I went to see an IA Teacher, at the suggestion of a counselor - who said, I think now it is time for you to work with your body. I think you will find the most healing by doing that and that you should try out this work called Integrated Awareness. That’s about all I remember. I was searching for answers to some things that I couldn’t quite formulate the questions for. I had interest in energy work, but needed a sense of tangibility. I was struggling with life and my place in it, and how to find a sense of balance that I longed for, seemed to know...
Personal Experiences
I’ve been learning and expanding with the aid of Integrated Awareness for fifteen years. As a teenager I talked circles around talk therapists, uninterested in a conventional approach to anything, much less to depression, anxiety, and my myriad strategies of resistance to living.
My first experience with IA felt insistently true and instantly trustworthy. I don’t remember what I went in to accomplish, and I don’t remember what my teacher looked like, even though I’ve worked with her every year since. I do remember a new found...
-Max - Brooklyn, NY
My experience at Integrated Awareness was absolutely incredible and life changing. I had a lot of discomfort in my body coming in there, and the work done with Lansing and Jane helped reduce a lot of my physical and emotional discomforts and opened up opportunities to live in a whole new way.
Now when something in my life happens, I can immediately feel where I hold certain muscle groups and tense up. This newfound awareness has enabled me to release that tension and come back to who I really am, releasing the anxiety and allowing my body to be at ease.
I also...
-Chloe - Northern California
Twenty years ago I came to Integrated Awareness® needing healing after a serious car accident. My life passion and work require me to travel the world, but I could not fly because my left ear could not pressurize. The first time someone had their hands on me in IA I felt a deep awareness of all the energy in my body. Within thirty seconds I knew I needed to know more.
I started looking for Lansing Gresham, the founder of Integrated Awareness, who was the teacher of the person helping me. When I learned his base was near my hometown, I felt...
-Maggie - San Francisco Bay
I watched two dear friends change in their self-regard and self-knowing through their work in Integrated Awareness. I was powerfully affected watching their transformations. When I hit a wall, in terms of life choices and patterns, I turned to IA. I now watch my own transformation and feel forever grateful. The journey has not been easy; it has been remarkable. When I find myself lost in old habits, disconnected from myself, or in a state of forgetfulness, I have a table session. I come home to myself.
Practicing Five Element Acupuncturist since 1979...
-Vicki - Blue Hill, ME
Desde que Andrew trabaja conmigo son muchos los cambios que he notado y ha sido una gran sorpresa para mí, es más de lo que yo me esperaba y los cambios se sienten rápidamente.
Por una parte, me siento con más energía, ya que últimamente estaba siempre muy cansada y este cambio hace que tenga más ganas de hacer cosas y que me sienta más positiva.
En general estaba bastante triste y sin ganas de salir o de ver gente y esto ha cambiado. También estoy más serena y no tengo los cambios de humor y de ánimo que tenía anteriormente. Estar más positiva me...
-Fany - Spain
I went for IA® help with 2 separate problems. I had very painful sciatica on one occasion and a painful elbow and shoulder on another. During the sessions I noticed a lot of different sensations. There was a feeling of balancing happening in my legs and a sense of lengthening in my neck. It was gentle and non-invasive. My IA Teacher, Andrew McKay, knew just how to hold my head and how to support my neck.
The physical problems were greatly relieved...
-Ron - Spain
I’ve been having Integrated Awareness sessions since Oct 1999. Sessions with Lansing et al have changed my life over the years, and I’m not being melodramatic.
Issues I have presented were along the theme of emotional development:
- what gets in the way of me finding a monogamous life partner?
- how can I be more open emotionally?
- how can I allow myself to take up more space?
-how can I manifest more of what I want in my life?, be less hard on myself, get out of my own way, feel more, protect myself less, be more comfortable alone with...
-Claudia Six, Phd - San Anselmo, CA
Integrated Awareness me ha dado mucha confianza en mi misma. IA esta ensenandome una nueva forma de vivir. Y he aprendido que el dolor físico a causa de nuestras emociones se puede soportar. Yo no sabía como manejarlo. Gracias…
Integrated Awareness has given me a lot of confidence in myself. IA is showing me a new way of life. And I’ve learned that it is possible to handle the physical pain caused by emotions. I didn’t know how to cope with them. Thank you…
-Begona - Murcia, Spain
IA has changed/is changing my life. I am a better father, and a better partner due to my experience with IA. Friends have commented, and I also feel, that I am more present and get less spun up by day to day life.
-Josh - Los Gatos, CA