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Personal Growth Alternatives Newsletter
August 2005

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D. Rusty Stewart, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Psychoeducational Processes at Temple University. He is a proficient and skilled Reiki Master, Transformational Breath Facilitator, Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Advanced Master Shapeshifter Practitioner. He has a private practice in Integrated Energy Balancing Healing Psychotherapy Including Heart Centered Hypnotherapy, Shapeshifting Consciousness, Body Centered Psychotherapy, Aromatherapy, Quantum Physics thought retraining, and Imago centered couples work. Rusty presents workshops throughout the tri-state area including Holistic Integrative Breathing, Shapeshifting: The Ultimate Wake-Up Call!, Break on Through to the Other Side: Walking the Talk!, Igniting Personal Power: Proven Manifestation Techniques!, Advanced Recovery: The Next Step!, and Creating Sacred Relationships! In addition, Rusty is organizing bi-weekly groups to begin in the Spring 2005 time frame. He also facilitates certifications in Reiki I, II, III, and Holistic Integrative Breathing I, II, & III. Rusty also created the 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 and social psychology and psychology at the University Of The Sciences in Philadelphia.

Personal Message

Friends, Brothers, and Sisters,

The Holistic Integrative Breathing Part II Cd's are in!!! Please go to the Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs below to get more specifics.

Please read this message carefully as the FREE Manifesting Community Listings are changing for the better!! The listings are now separated by dated and ongoing listings. As of the next newsletter they will be further separated by classifieds. Directions are on my website and on this newsletter. This will provide more control over where listings should go and allow people to enter listings all the time. It will also free me up from administrative duties so I can concentrate on my passions. You will need to put an end date on the event if it is ongoing or classified and then re-enter the listing when it expires. All listings will be automatically updated as dates pass by and as new dates are added. All events will be in date chronological order.


There will be a featured article every month that will be different from my articles in Yoga Living. You are welcome to offer me feedback on any of my articles. All of my 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, Reiki shares, and support groups that I support and/or 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 all three of my locations and encourage people to deepen their process through the workshops that I offer.

Get out and enjoy the summer! Show and extend your love all year long!

Peace and Love,

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.

Professional Message

I just completed being a part of the team that helped to run and support the Essential Experience Workshop. I was reminded of the powerful experiences of personal transformation that often occur at this workshop. I feel privileged to have witnessed the shift in participants from Thursday at 7pm until graduation Sunday at 9:30pm. I experienced the workshop myself in November of 1991 and have been active in their men's group, picnics, spring flings, bowling, and the ee listserve for years. This was my first experience on team. Wow! What an experience. I have committed to being a part of the ee team at least once a year from now on.

I have had 13 friends and clients take the workshop in the last 3 years. Every one of them had a positive life changing experience. I find that ee not only helps bring clarity and focus to ones issues, goals, and dysfunctional patterns, but also enhances one's already successful life. If you think you don't need a workshop like this you're right. Nobody needs ee. However, if you care enough about yourself like I care about myself, then why not give yourself the gift of broadening your possibilities by taking action and leaving your limitations behind? You deserve it! I deserve it! Everyone deserves it! Change your life in ways that you can't even imagine. The support network and community events that occur after the workshop provide an opportunity for connection, fun, and exciting lifestyle changes.

For more information you can call me at 215-658-1093 or email me at rusty@rustystewartphd.com or go to ee's website at www.ee.org. There are four workshops annually. The next one is November 4-6, 2005 in Bryn Mawr. Don't miss this life changing opportunity!

Hope you're having a great summer!!

Peace and Love,

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.

Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs

The Holistic Integrative Breathing Part II Cd's are in!!!
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 Journey of the Drums Primal Drumming Breath (Journey 1), 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 breaths for my part 2 breath workshop and certification are NOW AVAILABLE! You will receive the Journey of the Drums primal drumming breath (Journey 2), Compassion Breath, Unity Breath, Clarity Breath, and Soul Star Breath with all the affirmations included. The cost is $25 plus $3.85 shipping and handling for either of the 5 breath sets or $50 plus $3.85 shipping and handling for the entire 10 breath set. 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! more...

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.




Free Open Community Listings

Please check out the Manifesting Community icon above and click to see a file of all the upcoming community events. Anyone can submit community events, workshops, seminars, etc., to post on this list for FREE. Please click on the List Events icon on this newsletter or my website and follow the directions to manually input your listing. This will be updated continuously automatically as dates pass and new events are added. 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!!

Table of Contents

Free Open Community Listings
Featured Events
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 Events

PERSONAL GROWTH
ALTERNATIVES
PRESENTS

Holistic Integrative Breathing

Wednesday July 20, 2005: 6:30-8pm
Whole Foods Market North Wales
1210 Bethlehem Pike, North Wales, PA
215-646-6300
Free Sampler!

This is for people who want to experience:
Extra energy, increased mental clarity, a greater ability to solve problems, an efficient and healthier life, more, love, joy, forgiveness, compassion, and freedom, less stress, a creativity boost and expressing your truth, more balance, greater intuition, and a deeper connection with your spirituality.

What Is Holistic Integrative Breathing?
The purpose of this type of breathing is to heal, balance, clear, and not to bring up past trauma. You will learn how to continuously breathe from your belly and move your energy through your body. Aromatherapy and positive affirmations will accompany this breathing process. Ideally, when our bottom three energy centers are clear and balanced and our top three energy centers are clear and balanced, we live in joy from the heart through unconditional love. You can truly integrate alternative healing methods with the traditional and create your own personalized holistic practice to empower and heal yourself!

Featured Article

Racism And All The Ism's: Bringing Light to Darkness

I have participated in hundreds of workshops and classes. The most intensive and life changing of these have been experiential. They have also been the most worthwhile because my assumptions, belief systems, and layers of denial have been challenged. Here is a list of the most important workshops and classes I have taken in the last 16 years of my life: Lifespring 1989, Insight 1991, Essential Experience 1991, Temple University Psychoeducational Processes Program Classes; T-Group 1995, Intimacy and Control 1995, and Tavistock 1996. Racism came up as an issue in every one of these learning experiences. Why? Because the format of these workshops and classes provided the safety, support, and confidentiality for difficult issues to surface and be explored. And race is an important issue that gets swept under the carpet by most people. It is unacceptable for this ostrich behavior to continue. Racism is real, it's still happening, and we're in denial!

There are two very important factors that keep racism alive. One is that it is still occuring all over the globe to greater or lesser extents. Yes, there are civil rights laws. Yes, there is affirmative action. But the reason we need these structures in place is because we do not treat everyone as equal. We do not listen to everyone equally. We do not pay everybody equally. We do not promote everyone equally. And, here is where one can really see how far we have yet to go -- we do not think about everyone equally. Remember from quantum physics and “What The Bleep Do We Know?” that thought creates reality? It is no longer politically acceptable or even legal to practice prejudice. But that doesn't mean it still isn't happening behind our masks. It happens frequently at a more subtle level that is indiscernible to many people. Combine this with the second factor, the sensitivity of the victims, their families, and their ancestors who have been harmed physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, monetarily, vocationally, environmentally, etc., and we have a potential volcano ready to erupt at any given moment.

Why should any oppressed group of people trust their oppressors? It's not like racism has stopped. Sure it has improved. But we have a long way to go. I look at it like I do all dysfunctional systems. One of the problems with racism is that it has gone underground. In other words, it is more covert than overt now. And believe me the oppressed are just as much tuned in to the energy of the covert as the overt! It doesn't matter if you are African American, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay or lesbian, female, Jewish, etc. Any group of people who have been harmed and oppressed do not forget, nor should they! Especially when bigotry is still alive and kicking.

So I ask that all of us be sensitive to all our brothers and sisters. Think before you speak. Change the way you think. Talk about difficult issues with one another. Have a dialogue about racism. The white population as a whole has a long way to go in understanding racism and taking responsibility for their part in its continued practice. At the same time there may be instances when racism is not being practiced but misunderstandings occur and a heated discussion flares up anyway. Show some compassion! Be courageous and go deeper. It won't be easy, but it may be rewarding. Rewarding because talking about and acting on tough and sensitive issues promotes intimacy in relationships. Have a dialogue about all the ism's, sexism, elitism, patriotism, etc. All promote separateness and alienation. All promote segregation and prejudice.

In closing I would like to mention again my ee team experience. Go to my professional message on the front page of my newsletter to read more. The most meaningful issues to confront are the most difficult. Whether there personal issues of abuse, dysfunction, shame, guilt, fear, loneliness, anger, sadness, disappointment, or our collective history of racism, and being the oppressed and/or oppressor. The ee workshop is a confidential and safe place to address and take action on all the potentially confrontational, conflicting, painful, and difficult issues. I am a better person because of my experience! I understand more about oppressed peoples as a result of the workshop! And equally important, I understand more about who I am. And that allows me to be more present, compassionate, and intimate with others. What a gift I gave myself! Think about giving the ee gift to yourself. You deserve it!

Workshop/Events Calendar

Holistic Integrative Breathing:

Wednesday August 24, 2005: 6:30pm-8pm, Whole Foods Market North Wales, 1210 Bethlehem Pike, North Wales, PA call 215-646-6300 to register. Free Sampler!

Saturday September 10, 2005: 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.

Open House Center For Human Integration:

Wednesday September 7, 2005: 7-9:30pm, Center For Human Integration, 8400 Pine Road, Philadelphia, PA, 215-742-3505. Free Open House!

Free Lectures/Events Calendar

Free Reiki Share:

Monday September 19, 2005: 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!

Free Sampler Holistic Integrative Breathing:

Wednesday August 24, 2005: 6:30-8pm, Whole Foods Market North Wales, 1210 Bethlehem Pike, North Wales, PA 215-646-6300, Free Sampler!

Open House Center For Human Integration:

Wednesday September 7, 2005: 7-9:30pm, Center For Human Integration, 8400 Pine Road, Philadelphia, PA, 215-742-3505. Free Open House!

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 or 215-658-1093 for more details!!



Wellspring Counseling Center
63 E. Main Street
Moorestown, NJ 08057
609-332-4663

Three Convenient Locations To Serve You!

The Chakra Shop
3223 Germantown Pike
Fairview Village, PA 19409
215-658-1093

Personal Growth Alternatives
Horsham, PA 19044
Phone: 215-658-1093

Website: www.personalgrowthalternatives.com
Email: rusty@personalgrowthalternatives.com
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