~ who we are (our vision)

a shared healing space, a community of practice

intuition, truth, expanded consciousness
meaning and purpose
faith and optimism

a safe, caring environment that supports deep transformational healing
supports you to once again connect to your true nature, your authentic being, essential and timeless

enhances creativity, vitality, well-being, connectedness, ease

Sanctuary that holds “a shy yet beautiful light that restores your seeing, and you remember who you are . . .” John O’D, beauty

“Beauty’s light comes up slowly and shyly along the edges of limitation, confusion, anxiety, and helplessness. In such a terrain one would expect anger, resentment, bitterness or destructive negativity. Yet a spirit and atmosphere of graciousness often emerges when the human heart reaches into its own nobility and allows destructive reaction to disappointment and hurt to open into something more healing and creative.” John O’Donoghue, Beauty

 “Authentic spirituality is invariably a matter of emptying the mind and filling the heart at the same time. To keep the heart space open, we almost all need some healing in regard to our carried hurts from the past; to be in right relationship with people so that others can love us, touch us at deeper levels and we can touch them. To keep our bodies less defended, to live in our body right now, to be present to others in a cellular way, is also the work of healing past hurts and the many memories that seem to store themselves in the body”
(from Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps, pp 11-13)

touch is the natural manifestation of the desire to heal and care for one another ~ using one’s hands on or near the body promotes and enhances interpersonal (mind, body,spirit) and transpersonal (relationships, environment, universe) toward increasing unity and coherence.

Perhaps it is only when we acknowledge how much pain and suffering there is in our broken hearts and broken spirits, our broken world – within and without – that we can return to that which is timeless that can comfort, sustain, and inspire/in-spirit us. It is here, in this broken, wounded place that we can quiet the outer pace, bow down, and surrender to the loving presence of the universe and all its infinity. Exerpt from: Jean Watson, “Loving and Caring, Ethics of Face and Hand, An invitation to return to the heart and soul of nursing and our deep humanity”

The root of the word care arises from the same root as “culture”. To care is to become one with another, to join with a person in the greater culture of mankind, of life itself. In truth, there is no “other”. There is just being, experienced from different focal points. When you are fully present, you see there is no such thing as “another person”. There are just two perceptions of the one existence. There is “your” unfolding and there’s “mine”. Our work is to come together in truth. To become the perfect environment for each other’s recognition that there is no other, but just One to be shared. Exerpt from: Who Dies? Working with the Dying)

 what we do

effective for anxiety, depression, ptsd

addictions, eating disorders and stress

AIEH is a gentle healing therapy designed to complement conventional approaches to health care. Bridging eastern and western healing sciences, AIEH opens a path to wellness of the Body, Mind, and Spirit using energy based treatment therapies that stimulate the body’s own natural resources for deep transformative healing.

AIEH is not intended to replace medical care or treatment plans.

Listen purely and reflect back for understanding

Observing body language, tone, speed, feeling and sensations

Move towards empathy

Allow shifts and integration

Loving kindness, compassion

Forgiveness

Embodiment

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We work kindly, gently, and slowly

We work with readiness, and with the “edges” of trauma

We work with what is arising in the present moment

We work with the nervous system to safely discharge arousal (un-freeze), recalibrate, and support self-regulation.

We work with the body's implicit memory.

We work with the biofield, with the understanding that it holds information and Truth, and that it must hold any lasting shifts in consciousness.

We work dynamically, paying attention to field-to-field interactions.

 We work with the felt sense, knowing that it implicitly contains within in the “next steps” for growth

We work with the Self to centalize an integrated ego. We awaken higher aspects of consciousness that can recruit the energies of our more material (more resistive) physical and emotional apects of Self in service of our Divine purpose (dharma)

 AIEH unique: What is unique to the AIEH approach to healing trauma is the interweaving of somatic techniques and awareness dialogue with repatterning of the biofield. This defines our singular scope of trauma practice.

Additionally, the AIEH approach holds that the body wants to release the trauma(s) and has innately within itself the processes and means for doing so. The AIEH practitioner role is to create and hold a space in which these internal phenomena can work to guide the person to wholeness and wellness.

What is Awareness Dialogue?

Awareness Dialogue aims to mine the liminal and subliminal areas of the client's consciousness. It engages not just the frontal but also the midline pre-frontal structures of the brain that allow for interoception (internal awareness and attention to one's internal environment and its signals), aiding in heightened self-awareness and reflection in the dialogue process.

Awareness Dialogue is process directive—never content directive—experiential, and co-creative in nature. It is a facilitative process that aids clients in an exploration of their inner landscapes and in making contact with what is often veiled: personal truths and deep knowing, inspiration, guidance, and neglected or disavowed parts of the Self.

What to expect?

Thorough verbal assessment including medical history including emotional state of being.

Awareness dialogue

Sensory

Once you are on the massage table, practitioner will gently assess your energy field by placing hands several inches off your body and moving through your energy field will identify areas of energetic imbalance. Based upon this assessment, we will use treatment techniques accompanied with dialogue to shift the field into a more balance state. You may find emotions arise and you may experience sensations of cold, heat or tingling during the treatment.

integrative health approach, subtle energy, intuitive guidance, vibrational awareness, energetic shift, expanded awareness,

Gentle yet profound non-invasive treatment for the whole being. Performed on a massage table, the client is fully clothed and if when there is touch it is generally light and still.  The treatment is focused on supporting the health of the whole being, especially the nervous system.  We are trained to use acute perception skills to perceive subtle physiological changes.  We also are aware of the energetic map that underlies one‘s basic health and symptomology. Assist the system in bringing itself back into balance. This supports greater ease and helps the body decrease symptoms.

90 minute sessions

medical history

regulating nervous system

resourcing

awareness dialogue

grounding/balancing energy systems

clearing energy center/fields

revealing blocks, releasing

(Ruth: “AIEH addresses whole person well-being from a highly integrative physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and environmental perspective. It is focused on self-empowerment, self-advocacy and innate self-mastery.”)

(Ruth’s words: Our foundational views are based on neurophysiology and neurobiology including the role of neuroplasticity, epigenetic changes, and the brain-body connection; on somatic- bioenergetic body-centered information processing, particularly as it relates to a healthy autonomic nervous system; and Integral Yoga Psychology based on four types of knowing, integral awareness and a combination of skill-based practices that combine Western neuroscience and Eastern mind-body and biofield techniques.)

(Ruth’s words:T here is increasing evidence that whole person self-empowerment and self-mastery, consciousness-based and experiential-based practices make a difference. Short and quick therapies often relieve immediate symptomology for varying lengths of time. Approaches that combine whole person cognitive understanding, sophisticated self-mastery practices, experiences that reinforce these over time, combined with a planned change process using critical indicator sets can develop inner resources, build on each other, and enhance innate resilience attributes that can have lasting value.)