The Healing Touch

An Approach to Cultivating Vibrant Health

We have the opportunity to choose health with the many decisions we make daily. The cornerstones of vibrant health include a healthy diet, proper rest and relaxation, and living a purposeful, meaning-filled life with time for reflection, integration, and transformation. Relaxation is essential. Learning to stop and rest in the breath, moment by moment, is essential. We live in a very yang, tense world. The body knows how to relax, yet in today’s busy world, it must be reminded and encouraged to return to balance. Relaxing and balancing the nervous system is an important key – as the nerves relax, the muscles relax. As the body calms, the mind becomes calm.

Massage and Spa Therapies

Integral Massage

Integral Massage is a unique protocol I’ve developed that integrates mind, body and spirit. This session is designed to calm and relax the nervous system. As the nervous system relaxes, the muscular system also relaxes. A typical session combines Swedish massage and energy work, i.e. Reiki/Quantum Touch/Qigong, with coaching in body awareness, breathing, rocking and spiraling, and a guided meditation of the body.
[½ hour is $40, 1 hour is $70, 1 ½ hour is $100.]

Swedish Massage

Releases stress, tight and sore muscles and brings deep relaxation. Customized to your needs.
[1/2 hour is $40, 1 hour is $70, and 90 minutes is $100.]

Deep Relaxation Package

Includes a one hour massage, aroma therapy body wrap and delicious foot treatment.
[2 hour session is $160.]

Total Relaxation Package

Includes a one hour massage, aroma therapy body wrap, foot treatment and facial massage.
[2.5 hour session is $190.]

Foot Treatment

Feet are scrubbed with salts to soften calluses, followed by a hydrating mask, hot towels and deep massage with peppermint oil crème.
[1/2 hour is $45.]

Facial Massage

The face is cleansed and exfoliated, followed by a hydrating mask, hot towels and tension-releasing massage of the face, neck and shoulders with rich hydrating lotion.
[The facial massage is $45 for half an hour and $60 for 45min.]

Aroma Therapy Body Wrap

Fragrant essential oils are applied to the skin to assist in circulation and relaxation, followed by a wrap in a special heat-retention blanket. This can be combined with a guided relaxation of the body. Deep relaxation to the core.
[1/2 hour is $45.]

Hot Stone Treatment

Swedish massage using heated stones and warm oils to increase circulation, balance energy, and deeply relax the body.
[1 hour is $90, 1 ½ hour is $125.]

Healing Breath Flow

This is an energetic healing process using Reiki, breath, and the repetition of a sacred, healing mantra. The breath is consciously moved throughout the body to release holding patterns, using traditional and contemporary Sufi mystical practices. It is a heart-centered meditation for body, mind and spirit.
[One hour is $70.]

Deep Inquiry

Our natural state is one of joy and ease. This is our original nature. It is a radiant, unchanging state that underlies all experience. In modern civilization we have lost touch with who we are. Deep Inquiry is a process for rediscovering our True Nature. In this one-on-one process we use questions to uncover the unconscious suffering that is preventing us from being in touch with our True Nature. We often begin with the question – what is preventing me from feeling ease and joy in this moment? This is a heart-centered approach to healing. Each question leads deeper into the matrix of who we are as we dialogue with the different parts of ourselves. As we move deeper, we naturally release fear, anxiety, feelings of unworthiness, and feelings of separation. This is a joyful, energizing process.
[One hour is $70.]

Relaxation Classes

True ease comes from relaxing the body, the mind and the feelings. As we return to a state of ease, we come home to our True Nature – peace, joy, and compassion. We relax the body through sensory awareness and movement. We relax the mind and the feelings through increased awareness, and welcoming the thoughts, experiences, and feelings that create disharmony and imbalance in the bodymind. We work with the breath, meditation, mindfulness, and with a variety of experiential exercises designed to bring our whole being back into balance and ease. Group workshops are held several times a year. Private classes, usually one hour in length, are also available for $70.

Healing Retreats

Spend a full or half day in the peaceful, healing atmosphere of Casa de Luz in a lightly guided retreat. Design a retreat that fits your needs. Maybe you need deep rest, or some time out to reflect on your life purpose and refocus your energies. Maybe you simply need the encouragement and space to remember and rest in your True Nature.

Choose from a menu of options: massage & spa therapies, deep inquiry, healing breath flow, total relaxation [a guided meditation on the body], yoga, sitting and walking meditation, silence, journaling, and a delicious, vegan meal at Casa.

The foundation of the retreat will be silence – an invitation to enter the timeless space of the present moment, cultivating a calm, clear mind and a relaxed body. Together we will create a space to refocus attention on your True Nature and come back to a state of vital balance and joyful enthusiasm.

Price varies with services selected.

About Paméla Overeynder

I’ve been involved in the healing arts for over fifteen years. My work has evolved as I’ve studied and practiced different modalities of massage – Swedish, Myofacial, Reiki, Quantum Touch, Orthobionomy, Traeger, etc. The journey is continuously enriched by twelve years of study and practice in the art of Mindfulness with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, and fifteen years with Sufi Master, Murshid Shehabbudin David Less. My current interests in the healing process can be distilled down to the question, how do we relax? As we deeply relax the body, mind and spirit, we touch our true original nature of profound ease and peace.

Contact Information
To make an appointment:

Call Paméla at 512.826.7563 or email her at touchingpeace@sbcglobal.net.

For more information visit the web: www.thehealingtouchcenter.org

The Healing Touch
Casa de Luz Center for Integral Studies
1701 Toomey Road Austin, Texas 78704