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Totality Healing Arts, 2 South Main Street #26, Weaverville, NC (2025)

06/27/2025

I’m so stoked to be hosting the upcoming Myo-Somatic Bodywork trainings at .resort

Getting this opportunity is nothing less than a synchronous nod from God that everything is in higher order.

We saw the domes being built from across our ridgeline to the next, and all these rumors were flying around.

Then of course came Hurricane Helene, no greater motivation to know your neighbors.

It turns out Munaya was the perfect fit to launch my trainings… and our July class will be the first official group to stay on site.

If you’re looking for an intimate deep dive into this work, July 31 is your class - it will be a smaller, intimate group which will allow me to give each student more hands on focus and attention to help them master the techniques.

I’m holding a spot open for someone with an incentive to balance our numbers - if you’re feeling called, I’m opening back up the early bird rate just for you ($300 savings.)

October is 100% going to fill up at 12 students max, and I’ll be excited to work with a larger group container and have more of that community feel as you all support each other through the process.

Who is ready to take their hands on healing skills to the next level?

Drop a comment below.

04/15/2025

The most profound transformations happen not through force or passivity, but at the exact point of equilibrium between the two.

This is what I’ve discovered after thousands of hours working with clients’ bodies – there exists a precise moment where change stops being something we struggle toward and becomes an effortless unfolding.

I call this “The Equanimity of Touch.”

My clients often arrive having experienced one of two extremes: bodywork so aggressive they’re left sore for days, or sessions so gentle they question if anything happened at all.

But transformation lives in the balance point. It emerges when your willingness to be present meets my precision in creating the perfect container for release.

In this synchronized state, your body can finally evaluate what protective patterns to keep and what limitations to dissolve. The result isn’t just physical relief but often profound shifts in perception and emotional capacity that extend far beyond our sessions.

What patterns might your body be ready to release when given the perfect conditions to do so?

04/08/2025

THE NON-DOING OF GOOD BODYWORK

It's not about gaining another technique.
It's not about having the most knowledge.

It comes down to - how present can you be with the forces of nature that govern our being?

Are you alight in the stillness or caught up in the waves?

Your practice and your skill comes from navigating these nuances.

Good bodywork is a tonic for the practitioner and a boon for the client.

It's a meditative practice of letting go, stepping out of the way, and allowing yourself to deepen your connection to the forces of life itself.

So while I gear up to teach the Myo-Somatic practitioner training, I'm going back to my roots and telling the story of how I got here.

Larch was an incredible human being, beyond bodywork, beyond his work with sustainability. He's left an indelible mark on my life professionally and spiritually.

The Dzogchen philosophy and practice has left its own mark on my technique and philosophy, and I could not be more grateful for this lifetime I get to practice honing my spirit through my touch.

Thank you for being my teacher.

04/06/2025

THE ACHIEVEMENT TRAP: Why High Performers Need Deep Stillness

You’ve mastered the external world.
But at what cost?

The skills that brought you success - crushing it, overcoming obstacles, thriving in high-stress environments - have served you well. But burning rocket fuel comes at a price your body has been silently paying.

Most high-achievers have spent decades cultivating their sympathetic nervous system response.

They’ve fine-tuned their ability to push through, to override signals that would stop most people.

What they haven’t cultivated is their inner toolkit: Stillness. Silence. Surrender.

The more you burn the midnight oil, the less depth of presence you can cultivate. You cannot activate deep states of awareness while in motion. You cannot recalibrate your perception unless you reach a still point.

Your weekly yoga class?
Your occasional massage?
Even your meditation practice?

They help. They create balance.

But they’re like skipping stones across the surface of a deep lake when you need a DEEP DIVE.

When you need something radically different, you need to commit to DOING NOTHING. Paradoxically, this is the hardest thing for someone wired for achievement.

This is why my 5-day intensive exists - to apply the brakes to a runaway nervous system and reset patterns that have been building for decades. It creates a container where you can finally release the drive to achieve, let go of control, and surrender to your body’s wisdom.

Five days of unwinding. Five days of accessing layers of yourself that have remained stubbornly in your blind spots.

Because the truth is, the deeper the water, the more stillness is required to see to the bottom.

Are you ready to develop the other half of your toolkit - the yin to balance your yang, the surrender to complement your drive?

The 5-day intensive isn’t just another appointment. It’s a fundamentally different approach for those who recognize that the skills that built their success aren’t the same skills that will heal their foundation.

Drop “STILLNESS” below if you’re ready to explore whether an intensive might be your missing piece.

04/05/2025

Your mind was not designed to hold everything 🧠✨

As a bodyworker constantly exposed to wellness content, I’ve realized something: scrolling through even the most positive information doesn’t allow us to truly embody wisdom. Our dopamine-seeking brains are too busy consuming the next soundbite.

And that’s just the good stuff. Consider what “doomscrolling” through anxiety-inducing news does to your nervous system. It literally rewires you to expect more cortisol, more stress, creating an addiction to emotional highs—especially negative ones.

When we’re constantly processing things outside our control, we lose touch with what’s right in front of us: our bodies, our feelings, our communities, and the tangible world we can actually influence.

So here’s your permission slip to let go for a moment. As that wise internet meme says: “Hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave.” 🍓🪨

This reminder to breathe, focus on what’s tangible, and empty your mind might be the most spiritual practice any of us can aspire to.

If you’re struggling to release that grip, CranioSacral therapy can help remind your nervous system what it feels like to stop white-knuckling through information overload.

How do you disconnect and reconnect with what matters? Share below 👇

04/01/2025

I released a new free 50min training on fascia & felt sense in preparation for my practitioner training course.

Comment ‘FEEL’ below if you want me to send it to you!

03/30/2025

Your body is holding onto truths that may still be out of reach of the best internal somatic tools and practices.

I see it all the time: clients who’ve done years of spiritual work but their bodies tell a different story.

Laura thought she had it “pretty well all figured out” after a decade of meditation and yoga. But during aerial silks, her body would unexpectedly flip her upside down without warning.

When we accessed her deep fascia and cerebrospinal fluid—places most practitioners never touch—the truth emerged: religious trauma her meditation had never surfaced.

The result? A profound release as her body finally moved through what it had been holding for years.

This is the power of advanced somatic work. We bypass the mental loops and go straight to where transformation actually lives.

Ready to discover what your body knows? My 5-day Somatic Bodywork Intensive in Asheville offers 20 hours of advanced myofascial and craniosacral work that resets your entire system.

Drop “UNLOCK” in the comments if your body is ready to reveal what your mind can’t access 👇

03/26/2025

The Missing Element in Somatic Work: TOUCH

Most somatic practices are top-down approaches with a glaring hole: the power of intentional, skilled TOUCH.

How are clients supposed to feel parts that have been shut down for decades? How can they sense tissues so restricted they barely register in conscious awareness?

The deep fascia where wounds are locked up restricts nerve sensation and blood flow... how can anyone feel this on their own?

This is why integrating myofascial release and craniosacral therapy creates magic:

The myofascial approach activates the entire fascial mesh and peripheral nervous system, creating waves of sensation that cannot be ignored.

The craniosacral work accesses the dural tube and fluid dynamics of the spine - direct connection to the central nervous system itself.

Together, they ENLIVEN the system. We wake up areas that have ‘fallen off the map’ of awareness, extracting wisdom held in ‘dysfunction.’ We speak to the archetypes that have been working to keep us safe.

The sharp knife of awareness becomes exponentially more effective when guided by skilled hands that point it directly where it needs to go.

This makes our 5-day Myo-Somatic Practitioner Training different.

We teach you to FEEL the body in ways most practitioners never learn. Your hands become the bridge between your client’s conscious awareness and the parts they’ve lost touch with.

Drop “TOUCH” below if you’re ready to learn the missing element that transforms somatic work from intellectually interesting to profoundly life-changing.

03/25/2025

I’m excited to welcome all students and intensive clients to .resort starting this summer.

These pictures don’t even do the finished domes or the full retreat center justice - but I have to keep it somewhat of a surprise because it’s still before Munaya’s official opening 🤫

But this is a sneak peak at the classroom space and the exterior of the domes and the view. Wait til you see the inside.

As synchronicity would have it, these domes started cropping up last Summer right on the next mountain ridge across from our land.

We heard all sorts of crazy rumors for a while - it was a wealthy guy from Florida building an Airbnb empire, indoor greenhouses for h**p and CBD farming, and more…

Until one of my local clients said - “No! It’s a retreat center, and I happen to know the owner just from in passing at the local coffee shop.”

It was right after Helene that I had an opportunity to connect with someone who was my neighbor all this time - and realize how aligned her vision was with my own work.

is really building something magical here in the Blue Ridge Mountains - and I’m excited to get to participate and welcome students to my upcoming Myo-Somatic practitioner training and continuing to host Somatic Bodywork Intensives for clients with such an incredible immersive experience in nature.

Staring at the mountains and the sky is healing in and of itself - I get such a strong feeling that there is going to be a lot of transformation on this land.

Stay tuned for more and make sure to follow both Munaya and Saloua 🙏

03/16/2025

The Walnut, The Rainbow & The Empty Dam

Sometimes the body speaks in riddles that make perfect sense...

I tell this story a lot because it’s one of the sillier ways the inner wisdom has brought imagery up during sessions.

Last year, I was working with a client’s C1-occipital area and we hit a stubborn blockage. No amount of skilled touch was creating release.

Then her eyes began to flutter—REM state.
She’d dropped into those deeper brainwaves where magic happens.

“I see... a walnut riding a rainbow,” she said, laughing.

Instead of dismissing this absurdity, we leaned in.

“We’re listening, walnut. Where are you going?”

The walnut rode its rainbow to a dam—dusty, dim, abandoned.

“There’s no man in the control room of this dam,” she heard.

Then the breakthrough: “Maybe I should just put a man in the control room? Can I do that?”

“If it arises naturally, if it isn’t forced, if it feels right- I’d say that’s exactly what your body is telling you to do.”

In that instant, her occiput dropped deeply into my hands. The blockage that no amount of physical technique could touch simply... surrendered.

This is the miracle of somatic bodywork. Not just manipulating tissue, but creating the conditions for your nervous system to speak its perfect metaphors.

The right brain knows exactly what you need.

It doesn’t communicate in logical sentences. It speaks in walnuts riding rainbows. In empty control rooms. In images that make no rational sense but create instant physical change.

This is why I create safe containers for deeper states. Where we can trust the ridiculous, the nonsensical, the seemingly random—because that’s often where the wisdom lives.

Your body’s intelligence is waiting to speak.
Sometimes it just needs someone to listen to its rainbow-riding walnuts.

03/13/2025

When the Body Finally Speaks: A Revelation

Today I worked with an RN who had never explored alternative therapies until this week. Left hip pain, tight shoulders, neck tension, anterior tilted pelvis, surgical scarring—her body told the physical story of what she’d been carrying.

“I’ve never even tried acupuncture before this week,” she told me skeptically.

She’d been staying with a therapist friend, going through a difficult life period. They’d done float tanks. Acupuncture. Various therapies throughout the week.

When I explained the somatic aspect of my work—that she might see images or feel sensations—I could see the uncertainty in her eyes. She’d surrender to the process, but wasn’t expecting much.

What happened next stunned us both.

Almost immediately, vivid imagery flooded her awareness. She felt “stuck inside a tree,” rigid like bark. Then a bluebird appeared, lifting her vision skyward, helping her escape.

As we continued, she saw her body as two distinct paths:
• Right side: warm, sun-drenched, beckoning
• Left side (where her pain lived): dark gray, twisted vines, disturbing faces pulling her down

We engaged directly with these images: “Thank you, disturbing faces, for showing up. What wisdom do you have? There’s nothing too scary here. We’re listening.”

This woman—who had never done this kind of work before—went on a profound inner journey that released deep pain from her left hip, psoas, and pelvis.

Afterward, she was astonished. “How did this happen so quickly? I didn’t even believe in this stuff.”

Here’s the revelation:

Her week of therapies had already broken through the surface layers. The daily stress. The sympathetic dominance. The armor we all wear.

By the time she reached me on her last day, she was already in a descended brainwave state where the right brain could speak its symbolic language.

03/11/2025

The vortex within you doesn’t force its way.
It flows.

Consider this: the cerebrospinal fluid circulating through your spine creates a toroidal field—a perfect blueprint for divine flow.

Yet how often do we resist this natural pattern?

We push.
We strain.
We analyze.
We control.

All while our bodies inherently know the path of least resistance.

“Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”

The wisdom wasn’t just poetic—it was physiological.

When we work with the subtle currents of the cerebrospinal fluid, something profound happens. We attune to the whispers of sensation. The gossamer threads of awareness that have always been there, just beneath our conscious grasping.

This is where transformation lives.
Not in forcing new patterns.
Not in endless analysis of old ones.
Not in mental gymnastics trying to think our way to freedom.

But in surrender.

In the exquisite letting go that allows your system to recalibrate to its natural state—the one it’s been trying to return to all along.

The fascia doesn’t need to be conquered.
The nervous system doesn’t need to be outsmarted.
The patterns don’t need to be fought.

They need to be felt, acknowledged, and released into the flow.

This is the dance where we surrender the wheel—where we stop white-knuckling our way through healing and allow the intelligence that formed galaxies to reform our inner landscape.

The subtle becomes the miraculous.
The gentle becomes the powerful.
The surrender becomes the liberation.

Your body already knows the way.
It’s just waiting for you to listen.

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