holistic healing & wellness

 

It is our deepest desire that you experience with us the most holistic and effective healing and wellness services available in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our services range from yoga and meditation to energy healing, holistic health counseling, detoxification, hypnotherapy, and aromatherapy. Our collection of healing and wellness services truly is holistic, with solutions that address body, mind, spirit, and planet.

 

Before you advance to any of the descriptions of the therapies (below), we invite you to take a couple of minutes to first consider our thoughts on the subject of healing and wellness. This is the most valuable information on the subject of health and healing that we publish on our Web site.

 

ABOUT OUR WELLNESS SERVICES

 

Focus on "well-being"

We have purposely brought together the terms "healing" and "wellness" on the same Web page to make a powerful and key distinction. This is the essence of healing: when we focus our awareness upon our internal wellness or well-being, we create the optimal mental, emotional, physical and spiritual conditions for healing to occur.

 

Our focus creates our reality

Why? Because to a great degree, our focus determines our reality. When we see ourselves as needing "fixing," or "healing" we are focusing on what's wrong. We develop more thoughts, evidence or justification for having our complaint. We make our current undesired condition more real in our minds than a future condition of wellness. This is why people's physical conditions always worsen rapidly after they receive a diagnosis or label for an illness.

 

Conversely, when we see ourselves as whole, we are vastly more effective in allowing a condition of well-being to manifest in our lives. More specifically, when we fully accept our thoughts and emotions and then (ideally with the assistance of others) focus on the well-being that already exists in our lives, we begin to gather evidence for our well-being and create that condition instead. Thus, "healing" occurs when we allow our natural and holistic condition, a state of holistic "well-being," to express itself fully.

 

Release stress and resistance

Some scientists estimate that we have from 6,000 to 30,000 negative thought/feelings per day. This is why learning tools for stress release on a moment-by-moment basis can be one of the most powerful pathways for shifting from "there's something wrong with me" to thoughts that allow wellness. When we learn to release resistance to our mind chatter ("negative" thoughts) as it arrives, we create the potential for our thoughts to move us continuously toward a state of greater ease.

 

Yoga, meditation, and well-being

People instinctively know that yoga and meditation are innately health promoting, because they are so effective at releasing stress or mental resistance. This is, we believe, one of the reasons yoga and meditation have become so popular, and it is why we embrace these practices. This is also why we have developed our foot bath meditation ritual. This ritual is designed specifically to show you the most reliable method of stress release practiced in the last three thousand years.

 

The role of the healer

The role of a healer, therefore, whether she or he is a massage therapist or a hypnotherapist, is to facilitate your self-healing process rather than "fix" you. This is done in part by envisioning you as whole and complete until you are able to see this for yourself. It is also accomplished by asking questions and using powerful healing processes, like the ones listed below, that support you in getting your mind sufficiently "out of the way" (altering your focus of attention) for your innate well-being to manifest.

 

Self-healing

None of the techniques we use here heal you. In fact, nothing outside of you can. Only you can heal anything—you and your innate intelligence. The techniques and practices we use support you in allowing your natural state of well-being to express itself fully once again. Be clear: healing is distinctly and fully an inside job.

 

Choosing the ideal service

Do you have a health need and want guidance? Are you unclear about which therapy is best for you? Please call us. It would give us great pleasure to direct you to a service that meets your needs. That's what we're here for. Additionally, if you are interested in having a detailed, in-depth wellness assessment, please inquire about our holistic health counseling services.

 

Asante's Holistic Health and Education Network

Is there a service you want that you don't see listed here? Asante is pleased to refer you to anyone in our network of local holistic health providers at your request. Simply call us and we will provide you with the names of holistic M.D.'s, dentists, ophthalmologists, chiropractors, and acupuncturists in the Bay Area. Through our affiliation with the highly respected World School of Massage and Holistic Healing Arts, we also provide our community with holistic health classes and education.

OUR WELLNESS SERVICES

 

HOLISTIC HEALTH COUNSELING

• Do you have a health issue you want to release?
• Do you want something new in your life but feel
  unclear about what it is or how to go about it?
• Do you need to learn new methods for stress release?
• Would you like to embrace new, life-affirming
  habits of thinking, speaking, and communicating
  with others?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, Asante's holistic health counseling service may be what you are looking for. It includes private assessment, education, and coaching that assists you in making empowering choices and mapping a course of action appropriate to your needs, and then guides you through the process.

Our holistic health practitioners have been trained in many holistic healing modalities and are experts at making powerful recommendations relevant to your specific desires. Whether you choose to embark upon a course of detoxification, discover new nutritional options, release weight or addictions, eliminate stress, or even develop new ways of communicating with loved ones and colleagues, you will find our counselor-coaches genuinely devoted to seeing you produce the results you want at the pace and in the way that feels best to you. (30/60/90-minute sessions, $60/80/100)

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ENERGY HEALING

 

Vibrational Healing Massage Therapy®
A ground-breaking full-body massage that works deeply into joints, muscles, and bones to remove blockages, restore circulation, and open your energy flow for flexibility and rejuvenation. Developed by world-renowned healer (and also our spa owner), Patricia Cramer. (60/90 minutes, $80/100)

 

Sound Healing
Sound healing balances your biofrequencies and stimulates self-healing. Some benefits of sound healing are better immune function, improved sleep, lowered blood pressure, and a sense of well-being and rejuvenation.
(60/90 minutes, $80/100)

 

CranioSacral Balancing
A gentle and profound core balancing technique, which enhances breath and spinal movement. "The CranioSacral wave is an intelligent form of communication, just as informative as the acupuncturist's radial pulse. It is one way that the soul has of expressing its needs."—Hugh Milne
(60/90 minutes, $80/100)

 

Chi Nei Tsang
Internal organ chi balancing treatment. All of the body's systems benefit from this work: the lymphatic, digestive, eliminative, respiratory, nervous, endocrine, urinary, reproductive, and skeletomuscular systems, as well as the meridians. (30/60/90 minutes, $60/80/100)

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HYPNOTHERAPY

Unleash your power to live the life of your dreams. Hypnosis is a way for us to ask our unconscious minds to help us release unwanted behaviors and gain habits that support our health and well-being. Hypnotherapy can be used for example, to let go of our addictions, manage our emotions, develop our spiritual inclinations, heal our spiritual and psychic disharmonies, and even improve our relationships. Please call us for to set up an assessment prior to your session. (60/90-minute sessions, $80/100)

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AROMATHERAPY

 

Essential oils have been used since biblical times as remedies to heal body and soul. They are the pure essence of the particular plant, being gifted to us. Modern science has attempted to synthesize many of these remedies in the laboratory. However, a lab-created rose scent does not capture the natural uplifting life essence of natural rose essential oil. In other words, it captures the scent, but not the essence! (60/90-minute sessions, $80/100)

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DETOXIFICATION SERVICES

 

Lymphatic Drainage Therapy
A specific technique that moves lymphatic fluids.  Lymphatic drainage effectively detoxifies the body, revitalizes energy, and boosts the immune system.
(30/60/90-minute sessions, $60/80/100)

 

For other Asante detoxification beauty services see our herbal wraps and mud wraps, detoxifying aromatherapy essential oils (used with massage services), or consult an Asante holistic health counselor for a customized detoxification program.

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NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING (NLP)

Neuro Linguistic Programming presupposes that there is no such thing as a body separate from a soul. NLP addresses human potential with a simple formula for success:

• Know what you want.
• Know whether you are getting what you want.
• Have the personal flexibility to change behavior until you get what you want.

Let us coach you in this simple yet powerful technique, which will unleash the power of your mind to help you achieve the life you want and deserve.
(30/60/90-minute sessions, $60/80/100)

 

 

PRIVATE YOGA

Balance more deeply your mind, body, and spirit through postures, breath, meditation, body awareness, and guided visualization. These gentle and challenging sessions are personalized for your needs.
(Private 1-hour session, $75; 1½-hour session, $100)

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GROUP YOGA AND MEDITATION

 

Call or email us for our latest yoga and meditation schedule.