Healing Approaches with Leigh Aschoff & Heart Peace Healing
Leigh Aschoff | Heart Peace Healing
Though I now primarily share Compassionate Inquiry in the weekly Honoring Sessions, below are other healing approaches that are inherently present in how I share and invite you to the relational healing experience in the sessions. Please enjoy this post as it is a general overview of the previous areas of study, training and certification I have experienced.
Compassionate Inquiry is a somatic, psychotherapeutic approach developed by Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world.
Using Compassionate Inquiry, both the individual and practitioner/therapist unveil the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that form the real message that words both express and conceal.
Through Compassionate Inquiry, the person/client can recognize the unconscious dynamics that run their lives and how to liberate themselves from them.
It is a revolutionary approach that draws upon the fields of interpersonal neurobiology, epigenetics, polyvagal and social engagement theory, internal family systems, the understanding and research of trauma, the body-stress connection, and somatic practices all held by a strong and crucial emphasis in presence, safety, and compassion.
“The purpose of Compassionate Inquiry is to drill down to the core stories people tell themselves – to get them to see what story they are telling themselves unconsciously; what those beliefs are, where they came from; and guide them to the possibility of letting go of those stories, or letting go of the hold those stories have on them …
That’s what Compassionate Inquiry is.”
~ Dr. Gabor Maté
Intention
To share the Compassionate Inquiry approach, developed by Dr. Gabor Maté, so that individuals can connect to the truth within themselves in the present moment, become free from self-generated suffering, and gain insight, clarity and choice in their behaviour.
Vision
To bring compassion, respect, acceptance, insight, healing, freedom and connection to humanity.
The descriptions on this page are from the Compassionate Inquiry website, used with permission.
Transpersonal Energy Healing is a system that tracks the movement of energy through your body, voice, language and beliefs as we discuss your life challenges.
This tracking allows us to make conscious, subconscious memories that live in the tissue of your body. As subconscious cellular healing awakens in your conscious mind and physiology, transformation begins to unfold.
Incorporating a series of body/mind questions called “The Art of Inquiry”, the body’s chakra energy centers (vortexes of vital energy that influence the health of the body’s major organs, the brain, the mind, and the emotions) are stimulated and unwinding begins, releasing buried layers of tension from the psyche and physiology.
Transpersonal Energy Healing can be a pathway to deep release, relaxation and increased awareness of the connection between body, mind, emotions, will and spirit.
How It Works
Chronic conditions often have roots in the subtle layers of the nervous system, also referred to as the chakra energy system.
These sessions involve us working together using subconscious cellular exploration. We track the energy to see where it lives in your physiology on mental, emotional and spiritual levels in your auric field. Together we will track where your aliveness is stuck, and discover how to bring movement and healing there.
Throughout the session, we explore your intention using “The Art of Inquiry”. This process invites a holistic body and mind awareness dialogue about how you are experiencing the energy of chronic physical, emotional, psychological or spiritual pain in your life. During that conversation, we will track where the issue lives in your body’s tissue and follow the energy to the source where it begins to then unwind and heal.
Intention
When we connect to the root cause, the body’s natural self-correcting healing mechanism is engaged. Often people feel a flood of sensation, similar to the experiences of “chi” energy in acupuncture. The feeling is typically described as an increased flow of life energy. Once the energy stabilizes, we can revisit the issue you are working on. Often, your perspective will shift by the end of the session and beyond, into your life.
Intuitive Energy Healing is an invitation to be present with your breath, energy body and intuition for deeper self-awareness and transformational insight.
How It Works
Intuitive Energy Healing is shared through guided self-connection in both one on one sessions and in groups. When we create time and space to intentionally connect with our energy bodies, we can deepen our connection to ourselves and to our intuition.
Each energy center (chakra) has symbolic invitations. When we connect with ourselves in a relaxed yet active listening state, we can deepen our awareness of areas that need attention and areas that may need balancing.
You will get a taste of Intuitive Healing in the grounding and centering portion of every Honoring session as well as in any of the group guided self-connections and workshops I offer throughout the year.
Intention
Intuitive Energy Healing has an inherent intention of awakening our awareness of a deeper level of our beings - our energy bodies. Through this process of deepening awareness, it is likely and very possible to strengthen a clear connection and receiving from our intuition. Being aware of, attuned with and capable of listening to our intuition provides an inner relational system of trust, faith and empowerment through presence.
Sacred Creativity is present and foundational through all the sessions I share with you.
The Nature of Creative Energy
Creativity and imagination were my first great loves in this lifetime. Creative energy is ever present within us and around us. We are connected with this energy and we are not separate from this energy.
As I share the healing approaches in the sessions, I invite intentional connection to creative energy which arises in the present moment and supports the healing process. I also invite full body listening to the flow of creative energy and I invite you to this as well, throughout the compassion, inquiries and presence shared in the healing exchange during the sessions.
Intention
My intention is to honor and listen to the energy of Sacred Creativity in the healing sessions and in my personal life. Time and again, creative energy has led me to expansion in my mind, heart and body. As I honor the sacred in creative energy, I welcome the unknown to present itself in whatever creative way it unfolds.