“God gave you your face for the first 25 years; after that, you get the face you deserve. Live your life to deserve a good face.”
“I said: What about my eyes?
He said: Keep them on the road.
I said: What about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.
I said: What about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
“And Life is veiled and hidden, even as your greater self is hidden and veiled. Yet when Life speaks, all the winds become words; and when she speaks again, the smiles upon your lips and the tears in your eyes turn also into words. When she sings, the deaf hear and are held; and when she comes walking, the sightless behold her and are amazed and follow her in wonder and astonishment.”
My Story
My interest in massage and therapeutic arts started in Eugene Oregon and began with a sports injury to my ankle from playing soccer. After some looking around I found an amazing acupuncturist that helped me through a lot of my pain while also getting me interested in qigong. Through my continuing interest in qigong and by engaging with the different religious communities in Eugene. I met my beloved mentor, pictured here, Nicolaza Gomez through the local Baha'i community who taught me how to see with my hands. She would be considered to be a Curandera, or medicine woman to some and is mostly Apache.
After moving back to California I started my massage training at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in 2015 and graduated at the end of 2016 with an Associates of Applied Science with over 1000 hours of training as a Holistic Health Practitioner. Yet my ankle still bothered me and would act up when I worked out, making it hard to keep to a stable workout schedule. So after massage school, in 2017, I underwent additional training in Myofascial Release(MFR) learning the John Barnes method. And this was how I finally was able to move through my chronic pain and become able to workout without the same chronic pain that had plagued me for years.
And then after a traumatic accident in September of 2018, my career was on hold and I found myself depressed and left with more chronic pain. But that was okay because that allowed me to finally move forward past a lot of what had been holding me back for so many years. Whereupon I found myself led to a ranch in Corvallis, Oregon to learn how to do Myofascial Release on horses, Equine MFR, in June on 2021. In part because I wasn’t ready to really let myself be touched.
At the next two MFR seminars I attended in June of 2022 I cried like a baby and started to really regain my sense of self. Leading to August of 2023 where I found myself continuing my journey with my first class of Visceral Manipulation, developed by Doctor of Osteopathy and Physical Therapist Jean-Pierre Barral. It is this manual therapy for the organs and viscera that has really shaken me to my core. Reiterating to me how our organs are so integral to our emotional, physical, and spiritual health; especially concerning chronic pain.
As I write this, it has been over ten years since I first learned how to see with my hands from my mentor. And I have since taken more classes of Visceral Manipulation covering all the organs of the abdomen and pelvis, with more training on the horizon!
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