One morning in 1989 I was cooking breakfast for six guests at my Bed
and Breakfast house on Ocracoke Island, part of North Carolina’s Outer
Banks. As I looked at the table of folks I was suddenly aware of a desire
to touch them with my hands! This was an unusual feeling for me. At that
time I worked six months of the year at my B&B and the other six
months I traveled the state, teaching photography in NC’s Artist-in-
Schools Program. That morning in 1989 something new was awakening
inside me and I did not understand it.

Several months later I was sponsoring a Japanese cooking class at my
B&B when the front door opened and a man with shoulder length brown
hair walked in. I recognized him instantly, but in reality had no knowledge
of who he was. I learned that he was a Reiki Teaching Master and that
weekend I experienced my first Reiki treatment. I was deeply affected
by that treatment and soon traveled to Chapel Hill to
begin studying Reiki with him. What a life-changing journey was initiated!

For the next eight years I studied energy and emotional healing in
Berkeley, California, traveling there in winter months when my B&B was
closed. I studied at the Acupressure Institute, the oldest school of
Asian bodywork in the U.S.  I became certified in Chinese Acupressure
with a specialization in emotional balancing.  Acupressure and the energy
meridians offer a clear view of our bodies’ natural pathways for healing
and restoring vitality, known as chi.

During the same years in Berkeley I studied a profound form of
emotional bodywork known as Rosen Method.  This method’s gentle touch
offers access to the unconscious where many old losses or wounds are
held in our bodies. With no goal or agenda other than finding more ease in
our own bodies, Rosen Method reaches and allows space for our
forgotten parts to reemerge in a safe and non-judgmental way.  As
adults we may now be ready to see or feel our childhood pains or losses.  
I love the gentle beauty of this emotional bodywork. Rosen Method
invites us to be more deeply aware of our feeling self in this very
moment. It is transformational and life-affirming bodywork.

In 1993 and 1995  I worked as a teaching assitant with Marion Rosen,
now in her 90’s and a pioneer in the somatic movement of exploring our
consciousness through gentle touch, breath, and our feelings. In 1994  I
was a Rosen teaching assistant at Omega Institute in New York.  I
became a certified Rosen pracitioner in 1996 and later an Introductory
workshop teacher. Practicing Rosen Method is part of my life’s purpose.
One client said after his first session, “I feel like a man who has been
given a tall glass of nourishing water, and I didn’t even know I was
thirsty.”

In 1997 after a two and a half year apprenticeship I became a Reiki
Teaching Master. Teaching Reiki challenges me on all levels and has
offered amazing moments of grace, healing, and spiritual awareness.
Reiki means “universal life force energy” and through the inititations or
attunements given by the teacher, others are opened up to receive and
send Reiki energy for healing.  Reiki is a gift of personal empowerment
through spiritual connection.  It is a great blessing to receive as well as
give.  I love teaching Reiki.

My hands have continued to lead me into other forms of bodywork,
including Woolger’s Deep Memory Process (certified in 1998). Currently
I am studying Healing Touch and have completed Level 4.   In 2006  I
received my Doctorate in Ministry  from Matthew Fox’  University of
Creation Spirituality in Oakland, Ca.  I wrote my dissertation about my
spiritual awakening through Reiki and kundalini experiences . Both art and
bodywork helped me to integrate and express this powerful
transformation.

I know that our bodies are our sacred vessels for life, for they are
pathways into deep connection with spirit and joy, as well as pain.
I know that bodywork has opened me to profound experiences I never
imagined. I know that giving or receiving bodywork also helps me to feel
more grounded and present in everyday life and work. Please join me in
exploring wholeness:  pain and joy, light and dark, spirit and matter,
heaven and earth.
Ann Ehringhaus L.M.B.T.
Reiki, Rosen Method Bodywork and Acupressure
NC Licence # 1033
Phone: 919-932-6262 Ext.10
Now accepting new clients
Session Fees:

  • 60 Minutes: $75
  • 90 Minutes: $85
Services:

  • Doctor of Ministry
  • M.Ed in Counseling
  • Reiki Teaching Master
  • Rosen Method Emotional
    Bodywork
  • Chinese Acupressure
  • Woolger Deep Memory
    Process
  • Reiki sessions and classes
To schedule an appointment with Ann:

Call
Becca at 919-932-6262 Ext.10

         or

e-mail @
wellness301@aol.com
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