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 By Stephen Dinan, founder and CEO of The Shift Network
You have the ability to activate your body’s natural healing potential.
That’s the empowering concept underlying the science and practice of energy medicine, which states that you can take an active role in your healing via modalities such as meridian clearing, qi balancing, acupuncture, Ayurvedic medicine, shamanic practices, chakra work, qigong, hands-on healing, and many more.
Instead of focusing on symptoms and treating those symptoms from an external perspective as Western medicine does, energy medicine focuses on building and harmonizing your life force to address a root cause of disease and imbalance, thus healing you from the inside. You can support and revitalize your whole being by harnessing the best of both Western medicine and energy medicine practices.
Energy medicine gives you a more holistic and self-empowering approach to healing — by not only addressing your body, mind, and spirit, but also by working with your emotions, past trauma, and even your relationships.
That’s why we’re so excited about the launch of our Energy Medicine & Healing Summit (April 23–27), hosted by Dondi Dahlin, energy medicine consultant and bestselling author. Click here to watch Dondi’s video invitation to you.
The groundbreaking speakers in this global gathering — including Joan Borysenko, Donna Eden, Anodea Judith, Master Mingtong Gu, Dr. Sue Morter, Rhys Thomas, Jean Haner, Holly Tse, Wendy De Rosa, and Amy Scher — will bring to light the curative and evolutionary powers of proven energy practices to create vibrant health for you and your family!
During the Energy Medicine & Healing Summit, you’ll discover how to take your health into your own hands (literally!) with today’s top energy medicine experts, health practitioners, and healers who’ll guide you toward transforming your overall health from the inside out. To register for this free summit, click here. We already have 55,000 people registered — one of our largest Summits ever!
In this edition of Catalyst, you’ll find an abundance of profound and inspiring content about a variety of meaningful topics. We’re also excited to include an in-depth video interview with Philip Goldberg, author of the new book, The Life of Yogananda — a biography of Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian guru who wrote Autobiography of a Yogi.
And we’d love to hear your answer to the question, What energy medicine modality resonates with you the most, and why? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here
Energy Medicine is not just a set of ideas somewhere out in the ethers. It is designed to empower you to make better choices for your health and strengthen the connection to your daily life.
— Donna Eden
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A Personal Video Invitation to the April 23–27 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit From Dondi Dahlin
Hello, my name is Dondi Dahlin, and I hope you will join me for the second annual Energy Medicine and Healing Summit. This is such a unique summit, and one of the reasons it is is because we have over 30 expert speakers in the field of energy medicine, all talking about different modalities that fall under the umbrella of energy medicine.
So you will be able to hear and learn about everything from reiki... to foot reflexology... to energy medicine for animals... energy medicine for children... shamanism... tuning forks... ancestral healing... the Akashic records... Eden energy medicine... and the list goes on.
It's such an important summit, and it's so important to have energy medicine in your life, because let's face it, healthcare costs are going up in Western medicine. Western medicine is really struggling, limping along, while people get sicker and sicker and sicker. Well, in this summit you will learn techniques, natural techniques, that you can do right now, on the summit, to help with your ailments, your challenges.
To watch the video and read the rest of the text, click here.
Facebook Live Q&A: The Wisdom of the Medicine Wheel
 Lena and Jose Luis Stevens will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on the shamanic power of the Medicine Wheel on Wednesday, April 25, at 5:00pm Pacific.
Please join Lena and Jose to hear thoughtful and compelling questions from the Shift community about using the wisdom of the Medicine Wheel to manifest the life you desire.
Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
Facebook Live Q&A: Wild Goddesses & Mystics of Mercy
 Popular Shift faculty Mirabai Starr will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Wild Goddesses & Mystics of Mercy on Wednesday, May 2, at 5:00pm Pacific.
Please join Mirabai to hear thoughtful and compelling questions from the Shift community about how women’s voices are rising as they never have before. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
The Healing Power of Intention
With Lynne McTaggart
From the 2017 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 In this 30-minute talk, award-winning journalist and author Lynne McTaggart addresses the questions she asked herself 12 years ago: “Can you use intention to heal the world?” What happens when lots of people are thinking the same thought at the same time... does it magnify the effect?” In 2007, working with a large consortium of scientists highly experienced in consciousness research, Lynne created the world’s largest global laboratory to test the power of mass intention to heal some of the world’s major issues. Click here to listen to the interview.
Phil Goldberg on The Life of Yogananda
Video interview with Phil Bolsta
 | In this exclusive 71-minute video interview for Catalyst, author Philip Goldberg talks about his new book, The Life of Yogananda — a biography of Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian guru who wrote Autobiography of a Yogi. |
An excerpt:
Yogananda's been gone for 66 years, and he's probably still the best known Indian guru in the west, despite the fact that dozens have come after him, and many are still living. And I think much of that can be attributed, certainly probably the main factor, is the popularity and... it's even beyond popularity. Autobiography of a Yogi is not just popular, it's beloved, and it endures. It still sells thousands of copies a year, and his face on the cover, as you can see behind me, is still present. You can go to yoga school, you go to bookstores, you go to health food stores, wherever, you see that face and that book.
To watch the video and read the text, click here.
A Shot in the Light
A true near-death story
By Lion Goodman
 In the middle of the Mojave Desert, I saw a motorist staring helplessly into the engine of his stalled car. The sun was beating down on him in 100+ degree heat. I felt bad for him. I knew what it felt like to be stuck in the middle of nowhere. I had been helped by the kindness of strangers in the past, and here was an opportunity to help another human being. I pulled over to the side of the freeway and offered him assistance…
To read more of this heart-pounding story — and to watch the very well-acted 18-minute film it inspired, register HERE and get immediate access to both the story and the film.
Lion Goodman, PCC, is a pioneer in the field of belief-change. He offers many programs, including a training for coaches and healers, the Clear Beliefs Coach Training, which begins on May 1. Click here for more details. |  |
Teach Me To BeWILD
A Story of Hurt Children and their Animal Healers
Teach Me to Be WILD explores the work of Wildlife Associates, a sanctuary in Northern California, where injured, non-releasable wild animals become Wild Teachers and are helping heal generations of hurt children. The traumatic histories of the creatures, who range from an Andean condor to a two-toed sloth, often parallel those of the at-risk youth who visit. Unexpected connections are forged that ripple into stories of transformation. With intimate access to the animals, their caregivers, workshop facilitators, and their spirited students, this film captures the magic that transpires where wounded children and their Wild Teachers meet.
Teach Me To Be WILD is a universal healing story that brings together many interconnected elements: children, animals, nature, ancient wisdom, and the power of silence and safe, non-judgmental listening spaces. The entire film can be streamed here.
The filmmakers were recently interviewed for a global Awakin.org call in which they spoke about the film and its journey — you can find the recording and transcript of the call here. And you can read the film testimonials here.
This Is How I Save My Life
By Amy B. Scher
 | This Is How I Save My Life is the true story of a fiery young woman’s heartwarming and hilarious journey that takes her from near-death in California to a trip around the world in search of her ultimate salvation. Along the way, she discovers a world of cultural mayhem, radical medical treatment, and, most importantly, a piece of her life she never even knew she was missing. Click here for more information. |
 Global Shift Meditation —
Free Event on the First of Every Month
Join The Shift Network, The Gaiafield Project, and people around the world for Global Shift Meditations on the first of each month. On April 1, we featured David Nicol. Click here to listen to the free recording and to register to receive future free recordings.
 Your Voice
We want to know: What energy medicine modality resonates with you the most, and why? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
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When Life Falls Apart, You Might Just Have To Save Yourself
By Amy B. Scher, Speaker at the 2018 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 When I was 25 years old, I thought, as most 20-something-year-olds do, that my life was set. Little did I know, my dream life would begin to fold suddenly when I began having trouble walking up the gentle ramp from my office. Shortly after that, I started to lose function of my arms. Doctors were puzzled, I was terrified, and my neurologist ordered me not to return to work. After testing revealed the outer sheath (covering) of my nerves was quickly unraveling throughout my body, I was diagnosed with a rare form of neuropathy.
As I began to soul search and research, I discovered the critical impact that unresolved emotional energy has on our lives. And even being familiar with the mind-body concept, especially while living in India, it was way bigger than I ever thought.
To read more, click here.
Are You an Empath and Is Money Often an Issue?
By Wendy De Rosa, Speaker at the 2018 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 Money has never been one of my favorite topics to talk about in healing work. The reason is, I’m not an expert in money and I’m guided to talk about spiritual growth. Yet, money is spiritual by nature of the energy underneath it. Money, or lack of, is also the elephant in the room for many overly-empathic people, and there is a correlation!
Now this may not apply to everyone, but there may be some gems here that are very helpful for you or someone you know.
To read more, click here.
Develop a ‘Sabbath’ Practice to Receive Wisdom from the Great Goddesses & Feminine Mystics
 What if you could create within you a sacred space — a true sanctuary — where you could immerse yourself in renewing energies and connect deeply with the Beloved?
In this 8-minute video, Mirabai Starr, a world-renowned inter-spiritual teacher and author of feminine mysticism, illuminates the power of creating a sanctuary, sabbath, or sangha for yourself.
To discover more, click here.
Click here to register for Mirabai’s brand new 7-week live video training, Wild Goddesses & Mystics of Mercy: Finding Refuge, Community & Intimacy With the Beloved, which begins on Wednesday, May 9. |
Want to Help the World? Start by Resolving Conflicts
By Lee Hamilton
 In a world riven by tension, there’s one skill that stands above all others: the ability to resolve conflict. It is the paramount challenge of our time.
There are so many divisions that fracture our communities, states, and nations, that the ability to create common ground — to bring people together, rather than drive them apart — has become an indispensable political need.
To read more, click here.
Wake Up, Wise Up: Musings for a Life in Full Bloom
By Kerry Temple-Wood
 Are we really prepared to live a long second half of life? Nice idea, right? AND as baby boomers and as a society, we are in the very beginning stages of learning how to do that well, in body, mind, and spirit. In this second half of life, we have an unprecedented opportunity to enter aging with awareness — a chance to wake up and wise up to our aging experience with the realities of its challenges and its gifts.
Approaching aging with a sense of focused awareness and cultivating good mind/body practices helps me set the stage for my ripening process to be the most it can be. My lifelong yoga practice (both physical and spiritual) gives me access to engage a variety of disciplines that I use to fully embrace the blooming of this conscious aging process.
To read more, click here.
Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2018
Published on Prison Policy Initiative
 Can it really be true that most people in jail are being held before trial? And how much of mass incarceration is a result of the war on drugs? These questions are harder to answer than you might think, because our country’s systems of confinement are so fragmented. The various government agencies involved in the justice system collect a lot of critical data, but it is not designed to help policymakers or the public understand what’s going on. Meaningful criminal justice reform that reduces the massive scale of incarceration, however, requires that we start with the big picture. The Prison Policy Initiative was founded in 2001 to document and publicize how mass incarceration punishes our entire society.
To read more, click here.
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Descended from Enslavers: Grappling With the Legacy
By Cathy Roberts
 Falling asleep, waking up, and showering are numinous times for me. Thoughts flow, creativity blossoms, and sometimes out of those relaxed states of consciousness I find a solution, gain an insight, or ask a question. The latter happened one morning in late autumn of 2014. Michael Brown had been murdered by a police officer in Ferguson, sparking months of protests, and Black Lives Matter surged into the national spotlight. In my own life, I was healing personal trauma stemming from childhood abuse and neglect.
In those waking seconds that morning, my personal history and our national history intersected. I woke with a question burning through the bleariness of my morning mind. Is it possible that the neglect and abuse of my childhood is due to my ancestors enslaving black people? Is it possible that in owning human beings, my ancestors harmed themselves and passed that damage down to their children and grandchildren, and eventually to me?
To read more, click here.
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The anticipation for the Energy Medicine & Healing Summit, a FREE online event from April 23–27, is palpable! More than 55,000 people have already registered to listen to such visionary speakers as Joan Borysenko, Donna Eden, Anodea Judith, Master Mingtong Gu, Dr. Sue Morter, Rhys Thomas, Jean Haner, Holly Tse, Wendy De Rosa, and Amy Scher. You’ll discover exactly how to take your health into your own hands (literally!) with today’s top energy medicine experts, health practitioners, and healers, who’ll guide you toward transforming your overall wellbeing from the inside out. See our list of dynamic speakers and find out everything you need to know by clicking here.
The Food Revolution Summit
April 28 to May 6
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We have a food industry that often acts like your health doesn't matter. Meanwhile, tens of millions of people are getting sick and dying from preventable diseases. We don’t want you or the people you love to be victims of this madness! During the Food Revolution Summit, we will bring you the most up-to-date research and wisdom about food, nutrition, disease prevention, and environmental stewardship. For more information, click here. |  |
Gathering for Humanity
Sante Fe, New Mexico, May 16–20
 Hosted by Shift faculty Grandmother Flordemayo and Master Mingtong Gu among others, the Gathering for Humanity is a powerful and timely 5-day retreat conference for unity and awakening at this pivotal moment on Earth.
A mandate of Spirit through universal healer Mayan Grandmother Flordemayo, the Gathering is an urgent calling to all of humanity committed to increasing the light and coherence on the planet. Join indigenous elders and other spiritual voices in guidance, blessings, sacred ceremony, and higher wisdom.
Hosts, honored guests, and musical guests will weave their gifts through the healing and activating energies of the land in a retreat environment to transform and realign body, mind, and spirit
Click here for more information.
Awakened World Global Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage around the world from May 11 to June 11, 2018
Join Dharma Teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips on a special 30-day pilgrimage around the world to the 7 chakras of our planet. Designed with care and intention, this is the first time in history a pilgrimage around the world and through the 7 chakras of our planet is offered to the public. The intention of this journey is to experience the sacredness of our planet beyond the usual divisions and separateness, and to awaken to the unifying consciousness that connects all life on Earth. Click here for all the details and to discover how you can be a part of this Incredible journey.
For several years, The Shift Network has hosted Indigenous leaders from around the world and invited them to share their sacred knowledge, rituals, and practices to guide us in a way of living that is sustainable, healthy, and just. We’re thus delighted that the Global Indigenous Wisdom Library makes this “virtual council” of leaders and their wisdom available for everyone, everywhere for free. The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library is a collection of audio and video interviews featuring Indigenous leaders from around the world sharing prayers, sacred songs, prophecies, spiritual teachings, and pathways to healing, as well as concrete examples for birthing a new era — one in which all members of the human family are treated with respect, understanding, compassion, and justice. This sacred wisdom is important medicine for us all.
The production of The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library is a gift from The Shift Network, designed to inspire, inform, and involve you by highlighting the voices and important messages of Indigenous leaders from around the world. We want to give a heartfelt thanks to Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. (“Brother Phil”) for his partnership in helping create this Indigenous Wisdom collection. And we thank all the speakers who have contributed to this body of knowledge. To discover more, click here.
Book by Stephen Dinan: Sacred America, Sacred World. Infused with visionary power, Sacred America, Sacred World is a manifesto for our country’s evolution that is both political and deeply spiritual. It offers profound hope that America can grow beyond our current challenges and manifest our noblest destiny, which the book shows is rooted in sacred principles that transcend left or right political views. To order your copy, click here.
If you would like to submit something to The Catalyst, please see the submission guidelines: click here.
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Identify one simple Energy Medicine practice and commit to doing it for 30 days.
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 Trickster Medicine: Using the Power of Unpredictability to Liberate Your Soul & Our World — A Free Video Event With Renowned Visionary Activist Astrologer Caroline Casey. Discover how your “inner Trickster” can expand your vision of what's possible for your life and the planet. Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 5:30pm Pacific
 How to Free Yourself Through Writing: 4 Keys for Creating a Transformative Spiritual Practice — A Free Virtual Event With Bestselling Author & Teacher Mark Matousek. Free yourself from old stories and unearth profound realizations as you master the keys to writing in a way that’s as transformational as meditation, yoga, prayer, or psychotherapy. Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 10:00am Pacific
 Rediscovering Your Pristine Nature: Realize Higher Frequencies of Joy, Love & Divinity — Featuring Michael Bernard Beckwith, Bestselling Author, Spiritual Teacher & Founder of Agape. Discover the universal principles for shifting beyond fear, doubt, and worry into realizing your divinity and the higher purpose you incarnated to express. Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 5:30pm Pacific
 Discovering Revolutionary Enlightenment: Access the Jewels of Buddhist Science, Realization, and Ethics for a Life of Freedom, Compassion & Joy — A Free Virtual Event With Renowned Teacher-Scholar Robert Thurman. Liberate yourself from fixed ideas of what Buddhism is and experience a more spacious, open-ended way of being authentically awake and enlightened. Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 10:00am Pacific
 The Feminine Way of Plant Medicine: Healing Through the Wisdom of Natural Remedies, Rhythms & Relationships — With Herbalist, Gardener, and Author Deb Soule. Discover medicinal plants and tonic herbs most valued for women’s health –– to heal and thrive during your specific cycle of life. New 7-week Live Audio Training Starts Wednesday, April 25, 2018
 The Way of Kabbalah: Jewish Mystical Teachings to Open Your Divine Eyes & Awaken Your Consciousness — With the Founder of Romemu Rabbi David Ingber. Tap into the power of ancient Jewish mysticism — an interspiritual approach to a lineage that offers practical guidance for your daily life. New 7-week Live Video Program Starts Thursday, April 26, 2018
Wisdom of the Medicine Wheel: A Shamanic Journey to Release Obstacles, Align With Power & Manifest Your Deepest Visions — With Teacher, Shamanic Practitioner and Writer of the Power Path Monthly Forecast Lena Stevens & Author, Teacher, and Shamanic Practitioner Jose Luis Stevens, PhD. Use the Medicine Wheel to better understand how you’ve created your reality and what you can do to transform or “re-dream” it to manifest the life you desire. New 7-week Live Video Training Starts Wednesday, May 2, 2018
More Upcoming Events: (all subject to change)
April
• Jessica Dibb 12-week course
• Arjun Das 12-week course
May
• Mirabai Starr 7-week course
• Caroline Casey 7-week course
• Mark Matousek 21-week course
• Robert Thurman 7-week course
• Rev. Michael Beckwith 6-week course
• Women's Money Summit
• Robert Moss 9-week course
• Raja Choudhury 21-week course
• Linda Backman 7-week course
June
• Donna Eden 12-week course
• Enneagram Global Summit
• Terry Patten 7-week course
• Joel Fuhrman 6-week course
• Yoga Day Summit
• Dawson Church 7-week course
July
• Sandra Ingerman & Evelyn Rysdyk 7-week course
• Shamanism Global Summit
• Andrew Harvey 12-week course
• Linda Backman 21-week course
• Dr. Sue Morter 7-week course
• Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo 7-week course
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Avenya
Avenya facilitates the creation of foundations for a culture of peace, through re-connecting to the Earth’s spiritual dimension and the source of life. Avenya is addressing humanity’s inability to recognize the spiritual evolutionary processes the Earth’s soul is undergoing and its influence on humanity. We offer tools to develop an inner language to communicate with the Earth and harmonize our ways of living with her processes of spiritual evolution.
Avenya is fundraising for a groundbreaking documentary film with special animation. The film will portray the spiritual dimension of the Earth, humanity’s relationship with her, our disconnection from the spirit through our materially focused life, and ways to reconnect to this sacred world and through that promote a culture of peace. Click here for more information. Click here to make a donation.
The Energy Medicine Institute
The Energy Medicine Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that advances energy medicine through:
• Public Education
• Professional Training
• Advocating the Use of an Energy Medicine Perspective within Health Care, Business, and Education
• Developing Resources for the Professional Practice of Energy Medicine
• Conducting Research and Disseminating Knowledge about Energy Medicine
You can support these objectives by contributing to the Energy Medicine Institute. To find out more and make a donation, click here.
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The Chi Center Founded by Master Mingtong Gu, The Chi Center, based at the new Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is dedicated to the principles of self-healing and empowerment. Master Gu offers his joyous teachings in Wisdom Healing Qigong through online learning and by hosting healing retreats at the Center and internationally for beginners to advanced students, health professionals and Qigong teacher certification. Visit their website by clicking here.
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Nessi Gomes
Album: Diamonds & Demons
Born on the tiny Island of Guernsey to a Portuguese family, British singer-songwriter Nessi Gomes, Winner of Best UK Unsigned Female 2016, channels influences from both sides of her ethnicity, blending the essence of the traditional, emotional, and “larger than life” Fado folk music with British contemporary inspiration.
Though spending most of her life in the Channel Islands, the turning point in Nessi’s musical expression took place six years ago when she lived in Central America. The years she spent away from her home shook her world and reshaped her writing. She shifted from the more obvious themes of love, loss, and broken hearts to ruthlessly exploring her inner geography, insecurities, beauty, and light that she found there.
In her debut album, Diamonds & Demons, ensuing tales of darkness and light allow a deeper exploration of the human condition, psyche, collective fears, and torments.
Click here to visit her website. Click here to buy your copy of Diamonds & Demons.
Click here to listen to samples of songs from Diamonds & Demons. Click here to watch her videos.
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