Rooted Awareness

When Ariel told me she was going to give this class, I was all in! I had wanted to take a course and learn some small fraction of what she knows. Ariel has managed to bring together three immense, coherent, and effective healing modalities into one course, into one person! Chinese medicine, herbalism, and shamanism. It’s hard to imagine more knowledge and wisdom from as many sources as Ariel has acquired. Ariel is truly a student of the greatest wisdom traditions of the world—and a master as well. Ariel is generous in sharing what she knows—with her thorough and poetic delivery—she made this 12-week course as full and as rigorous as any course I’ve ever taken (and I have a doctoral degree). This is not for the average spiritual seeker. This is for the serious. The humblest. The ones who are really ready to do their own work first, then to assist with the healing of the world. If you have the opportunity to work with Ariel, either as a client or as a teacher, take it! She has been a great blessing to my life and to my work as well.

Rooted Awareness is a comprehensive and rich curriculum. I recommend it for anyone looking to broaden a foundation in self-development and self-awareness, and for anyone who wants to learn how to deepen their own medicine practice. Ariel is a wealth of knowledge and always available and helpful. I really appreciated this course.

This was a very interesting and informative class, packed with all sorts of new ideas and activities. I appreciated the focus on changing one’s lifestyle and trying to heal oneself from physical, psychological, and spiritual perspectives. The class helped me make some important changes in my life. I have been able to get rid of those things in life that no longer serve me and to gain a better perspective on the difference between negative thoughts and the true self. More specifically, I am now more able to be more assertive and set better boundaries (like saying no). I was able to make some important decisions about my work and what needed changing and/or discarding. I appreciated the practices of meditation and journaling to gain better insight into myself and to focus on what brings more to my life.

I am a physician who is trained in Western medicine. Over the years, I have become interested in other forms of medicine as well and I have always been very interested in the mind-body connection as part of disease and of healing. The class was very informative about a totally different way of thinking about disease that I found interesting and thought-provoking. This included both the Chinese medicine teachings, the information about herbs, and the focus on meditation and focused journaling. It has added to my reading on alternative medicine and will enrich my patient-healing methods. I would recommend the class for those who are trained in Western medicine and who want to learn more about and investigate further schools of healing. That does not mean that I am not still very focused on research but I’m also aware that research has extended more and more into these various other studies of health.