Preparing to Live Smarter is the theme of our Advanced Tension Release workshop.

Your most valuable lessons in life may come as unexpected pleasures. You'll relax deeply... Learn to address personal challenges of mind and body... Know how to help a partner, child, associate relax quickly...

I've led between 50 and 100 stress release workshops a year, enor- mously popular, starting at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. The workshops are designed to provide valuable self-help tools to enhance your performance, well-being, happiness and group cohesiveness.

Every human needs... * Healthy Touch, and * Nurturing interconnection with others. Satisfied, these can unlock the Power of a Loving Heart and Spiritual Union with Higher Power -- the keys to whatever you set your mind to. In crisis, they might "save a life."

Steps to tap into Higher Power involve learning and practicing a form -- and understanding how it's different from less-powerful forms.

A full workshop takes 90 minutes to two-and-a-half hours. This, our fourth (location) workshop, will follow the all-day Reiki I Attunement (8:30-5:30). Energies will be high! Time will pass quickly. You'll experience a deep space of relaxation and receptivity!

A beginning "ice-breaker" is like an old-fashioned mixer...helping everyone appreciate the richness of group members. Soon we'll focus attentions on one partner.

The basic workshop begins as I guide your practice of effective relaxation techniques. Three forms of deep breathing: A seven-part Conscious Breathing form, then a breathing form to boost resistance to bacteria and viruses by activating the lymphatic system, and a third breathing form to get "high" without getting a hang-over. Building a Chi snowball to "get the bingo"...move life force energy freely through head and body. How to connect with your own neck and shoulders to start relaxing mind and body. You can integrate these and other exercises into your busy life. Practice them anywhere to ease tension!

Soon you'll partner with someone you come with, or someone you meet at the workshop. I'll demonstrate various forms on a willing volunteer as you watch. Working with your partner, you'll alternately practice and receive as I "walk you through the steps."

We'll work on keystone areas to relax mind and body: Head, Neck, Shoulders, Back, Spine. As you watch, practice and feel, you'll learn...

* Amazing interconnections between upper neck & upper body; middle neck & middle body; lower neck & lower body.

* Locations of key "mind-body" switches and why it's essential that they be open to prevent headaches, boost energy and well-being, ease mind/body discomforts.

* How to check whether your "mind-body" switches are open -- or those of a partner or cranky child. Use Aroma- therapy to help keep them open!

* Effective, nurturing touch to help someone quickly relax!

* Why it's essential to pay attention to an aching back! It's the mind/body's way of showing you where nerve energy is blocked in its flow from spine to some part of mind and body. How to effectively help your tight back relax.

* Enhancing your feeling of okay-ness when things are not going well...by applying the Law of Unconditional Love.

* Speaking God's Language and Checking the Response!

Bring a towel for comfort. Some of our work will be on the floor.

Before the workshop's over, we'll tune each of you up...address specific problem areas...and perhaps have time for a guided meditation.

Suggested cost - $20. Budget stretched? Come anyway. Please help support this work if you can afford more!

Massage was a hobby when I started leading workshops more than 15 years ago. (That, in turn, was 10 years after I started practicing massage, Reiki, etc. For years, I ran a weekly massage exchange in Madison.)

For more than 10 years, I've earned my living leading workshops... working with a growing client base...and guiding bodywork professionals. In 1999, I worked in more than 10 cities. Have learned lots attending Whole Life, New Life and other expos and events in Appleton, Austin, Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, and St.Paul! Client work takes me to Chicago one weekend a month; to the Twin Cities, four times a year.

Join us! Please call (contact person) at (phone number) so we know you're coming. We'll have free handouts on subjects like Aromatherapy & Healing, Basics of Good Nutrition, Benefits of Massage, Body Electronics, Cleansing How-to's, First There Is Spirit, Healing Crisis, Review of Golden Seven Plus One (lymphatic support), Prostate Care, What About Healing Alternatives?, What's Your Health Challenge?...

I hope this Advanced Tension Release workshop will be one of the most valuable experiences you have in (year)! My intention is to touch your life deeply and support your joy and abundance in the New Millennium.

In Loving Touch...

OMAR!