Process Acupressure Workshops
Process Acupressure Workshop Descriptions
Gateway to Soul: PA1
Process Acupressure (PA) is a simple, yet profound, holistic method that combines traditional acupressure (to a fully-clothed body) with a process approach to consciousness. It facilitates healing and the natural growth process that arises from within the individual. Process skills are taught that facilitate clarity-in mind, emotions, and spirit. Soul centered development is emphasized.
Although acupressure is a lifelong study, this course will empower you to work effectively with energy flow in the body including both meridians and chakras, toward greater balance. You will learn tools that give you confidence. PA can be used alone for self-help or easily given to another. It can also be combined with another body modality. For example, our work with the Great Central Channel strengthens the energetic pathway of the spine and is an excellent complement to Acupuncture, Chiropractic, CranioSacral Therapy, Massage Therapy, rehab modalities, and more.
In this workshop you will learn:
- a simple but powerful acupressure method to balance body energy
- how to combine bodywork with psychological-spiritual process skills
- how to empower self and client toward greater understanding and responsibility for health and growth
- to focus health and development in the most fundamental strength and wisdom of one’s own soul
- how to use the skills on yourself to further your own growth
- Chakra Tai Chi
Continuing Education: 24 hours
- Massage Therapists (NCBTMB)
- Acupuncturists (NCCAOM)
- Asian Bodywork Therapists (NCCAOM)
- Physical Therapists in Maryland (MD PT Board)
Pre-requisites: There are no pre-requisites to attend Gateway to Soul, however students are strongly encouraged to experience our work prior to attending this class. This may include receiving a session from a certified practitioner and/or attending any PA, CA or ZB workshop.
Fee: $550 (If taught by Aminah Raheem, $600)
Register on-line, or call Soul Lightening at 301-704-2387
Living in Soul: Advanced PA1
This 4-day workshop progresses process and acupressure skills. Practice with safely following and encouraging a person’s natural process, to promote greater health, the meaning of symptoms and life events. Deepen your confidence to recognize and follow the signals that arise during a session. Refine your skills as you go deeper into your own growth process. This workshop emphasizes soul work which includes life review and soul purpose. Advances basic PA protocol and Chakra Tai Chi.
Continuing Education: 24 hours
- Massage Therapists (NCBTMB)
- Acupuncturists (NCCAOM)
- Asian Bodywork Therapists (NCCAOM)
Prerequisites: Gateway to Soul (PA1)
Fee: $550 (If taught by Aminah Raheem, $600)
Register on-line, or call Soul Lightening at 301-704-2387
Body and Personality Parts: PA2
This workshop relates body parts and symptoms to parts of the personality and psychological development. Uses the many acupressure protocols taught in Clinical Acupressure 1 to advance understanding of psychosomatic conditions. Links parts of the body to personality parts and explains their role in personality development. Teaches how to process and progress parts of the personality toward maturity. In this 4-day workshop, you will learn how to identify and dialogue with personality parts (subpersonalities), learn how parts of the body relate to personality parts and symptoms, learn how to update and transform personality parts to serve present needs, and practice many acupressure protocols from Clinical Acupressure 1 with peers.
Continuing Education: 24 hours
- Massage Therapists (NCBTMB)
- Acupuncturists (NCCAOM)
- Asian Bodywork Therapists (NCCAOM)
Pre-requisites:
- Required: Gateway to Soul: PA1, Clinical Acupressure 1
- Recommended: Living in Soul: Adv. PA1
Fee: $550 (If taught by Aminah Raheem, $600)
Register on-line, or call Soul Lightening at 301-704-2387
The Hologram: PA3
This 7-day workshop brings the processing skills learned in Gateway to Soul: PA 1, Living in Soul: Adv. PA 1 and Body & Personality Parts: PA 2 into the context of traditional Chinese therapeutics, also expanding on the Meridian work learned in Clinical Acupressure 2. Participants are introduced to the 5 elements, pulse reading, and working with organs. They will learn light consciousness work and linking 5 elements to early core personality development. Personal history is then related to soul direction.
Continuing Education: 42 hours
- Massage Therapists (NCBTMB)
- Acupuncturists (NCCAOM)
- Asian Bodywork Therapists (NCCAOM)
Prerequisites:
Required: Gateway to Soul: PA1; Living in Soul: Adv. Process Acupressure 1, Body and Personality Parts: PA 2; Clinical Acupressure 1: Basic Applications; Clinical Acupressure 2: Meridians.
Fee: $800
Register 0n-line, or call Soul Lightening at 301-704-2387
Transpersonal Integration: PA4
This 8-day workshop is designed to serve the practitioner, in their personal health, full human development and alignment with soul and purpose. Workshop content focuses on the eight major chakras, with acupressure formulas for each. Participants progress to higher levels of light consciousness work and follow human development through the chakral stages. This workshop includes a desert vision quest for discovering one’s own personal vision/purpose.
Continuing Education: 46 hours
- Massage Therapists (NCBTMB)
- Acupuncturists (NCCAOM)
- Asian Bodywork Therapists (NCCAOM)
Prerequisites:
- Required: Gateway to Soul: PA1, Clinical Acupressure 1
- Recommended: Living in Soul: Adv. PA1, Body and Personality Parts: PA2, Clinical Acupressure 2: Meridians, The Hologram : PA3
Fee: $900
Register on-line, or call Soul Lightening at 301-704-2387
Inner Child Healing
Process Acupressure skills, the Clinical Acupressure basic protocol, and processing methods are used to address many present symptoms or obstructions that are rooted in childhood wounds or teachings. Healing—in body, mind and emotions—is emphasized over simply remembering trauma. The student will learn how to identify, discharge and heal those traumas through tissue release with loving touch. The inner child’s experience is validated and methods taught to re-pattern old obstructive thinking and behaviors.
Continuing Education: 24 hours
- Massage Therapists (NCBTMB)
- Acupuncturists (NCCAOM)
- Asian Bodywork Therapists (NCCAOM)
Pre-requisites:
- Required: Gateway to Soul: PA1
- Recommended: Living in Soul: Adv. PA1
Fee: $550 (If taught by Aminah Raheem, $600)
Register on-line, or call Soul Lightening at 301-704-2387
Electives
Ancestral Healing
The Basic Protocol and processing skills will be used to heal ancestral patterns that obstruct present life skills. Specific work focuses on healing ancestral patterns that have come down through ages (instead of individual instances) and reclaiming ancestral strengths that have not yet been owned. A soul-dominant segment focuses on soul relationships and soul purposes through ancestry.
Pre-requisites:
- Required: Gateway to Soul: PA1
- Recommended: Living in Soul: Adv. PA1
Fee: $550 (If taught by Aminah Raheem, $600)
Register on-line, or call Soul Lightening at 301-704-2387
Master Practicum in Processing
This new offering by Aminah is designed to give PA practitioners the opportunity to refine their processing skills. It is a unique opportunity to study with the Master, and to develop mastery. This is not intended as a beginning level workshop, and no new material will be given. PA and Advanced PA certification students are strongly encouraged to attend.
Fee: $450
Register on-line, or call Soul Lightening at 301-704-2387
Shamanic Process Acupressure
In this class, created by shaman Dawn Robins and Aminah Raheem, Ph.D., we will use the teachings gathered from ancient Shamanism and our own soul passages to empower us as more effective souls and light workers in a world that is now enlightening. In our rapidly changing world one pathway back to the multi-dimensional realms of the sacred can be found in Shamanism. The essence of shamanism and PA is the same – beyond all beliefs, cultures, and ages we are One, interconnected with each other and with all of creation. The class teaches: How to work at interface with the visible and invisible worlds; How to re-connect with our own inner knowing; How to recognize and attune to those spirits who have lost their way and help them come forward into the light.; Protocols to assist detachment from limiting energies (influences, attachments and possession as called in traditional shamanism); Refinement of extrasensory skills; Direct communication with nature and its spirits and finding power animals.
Pre-requisites:
- Required: Gateway to Soul: PA1, Clinical Acupressure 1
- Recommended: Living in Soul: Adv. PA1
Fee: $600
Register on-line, or call Soul Lightening at 301-704-2387
Soul Work and the Spiritual Channel
This 4-day workshop utilizes the Basic PA Protocol and processing skills to focus entirely on soul work and cultivation of the spiritual channel. Participants will explore their spiritual history and locate spiritual strengths. They will release life factors which obstruct spiritual development and learn new ways to support it. Soul guidance and purpose are elicited. The four stages of spiritual life are described and practiced so that one can consciously engage in each. The class varies each time it is taught.
Pre-requisites:
- Required: Gateway to Soul: PA1
- Recommended: Living in Soul: Adv. PA1
Fee: $600
Register on-line, or call Soul Lightening at 301-704-2387
Reclaiming the Magical/Divine Inner Child
In this three (3) day class our principal focus will be on uncovering, embracing and empowering the magical/divine child who first arrived here whole and connected to the cosmos. That child was soul-infused and contained everything needed to fulfill its destiny. This is the awesome soul child who knows everything at a soul level. Seldom does anyone reach adulthood with this child intact. Once accessed, this child has wondrous and magical powers, original creativity, and transcendent helpers. The soul child needs recognition, encouragement of her own true nature, talents and creativity. That child must also recognize the demands it has made upon itself for the present incarnation. It needs challenges to live UP (through all the chakra stages) to its full potential, and put away victimhood forever. As many of us are learning in this extraordinary time, powerful challenges can help us to break through the last defenses, shields and inadequacies that have impeded our growth for so long. This a journey beyond healing, to mastery.
Pre-requisites:
- Required: Gateway to Soul: PA1
- Recommended: Living in Soul: Adv. PA1
Fee: $500
Register on-line, or call Soul Lightening at 301-704-2387
