Lightwork is the intention to spread compassion and healing across the Earth in order to elevate human consciousness. Lightworkers empower others toward their own enlightenment.

Lightwork Seminars, Intl. conducts seminars and retreats based on increasing consciousness and a greater experience of oneness, love, and joy. We are dedicated to healing our minds and bodies in order to fully express our true spirits.

We pursue this purpose through blending the principles of NLP and Hypnotherapy with those outlined in A Course in Miracles, the Edgar Cayce readings, Usui Reiki, Quantum Mechanics, and Shamanism. We believe NLP is an excellent framework for releasing mental, emotional, even physical barriers to experiencing freedom and joy in each moment. And, this combination of approaches gives us a unique insight into the human experiences of spiritual beings.

Through the use of NLP we can use quantum concepts to make real and significant improvements in our lives and in our world. Take a chance- what have you got to gain?

Techniques

NLP | Hypnotherapy | Reiki | Theta Healing

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Training

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is often referred to as "The User's Manual" to the brain. It is at once the study of the human mind, a methodology for improving communication, and a personal growth technology that acknowledges the incredible variety of human expression while providing a way to simply and efficiently understand, organize, and utilize that variety to help us tap our true potential.

NLP is a concrete and fundamental tool for changing perceptions into something that works for us, rather than against us. We can use this tool to alter our belief system to one that allows us greater happiness and fulfillment. We can also use it to create better behaviors, or ones that are more in line with our beliefs, so that what we do and what we say are aligned with what we believe to be true.

Since its inception, NLP has been used by Fortune 100 companies, celebrities, star athletes, and former US Presidents to improve both their effectiveness and their popularity. Indeed, much of the personal growth field has been driven by concepts associated with NLP. Its techniques are now widely used in sports, therapy, and all areas of business and education. Consistent, powerful results have created a worldwide explosion of interest in NLP across a broad spectrum of human endeavors.

Hypnosis Training

Hypnosis has documented medical and psychiatric use in treatment of various psychosomatic and stress-related symptoms ranging from addiction and phobia to physiological disorders like chronic pain and cancer. Other benefits include improved memory, performance enhancement and increased vitality. By accessing the unconscious mind, where memories, beliefs, values, and experiences are stored, hypnosis creates deep and lasting improvement in behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that can have profound impact on overall health and well-being.

While the hypnotic state is a naturally-occurring condition of increased sensory awareness and heightened responsiveness to suggestion, hypnotic treatment is usually induced by an operator who engages the attention of a subject and gives positive suggestions for healing. Most people are easily hypnotized, though depth of the trance varies. Therapeutic effects, however, occur even in light trance.

"This experience was far more valuable than I anticipated. It has been an incredible opportunity. And taking both seminars [NLP Practitioner & Advanced Hypnotherapy] was definitely the highlight of the first half of my great year! The tools I now have will enhance my work as a massage therapist, but more importantly I now have the opportunity to work in this creative and far-reaching field." Victoria Lee, LMT

Past Life Regression

Your strongest friendships today likely began long before you were born in this body. In former lives you might have been brothers or sisters sharing happy times in a peaceful village or on a tropical island. In other lives you may have fought or resisted wars together, rescued each other from fire or famine, or were simply there for each other again to celebrate life's joys. Recalling these events and decisions, through bodywork and altered states of consciousness, can be the first step in a rapid healing process or a useful part of a more extensive process of healing, increasing awareness, and cultivating new attitudes, feelings and actions.

A past life regression allows a client to move through time to clear emotional or physical traumas, find hidden talents, discover spiritual gifts, and create a wonderful future. Our special type of regression also includes contact with spirit guides, angels, and/or our higher self to receive spiritual guidance regarding the current life circumstances.

"Janis Ericson was able to show me a world of hypnosis that I never thought existed. Her gift for teaching brought the class full circle. No parts were left out." L.L.

Reiki Training

Reiki is a hands-on healing system that invokes and channels universal life force energy to restore balance in an individual. The origin of Reiki appears to be in ancient Tibetan healing practices that were lost over time and rediscovered by a Japanese Buddhist monk named Mikao Usui in the late 1800s. Modern treatment sessions generally last sixty to ninety minutes, during which the practitioners transmit universal life force energy by placing their hands at specific positions on or slightly above the recipient's body.

Reiki practice and technique is not taught, but transmitted from master to student in a series of energetic attunements. Anyone, even children, can receive these attunements, linking them to universal life force energy and empowering its transmission for healing. While practitioners do not claim Reiki cures specific illnesses, it does promote and stimulate the body's natural healing ability and supports other treatment programs of emotional and spiritual health. Reiki can be done in-person or from a long distance.

ThetaHealing™

ThetaHealing™ is a healing modality developed by Vianna Stibal that facilitates instant healing. It is, essentially, applied quantum physics. Using a theta brain wave state, which until now was believed to be accessible only in deep sleep or yogi-level meditation, the practitioner is able to connect with the energy of "All That Is" to both identify and correct issues in the physical and emotional body. This is done through shifting limiting beliefs.

Beliefs function like computer programs, creating wealth or poverty, sickness or health, success or failure, loneliness or interconnectedness, and thereby create our daily experience of the world around us. The beliefs we hold are almost entirely beneath our conscious awareness. Some are formed during our childhood experiences, others are passed down through the morphogenic field around our DNA, and still others stem from past lives and the collective unconscious (aka The Akashic Record). With ThetaHealing™, you can choose your beliefs and consciously create your life. You can heal physical ailments, and reprogram yourself for abundance, success, love, happiness and anything else you can imagine. So…what will you create?

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Trainers

Janis Ericson . Diane Haworth . Marcus Marsden . Cheryl Sullivan . Karen Truhon

Janis Ericson, CHt

Janis Ericson, founder and director of Lightwork Seminars, Intl. is regarded as a leader in the diverse field of holistic healing and is one of most highly respected trainers in personal development methodologies today. Janis's insights into the inner workings of both the human mind and the spiritual body create a unique approach to healing and self development. Her natural curiosity and penchant for results makes her an extremely effective and powerful catalyst for growth and transformation.

Through her fun and lighthearted style, she connects with her students, giving them a profound experience of the unlimited possibilities that exist through the magic of NLP. Her warmth, authenticity, and genuine compassion for life come across as Janis inspires her audience to make the world a more joyful place by becoming an example of that joy and the freedom it brings.

Janis began studying hypnosis at the age of 16, and since that time she has been dedicated to learning different healing modalities to add to her skills in helping people heal from depression, anxiety, abuse, disease, phobias, relationship difficulties, and learning disabilities. She has helped hundreds of people to discover the power of their minds and given them the tools to regain control of their lives.

As a trainer and speaker, Janis is engaging and profound. Her unique blend of deep spiritual philosophy and lighthearted fun is both thought-provoking and supremely enjoyable. She has the natural ability to make complex concepts simple, in language that is easy to understand and full of wisdom and experience. Janis has learned from some of the best trainers in the personal growth field, like Dr. Richard Bandler and John LaValle, and she brings their techniques together to form a cohesive and useful methodology.

In addition to being a Licensed Trainer of NLP, Janis is also a skilled Transpersonal Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner, Reiki Master, Interfaith Minister, Theta Healer™, Health and Success Coach, Past Life Regression Specialist, and Spiritual Healer. When she's not teaching, she runs a successful practice in San Francisco, CA. Janis is a member of the Society of NLP, National Guild of Hypnotists, American Board of Hypnotherapy, the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Professional Board of Hypnotherapists, and National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists. She can be reached at 415-637-4971.

"Janis Ericson is an extremely gifted and creative human being and an excellent trainer for this material. Thank you so much Janis for your support and wonderful energy." Victoria Lee, LMT

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Diane Haworth

“Thank you for the session on Friday, that was one of the most productive, healing experiences of my life, I so appreciate your help, insight and alignment. I feel wonderful. Everyone is recognizing a change in me and I can feel my chakra's spinning beautifully!! I will be seeing you again“ G. G.

Diane Haworth is an experienced coach, trainer and energy healer who believes everyone should “live their joy.”

Although her professional life spanned 30+ years in the marketing field, Diane has always been intrigued with holistic healing including energy work, nutrition and the power of individual beliefs to influence personal health. She studied various modalities for over 20 years in search of answers to issues in her own life. After freeing herself from illness, excessive weight and an unsupportive relationship, she wanted to help others find the freedom and happiness she now enjoys. As a result, Diane is passionate about helping those who are ready to transform their lives and attract the success she feels is our birthright.

Diane holds a BS in Mass Communications, an MBA, is a Reiki Master/Teacher, a licensed practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, certified in Advanced Theta Healing™, Magnified Healing, and as a Holistic PR Consultant. She has been an adjunct professor with George Mason University and taught marketing and business classes as well as energy workshops in Washington, DC metro area.

Diane founded Foxfire Consulting in Warrenton, Virginia, which blends traditional methods with energetic principles that help clients consciously create the life they want by releasing mental, emotional and physical blocks to success. She can be reached at 540-222-0196.

Marcus Marsden

Marcus Marsden is an executive coach and personal development trainer based in Hong Kong with clients throughout Asia and the UK. Marcus brings to his training and coaching 20 years of business and management experience developed in senior management roles in Europe and Asia. Marcus specializes in coaching senior executives in leadership, management, and change and teaching personal breakthrough workshops.

In addition to his role as an executive coach, Marcus is the Director of the Corporate Training & Coaching Division as well as a Senior Partner of TWP. Marcus has worked extensively in the fields of leadership development and coaching with organizations throughout Asia and Europe, including Unilever, PETRONAS, Sony Ericsson, Taishin Bank, Birla Group, Wika Construction, and Hewlett Packard.

Graduating from Oxford University, Marcus is also an NLP Master Practitioner. He holds certification for Creative Thinking facilitation from the internationally-respected What If Group of companies. And, he is a member of the International Coaching Federation and the Newfield Network.

Marcus is married to a lovely Indonesian woman and currently lives in Hong Kong. When not working, he enjoys keeping fit and healthy in the gym (his wife is a personal fitness trainer!) as well as playing golf, hiking and Pilates. He is a keen movie watcher as well an ardent fan of American football (Go Raiders!).

Cheryl Sullivan, CHt

Cheryl Sullivan is the founder of the Holistic Hypnosis Healing Center in Boca Raton, Florida. Her practice includes transpersonal hypnosis as well as Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Time Line Therapy™, Reiki, ThetaHealing™, and spiritual counseling. She is a past life regression specialist and one of the few "Life Between Lives" therapists in South Florida having studied with Dr. Michael Newton author of Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls. She has participated in prayer journeys to sacred sites in Egypt and Brazil, and has traveled to Peru to study shamanic healing techniques with Dr. Ruben Orellana. She has also studied NLP and Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning with Dr. Richard Bandler.

Cheryl holds a degree in Human Science Education from Florida State University. A former high school teacher, she spent several years co-managing a large South Florida corporation before moving full-time into the metaphysical field. She is certified as a hypnotherapist by the Eastern Institute of Hypnotherapy, Bennett-Stellar University, and Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. where she received much of her training. Cheryl is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a Past Life Regressionist, Life Between Lives Therapist, Time Line Therapist™, a Certified ThetaHealing™ Instructor, and a Reiki Master. She is a member of the American Board of Hypnotherapy, the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists, the National Guild of Hypnotists, Time Line Therapy™ Association and the A.R.E. (Association of Research and Enlightenment).

She currently maintains a successful private practice in Boca Raton, Florida and Asheville, North Carolina,, and she facilitates classes in self-hypnosis, meditation, ThetaHealing™, past life regression, and mind-body-spirit connection as well as leading spiritual retreats in the US and abroad.

Dear Cheryl: I want to thank you for what you did for me in New Orleans, it has been a long time coming. Helping me through that particular step in my life's path has opened new avenues to the future. You are a kind, compassionate and caring healer. Looking forward to seeing you again.
A Friend For Life, David

Karen Truhon

An Intuitive Energy Practitioner with over 28 years experience in traditional and holistic healing, Karen Truhon has dedicated her life to improving the lives of others. Her journey from mainstream medical training as a Registered Nurse to ever-more holistic and energy-based forms of treatment, was inspired by her own remarkable recovery from 5 surgeries through Reiki. Karen knew her purpose was then to teach others how to use their own miraculous natural healing abilities.

Certified as a Reiki Master Teacher, ThetaHealing© Instructor, Angel Healer Practitioner, Crystal Healer & Medium. Karen specializes in children’s workshops on crystals, energy, angels & reiki. She is affectionately known as “Reiki Karen.”