Life School

In this online intensive, Dr. Russell DesMarais will teach you the basics of BaGua QiGong, a powerful, esoteric healing technique thousands of years old. In these modern and hectic times, many of us are disconnected from the energies found both within our own bodies and those energies surrounding us in nature. To rebuild those connections, participants learn about the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine and the Eight Powers of The Great Tao used to reconnect our inner center of Qi - The BaGua - with the outer source of all creation - The Great Tao.

Frederick Marx is an internationally acclaimed, Oscar and Emmy nominated director/writer, whose critically acclaimed film HOOP DREAMS was named Best Film of the Decade by noted film critic Roger Ebert. It won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, was the first documentary ever chosen to close the New York Film Festival, and was named Best Film of the Year by critics Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Gene Shalit, and Ken Turran and by the Chicago Film Critics Association. It is one of the highest grossing non-musical documentaries in United States history. He was named a Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year for 1994, a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Award. Now, you can learn from someone who has succeeded at this level, what it takes to succeed at this level.

Drawing on his unique blend of physics, philosophy, and psychology, visionary Peter Russell explores the nature of human consciousness, and in this workshop he will lead a group exploration into what leads us to hold on, how we become attached to our beliefs about what we need and how to get it. He will also share his latest thinking and practices on the art and science of letting go.

Alan Lowen's The Art of Being Experience is a weekend workshop that provides a rare opportunity to participate in a different kind of human potential experience. Describing what happens  - the inter-personal processes, the guided journeys into your own depths, the music that sets a new standard in its beauty and appropriateness, Alan’s dynamic, body-heart-and-soul meditations, the circle where life-transforming mysteries unfold – yes, there is all of this, and still the words cannot convey how extraordinary is an Art of Being experience.

We are delighted to offer Steve Bhaerman's terrific workshop in serious comedy to the LifeSchool community. The workshop will consist a five hour comedic training in developing your stand-up routine, and then we'll produce an evening event with friends and family to give you a chance to take your schtick around the block for a test drive - in front of a loving, appreciative and supportive audience.