These therapeutic offerings help us shift our way of being in the world to help develop a sensitive and balanced relationship with ourselves and the living world around us. See Comments from clients below.
Zia's Vilcabamba office is at Finca Vida Verde, 5 minutes car ride from el Centro in San Jose de Vilcabamba.See Contact for directions. In Cuenca, you can arrange for a session at the House of Natural Wellbeing, Cornelio Merchan 7-94 & Padr Sodiro. 093 982 0306
HEALING RETREATS Allow yourself to slow down to the pace that allows you to hear the herbs and veggies grow in the gardens surrounding our cabana. Or, stay in one of Vilcabamba's upscale inns while we provide you with the cleansing diet of your choice. (Vegan, Raw, Vegetarian, Juicing, Healing Herb infusions)Turn a new leaf on life, so to speak, for an upgrade in your energy levels!
BODYWORK INTENSIVE RETREAT If desired, your customized cleansing retreat can be integrated with an holistic body therapy intensive of 3-5 sessions per week. Address ongoing or chronic pain issues, or just get the support you need to evolve to a new level of comfort, ease and grace!
Wholistic body therapies offered:
ASTON-PATTERNING
A comprehensive system-oriented approach to neuromuscular issues, addressing both acute and chronic pain stemming from over-use, accident or injury. This work is also great for post-surgery. The Aston® work is a combination of education and refined hands-on work that helps you understand why you hurt where you hurt and what you can do about it. Accidents, injuries, chronic issues and pain are best addressed with the full range of the Aston work, including Arthro / Myo/ Neuro / Fitness. The Aston® work helps you be in your best body.
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AGUA ALMA Aquatic Bodywork
Nature and elemental based aquatic body therapy.
Comments: "deeply safe and expansive", "divine. profound.", "a dip into the source of joy".
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ASTON FITNESS
Aston Fitness® teaches "the how" of exercise, and gives you the tools to be able to balance your movement and your structure as you exercise. This is a 3-phase fitness system, giving your body the opportunity to release tightness with "loosening", tune your alignment with stretching, and stabilize & strengthen with "toning".
In the Aston Fitness work, one becomes familiar with one's own tensional patterns and the 3-D dynamics, and inter-relationships that fuel them, such as positive use of gravity, alignment, ground-force, or lack thereof . Also, we can learn how to negotiate with the influence of thoughts, perceptions, and emotions, etc. that can influence our structure and function, and therefore our range of comfort or pain. I usually offer the Aston Fitness in a series of classes. The fitness work is commonly integrated with every private session, or could be the focus of an entire session or series.more >
MASSAGE THERAPY
In the Aston Massage, a specialized 3-D touch technique makes it possible to contact the exact layer that is needing release--from surface to the core of the bones. According to your needs, it ranges from pampering/ soothing/ yummy to intensely direct for tension release. With this touch technique, effective release is not painful. Trauma, head injury and anxiety are addressed with a specialty treatment with cranial sacral work.
These body work forms are enhanced with aroma therapy and flower essence therapy. Many are from herbs grown at Zia's farm in Vilcabamba
COMMENTS FROM CLIENTS:
Lizbeth 2018-09-08 Zia does the most profound ando exquisitely precise work on the body that I have experienced. She works with chronic issues and also with the psychophysical structuring of the body, meaning, the corrections open other aspects of one's physical carriage through their life and she is very articulate about that and the body feels, knows and remembers with her guidance. Please give yourself the chance to experience her work.
Lula 2018-05-11 I just received the informed and heart centered body work of Zia and I highly recommend her touch to my friends and family. She is humble and yet full of experience and knowledge, dedicated to giving empowering and relaxing sessions to people who want to feel better. Thank you Zia! And those who read this can thank me later. You will be pleased.
Talbott 2018-05-12 Zia is an amazing woman in so many regards and full of so much skill and enthusiasm I just learned last year that she also has tucked away in her skill belt an extensive knowledge of the body and how it works as well as how to touch it and help the owner of the body better adjust it and learn how to move it. I have now had two sessions since i\'ve learned of these skills of Zia and I am very, very impressed and pleased. I just recently had my second session and I am still buzzing. While she opened the session helping me improve posture and giving me tips on movement which I do appreciate, the actual session it self was very luxurious. She was so focused and full of intention, I could really tell she was 100% present with me and what she was doing, there was no chit chat once we were in the session pulling us away from what we were doing the only talk was checking in with me and my comfort. It was very clear she had an understanding of the body and what she was doing, and again channeled that knowledge with a very loving touch. I would highly recommend a session with Zia and I look forward to my next opportunity.
Susan Davis Moora 2018-05-13 I know Zia as a peer in raising consciousness and fighting for Earth-supporting causes, in addition to speaking to her students at Vida Verde. But I didn\'t realize she is an outstandingly-credentialed body worker of the most sensitive sort. She has let me experience several of the modalities she is deeply experienced in and each session ends in awe and wonder. I release myself fully into her care and then go somewhere significant, I know not where...but profound enough that I'm now her steady customer.
Rebecca A Tozer 2018-05-17 I received Zia's work soon after a surgery, when I still was reeling from the anesthesia and shock of the procedure. After the 1st session, I felt myself "returning to my body". She was sensitive to the minutest responses in me to her touch and adjustments. Her knowledge of the body is impressive. Zia's treatment really helped me release some emotions and begin to regain equilibrium so I could have my wits about me for the recovery phase. The 2nd session was another leap forward, and I never got around to further sessions, because I was already getting back into my life under my own power. I am so grateful to Zia for helping me at a time when I was down and out.
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I have got a very deep and detailed work from Zia with Aston-pattering therapy. Just in one session she managed to open my chest and showed how to change my walking habits. Thank you for your professionalism and really looking forward for next session!
Hi Elena, It was a treat to work with you. You are very receptive to positive change!
Yes! by just allowing you weight to ease forward in space a little more, it will help
your upper thorax to have more breathing space, more openess and that will mean your shoulders
will just naturally rest back. No need to “hold” anything, just feel into your optimal balance–
for you, it’s just a little more forward in space from your chest. Voila! open chest, shoulders
fall back. Ease and grace.
Hello,
My name is Brian and I am interested in learning about medicinal herbs (where to source them in the wild, how to grow them, and how to identify their healing modalities) and the different healing therapies you offer.
I plan on also being able to share these teaching which is why I’ve come back to Ecuador – my homeland – to learn from experienced people in the realm. Do you offer mentorships? If so, could you share the details on these?
Thank you!
Brian Mesias
Hi Brian,
I am sorry to be late in my reply. There is so much you can do to learn about the medicinal herbs.
Where are you at in Ecuador?
Are you interested in our volunteer program? Spending time here at our little farm is a good option for learning.
Volunteering means helping with planting, harvesting, dehydrating and of course learning the properties of the herbs we use in the
Yupaichani Herbal Collective. I’m going to also send this to your email. Zia