Renewal
Dates to be announced - Petaluma, CA

Facilitators: Amy Skezas and Joseph Hiller

Enrollment, lodging, and transportation information for this class will be available soon; please check back again.

This is the foundational training course of the enlightenment practice of Renewal, part of the Building the Golden Body™ teachings of Athabascar. In this course you learn to combine spiritual counseling and reflection skills with the creation energy of the Golden Body. In a Triangle with two other practitioners you learn to create a powerful space for liberation of energy, illumination of unconsciousness, and a boost of insight and compassion for self and others.

In 1996, Athabascar began teaching Amy about energies that underlie all of creation, which he calls Golden Body energies. These energies are present in nature, in healing, in birth, in growth, indeed, in all life processes and the expression and fulfillment of life force energy. However, most human beings do not yet know or understand how to access this level of reality, or how to generate more of this golden energy.

Athabascar has taught us a simple, direct way to access this flow: the meditation practices taught in the Building the Golden Body™ CD sets, available for home study after over ten years of refining the energies in live seminars with hundreds of participants and deep meditations with Amy to determine the best way to help people learn the material stably. This seminar takes the Golden Body work to another level: you learn to run the energies while in counseling dialogue with someone who is seeking a transformational shift, using the energies to support the co-creation of a higher path, a more fulfilling life.

In this time of planetary shift, it is vital that those who are supporting others be supported. The focus of the Renewal work is on assisting people who we call helping professionals, those who are dedicated to assisting other people, the Earth, or even consciousness itself. Helping professionals in our view are defined not by whether they are paid money for their work, but whether they are dedicated to service and in life, "show up" consistently in some manner of service to others. Their form of service might be healing, teaching, counseling, leading, parenting, caregiving, developing new technologies, helping with cultural preservation, etc—the possibilities are limitless. Take a moment to think about your values and your actions: are you a helping professional? or would you like to be? You can begin now to organize your energy to give and receive the blessings of being of service. We invite you to this class, whatever your expression of service, if you wish to develop professionally and personally to be able to offer more sustainable, joy-filled, heart-based service.

Renewal work is conducted in a Triangle, three people who have Golden Body skills or who at least have begun Golden Body study by listening at least once to the CD sets before coming to class. At class you are taught the basic counseling skills you need to be successful in the practice; if you are an experienced counselor, the counseling teaching will help you set your focus to the essentials of this practice. If your Golden Body and counseling skills are not as developed as your Triangle partners' skills, there will be enrichment and learning both ways; that is how the energy moves in Renewal.

In your Triangle there are 3 roles, and you will learn the beginning steps of the "dance" of each role in this class. The Presenter offers a situation into the Triangle for transformational focus; the situation in some way is related to the Presenter's service work or development as a person in ways that impact his or her ability to be present in service. The Facilitator offers verbal spiritual counseling skills combined with Golden Body skills to help the Presenter come to the next level of illumination and creation with the energies inherent in the presentation. The Observer acts as a witness, using Golden Body skills silently to support the processes of release, insight, self-awareness, compassion, and other developments that are part of a Renewal session. Quite often, although the roles are clear and defined, the transformation touches all three participants deeply, and the "dance" of the work becomes a healing and evolutionary experience for all three participants, not only the Presenter.

Renewal helps you build strength and depth of presence, being with and accepting "what is" in yourself and others that previously, you perhaps had been unable to "digest." From that space of neutrality, you learn that there are choices available to you for the co-creation of your life that before, may have been unavailable. Renewal was first taught in 2007 and the pilot groups of Triangles who we are tracking, who have been practicing since then, are reporting significant personal and professional development, which they attribute to this practice. Many of these people have been in light work for years, and say that Renewal is "reaching the places that nothing else has reached." Several of the people in the pilot group have extensive experience with supervision and counseling and report that their skills have increased significantly. Many of the people in the pilot group had no significant experience with counseling and verbal dialogue work in a formal setting; they are reporting confidence and excitement at the "results" that this "no fixing" method has created through them. We are also receiving reports of "spillover" into people's personal lives, of greater openness for intimacy, greater calmness and stability, and greater joy; and in many cases, increasing business and professional opportunities.

The Golden Body adds a level of intensity, spaciousness, and peace that is not usually present in a counseling situation. Because in the Golden Body you are accessing directly the Void and the energies of creation, and because the Golden Body directly affects not only what you are able to perceive but the very quality of your awareness itself, Renewal is an accelerated transformational practice. The key ingredient if you wish to experience the work to the fullest is honesty with yourself, and a willingness to open and shift in the dialogue and energy practices with your Triangle. We call the work "spiritual counseling" because the "basic stance" is that co-creation is open at every moment, and that the Universe is listening and wants you to fulfill your potential. Your Triangle partners help you to illuminate areas of lesser awareness and to initiate and enhanace flow; and you help them to do the same, in a process that is deeply connected with the evolutionary movement of consciousness and the planetary shift into light.

Because the material that comes up in Renewal can be exciting, stimulating, and life-changing, and because we feel strongly that all service to others is built on a strong and ever-evolving foundation of physical, emotional, and mental well-being, we ask that all participants listen to the home study audio CD set Self-Care & Self-Empowerment Through Energy Awareness before coming to class. This wonderful course was developed by Nancy Reuben, M.D., M.Div., and was taught in medical schools, corporations, personal growth seminars, and other settings before being produced in a format that you can study at home.

After the Renewal seminar, you are eligible for continuing education in Renewal work. Gauden University, through its Institute of Professional Development, offers a series of nine other classes that build on Renewal, as well as the Renewal Network, an active community for learning and development, with experienced practitioners known as Stewards who support you and your Triangle partners in the development of Renewal practice. Amy's co-facilitator for this class Joseph Hiller is the Program Director for the Institute.

You may attend Renewal in person only, no long distance.

Prerequisites: 3 sets of audio home study CDs, available through RoseLight: 1) Self-Care & Self-Empowerment Through Energy Awareness , 2) Building the Golden Body™ Volume 1: Heart Ball Introduction home study audio CDs, and 3) Building the Golden Body™ Volume 2: Tones . Please listen at least once to each track before class so that you are prepared for the level of work we will do in class. It is all right if you fall asleep/"cross over" while listening to the Golden Body sets, as you may become very relaxed. There are no subliminal messages on any of the audio CDs.

Enrollment, lodging, and transportation information for this class will be available soon; please check back again.

Updated June 26, 2009