During a 2-month stay at Esalen in 2010, I had a couple of sessions with a man named Jules, who seemed to know more about my journey than I did. My curiosity aroused, I asked him about his training: he mentioned a name - Lansing Barrett Gresham - that I googled when I returned home.
Personal Experiences
Twenty years ago I came to Integrated Awareness® needing healing after a serious car accident. My life passion and work require me to travel the world, but I could not fly because my left ear could not pressurize. The first time someone had their hands on me in IA I felt a deep awareness of all the energy in my body. Within thirty seconds I knew I needed to know more.
I started looking for Lansing, the founder of Integrated Awareness, who was the teacher of the person helping me. When I learned his base was near my hometown, I felt incredibly lucky...
I went to see an IA Teacher, at the suggestion of a counselor - who said, I think now it is time for you to work with your body. I think you will find the most healing by doing that and that you should try out this work called Integrated Awareness. That’s about all I remember. I was searching for answers to some things that I couldn’t quite formulate the questions for. I had interest in energy work, but needed a sense of tangibility. I was struggling with life and my place in it, and how to find a sense of balance that I longed for, seemed to know...
When I was a young student nurse in 1950 and again when getting my degree in 1980 I had been educated to know the function and problems associated with the interior organs of the physical body. I learned the typical Medical Model for the disease process, trauma repair and the different approaches for healing via surgery and/or medication.
I’ve been having Integrated Awareness sessions since Oct 1999. Sessions with have changed my life over the years, and I’m not being melodramatic.
Issues I have presented were along the theme of emotional development:
- what gets in the way of me finding a monogamous life partner?
- how can I be more open emotionally?
- how can I allow myself to take up more space?
-how can I manifest more of what I want in my life?, be less hard on myself, get out of my own way, feel more, protect myself less, be more comfortable alone with my thoughts,...
In 2006, I was faced with a particularly aggressive, life-threatening illness. Should anyone ask me today I would and could recommend excellent surgeons, oncologists and radiologists, all of whom I credit for saving my life at that time.
It is, however, my IA teacher, Kathy Bledsoe, to whom I attribute my healing, recovery, and ability to thrive and live a life I continue to grow and to love. Initially, I chose IA to help me find a way to sleep. I had all kinds of medications for sleep, and yet could...
My first introduction to IA was from an article I read in one of the massage magazines back in the early 2000’s. It was written by Dale Alexander. I was intriguingly lead to sign up for one of the public workshops. I bought both of IA’s books and read them. Then took another workshop in 2009. As of 2014, I have engaged in a massage practice for 20 years. For the last few years I have been asking Source, my Higher Self or the Universe for the “next step” to deepen my work....
Desde que Andrew trabaja conmigo son muchos los cambios que he notado y ha sido una gran sorpresa para mí, es más de lo que yo me esperaba y los cambios se sienten rápidamente.
Without a doubt I would not be here today, let alone with a spring in my step, joy in my heart, and a body that is serving me well, without my healing learning experiences with Lansing and IA over these past many years. Thanks to IA, I learned to overcome serious physical, mental, emotional and spiritual challenges. My entire family has benefited by also receiving private sessions and attending workshops. We are all healing emotional wounds, growing, maturing and are able to relate to each other in present time, without the baggage that...
Integrated Awareness me ha dado mucha confianza en mi misma. IA esta ensenandome una nueva forma de vivir. Y he aprendido que el dolor físico a causa de nuestras emociones se puede soportar. Yo no sabía como manejarlo. Gracias…