Our vision is to activate our client’s innate healing potential using various integrative psychotherapy practices to awaken dormant spontaneity and authenticity, and stimulate feelings of connection to others.
At Xanadu we create an imaginative healing space to liberate the greatest authenticity, spontaneity, as well as integrity and power; where an individual is their own authority, and uniqueness awakens the highest wisdom; integrating mind and body in a vulnerable and adventurous space to nurture a connection back to the heart’s path. Just like we believe in your growth, we take our own seriously. We are an ever-developing practice and as we grow new methods and practices will be added to our offerings and current practices will be extended.
Xanadu is a body, mind, heart ♥ and soul integration space.
We aim to aid the evolution of psychotherapy and healing where body, mind, heart ♥ (emotion) and soul are integrated. At Xanadu we merge the body and mind and believe that for real healing to happen work needs to occur on both levels, as well as including deep emotional and spiritual aspects. The integration of these areas results in lasting holistic healing. Perhaps right now your body, mind, heart and soul are all pulling in different directions; maybe it is now time to plunge into the adventure of self-alignment. Xanadu is about raising consciousness and we believe engaging in your own healing connects you with others on a deeper level through an enhanced state of awareness to one’s surroundings. We ascribe to ideas such as Jung’s collective unconscious – a resource for humankind to tap into beyond our individual selves that holds much potential guidance. Xanadu recognizes the need for including spirituality in healing and thus we work from a transpersonal psychology framework. This involves integrating spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience within modern psychology. Xanadu is the creation of a psychotherapeutic space where an individual can not only gain therapeutic insights into their own emotional dynamics and behavior patterns, but may come to question and transcend fundamental self-concepts and views of the nature of reality to allow for exploration of better ways to live that support the interconnectedness of all life.
Xanadu recognizes a worldwide seeking for a renewal of the spiritual relationship with the natural world. Xanadu is based on a foundation of ecopsychology, which is focused on developing and understanding ways of expanding the emotional connection between individuals and the natural world, thereby assisting individuals with developing sustainable lifestyles and remedying alienation from nature. An individual’s connection to nature can improve their interpersonal relationships and emotional well-being. Steps taken to accept and notice nature can sharpen the senses and help people cultivate new skills. As we strongly believe in a mind-body connection, we believe that the emotional and thought symptoms may manifest physically and vice versa. Often we manifest physical symptoms to avoid overwhelming emotions. Processing negative emotions from our past can lead to much symptom relief. The origin of many symptoms is believed to be trauma – whether shock or developmental trauma. Our therapeutic focus is thus repairing unfulfilling patterns from the past, and thus relieving their need to repeat in the present. By using external processes we aim to restructure the neuropsychology of the brain and physicality of body back into pre-trauma equilibriums.
At Xanadu we offer the following:
Art Therapy
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Holotropic breathwork
Hypnotherapy
Somatic Psychotherapy
Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE)
Yoga for Trauma
Please consult our website for more information:
www.xanaduhealing.co.za
xanaduhealing@gmail.com
