Introduction

Mission Statement

Program Descriptions

For Intermediate & Advanced Energy Work Practitioners

Apprentice Opportunities

Individual Class Descriptions

Fees & Registration

Lectures, Workshops,

Classes, & Apprenticeships

Barbara Clearbridge’s workshops, lectures and classes have taken place in a wide variety of settings, from professional to casual, from hospitals to living rooms, from the tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State to New York, Canada, and New Zealand. Participants have ranged, so far, from 6 to 88 years old.

Barbara’s 15 classes include overviews or training in a variety of health care and health maintenance methods variously called natural, holistic, complementary, and alternative. Survey and treatment classes discuss techniques as widely diverse as medicinal herbs, massage, homeopathy, laying-on-of-hands, diet, t’ai chi, Brain Gym, energy medicine, yoga, aromatherapy, music, exercise, and prayer. Techniques fully taught are those with which Barbara has personal experience, extensive training, and professional expertise.

Barbara’s specialty is energy work. It is used for:

      ♦ healing of body, mind, emotions and spirit

      ♦ pain relief

      ♦ deep relaxation for stress relief

      ♦ trauma recovery

      ♦ Reducing the side effects of medications

      ♦ Getting free from addictions

      ♦ maintenance of good health

      ♦ regeneration of self-worth and sense of purpose

      ♦ support for the process of dying

Children and adults of all ages have become energy workers. People in nearly 100 cultures around the world are using their hands to bring healing and balance.

Workshop participants can apply their new skills and knowledge immediately to address current problems, to make lifestyle changes towards greater health, and to help maintain good health throughout their lives. They will also be able to help others. Classes nearly always can be oriented to the goals and abilities of each particular group of participants.

Note: Energy work as taught by Barbara Clearbridge is not part of any religion or belief system. It works easily and well with all other healing methods, including conventional medicine.

For more information about energy work, see About Energy Work.

Mission Statement

My mission is to enable people to take more of their health care into their own two hands. Empowerment and healing is crucial to a meaningful life—the stronger and more resilient we are, and the less reliant on costly medicines and complex or debilitating treatments, the freer and more able we will be to think and to act. Towards this end, I offer my programs to schools, health care facilities, retreat centers, retirement living campuses, and organizations.

Programs

Barbara’s programs for beginners range from a single, 90-minute interactive presentation, to a 30+-hour integrated curriculum spread over several weeks or months, to a full program extending over a quarter or semester. Follow-up classes are available after participants have had time to practice and master skills. Depending on location, periodic practice sessions may also be available. Arrangement of classes is flexible; you can mix and match according to your interests and needs. For those with continuing interest, more advanced techniques for deeper healing are taught in additional workshops.

A well-balanced program will combine general information classes with in-depth training in one or more specific techniques.

Some examples of class combinations are:

For Intermediate & Advanced Energy Work Practitioners

Most of the classes and workshops are appropriate for all levels of practitioners. Workshops requiring intermediate level energy work skills or beyond are: Heal With Your Hands—Level 3, Third Degree Reiki, and Healing the Energy Field. Also, see Apprentice Opportunities below.

Apprentice Opportunities

Learn to be an energy work practitioner or teacher. Complete professional training includes in-depth study, a research project, clinical practice and optional teaching practice. Full program takes three years of part-time study.

Individual Class Descriptions

Many of these workshops were developed by request. Feel free to ask for a new or modified class to fit your needs and interests.

Natural First Aid & Simple Health Solutions

Discover natural, simple, holistic methods to help you cope with daily health needs and emergencies, including colds and flu, broken bones, stomach upsets, overtaxed muscles, stress, headaches, constipation, minor depression, insomnia, and trauma.

A diverse spectrum of techniques and products are demonstrated or discussed, including medicinal herbs, Brain Gym, homeopathy, breathwork, aromatherapy, healing foods, mini massage, reflexology, and energy work. Many of the techniques discussed will be fully taught through individual participation and pairwork. You'll leave with a tool kit of great methods and products.

One 3½ hour class

Healthy Living—Daily Practices to Enhance & Maintain Your Health

Whether you want small, beginner’s steps or significant lifestyle changes, there are ways to improve your health and to enjoy doing it. Whether you are well or ill, young or an elder, it’s possible to feel better. This interactive workshop will help you find out what you need, make healthy changes, get ongoing support, and have fun doing it.

One 2½ hour class

Intro. to Holistic Healing

A brief look at many complementary and alternative therapies, including why they work, what to use them for, what a treatment consists of, and how to find a qualified practitioner.

2-hour interactive talk

Intro. to Hands-On Healing

How can you use your hands to apply healing energies? What is energy work? How can it help injuries, illness and emotional problems? This popular interactive talk shows how and why healing energies focused through the hands can help you get and stay healthy. Barbara explains and demonstrates different kinds of energies and techniques for using them, such as Reiki and Therapeutic Touch. She leads exercises to help you experience three kinds of healing energies and how to use them to help yourself and others achieve and maintain health and balance.

 1½ hour workshop

Therapeutic Touch

Learn a simple energy work technique developed by nurses for home and hospital use. This 15-minute treatment is effective for injuries, healing after surgery, relaxation, pain relief, indigestion, insomnia, and many other health needs. Hospital uses include pain relief, wound healing, emergency care, post-operative care and trauma care.

Therapeutic Touch does not include massage. There is no manipulation of the body or pressure on the body, and recipients are fully dressed. Therapeutic Touch is most effective for helping others, rather than for self-healing. No experience is needed, just an adventurous spirit!

The workshop includes the principles of energy work: how and why it works, basic skills (learned through individual exercises and pairwork), and the technique itself.

4-hour class with optional second class for certification

Relief for Stress & Insomnia

Learn simple, effective ways to relieve stress and calm your mind and body, including breathwork, energy flow, music, meditation, herbs, aromatherapy, laughter, physical movements, and many other techniques to help you cope.

Four 2-hour classes

Heal With Your Hands — Level 1

In two fascinating days of training, learn to bring energy into your hands to heal yourself and others. You will learn basic skills and beginning techniques, understand the principles of the science behind energy work, and get lots of hands-on practice.

One of the techniques taught, called Reiki, is a natural healing method from Japan which most people find easy to do and very effective. It is used for both physical and emotional healing and for maintaining good health. Students will complete the beginning level of Reiki, called First Degree.

12 hours of training

Heal With Your Hands — Level 2

Amplify your ability to heal with energy and learn to do distant healing. Learn energy work techniques for mental and emotional balance and health, and expand your ability to perceive. The workshop includes Second Degree Reiki.

12 hours of training

Heal With Your Hands — Level 3: Intermediate Energy Work

Learn a powerful, Earth Energy and ki/chi technique for treating others, adapted from the Bruyere/Brennan “chelation” technique. Prior energy work experience is required.

6 hours of training

Reiki

First and Second Degree Reiki are taught in the Heal With Your Hands classes (see above). Third Degree Reiki, the Master level, includes increasing your power to heal, learning to teach Reiki and empower others, professional practice issues if applicable, and other topics and techniques by request.

Come To Your Senses!

Expand your senses and intuitive abilities. Open your inner eyes, inner ears, inner knowing. Practice exercises and meditations to help you learn to perceive energy fields, look inside the physical body, develop the range of your senses, and go outside space and time. It’s easier than you think!

Two 3-hour classes

Healing the Energy Field

Learn to perceive and heal the energy field (aura) of your clients. This class is designed for people with Intermediate Level skills or above.

One 3-hour class

Energy Work for Daily Living

Learn to use your energy system to manage everyday needs and stresses. The class includes how to cope with emotional turbulence, quickly ease physical and emotional pain, and align your will, power and life purpose. Make new habits to maintain your health and help you have the life you want.

Six 2-hour classes

Guides & Inner Wisdom

Guides and inner wisdom can be explained in psychological, scientific, or spiritual ways. You have a rich resource for times of healing, crisis, and daily challenges. This workshop includes exercises, games and meditations from a variety of approaches, to help you make contact.

Two 3-hour classes

Finding God

Based on the book Finding God, By Learning How to Pray, by Barbara Clearbridge. Each person will develop or deepen a prayer practice. We will explore spirituality and support each other in finding or strengthening our connection to the divine.

Minimum of 6 sessions

Note: Many of these workshops were developed by request. Feel free to ask for a new or modified class to fit your needs and interests.

Fees & Registration

All classes for individuals are on a love offering basis (you determine your payment, trade or barter). The cost of programs for organizations and institutions vary. Apprenticeships are by special arrangement.

For upcoming class dates or further information, see Teaching & Travel Schedule and Late-breaking News. Registrations are not taken by email. Contact Barbara for cost and registration information.

For More Information

For further information of any kind, contact Barbara

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