SEMINARS
PAX—Allison Armstrong
I took one of their brilliant seminars for women called “Understanding Men, Celebrating Women,” all about the difference between the sexes that had me on the floor—how did I make it this far and not know any of this? I thought it was so well done and not even that cheesy. I went to just that one seminar but I highly enjoyed their recordings as well and have heard great things about their other workshops.
The Hoffman Institute
Kay, so, this is the full-on, are-you-fucking-kidding-me one. This involves beating pillows with baseball bats while shrieking at the top of your lungs, marrying yourself, singing lullabies to your inner child—basically everything that would have most people running for their lives. It was so over the top that you couldn’t help but give into it because what the hell else could you do? Luckily, it’s run by incredibly sweet and skilled people who also have excellent senses of humor about what they’re asking you to do and you spend a solid week of nonstop seminar and digging deep into your past and your limiting beliefs and letting them go. It’s like a limiting-belief high-colonic. I loved it as much as I hated it and highly, highly recommend it. Brilliant and transformative (and the food was awesome).
Other good speakers to keep an eye out for: Martha Beck, Esther Hicks, Marianne Williamson, Byron Katie, Wayne Dyer, David Neagle, Deepak Chopra, Gabrielle Bernstien