Holistic Healing From a Craniosacral Therapy Practitioner

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     I've been working with clients in the field of holistic heath for over two decades. My healing arts career started with me doing massage, energy medicine, and spa therapies in holistic wellness centers and spas in Boulder Colorado followed by building a sucessful private practice in a doctor's office working together with a doctor, health coaches, and acupuncturists well as chiropractors and holistic health care providers within my local community. My work as a massage therapist is focused around wellness and stress relief and I learned many techniques to support stress-related tension over the years. One of the most important things I learned from doing bodywork is that healing requires being present with all aspets of the self including mental, emotional, and spiritual parts. This wisdom has guided me to shift my focus from solely doing deep tissue massage and lean into an integrative approach to provide holistic healing. 

In 2014 I began my CranioSacral Therapy (CST)Training with the Upledger Institute and it dramatically changed the way I worked with clients and lived my life. It was when I first became introduced to trauma resolution and started to learn about the nervous system from the inside out, meaning through my body awareness. Yoga has been significant in teaching me about this as well and why my sessions also are informed by yoga. Since coming to CST I have focused on building my work around being trauma-informed. I continue to evolve my craniosacral therapy practice integrating somatics, trauma resolution, and nervous system education. Today I still study with Upledger Institute and participate in ongoing study groups.

Spiritual studies have always been my heart's passion. I love mysticism and the esoteric. For me, this is part of my childlike wonder. I've been a daydreamer in the spirit realm since I can remember. Reiki and spirit is what guided me to massage therapy and bodywork and have been at the foundation of all my work. My Reiki teacher whom I studied with for years was a shamanic practitioner. She was my first teacher in Shamanism and opened me up to this methodology. I have pursued my shamanic studies with the Foundation For Shamanic Studies and Spirit Canoe School of Shamanism under mentorship with Robbie Shauffer,  amongst studies with other influential teachers in this field. Slowly as I integrate my own personal work with spirit into my life I also integrate this in my work with clients. I believe that being connected to something greater in life is part of health, wellness, and upliftment. In fact, more and more  research is showing this to be true especially when it comes to health and longevity. Spirit and Spirituality can look so different for each individual and I respect and honor how this feels in your life. 

My professional life has been rich with teachers and mentors all of whom I am eternally grateful for. Each one of them has inspired me and opened new pathways of learning for me. Learning the modalities and methods is great but where I find the most value and learning is through the relationships with my teachers and direct hands-on experience in the field.   

For now, my studies in the holistic aspects of healing feel full and I am currently persuing my graduate study in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Adams State University. This is just the continual unfolding of Path Into The Heart all of which has been growing and inspired from the previous studies, my personal healing, and spirit.