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
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
Integrated Awareness has been for me a very personal journey from chaos to calm, from separation to belonging, a vehicle of self-inquiry and discovery, a touchstone for sanity and safety. Guided through a process of experiential learning, IA works from the inside out. I was asked to show up for the process, state what I wanted and to remain open for what is possible.
With a professional background in mental health and having spent years studying and exploring many modalities in the healing arts and sciences, IA offers...
-Susan - Alaska
I was introduced to Integrated Awareness by my mother-in-law, who I was getting to know at the time. I had lost my own mother to sickness, gotten married, and had given birth to my first child within the same year. I had no idea what my experience was going to be other than the hearsay of how wonderful Integrated Awareness is at helping people with all aspects of their life and body.
Before I started IA, I identified myself as lost and alone. I had been very depressed most of my life. After a few sessions with Lansing, I noticed that my motorcycle...
-Katherine - Oceanside, CA
I first came to Integrated Awareness seeking continued work on my sobriety following six months with Alcoholics Anonymous. I was looking for something more… and I stayed for 25 years of table sessions and classroom study with Lansing Gresham.
Integrated Awareness has been for me a process of learning to integrate the different levels of my life (my physical body, my emotional body, my energetic body, my spiritual body, and my soul) into present-time awareness. I was amazed to learn it is possible to know how all of me feels, here and now.
The...
-Randy - Alameda, CA
In 2006, I was faced with a particularly aggressive, life-threatening illness. Should anyone ask me today I would and could recommend excellent surgeons, oncologists and radiologists, all of whom I credit for saving my life at that time.
It is, however, my IA teacher, Kathy Bledsoe, to whom I attribute my healing, recovery, and ability to thrive and live a life I continue to grow and to love. Initially, I chose IA to help me find a way to sleep. I had all kinds of...
-Yvonne - Tampa Bay, FL
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
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’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
To start with, I do not understand Integrated Awareness. My daughter has studied it for twenty years. So after I had suffered distressing breathing problems for a year (beyond my usual COPD) I finally accepted her gentle suggestion that I see Lansing for a session. My daughter had worked on me various times so I knew it was “hands on” work.
Specialist pulmonary doctors did not know what was causing this strange problem and I had little confidence that hands-on could help damaged lungs. I believed and understood how perhaps this work might help...
-Olive - Santa Rosa, California