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Saturday, April 20 | 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
LENA SWANSON presents
“A Mini Course in Telepathic Animal Communication”

Lena Swanson presents an incredible 90-minute condensed version of her popular day-long animal communication class. Imagine using telepathy to understand what your animals are saying to you! Imagine being able to speak with them in the same way they communicate with each other! What they have to say will surprise you, enlighten you, and change your life together forever. In this seminar Lena will help you gain skills to:
• Explore the basic techniques of communicating with animals telepathically;
• Expand trust in your own intuition to help you in everyday life;
• Have fun and feel supported as you enter the real world of animal communication.

LENA SWANSON has been a full-time animal communicator since 2002 and is known for her accuracy and wonderful rapport with both human and animal clients. She also is a psychic, shamanic healer, Reiki master and a past life regression facilitator. Her healing practice is a balanced blend of services for both people and animals and she prides herself in helping households achieve and maintain wellness and harmony in a fun, joyful manner. She also teaches a variety of animal communication and shamanic journeying classes. Lena has been featured on television and radio and is available as a speaker for conferences and special events. Be sure to sign up soon, as her workshops always fill quickly. For more information on Lena: visit www.lenaswanson.com.

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Saturday, April 20 | Noon – 1:30 p.m.
TROY PARKINSON presents “Connecting with the Afterlife: A Spirit Message Experience”

Join Medium Author and Fargo native Troy Parkinson as he offers inspiring messages from loved ones on the other side. During this powerful gathering Troy will connect selected members of the audience to their loved ones in spirit. He will offer helpful tips on developing your own mediumship and he will guide the group through a meditation to connect to their own loved ones in spirit.

TROY PARKINSON first began his study of the afterlife over 13 years ago. During his early years of development Troy studied at the First Spiritual Temple in Boston, MA. During his time in Boston, Troy participated in numerous public demonstrations of mediumship, he organized the first Boston Mediums Conference, an afternoon gathering of mediums from the greater Boston area and he also produced a short documentary on mediumship called Contacting the Beyond as his senior thesis film. In 2000, he returned to Fargo and began offering development circles, workshops and readings throughout the Upper Midwest. In 2009, his first book Bridge to the Afterlife: A Medium’s Message of Hope and Healing was released through Llewellyn Publishing. In addition to his work in the spiritual realm, Troy is a filmmaker with a BA in film production from Emerson College in Boston. He has written/produced/directed projects for Microsoft, Bobcat, Subway, Discovery Health Channel and History Channel. He resides in St. Paul, MN with this wife and three children. For more information on Troy: visit www.troyparkinson.com. For more information on developing your own connection to spirit: visit Troy’s Mediumship 101.

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Saturday, April 20 | 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
ECHO BODINE & KATHRYN HARWIG
present “You & Your Intuition”

Two of the foremost psychics and mediums in the Upper Midwest, Kathryn Harwig and Echo Bodine, will team up to use their intuitive skills to answer questions from the audience. Come prepared to learn more about yourself, the world and the changes of December 21, 2012 and beyond. View 25-minute preview video of this speaking presentation (from the 2012 Minneapolis Holistic Expo): click here

ECHO BODINE first discovered she was born with psychic abilities and the gift of healing at the age of 17. Her abilities include clairvoyance (seeing), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (sensing), and clairgustance (smell). She took psychic classes for two years and practiced on friends and family for twelve years before beginning her full time practice as a psychic, healer and ghostbuster in 1979. Echo hosted her own cable TV show called “New Age Perspectives” for two years, and co-hosted the “The Edge TV.” She also had her own radio show on FM107 in Minneapolis for 3 years called “Intuitive Living,” and Paramount Pictures solicited her services for the promotion of the movie Ghost. In 1981, Echo began teaching classes on psychic development and spiritual healing. She has appeared on numerous national television shows including “Sally Jesse Raphael,” “Sightings,” “Beyond with James Van Praagh,” NBC’s “The Other Side,” “Unexplained Mysteries,” NBC’s “Today Show,” A&E, and “Encounters.” “Paranormal Borderline” did a feature story on her family, calling them the “world’s most psychic family.” From 2003 to 2009 Echo was the director of The Center for Spiritual Development, where she taught numerous classes on spiritual development, living by intuition, ghost busting, psychic development and laying on hands healing classes. In 2010, she began doing online psychic development classes with instructor Leigh Hopkins of the Viva Institute in Brazil. Echo has written ten books, produced numerous meditation CDs and instructional DVDs. For more information on Echo: visit www.echobodine.com

KATHRYN HARWIG has been an intuitive since birth. She grew up on a farm in Hinckley, Minnesota, where her psychic abilities were seen by her parents and neighbors as a surprising and yet accepted skill. She went on to attend the University of St. Cloud, Minnesota, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree (magna cum laude) in Psychology and Sociology. After graduation she became a probation officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For many years she supervised and wrote pre-sentence investigations regarding adult felons. She then attended the University of Minnesota in a graduate program of Criminal Justice Studies, specializing in the prediction of dangerousness. In 1982 she graduated cum laude from William Mitchell College of Law with a Doctorate in Law. She was a successful partner in a law firm for many years before leaving the practice of law to pursue her full time career as a psychic, medium, speaker and writer. Kathryn is the author of seven books, the latest, The Return of Intuition, (Llewellyn Worldwide) has won the 2011 Bronze Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) medal in the New Age/Mind Body Spirit category. Her books have been published in English, German, Russian and Dutch. She was a regular columnist for The Edge Magazine for many years and her writings have been published in magazines and newspapers around the world. Kathryn appears regularly on television and radio. She has been featured on the Arts & Entertainment network’s “The Unexplained” and on Court TV’s “Psychic Detectives,” as well as many other radio and television programs. Kathryn has trained thousands of people to use their intuition to maximize their career goals, relationships, and life skills. Her monthly intuitive forums are attended by hundreds of people who gather to hear her guides, the Light Collective, share their wisdom. For more information on Kathryn: visit www.harwig.com

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Saturday, April 20 | 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
VINCENT GENNA
presents the lecture, “God, It’s Not Working!”™

You’ve read incredible self-help books by some of the greatest spiritual authors, you study and apply ancient Universal laws and principles, you attend numerous master classes, retreats and conferences, and yet, you’re left saying over and over, “God, it’s not working!” Why? Something deep within you blocks the most important process that makes everything you attempt become a reality. Something you are unaware of makes you think you believe in yourself, when you really don’t! At the “God, it’s not working!”™ lecture, you will learn how two newly discovered sections of your mind — the AMM and EMM — get in the way of the sacred gifts we all have, and how to disempower these minds and reconnect to Source and your ability to create the life and fulfill the dreams you want! This is a lecture about Vincent’s acclaimed workshop.

VINCENT GENNA is a world-renowned powerful psychic healer, respected spiritual teacher, and dynamic vibrant speaker who provides the clarity and inspiration to help you stop stopping yourself! Over the past 29 years, Vincent’s life experience, extraordinary psychic gifts and authenticity have allowed him to inspire and change the lives of thousands of people around the world. He is a metaphysician, working with individuals and groups by in-tuning to your soul, angels, guides, deceased loved ones, past-lives, and Spirit to obtain guiding messages he uses to help you recognize and clear blockages that are stopping you from connecting to your highest selves and Spirit. Through this, he empowers you to heal concerns of body, mind, and spirit. He has appeared on national television, radio and print in such outlets as WNBC, WRAL-FM, WDCG-FM, Living in Style Magazine, Rational-Optimisim.com, MotivationalSpeakers.com, TheExpertSpeakers.com, and InspireMeToday.com. Vincent transcended a youth of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and torment and dedicates all his talents to inspire people to see their magnificence and believe in themselves, so they can use all their Divine gifts to fulfill their dreams and create the lives they want! For more information on Vincent: visit www.vincentgenna.com

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Sunday, April 21 | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
VINCENT GENNA
presents the lecture “Stop Stopping Yourself and Become Unstoppable”

We create our lives consciously or subconsciously. However, only 2-5 percent of the human mind is in conscious awareness. That means 95-98% of the mind is unconscious and acts automatically. If you are not creating the life you want, you are stopping yourself without even knowing it! At the Stop Stopping Yourself lecture, Vincent demonstrates the mechanisms that are blocking you from your true divine gifts and abilities, including your passion and purpose. Become the master of your life, change all you want, manifest complete abundance, and fulfill your dreams! During this lecture, you will discover (1) how you are dishonest with yourself almost every day; (2) the scar from the story of your youth is your tattoo…purposely; and most importantly, (3) how to connect all your dots, override all the crap and stop stopping yourself to become unstoppable! As a special addition to this lecture, Vincent will go through the audience and provide gallery psychic medium messages for certain individuals, as guided. Although not all the attendees will receive personal messages, the Universe brings together in one place all those who would benefit from hearing another person’s guidance.

VINCENT GENNA is a world-renowned powerful psychic healer, respected spiritual teacher, and dynamic vibrant speaker who provides the clarity and inspiration to help you stop stopping yourself! Over the past 29 years, Vincent’s life experience, extraordinary psychic gifts and authenticity have allowed him to inspire and change the lives of thousands of people around the world. He is a metaphysician, working with individuals and groups by in-tuning to your soul, angels, guides, deceased loved ones, past-lives, and Spirit to obtain guiding messages he uses to help you recognize and clear blockages that are stopping you from connecting to your highest selves and Spirit. Through this, he empowers you to heal concerns of body, mind, and spirit. He has appeared on national television, radio and print in such outlets as WNBC, WRAL-FM, WDCG-FM, Living in Style Magazine, Rational-Optimisim.com, MotivationalSpeakers.com, TheExpertSpeakers.com, and InspireMeToday.com. Vincent transcended a youth of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and torment and dedicates all his talents to inspire people to see their magnificence and believe in themselves, so they can use all their Divine gifts to fulfill their dreams and create the lives they want! For more information on Vincent: visit www.vincentgenna.com

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Sunday, April 21 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
JAMES VAN PRAAGH
presents “An Afternoon of Spirit”

During this 2-hour event you will enjoy: discovering the process of mediumship; a guided healing and enlightened group meditation; and random messages given to audience members from guides, family and friends in spirit. You will be amazed when you see James select people for the audience to participate in the calling of spirits. Be sure to purchase your tickets early because this one-day-only event will definitely sell out — as will his full-day workshop on Monday.

The awe-inspiring James Van Praagh bridges the gap between two planes of existence, that of the living and that of the dead by providing evidential proof of life after death via detailed messages. Van Praagh’s popularity began in the early ‘90s, on the NBC morning talk show “The Other Side.” He went on to author # 1 NY Times Best- selling books such as Ghosts Among Us, Talking to Heaven, Reaching to Heaven and Healing Grief. For five seasons, Van Praagh was the co-executive producer of CBS’s #1 drama “Ghost Whisper” starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Van Praagh’s message of hope has touched a great many people due to his television appearances on such shows as Oprah, Larry King Live, 20/20, 48 Hours, Chelsea Lately and A&E Biography. For more information on James: visit www.vanpraagh.com

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Post-Expo Workshop | Monday, April 22 | 9:00 a.m. – 6 p.m.
JAMES VAN PRAAGH
presents “Awakening Your Mind to Mental & Physical Mediumship”

For the first time, Medium James Van Praagh will teach this unique and one-of-a-kind workshop, which will expand your awareness and bring you in direct connection to the Divine force. As a conduit to the Spirit world, this workshop is dedicated to transform your mental, emotional and spiritual selves, bringing you in perfect harmony in order to receive the highest quality of spirit messages and insights. In this program we will work on developing the “wholeness” of the medium allowing ourselves to be a sacred vessel by the world of Light. Together, we will be studying the varying degrees of spirit influence and the subsequent effect on our energies and consciousness.

Specifically, we will:

• • Explore the various states of consciousness and awareness
• • Learn how to connect with family and friends in the Spirit world
• • Learn who your guides are and how to recognize their presence
• • Learn about many aspects of physical phenomena.
• • Understand and learn the mechanics of mediumship
• • Find out how the trance states can enhance the development of mental mediumship.
• • Discuss the integrity, ethics and responsibilities of mediumship
• • Learn how to protect ourselves psychically from foreign and unwanted energies

 
His very natural, easy-going style would lead you to believe that James Van Praagh is chatting with a friend on the telephone, not communicating messages from the grave. James is a survival evidence medium, meaning that he is able to bridge the gap between two planes of existence, that of the living and that of the dead, by providing evidential proof of life after death via detailed messages. “I’m clairsentient,” he explains, “which simply means clear feeling. I feel the emotions and personalities of the deceased. I am also clairvoyant,” he adds, clarifying that, “the first is feeling, the second is seeing, very much like Whoopi Goldberg in the movie, Ghost.” The true essence of the messages are the feelings behind the words. James is an expert on this subject, since he has been in touch with those feelings most of his adult life. “The spirits communicate by their emotions. No words exist in the English language, or any other for that matter, which can describe the intense sensations.”

James’ public popularity began during his appearances on the NBC talk show The Other Side. The show concentrated on paranormal issues, and James became the favorite guest and resident expert on the subject of life replica watches uk after death. Even Howard Rosenberg, the Los Angeles Times distinguished television critic, dubbed James “spectacular.” Through the years his message of hope has touched a great many more people due to his television appearances on such shows as Oprah, Larry King Live, Dr. Phil, A&E Biography, Maury Povich, 20/20, and 48 Hours. His unique paranormal experiences during the past 25 years have seen him author best-selling books, create meditation programs and development videos, teach mediumship classes, conduct seminars to sold-out audiences, and produce successful television projects. For more information on James: visit www.vanpraagh.com

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