Practitioners
Gillian
Constantly enquiring into lifeMy own journey towards healing started with Rolf Movement and Pilates and then significantly deepened with Biodynamic Craniosacral work and Core Process Psychotherapy. I was, and continue to be, very fortunate to have met some wonderful teachers and therapists who have gently guided me along my path with patience and openness. I feel like I have lived many lives, having been born and raised in Malaysia as a child and then lived in Singapore, the United States, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Spain, Canada, Indonesia and Portugal. Professionally, I began with filmmaking and then moved on to computer systems and networking, technical writing, and translation before beginning a whole new exploration and enquiry into what health, and ultimately, what life means to me.
Education & Trainings
MA in Buddhist Psychotherapy, 2006-2009
Karuna Institute (Middlesex University), England, UK
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST), 2004-2006
Polarity Therapy, 2004-2005
Colorado School of Energy Studies, Colorado, USA
Advanced Rolfing, 2009
Rolfing and Rolf Movement, 2003-2004
Rolf Institute, Colorado, USA
Pilates Instructor Certification, 2003-2005
The Pilates Center, Colorado, USA
MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures, 1991-1993
Columbia University, New York, USA
BFA in Film and Television Production, 1986-1989
New York University, New York, USA
Paula
In search of self-knowledge and healingUnderstanding why we get sick and how we heal — or why we don’t — has been my inquiry.
I’m in that transitional phase between my early and late thirties, and in the last years of my life I’ve discovered amazing things about the Body. Exploring my own Body, in the experiences of pain and well-being, through dance, meditation, yoga, body alignment therapy and other modalities, I came to understand the formation of the Body as an expression of everything we are and live. I discovered that the mind is not separate, but rather just a part of the Body. And I discovered that we can choose. Choose the same or choose something new, something different. And each choice (re)shapes our body.
Everything I do informs and shapes my journey of self-discovery; from my personal practices and studies, to my search for a solution to a long experience of depression, anxiety and chronic pain. They became the foundation of the making of a therapist, coalescing into what I can now offer as a service.
Service, according to the dictionary, is the action or the effect of serving, of giving something in the form of work.
Education & Trainings
Conscious Alignment Work, 2018
Lisboa, Portugal
EFT Practitioner Training, 2018
EFT Practitioner Training with Gwyneth Moss, London, UK
Myofascial Release Practitioner, 2018
Lisbon, Portugal
Advanced Doula Training, 2013
Basic Doula Training, 2013
Intro to Childbirth, 2013
DONA International, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bachelors in Social Sciences, 2005-2010
UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
