Passionately Alive feedback April 2012

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Passionately Alive feedback April 2012

Name: Jean Thomas, Healsville. Seminar Date: April 2012

This is the best way to clear any emotional baggage from the past. It is the best way to have a clear slate for any guilt, shame or criticism you have about yourself or other people. It is the best way to learn the skills you need to live a life of richness, abundance and love. As a result of attending this seminar I will be the person I am in any given moment and strive to live a heart centred life.

Name: Ken Symons Seminar, Swan Hill. Date: April 2012

What an amazing, enlightening experience that I had no idea existed prior to this weekend. I now have an understanding of myself, my emotions, experiences and fears.

I will continue to practice the skills I have learnt and never let myself become the person I was. With each session I grew in myself and was totally blown away with the techniques used to deal with the emotions and issues I had been hiding and been unable to deal with.

Name: Mark Dungey, ACT. Seminar Date: April 2012

This was such a gentle, caring way to explore deeply into my emotions and moving emotional blockages. I appreciate it so much that I was able to identify and move some blockages that have been holding me back. Thank you. I have learnt to access my anger and sadness more deeply and know I will be more open to access and express my anger in the future. I understand and feel my emotions more deeply and I have become less scared of doing that.

Name: Les Manning M.D., Brisbane. Seminar Date: April 2012

This is the best opportunity to explore and open your inner self, and to separate your mind and brain from your heart. The seminar teaches you and gives you the tools to really tap into your heart and clear out all the rubbish and spider webs of the past. I have accepted and recognised my fear of opening my heart to a new relationship.

Name: Katie Alexander, Gippsland. Seminar Date: April 2012

I have gained not only achieving my intention I set out at the beginning, I have come away with another booster shot for my life, living my life passionately. Thank you for allowing me the chance to give myself permission to shine. I have more motivation to feel into my emotions and feeling often and deeply, not just when I think I need to.

I now have daily, hourly practices of feeling into my body and the emotions underneath.

Name: Liz Elphick, Darwin. Seminar Date: April 2012

Passionately Alive taught me a new way of “doing life”. I learnt it is safe to open my heart to emotions and it won’t kill me. I now feel safe to experience emotions and not have to put a wall around my heart. I can fully engage with life. I’ve realized I’m not an emotional void! I plan on having more fun! As long as I keep doing the work I expect all my relationships to change for the better.

Name: Colleen Fitzgerald, Brisbane. Seminar Date: April 2012

This has opened my heart to so many things that certainly are so life changing. Unless you go and attend the PA you would miss a life changing experience. It is wonderful, what can happen when you put your heart into this. I have learnt to drop my thoughts and to accept things which are not easy to understand. I did not realise my heart was not fully open until now. I open my heart, the first step to loving relationships.

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What is Passionately Alive?

At Passionately Alive you can improve your ‘Emotional Intelligence skills’ so you can deal effectively with life’s challenges and make the most of your life.

The skills we teach will enable you to increase your energy, deepen relationships, manage stress and anxiety, let go of past hurts, gain a clear sense of direction and to take control of your life.

At Passionately Alive you will learn:

How to identify and dissolve vicious, limiting thoughts and feelings

How to use simple breathing exercises to understand our emotions

How to help develop inner peace, conquer fear, master anger, heal sadness and increase joy

How to release the old, unsettled, emotional baggage from the past that restricts us today

How to connect with the wisdom from your heart for guidance in your life.

Changes you can experience: 

• Relief from life’s pressures: stress, anxiety and frustrations

•  Greater self love, self confidence and inner peace

•  Motivation, energy and direction in life

•  Fulfilling and connected loving relationships

•  Health, well-being and release of physical pain by resolving

negative emotions

•  Living your life fully, being at your best, more successful and feeling more happy and contented

A little background…

There is mounting evidence to suggest that our feelings play a major role in our level of success, harmonious relationships, health and happiness. When the heart and mind function in synchronization we feel at peace, perform at our peak, relate to others in a meaningful way and experience better health and well being.

The Passionately Alive workshop has been running for 16 years now. The Passionately Alive Seminar helps people to put the past to rest and move forward. It gives them a greater self understanding and hence greater self assurance, creativity and positive outlook on life.

It teaches skills for improving self image, relationships, health and enthusiasm for life. These skills are not taught in school and we suffer unnecessarily because we do not know how to cope with life. The skills are simple and easily learnt and will show you another dimension to your life.

For more information go to:

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Logistics

This Life Enriching experience runs from Thursday evening till Sunday Afternoon.

The program is residential and food and accommodation are provided

Seminars are held in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne.

The fees for this three and a half day life transforming experience are $2470  / $1970 Early Bird if booked 4 weeks in advance

The seminar is limited to 14 participants and does book out.

You can book by phoning the Institute of Heart Intelligence on 03 9739 8889.

Bank transfer is the preferred method of payment

Credit Cards are also accepted.

If you have any questions please feel free to give us a call on 03 9739 8889.

Warm regards,

Nicholas and Susan de Castella

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And I must say, they are inspiring!

When I read them I thought to myself, ‘wouldn’t it be great for more people to know about the possibilities that are available to us all”.

I think it is such a shame that we do not learn these skills growing up.

So much pain and suffering is avoidable, if only we all had these knowledge and skills – things that are NOW available!

And I like that the feedback includes EVERYONE of the participants at the seminar This is not select feedback from one or two people at the seminar, this is the total feedback from everyone who attended. We consistently get rave review from our participants.

If you know anybody interested in opening their hearts please send this onto them. It is a great read and hopefully may inspire some people to come along and enjoy the benefits of open hearted living also.

If you are at all interested in finding more happiness in your life then I highly recommend yo just pop over to : http://www.eq.net.au/passionately-alive-rave-reviews

THE SPECIAL OFFER

It seemed mean of me to post this after the close of the Super Early Bird Discount so I have decided if you get this email to extend the date till next Thursady. Yes we still have a couple of places. To book just call us on 03 9739 8889 and let us know you got this email.

Oh and remember to forward this link to your friends. Next PA April 12 – 15.

Warm Regards,

Nicholas de Castella

Facilitator: Passionately Alive, Conscious Living, Men’s Work

Speaker: Emotional Intelligence Trainings

Author: Keys to Emotional Mastery

Trainer: Breathwork Practitioner Trainings

Life Coach: 20 years experience, 15,000+ sessions

Institute of Heart Intelligence

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Compassion in practice. 

The Beauty of Emotional Healing.

This article is about the beauty of working as a Breathwork Practitioner and Emotional Healing. You can be an emotional healer whether you are a husband, wife, friend, mother, father, therapist or conscious humanitarian. Everybody you meet and share with benefits from you being connected to and living from your heart with compassion.

After over 20 years practice, I still love using the power of the breath for emotional healing as not only do our clients experience benefit, but I also enjoy healing and growth.

Benefits of Emotional Healing for others (clients)…

Changes are made quickly and simply

Change happens with ease and grace

Gain practical ways of being kind and gentle with ourselves

Permanent shifts are made at deep levels

Great insights happen as they realize what the real issues are

Feelings of freedom arise as old emotional baggage is released

A sense of empowerment arises as understandings arise as to what has been driving them and what they can do differently

More presence, connection and aliveness abounds

Benefits of Emotional Healing for us (the practitioner)…

We regularly feel loving peace inside

We create trust with others quickly and easily

We are less likely to get stuck and blocked in shame because they are met in the heart

We get to facilitate real effective changes in others by resolving the feelings driving harmful thinking and behavior

We experience deep satisfaction from being part of such profound shifts

We learn to be more kind, gentle and compassionate with ourselves

Our own heart opens through practicing compassion for others

We continue to become more present, connected and alive

We enjoy fulfilling connections with others

We become part of a greater force than ourselves at work

We learn to surrender control and trust life

A sense of being blessed and supported by life grows

We get to experience being the best ‘me’ I can be

What is Emotional Healing?

Through Breathwork, emotional healing uses compassion as an instrument for the resolution of suffering, blockages and empowers people to live rich, full, happy and successful lives

Compassion is to care for suffering, others and our own. To be in a state of a love, even in discomfort. It involves a willingness to be in relationship, which means being connected, fully open, available, welcoming and present. Allowing ourselves to feel all our feelings.

We all know how bad it feels to set a new years resolution only to watch it erode into oblivion as the pressures of life compound.

I’m going to lose 10kg, go to the gym every day, stop procrastinating etc, etc…

This only serves to make us feel bad about ourselves – and can easily become yet another way of beating ourselves up.

My solution to this is to keep it simple and set a certain kind of resolution – one which I call an intention

Setting intentions is a softer and kinder way of relating to ourselves.

Setting intentions is EXTREMELY POWERFUL. When you set an intention deep in your heart you will be amazed at how transformational it can be on your personally (positively and negatively).

Over the years I have developed the habit of setting one intention per year. I choose an aspect of my spiritual development that I would like to work on. Some of them include: Expecting less of myself, being gentler with myself and focusing on excellence. Last year I chose to practice generosity. Sometimes I was more generous than I normally would have been and sometimes I saw myself ‘holding on to the flow’.

Both experiences actually deepened my awareness of generosity. No matter how you go, if you stay conscious of your intention, do your best and watch yourself as you go, you will definitely grow in that area.

Of course you must be gentle with yourself (which could be you intention for 2012). Understand that criticism and punishment serves no good. Punishing ourselves does not make us more open and loving. Punishment and criticism makes us more contracted, fearful and uptight.

Life is a journey of growth, not a destination.

Working on developing a spiritual practice is a great thing for a number of reasons.  One you actually can always do better and so you never really fail. Even when you realise you have not been how you would like to be, you can use the experience to reinforce your determination to be more diligent in the future.

Also, you are going to get plenty of opportunities to practice your intention, some you will rise to meet and some will pass you by.

I personally believe it is the person we become (how open our hearts are) that is the most important aspect of the life we live. Obviously we can not take any of our physical achievements with us when we die, but who we have become along the journey goes on.

You may already know that we are teaching INSPIRED LIVING PROGRAMS this year that focus on opening our hearts, becoming more present, alive and cultivating ‘Heart Qualities’ in our life. (more info. to come on this shortly)

Here are some of the major heart practices you could consider:

Effortless Flow

Savouring the Moment

Acceptance

Compassion

Openness

Kindness, Gentleness (drop punishment)

Mystery – living in the unknown, welcoming the new

Generosity

Tonglen, – Staying open and grateful even when it hurts

Follow your heart

Appreciation

Presence

Integrity

Trust, surrender

Mystery

Courage

Honouring, cherishing

Patience

Playfulness

Devotion

I suggest you take a few moments to be quiet and breathe into your heart – RIGHT NOW – and ask yourself:

“What quality would I like to cultivate this year?”

Just choose the one that is calling to you and plant it like a seed, deep in your heart and watch it grow…

If you would like to spend a fun and exciting day connecting in your heart, putting some powerful energy into making 2012 a great year then…

… Join us on January 21 for our Shine – 2012 by design Day.

As a subscriber to our list you are entitled to attend for just $47 ($100 discount – and you can bring your friends for just $3/person)

Have a sqizz at: http://www.eq.net.au/events/category/shine-days.

May the love, peace and happiness in your heart, flourish in your life,

Let me know how you go…

Hearty Regards

Nicholas

Coming events

January 21 – 2012 by Design… 1 day Heart visioning workshop

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February 23-26 – Inspired Living (updated Passionately Alive)

February 23-26 – 2012 BREATHWORK TRAINING Cert. III & IV

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It is also the foundational principle that are taught at the Institute of Heart Intelligence.

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You can Download MP3 File of the presentation Here.

Thank you for your registration, you are now enrolled in the 2011 Training.

You are embarking on a wonderful heart opening experience that will transform your life. Now that you have enrolled you can expect your process to begin. Feel free to call us if you need to talk about issues that come up for you.

Times:
Breathwork Practitioner Level: Thursday 7.00pm till Monday 5.00pm
Personal Life Transformational Journey: Thursday 7.00pm till Sunday 5.00pm
Module dates:

1.      July 14 -17 (18)                   Alchemy

2.      August 11 -14 (15)              Growing up/ Blossoming

3.      September 8 -11 (12)         Passionate Men and Women

4.      October 13 -16 (17)             Love, Sex and Money

5.      November 10 – 13 (14)       Radical Breakthroughs

Venue:   Hazeldell. 220 BasinOlinda Rd. The Basin. Victoria.

Check in time at the start of the training on Thursday, is 6.30pm. This will enable us to register you so we will be ready to start at 7.00pm sharp.

TO ENABLE YOU TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN THE PROGRAM

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU BRING THE FOLLOWING ITEMS:

* Notebook and pen.

* 2 LARGE couch cushions (Pillows are NOT large enough)

* 1 Low height beach chair (NO BEAN BAGS)

* Alarm clock

* Torch

* Loose comfortable clothing, Plenty of T-shirts.

* Thick socks or slippers and winter woollies.

* Pillow and Sheets

* Blankets, doona or sleeping bag.

* Bath towel & toiletries.

* Drinking Water Bottle

* Hot water bottle (optional)

* Commitment to the pursuit of your Passion!

Tuition Fee:

Please ensure that the payment details are clear before starting the training

Accommodation:
The training is a full residential – ‘live in’ experience.

Food
Is supplied – if you have special requirement make sure that you discuss them with Susan at least 1 week before the training commences.

Venue: ‘Hazeldell’, 220 Basin-Olinda Rd, Sassafras.
(Map enclosed)
Client History Form
Enclosed is a Client History form. All information on the form will be held in strict confidence. It’s purpose is to assist Nicholas in meeting your needs. Please complete the form and post it, so it will arrive in the mail at least one week before the seminar begins.

We are very happy to have you join us in this training. We look forward to sharing a rich and exciting adventure together.

With love and enthusiasm,
Nicholas and Susan de Castella.

DIRECTIONS To get here:
Follow the Eastern Freeway and Eastlink to Boronia Rd

Turn Left onto Boronia Rd.
Follow Boronia Rd which turns into Forest  until it ends at a round about in front of the Basin Post Office (third round about).
On the other side of the round about is The Basin – Olinda Rd.
Drive down along the road till it turns to gravel. Continue along for another  1.5 km.
The Hazeldell driveway is on the right , just after a sharp bend with a wire mesh fence over a small creek.
Look for the raibow colored ‘Hazeldell’ sign and the number 220.