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Rusty Stewart, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Psychoeducational Processes at Temple University. He is a proficient and skilled Reiki Master, Transformational Breath Facilitator, Certified Hypnotherapist, and Certified Shapeshifting Practitioner. He has a private practice in Integrated Energy Balancing Healing Psychotherapy Including Heat Centered Hypnotherapy, Shapeshifting Consciousness, Body Centered Psychotherapy, and Aromatherapy. Rusty presents workshops throughout the tri-state area including Holistic Integrative Breathing, BreathJourneying, Break on Through to the Other Side: Walking the Talk, and The Source of World Peace and Joy! He created a new alternative DUI curriculum for Bucks County Council for Alcoholism. In addition, Rusty was an Adjunct Professor for Temple University in the Department for Psychological Studies in Education teaching Group Dynamics, Learning Theory, and Intimacy & Control, and currently teaches psychology at the Thomas Jefferson University.
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Personal Message
Friends, Brothers, and Sisters,
Welcome to my new newsletter format. It has been long in the making. Thank you for your patience! Feel free to offer suggestions, as this is an evolving process. Please check out the Manifesting Community icon and click to see a file of all the upcoming community events for the next 60 days. Anyone can submit community events, workshops, or classes to post on this list for free provided you email it to me by the 20th of each month in Times New Roman 12 pt. font (no bold or underlining please). I will cut, paste, and sort the list by date of event. This will be updated every month.
There will be a featured article every month that will be different than my articles in the Yoga Living or Wisdom magazines. Some of the articles may be the same as articles I submit to Inner Realm magazine in NY & NJ. This months featured article is a paper written by two Kutztown students, Mark McClatchy and Amy Robinson, who did an Independent Study with me on Holistic Integrative Breathing. You are welcome to offer me feedback on any of my articles. All articles can be accessed on my achieved article list on my website.
The table of contents will take you wherever you want to go in my newsletter or directly to my website. Please take special notice of the free lectures and support groups that I offer. And, as always, if you like the work I do please pass it along to people you care about. I am grateful for any referrals that come my way. I am accepting new clients for integrated psychotherapy in both of my locations and encourage people to deepen their process through the workshops that I offer.
Go outside and breath in the spring and the beginning of the summer!
Namaste,
Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.
Professional Message
As we head into the summer months remember to have fun and play. Take time for yourself. Part of reclaiming your inner child is to have fun! That means being an exploring playful child and experiencing aspects of what it is to be a healthy child full of wonder and joy. Allow yourself to be in the present moment without judgment.
Many times we get caught up in inner child work and only concentrate on feeling and releasing the negative. That is certainty part of the work. However, to fully become whole we must find the balance and experience all aspects of ourselves. So, lighten up and give yourself permission to participate in radical play and uninhibited fun!!
Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs
For those of you who have taken my Holistic Integrative Breathing workshops or Transformational BreathWork workshops my guided cd's are now available! You will receive the primal drumming breath, joy breath, cosmos breath, divinity breath, and vision breath with all the affirmations included. These are all the breaths I teach in my all day breath workshop. The cost is $25 plus $3.85 shipping and handling. The breaths for my part 2 breath workshop will be available in cd's sometime early this summer. Just send a check to Rusty Stewart, Ph.D., 23 Timber Road, Horsham, PA 19044. I will send them out as soon as I receive your check. Thank you!
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Wisdom Of The Earth Medicinal Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils
I am blessed and grateful to be able to make Wisdom Of The Earth's medicinal therapeutic grade essential oils available for purchase. I use Barry's oils in my private practice, in some of my workshops and personally for my own proactive holistic health. These oils can be very powerful when used on the chakras or along the spine during a breathing and energy session. I encourage all my clients, students, brothers and sisters to experience the healing power of these unbelievable highest quality essential oils!
Read more about Wisdom Of The Earth Oils, cost, types, sizes, etc.
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Free Open Community Listings Next 60 Days
Please check out the Manifesting Community icon above, and click to see a file of all the upcoming community events for the next 60 days. Anyone can submit community events, workshops, or classes to this list for free provided you email it to me by the 20th of each month in Times New Roman 12 pt. font (no bold or underlining please). I will cut, paste, and sort the list by date of event. This will be updated every month. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at rusty@rustystewartphd.com or call me at 215-658-1093. Let's all work together in Manifesting Whole Community!!
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Table of Contents
Free Open Community Listings
Featured Article
Archived Articles
Workshops/Events Calendar
Free Lectures/Events Calendar
Personal Message
Professional Message
Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs
Wisdom Of The Earth Oils
Personal Growth Alternatives Website
Featured Article
Practicum in Psychology: An examination into Holistic Integrative Breathing
By Mark McClatchy & Amy Robinson
Mark's First Experience with Holistic Integrative Breathing
With the car windows down, I stuck my hand outside the window feeling the air force my hand up and down. I smiled, enjoying the beautiful Fall day. I noticed that we were running a little late for the workshop we were heading to. What was this that we were going to? I thought back about what inspired this trip.
I was at a picnic a couple weeks before at a friend's holistic healing studio, when I saw a flyer for an upcoming event. I was reading the flyer when Robert, one of the people running the studio and a long-time friend of my tai chi teacher, told me that I would really enjoy this workshop and the facilitator, Dr. Rusty Stewart. The flyer talked about using a type of breathing to increase joy, peace of mind, energy, and a long list of other benefits. Who would not want any of these to increase in life? I felt excited about this opportunity and signed up right away. When I got back to school, I was talking to Amy and thought that she might want to do this too. I asked her and after contemplating it for a week or so, she randomly called me at 1:30 in the morning and told me that she did want to go. I felt excited for the both of us.
Amy said something to me, but I could not hear, the wind was too loud so I closed the window. We started talking about many things going on in our lives. Eventually, the conversation led us to discussing the possibility of taking a psychology class together. The conversation was cut short when we entered the parking lot. We would finish this conversation on the way back.
As we walked into the studio, the workshop had already begun. We tiptoed into the room and got all setup. We were introducing ourselves and mentioned what each of us were passionate about. Essential oils were being passed around, each oil correlating to a different chakra. After finishing applying the oils, Rusty went around the room and smudged everyone. As this was going on it started pouring rain, which was odd because as I peered out the window, it was still bright and sunny outside. I cracked a smile and looked around the room, noticing all the other people picking up on the same thing. As we were preparing to lay down for the breathing, Rusty demonstrated the deep diaphramic breathing, pulling the air into the very bottom of our bellies and in a wave filling our lungs until the very top was expanded and then released. I remember thinking, “Wow, that's really intense breathing! I wonder how long I can keep that up.” The music started. This was the primal drumming breath working specifically on the root chakra at the base of the spine. We were to imagine a red ball of energy there and pull red energy from our feet, up our back, and down the front our body. After a couple of minutes, I felt like my head was expanding and sinking into the floor at the same time. Soon this feeling spread through my head all the way to my toes and I noticed that I was actually circulating the energy through my body.
Before long, I stopped thinking about what I was doing and just observed what was going on. The music shifted. Now we were to visualize a golden ball encompassing the first three chakras. I felt a tingling sensation in my belly. I could actually feel this energy ball in and around my abdomen. The ball of energy slowly grew outward, but it was still mostly focused around the first three chakras. I was now sensing, no more like directly feeling, what was going on around me. I did not only feel Amy's energy, but I could actually sense what she was going through to a certain degree. I had a sense of her mental and emotional state.
All of a sudden, I felt a strong presence moving around me, it was Rusty. I could feel exactly where he was even though he was five feet away from me. As he came to open my chakras and clear any stagnant energy, I could feel exactly where his hands were around my body even though he was not actually touching me and my eyes were closed. The last thing he did was grab my ankles, I could feel his strong grip around them, but wait, how could that be? I sensed him working on the person next to me, even though I could still feel a grip on my ankles. Then I remembered that Rusty mentioned something like this might happen. This would be his reiki guide still grounding me even though he has actually moved on.
This was the first time I had ever been aware of my aura and the energies that connect us all. It took a while for this to integrate for me but looking back it was really the first time that I had ever gotten a glimpse at how interconnected everything in the world really is. As I was in this deep state of consciousness, deeper than any meditation that I had ever experienced before, thoughts kept cascading into my mind answering the very question that Amy and I were asking each other as we pulled into the parking lot. The thoughts “Do an independent study with Rusty. Do an independent study in altered-state consciousness,” kept repeating in my head. This did not even seem like it was me thinking, in fact I was not even sure if at that time I could think in words. I understood this as something giving me a message.
As the music shifted again and Rusty told us to go to our normal breathing again, I felt as if I completely left my body and had a conversation with a spirit or spirits. Quite honestly, I cannot remember exactly because as I came back to my body I forgot everything that happened in that journey and was only left with an impression of what might have occurred. This foreshadowed of one of the biggest hurtles I had to overcome in the following semester.
Through all that occurred in this session I had an awareness of Amy and how the boundaries between us had melted, but as I was coming back to my body I had an increased understanding of how necessary the boundaries between us would be as we were integrating what just happened to both of us.
I sat up rather quickly and kept my full attention on my body and the sensations running through me. I also understood that no matter how much I wanted tell Amy everything that happened; I had to give her time to fully come back to the present moment. As we both stood up and waited in the hallway to use the bathroom, I could sense Amy's need to open up, but something was holding her back. I placed a hand on her shoulder and then gave her a hug, holding her tightly with a sense that we could have held each other forever.
After everyone returned to their spots in the room, Rusty asked if anyone wanted to share their experience. I was thoroughly amazed at how incredible everyone's experience was, but at the same time how unbelievably different they all were. Not one experience sounded the same and yet there was this sense that everyone had a profound experience. As we were sharing what each of us had gone through, the rain started to pour down once again and this time it may have been even brighter outside than the first time it rained. We all had a sense that we were being spoken to.
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Workshop/Events Calendar
Holistic Integrative Breathing Certification
Practitioner's Training Level II:
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday June 5, 6, 7, 2004:
10am-6pm, Center for Human Integration, 8400 Pine Road,
Philadelphia, PA, 215-742-3505, $400 full registration.
Free Reiki Share:
Tuesday June 22, 2004: 7pm-9pm, Chakra Shop, 3223 Germantown Pike, Fairview Village (Next to The Country Moon), PA, Call 215-658-1093 to let us know you are coming, limited to 15 people. All Reiki practitioners' welcome!
Holistic Integrative Breathing:
Saturday June 26, 2004: 10am-1pm, Temenos Conference
Center, 1564 Telegraph Road, West Chester, PA, 610-696-8145,
$35 full registration, limited to 15 people.
Sunday June 27, 2004: 10am-5pm, Chakra Shop, 3223
Germantown Pike, Fairview Village (Next to The Country Moon),
PA, 215-658-1093, $75 full registration, limited to 15 people.
Part 2, The Upper Chakras.
Saturday July 31, 2004: 10am-1pm, Temenos Conference
Center, 1564 Telegraph Road, West Chester, PA, 610-696-8145,
$35 full registration, limited to 15 people.
Free Lectures/Events Calendar
FREE ONGOING 16 STEP EMPOWERMENT AND DISCOVERY SUPPORT GROUP!
Ongoing Every Thursday: 6:30pm-8pm, The Starting Point, Inc., 215 Highland Avenue, Suite C, Westmont, NJ. The beginning of an ongoing support group for any out of control compulsive behavior or attachment, based on Charlotte Davis Kasle's book Many Roads, One Journey. Call 856-854-3155 x161 for more details!!
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