Classes and Workshops
‘Spirit Medicine‘ Program™
Learning practical Spiritual life skills
Please see Upcoming Events for schedule of meditations and classes
https://brightstarstudio.net/events/
Begin the journey to becoming your own Healer and Teacher. We can learn to intuit what we need and bring it to us: physically, emotionally and spiritually. This is done through Centering the mind, making friends with our Emotions, Sacred Listening, Learning to Receive, Connecting with the Divine, Honoring ourselves 
and more. We are all Divine.
I have developed these classes and meditations to continue to learn and grow and share with others. I invite you to join the series. The format is casual and a low-key exploration of ourselves and Spirit.
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Learn how to slow the constant chatter of thoughts. This class overviews why centering the mind is important and how we can begin to achieve this. It is a fundamental skill of growth and development. A lot of our emotions and how we feel comes from what we are thinking. Often thoughts race at lightning speed. We can even have thoughts we are not consciously aware of. Slowing down the thoughts allows us the opportunity have a better understanding and connection with our thoughts and emotions. You can also learn how to trace your emotions back to a single thought. These exercises will help increase focus, clarity and centeredness. The goals are to improve self-talk, identify where your emotions come from and develop better communication and decision making skills. Also helps with Creative Visualization and increasing intuition and receiving guidance. The first part of the class is lecture and discussion, with the second part on exercises and practices. This is a class in the Life Enhancement – Skill Building Series. Begin the journey to becoming your own Healer and Teacher.
Group and private classes available.
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This class overviews the basics of energy work. It highlights the many different types of energy work, what energy work is and isn’t, energy centers, what energy work sessions are like and what are used for. This class is an intro to understanding and learning to develop the energy that is available to us all. It is the life force of the universe that we are innately connected to. We’ll explore becoming in tune with your own energy. Sample exercises and activities are used for participants to learn the basics of self healing techniques. Please note this class is not a certification class for becoming a practitioner, but more meant for the everyday person to understand this wonderful ability within us for health and healing.
Offered various times throughout the year. Group and private classes available.
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Healing is a part of life. This will be a relaxed overview class of the basic elements of healing, components and tools. The first part will be a discussion and overview of the components and dynamics of healing with Q&A. Will include some self healing techniques and exercise. Come learn how to increase this for yourself and others! This class is for the everyday person who wants to be a more effective healer in their life. As well, the components and tools can be incorporated in all healing modalities and useful for the professional who wants to enhance the effectiveness of their technique.
Goals are
- To expand understanding of the components of healing
- Overview several healing tools and
- And gain experience and depth in healing
- To empower you in healing for yourself or others
Group and private classes available.
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Back to the Basics – Life Enhancement skills –
A Good Death. Let’s face it, we all want one for ourselves and loved ones. This class is a gentle, fun exploration of ideas and thoughts on what a good death is and how to achieve it for yourself and others.
We may not be able to take this trip for another, but we can do things to ‘upgrade’ their travels making the journey easier, more comfortable and help them feel loved in the process. We can help do this for ourselves, as well. The presentation will provide practical components as well as tips, thoughts, tools and resources for the many aspects of this transition. Time for discussion, sharing and Q&A.
Group and private classes available.
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Overviews general and basic ways to increase communication and bond covered in Part 1 (Delivering Clear Communication) and Part 2 (Receiving info).
Wouldn’t it be nice to more effectively communicate with your pet?
Unless you are a professional animal communicator, you probably wish you could understand and communicate better with your pet. Most of us feel limited, and often frustrated, in our communication with them and wish we could be better at it. I have studied animal communication greatly and am an animal intuitive. I use this intuitive ability in my practice when doing animal Reiki, distance healings, Grief healings from pet loss and Pet Honoring Memorial services.
These intuitive abilities allow me to get information about the pet that is useful for the session. These same techniques can help you communic
ate better and have a closer relationship with your pet, as well.
These classes overview how animals communicate. This will help you understand where they are coming from and what they are looking for. Examples and practice exercises are covered in both parts for delivering clear communication as well as receiving information in communicating.
Part 1 (Delivering Clear Communication)
- Overview general and basic ways to increase communication and bond
- Overview the elements how animals communicate
- To help develop the skill of being clear in delivering communication
- Learn ‘HeartSpeak’
- Enhance your relationship with your pet and other animals
- Examples and practice exercises
Group and private classes available.
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Part 2 – Receiving Information
Overviews general and basic ways to increase communication and bond covered in Part 1 (Delivering Clear Communication) and Part 2 (Receiving info).
Wouldn’t it be nice to more effectively communicate with your pet?
Unless you are a professional animal communicator, you probably wish you could understand and communicate better with your pet. Most of us feel limited, and often frustrated, in our communication with them and wish we could be better at it. I have studied animal communication greatly and am an animal intuitive. I use this intuitive ability in my practice when doing animal Reiki, distance healings, Grief healings from pet loss and Pet Honoring Memorial services.
These intuitive abilities allow me to get information about the pet that is useful for the session. These same techniques can help you communicate better and have a closer relationship with your pet, as well.
These classes overview how animals communicate. This will help you understand where they are coming from and what they are looking for. Examples and practice exercises are covered in both parts.
Receiving a Message (Part 2)
- Overview the elements how animals communicate
- Enhance your ability and skill to receive information in communication with your pet
- Enhance your relationship with your pet
- Increase listening and hearing skills
- Examples and practice exercises
Group and private classes available.
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The Value of Honoring in Healing Grief Talk
Death of a loved one is often a difficult and painful experience. Sometime we are able to manage through, and sometimes we get stuck in our grief and suffering. We are all familiar with the Kubler-Ross stages of Grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. And these are great in helping us understand and process our feelings. But, did you know there are stages even after this? We go through them unconsciously (and often privately) and they are important stages of transitioning and helping us successfully heal grief.
There are different ways of viewing and understanding death and understanding these latent and later stages of grief. There are things we can do to help us through the transition and help relieve the devastating sense and experience of loss. We can even get to a place where we reconnect to the ‘lost’ relationship and get to a place where we love to remember and continue sharing with the one who has died.
Learning to love beyond the physical is what this work is about. We can learn to love in the heart and reach the essence of that loved one, reaching the relationship on a deeper level and even becoming closer with them. The stages of grieving that hold this potential for transformation, but most often go unaddressed, are the later and latent stages which will be discussed. This talk is about exploring and understanding the deeper levels of grieving and the more intimate components of physical loss and how we can transcend and transform them into something beautiful.
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In Development….coming soon!
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Healing Pet Grief Workshop
Different than a support group or memorial service, this workshop walks us through the many variables and levels of healing from pet loss. The class will also identify obstacles and barriers and offer ideas and skills to help manage through them. These Pet Grief Healing workshops were created to help and address the process of healing pet loss on the spiritual, emotional and energetic levels.
There is often a lacking of understanding and addressing loss and grief healing at the spiritual and emotional levels, especially for the later stages of grief. Pet Loss can be just as difficult as other losses, sometimes it can be even harder because of the intricacy of our relationship with our pets and lack of ways out there to help. Pets are our family. Their loss is tremendous. Love is love, after all.
The Pet Grief Healing Workshops have three parts, each one to uniquely address vital parts of healing grief from pet loss: Expression, Heart-Speak and Honoring.
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Healing the Healer – Class and Meditation
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Sacred Listening
This is an invaluable skill. It not only enhances our communication and relationships, it is vital to being able to receive guidance and connect deeper with our intuitive self. Learn the art of creating space and listening. It will enrich your world. Being still. Being open. Learn to get to a true place of just being. With others, true listening involves not engaging in internal dialogue when someone else is speaking. With ourselves, true listening is being open to and at a place where we can receive answers. True listening involves being still and being centered enough to hold an open space to be able to receive.
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Intuition for Creativity
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Healthy Forgiveness – Workshop
What Forgiveness is and what it isn’t. Learn dynamics of this complex topic and how to achieve it in a healthy fashion for you!
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Please call me to inquire more! Let’s talk…like coffee talk!
L. Leigh Love
L. Leigh Love is a Spiritual teacher, Certified Intuitive Counselor and Life Coach, Mind-Body Medicine practitioner, Reiki Master Teacher, Advanced Pranic Healer and Ordained non-denominational Reverend. She completed the Mind-Body Medicine professional training program through The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School. She also has a master’s Physician Assistant medical degree. As well, she draws on 20 years of training in Psychology, Spiritual Studies and the Intuitive and Healing Arts. She has a passion for helping clients heal and live their best lives.
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Interviews:
PetPlace Radio Interview
All Paws Animal Talk Show
Interview: A Place of Knowing- Bufflehead Press
Articles
October WNC Woman Magazine publishes “Better Communication with your Pet: Part 2
September WNC Woman Magazine publishes “Better Communication with your Pet: Part 1
WNC Magazine – Article ‘Gifts of a Great Pet’ –
Pet Gazette – Asheville – Reiki Energy helps pets
Critter Magazine – Asheville ‘The first Pet Honoring Ceremony’
Critter Magazine – Asheville “Energy Work for Animals”
Natural Awakenings – Asheville – “Animal Reiki”
Natural Awakenings – Asheville – “Honoring Your Pet”
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Speaking Engagements
Intro to Healing Workshop-Unity Church of Asheville –
Blessing of the Animals – Crystal Visions-Hendersonville, NC officiated
Celebration of Life -Madeline Rose – Boxer Butts& Other Mutts- Officiated
‘Artisans, Health and Healing Gathering’- Opening Officiant and Speaker: ‘The Value of Honoring in Healing Grief’
United Pet Honoring Ceremony – Officiated – Black Mountain, NC
Brother Wolf ‘Paws to Remember’ — Officiated Pet Honoring Ceremony
Schnauzerpalooza – Charlotte, NC – Officiated a group Pet Honoring Ceremony
*a Certified and Insured Practitioner
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