Integrated Awareness®
Integrated Awareness® (IA),
founded by Lansing Barrett Gresham, is a process of self-healing
through self-discovery. It employs various methods of conscious touch,
movement, and expanded perceptual skills to facilitate physical,
mental, emotional, and spiritual transformation. Teachers work with a
fully clothed client on a massage table for an hour to an hour and a
half. Some group classes are also taught.
IA recognizes how the
physical sites and structure of our body yield reliable information
about these levels of consciousness that affect our reality. Physical
and social behavior patterns, old judgments, rules, and strategies
which were created when we were young to protect us may no longer serve
our present well-being and may be explored and updated. Bottom-line
information on "how and why" is revealed, which enhances our capability
for new choices and healthy change.
IA encourages our
intrinsic but usually inhibited capacity to exist in a state of
conscious awareness where all aspects of ourselves are in alignment and
support of each other. It is possible to feel at home in our body and
in the world.