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Personal Growth Alternatives Newsletter
May 2006

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,

As of Friday May 19th I am seeing clients in the Main Line area at Communitas, A Center for Health & Transformation, LLC, 201 Sabine Ave., Suite 100, Narberth, PA. Thank you my brothers and sisters at Communitas for extending your space to me. For an appointment call my cell phone, 609-332-4663. I will be at Communitas on select Fridays depending on my schedule and client demand. This is Part I in creating a larger presence for myself and Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing And Community Spiritual Center in the Main Line area. Part II is to manifest a free-standing space for Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing And Community Spiritual Center somewhere in the Main Line area in 2007. Please read the Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing and Community Spiritual Center Update Bulletin!

Personal Growth Alternatives is looking to expand and manifest community in new and interesting ways. Please check out Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing and Community Spiritual Center Update Bulletin! This bulletin will be updated periodically to encourage dialogue and feedback between interested practitioners and myself. Please be patient if I do not get back to you right away. I will get back to you! Thank you in advance for your participation.

Soon my website will have a new section called "Manifesting Community Cooperation Network" on the home page. This will be a different type of link service. Organizations and individuals with similar visions of community cooperation will be invited to submit their websites, purpose, and mission to me for dialogue and feedback. My mission, vision, and purpose will be updated in the coming weeks to reflect this link service. The main premise is non-competition. This paradigm is essential to be part of this network. Abundance rules, scarcity fools! More to come….

Please read this message carefully as the FREE Manifesting Community Listings have changed for the better!! The listings are now separated by dated, ongoing, and classified listings. 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. 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.

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

There will be a featured article every month that will be different from my articles in Yoga Living Magazine. Please offer me feedback and dialogue on any of my articles and Professional Messages! Many of my articles and professional messages are an extension of what is going on with me Manifesting Community in the Philadelphia area. I'm asking for support, help, and community brainstorming to make that happen! All of my articles and newsletters can be accessed on the archived article and archived newsletter lists on my website. We can manifest community together!! We can experience community like they do in certain parts of the western US right here!! All it takes is vision, participation, persistence, and commitment!! Please share in manifesting community with me!!

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 of my locations and encourage people to deepen their process through the workshops that I offer.

Get outside and enjoy the energy of spring! Show and extend your love all year long!

Peace and Love,

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.

Professional Message

Get outside! Form groups. Create community. Let your voice be heard. Speak your truth and gain the support from like minds. Now is not the time to hibernate, to retreat, to go into our caves. Instead it is time to ignite a consciousness revolution. Let go of fear. Welcome the unknown, uncertainty, and the unfamiliar. Take a stand for what you believe in. Let your radiance shine. Don't hold back, we need your energy. I need your energy. The Earth and all of her inhabitants need your energy. Be authentic. Join our community in extending love in compassionately stirring the masses up from their long and delirious sleep. Mother Earth and all of life beckon our diligence in slowing, redirecting, and stopping the roller coaster to annihilation.

We have all been influenced too long from the ego's theme of specialness and separation. We all need to shift our perception and create a miracle. Look for commonality. Concentrate on sameness. Experience the mirrors of oneness. Let go of judgment of self-righteousness. Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy? We can't have both. When one is right that makes the other wrong and creates anger, fear, resentment, guilt, shame, you name it. This is separateness. It doesn't work. It's a recipe for disaster in all relationships. No one wants to be wrong. We fight and kill for righteousness. It's time to let go of being right and be who we really are, children of the Creator. Children of Love. Let go of difference, and embrace the oneness in us all. We are all just reflecting our fears back and forth to one another. I suggest an alternate reality and change our perception by mirroring love, compassion, and forgiveness to one another. Now that's a true miracle!

Personal Growth Alternatives Healing Center Update Bulletin!

As of Friday May 19th I am seeing clients in the Main Line area at Communitas, A Center for Health & Transformation, LLC, 201 Sabine Ave., Suite 100, Narberth, PA. Thank you my brothers and sisters at Communitas for extending your space to me. For an appointment call my cell phone, 609-332-4663. I will be at Communitas on select Fridays depending on my schedule and client demand. This is Part I in creating a larger presence for myself and Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing And Community Spiritual Center in the Main Line area. Part II is to manifest a free-standing space for Personal Growth Alternatives: A Healing And Community Spiritual Center somewhere in the Main Line area in 2007.

As I shared in my last newsletter I am looking for committed healers who share in my vision. My intention is to find a core group of people (3-5), to create and manifest the beginnings of a healing center under the umbrella of Personal Growth Alternatives in the Main Line area. Presently that area is pretty broad. As more people share their ideas and intentions with me, it will become clearer where to look for space. Much of this year will be a fact-finding and brainstorming year with the intent on moving into a space in 2007. I hope to have a more detailed position paper for review by early summer. I am welcoming all interested practitioners for an open dialogue until a core group organically manifests itself. Commitment of vision and purpose is of paramount importance. We are not just sharing space and I am not a landlord renting space out. So this is an intimate process of getting to know one another.

I am currently thinking of the center being a combination of profit and non-profit. I don't specifically know what that would look like yet but given our state of economic complexities, having both entities may be the most flexible way to go especially if the non-profit sector happens to be partially or fully grant funded. All options are being left open until more clarity of possibilities are explored. This is a community-oriented project. The goal is to start off small and grow the center through the needs of the holistic community. The core group should be able to work together in healing clients through emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and energetic approaches. We will truly focus on mind, body, and spirit.

Please feel free to email me or call me (office) 215-658-1093, or (cell) 609-332-4663 to participate in an open dialogue and brainstorming. You do not need to be a practitioner to participate in this process. I need to hear from as many people as possible. All voices are important! If I do not get back to you quickly please know that your response is important and that I am frequently out of town and busy trying to answer all my emails and phone calls.

So let the fun begin!

Peace and Love,

Rusty

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. The listings are now separated by dated, ongoing, and classified listings! 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
Personal Growth Alternatives Healing Center Update Bulletin
Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs
Wisdom Of The Earth Oils
Personal Growth Alternatives Website

Featured Events

REIKI LEVEL I CERTIFICATION

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 12, 13, & 14, 2006: 9am-6pm, Cloud Hands Relaxation And Wellness Center, 6907 Easton Road, Pipersville, PA, $250 full paid registration with $50 non-refundable deposit reserving your spot with full payment due by Thursday March 23. Call 215-766-8678 to register. Each class limited to 12 students.

This traditional Usui reiki certification includes powerful meditations each morning, a guided imagery of meeting your reiki guides, the history of reiki, hand and kanji positions, three hours each day of hands on application on each other, personal use of medicinal grade organic and/or wildcrafted essential oils on the chakras, pendulum diagnosis, scanning and beaming, grounding, protecting and centering techniques, pranic healing and cleansing, and a detailed binder to refer to. The cost is $250 for registration by Thursday May 11 for Reiki I. You can reserve a spot with a $50 non-refundable deposit. If something comes up and you cannot attend you can use the $50 as credit to another workshop or certification. I look forward to a powerful, sacred, and fun 3 days of energy healing, attunements, and practical hands on application with each other! Let me know of any other questions you may have. Call me at 215-658-1093 or email me at rusty@rustystewartphd.com.

REIKI LEVEL II CERTIFICATION:

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY June 2, 3, & 4, 2006 9AM-6PM AT CLOUD HANDS RELAXATION AND WELLNESS CENTER, 8330 Easton Road, Ottsville, PA, call 215-766-8678 to register. Each class limited to 12 students.

This traditional Usui reiki certification includes powerful meditations each morning, a guided imagery of meeting your reiki guides, use of reiki symbols, Kanji positions, long distance healing, three hours each day of hands on application with each other, personal use of medicinal grade organic and/or wildcrafted essential oils on the chakras, pendulum diagnosis, emotional/mental healing and balancing, removing clouds, aligning with your life purpose, grounding, protecting and centering techniques, and a detailed binder to refer to.
The cost is $300 for registration by Thursday June 1 for Reiki II. You can reserve a spot with a $50 non-refundable deposit. If something comes up and you cannot attend you can use the $50 as credit to another workshop or certification. I look forward to a powerful, sacred, and fun 3 days of energy healing, level II attunements, and practical hands on application with each other! Let me know of any other questions you may have. Call me at 215-658-1093 or email me at rusty@rustystewartphd.com.

SHAMANIC REIKI MASTER PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION:

Saturday & Sunday June 10 & 11, 2006: 8am-6pm, Golden Light Wellness Center, 350 Lincoln Street, Oxford, PA, $300 full registration with $50 non-refundable deposit reserving your spot with full payment due by Friday June 9. Call 610-932-9511 to register.Each class limited to 9 people. Prerequisite: Reiki Level II certification.

Description
Reiki and shamanism go hand in hand. When Dr. Mikao Usui received the Reiki symbols and the power and wisdom to use them while meditating many years ago on Mt Kuryama, he accessed the same power that is available to all of us. Shamans from time immemorial have interfaced the spirit world with the human and Usui can be considered to be one of the most powerful shamans the world has known. The practice of Reiki opens the intuition and thins the illusionary veils between spirit and matter. Within this opening lies an invitation to work directly with spirit in the healing process the way shamans and indigenous healers have done for centuries. Hands-on Reiki becomes a vital portal for the any dynamic ways of working with the Universal Life Force Energy. In this experiential weekend, Rusty Stewart, Ph.D. combines Tibetan Bon and Buddhist, Quechua, and Siberian teachings with hands-on Reiki. Through ceremony and practice, assisted by the four elements, plants, music, sacred stones, shamanic journeys and Reiki spirit guides, Rusty facilitates your opening to Shamanic Reiki. You will receive the Master-Practitioner Tibetan Buddhist symbol and attunement; receive another archetypal symbol for use in healing work; learn to work with your spirit guides and the four elements in the healing/cleansing process; practice body-centered journeying techniques for yourself and your clients; learn energetic extraction techniques and etheric body-work approaches; energetic practices to support spiritual healing and the path of the healer. Open to all Reiki Level II practitioners and up - masters and master-teachers as well.

Featured Article

The Truth And The Matrix Revisited Part II

I am asking for feedback on both articles, Part I and Part II, to create a dialogue and conversation about supporting each other in community, marked by our similar experiences of truth and reality. For those of you who did not read my article last month you may want to click on the link above and read “The Truth And The Matrix Revisited Part I” before you read Part II. There may be parts of this article that do not make sense in the larger context without experiencing the first article.

We can take back our power in groups, in community. Of course this takes a diligent level of commitment. It takes courage. It takes the energy of passion and compassion. We can dream a more powerful dream together. We can make a difference. Our children, our children's children, etc., are counting on us. It is customary in Native American tradition to consider the ramifications of how our decisions will affect our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren seven generations into the future. In addition, Native Americans are concerned with how all of the other precious life beings will be affected on Mother Earth, including all the Earth Elements.

As I have stressed so many times it all starts from inside of each one of us. That is where true change occurs. But it helps to have a support network of like-minded people who can pool their energies together. Then, we don't feel so alone. When we work together it exponentially multiplies the energies. This facilitates and speeds a collective consciousness shift. And, do I dare to say that with the rapidity of change happening and the increasing polarity of energy, we need to bolster the shift to love, compassion, and forgiveness. For with that change in perception all else would fall into place. We would find that the chasm between the polarities would lessen and that living both inside and outside of society would begin to diminish as more and more people bridge the ravine of separation. Miracles would begin to be more of the norm as the illusion and hologram of the matrix starts to flicker, revealing the eternal truth underneath.

I believe we have reached an apex where the benefits of living our truth on this auspicious path outweigh the risks. The greater risk is who we become if we deny our truth, if we deny our love, and if we fail to express our Divinity within. As I said in Part I, for many of us there is no turning back. There are many more of us sharing this same experience than we think. It is critical for us to find each other and come together for ritual, support, and ceremony. We cannot do this alone, and to not do it would be a violation of our soul and our Spirit. We need not be discouraged, sisters and brothers, when we have each other. Let us reach out with our hearts and hands to each other and guide one another in all aspects of community.

And so I ask all readers of this article to speak to me, respond in some way to let me know you are out there wanting the world to be different. I need feedback and community conversation. Ultimately, that is what I envision in manifesting a healing and community spiritual center. A place where we can gather in support and encouragement while we create a miracle from within in unison and extend our energies outward into the world. There is no other way. It truly is an inside job. But it is easier with support and community. We are all one. The microcosm affects the macrocosm. Please call or email me your thoughts, feelings, and ideas. In closing I would like to share one of my favorite A Course In Miracles quotes:

"Nothing real can be threatened
Nothing unreal exists
Herein lies the peace of God" (ACIM, 1977)

Our truth cannot be threatened. The matrix is not real. It's time to come home to Love!

The Truth And The Matrix Revisited Part I

Workshop/Events Calendar

Reiki Level I Certification:

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 12, 13, & 14, 2006: 9am-6pm, Cloud Hands Healing Arts Center, 6907 Easton Road, Pipersville, PA, $250 full paid registration with $50 non-refundable deposit reserving your spot with full payment due by Thursday May 11. Call 215-766-8678 to register. Limited to 12 people.

Reiki Level II Certification:

Friday June 2, 2006: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm through Sunday June 4, 2006, Cloud Hands Relaxation And Wellness Center, new address in June: 8330 Easton Road, Ottsville, PA $300 full paid registration with $50 non-refundable deposit reserving your spot with full payment due by Thursday June 1. Call 215-766-8678 to register. Limited to 12 people.

Shamanic Reiki Master Practitioner Certification:

Saturday June 10, 2006: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm through Sunday June 11, 2006, Golden Light Wellness Center, 350 Lincoln Street, Oxford, PA $300 full registration with $50 non-refundable deposit reserving your spot with full payment due by Friday June 9. Call 610-932-9511 to register. Limited to 9 people. Prerequisite: Reiki Level II certification.

Holistic Integrative Breathing Part II: Breaths 6-10

Saturday, Sunday and Monday, June 17, 2006, 10am-6pm, Center for Human Integration (CHI), 8400 Pine Road, Philadelphia (Foxchase), PA 215-742-3505, $75 full registration.

Holistic Integrative Breathing Practitioners Training Level I:

Saturday, Sunday and Monday, June 24, 25, & 26, 2006, 10am-6pm, Center for Human Integration (CHI), 8400 Pine Road, Philadelphia (Foxchase), PA 215-742-3505, $300 full registration.

Shapeshifting: The Ultimate Wake Up Call!

Friday July 14, 2006: 10:00 am - 4:30 pm through Saturday July 15, 2006, Life Spectrums Conference, Pocono Manor Golf Resort and Spa, Pocono Manor, PA. Sacred Fire ceremony to conclude and seal our commitment to ourselves, mother earth, and humanity! Claiming the Path of Possibility, Life Spectrums 27th Annual Conference/Retreat, July 11-16. Call 717-469-7032 for more information on conference cost or www.lifespectrums.org.

Free Lectures/Events Calendar

Free Reiki Share:

Monday May 15, 2006: 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' and interested people welcome!

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. 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!!

Special Series of Events

For those of you interested in working with Indigenous Shamans, the Tamayos: Don Esteban and Jorge Tamayo, are going to be doing healings, ceremonies, and workshops in the area. They are father and son ecuadorian healers called Yachachs in their native Quichuan tongue. See details



Now with three convenient locations to serve you!

Main Office:
Horsham, PA 19044
Just off Welsh Road (Rte. 63)
215-658-1093

Communitas
A Center for Health & Transformation, LLC
201 Sabine Ave., Suite 100
Narberth, PA 19072
609-332-4663

Wellspring Counseling
19 N. Centre Street
Merchantville, NJ 08109
609-332-4663

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Email: rusty@personalgrowthalternatives.com
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