Lorilee Rainey Christel of Christel Clear
SF Bay Area Healer Lorilee Christel
In 1980, at age 27, a catastrophic injury changed the course of my life. I went from owning my own business and being vital and healthy, to sustaining a serious back injury that carved 5 years out of my life. The injury led to 4 related surgeries in less than 5 years, with a great deal of time spent being bed-ridden. It ultimately cost me my business and eventually my marriage of 14 years.
Now this may sound like the beginning of a tragedy, but in fact, it was the beginning of a miracle. The journey to heal my back turned into a life long commitment to not only my personal growth but to facilitating the healing and personal growth of others.
After the hospital rehabilitation from my last surgery, I was released into the care of a physical therapist in Sonoma County who had the wisdom to include, in his practice, alternative healing modalities. After a month of working with him, he started me working with a man who did a combination of Feldenkrais and Upledger-based Craniosacral Therapy. Two months later, after years of pain and disability, I was well enough to begin working for this man. I set up a practice for him and he started me on the road to learning the skills that I have been using ever since.
My journey opened a hunger for knowledge in me, that I have pursued ever since. I continue to add to my skills every year, either through life experience or further training's.
What started as a journey to heal the body quickly became a journey to heal the body, mind and spirit. I learned early on that you can’t heal one without healing all. I studied countless touch-related therapies. I studied meditation, and I delved deeply into the realms of the unconscious mind. I took what I learned and taught my clients to use these altered states to work on themselves. All of this became the practice I now call ‘Integrative Bodywork’. Still hungering for more, I became a “Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist”. This gave me even more and better skills for guiding people on their own healing journey. I continued to love the work that I did and the people that I worked with, and yet still felt there must be more.
One day, as I was listening to Esther Hicks channeling “Abraham”, it hit me. The missing piece was about self empowerment!
The thing that I was trying to do with my clients was to empower them to heal themselves. The problem was, in all the methods I used, they felt I was healing them. It didn’t matter what I thought, it mattered what they thought. I wanted to find a way to put the power into the hands of each and every individual I came across. I continued to study the teaching of Abraham, and anything else on metaphysics and self empowerment that I could. I also studied with “The Coaches Training Institute”, known among coaching professionals as the ‘Harvard’ of coaching schools, and became a “Certified Professional Co-Active Coach”. I also completed the curriculum at Center for Right Relationship to become a "Organization and Relationship System Certified Coach". Including this base of knowledge and experience in my practice has brought me to where I am today. I bring all that I know, all that I have experienced, and all that I am to each session or class that I am a part of.
I am committed to facilitating, for myself and every human being that I interact with, a life of full and complete self empowerment and self responsibility. From this, it is my belief, comes happiness, fulfillment and self expression.
Contact me for more information or to set up an appointment.
Now this may sound like the beginning of a tragedy, but in fact, it was the beginning of a miracle. The journey to heal my back turned into a life long commitment to not only my personal growth but to facilitating the healing and personal growth of others.
After the hospital rehabilitation from my last surgery, I was released into the care of a physical therapist in Sonoma County who had the wisdom to include, in his practice, alternative healing modalities. After a month of working with him, he started me working with a man who did a combination of Feldenkrais and Upledger-based Craniosacral Therapy. Two months later, after years of pain and disability, I was well enough to begin working for this man. I set up a practice for him and he started me on the road to learning the skills that I have been using ever since.
My journey opened a hunger for knowledge in me, that I have pursued ever since. I continue to add to my skills every year, either through life experience or further training's.
What started as a journey to heal the body quickly became a journey to heal the body, mind and spirit. I learned early on that you can’t heal one without healing all. I studied countless touch-related therapies. I studied meditation, and I delved deeply into the realms of the unconscious mind. I took what I learned and taught my clients to use these altered states to work on themselves. All of this became the practice I now call ‘Integrative Bodywork’. Still hungering for more, I became a “Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist”. This gave me even more and better skills for guiding people on their own healing journey. I continued to love the work that I did and the people that I worked with, and yet still felt there must be more.
One day, as I was listening to Esther Hicks channeling “Abraham”, it hit me. The missing piece was about self empowerment!
The thing that I was trying to do with my clients was to empower them to heal themselves. The problem was, in all the methods I used, they felt I was healing them. It didn’t matter what I thought, it mattered what they thought. I wanted to find a way to put the power into the hands of each and every individual I came across. I continued to study the teaching of Abraham, and anything else on metaphysics and self empowerment that I could. I also studied with “The Coaches Training Institute”, known among coaching professionals as the ‘Harvard’ of coaching schools, and became a “Certified Professional Co-Active Coach”. I also completed the curriculum at Center for Right Relationship to become a "Organization and Relationship System Certified Coach". Including this base of knowledge and experience in my practice has brought me to where I am today. I bring all that I know, all that I have experienced, and all that I am to each session or class that I am a part of.
I am committed to facilitating, for myself and every human being that I interact with, a life of full and complete self empowerment and self responsibility. From this, it is my belief, comes happiness, fulfillment and self expression.
Contact me for more information or to set up an appointment.