Voice Dialogue: A technique developed by Hal and Sidra Stone, Voice Dialogue is a powerful way to strengthen our awareness of our many selves through directly conversing with different parts of us.  We then have a choice in how to act instead of reacting. By integrating all parts of us, we increase our ability to be flexible and strong, mature and joyous. For more information about Voice Dialogue contact www.delos-inc.com. 

Body-Oriented Psychotherapy:  We use body awareness exercises to allow a person to understand themselves from the inside out, rather than requiring an outside “expert” to advise them. The body registers everything--emotions ,thoughts, energetic connections, spiritual insight. Greater body awareness allows us to be truly a vessel for our full selves.

Guided meditation and visualization: Focusing on the self through centering and meditation is key to changing long-standing patterns of reactive behavior. Using the breath, a word or phrase, or visualization are a few ways to stay with the self in order to discover something new, hidden or well-known but forgotten.

We offer several types of bodywork, including Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Polarity Therapy and Therapeutic Massage.  Cranio-sacral therapy is a gentle technique working directly with the nervous system, where pain and memories often reside.

Polarity Therapy balances the poles of energy in our body and the five elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether. Both techniques can be done fully clothed. Connie was trained in Swedish and Deep Tissue massage and concentrates on the balance between nourishment of the tissue and actively engaging the body to "think" differently on the cellular level.

For more information about Cranio-Sacral Therapy, contact the Upledger Institute at Upledger.com. For Polarity Therapy, contact www.polaritytherapy.org. For Massage, contact amtamassage.org.

Our cells resonate with sound and music, the elements that originally called us into being.  Connie uses music in a variety of ways—directly using sound to resonate the body, leading singing in workshops, retreats and rituals, and using music in a technique called Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), created by Helen Bonny, a music therapist. For more information about Helen Bonny and GIM, contact bonnyfoundation.org.

Qigong is a meditative movement that calls upon ancient ways of observing animal behavior and their connection to the spiritual.  Crane-style Qigong and Intelligent Qigong are a series of graceful, simple movements that, done with mindfulness, put one in a state of nuanced receptivity. 

Yoga, when done with respect for one’s own limitations and body, can be a powerful way to learn about going to the edge, resting, and then being able to go further.

Qigong and Yoga have the effect of relaxing and energizing at the same time.