Healing Modalities

Feel really good—be really well.

One of the oldest definitions of healing is, “the natural process by which the body repairs itself.” The Ancients understood that the body can restore itself to vibrant health, given the proper environment and nurturance.

At LifePath, we help you in your own process of self-healing by offering you both cutting-edge and time-proven modalities for getting and staying healthy in body, mind, and spirit.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is the delivery system of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on Taoist Philosophy, although through the centuries, it has developed its own principles as applied to the art and science of medicine. The first to practice it were Taoist priests, and in their view, there were four levels at which one must approach each patient:

  1. The first and highest one is the spiritual level. Assess the patient’s problem spiritually, that is, how they might have lost sight of their purpose, or how they might not feel part of everything else.
  2. The next level is the intellectual one. Explain to the patient his/her problem in detail, the root that is causing it, the consequences of their life style and diet, the workings of their organs, muscles and metabolism.
  3. The third level is the emotional level. Help the patient discover his or her predominant emotion, when it comes, from where it arises and how it is affecting the body.
  4. The fourth level is the physical approach of helping the body directly to correct the flow of energy through the organs and meridians, with the hope that the rest of the individual, i.e. his/her soul, his/her mind and heart will follow.

Astrology

Through the study and practice of Evolutional Astrology, Monica has found a valuable tool for self-knowledge which promotes the search of inner harmony, taking into account our own nature and thoroughly considering the natural cycles of life, showing us a path which facilitates the re-synchronization with the movements of the Cosmos.

In the last few years, Mónica has completed her studies in Crystal Therapy and Quantum Psychology and she’s now an instructor in the Department of Philosophy at the Kardem Studies Center. She’s currently a NCGR certified Third Level Astrologer.

Ayurvedic Massage and Lifestyle Counseling

Ayurvedic Massage for Women

Ayurvedic Wellness Massage for Women utilizes specific oils essences & techniques depending on the person’s body type (vata, pitta, kapha), condition, season & climate. The natural oils used nourish the heart & calm the mind, giving elasticity to the muscles & ligaments & an overall feeling of wellness.

Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counseling

Ayurveda, the sister science to Yoga, teaches that we are each made of the five elements: ether, air, fire, water & earth. These elements play a big part in our psychobiological make-up. The awareness of this individuality helps us gain knowledge of ourselves & how to live a more balanced life in harmony with our surroundings. Find out what your prakruti (constituion) is, learn how to eat, work & play accordingly.

Usha Leason is a certified international Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic masseuse, and Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counselor.

Coming up in March: Sound Meditation with Billy White

Starting date: March 7th, 2012
Dates and times: Wednesdays, 7-8 pm
Suggested donation: 50 pesos

Experience the incredible sounds that invite one to enter a deeper level of awareness!

Billy will be holding sound meditation weekly gatherings with harmonium, didjeridoo, tibetan healing bowls and overtone singing, along with group chanting of om, ah and hu syllables, spontaneously exploring the spectrum of sound and vibration. Drop-ins welcome.

About Billy White
With over 30 years as a professional musician, known as a guitarist/percussionist and world music performer, and 20 yrs. studying and practicing meditation, yoga, and sound healing, Billy is now working on a series of recordings that utilize various instruments, voice and sound design to increase relaxation and expand awareness and health.

Most recently he has been exploring the realm of overtone singing, producing 2 or more notes from a single voice, expanding the harmonic spectrum and resonance in the human body, similar to Tuvan throat singers and Tibetan monks.

Common Thread Coaching

To be coached during the inevitable shifts and transitions of our personal and professional lives is a threshold decision, a threshold being what poet Gregory Orr calls “a place where we are most able to alter our understanding of the world and of our own lives in it.”

In the beginning of the Coaching process, you bring a desire for change in some aspect of your life. As your life coach and advocate, Nancy uses conversation, deep listening, support, structure, and discerning questions to help you rething yoru stories – the thoughts, tales, beliefs, and habits accumulated over a lifetime.

This rethinking enables you to be in conscious conversation with all of your interconnected parts. It is a lively, wholehearted conversation, an active engagement with your intellect, your heart-and-body-felt knwing, and your intuitive gut feelings that allows you to explore and unleash:

  • Insights and clarity that pinpoint what works in your life and what does not;
  • The refreshing freedom of focused attention and creative choices;
  • The ability to be mindfully present with an authentic, compassionate power;
  • Supportive awareness tools, including improved focus, communication skills, and brain-based knowledge;
  • A spirited adaptability birthed from the entirety of yoru experience and its core wisdom;
  • An ongoing source of inspiration and strength within the common threads of your stories.
For more details, visit Nancy G. Shapiro’s website.

Craniosacral Therapy

Craniosacral therapy (CST) is a gentle manual manipulation of the back of the head used for diagnosis and for making corrections in a system made up of cerebrospinal fluid, cranial and dural membranes, cranial bones, and sacrum. The technique is somewhat similar to light massage that is aimed at freeing the flow of cerebrospinal fluid to restore balance to the physical and emotional body.

Eduardo Morales lives in Tepoztlan and is a visiting practitioner at LifePath Center. For more information, contact: beverly@lifepathretreats.com or phone Eduardo directly: 01 739 395 3009

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)

EMDR can be used alone, or may be combined with other approaches, such as within Psychotherapy. This is a very successful treatment for traumatic situations.

At the time of a traumatic event, strong emotions interfere with our ability to completely process the experience and one moment becomes “frozen in time.” Recalling the traumatic event may feel as though the person is reliving the event all over again because the images, smells, sounds, and feelings are still there and can be triggered in the present. When activated, these memories cause a negative impact on our daily functioning and interfere with the way we see our world, and how we relate to others.
EMDR  appears to directly affect the brain by bilateral stimulation: the patient is asked to think about what is the worst part of a traumatic memory and to be aware of any feelings, thoughts or body sensations which go with the memory. This memory is then held ‘in mind’ by the patient while the therapist encourages them to move their eyes from side to side for a short time, following the therapist’s finger.

Over time the disturbing memory and associated beliefs, feelings, sensations become worked through until one is able to think about the event without reliving it.

This process has 8 phases which are suitable in any case:

Phase 1: History and treatment planning
Phase 2: Preparation
Phase 3: Assessment

Processing the trauma
Phase  4: Desensitization
Phase  5: Installation
Phase  6: Body scan
Phase  7: Closure
Phase  8: Reevaluation

The number of sessions required to treat children and adolescents varies considerably and depends on the severity of the problem, the age at which it occurred, the number of problems they have, how long the problems have persisted and the child’s attachment patterns and sense of safety in the world.

 

Holistic Skin & Body Care

An integrative approach that works with a wide variety of therapies to help patients improve the appearance of their skin. Non-invasive treatments, integrating therapies such as Homeopathy, Bach Flower remedies, Aromatherapy, Meditation and more, in order to reduce the patients’ stress and achieve top-of-the-line results.

  • Skin Care:
    • Ultrasonic Facial Cleansing
    • Microdermabration
    • Ultrasonic Peeling
    • Natural Facial Rejuvenation
    • Fillers
    • Natural Lifting
    • Permanent Makeup
    • Organic Skin Care Preparations
    • Medical Skin Care
  • Body Care:
    • Ultrasonic Body Modelling
    • Anti-cellulite Program
    • Mesotherapy
    • Muscle Recovery
    • Neural Therapy
  • Floral Remedies:
    • St. Germain Flower Remedies
    • Reiki

Massage Therapy

Massage is one of the oldest healing arts—Chinese records dating back 3,000 years document its use. As an accepted part of many physical rehabilitation programs, massage therapy has also proven beneficial for many chronic conditions, including low back pain, arthritis, bursitis, fatigue, high blood pressure, diabetes, immunity suppression, infertility, smoking cessation, depression, and more. And, as many millions will attest, massage also helps relieve the stress and tension of everyday living that can lead to disease and illness.

    Meditation

    Meditation is a spiritual practice which anybody, no matter their age or religious beliefs, can perform. It also offers multiple benefits for your health, and in many cases it is implemented in the management of life-threatening diseases. Some of the applications of Meditation include: transformation of molecular and genetic structure, reversal of mental illnesses, management of lifestyle, just to name a few. Meditation increases blood flow, slows the heart rate, reduces anxiety attacks, decreases muscular tension, helps in chronic diseases, etc. 

    Come to LifePath Center and experience this life-enhancing practice!

     

    Naturopathy

    An approach to healing based in the European tradition of Naturopathy.

    The European style of naturopathy is an ‘eclectic’ approach to healing, where various tools and perspectives are incorporated in order to help set each individual on the right healing path. Herbal remedies, nutrition advice, flower essences, lifestyle changes and more will be recommended to clients as is deemed appropriate for the individual at the time. Dana often uses Traditional Chinese Medicine and/or Ayurvedic theory and diagnostic techniques (tongue and pulse analysis, face reading, etc.) as well as the use of Iridology, the study of the iris of the eye, to ascertain constitutional weakness and confirm suspected areas of disease in the body.

    All of Dana’s work is guided by the fundamental principles of naturopathy:

    • The WHOLE person is treated – physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
    • The PERSON is treated, not the disease, and each individual is unique and each person responds in a different way to different remedies.
    • The root (underlying) cause of dysfunction is identified and treated, not the branches (symptoms).
    • Vis Medicatrix Naturae - The Healing Power of Nature. There is ‘vital foce’ or ‘life force’ which, given the right conditions, will self-heal or self-correct.
    • Health is much greater than just ‘absence of infirmity’ – it should be abundant vitality.
    • Prevention is preferable to cure.

    Pilates

    Pilates is a physical fitnesss system developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates in Germany, the UK and the USA. It is a body conditioning routine that helps build flexibility and long, lean muscles, strength and endurance in the legs, abdominals, arms, hips, and back. It puts emphasis on spinal and pelvic alignment, breathing to relieve stress and allow adequate oxygen flow to muscles, developing a strong core or center (tones abdominals while strengthening the back), and improving coordination and balance. Pilates’ flexible system allows for different exercises to be modified in range of difficulty from beginning to advanced. Intensity can be increased overtime as the body conditions and adapts to the exercises. No muscle group is under or over trained.

    The Principles(*) of this method are:

    • Concentration
    • Control
    • Centering
    • Flow (Efficiency of Movement)}
    • Precision
    • Breathing
    • ‘Powerhouse’
    • Neutral Spine
    (Originally there were 6, the ‘Powerhouse’ and Neutral Spine ones are of recent addition.) 

      Play Therapy

      Stress within parent-child relationship?

      Does your child present any of the following signs?

      • Excessive anger, worry, sadness or fear
      • Agressive behaviour (hurting others or self)
      • Separation anxiety
      • Excessive shyness
      • Low self-esteem
      • School problems
      • Sleep, eating or elimination problems
      • Difficulty adjusting to family changes
      • Physical symptoms such as: headaches, stomach aches that have no medical cause.

      Traumatic experiences often leave children caught up in the middle of parental conflict. The loss of a close family member, or other crises, can result in overwhelming sadness and anger, and pose huge difficulties for children, since they are very aware and sensitive to stress within family life. Because children have less experience, fewer coping skills and less control over their environment, yet react strongly to events happening within it, they will usually show their distress in indirect ways.

      Psychologist Patricia Silva works with Play Therapy to create insight and understanding by the family members into the child’s behaviour and difficult feelings, suggesting ideas to promote change to help the child get back on track with his/her life. 

      Play Therapy is helpful for:

      • Children who are dealing with parental conflict, separation or divorce.
      • Children who have been traumatized (sexual, physical or emotional abuse).
      • Children who have been adopted or are in foster care.
      • Children who are dealing with issues of loss, such as illness or death of a loved one.
      • Children who have been hospitalized.
      • Children who have witnessed domestic violence.
      • Children who have experienced serious accidents or disasters.

      Pregnancy Yoga

      Yoga of the Kundalini variety is a meditative practice that supports the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of the mother through pregnancy and childbirth. Practicing Kundalini yoga helps to expand our abilities and choices by broadening our awareness of everything around us. Bringing the mental, emotional and physical into alignment through Kundalini yoga allows us to express our creative side and connect with our soul.

      The pregnant mothers perform stretches, breathing and poses to help warm up the muscles of the spine and open the pelvis.
      Kundalini yoga classes help prepare pregnant mothers for the physical demands of going through the birthing process, as well as utilizing breathing and meditation to help the baby adopt the breath of the mother. Kundalini views the yoga exercises as a means to send spiritual and meditative energy down into the pelvis, connecting with the baby and preparing for its arrival.

      Read more here.

      Psychological Counseling

      Psychological counseling addresses a variety of personal and emotional issues. A licensed professional Psychologist can work with you on issues such as stress, anxiety, loneliness, depression, interpersonal relationships, self-esteem and confidence, attention deficit disorder, incest or sexual abuse, alcohol abuse, and many others.

      A Psychologist is trained to listen, understand, and help you with the problems that you may not be able to resolve on your own.

      QiGong

      Qi Gong, pronounced “Tchi Kong”, is a cousin of Tai Chi Chuan and is also part of one of the five branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It means literally “control (or work) of the energy”. It has certain similarities to a “slow gym”, however there is always a focus and intention on the spiritual and the therapeutic.

      The practice consists of slow and non-violent movements, combined with breath exercises and concentration of the mind. Thanks to the breath work, this thousand-year-old discipline helps the circulation of energy through the body.

      The regular practice of Qi Gong calms and relaxes the mind. It reinforces the neuromuscular system and makes it more flexible. It optimizes the functions of the organism and sustains the strength of self-recovery. It guarantees good health and vitality.

      Qi Gong is a practice for everybody, regardless of sex, religion, age or physical condition.

      Shen Tao (similar to Gyrotonic) – Private sessions

      The term “Shen Tao” refers to the wisdom one acquires through the study of one’s own body and mind. Shen Tao is a holistic approach to movement that is designed to meet the needs of people of all ages and abilities. Students are both young and old, recovering from illness or injury and quite simply working toward achieving a healthier body.

      Shen Tao is a cutting edge Training Apparatus for those who want to explore, develop, and improve their bodies through increased strength and flexibility, renewed energy and vitality and a general sense of calm and well being.

      If your muscles are in pain or discomfort, we will soften and lengthen them through assisted stretching. If your body feels weak or out of shape, we will rebuild your strength and give you back yournatural grace and coordination.

      Shen Tao equipment, similar to Gyrotonic and/or Pilates equipment, incorporates many of the benefits of Physical Therapy, Pilates, Yoga, Martial Arts systems, and performance art forms such as Ballet, Pole Dancing, Modern Dance, etc. By utilizing the swivels and the 24 foot length of weight and pulley system it is possible to utilize apparatus-generated resistance to literally any movement.

      In this 75 minute private session you will be able to focus your mind, and work toward developing your physical potential. Cost is 400 pesos. Contact Lori at 415 111 49 23 or email her at l.midrano@yahoo.com to schedule an appointment.

      “I want music in my body and poetry in my body, and I want to be skillful without struggle; it has to come without struggle”. – Juliu Horvath, GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® founder.

        Yoga

         Yoga is not only a way of keeping your body healthy and your mind at ease…it’s an entire approach to life. Experience the joy of any of our Yoga classes, taught by the most outstanding Teachers in San Miguel de Allende, and see for yourself what a positive difference Yoga can make in your life!

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