Getting Started in an Integrative Healing Arts Practice
How I entered into a unique and revealing conversation in deepening the wisdom in my healing practice
“The only measure of what you believe is what you do.” a. montague
How do people heal from Persistent Pain conditions?
What is the one barrier to healing completely?
How many times have you felt unsuccessful in your best attempts to ameliorate another’s chronic painful maladies?
If you considered hanging it up what keeps you in the practice?
I have some answers that may be of help.
I have been practicing as an Integrative Physiotherapist since 1993. There are many ways in which we can approach healing though what stands as most supreme is the gift of Love through touch and presence.
It begins with questioning how successful we have been in meeting the expectations and needs of our patients and clients.
The nose to the grind stone work begins in earnest and with a consistent process of self discovery in lands to which we were may have not been afforded in our graduate studies.
The box opens and the essence of wisdom in practice is to eliminate the professional segregation in health and healing.
…That we remain open to other practices and eliminate our own judgements and biases and involve ourselves in novel experiences. I knew early on that I needed something more in my practice.
Developing and deepening a wise practice is to trust your innate intuition and seek out mentors and co-conspirators in your journey.
On My Path
My path in my nascent years went astray from the mainstream Physio’s doctrine of scope of practice early on with the guidance of my first mentor. She directed me toward Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine at Michigan State University where I studied with Phillip Greenman, DO. In his teachings, I was exposed to Cranial Osteopathy developed by William Sutherland, DO and so set out on a course of work in Craniosacral and Visceral manipulative work with Dr. John Upledger, DO and the teachings of Hugh and Georgia Milne in Sacred and Biodynamic Cranial work.
I found Esalen Institute in Big Sur. My life would begin anew and my next twenty plus years of (re) education truly began in earnest there.
Studies in Relational Gestalt Practices, Craniosacral and Visceral Manipulation, Deep Bodywork, Myofascial technique, Cortical Field Re-Education, Feldenkrais, Tai Ji, Qi Gong and the Creative Arts were facilitated by those mentors I had come to sit with in circle, at the table, on the floor as student and eventually as part of faculty.
I have encapsulated my practice with Traditional Chinese Medicine philosophy and cosmogny and Conversational Leadership practices as a facilitator for guiding patients through their healing trajectory.
The body of work is not separate from my every day and every way.
I have a firm belief that we Practice what we Preach and be the model in real time.
Love is the key. Gratitude every day is the antidote to self suffering. It is the element of a Growth Mindset for optimal living.
If you found your way to this space then somehow you had already been on a path to a greater understanding in how to be more ready and practiced for more depth conversations in care.
If you are willing thats more than half the game.
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Blessings and Namaste,
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Love you Terry! 🥰