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Sundown Healing Arts

Intuitive, compassionate bodywork for trauma

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  • Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

Credentials

  • Author of Wellspring of Compassion: Self-Care for Sensitive People Healing from Trauma and Presence After Trauma: Reconcile with Your Self and the World
  • Reiki I, II, and Reiki Master through the Usui lineage of teachers
  • Karuna Reiki Master through The International Center for Reiki Training
  • CranioSacral Therapy I, II, and SomatoEmotional Release through The Upledger Institute
  • Zero Balancing I and II through The Upledger Institute
  • Visceral Manipulation I through The Barral Institute
  • Functional Anatomy Series: Foot and Leg, Pelvis, Torso, and Arm and Hand taught by Amy Bennett
  • Certified in Asian Systems (Acupressure and Shiatsu) and Swedish Massage through McKinnon Institute of Massage
  • Classes in Subtle Touch massage and Reflexology through McKinnon Institute of Massage
  • Classes in Kinesiology, Communication, Pathology, Hydrotherapy, and advanced massage techniques through Oregon School of Massage
  • Somatic Experiencing I, II, and III through Foundation for Human Enrichment
  • Complex Trauma: Touch-Based Methods for Early Trauma, Syndromes, and Trauma Structures taught by Kathy Kain
  • New Frontiers in Trauma Treatment taught by Bessel van der Kolk, MD through Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior
  • Reconsidering Trauma: Treatment Advances, Relational Issues, and Mindfulness in Integrated Trauma Therapy taught by John Briere, Ph.D. through Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior
  • 42 hour video training in Trauma Resolution by Diane Poole Heller, covering Somatic Experiencing and Attachment Wounds
  • Trainings in military culture, PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury through Returning Veterans Project
  • 30 hour Social Change Training through YWCA
  • Inner Relationship Focusing Levels 1-4 (now known as Parts 1-2), Untangling I, Untangling II through Focusing Resources
  • Oregon Licensed Massage Therapist #12475

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Aubrie De Clerck

There are so many breakthroughs I experienced as your client – how to honor my feelings, be kind and gentle with myself, see different perspectives on any situation, how to mix compassion and courage. Continue Reading (click twice)

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