experience what happens when you become the archetype.

Taking it Out into the World

Feminine leadership isn’t about creating followers, but creating more leaders. It’s about making a contribution, bringing people together, fostering collaboration and co-creation. It uses creativity to navigate difficulties, and works organically with what is available, taking it all one step at a time.

In small groups, you will collaborate on personal and world problems, speaking from the perspective of your chosen archetypes, and receiving the guidance and feedback from others through their archetypes.

Finally, you will learn how to conduct these circles in your own communities, and be part of the She Rises Movement!

Workshop & Commuter / Lodging Fees:

She Rises Facilitator Training: $460 (includes workshop, meals, and deck of cards)
Want to Stay Onsite? $70/night extra (limited availability – book now if you’d like to stay onsite)

Call Gianna at 707-338-4067 to Register!

IMMERSION CANCELLATION POLICY (PLEASE READ)

Cancellations can be problematic, so please keep your commitment if at all possible and read our cancellation policy carefully. Thank you for understanding. We understand that some things are out of our control though, so we will try our best to work with you.

Please read below to fully understand the cancellation policy for Immersion:

  • Cancellations before September 30th: 50% refund of total program cost.
  • Cancellations after September 30th: NO REFUND.

The 2023 Sacred Centers Annual Immersion will be held at Samasati Sanctuary just ourside of Asheville, NC!

Are you seeking to take your Sacred Centers learning to a deeper level?

Would you like to experience small, intimate workshops in a beautiful setting?

Do you enjoy gathering with others of like mind and heart, who are on a similar journey?

[Anodea’s] immersion was one of the best experiences I have ever had!
I made some terrific friends, had lots of ‘firsts’, grew as
a person and a teacher and learned from the best!

~Wendy Landry
(In the Sacred Centers Certification: Teacher Track)

About the Immersion Teachers

Anodea Judith, Ph.D

Anodea Judith, Ph.D  is a groundbreaking thought leader, best-selling author, master therapist, and spiritual teacher, who has been called “a prophet for our time.”  She is the founder and director of Sacred Centers, a teaching organization for facilitating individual and collective evolution. She holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Psychology and Human Health, is a 500 hour registered yoga teacher (E-RYT), with lifelong studies of psychology, mythology, sociology, history, systems theory, and mystic spirituality.

Anodea is the author of 9 books in 27 languages, that explore using the map of the chakra system as a template for exploring psychology, yoga, manifestation and social change. 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 and in 20 additional countries. Her passion for the realization of human potential matches her concern for humanity’s impending crises — her fervent wish is that we “wake up in time.”

She is best known for the chakra classic, Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System, A second book, co-authored with Selene Vega: The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body, and Spirit through the Chakras arose out of the popular Psychology of the Chakras Intensive, taught by Judith and Vega for over three decades. Eastern Body, Western Mind: charts childhood development, bioenergetic character structures, and Jungian individuation, all within the chakra model. This book is used as a text in universities and healing schools across the country. Mixed media works include: The Chakra System: A Complete Course in Self-Diagnosis and Healing (audio course) Chakra Balancing Kit, and her award winning DVD, The Illuminated Chakras, Her more recent books include the all encompassing social change book,The Global Heart Awakensthe manifestation manual: Creating on Purpose: The Spiritual Technology of Manifesting Through the Chakras co-authored with Lion Goodman, and Anodea Judith’s Chakra Yoga. Her most recent book is Charge and the Energy Body, which came out in 2018.

Anodea conducted a private practice for over 20 years, but traveling has taken her healing efforts into the workshop mode, training other therapists in somatic techniques, and conducting healing sessions within the workshop setting.

On the more personal level, Anodea Judith is a dynamic individual with many talents: teacher, healer, writer, priestess, musician, artist, yogini, and co-heart. She is well-loved for her integration of mind, body, and spirit, shoring up the inequalities between masculine and feminine, and her dream of co-creating Heaven on Earth. 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 reclaiming our bodies, the environment, and our connection to both Heaven and Earth.

She is a dynamic and experienced keynote speaker, workshop presenter, and visionary, dedicated to healing our world and evolving human consciousness.

Melinda Matzell

Melinda Matzell Grannan has owned and operated mdesigncreations, a free lance graphics design firm for over 20 years. Her client partnerships have given her the opportunity to create learning designs for top fortune 500 companies including Microsoft, Apple, DuPont®, American Express and Estée Lauder.

Melinda’s BFA and MFA work focused on functional and non-functional ceramics and sculpture, for which she has been awarded citations and gallery exhibitions. The graphic illustrations for She POWERS are inspired by the divine connection she feels while practicing on her mat, meditating, taking walks or creating art.

She has decades as a yoga practitioner, and nearly 20 years as an instructor. Melinda is known for her open hearted teaching style and is the creator of unique experiences involving the chakras. She is the creator of Melinda’s Chakra Journey Game™, and is the author of “From Earth to Enlightenment: Your Chakra Journey Guide to Freedom.”

Melinda has been blessed on her journey with challenges that have guided her own awakening, and holds the intention to create experiences to inspire the awakening to the light within others. She lives in “Gorges” Ithaca, New York with her adoring husband Krishna Bruce.

Her website is https://www.chakra-energetics.com/

Immersion details

DATES: October 21-29, 2023

PLACE: Samasati Sactuary – Asheville, NC

IMMERSION CANCELLATION POLICY (PLEASE READ)

Cancellations can be problematic, so please keep your commitment if at all possible and read our cancellation policy carefully. Thank you for understanding. We understand that some things are out of our control though, so we will try our best to work with you.

Please read below to fully understand the cancellation policy for Immersion:

  • Cancellations before September 30th: 50% refund of total program cost.
  • Cancellations after September 30th: NO REFUND.

What People are Saying About Anodea Judith…

Testimonials_Seane-Corn (1)Huge Influence on Me Personally

Anodea, you have had a huge influence on me personally as a student and the impact it has had on me as a teacher. Your work was instrumental in helping me connect the mind-body in a theoretical way and then apply it to a yoga practice that I had been deeply committed to for years. It dropped in such an embodied way that suddenly for the first time it made sense, and I could do deeper transformational work and get clues and insights into my own psychology just by doing the same asana practice that I do every single day, but tuning in to my body in a different way and using the language of the chakras via your lens, it was very impactful to me. When I first discovered Wheels of Life and Eastern Body Western Mind, it provided me a very safe place and a specific tool to be able to gain the necessary insights to do some very serious healing work [which] allowed me the self confidence and allowed me to trust my intuition that created space for a lot of the service work I do in the world today. I couldn’t have done it without the self-confidence and the tools from Eastern Body Western Mind allowed me to tap in! I want to thank you publicly for being such an influence and a brilliant mentor in my own person life.

—Seane Corn
 

Gentle, Powerful, and Whole

From Anodea’s training, I feel like I am connecting to myself in a way that is gentle, powerful and whole. Her style is dynamic and enlivening. All the courses are on purpose and leave you feeling complete and compassionate.

—Paula W.

 

Studying with Anodea Judith

I have always been drawn to the Chakra Model and over my years of teaching I keep coming back to how useful and powerful these centers are for understanding our true selves. Studying with Anodea this summer awoke something in me that has been sleeping for a while. I feel like I have found a teacher and community to help me move forward on my journey and in doing so, I will be better able to help others to become more aware, empowered, and as we all heal, we can bring more love and healing to the world. I plan to use what I learn in my teachings and to share it with others.

—Lisa

 

Chakra Therapy is Life Changing!

I have found “grounding” and am embarking on furthering “stillness.” The class I took “Chakra Therapy – 5 Day Professional Training” was life changing for me. It is the result of a search for meaning and purpose and the beginning of my true path/journey. I could also give upward of 20 testimonials given what I received from the Sacred Centers Immersion.

—Francesca G.

 

Anodea is a Master!

Anodea Judith delivers!  She is a Master. If you want to learn how to manage your energy system, to honor your body and your life, sign up! You will get out of this course what you put into to it, so ultimately it’s up to you; however, if you can’t give it your all for whatever life reason, don’t hesitate. The information, meditations and processes go beyond the time frame of the program, so the journey continues beyond the end date. This course is highly recommended.

—Claudette

 

Invaluable course.

This course was no less than amazing. And so is Anodea Judith. She taught me that much more is possible in this lifetime – more love, more money, more time, more fulfillment in work – despite what your mind tells you. Invaluable course.

—Melissa W.

 

Utterly transformational!

I have taken several workshops with Anodea over the years, and each of them were utterly transformational, both personally and professionally. Of all of the workshops I have attended over the years from a variety of healers, teachers and shamans, Anodea’s were by far the most impactful. I can’t wait to go again!!

—Theresa Rose