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Dr. Steven Hiebert, Intuitive Chiropractor -Healer

Vitality, Balance, Life What I do I use my extensive training, over twenty years of experience, applied kinesiology testing and intuitive awareness to determine what is causing your symptoms and how to fix it.

I do this in a way that honors your body’s innate wisdom and natural ability to heal.

My tools – Chiropractic adjusting

Healing is rarely an event.

Trigger points

Healing is a journey – a spiral – a progression.

Reflex points Nutrition

Healing is an unfolding and unwinding of accumulated burdens and traumas.

Diet Emotional issues

Healing is releasing the blocks that keep you from your natural state - healthy.

Flower essences Homeopathy Hands-on healings I have helped many people over the years. Chances are good I can help you too.

If you have questions prior to scheduling an appointment, I am happy to chat with you either by phone or email.

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Center for Spirituality & Healing innovates Wellbeing Leadership program

Are you more than your parts?

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Normandale Community College leads the area in integrative health education

Ruhka Academy offers healing professionals business know-how

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Therapeutic Coaching速 Certification Program The Meta Institute is now in its new home in New Hope The Meta Institute Presents:

Therapeutic Coaching速 Certification Program, an intensive 15 month, weekend program that brings together the best and most effective aspects of life coaching and therapy. Learn the newest cutting edge skills and techniques to assist people in achieving their goals This program will offer you skills from a wide variety of fields such as: If you are interested in adding to your present skills or considering a career change, call for an information package and application.

Early payment discounts & payment plans available!

Emotional Intelligence Hypnosis Quantum Physics, Business Management & Consulting

Systems Theory Experiential Learning Past Life Therapy NLP Team Building & Leadership

Family Therapy Developmental & Life Cycle Stages Motivational Counseling, & so much more!

Applications being accepted for September 2012 Class Free Information Session, Thurs., July 19 (6:30-8:30) please call to register

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Aug. 7 & 8, 2012 (Tues./Wed. 2-part evening class 6:30-10pm) $300

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OU ARE looking for a seat...the auditorium is packed today! All departments are buzzing

about this mysterious executive address. A new organization-wide campaign is being unveiled by the newly named CWO. That’s right: The Chief Wellbeing Officer.

Such a scenario is far more likely to occur than you might imagine. Since last June, the Center for Spirituality & Healing has been meeting with interested corporate

Mary Jo Kreitzer, Karen Poel and Chris Heeter discuss the strategy behind Wellbeing Leadership.

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BY TONY BAISLEY

Healing innovates ogram partners to explore a deliberate program offering that would educate their company leaders about wellbeing practices and how leadership in this area can increase the capacity of an organization to innovate and sustain performance in an increasingly interconnected, complex and dynamic world.

WELLBEING LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: WHOLE SYSTEMS APPROACH

“Wellbeing Leadership is a whole person, whole systems approach to developing leadership skills in the face of complexity and challenge,” believes Center Director Mary Jo Kreitzer. “Of course, wellbeing is often looked at individually, or personally, but it’s a powerful challenge to think of it organizationally. The companies that address the full ‘wellbeing’ of their organizations and prepare

“Leadership is not just what you do.

It is who you are. Your interior condition —everything from your emotional state to your breath—has an influence on your communication with others.”

—Wendy Morris, MA, Wellbeing Leadership Faculty

their leaders to act with both intentionality and innovation in these areas will continue to distinguish themselves in the eyes of their employees and their consumer base.”

One person who has lived through profound shifts in corporate culture—and wellbeing— is Karen Poel. Poel, who recently accepted a position at Lifetime Fitness as Senior Director, Kids Activities and Aquatics, is a Center Advisory Board member and Wellbeing Leadership faculty. Poel leveraged her own personal and

professional experiences to contribute to the Center’s new offering. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Poel found a passion in the world of retail.

After years of working in strategic positions for Dayton Hudson Corporation and Marshall Fields, she found herself in crisis in 2005 when her company was acquired

by Macy’s in an industry consolidation move. For the first time

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Start: Noon Saturday End: 5pm Monday Cost: $225 (including meals) Register at www.MidwestShamanicGathering.com Chief Valerio Cohaila - Ed (Eagle Man) McGaa - Dennis King - Dan Hull Mayan Day Keeper, Nan Shuni Giron - Mayan Elder, Tata Pedro Cruz - Larry Kessler Taino Elder, Miguel Sague - Robert Alcorn - Shannon Kring Buset and more!

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in her career, the strategies that had served her so well, no longer seemed to matter or to work. “I had to develop new ways to deal with change, chaos, and complexity for my own wellbeing, that of my team and that of the organization. Basically, I learned to relax within intensity and was surprised to find that my team and I achieved better results.”

In cultivating a happy and fulfilling life, Poel had her own reservoir of resources to pull from

in times of emergency. A lifelong athlete also known to run marathons, she called on that discipline when dealing with the magnified stress at work. “Not only would I do Pilates but I’d also run eight miles,” she says when describing her preparation for particularly stressful meetings where she knew her leadership would be tested. “I would get myself totally pumped up so I could be as energetic and authentic as possible.”

USE STRESS-REDUCING TECHNIQUES

Using other techniques to reduce stress and stay mindful, Poel realized that her team could also benefit from the practices. “Here I was using skills like visualization that I knew worked, so I passed some of them along to my colleagues to help us all stay afloat.”

“Karen has been instrumental in the conceptualization of our Wellbeing Leadership program,” says Kreitzer. “She brings such a

WHAT IS WELLBEING LEADERSHIP? Its mission is to provide a • Understand the value of their • Take adaptive action that transforms individuals, teams, own wellbeing, the wellbeing direct, experiential understandorganizations and the larger of others, and the impact this ing that wellbeing practices emcommunity and leads to sushas on the organization. bodied and fostered by leaders tainable practices and results. not only improve the health of • Develop and maintain wellbeing practices and leader- • Energize positive change by individuals and teams, but also making wellbeing contaship skills in the face of comincreases the capacity of an orgagious! plexity and challenge. nization to innovate and sustain performance in an increasingly • Recognize and work with patterns at a whole person To explore creating a cusinterconnected, complex and dytomized program for your and whole systems level. namic world.

Wellbeing leaders will • Evoke innovative thinking organization, please contact gain skills that enable them and allow answers to emerge Beth: somer012@umn.edu or to: 612-626-2395. from diverse perspectives

wealth of business acumen to our team and her awareness that the corporate community could benefit from this has been inspiring.”

“The Center for Spirituality & Healing is a recognized leader in educating health professionals, leveraging deep and credible expertise in the art, science and business of wellbeing,” states Poel.

“Taking what the Center does to the workplace, so that leaders can share it with their teams, is just smart business.”

Tony Baisley has been the communications director at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality & Healing since 2007. He also has a 50 percent appoint with the School of Nursing as director of strategic communications. Baisley has primary responsibility for building awareness and strategically positioning the Center with local, state, national and international

1. Health: All aspects of

health are included — physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Rather than an emphasis on perfect health the focus is on increasing functional capacity and vitality.

2. Purpose: Having an aim and direction gives life and work meaning. The spark to express an individual, group or community vision can be the motivating force of change and innovation.

3. Relationships: Our social connections and networks,

including social support, have a profound effect on wellbeing. This includes finding a balance between giving and receiving; expressing the inter-dependency of a whole system.

4. Community: Resources such as capacity and infrastructure (jobs,

media resources and partners.

He also is responsible for framing and implementing communications strategies that support both the Center and School of Nursing’s myriad programs and events.

Reprinted (with some edited adaptations by Essential Wellness) with permission from Mandala magazine, a biannual publication of the Center for Spirituality & Healing at the University of Minnesota.

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schools, transportation, green space); engagement (participation and connections) and empowerment (capacity for taking action).

5. Environment: We are part of an inter-dependent planet, relying on clean air, drinkable water, a world free of toxins. Access to nature sustains and nourishes body, mind and spirit.

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is written by the victors.” This implies a certain bias. And today, powerful interests control mainstream information and education. (Thankfully, Essential

Wellness is independent media!)

So, who are these “powerful interests” anyway? The visibly powerful include various captains of industry. Primarily

BY JULIE CASPER

r parts? the financial, energy, manufacturing, agri-biz, chemical and medical industries. The healthcare industrial complex includes the insurance industry, medical

manufacturing and services, and the pharmaceutical industry.

But make no mistake; all corporate “industry” has an impact on our health.

MODERN MEDICINE VICTIM OF OWN SUCCESS

Wellness can be complicated.

Each human being is a highly complex integration of innumerable biological systems and processes, as well as influencing environmental cofactors such as chemical toxicity and EMFs. It is ironic that mainstream medicine, considered by some to be reductionist, sterile, technological, and mechanistic and compartmentalized, is actually the consequence of many truly great advances in specialized knowledge by researchers. In a real sense, the modern medical paradigm is a victim of its own success. Medical overspecialization has resulted in a nonintegrated healthcare system that often seems dysfunc-

tional. Well meaning medical specialists simply do not have time to keep up with the explosion of information about the different specialists’ specialties. There is a disconnect, so critical information that may pertain to an individual patient might be unknown to the treating physician.

It is understandable that our human intellect is attracted to the exciting, cool “new” (we are after all, only human). A new movie, new technology, new information, new medical therapy, new “magic-bullet” drug, and so on. Still, must it necessarily follow that we reject ancient wisdom to replace it with what is newest? Is it possible that some of the information given to us by the history-writers is misleading?

After all, corporations do have a mandate to make a profit (our health may not be the priority).

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USE DISCERNMENT WHEN CONSIDERING NEW THERAPIES

Human progress and scientific inquiry are very important.

Because obviously, we can improve. However, implementation of any medical therapy should be tempered with discernment.

Modern techno-medicine is so fragmented and incoherent that it can put the patient’s health at risk. Newest does not always mean best. History can provide us with some perspective here; the Science Museum of Minnesota has an informative exhibit titled “Questionable Medical Devices.” It is worth a visit: http:// www.smm.org/exhibitservices/ history/collections/gallery/9 What we call holistic, or “energy medicine,” has in fact been used for healing by most of humanity for many thousands of years. If the value of therapy was based solely on how long it has been around, and how long people have thought that it was helpful, then holistic medicine would be the most effective treatment known to humankind. Clearly, 18 www.esswellness.com

ancient healers were on to something. And, holistic medicine practitioners are still practicing today simply because the therapy is effective. Leading-edge hightech medical research is now exploring the realms of the ancients.

Essentially all matter (including us) is comprised of atoms. Always in motion, atoms function dynamically with electrons, protons, and neutrons (quantum mechanics breaks it down even further). Also, the earth is a giant electro-magnet which influences our biology. Good holistic medicine practitioners consider the whole health picture and influencing environmental cofactors.

CONSIDER THAT WELLNESS IS MORE THAN ABSENCE OF DEATH

Keep in mind that authentic health is a state of comprehensive wellness, not merely the absence of death. Fundamental wellness provides many tangible benefits, including a joyfulness at the cellular level. Do not be fooled, this is not rocket science; optimum health can be achieved

through simple health promoting behaviors. Although, sometimes therapy is necessary for an acute or chronic condition. Then only safe, well understood, proven therapies should be considered.

Often, holistic healers are not officially sanctioned by the medical industrial complex. Do not be mislead, this does not mean holistic therapeutic protocols are ineffective or unsafe. This also does not mean all conventional medicine is safe, there may be conflicting interests involved (do your own research). Having trust in the healer is important in all healing. Learn for yourself who you can trust. You must protect your own health by making sure any therapy or medical tests you agree to be safe. Although this can be challenging, you have much to gain (or lose). Investing time and energy in your health is far less costly than paying for illness. From a holistic perspective, the immeasurable self-healing capacity of human biology surpasses a techno-medical compartmentalized approach. Quantum science proves you are more

than your parts, much more. To ensure a brighter future for ourselves, our children, and our planet—wellness is essential. Be well.

Julie Casper, C. Ac. (WI), L. Ac. (CO), is a classically trained Oriental medicine physician, licensed in Wisconsin and Colorado. Julie earned her acupuncture degree from the Academy of Classical Oriental Sciences in Nelson, British Columbia. With additional studies and clinical practice in; Applied Meridian Theory, traditional qigong, Health Qigong, and Corrective PhysEd (musculo-skeletal assessment and pathology correction).

Julie is a CHEK Institute Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiology certified exercise coach. She helps athletes incorporate health-promoting alternatives into their programs for injury prevention, performance enhancement, and energy nutrition.

Also, Julie is trained in biochemical balancing science and is a HTMA Nutritional Therapist. Julie’s Health Elite Clinic is located in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Health Elite Clinic offers an individualized, holistic, ELITE Retreat program during the summer.

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HOLISTIC EDUCATION AND TRAINING Green River Dance The Meta Institute for Global Somatics 763-533-6527

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School: 2 715 East 26th Street, Minneapolis MN 55406 Office: 1 0700 Lindo Trail, Lindstrom MN 55045 Contact: Suzanne River 651-257-8697 dance@globalsomatics.com www.globalsomatics.com

Inspiration@muselan.com www.MuselanYogaTeacher.com

Green River Dance for Global Somatics is a healing arts resource center recognized for innovative Continuing Education, Professional Trainings, Research, Therapeutic Services and Performance. Founded in 1982 by Suzanne River, creator of the Global Somatics™ Process, GRDGS is the only Midwest somatic school providing a comprehensive curriculum in experiential anatomy, developmental movement and embodiment of the energy field.

Next GS Practitioner Training Sept. 2012–May 2014! Application due 7/30/2012.

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Meta@metainstitute.com www.Metainstitute.com

The Meta Institute is a MN Licensed Adult Career School providing services and certification courses in the area of Therapeutic Life Coaching, Reiki, NLP, & Hypnosis. Our Therapeutic Coaching® Program is a 500hour, comprehensive, hands-on certification course (5 certifications provided). Students receive a multitude of tools for working with others. Next class September 2012.

Musélan’s Yoga Teacher Training program begins with the experience and knowledge of Laura Erdman-Luntz, E-RYT(500), a yoga teacher with over 20 years of experience. Learn about not only the yoga poses but Sanskrit, Chakras, Sutras, and more. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn and grow with the oldest Yoga training program in Minnesota. 200and 500-hour programs available in Eden Prairie, Chanhassen, and Eagan.

An annual directory for education and training programs in the Upper Midwest for integrative medicine, spirituality, and related healing resources for the whole person

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Normandale Community College

Rukha速 Academy Wind and Water of Healing Arts and School of Feng Science Shui

Integrative Health Education Center 952-358-8343 ncal@normandale.edu 9700 France Ave. So. Bloomington, MN 55431 www.normandale.augusoft.net

952-406-8382 www.RukhaAcademy.com

612-823-5093 www.windwaterschool.com

The premier school of energy healing in Minnesota. Two-year cohort program offering comprehensive, professional curriculum in bio-energy healing and transpersonal psychology. Founder: Shelli Stanger Nelson, Barbara Brennan速 Advanced Studies graduate, international speaker, healer and teacher. Our curriculum is unique and unsurpassed.

Go beyond the basics found in weekend workshops to a comprehensive course of study that is ultimately geared towards financial success.

Since 1998, the Wind and Water School has graduated over 300 people, some who pursued the study of Feng Shui as a new career, others as an adjunct to another career, and others purely for themselves. Learn what your space is saying about your life.

Discover for yourself how your space may be supporting your goals or challenging you. Policy manual available on request at lisa@windwaterschool.com

The Integrative Health Education Center is part of Normandale Community College. We provide the largest selection of classes, workshops, certificate training and special events in the Midwest. We offer a variety of introductory and advanced training for healthcare professionals, holistic practitioners, and those searching for new ways to support their own health & wellbeing.

For current course offerings or to register visit http://normandale. augusoft.net or to order a current catalog call 952-358-8343.

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Shamanism Training Program Healing the Wounded Spirit, Soul Retrieval, Recovery From Trauma, Space Clearing, Depossession Soul Retrieval Class Isanti, August 6-10, 2012 12 month Shamanism Training Isanti, starts October 6, 2012 Contact Mary Stoffel 763-444-8146 mlstoffel@innovatord.com www.humanimal.com www.practicalshamanism.com

Healing Your Home: Blending Feng Shui with Harmonics Connect to your home in a new Feng Shui way! Inspire your home to be the best it can be! Carole and Jeff Bova present a concert-workshop on Saturday, July 14, 8:30–12 noon at Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN. The first 99 registrants will receive a free 25-minute download version of the “Healing Your Home” CD. Register early for this unique concert-workshop designed to transform and balance physical space. Visit http://normandale.augusoft.net to register.

Early Bird Special: $99 ($108 after July 6th).

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T h a t ’s the comment we hear about the Integrative Health Education Center at Normandale Community College.

Wellness travels many paths and we have watched this comment grow stronger as holistic therapies have expanded and become more mainstream. Holistic therapies are rarely called “alternative” any longer and have even moved past the “complementary” term. It is now about integrative health and healing.

ements into a whole. Integrative Health provides therapies that combine with traditional healthcare methods to provide a complete healthcare solution. Individuals and medical professionals are discovering that combining traditional healthcare with holistic therapies can provide better health solutions and outcomes.

At Normandale we have a solid base in traditional healthcare as well as holistic therapies.

We are the bridge that allows the integrative experience to unfold.

Individuals today are becoming their own health advocates. They don’t just “take what the doctor ordered” any longer. They ask family, friends and business colleagues for advice, research on the internet, and even listen to INTEGRATIVE HEALTH COMBINES CONVENTIONAL Dr. Oz. At Normandale, we are & HOLISTIC THERAPIES visioning, educating and training Integrative is defined as com- for this continual expansion of bining or coordinating diverse el- integrative health.

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Interest in integrative workshops and series certificates by healthcare professionals is growing: physicians, nurses, physical therapists long term care, hospice, social workers, psychotherapist, rehabilitation therapist, surgical technicians, dieticians & nutritionist, anesthesiologist, dentists, dental hygienist, public health administrators, directors, and many more. In addition, more health associations and organizations governing these groups are including integrative therapies as CE (continuing education) options for healthcare professional development.

WIDE-RANGING ARRAY OF COURSES AVAILABLE

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COLONICS DETOXIFICATION OXYGEN BAR and so much more!

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ductory course in the Healing Arts, Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic, Naturopathy, Homeopathy, Energy Medicine, Reiki, Guided Imagery, Herbalism, Yoga, Mediation, Qigong, Sound Healing, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Hypnosis, Feng Shui, Healing Touch, Heartsight, Color Healing, Massage, Nutrition, Breathwork, and Tai Chi. If you want to expand your abilities or understanding of a certain modality, you can go deeper by exploring a series or certificate training. Our course offerings are balanced in a variety of topic areas; Whole Medical Systems, Natural Products, Mind & Body Science, Manipulative Body Based Practices and Therapies, Energy and Movement Therapies, Creativity and Personal Development.

GREATER MARKETABILITY WITH INTEGRATIVE HEALTH CREDENTIALS

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stand out. Recently, a director of long term care said “we’re already at the point where nurses, health aides and other medical workers are expected to have some exposure and training in a holistic modality to provide additional patient support.

Recently, a local TMJ dental clinic paid for each employee to take an integrative therapy class at Normandale. The purpose was focused on patient comfort and care, with a commitment to creating a calmer experience for their patients. They took Breathwork, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Interactive Tapping for Recovery, Medical Hypnosis, Medical Homeopathy, Energy Works, Reiki, and Sound Healing Basics as foundational integrative courses. This is a perfect example of integrative care, combining traditional healthcare with holistic therapy.

EXPANDING WELLNESS IN THE WORKPLACE

that support your workplace wellness. Knowledge is power and the thirst for wellness has reached an all-time high. We educate, train, and provide experiential learning.

CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS

Train the Trainer: Individuals are seeking meaningful work that is purpose driven. Holistic therapies fill that need, and everyone can learn how to activate their own healing energy within to empower people to help themselves and their loved ones.

We offer certificate programs in Aromatherapy, Energy Medicine, Heartsight, Herbalism, Sound Healing, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Feng Shui, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Qigong, Healing Touch, Reiki, Ayurvedic, and Tai Chi as well as several instructor training programs

SPECIAL EVENTS: INNOVATIVE, EXPERIENCE DRIVEN, MIND SHIFTING

We offer several commu With an 80-plus roster of in- nity events annually. This past structor talent, we can customize year we offered “The Healing and create programs or seminars Arts” and “World Tai Chi and

Qigong Day.” Normandale invited Sound Healing Pioneer Jonathan and Andi Goldman to present “The Soundsation Conference” and this summer, on July 14, Feng Shui expert Carole Hyder and Jeff Bova, Grammy award winning producer and songwriter will offer a workshop and concert called “Healing Your Home” Feng Shui Harmonics.

Our mission is to empower people through knowledge that allows them to live more fulfilled lives. The level of our health impacts all areas of life. A Feng Shui principle states “your space reflects your life and health is the most important thing to pay attention to,” Our team has become a trusted community educator, providing practical tools that can be used in one’s daily life.

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F YOU’VE been hastened by spirit’s call to provide holistic healthcare as your life’s work, you may have grappled with the concern, “can I make money doing this?” All too often people spend good money on an education in holistic healing and end up having to supplement their income with other work. What’s worse, never having a practice at all for lack of clients?

WHAT IMPEDES A FINANCIALLY SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE?

Healers aren’t business moguls. One of the biggest mistakes made in the healing industry is that practitioners lose sight of the fact that their practice is, indeed, a business. While healing is often very instinctual for those lead to this career path, business-mind34 www.esswellness.com

edness is not usually so innate.

Practitioners need to be taught these principles just as they were taught the principles of bioenergy healing science.

HEALERS DON’T START PROMOTING THEMSELVES EARLY ENOUGH

Most students wait for their diploma before they start to announce their presence to the community. Big mistake. The curriculum at the school ought to be teaching and instilling marketing and promotion of the student from the beginning of the program.

HEALERS DON’T UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF CREATING A NICHE

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outside of the niche see this and they start to build on it.

A practitioner who specializes in orthopedic diseases quickly morphs into a sports injury practice. This equates into an endless stream of clients. Finding and developing the niche is the part that takes some doing.

SCHOOLS DON’T TYPICALLY PROVIDE EDUCATION ON BUSINESS

Bioenergy healing programs offer all sorts of courses on how to run energy, enhance intuition, even spiritual development. But few to none offer courses in business development.

When the doors opened at Rukha® Academy of Healing Arts and Science, a Minnesota state-licensed school based in Minneapolis, one of the unique courses included in the standard program was a course on how to open and run a practice. This key course in a practitioner’s education is pivotal to the gradu-

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RUHKA OFFERS COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM

security or even feeling like a fraud. This, then, leads to lack of motivation to develop the business.

Rukha offers a full program of rigorous, professional and monitored instruction. The program is comprehensive in every way. The graduates have a strong sense of solidity about their work when it’s time to begin their career and provide their service to humanity. All the education in the world is for naught unless the education results in a thriving practice that serves both practitioner and client. When choosing a program, be sure the tuition provides a comprehensive curriculum. Rukha is a premier school of healing whose graduates earn money in their successful practice.

Without a comprehensive course of study, the graduate finds themselves feeling a lack of confidence, confusion, and often trepidation when faced with paying clients. They can easily develop a feeling of in-

Shelli Stanger Nelson, founder and president of Rukha® Academy of Healing Arts and Science, is an advanced bio-energy professional, with BS degree.

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ate being able to earn a living in this field.

At Rukha the graduates learn marketing and self-promotion skills throughout their two-year course of study. In year two, the Rukha program offers a course called, “Going into Business” which takes students through step-by-step instruction so that by the time of graduation, they have a marketing plan and other essential business-basics like developing a niche, where to market, how to find clients already created. They have been fostering relationships in their practice clientele that seamlessly turn into paying customers.

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