The Healing Touch
An Approach to Cultivating Vibrant Health
To make an appointment, call Paméla at 512.826.7563 or email her: touchingpeace@sbcglobal.net.
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.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Resting in Stillness
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy [BCST] is a gentle yet profound treatment that focuses on activating the body's inherent healing resources to restore balance and harmony. The emphasis is on supporting a tiny, cyclic movement of fluids in the body. Decades of research has shown that many conditions tend to improve on their own from inside-out when the movement of these fluids is enhanced. The most important principle of BCST is that Health is always present in the body. This is true no matter what conditions and imbalances are manifesting. This Health is reflected in the movement of the fluids and can be activated and empowered in the body through bringing our awareness to it. In a BCST session, this is what we do. We affirm the Health or Intelligence that is ever present. We acknowledge the conditions and adaptations as a sign of Heath at work. We hold everything – Health and conditions – within a wide field of care and attention. And in the process, the body self-corrects and brings itself back to balance. The body remembers itself in its wholeness.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is helpful for a wide range of issues including neck and shoulder pain, nerve impingement, joint issues, including TMJ, headaches, release of trauma, releasing stress via downregulation of the sympathetic nervous system, recovery from accidents and surgeries, including the release of anesthesia residues, and much more. BCST is also a good preventative therapy, regulating imbalances before they become health issues. To learn more about Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, this link will open a PDF with information.
Sessions are available by donation until January of 2010. Beginning in January the cost will be $70 for a one hour session.
Massage and Spa Therapies
Integral Touch
Integral Touch is a unique protocol that integrates body, mind and spirit using ultra light touch massage and energy work to bring profound relaxation and reorganization to the bodymind. I draw on various modalities, including Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Reiki, Traeger, Feldenkrais, Focusing, breathwork, and body-centered awareness to facilitate the relaxation and realignment process. We go deep into the structure of the body – muscle, membrane, bone, nerve, fluids – witnessing the body and its intrinsic wholeness. Energetic blocks, when they are encountered, are held in profound awareness and stillness. This non-judgmental, non-violent approach to the bodymind utilizes the body’s innate intelligence and the faculty of awareness to release blocks and holding patterns, allowing the body to come back to a dynamic state of balance.
A one hour session is $70.
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
During the last twenty years, my work in the healing arts has been enriched by twelve years of study and practice in the art of Mindfulness with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, and eighteen years with Sufi Master, Murshid Shehabbudin David Less. The work continues to evolve through the practice of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy with its emphasis on healing from within.
My current interests in the healing process include a focus on Health: orienting to Health and reflecting it back to the body in an elegant feedback loop so the body can self-correct. As we orient toward Health, the body, mind and spirit deeply relax and 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.
The Healing Touch
Casa de Luz Center for Integral Studies
1701 Toomey Road Austin, Texas 78704