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Richmond IONS Meeting, September 15, 2016

Featuring a talk by Vickie Griffith

“Still Stuck? Releasing Limiting Beliefs and Other Acts of Self-Sabotage.”

Our September 17, 2016 program will feature a talk by Vickie Griffith, a Florida-based hypnotherapist, emotional freedom technique (“EFT”) practitioner, author (Stucked Up! A BreakThrough Path to Unstuck), self-help and improvement coach and teacher, who formerly lived in Richmond.

Vickie describes her childhood as one in which she felt cut off from normal social interactions with others due to being overweight, a chronic problem she began trying, by the age of 10, to correct by dieting, but without success.

Change finally came for her when, as a teenager, she became fascinated with the possibility of personal transformation through the power of the mind. In college she pursued psychology courses and eventually discovered hypnosis, EFT, and, through the use of these tools, the power to transform herself. This gave her a calling to help others do the same and she has been pursuing that calling ever since.

Here’s how Vickie describes the program in her own words: “There is no doubt we are being called to experience our present lifetimes on a higher level. Many experts agree we are moving towards a higher consciousness, beyond prescribed limitations of old cultural norms and paradigms.

Yet once we are exposed to the new era for humanity our ‘buts…’ get big. Fears and self-limiting beliefs saying ‘I can’t do that’ overshadow our movement towards freedom and peace, and we get stuck. It then seems no matter what we do we still remain stuck in old negative thoughts, destructive habits and debilitating feelings.”

Vickie will share practical energetic tools for everyday life that will help shrink and dissolve your self-negating and self-limiting beliefs (your “buts…”). You will learn which of the four self-limiting beliefs keeps you stuck, what four resistances you are using right now to excuse yourself, and easy-to-use, real-time energetic tools to release what is keeping you stuck.

If you are ready to get unstuck, find freedom and happiness and really begin to experience the higher consciousness you desire, this program is for you.

About Our Presenter:

Vickie Griffith is a certified hypnotherapist, EFT practitioner, life coach, self-help teacher and author. She has given workshops around the country, appeared numerous times as a featured guest on radio and TV talk shows and is known for her infectious enthusiasm and deceptively low-key, casual approach.

Vickie is also an adjunct professor at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College and is a licensed minister. You may visit her website at www.break-through.org.

Richmond IONS Meeting, August 20, 2016

A talk and concert by Norma Gentile, Sound Shaman

“Sound Shamanism − an explanation and live demonstration.”

Norma Gentile, Sound Shaman Our August 20, 2016 program will feature a talk, live demonstration and concert by Norma Gentile, an internationally acclaimed singer, sound shaman, intuitive healer and channel for Archangel Michael, Mary and the Hathors. This is a rare treat for our CV IONS Community Group and we are delighted Norma could fit us into her schedule.

Norma has her feet in both the professional world (holding a master’s degree in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan) and in the shamanic healing traditions. Having seen auras and angels as a child, she learned to utilize her spiritual connections as an adult by training with shamans and psychics while developing her own means of using music for spiritual healing.

Drawn to music that facilitates deep states of inner awareness, Norma combines Tibetan singing bowls with the western medieval chants of St. Hildegard von Bingen.

Norma is known the world over as a “sound shaman” not only because of the quality of her voice, but also the remarkable healing power her singing can induce, aided and guided by the channeled influence of those guides and angels who work with her. They usually include Atamira (a Hathor), and the intelligences associated with Nature and Earth.

For those who would like a preview of what’s in store, we invite you to check Norma’s website at www.healingchants.com or Google “Norma Gentile sound shaman.” To enhance the acoustical qualities of this program, we will hold our August 20 meeting in the small Chapel on the wing of the Church closest to River Road.

Our potluck lunch following the program will be in Chapel Hall (where we met in July, as well as January for our 20th Anniversary program, and last December). The Chapel may be accessed either from the front door at ground level on the River Road side of the Church or from below via a stairway adjacent to Chapel Hall.

In addition to our August 20 program, Norma also will conduct an all-day workshop in Charlottesville on Sunday, August 21, and private healing sessions in Richmond on Monday, August 22 and on Tuesday, August 23.

Please see Norma’s website, www.healingchants.com, to schedule a private session in Richmond or attend her workshop in Charlottesville.

About Our Presenter:

Norma Gentile is a recording artist with four solo musical CDs to her credit, plus 50 meditation and teaching CDs and many online courses. She also is an energy healer and channel, and receives channeled information for individuals during healing sessions, as well as written transmissions from Archangel Michael, Mary and Thoth which she shares in newsletters, blogs and articles. She also channels the Hathors and healing energies from Nature in her music.

Richmond IONS Meeting, July 16, 2016

Featuring a talk by Dennis Lutz

“Energy Pathways to Health and Healing.”

Our July 16, 2016 program will feature a talk by holistic energy healer and light worker, Dennis Lutz, who only recently (in May and June of this year) relocated from the Tampa, Florida area to Richmond.

After spending 35 years in real estate and construction in sunny Florida, Dennis Lutz realized that something in his life was lacking. He finally gave in and followed his intuition, which he says he had abandoned back in his teenage years, and was guided to the holistic healthcare field.

Having no formal education past high school, Dennis headed back to school and attended Manatee Technical College. He soon followed by enrolling at the Institute of Structural Energetic Therapy (“SET”) to become a therapeutic bodyworker.

Within about three months after beginning his practice, Dennis was amazed to discover the extent of the beneficial effects his work was having – many clients who had suffered chronic pain for years, some for as long as they could remember, suddenly reported being pain free. Most, until they met him, were not aware such alternative therapies existed.

His initial success helping these clients motivated Dennis to explore deeper healing modalities in the form of energy techniques. Dennis now practices a broad spectrum holistic approach which includes therapeutic bodywork, energy work, breathwork, spirituality, chakra balancing, diet, nutrition, exercise, yoga, meditation, hypnotherapy and essential oils for well-being.

Dennis not only continues to practice a variety of hands-on physical protocols, but also practices remote energy healing, and often has found this to be just as effective as in-person protocols. Dennis will share his experiences in support of non-invasive pain relief, health and healing techniques that can be easily combined with standard medical practices, when and as needed.

The breadth and depth of health care applications Dennis has found for his work, which have, on occasion, even included dramatic therapeutic benefits in unexpected categories of maladies like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, is quite remarkable.

About Our Presenter:

Dennis Lutz, SET, is a graduate of The Institute of Structural Energetic Therapy in Florida. Dennis has studied and practiced Advanced Pranic Healing, Yuen Energetics, and Structural Energetic Therapy-Cranial/Structural Core Distortion Releases.

He also practices Advanced Cranial Structural Balancing, Pelvic Balancing, Head Neck and Shoulder, EVM, Full Body Torsion, Upper Body Torsion, Flexion, Shear, Carpal Tunnel, Lower Leg and Feet protocols, Cranial Structural Energetics and Emotional Energetic Release Therapy. He also trained at the NMT Center in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Richmond IONS Meeting, June 18, 2016

A presentation by Drs. Tom & Jane Hansen

“Finding and Expressing One’s Self.”

Our June 18, 2016 program will feature a presentation by Drs. Tom and Jane Hansen, Charlottesville educators, authors, songwriters, composers and musicians. Tom has written about the metaphysical Self (Trying to Remember (1995) and Remembering our Oneness (2013)), and Jane about the importance of Self to writers.

Drs. Tom and Jane Hansen will offer their ideas of “Self” via discussion and music. Within this format attendees will travel from the mathematical and metaphysical space of “Flatland,” to Johnny Cash’s thoughts about love, to the possibility that “God” is the “context in which forever takes place,” and elsewhere.

Prompted by songs performed by Tom and Jane, the audience will have opportunities to think about and discuss:

• The idea that “Believing Is Seeing.”
• The power we all have to “Imagine” ourselves and the world to be.
• The claim that we are all spiritual beings who are still in Oneness.
• The hope that “Forgiveness” of each other and the world can be simply a
matter of “Remembering” one’s Self.
• The seemingly outlandish claim that our 3D physical world is an illusion, and perhaps even a “Simulation” that we make ourselves.
• The choice to simply “Let the Mystery Be” and just live our lives.

About Our Presenters:

Tom Hansen, Ph.D., is a retired mathematics education researcher, author of math books and teacher. He began his career in the Peace Corps in Liberia in 1964. Tom was the founder of a non-profit that coordinated citizen exchanges between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. in the 1980s. He was a Non-Governmental participant at the Earth Summit in 1992.

Tom has sung and played guitar for decades, has several CDs of his songs and has performed at numerous festivals, workshops and conferences. He is a member of the Positive Music Association. His 2014 CD, “Book Concert,” consists of songs whose lyrics are all quotes from his Remembering Our Oneness book.

Jane Hansen, Ph.D., is professor emerita at UVA’s Curry School of Education, and began her career, with Tom, in the Peace Corps in Liberia. As a professor her specialty was to teach teachers how to teach K-12 students to write across the curriculum.

She has led workshops for teachers in many states and several foreign countries, including Brazil, Canada, Australia, the Bahamas and Belize. In working with writing her goal is to help others and herself, see writing as a means of expression of Self, as is music. Jane began playing the piano keyboard in fourth grade and now sees both that keyboard and her computer keyboard as equally important means of Self-presentation and Self-expression.

Richmond IONS Meeting, May 21, 2016

Featuring a talk by Debra Diamond

“Life After Near Death.”

Our May 21, 2016 program will feature a talk by renowned Baltimore psychic and medium, Debra Diamond, about her recently published book, Life After Near Death: Miraculous Stories of Healing and Transformation in the Extraordinary Lives of People with Newfound Powers.

Debra Diamond began her quest to better understand the special significance of NDEs about five or six years ago. Just a few years earlier, in 2008, she had had an extraordinary, life-altering experience of her own, wherein she was instantly transformed and catapulted from a secure and well-established position as a prominent and successful Wall Street money manager, investment advisor, frequent media commentator in Forbes and on TV shows like CNBC, and business school professor at Johns Hopkins University.

She gave up all that to become a full-time psychic and medium, almost overnight. Several years into her surprising new career she was asked to do a reading for a man who had had an NDE. She didn’t think twice about it, but the reading itself changed her nonchalant outlook entirely.

In her own words: “When I began to read this man, I realized: this was no ordinary reading. This time, the information I was being shown was literally out of this world. This man’s brush with death had left him with extraordinary gifts, with special powers. This was no ordinary man.”

From then until now, Debra has sought to more fully comprehend the extraordinary gifts that often accompany NDEs. Thoughtful, compelling and engaging, Life After Near Death offers fascinating and often profound new insights into the breadth and depth of individualized NDE special effects, a realm few if any investigators have explored in detail before now.

Debra’s book also is groundbreaking in another way, in that she uses her spiritual channeling, psychic and mediumship abilities as an investigative tool to further inform her NDE research. Her talk promises to be a rare treat for our group and we are very pleased to have her as our May guest speaker.

About Our Presenter:

Debra Diamond is a gifted intuitive, channel, medium, psychic, healer, and now an author as well. She lectures, presents workshops and works with clients individually to assist in healing and expansion to enable them to live richer, fuller and more abundant lives.

She is certified in Reiki, a graduate of the Holistic Studies Institute of New York, has completed mediumship training at the Arthur Findlay College in the UK and has trained at the Carl Jung Institute in Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland.

She has studied in Bali, trained in shamanism and worked with spiritual teachers in Colorado, New Mexico and Cassadaga, Florida. In her previous life on Wall Street, Debra often appeared on CNBC, hosted her own radio show on CNN, was profiled in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post, and was a professor at Johns Hopkins University. When not on the lecture circuit, she splits her time between homes in Baltimore and Taos.

Richmond IONS Meeting, April 16, 2016

Featuring a talk by Faith Grieger

“A Door Has Opened for Humanity.”

Our April 16 program will feature a talk by Faith Grieger, a Newton Institute-trained hypnotherapist who conducts a practice in Richmond specializing in past-life regression, Life-Between-Lives (LBL) and Quantum Consciousness (QC) explorations.

Through the exploratory journey of her own life, Faith Grieger has discovered a treasure trove of new tools for unlocking the secrets of who we are at the deepest levels, and of the eternal quest of our souls to advance creation through your lifetime and a multitude of others. She will share that journey and those discoveries with us in her April 16 talk.

Her talk will include group experiential demonstrations of hypnotherapy and regression techniques, of the landscapes, peoplescapes, worldscapes and healing potentials one may encounter in the explorations of other lifetimes, plus the rich tapestry of learning, connections with one’s own soul, spirit guides, councils of elders and more that may be encountered between lifetimes.

Faith also will introduce us to the newest session technique in her toolbox, one which merges spirituality with quantum physics known as Quantum Consciousness. Its aim is to enable exploration of additional realms or fields of consciousness that are otherwise beyond our reach, including stored consciousness (e.g. the akashic field), parallel and alternate realities and lives, interdimensional realms, and eternal consciousness.

Faith will conclude the program with a group regression in which all in attendance will be invited to participate (and share their experiences if they wish to do so). Faith’s presentation promises to be one of our most memorable and we look forward to it with great anticipation.

About Our Presenter:

Faith Grieger is a Richmond native who attended secondary school at St. Catherine’s in Richmond and Holton-Arms in Washington D.C. She graduated from Meredith College in Raleigh with a B.A. in art and sociology.

After living for more than 20 years in Oregon, Florida and Asheville, North Carolina, she returned to Richmond in 2015 and opened her practice under the name of All Souls Center, at 5500 Monument Avenue, Suite T (Monument Professional Building).

Her vocational background and training includes Art, Interior Design, Feng Shui, Astrology, Massage, Reiki, Healing Touch and Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT). She is one of only 200 therapists in the world trained and certified in Life-Between-Lives (LBL) therapy at the Michael Newton Institute and is a former Board member.

She is U.S. Program Director of Quantum Consciousness (QC), founded by Australian Peter Smith, President of the Newton Institute, and she is the only sanctioned facilitator of QC sessions in the world outside of Australia.

Richmond IONS Meeting, March 19, 2016

Featuring a Talk by Krista Springer

“Moving from Mental Mind Chatter into a State of Relaxed Beingness.”

Our March program will feature a talk and experiential presentation by Richmond-based sound healing therapist, Krista Springer. Sound healing, both with vocal tones (sometimes referred to as toning) and with a variety of musical instruments, is a very powerful healing modality that very few of us have directly experienced.

Through Krista’s unique and versatile voice, along with various instruments, individuals are invited during this experiential presentation to move away from the day to day stress and chaos into a place of relaxation and inner peace.

Quieting the mind and body, while at the same time facilitating mental and physical restoration, allows us to return to a state where we can then bring and manifest that which we have received into the now. Through taking time daily to quiet the mind and body and moving into a place of inner peace we can actually accomplish more of that which we are trying to achieve in our lives.

Participants are encouraged to bring any personal intentions or concerns to hold or contemplate within the energetic vibrations of this sound experience.

At the end of the program there will be a brief time of silence and then time for those who would like to share any thoughts or feelings they may have had in regards to the presentation.

About Our Presenter:

Krista Springer is a certified sound healing practitioner and a certified hands-on integrated energy therapy practitioner (IET). Krista is an accomplished multi-eclectic musician, singer, song writer and composer.

She incorporates both western and eastern instruments, such as Tibetan bowls and gongs, along with the human voice as a healing tool in her practice, and conducts a healing practice under the name of Bio-Energetic and Holistic Therapeutics.

Richmond IONS Meeting, February 20, 2016

Featuring a talk by Richmond nutrition and vitality coach Sally K. Norton

“Dietary Paradox or Evidence?”

Richmond nutrition and vitality coach Sally K. Norton will discuss how dietary myths are hurting your health and what you can do about it.

Fat will give you a heart attack, and vegetables will protect you from disease, or so they say. Think again.

Is kale really your best friend? Could a healthy habit like green juices an smoothies make you sick?

Get some answers during our meeting.

Richmond IONS Meeting, January 16, 2016

20th Anniversary Celebration

Featuring an appearance, via Skype, by Apollo 14 Astronaut and IONS Founder Dr. Edgar Mitchell, and a talk by Richmond Neurologist Anna Hristova, M.D. (“Dr. Ani”)

• A Celebration of Central Virginia IONS Community Group’s 20th Anniversary a Skype appearance by Dr. Edgar Mitchell, IONS Founder and Apollo 14 Astronaut, to help us commemorate and celebrate the 20th Anniversary and Birthday of our Richmond and Central Virginia IONS Community Group, “born” in January 1996.

We are especially thankful for this opportunity since few community groups endure this long and continue to enjoy the broad base of community support ours has. That itself is exciting, gratifying and worth celebrating, and we are doubly excited and gratified that Dr. Edgar Mitchell, IONS’ distinguished founder, will join us on this happy occasion.

Anna Hristova, Richmond IONS • A talk entitled “The Coming Era of the Cosmic Human,” by Richmond neurologist and spiritual philosopher, Anna Hristova, M.D. (“Dr. Ani”). Dr. Ani’s talk will focus on exciting new developments in science and spirituality and the interface between them that signal the dawn of a new era, one she refers to as the era of the cosmic human.

She will explore with us some of the anticipated breakthroughs of this new era, such as how to discover and master the universal energetic matrix, how science, philosophy, religion and other institutions are likely to change, how human consciousness and human potentials are likely to expand, and how we can integrate this new knowledge into our own lives and become transformed from citizens of Earth to citizens of the Galaxy and larger Cosmos.

Dr. Ani is back by popular demand, and we can scarcely imagine a more fitting speaker and topic to launch our second twenty years.

About Our Presenters:

Dr. Edgar Mitchell was an Apollo astronaut and the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14, which landed on the Moon on February 5, 1971. The transformational experience of space travel and walking on the Moon inspired Dr. Mitchell to dedicate his life to exploring the frontiers of human knowledge, consciousness and potential here on Earth.

With that objective in mind, he founded The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in 1974 and has been its central and most inspiring figure and chief ombudsman ever since.

Anna Hristova, M.D., popularly known as “Dr. Ani,” is a Richmond area neurologist with 25 years of practice experience and training in some of the best universities in the USA and abroad.

As a neurologist, she is trained to diagnose and treat disorders which result from abnormalities in the brain, spinal cord and remainder of the central nervous system. She also has 30 years of esoteric training and practices on three continents. She teaches how science and fate can merge.

Richmond IONS Meeting, December 12, 2015

Featuring a Talk by Tom Coates

“Peeling Away Layers of the Onion – Soul Stories Lost and Found.”

Our December 12 program will feature a talk by Tom Coates, our group’s only still-active original member. His talk will mark the 240th monthly program of our Richmond area IONS Community Group and pave the way for our 20th anniversary celebration in January 2016. Music will be provided by Dan O’Neal.

Tom’s theme will be “multidimensional explorations into who we are, what we are doing here, and how we create and manifest the world we want.”

As his program title suggests, Tom will use what he refers to as “soul stories,” drawn from his own experience and from his lifelong fascination with and study of the human soul, to inform the subject. And, in keeping with the season, those stories also will include a unique rendering of the life of Jesus and the soul which gave rise to his remarkable life, gleaned from many years of channeling inquiries and guidance.

This is a version of the Jesus story no one is likely to have heard before and underscores that his life was even more extraordinary than commonly believed.

We live in a period of intense transition, one in which many of our most long-held and cherished assumptions about ourselves and our world are being swept away, and one in which it often seems the only constant is rapid, unrelenting, unexpected, unforeseeable, dramatic change.

To help ground us and get us through this topsy-turvy cycle, the program will conclude with a group exercise designed to assist all present to rediscover, reawaken and reconnect with their Authentic Self, the true identity hidden within each of us, and to integrate and sustain that Self through and beyond this sea of change in which we are now immersed. As always, Tom promises some secrets known only to a few will be revealed.

About Our Presenter:

Tom Coates is a Richmond-based lawyer who has represented numerous spiritually oriented and public interest groups throughout his career. He was a co-founder of Richmond’s Ekoji Buddhist Sangha in 1985, and has been a member and contributor of the Richmond IONS chapter since its formation in early 1996.

In his spare time he enjoys reading, creative writing, painting, woodworking, alpine skiing, biking, backpacking, sailing, time travel, metaphysics, and relaxing with his family at their ancient Outer Banks beach cottage or their Appalachian Mountains retreat.

He still reports his most significant unfulfilled ambition of this lifetime is to make love to an extraterrestrial female, preferably of Pleiadean or Sirian origin.