Although any healing journey will always be a solitary undertaking no one needs to walk that path alone. Dealing with uncomfortable feelings and emotions can make this journey both heart-breakingly difficult. Yet, profound discoveries about oneself, and experiencing true inner changes, can also make it breathtakingly beautiful.

From our own journeys, many of us have learned that emotional, spiritual, and psychological support is often essential to move ourselves toward futures in which we feel stronger senses of purpose and meaning. Now, with the introduction of our brand-new Community Forum, we are opening new opportunities for you to connect with people who, like you, are seeking meaningful interactions with other healing journey companions…

As bodywork therapists we believe it is our role to advice our clients on the positive changes they can make to their life. I believe we have always done this with the best of intentions, lots of sincere appreciation and care for each of them, and always with utmost respect to their unique circumstances and situations. That type of care is often expressed in the form of personalised homework – usually simple exercises that can help them alleviate reoccurring discomforts; even eliminate persistent postural dysfunctions.

The healing scope of bodywork encompasses of course more than informed manipulation of our physique. There is no form of bodywork that isn’t holistic in nature; that doesn’t touch all aspects of our beingness. What’s often overlooked is that this type of therapy uses the body to optimise all aspects of who and what we are. By merely changing someone’s posture we can greatly affect their emotions and, consequently, even their relationship with spirit. By reducing or even eliminating a constant pain we can significantly reduce stress, amplify someone’s happiness, and reintroduce a notion of mental, emotional and – of course – physical freedom.

Yet, while all of this is absolutely possible, the roads that lead to all such outcomes are often long, steep, and windy. While there is no doubt that bodywork can significantly support our healing and recovery journeys, more support is often needed to keep us going.

This is precisely why we are now introducing our Advaya Healing Bodywork Community Forum.

Healing journey differences – and similarities

Imagine having access to people who, like you, work with us to achieve very specific healing goals. These are, like you, extraordinary men and women who receive similar bodywork treatments as you, who are working with the same therapists, and are likely to experience challenges that are not unlike yours.

If anything, these are men and women who also picked up the courage to embark on self-healing journeys.
While none of these healing journeys will ever be completely the same, clients who walk them often seem to grapple with similar questions. They want to know how to deal best with the emotional shifts that bodywork can trigger. They want to understand how to look after themselves best post-treatments. What to do – and not to do – to avoid causes for their concerns to reemerge?

What else they can do, aside from receiving bodywork, to accelerate their healing?
While it’s a given that our healing journeys are intrinsically personal, the trajectories we choose to take may not be all that different. If so, and if our self-care questions are indeed so similar, what are the chances that others have already found answers to the healing questions we are still looking for?

Community Forum – sharing our collective healing wisdom.

As clients become more experienced with bodywork therapy, treatments can become more advanced and sophisticated over time. As they learn to deal with more intense and diverse psycho-somatic and energetic effects they effectively become increasingly resilient to life’s broad range of challenges. Such evolutions are highly dependent on one’s abilities to develop, maintain, and further personalise daily self-care routines to preserve the desired effects of bodywork and, simultaneously, to gradually dismantle thoughts and behaviours that prove to be outdated, unnecessary, or even detrimental to the person themself. To do so constructively, one must find the courage to answer the often tough and uncomfortable questions that must be cleared before psycho-somatic reconstruction can commence meaningfully

It’s precisely here where an informed, empathetic, and supportive community can become immensely valuable. Now, with the launch of our very own online community forum, you can tap the collective wisdom and experience of our clients to find answers to questions that are most consequential to your own healing practices and processes.

AHB Community Forum: we’ve reserved a free VIP seat for you…

Anyone can visit our community forum’s home page here. However, only those who ever booked a treatment with us through our online booking portal can see all content, included the forums and threads that cannot be seen by visitors. To make that hidden content visible you will need to log into your personal account first. Do this by following the steps you take when you book a treatment. If you have forgotten how to access your account, that’s no problem. Read this page to retrieve your details now.

By logging into your account you instantly unleash all the functions and functionalities our forum has to offer. You will gain access to all conversations and discussions, and can start your own threads instantly in any of the forums that were already established.

You will also notice that some content was already posted. Most of these topics were published by AHB clients who volunteered as testers. Because we believe that some of this content is too good to delete – which was our original intention – we decided to keep it as early conversation starters. We absolutely welcome your responses to those posts.

Posting anything, anonymously?

We welcome you to post anything that comes to mind provided of course that your content must relate to the intentions and purposes of our site and the community. However, if the content you wish to share is very personal you may want to alias your account before posting it. By aliasing your account you obscure your true name with an alternative, which you can adopt as you see fit. We published this page to help you do so. We strongly recommend you do this first.

When can you start?

Right now! Our community forum is waiting for your contributions. Other members who already posted their questions may already be waiting for your responses.

If you are an existing AHB client, this forum will now be yours. It’s here to stay, and it’s here to help all of stay hopeful, inspired, and informed about trials and tribulations that are so intrinsic to healing.

Don’t hold back.