Welcome and thank you for visiting Way Of The Phoenix!

I have devoted my life to facilitating the transformation process holistically so that we may experience more peace and health in these rapidly changing times.   Your sessions may include energetic and physical assessments in order to create an individually tailored treatment plan.  You and I will determine which combination of Oriental Medicine, bodywork, energy work or spiritual counseling is appropriate for you personally in order to create powerful changes in your life.  

We will explore life patterns that are too limited for you now. These could be physical, behavioral, emotional or even spiritual patterns that no longer serve you. After this process occurs, you will learn tools to dis-identify with that which you previously held onto as part of your reality and watch a new person emerge. We will work on gaining a deeper connection with your own source energy and obtain new reference points in an entirely different paradigm of being. I invite you to explore this site to find out more information on healing through the way of the Phoenix.

The Phoenix from the ashes...

The Phoenix, a mythical firebird with scarlet and golden plumage and a melodious cry is said to live up to 1461 years. At the end of its life-cycle the Phoenix builds itself a pyre nest made from the aromatic twigs of cinnamon and spices of Myrrh, which it then ignites. Both the nest and Phoenix are consumed by the fierce flames and reduced to ashes. The Phoenix then arises from the ashes (by some accounts from amidst the flames) reborn and transmuted by the fire. The new Phoenix embalms the ashes of it’s former self into an egg of myrrh and takes it to the Heliopolis (city of the sun) and leaves it's ashes as an offering to it's creator.

The ancient Egyptians linked the myth of the Phoenix with the longings for immortality. The classical Arabian Phoenix represented the cycle of death and rebirth and the Feng Huang, or the Chinese Phoenix is the symbol of high virtue, grace, power, prosperity, and the union of yin and yang (the merging of  duality into unity).

The healing metaphor:

The growth and healing process is much like the eternal journey of the Phoenix. At very important junctures there is a necessary breakdown and demise of something that we previously identified as self and reality, whether it be an old identity/persona, physical state or emotional way of being. With evolution and change, some part of us must die/transmute in order for a rebirth to occur. During this often challenging process it is common for individuals to experience physical dis-ease and/or emotional, mental and spiritual distress. Instead of looking at this transmutation process as something being wrong with us, it is important to see it as an opportunity for something old to shed and for something new within us to assert itself. Just as the Phoenix sets itself on fire in order to be reborn in a new form, there is an opportunity for us to look deeply at the ways in which we live that no longer serve us.  When we become aware of these life patterns and offer those up for transmutation, we may experience growth with greater peace and grace.

Kasha Ra L.Ac., C.M.T.
Licensed Acupuncturist
Certified Massage Therapist
Spiritual and Holistic Wellness