This course is based on the book Charge and the Energy Body by Anodea Judith.

This class will continue to explore and deepen your level of self-understanding and responsibility for charging and discharging of your vital force. It will help you to understand your own workings, the forces that propel those you love and how to stabilize and harmonize the energies within you and beyond you. It will awaken you to higher dimensions of self-expression, self-healing and creativity. There is no prerequisite for this class. If you have taken 101 it will enhance your exploration and deepening your understanding of the chakras and their functions.

Learn conductivity and healing exercises to transform emotionally reactive habit patterns to responsive action, thereby freeing you from limitations of self-expression. Guided experiential exercises will be used, including meditation, breath and yoga to enhance the functions of body/emotion/mind & breath, which will lead you to a better understanding of yourself in relationship to your Life, Love & Light.

Instructor: Henny Nouwen, RN, LMT

Henny started learning about and experimenting with the unseen realms of energy awareness, auras, chakras, energy medicine, bodywork as well as metaphysics and mysticism in the 80’s. She has been in private practice for 32 years using healing touch, intuition, insight and wisdom as an Integrative Healer.

Henny brings with her 18 years as a cardiovascular circulating nurse in open heart surgery as well as having been an ordained minister in metaphysical teachings for nine years. Over 40 years Henny has taught a multitude of classes on the mind/body connections, death, grief & loss, energy awareness and healing. Henny is driven to share her knowledge of how true healing happens in the recognition of the greater reality that sources our energetic being and teach you how to get in touch with it.

Each of these films presents a unique and detailed perspective on a common theme - justice is difficult. We will spend each of the first five classes watching and briefly discussing a single movie, with our sixth class a review of all five: To Kill A Mockingbird (1962), The Verdict (1982), Michael Clayton (2007), Twelve Angry Men (1957), and Rashomon (1950).

PLEASE NOTE:

• The first three classes will run an extra half hour, from 4pm - 630pm, to allow for a short introduction, a full, uninterrupted screening, and a brief discussion afterward.
• The last three classes will follow ASC’s regular schedule, 4pm - 6pm.

Instructor: Mark Lundsten

Mark made his first movie during his career as a commercial halibut fisherman in Alaska, a documentary about avoiding seabird bycatch, and after retiring from fishing, made a few more. His film “The Bath” played in many film festivals and garnered a number of awards. For a number of years, Mark curated and conducted the Second Sunday Film Series in Anacortes.

In this three-week course, we will look at the amazing relationships between different living beings in the forest. After an overview of the main tree, bird, and animal species that live in the ACFL, we will explore the interrelationships between trees and the tiny organisms that help the forest thrive: mosses, lichens, and fungi. Jane will illustrate the sessions with photographs she has taken in her years of hiking the forest lands.

Instructor: Jane Billinghurst

Jane is a writer, editor, and translator who works with non-fiction natural history books, including the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees by German forester Peter Wohlleben and Forest Walking, which Jane co-wrote with Peter. Jane has lived in the UK, Canada, and the US. She has called Anacortes home for the past twenty years and spends as many hours as she can out in forests looking for amazing and often-overlooked treasures under the tree canopy.

Writing about your life can seem like a daunting task. Where to begin? This class will prime the pump, with weekly writing assignments (about 750 words) presented in themes, plus writing tips. Sharing your stories confidentially with others in class will inspire you even more. You'll come to see your life through a different lens and leave a legacy for your family.

Instructor: Teru Lundsten (Class size limited to 10 students)

Teru has been teaching memoir writing in Skagit County since 2010. She worked as a personal historian, helping people preserve their life stories into books for their families. As a journalist she wrote over 200 profiles of people of all ages and from around the world. She has completed a memoir of her early years.

Explore the world of volcanoes and their potential effects on surrounding regions, particularly those in the Cascade Range. There are at least 12 active volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest whose eruptive histories, and their effects on the surrounding areas will be described.

Why and where do volcanoes form? How are they monitored to protect those of us who live in the shadow of these ticking time bombs? Which ones are next?

Instructor: Professor Emeritus Gene Kiver

Gene Kiver graduated from Case-Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and later from the University of Wyoming in Laramie where he received his Doctorate in Geology. He taught Geology for 34 years at Eastern Washington University in Cheney and conducted an active research career that emphasized landforms and surface processes. Glacial geology of the western United States, geothermal ice caves on Mts. Rainier and Baker, national park geology, speleology, and the Missoula Floods are his main professional interests. Research and volunteer activity with the Ice Age Floods Institute continues today. He has co-authored two recent books, “On the Trail of The Ice Age Floods” and “Washington Rocks!”. “Washington Rocks!” is written for the non-geologist interested in learning about amazing geologic sites in the State of Washington.

A proven approach to self-care, the Alexander Technique teaches how to unlearn habitual patterns that cause unnecessary tension in everything we do. It’s used by people of all ages and abilities to enhance the performance of every activity, improve posture, and relieve the pain and stress caused by everyday misuse of the body. This class will be a gentle hands-on introduction to the basic principles of the Alexander Technique and will focus on everyday activities such as sitting and standing, walking, breathing, and performing basic tasks. You might consider taking this class if:

• you are working on balance or recovering from an injury
• you’d like to get through the day without extra muscle strain
• you’ve got a lot on your mind and you’d like to be less frantic
• you’d like to improve a specific activity, like playing a sport or a musical instrument

Instructor: Angeline LeLeux (Class size limited to 10 students)

Angeline began studying the Alexander Technique in 1997 and qualified as a certified teacher through the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) in 2001. Along with her Alexander teaching practice, she taught and performed on piano for almost 25 years and credits the Technique with allowing her to continue performing after a bad case of overuse and tendinitis in her right wrist. Angeline is passionate and enthusiastic about helping others improve their quality of life and looks forward to sharing her expertise!