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Gina
Alzate
Gina Alzate, the Reluctant Metaphysician
Gina Alzate is a multi-generational Medium and
Metaphysician. The first-born women throughout her maternal line
were Mediums. Several matriarchs on her paternal line were
Practitioners of Shamanic Healing Arts. A few close relatives were
Herbologists. To integrate into the mainstream world, several
relatives became physicians, nurses, pharmacists and psychologists.
Throughout her early life, spirit communication naturally occurred
in her household filled with Intuitives and Sensitives. Deceased
loved ones continued to be a part of everyday living, especially
during celebrated events as they make their presence known through
the full-trance Mediums in the family. Gina did not like the idea
of any spirit ‘borrowing her voice’ to speak to the family at large
so she made every attempt to deny her gift of Mediumship and
Intuition. Yet, her sensitivity to energies continued to follow her
throughout her adulthood. Her clairsenses became stronger and
continued to provide her knowledge of events in her natural
surroundings and about the welfare of her loved ones. She became
acutely sensitive to people’s intentions and her body became her
barometer for events to come.
Gina Alzate, the Incidental World Explorer
Gina’s love of world exploration began when she was
just a baby. Her parents lived separate lives and she experienced
multiple living arrangements especially when she was separated from
both of them when she was just six years old. She became an
invisible member of extended families. This invisibility rendered
her tremendous freedom to explore her environment as no one would
miss her gone hours at a time. Her curiosity about the world and
its people coupled with her love of adventure gave her a longing to
see more of the world. That wish finally came when she reunited
with her mother after six years of separation.
Gina immigrated to the United States from the
Philippines just before she entered 7th grade. Both her
parents were descendants of Spaniards who originated from Catalan,
Spain and occupied the Luzon province of the Philippines in the turn
of the 19th century.
Traces of her ancestry still exist from Pangasinan to Abra, Philippines. Gina first learned to speak
Ilocano as it is the primary dialect spoken in her household. But
when she began attending primary school, she learned Tagalog, the
official language of the Philippines which all Filipino students
must learn to communicate with one another throughout the country of
over 70,000 islands and 83 dialects. When Gina moved to the United
States, she finally learned to speak better English as she only
learned the Basics in the old country. When she was in high school,
her counselor suggested she study a foreign language if she wanted
to attend college. Still struggling with English and all the
various ways of using the vocal apparatus to create sounds foreign
to her, Gina chose to study Spanish as it is a distant cousin of
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To this day,
Gina still speaks Spanish fluently which made learning Portuguese
and Italian easier throughout the years. Interestingly enough,
after high school she entered the military and after initial
military training, Gina deployed to Germany for two and a half
years. It was then she studied German and discovered its syntax
similar to English, and she began speaking German after a semester
of studies. Armed with the command of English, German and Spanish,
Gina freely explored Europe and felt very much at home wherever she
roamed.
Gina Alzate, the Consummate Truth Seeker
Gina has
always honored the universal laws with childlike fascination. It is
as if she has known them all her life even when she was a child.
Out of intense curiosity on how living things interrelate with one
another, Gina continued her interest in Metaphysics and became an
intuitive lifelong scholar of ancient wisdom. As she ventured into
her spiritual path and prepared herself for a major lifestyle
change, she consistently followed her inner guidance and found her
spiritual teachers on Earth. The opportunity to meet each teacher
sequentially, either in books or in person, came with the outpouring
of synchronistic signs. In 2005, Gina resolved to make peace with
her spiritual gifts and revisited the idea of Mediumship. As a
result of her spiritual quest, each teacher validated Gina’s natural
ability as an energy healer and a channeler of angel and spirit
communication. She now feels the constant presence of her spirit
guides and angels, with whom she works continually to manifest her
vision into form for the highest good of all concerned. Her latest
teacher is her own Higher Self which continues to bring magical
adventures and spiritual truths into her life.
Shamanic
arts practitioner, Karyn Armstrong, certified Gina as a Practitioner
of Interior Alignment™, Instinctive Feng Shui and Seven-Star
Blessing Space Clearing. Dana Robinson of the Foundation for
Shamanic Studies trained her in Core Shamanism. World renowned
clairvoyant and angelic healer, Doreen Virtue, Ph.D., certified Gina
as an Angel Therapy Practitioner® and Medium. Internationally known
intuitive and vibrational healer, Sonia Choquette, Ph.D. certified
her as a Six-Sensory® Practitioner - Level 1. World-acclaimed feng
shui expert and space healer, Denise Linn, trained and certified
Gina as a Soul Coach and Past Life Coach. Carlos Gonzalez, an
affiliate of the International Center for Reiki Training, attuned
and trained Gina in Usui, Tibetan and Karuna Reiki Master levels.
Since 1990 Gina studied Western Astrology, Tarot Reading, and
Personality Psychology. Her on-going interest in human behavior led
her to seek continuing education in all matters.
Gina Alzate, the Visionary Teacher
Gina’s
passionate interest in higher learning is in human behavior and in
alternative education, and lately in online learning. She is
pursuing her Ph.D. in Education with Specialization in Instructional
Design for Online Learning at Capella University. She is completing
her Ph.D. in Metaphysics at the American Institute of Holistic
Theology. She took doctoral level courses at Saint Joseph’s
University but was unable to complete the program due to military
assignments that took her away from the traditional classroom. Gina
earned her M.S. in Vocational Education with an endorsement for
Vocational Education – Secondary and a B.S. in Psychology from the
University of Alaska Anchorage. She held a Type-A Teaching
Certificate, Vocational Education - Secondary from the State of
Alaska for over a decade. She received two A.A.S. degrees from the
Community College of the Air Force; one in Surgical Technology and
the other in Dental Assisting. Gina is currently a student at
Sheffield School of Interior Design in Professional Interior Design
and in Feng Shui Interior Design.
Early in
her teaching career, Gina supervised the vocational training and
case management of people with developmental disabilities, serious
mental illness, and traumatic brain injury at the Alaska Specialized
Education and Training Services. She also supervised the home-stays
of foreign high school students with the Academic Year in the USA
enrolled in the Anchorage School District of Alaska. These teaching
experiences, her military education and training, and her own
unconventional developmental years helped her create the Evaluation
Model and Program Criterion of the
National Guard ChalleNGe Program
in 1993 which remains to be the standard in National Guard ChalleNGe
Programs currently operating in 28 states and helping youth at-risk
achieve productive adulthood. During the start-up phase of the
Alaska Military Youth Academy from 1993-1996, one of the 15 Pilot
ChalleNGe Programs which became charter schools, Gina Alzate
developed the architectural framework for the recruitment,
vocational training, counseling, host family, mentoring, and
academic programs. She further established the General Educational
Development (GED) Testing Center at Camp Carroll, Fort Richardson,
Alaska in 1994 in collaboration with the Alaska Department of
Education and became its first GED Chief Examiner. Her work with
the establishment of the National Guard ChalleNGe Program at the
national level and in the state of Alaska was the basis for her
induction to Phi Kappa Phi with the University of Alaska Anchorage
chapter in 1996. Since 1993 the National Guard ChalleNGe Program
continues to make a difference in the lives of more than 70,000
youth at-risk who found new paths to a more productive adulthood.
Gina Alzate, the Spiritual Warrior
Gina
served the Uniformed Services of the United States for nearly three
decades. She engaged several military career fields such as medical
and dental, education and training, quality management, military
equal opportunity, manpower and personnel, and communication and
information. She further served as Quality Air Force Instructor and
Advisor and taught process improvement methods Guardwide. She
served as Commandant of Cadets and as Field Training Senior Staff
Officer with the Air Force ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps)
Detachment 750 and as Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies (APAS)
at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
developing college students from 19 cross-town schools to become
Second Lieutenants of the United States Air Force. During her
service as APAS at St Joe’s, Gina was the recipient of the 2004
Federal Asian Pacific American Council Award representing the Air
National Guard. She then served as Adjunct Research Analyst with
the United States Air Force Counter Proliferation Center and later
as Adjunct Instructor with the Defense Equal Opportunity Management
Institute. Gina served her last military assignment with the Air
Staff at the Pentagon in the Force Development Directorate, Deputy
Chief of Manpower, Personnel and Services as Strategic Future Force
Development Analyst, conducting research into the future of force
development 2012 and beyond and presenting decisional analyses for
Air Force senior leaders.
When
Gina felt the definite and strong inner guidance to change career
paths, she passed up the opportunities for promotion to Lieutenant
Colonel and applied for retirement instead. Leaving the military
before her time was not an easy decision as this had been the world
Gina has known all her adult life. Yet, she continually felt the
inner conflict of her spiritual longing with the reality of her
everyday life which is being engaged in a war she could not support
with all her heart. Her body began to fail and she progressively
became ill. Military physicians and physical therapists could not
locate the true source of her various pains. Moreover, Gina met
several vehicle accidents around Washington DC area, and one got her
incapacitated for a long while. It was during recuperation that she
encountered true angelic presence of loving energies who helped her
heal with just the power of her thought. Gina found Angel Therapy
and Reiki, and she began to use these more on herself to help her
heal her body aches. When she realized how powerful it was to
combine these healing energies, she began extending her healing
intentions to her immediate surroundings, in the Pentagon and in the
entire Washington DC area. Doing so gave her more mental and
physical energy and she began to heal herself. She also began
teaching others what she discovered in her experiences on her
journey to the spiritual path. The resulting positive changes in
her students’ lives gave Gina a clearer vision of her next role in
life, that is, to usher others to come into their own personal power
and redesign their lives so they can live their higher purpose.
After
three years of inner work and self-reflection on her higher purpose,
Gina took the leap of faith to follow her heart’s desires. She
retired in April 2008 in the rank of Major with combined service to
the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the Air National Guard, and the
U.S. Civil Service, in both Enlisted and Officer Corps, as a
civilian, and in active and reserve components.
Gina Alzate, the Warrior Goddess
Gina’s love of world travel and multicultural studies
re-ignited when Gina took the leap of faith to follow her spiritual
path. She followed her inner guidance to own her full-service
travel agency,
World Tours and Cruises,
doing business as CruisePlanners™ and specializing in
themed cruises and
International Conferences. She
found a new mission for her new international consulting firm,
Holistic Life Designs, and that is to facilitate customized
workshops on body, mind and spirit connection through
Holistic Life Designs at Sea,
Holistic Life Designs Online University,
and spiritual pilgrimage tours and spiritual healing retreats.
These workshops are led by world-class facilitators and teachers in
the realm of energy medicine, positive and intuitive living,
leadership and empowerment, mass communications and creative
writing. To round out her 9th House expansion, Gina
became the Broadcaster of her new internet radio station,
World Radio 365, and the
Publisher of her new supported self-publishing company, Global Forum
Publishing. Both endeavors are additional components of Holistic
Life Designs. Gina’s 15-week Pilot Series
Journey with Gina Live
Internet Talk Radio (LITR) Show ran from May to August 2008. This
chronicled her Journey from the Pentagon to the Spiritual Path,
which is the title of her biographical memoir due to be released in
Fall 2008. Journey with Gina LITR show is currently broadcasted on
both
VoiceAmerica™ Women’s Network
and
World Radio 365. Gina invites
all her listeners, workshop attendees and website visitors to join
Friends of Holistic Life Designs
and add on to the social and intellectual capital of this growing
network.
Come Journey with Gina and Discover the World.
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