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Jan Rigsby

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Austin, TX
Austin, TX 78745
United States
T: 512-968-3086

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Description

Pathwork® is a method of personal growth that involves emotional, spiritual and mental work to better understand the origin of problems and to make the changes necessary to live a fuller, more balanced life. Pathwork of Texas is a Chapter of the International Pathwork Foundation, a not-for-profit educational foundation which has many other country specific affiliates throughout the world.

Pathwork® is a registered service mark of the International Pathwork Foundation

Profile and Credentials

Jan approached becoming a Helper from an oblique angle, first spending time at home raising her children, then working her way from shipping rooms into operations management for various manufacturing firms before starting her own company in 1988. She came into consciousness around her spiritual journey in 1990, and over the next decade she trained in spiritual modalities with the the same fervor and tenacity that propelled her career in business, balancing theory and concepts with the realities of human behavior. After a 2-year Massage Therapist course, she added trainings in Cranial Sacral and Polarity, Core Energetics©, Somatic Experiencing©, and various types of spiritual healing along with a B.S. in Psychology. She was trained as a Helper by the Pathwork of California, where she also served as Administrator for several years -- while earning a commercial pilot's license and acting as CEO of her manufacturing company. In 2000 she founded the Pathwork in Australia and facilitated 4-year Pathwork Transformation Programs in Melbourne and Perth. She became a council member of PHANA, in 2000 and now serves as chairman. She returned to the US in 2007 and settled in Austin, Texas to form the Pathwork in Texas.

Philosophy and Comments

Jan's work is based upon the Pathwork Guide Lectures, which were delivered by Eva Pierrakos between 1956 and 1979 (see www.pathwork.org to download the lectures at no charge).

"A challenge, an exciting journey, a process that makes life so intensely real and wholesome, so secure and fulfilling that you would not want to give it up for anything." Pathwork Guide Lecture No.204

"If you are willing and prepared to discover all of yourself, you are indeed embarking on a journey of immense beauty." Pathwork Guide Lecture No.204

Work Hours and Fee Schedule

Jan spends 3+ months a year in Australia teaching Helpership Development and facilitating workshops. While based in Austin, she will also be working in Dallas and Houston. Hours are arranged by appointment based upon her travel schedule.

Pathwork lectures are available for download at no charge from www.pathwork.org.

Sample worksheets and summaries may be downloaded at no charge from www.pathwork.com.au.

Free DVD: 'Introduction to Pathwork Concepts' will be sent upon request, please provide mailing address.

Individual Sessions: $90 for 1 1/4 hours. This fee is negotiable.

Introductory Presentations: A donation would be appreciated if a public venue has been hired.

Pathwork Lecture Study Classes, $25 per 2 1/2 hour class in a pre-registered series of 5 or 10 classes.

Open workshops: Fees vary depending upon whether they are day only or residential retreats.

Pathwork Press books are available for retail sales only. They can be ordered online through Pathwork Press at www.pathwork.org

Pathwork Press books offered include: Creating Union

“Creating Union is a basic primer for all of us in relationship.” Barbara Brennan, author of Hands of Light

“This book is a sweet and powerful treasure.” Pat Rodegast, author of the Emmanuel Books

Creating Union challenges us to undertake courageously the greatest adventure of life, the journey from fear-filled solation or reluctant partnership to fearless loving and self-realization with a kindred spirit. Creating Union provides deep insight into the meaning of our inevitable relationship difficulties and guides us in resolving them to achieve vibrant partnerships. It compassionately answers practical questions about sexuality and spirituality, divorce, fear of intimacy, creating mutuality, and how to keep the spark of eros alive.

Contents:

Part 1 - Spiritual and Psychological Concepts: Relationship - The Masculine and Feminine Principles in the Creative Process -The Forces of Love, Eros and Sexuality - The Spiritual Significance of Relationship - Mutuality: a cosmic Principle and Law.

Part II: How to Discover and Overcome the Obstacles to a Fulfilling Relationship; Desire for Unhappiness and Fear of Loving - The Valid Desire to be Loved - Objectivity and Subjectivity in Relationships - compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts - Attachment of the Life Force to Negative Situations - Life, Love and Death - From Unconscious Negative Interaction to Conscious Choice of Love.

Part III; Relationship in the Age of Expanded Consciousness; Fusion: the Spiritual Significance of Sexuality - The New Woman and the New Man - The New Marriage.

Creating Union, 189 pages, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4. Published by Pathwork Press.

Spanish edition: Del miedo al Amor

The Undefended Self by Susan Thesenga

“The Undefended Self is a must. It gives the basic framework through which personal self-search and change toward wholeness and health are achieved.” Barbara Brennan, author of Hands of Light

“A penetrating and highly effective guide in the psychological and spiritual search into the fundamental questions of life.”• Leading Edge Review

“Practical, comprehensible and inspiring.” Keith Thompson, Institute of Noetic Sciences

“The Undefended Self is a deeply moving book.” John Pierrakos M.D., author of Core Energetics

The Undefended Self outlines the Pathwork process of personal transformation and includes inspiring, true stories of people turning life-long problems and disruptive crises into important positive shifts in their consciousness and life. The book teaches us to meet and transform our unconscious negativity and release powerful energy for creating positive, effective and self-responsible lives.

Contents:

Accepting out Dualities; Choosing to Unify Ourselves; Developing the Observer Self; Embracing the Child, Adult Ego, and Transpersonal Selves; Seeing How We Re-Create the Past in the Present; Understanding the Mask Self; Facing the Lower Self; Meeting the Higher Self; Releasing Lower Self Attachments; Transforming the Lower Self; Creating Our Lives from the Higher Self; Steps on the Spiritual Path.

The Undefended Self, Third Edition 290 pages, 6x9, Illustrated, Charts. Published by Pathwork Press.

Spanish Edition: Vivir sans Mascaras

The Pathwork of Self-Transformation, published by Bantam

“For any individual who has chosen the rocky and often painful path of genuine spiritual growth. The Pathwork of Self-Transformation should prove to be a useful trail guide.” Yoga Journal

The Pathwork of Self-Transformation outlines the entire process of personal spiritual development, helping us first to accept ourselves as we are fully, then to move beyond the negativity, or “lower self”, that blocks our personal and spiritual evolution. It offers a practical, rational and honest way to reach our deepest creative identity.

Contents:

What is the Path? - The Idealized Self Image - Compulsion to Recreate and Overcome Childhood Hurts - The Real God and the God-Image - Unity and Duality - The Forces of Love, Eros and Sex - The Spiritual Meaning of Relationship - Emotional Growth and Its Function - Real and False Needs - Infinite Possibilities of Experience Hindered by Emotional Dependency - The Spiritual Meaning of Crisis - The Meaning of Evil and Its Transcendence - Self Esteem - Meditation for Three Voices: Ego, Lower Self and Higher Self - Connection Between the Ego and the Universal Power = Consciousness - Fascination with Creation - Creative Emptiness - The Voice Within - Background: The Guide, Eva and the Pathwork.

The Pathwork of Self-Transformation, 263 pages, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4. Published by Bantam

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