Customized Retreats

Time for yourself

We can customize your retreat with the following techniques to bring self awareness through information and experiential discovery. We are providing this list of Associate Practitioners and their modalities for your consideration. We would like to make your stay at Namaste Retreat interesting and fun by stretching your body, expanding your mind, and nourishing your soul. By applying universal truths and spiritual principals you learn to release negative belief patterns and enjoy self discovery. This shift in energy then expands an awaking in consciousness which in turn can heal physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds. A true inner connection of the body, mind, and spirit is manifested.

Alternative Health and Wellness Techniques

Benefits of Energy Healing: Energy Healing is a mind-body modality and as such accelerates personal growth. An effective therapy in and of itself, Energy Healing can be utilized in conjunction with or as an adjunct to both medical and non-medical therapies. Using this modality, the healer works directly with the emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of the energy body to facilitate the healing and release of blocked and distorted energy patterns effectively restoring the body’s natural balance. This results in a greater sense of well being, peace, and calmness as well as the release of distress and disease on multiple levels.

Jin Shin Jyntsu: a form of acupressure which works with 26 points along energy pathways. When a pathway is blocked, energy stagnates which in turn can create imbalance along the entire pathway. Jin Shin brings balance to the body’s energies, which promotes optimal health and well being and facilities our own profound healing capacity.

Reiki:   involves the transfer of energy from practitioner to patient to enhance the body's natural ability to heal itself through the balancing of energy. Reiki utilizes specific techniques for restoring and balancing the natural life force energy within the body. It is a holistic, natural, hands-on energy healing system that touches on all levels: body, mind, and spirit.

Cranial sacral: CST is a gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the functioning of a physiological body system called the craniosacral system - comprised of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord. Using a soft touch generally no greater than 5 grams, or about the weight of a nickel, practitioners release restrictions in the craniosacral system to improve the functioning of the central nervous system. By complementing the body's natural healing processes, CST is increasingly used as a preventive health measure for its ability to bolster resistance to disease, and is effective for a wide range of medical problems associated with pain and dysfunction.

NST: is a soft tissue, cross fiber movement over a muscle, tendon or ligament to allow the body to heal itself. Substantial relief is frequently attained after the session & most clients only require 3 treatments to achieve resolution of their complaint. Neurostructural Integration Technique is a dynamic, skillful body technique that alerts the body’s innate healing wisdom to be activated. The result is fast and lasting relief from pain and discomfort with a return to balance and harmony in the body. 

BodyTalk is a simple and effective form of therapy that allows the body's energy systems to be re-synchronized so they can operate as nature intended. All systems, cells and atoms are in constant communication with each other at all times. Through exposure to the stresses of day-to-day life, however, these lines of communication can become compromised, which then leads to a decline in physical, emotional and/or mental well-being. Reconnecting these lines of communication enables the body's mechanisms to function at optimal levels, thus preventing disease and rapidly accelerating the healing process. In this way, BodyTalk stimulates the body's innate ability to balance and heal itself.
 
The Center for Well Being of Austin: Founded by Kate Bares- Johnson in 1997, The Center for Well Being of Austin serves to support ALL individuals on the journey to finding and living the Truth of their Soul! Through private sessions, on-going classes, or one of our transformational weekend retreat intensive, the depth of this work offers abundant possibilities for healing, integration, and transformation on every level…body, mind, and Soul.

As a spiritual/life guide, Kate has created and facilitated transformational experiences throughout the U.S. since 1992. Through her journey as a healing intuitive, as well as, speaker, writer, minister, coach, and mother of two, she has developed a very real and powerful approach to live as a CHOICE.
Associate Practitioners

• Carolyn Deeg, LMT, Massage Therapist, NAET practitioner [allergy elimination] www.naet.com
  210-383-0575
  Carolyn is certified in Reflexology, Lymphatic Drainage, Cranial sacral, Myofacial release, Chair massage, Young Living Oils. She does both Raindrop Therapy and Vita Flex with oils.
• Terri Vogt, LMT, Massage Therapist
  www.boernespa.com
  210-834-2042
  Multitalented massage therapist specializing in pain relief and discomfort with her unique form of total body restructuring, Access, Myofacial release, and Trigger Point therapy.
• Merritt Anne Swenson, RMT, founder of YogaiaPeace
  www.yogaiapeace.com
  Merritt’s private healing practice encompasses numerous certifications in body work, including Cranial Sacral therapy and Thai yoga massage, Astrology, (east/west), Jin Shin Jyutsu. Yogaia is a gentle yet deep, heart felt yoga.
• Cheri Gillham, LMT, NCTMB
  www.BodyWiseHealthCare.com
  210-838-7925
  Cheri owns BodyWise Health Center with offices located in Boerne and San Antonio. She has been a Licensed Massage Therapist for over 15 years. In addition to NeuroMuscular Therapy, her specialties are advanced CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release Therapy which have been developed under the tutelage of the Upledger Institute. She also is an instructor of CranioSacral therapy, deep tissue massage, anatomy, physiology, business, health for massage therapists. Please visit her Web site for more information.
• Cassandra Campbell, PhD, Energy Psychologist, Intuitive, Author, Life Coach
  www.ccampbellphd.com
  Cassandra is a gifted practitioner and master teacher releasing and transforming negative patterns. She brings an energy of peace and love to her courses. Her intuitive abilities are consistently accurate.
  
• Gayle Jones, Pain Elimination Specialist
  www.nstpainelimination.com
  Ionic foot bath treatments are available to help you detoxify in a holistic way by approaching disease through saturation of the blood, tissue and cells with ions. These naturally stimulating and relaxing sessions are based ionization of water and osmosis to draw toxins from the body.  Gayle offers NST, Reiki/Energy sessions and Reiki Certification classes; Chakra and Meridian balancing or clearing; Hatha Yoga.
• Diane Power, Ph.D.,  Is a Holistic Health Science Specialist.
  www.holistichealthscience.com
  Diane conducts workshops and seminars in Nutrition...Exercise ..and Meditation .You can check-out her web-site and contact her directly for your personal or group needs.
• Diane Cunningham, M. Ed.; Life Purpose Coach
  www.dianecunningham.com
  Helping you create a life that you love through retreats, workshops and seminars and one on one counseling.
• Sue Roddy Stewart, LMT Certified BodyTalk Practitioner
  www.sanantoniobodytalk.com
  210-415-5766
  Sue is a licensed massage therapist, trained in Swedish and geriatric massage, trigger points and hydrotherapy. She is a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner and graduate of the Lionheart School of Transpersonal Energy Healing. She can incorporate any of the above modalities in your session, as well as using crystals and essential oils.
• Boni Oian
  www.allencompssingretreats.com
  bonioian@gvtc.com
  830-537-4523
  Boni is a Certified Akashic Record Consultant and Teacher by Akashic Record Consultants International. She is also a Shamanic Trance Dance practitioner. She is a certified Hypnotist with the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association, The Natale Institute, and is a Silva Graduate.
  
  Boni Oian is a Self Awareness Coach. She has been assisting people to feel comfortable with change since 1981. She believes in empowering people by giving them a simple process to achieve their goals, clear unwanted blocks, and receive guidance in their life.

Yoga Teachers

• Gayle Jones
  yogaia@yogaiapeace.com
  210 820-3616
  Gayle has taught Yoga classes since 1986 for all ages, body types and physical conditions including, men, women, children’s and partner’s classes. Her focus is on teaching you how to gain flexibility, increase stamina, endurance while not hurting yourself. You work with your own body, in the condition it is in right now. From there you increase at your own pace. You are never forced into doing what you are not comfortable in doing. Do you have a knee problem? Back or shoulder problem? No problem. You can still do Yoga By Gayle.
  
  Yogaia
  The word Yoga means to yoke. Gaia is the soul name for Earth. Thus, Yogaia, the merging of the two, offers the living loving experience of integrating body/mind and spirit with all of life, experiencing the Truth of your being as an expression of and in oneness with all of nature.
  
  YogaiaPeace
  Through the years, I have come to know Yogaia is a living feminine presence. The work that falls under her umbrella from The YogaiaPeace Center as YogaiaPeace is an offering of love, a way, a path, a blessing from the place from which she was birthed. Current offerings are YogaiaPeace yoga, Yogaia Peace-Seeds (kids classes), and the MotherBreath Peace Project (check back for details)
  
  YogaiaPeace yoga
  Initiated as a peace "movement" YogaiaPeace yoga, suitable for all levels, is gentle, yet powerful and may be experienced as moving meditation.
  
  A typical class includes invocation, gentle meditative movement, traditional asana, pranayama, specific Yogaia breathing practices, and specific world peace healing meditations.
  
  It is appropriate for all faiths and all body types. If you can breathe you can be touched and participate in this special work.
  
  Benefits
  YogaiaPeace yoga offers all the benefits of the mind/body practice of yoga, including the following:
  • deepens the connection with the bodymind
  • simultaneously tones, stretches, and strengthens the muscles
  • boosts the immune system
  • enhances the power of breath
  • lowers blood pressure
  • reduces stress
  • initiates and cultivates a process to bring peace deep into the physiology
  • the experience of being connected to a larger whole
  • offers spiritual awakening and reconnection to the spiritual heart
  • creates new neuropath ways allowing for the experience of centeredness and your own soulful presence in your daily life
• Penny Scrutchin
  
  Penny has been teaching yoga since the early 70's. She discovered the power of Kundalini Yoga in 92 and has been practicing and teaching Kundalini Yoga since then. She is a certified Yoga Instructor from Namaste International (500 hour program) and 3HO Kundalini International (200 hour program). She is currently completing her Level II Kundalini Training.
  
  Multi-level class includes asanas (kryias), breath work (pranayama) and meditation (mantra). The Scaravelli classes are typically hatha yoga with special attention to pranayama. Classes are small - 8 persons maximum - in a beautiful Hill Country Setting just minutes from 1604/I10. Penny has recently moved to the San Antonio/Boerne area and is anxious to build her classes. Suggested donation is $12/class or $40 for 4 classes. Please call for more info.