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Gopita will be a Teaching Assistant with Donna Eden in Los Angeles at the four day event: Energy Medicine for Women, sponsored by The Conference Works!, July 23 - 26, 2009.  Contact and registration information is here.   The July 25 Workshop will be re-scheduled at a later time. Energy Medicine 2009 Energy Medicine for Women Study Group II will continue with another six week session, meeting every other week, commencing January 11, 2009. The schedule will be as follows:  January 11, 25, February 8, 22, March 8, 22, 2009 Cost for the Study Group is $150, payable in advance. Call  818.248.7258 for information about joining the group.  We will study the book Energy Medicine for Women, by Donna Eden. La Crescenta location.  Every other Sunday; 3:30- 5:30 p.m.

DATE CHANGE!!!!!!!  APRIL 5!!!!  See Details Below….   Free Aveda “Goodie Bags”!           Sunday, April 5, 2009                                                                  3:00 – 5:00 p.m. (Details Below) Free Mini-Facial Gift Certificates!   Free Gift Certificates for Haircuts, Color, Perms, ETC!!!!!   Free Gift Certificates for Meditation Classes, Energy Balancing with Gopita   and MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!   Come early and receive your bag of goodies!!    Register for the Free Raffle for Prizes and more and more and more!   Receive a Free Laminated Acupressure Chart along with a free demonstration for Facial Acupressure (an immediate “face lift”)!    All this…..    plus Refreshments!!!!!   And stay for a fascinating 30 minute lecture on:   The Five Elements:  The Backbone of Chinese Medicine With Gopita Katharine Manning, M.A., M.S.W. **Are you a Fire Element?  Do you laugh a great deal, panic sometimes, have problems with heart palpitations, and sometimes get so over -stimulated you just babble?  Do you just love and love and love until you can’t love anymore then wonder why no one loves you back? Do you notice that you have problems particularly with your heart, your arteries, with certain diseases like allergies, fibroids or prostate problems? **Are you a Water Element?  Do you over- philosophize, sometimes to the point of despair?  Are you a poet?  A great thinker?  Do you prefer the solitude of nature to the city? Do you sometimes notice sweaty palms?  Is your skin particularly dry?  Do you have recurring cystitis?  Do you have osteoporosis or eye problems? Do you have a particular rhythm to the way you walk, almost like fluidity?  Do you like salty foods, or do you prefer sweet foods?  Do you sweat a lot? **Are you a Metal Element?  Do you analyze, think, think think?  Has anyone told you that you tend to be NOT emotional enough?  Have you ever just cut anyone off who was “over-emoting”? Do you have physical issues with your lungs?  Do you get constipated?  Do you suffer from depression, especially noticing depression when it gets dark? **Are you an Earth Element? Are you just a “born Mother?”  Have you ever been accused of being codependent?  Would you rather be a homemaker than anything else in this world?  Do you have, or long for, children and more children? Do you tend toward sugar disorders:  diabetes, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, mood swings, and cravings?  Are you an alcoholic or drug addict, or have a proclivity toward addiction?  Do you sometimes talk in a baby-like voice? **Are you a Wood Element?  Are you a natural organizer, leader, person in control?  Are you good with conflict?  Can you “just do it”, no matter what? Do you sometimes get too controlling, get too aggressive and blunt, causing stress and strain to lead to diseases of the nerves, like herpes and muscular tension, ligament and tendon pulls, migraines, etc? The Five Elements are the most fascinating study in all of Energy Medicine!!  To learn more, read the attached paper, and COME TO THE FREE LECTURE:   Sunday, April 5, 2009 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Salon Mystique 1101 Foothill Blvd. La Canada, CA91011   Kindly Reserve a place by calling 818.248.7258 and leaving a message or E-mailing @ salon.mystique@gmail.com, or gopita@att.net.   Thank you!  Space is limited. Everyone who comes will get a $20 discount on the first workshop of the series offered in April!   Come right on time (3:00 p.m.) for a lecture and demonstration on Facial Acupressure:  How to get Younger Every Day with Seven Points on Your Face…****   **** (We will have scientific articles to back up this incredible fact!!!)

Workshop:  Maintaining Balance With the Five Elements With: Gopita Katharine Manning, M.A. When:  Saturday, May 16, 2009     Time:  10:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon Where:  La Crescenta, CA 91214 Cost:  $45 Details:  818.248.7258    Maintaining Balance Through these Economic Times:  How to Utilize Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Five Elements to Create Abundance During the Recession   The Essential Nature of all things – otherwise known as the Five Elements (or the Five Rhythms, the Five Transformations, the Essences, or the Elemental Energies)…   Or the Tao….   Anyway, utilizing the power of the simple wheel of balance can truly bring one into the highest possible vibration of attraction; and attraction, by law, always draws us to our highest potential, or abundance.   This is simply a law of physics.  It is not complicated, and it is not difficult!   CEO’s of major companies have used analysts to determine elemental balances of other executives in their company in order to achieve their highest potential;   Analysts have also used the science of Feng Shui, or the Five Elements applied to the environment, to draw abundance and create harmony and health in the workplace.   Why not make the most of the so-called contraction, called “Recession” (yang), and bring its’ opposing force into action, Attraction and Expansion, (yin) while we have this great opportunity?   This is a most important time in our lives.  It is a time for gathering, for planting seeds, for sowing, for preparing for the next harvest and reaping.  Use this time wisely!  If you learn balance now, abundance in finance, health, relationships, and all areas of your life are guaranteed!!!!   This system of balance, harmony, health, thought and medicine has been used, and is currently used, by two thirds of the globe!    Take advantage of this opportunity for abundance now!

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Southern Fried Spirituality Gopita Katharine Manning, M.A., M.S.W.   Calendar of Workshops and Events – 2009   Ongoing:  Energy Medicine Study Groups, Sundays, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m., $150 per six week cycle (Call for information, availability, and topics)   January 17, 2009 Saturday 10:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. $85 Energy Psychology:  An Exciting New Field for Human Development, Leine Delker, Ph.D.   February 21, 2009 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch included Saturday, $150 Acid Alkaline II & Introduction to Oriental Diagnosis Gopita Katharine Manning, M.A., M.S.W. See Flyer     March 29, 2009 Sunday, 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. The Five Elements:  The “Backbone” of Chinese Medicine.   FREE LECTURE!!!  Prerequisite for ongoing study in the series on the Elements!  Location TBA       April 25, 2009 Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. $95 The Five Elements:  Yin, Yang, Quantum This, Quantum That, the Tao, and your Dog….   The first in a series of four which will hopefully engage a lively discussion on the Five Elements, the Five Phases, the Five Transformations, the Five Rhythms, (or anything else you may want to call this fascinating paradigm of thought), which is based on the most  ancient system and philosophy of all thought:  the Tao.   The Newtonian paradigm of cause and effect is completely outdated, yet people use this in all areas of their life, from parenting, to dog training, to schoolwork, to – EVERYTHING!!!   Join us for the first in this series in learning how to apply the understanding of the Five Elements to our lives, and see how this understanding seamlessly segues into the understanding of Energy Medicine.     June 13, 2009 Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. $95 Personality Theory and the Five Elements   Modern psychological theorists, from Freud to Fairbourn, could have learned a thing or two in honing their powers of observation and intuitive skills from classical Chinese medicine.  Are we predestined because of our elemental nature?  Are we a result of our biology or are we conditioned by influences from the Universe?  Are both true?  Do the elements influence our biology?   How much does our archetypal element affect us?    This workshop will explore what it really means to “be” a Water, Wood, Fire, Metal or Earth.  A simple questionnaire may help guide you, should you not be absolutely sure of the element you “came in with”, according to Donna Eden.   The archetypal element is your fundamental truth, or your soul’s path, so to speak.  Rich with experience already, predetermined by your birth and by your energies at conception (the three gunas – tamas, rajas, or sattvic, according to yogic theory), this element ascertains certain organic strengths and/or weaknesses, how you walk, how you talk, how long you will live, what kind of partner you will attract, how strong your attachment potentiality will be in terms of bonding, etc.   Understanding these elements according to one’s individuality can bring us a long way toward understanding personal health.  This study is not only delightful and fun, it is unbelievably empowering.     July 25, 2009 Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. $95 Five Element Theory and the Energies of Food   Do you crave salt?  Do you crave sweets?  If you are an Earth Element, you may be doing yourself harm if you eat too many sweets at certain times.  Yet you may be able to eat as many sweets as you want at other times with no consequence whatsoever, if you understand your own personal rhythms and the user-friendly meridian chart.  Learning about your own personal abilities will shock you once and for all into understanding why diets could never, ever work!  We are as unique as our fingerprints. Furthermore, if diets worked, there would only be one!!!   Yin and yang, acid and alkaline, balance and not-balance, each of these polarities can be understood once and for all in the context of the individual.   (This workshop is perfect for parents with kids diagnosed with what I call the diagnosis- de- jour:  ADD!!!) Come and see why…..         September 26, 2009 Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.   $95 Sedating Points, Strengthening Points, Disbursing, and Tonifying:  Oh, those Pesky Points!!!   Come and learn the power in applying Acupuncture points to disburse energy to certain elements, or meridians, to hold or “control” energies which no longer need to flow in certain directions, how to use points for pain control, illness, headaches, PMS, seizures, and any other condition or illness one could think of!   Once this system is understood, it becomes quite simple to apply the very basis of Chinese medicine acupuncture points for correction.   This is the last in the series on the Elements, and this one will be the one you won’t want to miss!!!    The former three classes are a MUST to come to this one, as well as (and/or) knowledge of Chinese/Energy Medicine and approval from the instructor.   Call and ask for package deals now!!!       October/November, 2009 Date TBA Cooking Whole Foods for Kids       December, 2009 Date TBA Macrobiotic Diagnosis and Cooking Guest Lecturer!  TBA