Deb Barnes-Allan

Deb Barnes-Allan of Ayni Shaman Energy Medicine Practices is delighted to announce that she will begin offering Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings 5:30- 6:45 pm beginning September 7, 2011.  The intent of these yoga classes will be to specifically design a practice that will assist you in your transition from a busy day to a place to nourish yourself, focus on stillness and discover your deeper connection.

Deb Barnes-Allan is a recent graduate of Radiant Health Yoga Teacher Training, which is a holistic health practice that blends the ancient teachings of hatha yoga with the contemporary body mind science.  The emphasis is on the therapeutic and neurodevelopment benefits of yoga practice to cultivate overall wellness for people of all ages and abilities.  Deb has been a passionate student of the mind, body, soul, spirit philosophy for many years and found that Joanna Cushman’s RHY beautifully synthesized her understanding of how the body allows us to express what needs to be acknowledged, honored and released for deep healing and growth on all levels of our being.  Yoga has been my teacher.  My yoga practice has been the place of meeting my past and my future, the place of connecting with my inner wisdom as I it teaches me to be still, aware, open my heart, release and love what is.

Her formal education includes a BSEd, from Northern Arizona University, Reading/Language Arts Specialist form University of California at Chico.  She has taught students from kindergarten to adult always seeking to connect with the deeper aspects of how to meet the students’ needs.  After over 30 years in public education she retired with the intent to follow her passion to understand how the body, mind, spirit and soul are all involved in how we learn, live, play and love.

She has explored Hakomi Therapy: a journey of self-discovery, through mindfulness to remembering. with Ron Kurtz & Donna Martin, received her 250 hours certification in massage therapy training from the Phillips School of Massage, listened to the body and soul during her160 hours of Intuitive Cranial Sacral Therapy with the Milne, Institute and sharpened her intuitive skills with Jim Self’s Mastering Alchemy and she learned from Dr. Hue Linn Ho’oponopono the ancient Hawaiian way of healing through forgiveness and love.  All of this earlier training was preparation for her training with Alberto Villoldo, PhD and The Four Winds Society Light Body School of Energy Medicine.  Here she became connected with and initiated into the lineage of Q’ero shaman of the Peruvian Andes.  She is a Certified Master Light Body Energy Medicine Practitioner, master ceremonialist of the:  Munay-Ki (the nine great rites of initiation of the medicine way of the ancient Inka), Nusta Karpay (seven sacred feminine rites of the ancient Inka to bring balance to self and the universe), Despacho Ceremonies (a prayer mandala for transformation & transmutation).  For the past two years she has been mentored by Andean paqo Don Mariano, a Kuraq Akulleq healer and mystical seer from the Q’ero Nation in the high Andes of Peru. She and her husband Max established Ayni Shaman Energy Medicine Practices at Heart of Wellness where the offer many forms of healing and teach classes on Shaman Wisdom: Alchemy for Personal Healing.