I went to see an IA Teacher, at the suggestion of a counselor - who said, I think now it is time for you to work with your body. I think you will find the most healing by doing that and that you should try out this work called Integrated Awareness. That’s about all I remember. I was searching for answers to some things that I couldn’t quite formulate the questions for. I had interest in energy work, but needed a sense of tangibility. I was struggling with life and my place in it, and how to find a sense of balance that I longed for, seemed to know...
Personal Experiences
I first came to Integrated Awareness seeking continued work on my sobriety following six months with Alcoholics Anonymous. I was looking for something more… and I stayed for 25 years of table sessions and classroom study with Lansing Gresham.
Integrated Awareness has been for me a process of learning to integrate the different levels of my life (my physical body, my emotional body, my energetic body, my spiritual body, and my soul) into present-time awareness. I was amazed to learn it is possible to know how all of me feels, here and now.
The...
-Randy - Alameda, CA
During a 2-month stay at Esalen in 2010, I had a couple of sessions with a man named Jules, who seemed to know more about my journey than I did. My curiosity aroused, I asked him about his training: he mentioned a name - Lansing Barrett Gresham - that I googled when I returned home.
A few months later as I was in my first IA class, Lansing came to me at the break to ask how I was doing. I replied, “I know all of the words you’re using, but it’s as if you’re speaking a completely foreign language.” He smiled and said “you’...
-Eric - Alameda, CA