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Program Title: “Beyond Love and Light: Embracing the Full Path Toward Healing.” Our April 19, 2025 program will feature a talk by Dr. Sanna Wu-Pong Calvert, MAPP, PhD, educator, nonprofit entrepreneur, channel,
healer, intuitive guide, Founder of HealingEdu.org and Sanctuary of Earth.
The phrase “love and light” is often embraced as a guiding principle for positivity, healing, and higher consciousness. While this mindset can be uplifting, it’s also important to acknowledge the deeper work of integrating both light and shadow. Sometimes, in an effort to stay positive, we may unintentionally (or intentionally) bypass difficult emotions or challenges—whether through
spiritual ideals or intellectual reasoning. This can limit our growth, disconnect us from our fullest potential, and create health and relationship issues.
In this talk, we’ll explore how embracing the full spectrum of our experiences—including discomfort—can lead to greater wisdom, resilience, and transformation. We’ll proceed from the maxim, so well stated in verse 70 of the Gospel of Thomas: “If you bring forth that which is within you, what you bring forth will save you; if you do not bring forth that which is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” Attendees will gain insights into recognizing bypassing tendencies and discover ways to cultivate a more fully embodied, grounded, authentic, holistic, warts-and-all approach to healing and New Earth consciousness.
Another not-to-be-missed program for all who can attend! See you there!
About Our Presenter: Following a 26-year career in higher education, Dr. Sanna Wu-Pong Calvert, MAPP, PhD, became the Founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Family and Community Healing (www.HealingEdu.org), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to fostering resilience in mental, emotional, and relationship well-being. She is also a co-founder of Sanctuary of Earth (www.SanctuaryOfEarth.com), which supports the actualization of human spiritual potential through classes, training programs, and online events. A former radio host on WRWK 93.9 FM, she is transitioning to hosting shows on EtherealTV. She works with starseeds, their guides, and higher selves, offering intuitive guidance (channeling and tarot) and yin energy work for healing, clarity, gift development, and path discernment. Through Sanctuary of Earth, she also teaches energy medicine, tarot, and intuition development. Learn more at www.SusannaCalvert.com or contact her at SusannaCalvert@gmail.com.
About Central VA IONS Community Group: Central VA IONS Community Group is an unincorporated association and a local
community group of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, an international association based in Petaluma, California (www.noetic.org). Central
VA IONS is not associated with any religion, religious organization, doctrine or set of beliefs or practices and is open to all. Central VA
IONS is entirely dependent upon voluntary donations of its members and friends to support its programs, mailings and other costs, and a
love offering is requested at each meeting from those attending in-person or online. Central VA IONS meetings are held each month at
locations announced in its program notices and are open to all. Our website is at richmondions.com.
Where/When: In person and online, through ZOOM (Meeting ID: 865 1815 1952, Passcode: 142841) and in
person at Unity of Richmond, 800 Blanton Avenue, Richmond, VA 23221, on Saturday, April 19, 2025, 10:00 a.m.
to 12:00 noon, with Potluck Lunch at conclusion.
Upcoming Meetings:
May 17, 2025: Shruti Paskar, ND, Pawleys Island-based Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine.
June 21, 2025: Bart Smyth, Florida-based QiGong Master and healer.
July 19, 2025: Mark Adams, Richmond-based candle healer.
August 16, 2025: Jame G. Matlock, PhD, North Carolina researcher and author of Signs of Reincarnation.
September 20, 2025: Jamie McLaughlin, Richmond-based acupuncturist.
October 18, 2025: Nelson Marquina, D.C. PhD, “Scientific Proof of God.”
November 15, 2025: Khattar Katoum, PhD, “Reincarnation Among the Druze.”