My Philosophy

Colon hydrotherapy is a very intimate healing session. It’s not just that a speculum is inserted into the rectum that makes this type of therapy intimate. It is also because we help the client access the deeper parts of himself/herself to let go of that which no longer serves them.

I consider colon hydrotherapy to be very sacred work. I feel it is an honor that clients trust me in working with their bodies, and also that those desiring the metaphysical colonic work trust me with the emotional issues they may be working through.

I feel that a simple approach is the best. I’m not big into supplementation personally and would rather work with clients on healing from an energetic/ emotional/mental perspective. Having said that, I do appreciate the benefits of supplements and fully support a person’s need and desire for them. My point in sharing my philosophy with regard to supplements is to help potential clients understand that I primarily promote physical healing from their spiritual, emotional, and mental core issues.

In creating Iyasu, as the owner, my intention is to lead with health. I feel it is important as a holistic practitioner that I walk my talk and really exemplify health. I want to be the type of therapist that a client will look at and trust that I can help them, based on my own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. My vision is to create a space where clients can explore the sensitive parts of themselves in a safe, healthy, and healing environment. In addition, it is my intention to create a safe and loving work environment for all employees, so that the client feels supported and encouraged from everyone they interact with at Iyasu.

In sharing my personal philosophy, I hope this will encourage you to book a session at Iyasu and experience a unique perspective in healing.

Thank you

Stephanie

Metaphysical Colon Hydrotherapy

I consider myself to be a Metaphysical Colon Hydrotherapist, a style of healing called Iyasu that I have created. What this means is that I offer my clients the opportunity to work on their emotional body while receiving a colonic. As a colon hydrotherapist interested in working within and healing my own emotional body, I naturally started working with clients and offering emotional healing during their colonics. I didn’t intend to create this work, but because of my fascination with the emotional body, it just evolved into what it is today.

I have found that profound things happen for people when they emote on the table and talk about deep and personal experiences while physically letting go. I believe we hold emotions in our cells, and by bringing these emotions to our present conscious mind, we can literally let them go while we are releasing our waste material. Just as we no longer need the physical waste, we no longer need the emotional pain that most likely is serving to hold us back and keep us stuck in a belief system that is not the truth and prevents us from reaching our true potential. When a client is receiving a colonic and at the same time sharing with me a stressful or painful experience in their life, their body releases. I encourage the client to observe how their body is letting go as they share emotionally. When the client makes this connection, it can be very powerful. I do believe that the most meaningful realizations are those that we come to by ourselves.

People release in stages or layers during a series of physical colonics and/or in the process of a cleanse. When we allow water to fill the colon, we might assume the colon releases its waste and water all at once. It doesn’t necessarily happen that way. During a session, a client may release some and then a few minutes pass and they release more. Think of a metaphysical colonic as an emotional colonic where releasing occurs in a similar way. It can take several sessions to release an emotional block, or shift a mental perspective that a client has had for several years, depending on how deeply they want to or are ready to access and heal that part of them.

In addition, I am an intuitive body worker. This means that as I massage a client and work on their body I am receiving information about that person. Sometimes I hear clear messages from them (without them saying a word). At times, I get a word or a feeling about what is going on with them. Their body may be communicating something about what they are going through in their present life or it may be something from their past. As I am working, I will use different massage techniques to verify what I am picking up on.

At times I share with clients my experiences and observations in order to assist them in delving into themselves, to let go of whatever might be holding them back from experiencing the happy and joyful life that is the birthright of all. In doing so, may each person share their truth with the people in their lives. Although our individual internal work itself is ours alone, the healing benefits everyone.

Stephanie

FLOW For Health

For us to experience optimum health, we must maintain a flow – specifically a flow in the energy of the body. Let me break this perspective down to clearly explain what I mean:

Physical

When the flow in the physical body is compromised, we can experience physical dysfunction, such as constipation. The waste material is literally not flowing and prevents it from releasing out of our body.

Mental

There are times when we are experiencing a disturbance in our mental flow due to limiting belief systems, for example. This can prevent a flow of creativity and new ideas from entering our consciousness. Additionally, certain belief systems (mostly unconscious) can keep us ill.

Emotional

Some people have experienced trauma in their history, and this can hinder healthy emotional flow within us. For instance, certain people have grown up in homes where there was fear, and consequently did not feel safe as a child. This can compromise their ability as an adult who interacts with other humans, because they may have learned to keep their emotions suppressed as a way to cope within their family of origin. This suppression of emotions blocks the flow of emotional healing, as we become stuck as a result. Unless this person allows himself/herself to heal the emotions that were suppressed, he/she might continue to behave in a way that does not allow for a complete emotional healing.

Spiritual

Using the above example, people who experienced trauma at a young age may have concluded that they are alone in the world. As a result of the physical/mental/emotional trauma, if they once believed in a higher source, they may have decided that this source abandoned them, further validating the isolation. When this happens, we as humans may choose to control ourselves, others around us, and our environment. Doing so, although understandable, can impede the flow of spiritual energy available to help us heal.

As outlined above, our flow can become obstructed, which (I believe) results in physical, emotional, spiritual, and/or mental illness. A break in the flow can occur on any of these levels and one can affect the others. The concept of this break in flow is important, as it can help us to achieve health when seen from this perspective. Let’s look at some examples of the flow being blocked:

I know that the above examples are quite simplified. I use these for the purpose of giving a general idea of how impeding the flow of energy can affect the totality of us as human beings. When working with a client, it is never cut and dried, as each of us is unique and we all have specific experiences in our histories. I never work with any sort of cookie cutter template that my clients must fit into. I don’t go into a session with any preconceived ideas or notions. I use whatever shows up as a guide to what the client may or may not need. Each client and each session can vary greatly and I have the utmost respect for and will honor each individual’s process and belief systems.

BALANCE For Health

Introduction

I would like to share some thoughts about balance. I am honored to have the trust of my clients, who share with me different aspects of their lives: their joys, their challenges (both physical and emotional), and everyday happenings. One thing I notice that most of us struggle with is finding balance. Some of us work crazy, busy hours and are trying to figure out how to have enough time to exercise and play. Others of us have families and we try to balance taking care of the family and finding the time to take care of ourselves as well.

When we get out of balance, our bodies tend to speak to us by going to physical dysfunction as a loving way to get our attention and get us back into balance. Let’s look at a few ways that our bodies reflect an imbalance in our lives or within ourselves (these aren’t hard and fast meanings that will apply to every person; they are general ideas of what might be going on within us).

Below is a brief introduction of each (click on the specific perspective for a deeper understanding):

• BALANCE – Physical Perspective : The physical perspective is always reaching for balance through homeostasis. Problems occur when that balance is thrown off and our flow is disrupted. We achieve physical balance through proper diet, hydration, adequate sleep, stress management, and joy.
• BALANCE – Mental Perspective : When referring to the mental perspective, I am referring to our minds and how we think. It includes the ego, that part of us that feels separate and alone. The mind can either be our greatest hope or our biggest downfall. I say this because it is so easy to allow our minds to mislead us, and if not watched, can possibly take us into some pretty negative places. I believe that we are responsible for our thinking, not our thoughts. I ask myself daily, “Right now, is my thinking helpful, or hurtful?”
• BALANCE – Emotional Perspective : The emotional perspective is intrinsically linked to the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of us. I believe that when we don’t deal with our emotional body, it directly affects our physical body. The great news is we can heal our physical body by listening to the dysfunction or illness that it is presenting. We can take that information and resolve emotional issues that we may have repressed as a way to avoid feeling hurt. By doing so, we honor the wisdom of our body and the physical body responds with health.
• BALANCE – Spiritual Perspective : The spiritual perspective is quite complex and I will try to keep things as simple as possible when referring to this aspect of the human experience. In my experience working with clients, I notice that the ones who suffer the most tend to be the most disconnected from their spiritual self. What does this mean exactly? Basically, if we feel that we are on our own and try to deal with life leading mostly with our self-will, we end up leading with control. This can show up either as controlling others, being controlled within ourself, or both. When we are leading with control (and ultimately, fear) instead of trust and surrender, we may end up with physical bodies that have lymphatic and colon congestion. With metaphysical colonics, we can address the areas in our life that we control and see how it directly affects our colon and constipation. In other words, spiritual constipation leads to emotional constipation, which leads to physical constipation.