Jeffrey Rich, LMT 656
Massage Therapist, Shamanic Practitioner
Shamanic Instructor

Healing is my second career, my love
Seeking relief from the many aches and pains brought on by my 20-year corporate software development career I found Therapeutic Massage and shamanic healing, both of which have worked together to bring joy back into my life, and which have helped me to find my unique inner Light that I bring into the world. That's why I became a bodyworker and a shamanic practitioner 18+ years ago. Now, I've also found Systemic and Family Constellations, which I happily add to the mix.

What I do and how I work
You are unique in all the world; you have a Light within in you that no other human being has.

I treat you, the individual, as you are in the present moment, working on many levels to help you discover and uncover your own unique Light, the essence that is unique to you. If you are not able to share it, the World doesn't have it; your Light is yours and yours alone. No one else possesses it.

My healing work is advanced, skilled and layered, transformational and multimodality. I don't use healing 'recipes', but apply my considerable Orthopedic Massage, Reiki, and Shamanic Healing knowledge to help shift what blocks you, physically and spiritually. My practice is located in the Hands-On Healing clinic in north Asheville, NC.

Dreaming The World Into Being

Dreaming the world into being is the shaman's task. Here is a wonderful example of how one woman did just that.

Pachas

I dreamed a dream the other morning as I was swimming up into wakefulness: in my dream, I am walking alongside many others through beautiful fields.

One by one, each person disappears. I understand that they are disappearing into a tessaract, a parallel world, a place larger on the inside than it is on the outside. I follow, and I see that there can also be tessaracts within tessaracts, places larger and more rich than whichever one I'm in presently.

When I wake, I realize that this dream is about pachas, pacha meaning 'place-time' in the Quechua language, and a very important concept in the Andean Cosmology. Using methods of quietness akin to, but not exactly like, meditation, we can open ourselves to a new place-time within our present reality, a richer and more nuanced parallel place-time.

It is in these pachas, these places-times that we have our strongest connections to the Pachamama and to the Spirits.

Conversely, addiction to technology, smart phones, blogs :-) and television take us farther and farther away from these magical place-times.

”Shining