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I have been focusing extensively on my writing for all of 2009 and have therefore only been offering classes when multiple people in the same area express interest in the same type of class. Please feel free to contact me regarding your interests. I love teaching; I’m just flowing with classes right now rather than creating an intensive schedule. brunoleaf @ yahoo.com

PAST EVENTS:

Special All Saints and All Souls Day Weekend Classes in Beautiful Bodega Bay (November 1 and 2, 2008)

Photos of the area by Stephen Bruno

(Bodega Bay is a small town on the beautiful Northern California Coast, about 1 hour’s drive north of San Francisco and 3.5 – 4 hours by car from Reno, Nevada; visitors can fly into San Francisco, Santa Rosa or Oakland):

Saturday, November 1, 2008  Animal Communication Workshop

This workshop will be held at a private residence with ocean views of Bodega Bay.  We will cover animal communication basics (tuning in, quieting the mind, telepathic exercises), shamanism and spirit guides, shapeshifting, uncovering soul connections with animals, finding your animal friends’ purpose(s) in your life, how to help animals expand their natural healing gifts, and more as encouraged by the needs and interests of the days’ participants.

12-5 p.m.  $250 if prepaid by October 10; $300 after October 10.  Pre-registration is required as space is limited in this wonderful home on the Bay.  For more details, please call Laura at 707-658-2787, or email.

Sunday, November 2, 2008  Past Lives Workshop  

Are you plagued by old patterns that you just can’t seem to shake?  Do you dream of “familiar” faces or surroundings that you don’t recognize?  Need to shed light on troubling relationships?  This workshop explores everything from ideas of karma and retribution, Biblical interpretations of past lives, persecution complexes, phobias, blocks to abundance, parallel dimensions, soul connections and soul mates, deja vu, ways of healing soul residues, and more.  

(*For the story of how and why I originally began to offer past life readings and classes, please scroll down.)

The workshop will be held at a private residence with ocean views of Bodega Bay.  Weather permitting, we may even utilize some of that cleansing ocean and wind energy to help clear away past issues and embrace the present.  $300 if prepaid by October 10; $350 after October 10.

Class will run from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 2 (with a break for lunch).  Pre-registration required due to limited space.  707-658-2787.

* I never in a million years expected to offer past life readings or workshops, but the concept had nagged me since 1998.  Even as a practicing medical intuitive, I avoided the topic unless absolutely necessary in a session.  I just felt like we could never prove the existence of past lives, and even if we could, who cared?  Didn’t this life matter much more than what happened long ago? 

Fast forward to November 2006:  I needed to wear glasses and desperately wanted to get rid of them by year’s end.  If I failed to wear them, I suffered severe migraine headaches and sometimes vertigo, and contacts were not an option for this particular vision problem.  I meditated on how to get rid of the glasses by January 1, 2007, and the following message came:  “Embrace All Past Lives.” 

“Fine,” I thought, “I have past lives.  Great, I embrace them.  Let’s move on.”  But no, the message continued that I needed to bring this awareness into my medical intuitive and coaching sessions.  “Oh, man!” I thought.  “Come on!  These people will think I’ve lost it.”  But the message remained firm, and I REALLY wanted to get rid of those glasses! 

As an experiment, that afternoon, I let myself tune into my clients’ past life issues, shared the information, put multiple lifetimes into context, and thought little more of it.  Later that day, I got a terrible headache.  It throbbed like migraines from the old days of my head injury.  I took off my glasses, and the pain immediately subsided.  I noticed that I could read without strain without my glasses, and I have never worn them since! 

The next week, I asked those clients if they wanted to discuss the usual issues we’d been working on.  They all said, “Oh, I’m done with that.  After you put things into context, I realized I could move on.”  These were people who had done counseling on such issues for 10 years or more, plus coaching with me for several months.  Poof!  No more issue. 

While not everyone drops patterns quite so quickly, over the years, I have seen enough dramatic and fast shifts through past life work to recognize the value of exploring these alternate realities.  I’ve designed this workshop to meet the needs and interests of the days’ participants, but based on past classes and sessions, I expect some nice transformations.