Public Workshops & Events

All are welcome!
6:30 to 9:30 pm PST

Ease into a high vibrational holiday season by discovering the mystical offerings of our community at the Academy

Just show up! Enjoy food and wine, snag some academy swag, and spend time with your favorite people.

Open to the public. Drinks, hors d'oeuves, shopping and socializing with your Academy peers. Academy vendors will present their creative works including: Academy logo clothing, crystals, jewelry, wine, books, glass art, soap and Tarot gift cards.

Want to be a vendor? Email: academyholidaymart@gmail.com

Friday Evening Event • 7:00 to 9:00 pm ($33) PST

In-Person Only. Registration (with prepayment) or drop-in and pay at the door ($30)

REGISTRATION will be enabled Fall 2023

Discover where science, art and the sacred meet in an immersive experience — achieving transcendent states through sensory feedback — the alchemy of light, sound and form; fractals, sacred geometry and the 8 dimensions; biofeedback and the body-mind.

Join us for a magical journey an Integrative Holotope Experience Meditation. The Holotope is a stunning computer generated geometric artwork of an 8-dimensional object and fractal Patterns. This balance of symmetry, color, and projected light generates a complex visual field that allows the viewer to perceive multiple dimensions directly and simultaneously. Sound and music are integrated into the experience which can allow people to commune with higher dimensions of self through resonance alignment.

Bring an idea of what you’d like to discover, or what you’d like to manifest in your life. Join us on a magical journey into the moment of creation. The Holotope is a stunning computer generated geometric artwork of an 8-dimensional object and fractal Patterns. Sound and music are integrated into the experience which can allow people to commune with higher dimensions of self through resonance alignment.

About the presenter — Kirby Seid, BA MIM is a teacher with an emphasis on both metaphysical and healing applications. He is dedicated to building relationships between the crystal/mineral kingdom and the evolution of human consciousness. For over 30 years, Kirby has traveled the world gathering crystals and artifacts. He leads crystal workshops and designs tools for healing and shamanic practices.
Website: seidcrystals.com

Free Friday Evening Book Talk • 7:00 to 8:30 pm

In-Person Only

A unique product from working decades in the field, this new book, card deck, and eBook are great tools for personal use or with clients. Using different learning styles and practices to help retain learning, they create a motivational force towards healing and ongoing transformation into the Simply Self-Wonderful YOU were meant to be!

The Simply Self-Wonderful Inner Workout Book, and eBook are companions to The Simply Self-Wonderful Card Deck. In addition to the definition and encouragement for each of the 33 Self-Wonderfuls and 32 Self-Woundings of the guidebook, each attribute has a unique mandala to color, affirmations, quotes, and activities in five focus areas known as MEPSS: Mental, Emotional, Physical, Social, and Spiritual. That’s over 500 practices to go deeper into learning all aspects of the Simply Self-Wonderful YOU!

The Simply Self-Wonderful Card Deck contains 65 cards – 33 Self-Wonderfuls and 32 Self-Woundings along with a Guidebook which includes a definition and encouragement for each attribute to help you love yourself more and flourish in life.

About the Author: Judy Slater, MDiv, CPCC, ACC, MIM
Judy is an Edgewalker drawing from her expertise as an ordained PC(USA) Pastor, certified CTI Coach and Leadership graduate, Intuition Medicine Practitioner®, trauma wellness educator, and is a creative arts dilettante. She fosters rabbits, quilts, exposes herself to art, nature, and travel, flourishing in life. Her lifetime journey of self-love, found the biggest block to feeling loved, accepted, and worthy of love, was herself. Out of this yearning for others to experience self-love, The Simply Self-Wonderful Workout Book, and the Simply Self-Wonderful Card Deck were blessed into being. 

Web: simplyselfwonderful.com
Web: innerludecoach.com

10am to 1pm ($50 half-day) PST

In-Person & Zoom (video/phone). Registration (with prepayment) required for Zoom attendance. Zoom information will be provided prior to the workshop date. Can’t attend? Register/pay and the recording will be sent to you after the workshop.

REGISTRATION will be enabled in 2024.

Sing yourself happy. Treat yourself to a participatory workshop of singing affirmations that ground you and fill you with positive intentions.

Master musicians/singer/songwriters, Terry and Barbara teach the ancient arts of toning and singing, helping participants find their own unique way of tapping into the joy, power and transformative energy of singing in community.

With singing, meditation and Affirhythms “rhythmic affirmation spirit jingles” join us in experiencing a visceral comfort and joy in your life. Bring your voice and any other musical instruments.

About the Instructors

Barbara Higbie (pictured at left in her first band!) — has been a professional musician since age 17 has played everything from Traditional Jazz, Bluegrass and Irish to New Classical Music, Blues and African Pop. A Grammy-nominated, Bammy award-winning composer, pianist, fiddler, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Barbara Higbie has performed on more than 100 albums, including Carlos Santana’s 2007 release.
Website: barbarahigbie.com/bio/

Terry Garthwaite has been creating infectious music since the late ’60s in the Joy of Cooking band. She recorded several albums with the band and a dozen others by herself or in collaboration with other jazz and blues musicians. With the improvisation of jazz, expression of blues, textures and tones or world music, and the heart of a healer. Terry has been teaching singing for over 40 years.
Website: www.goldenrod.com/product-category/womensmusic/terry-garthwaite/

Author Fireside Chat: Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us, the New York Times bestseller, released by Random House 2023

7:00 to 8:15 pm

In-Person Only — all are welcome!

We all have a sense that the arts are “good for us.” Now, we have a deeply researched and engaging new book that explains why.

Arts and aesthetic experiences rewire the brain — with significant implications for addressing the global health and wellbeing crisis. The arts are also a catalyst for helping us to flourish, build strong communities and learn better — even doctors are prescribing museum visits!

Through the power of these aesthetic experiences, circuits and neuropathways in your brain are activated, altering a cascade of physical and mental changes including anxiety and stress. Short bursts of art — no talent required — will enhance your life, whether you are eight or 80 years old. In fact, one or more art experiences a month can extend your life by ten years.

Packed with dozens of studies and interviews with leading scientists and artists including David Byrne, Your Brain on Art shows how to take advantage of everyday art and aesthetic experiences.

Thanks to Your Brain on Art, we are now proving that the arts are not just nice to have — they are essential to our very survival.

About the Author: Ivy Ross, MIM
Ivy is a graduate of the Academy of Intuition Medicine®, Class of 2017. Currently, she is the Vice President of Design for Hardware Products at Google, where she leads a team that has created over fifty products, winning over 225 design awards. An artist with work in over ten international museums, Ivy is also a National Endowment for Arts grant recipient, and was ninth on Fast Company’s list of the 100 most creative people in business in 2019. Ivy has studied sound healing for 30 years as well as many other subtle energy modalities.

10am to 5pm PST ($120 includes the 133-page Chakra Doctor Manual)

In-Person & Zoom. Registration (with prepayment) required for Zoom attendance. Zoom information will be provided prior to the workshop date. Can’t attend? Register/pay and the recording will be sent to you after the workshop.

REGISTRATION will be enabled in 2024.

Dr. Jacqueline Chan will address the health needs of your chakras from a holistic physician’s perspective. Many of the symptoms that we encounter as Energy Medicine Practitioners cross correlate with organic physical problems at the physical level. We can bring awareness to our own bodies and tend to our physical temple. Workshop combines practical advice on diet, detoxification, hormones, digestion, endocrine organs, and cognitive care with a deep understanding of the underlying energetic story of the chakras.

• First Chakra: grounding, basic principles of optimal health, toxicity
• Second Chakra: healthy boundaries, hormones for mood, libido and energy
• Third Chakra: mending the gut and lowering inflammation, leverage your nutrition, empowerment
• Fourth Chakra: role of exercise in maintaining a healthy heart, heart coherence in relationship, cardiovascular disease and prevention
• Fifth Chakra: the basics in thyroid function, nutritional support for a healthy thyroid, introducing powerful tools for communication
• Sixth Chakra: common things that can hurt or help the brain, cognitive care for clarity, how the brain processes information
• Seventh Chakra: principles of manifestation and protecting your auric field from Wi-Fi/EMF and heavy metals

About Jacqueline S Chan DO, MIM
Academy Faculty | Integrative Medicine Physician | Energy Medicine Practitioner

Dr. Jacqueline Chan made a conscious choice to integrate two empirically verifiable truths: a specific compound, herbal or pharmaceutical, can help “cure” an illness; mental thoughts and cellular trauma or feelings locked in the body can both cause illness and heal illness. READ MORE

10am to 1pm ($50 half-day) PST

In-Person & Zoom (video/phone). Registration (with prepayment) required for Zoom attendance. Zoom information will be provided prior to the workshop date. Can’t attend? Register/pay and the recording will be sent to you after the workshop.

REGISTRATION will be enabled in 2024.

Our earth is alive and evolving in parallel with our own human species and personal evolution. She holds the very blueprint of Life within our planet. Crystals are recording transmission and transformational tools. They are memory chips from which we can awaken and harness latent abilities. Co-creating with the crystal/mineral kingdom clarifies, amplifies, and elegantly quickens the evolutionary spark of our human potential. The primary focus will be conscious connection and co-creation with the crystal kingdom.

About the presenter — Kirby Seid, BA MIM is a teacher with an emphasis on both metaphysical and healing applications. He is dedicated to building relationships between the crystal/mineral kingdom and the evolution of human consciousness. For over 30 years, Kirby has traveled the world gathering crystals and artifacts. He leads crystal workshops and designs tools for healing and shamanic practices.
Website: seidcrystals.com