Introductory Workshop

LIGHT CORE

TRANSFORMATION

Weekend Workshop with Lisa VanOstrand and Ed Mancera - Barbara Brennan School of Healing

18. - 19.10.2025

Create the Life You Long to Live

An Intensive Transformational Weekend Workshop

Awaken Your True Essence

What if the patterns holding you back once served as protection? Are you ready to outgrow them?

  • When did “survival” become your default strategy—and what would it feel like to truly live again?
  • If your body could speak, what truth would it tell you right now?
  • Who are you when the old story finally lets go?
  • What would change if you trusted your High Sense Perception as much as your mind?

Awaken Your True Essence

What if the patterns holding you back once served as protection? Are you ready to outgrow them?

  • When did “survival” become your default strategy—and what would it feel like to truly live again?
  • If your body could speak, what truth would it tell you right now?
  • Who are you when the old story finally lets go?
  • What would change if you trusted your High Sense Perception as much as your mind?
  • When did “survival” become your default strategy—and what would it feel like to truly live again?
  • If your body could speak, what truth would it tell you right now?
  • Who are you when the old story finally lets go?
  • What would change if you trusted your High Sense Perception as much as your mind?

About the program

This October, the Barbara Brennan School of Healing is bringing its new Core Light Transformational Program to the Czech Republic—for the very first time.

During this two-day intensive workshop, you will uncover five unconscious personality patterns that silently shape your life. Once created to protect you, these patterns may now be blocking your joy, love, and freedom.

What You Will Experience

Discover Yourself

Reveal the hidden patterns that drive your choices, emotions, and relationships.

Break Free from Old Cycles

Learn tools to shift from defense and limitation into authentic expression.

Transform Relationships

Recognize how these patterns show up with others and practice new ways of connecting.

Release Emotions & Awaken Intuition

Let go of emotional blocks and open to your innate intuitive gifts.

Live, Experiential Learning

Guided meditations, energy practices, movement, and safe group sharing.

Community & Connection

Shared meals, laughter, and authentic encounters with like-minded people.

Discover Yourself

Reveal the hidden patterns that drive your choices, emotions, and relationships.

Break Free from Old Cycles

Learn tools to shift from defense and limitation into authentic expression.

Transform Relationships

Recognize how these patterns show up with others and practice new ways of connecting.

Release Emotions & Awaken Intuition

Let go of emotional blocks and open to your innate intuitive gifts.

Live, Experiential Learning

Guided meditations, energy practices, movement, and safe group sharing.

Community & Connection

Shared meals, laughter, and authentic encounters with like-minded people.

Who will guide you through the weekend

Together, Ed and Lisa will help you awaken compassion, awareness, and freedom through deep work with the body, energy, and consciousness.

Lisa VanOstrand

President and Teacher, Barbara Brennan School of Healing
President and senior teacher at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Led all academic years and the BIP program, Chair of Psycho-Spiritual Skills, and Dean of Advanced Studies. Editor and contributor to Core Light Healing and Light Emerging. Core Energetics therapist, Doctor of Chinese Medicine, acupuncturist, yoga teacher. MBA graduate with a corporate career in Fortune 500 companies. Lisa bridges deep spirituality, the body, and energy with precision and structure. She will guide you through a weekend that can profoundly deepen your understanding of yourself and others.

Ed Mancera

Graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, lecturer in advanced studies at Oxford
Graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, advanced studies faculty in Oxford, UK Core Energetics therapist, certified Pilates instructor, yoga teacher. Former London Metropolitan Police investigator specializing in violent crime and victim support. Brings a unique integration of bodywork, energy, consciousness, and compassion. Lives in Venice, runs a successful practice, speaks four languages.

What awaits you?

1. A Healing and Inspiring Environment

  • The picturesque surroundings of Paběnice Mill connect you with nature and provide space for deep calm.
  • The silence of the forest, the sound of water and the energy of the earth all help you connect with your essence.

3. Top-Notch Vegan and Vegetarian Cuisine

  • Chef will prepare fresh, nutritious, and delicious vegan/vegetarian meals to ensure you have enough energy for deep inner work.
  • Hydration and health support throughout the weekend.

5. Translation by an interpreter

  • The workshop will be translated from English into Czech.

2. Comfortable Accommodation and Care

  • Shared rooms (3-9 people) in a cozy environment, where you can feel at ease and at peace.
  • Clean bedding and everything needed for your rest and regeneration.
  • The mill is entirely reserved for our group.

4. Led by BBSH Principal Lisa VanOstrand and Advanced Studies Teacher Ed Mancera

  • You will gain a deeper understanding of yourself and others,
  • professional and personal growth,
    the ability to maintain a safe and conscious space for yourself and your clients,
  • strengthening of intuition and authentic contact.

Experience you can trust:

This workshop has been designed with care and respect for your journey, to bring you real value and support.

What awaits you?

1. A Healing and Inspiring Environment

  • The picturesque surroundings of Paběnice Mill connect you with nature and provide space for deep calm.
  • The silence of the forest, the sound of water and the energy of the earth all help you connect with your essence.

2. Comfortable Accommodation and Care

  • Shared rooms (3-9 people) in a cozy environment, where you can feel at ease and at peace.
  • Clean bedding and everything needed for your rest and regeneration.
  • The mill is entirely reserved for our group.

3. Top-Notch Vegan and Vegetarian Cuisine

  • Chef will prepare fresh, nutritious, and delicious vegan/vegetarian meals to ensure you have enough energy for deep inner work.
  • Hydration and health support throughout the weekend.

4. Led by BBSH Principal Lisa VanOstrand and Advanced Studies Teacher Ed Mancera

  • You will gain a deeper understanding of yourself and others,
  • professional and personal growth,
    the ability to maintain a safe and conscious space for yourself and your clients,
  • strengthening of intuition and authentic contact.

5. Translation by an interpreter

  • The workshop will be translated from English into Czech.

Experience you can trust:

This workshop has been designed with care and respect for your journey, to bring you real value and support.

Workshop Schedule

Arrival in Paběnice on Friday afternoon, workshop begins on Saturday morning.
October 18, 2025: 9:00 – 18:00
October 19, 2025: 9:00 – 16:00

Price & Registration

Price: 550 USD (includes accommodation and meals)
Early bird until September 29: 500 USD

You can pay in instalments.

Limited spots available.

Still hesitating?

Watch the recording of the online webinar ‘Behind Every Habit Lies a Story’ with Ed Mancera.

If you are still hesitating, we invite you to watch the online webinar with Ed Mancera:

  • A gentle introduction to the first Core Light Transformation weekend in the Czech Republic

What will you get to know:

  • How early patterns and defenses continue to shape relationships and life choices
  • How understanding these structures creates more freedom and professionalism
  • How to strengthen your capacity to be in real contact—with yourself and with others

The second part of the webinar will be an open Q&A about the school, the weekend workshop, and the Core Light work itself.

Or watch  the personal invitation from Lisa VanOstrand: 

Create the Life You Long to Live

Release old patterns, awaken your intuition, and step into a weekend that can transform your life—both personally and professionally.