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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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This practice is closed. Thank you to all the clients who have come in over the years. I appreciate your courage and trust. Click here for practitioner referral list. I am returning to my previous career of computer programming, and my previous home of Oakland, CA.

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Jenny Davidow, author of “Embracing Your Subconscious”

Wellspring of Compassion provides a masterful view of the many facets of trauma, while at the same time offering kindness, compassion and warmth. Non-judgmental and non-clinical, Wellspring of Compassion will give you the tools and resources to shift from mere survival to being able to compassionately reconnect with yourself, your body, and your life. Continue Reading (click twice)

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Sundown Healing Arts is size-friendly, diversity-friendly, queer-friendly, and trans-friendly. Persons of any body size, skin color, sexual orientation, and gender are welcome. Black Lives Matter.

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