Ken offers a cutting-edge approach to healing that is distinctly different than psychological counseling, yet completely complementary. It’s experiential rather than intellectual, using present-moment awareness of the body as the primary gateway to deeper self-discovery. It’s an unbelievably gentle process, yet powerful by way of its depth of care. He offers both Transformational Bodywork and Massage Therapy.
Transformational Bodywork: Experiential, Body-Centered Healing
This is a unique and powerful dialogue process that works with people at the interface of body, mind, and emotion, providing a vehicle for healing:
• Emotional issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and low self-esteem
• Somato-emotional issues such as chronic tension, migraines, fibromyalgia, and gastrointestinal disorders
• Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
• Behaviors and habitual responses that sabotage relationships and personal fulfillment
Massage Therapy
Ken also offers several massage and bodywork modalities, including relaxation massage, deep tissue massage, CranioSacral Therapy, and Myofascial Release, to release physical and sometimes emotional restrictions, promote deep relaxation, and enhance the health and well-being of the body and mind.
Training
Ken received massage therapy training and certification from the Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts in 2000. He’s received extensive additional training in somatic /experiential healing, including Hakomi Therapy, NonViolent Communication, Focusing, Vipassana meditation, Cornerstone crisis listening skills, CranioSacral Therapy, and Myofascial Release.
Transformational Bodywork is effective for:
- Discovering and cultivating joy and fulfillment
- Opening your heart
- Living more mindfully in the present moment
- Healing the ravages of stress, anxiety, worry, and despair
- Healing the emotional roots of chronic pain
- Shifting out of depression
- Dealing with grief in a healing and compassionate way
- Transforming anger
- Increasing self-esteem
- Healing the deep wounds of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
- Repatterning self-defeating behaviors
Massage Therapy is effective for:
- Reducing physical pain and tension
- Experiencing greater freedom of movement
- Improving circulation, digestion, elimination, and immune response
- Promoting the repair and healing of soft-tissue injuries
- Increasing joy, pleasure and well-being
- Living more mindfully in the present moment
- Deeply calming the mind and nervous system
Affiliations
Recent Articles by Ken Porter
- Everything Is A Prayer - Sermon by Ken Porter - Fountain Street Church - August 9th, 2009
