My Freedom Journey
What turned out to be my greatest weaknesses and struggles has turned out to be the biggest gifts in my life because these very things have allowed me to discover a path to real healing that has transformed my life and the life of so many of the people who I have worked with.
So I want to share with you my story and how I got to be where I am today. The first time I realized that something was way out of balance in my life was when I was driving cross country in a Uhaul truck with a friend from my youth. We had been hired by a company to sell pop culture posters to colleges and universities across America. It was on that trip, which I signed up for because it seemed like an exciting adventure, that the darkest part of myself that had been laying dormant inside of me for years, began to awaken from its slumber. |
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On that trip of driving from state to state, college to college, and hotel to hotel, I started to experience an immense emptiness that started to eat away at me inside. My fantasy adventure turned into a an existence that felt numb and empty and yet at the time I wasn't ready to face the truth of what was behind my feelings.
Soon into the trip, I started experiencing intense cravings after each meal that just got stronger and stronger by the day. My mind started filling constantly with thoughts about food. Suddenly one day I woke up with a pain in my foot that conveniently prevented me from walking and continuing my poster selling job. This was the beginning of my struggles with food and related chronic health issues that took me on a decade long journey of discovering what it really takes to truly heal on all levels.
Now let's fast forward through some months and years where my food issues seemed to be taking over my life more and more. My career as an alternative health care practitioner was taking off and I was running my own business teaching corporate yoga and meditation around the San Francisco Bay Area. I was in the thick of a cycle of going on detoxes and cleanses along with a strong cycle of over-exercising, binging, and purging that I couldn’t get a handle on.
I was meditating and doing yoga every day, learning with different spiritual teachers, and was helping and guiding others toward a healthier more centered life and yet my issues with food were worsening. I was unsuccessfully trying different ways to heal myself when I started getting scary asthma attacks and strong fatigue that made it difficult for me to get out of bed.
My life felt like it was falling apart around me. I grew more and more unhappy and my efforts to heal my food and health issues weren't working. My business was thriving and yet I started getting an overwhelming feeling that the only way to deal with my feeling of emptiness that still gnawed away at me was to leave the life that I had built and continue my search for happiness elsewhere.
That's when my life started to take some interesting twists. I moved to Israel where I rediscovered my spiritual roots, found my life partner who I married, my mother got sick and passed away from cancer, and I had a number of serious miscarriages. Through all of these challenges, I began to learn more about what was needed for real healing. My food issues, in a sense eased up, although I was still dealing with incessant thoughts about food and felt like I was on a never ending search for the right foods to restore my energy, lose weight, and stop a year long cycle of chronic colds and infections.
During the next several years as I began practicing Naturopathy and helping others heal, I intensely delved into the world of physical and emotional healing and saw that so much of what I had been trying up until that point was actually me running away from what had been hiding under my food and health issues all along.
Once my mind began to open to certain parts of myself that I previously wasn’t willing or able to see, my food issues began to truly heal because I understood how to get to the root of the problem for the first time. Despite the relief that began to come from all of the food obsessed behaviors that I'd lived with for over a decade, I still dealt with excess weight, chronic fatigue, chronic infections, and candida. I immersed myself in one healing system after another in order to restore my health. While all the knowledge I gained enabled me to better help my clients, I made little headway with my own health and couldn't understand why all my efforts weren't bringing me better health.
While I had some hard moments of feeling hopelessness and despair about finding a way through my health issues, I always came back to a feeling of persistence and conviction that I had to keep moving forward. I wasn’t willing to accept that my genetics deemed that I had to "just live" with poor health or that a person's health had to decline as she aged.
There is a saying that “when the student is ready, the teacher appears”. I’d already experienced this several times in my past and now I was about to experience this again in a very profound way.
After having learned most of the major healing systems out there and trained in a number of different healing modalities, it was clear to me that there was something missing that I had yet to uncover.
All of my efforts to heal along with my persistence opened my mind and heart to a point that made me ready to receive something that was about change my life and my reality forever. And so it was at this time of being ripe and ready to uncover what had been missing, that I was exposed to several healing systems that held the truth that I had been looking for.
What made both of these systems so revolutionary for me was seeing how the truth of their teachings empowered people to quickly cut through to the strong healing force within that heals both physical and emotional dis"ease".
Once I delved into these new teachings two major things happened to me. First an incredible process of physical, emotional, and spiritual healing was ignited within me that enabled me to touch that state of health that I knew all along was possible.
The second thing that happened was that the knowledge I had accumulated over the past decade came together and mingled with these new teachings in a way that birthed a new depth of understanding within me on how to achieve radiant health of body, mind, and soul.
This new understanding that was birthed within me has become the method that I've developed which I continue to use with my clients that empowers them to overcome their own food and health challenges, lose weight, and experience radiant health.
I live with gratitude for all of the challenges I've been given that have brought me to a place where I am completely free of my food issues and where I regularly experience vibrant physical and emotional health. In addition, I feel immense gratitude to all of the teachers I've had along the way who passed on to me this life changing wisdom which holds the power to restore the birthright of health and wholeness to each and every person.
Soon into the trip, I started experiencing intense cravings after each meal that just got stronger and stronger by the day. My mind started filling constantly with thoughts about food. Suddenly one day I woke up with a pain in my foot that conveniently prevented me from walking and continuing my poster selling job. This was the beginning of my struggles with food and related chronic health issues that took me on a decade long journey of discovering what it really takes to truly heal on all levels.
Now let's fast forward through some months and years where my food issues seemed to be taking over my life more and more. My career as an alternative health care practitioner was taking off and I was running my own business teaching corporate yoga and meditation around the San Francisco Bay Area. I was in the thick of a cycle of going on detoxes and cleanses along with a strong cycle of over-exercising, binging, and purging that I couldn’t get a handle on.
I was meditating and doing yoga every day, learning with different spiritual teachers, and was helping and guiding others toward a healthier more centered life and yet my issues with food were worsening. I was unsuccessfully trying different ways to heal myself when I started getting scary asthma attacks and strong fatigue that made it difficult for me to get out of bed.
My life felt like it was falling apart around me. I grew more and more unhappy and my efforts to heal my food and health issues weren't working. My business was thriving and yet I started getting an overwhelming feeling that the only way to deal with my feeling of emptiness that still gnawed away at me was to leave the life that I had built and continue my search for happiness elsewhere.
That's when my life started to take some interesting twists. I moved to Israel where I rediscovered my spiritual roots, found my life partner who I married, my mother got sick and passed away from cancer, and I had a number of serious miscarriages. Through all of these challenges, I began to learn more about what was needed for real healing. My food issues, in a sense eased up, although I was still dealing with incessant thoughts about food and felt like I was on a never ending search for the right foods to restore my energy, lose weight, and stop a year long cycle of chronic colds and infections.
During the next several years as I began practicing Naturopathy and helping others heal, I intensely delved into the world of physical and emotional healing and saw that so much of what I had been trying up until that point was actually me running away from what had been hiding under my food and health issues all along.
Once my mind began to open to certain parts of myself that I previously wasn’t willing or able to see, my food issues began to truly heal because I understood how to get to the root of the problem for the first time. Despite the relief that began to come from all of the food obsessed behaviors that I'd lived with for over a decade, I still dealt with excess weight, chronic fatigue, chronic infections, and candida. I immersed myself in one healing system after another in order to restore my health. While all the knowledge I gained enabled me to better help my clients, I made little headway with my own health and couldn't understand why all my efforts weren't bringing me better health.
While I had some hard moments of feeling hopelessness and despair about finding a way through my health issues, I always came back to a feeling of persistence and conviction that I had to keep moving forward. I wasn’t willing to accept that my genetics deemed that I had to "just live" with poor health or that a person's health had to decline as she aged.
There is a saying that “when the student is ready, the teacher appears”. I’d already experienced this several times in my past and now I was about to experience this again in a very profound way.
After having learned most of the major healing systems out there and trained in a number of different healing modalities, it was clear to me that there was something missing that I had yet to uncover.
All of my efforts to heal along with my persistence opened my mind and heart to a point that made me ready to receive something that was about change my life and my reality forever. And so it was at this time of being ripe and ready to uncover what had been missing, that I was exposed to several healing systems that held the truth that I had been looking for.
What made both of these systems so revolutionary for me was seeing how the truth of their teachings empowered people to quickly cut through to the strong healing force within that heals both physical and emotional dis"ease".
Once I delved into these new teachings two major things happened to me. First an incredible process of physical, emotional, and spiritual healing was ignited within me that enabled me to touch that state of health that I knew all along was possible.
The second thing that happened was that the knowledge I had accumulated over the past decade came together and mingled with these new teachings in a way that birthed a new depth of understanding within me on how to achieve radiant health of body, mind, and soul.
This new understanding that was birthed within me has become the method that I've developed which I continue to use with my clients that empowers them to overcome their own food and health challenges, lose weight, and experience radiant health.
I live with gratitude for all of the challenges I've been given that have brought me to a place where I am completely free of my food issues and where I regularly experience vibrant physical and emotional health. In addition, I feel immense gratitude to all of the teachers I've had along the way who passed on to me this life changing wisdom which holds the power to restore the birthright of health and wholeness to each and every person.
The path of healing at Inner Wellsprings
Shana has been helping clients heal their mind body health issues for the past two decades. Her approach is based on the premise that radiant health is each persons birthright. She is passionate about teaching her clients how to activate the self healing mechanisms of the body mind and soul and draws from wisdom from a variety of schools of thought including Nueroscience, Naturopathy, Health Kinesiology, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Regenerative Detoxification, and Iridolgoy.
She is primarily influenced by the teachings and healing systems of Joe Dispensa, Maxwell Maltz, Katheryn Hansen, Arnold Ehret, Paul Pitchford, and Robert Morse. Shana works with each individual to integrate various schools of thought and techniques in applying the most appropriate methods and protocols to each situation. Shana is passionate about revealing the mind body connection to heal food addiction and all other health issues. Her goal is to empower her clients with all the tools they need to self sustain radiant health of body mind and soul. |
After completing a bachelors degree in Psychology from New York University she studied aryuveda, yogic lifestyle, and various styles of meditation and hatha yoga at various institutions in California. She founded and directed Clear Path Yoga and Massage where she taught yoga and meditation classes to staff at corporations. She also worked with community groups such as school teachers, children, and people with multiple sclerosis. During this time Shana also began her involvement with mind body healing, macrobiotic foods, raw foods, fermented foods, and fasting for health. Shortly after this she went on to complete her studies in Naturopathy, Detoxification, and Nuero-Linguistic Programming from Reidman College and the International School of Detoxification and founded Inner Wellsprings Health. In addition to being a certified Naturopath and Wellness Coach she has received certifications in Nuero Linguistic Programming, Health Kinesiology, Yoga, Meditation, Chinese Medicine, Regenerative Detoxification, Theta Healing, Iridology, Nutritional Consulting, and Herbal Medicine. Shana specializes in treating food addiction, weight loss, chronic illness, and those interested in healing on all levels of physical emotional and spiritual. She currently sees clients in Jerusalem as well as via the internet.
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All physical mental and spiritual discomforts are pointing to something deeper that is out of balance and in need of healing.
Learning to listen and understand your physical mental and spiritual symptoms will connect you with your inner guidance and show you the way to heal.
This way of healing is accessible to all & yet only revealed to those who are truly open to seeing it and aligning with it.
Learning to listen and understand your physical mental and spiritual symptoms will connect you with your inner guidance and show you the way to heal.
This way of healing is accessible to all & yet only revealed to those who are truly open to seeing it and aligning with it.