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Practitioners
Jocelyn Olivier, MBW, CMT
Founder of Healus Center
Dana Rose Arevalo, CBW
NeuroMuscular Reprogramming®
Conscious BodyWork
Suresha Hill, Ed.S, HSE, CMT
Neuro Somatic Integration
Deborah Levine , CMT
Conscious BodyWork
Eva Lindholm, CMT
NeuroMuscular Reprogramming
Conscious BodyWork
Shatzi Rainbow, CMT
Conscious BodyWork
James Valencia, CMT
NeuroMuscular Reprogramming
Boris Vilner, MBW
NeuroMuscular Reprogramming
Brad Yantzer, CMT, NCTMB, MQP, RYT
Kinesis Myofascial Integration
A few are born with a gift for understanding the human body, the nature of its life force movement and a special touch. Jocelyn Olivier is one of those rare individual that has had the focus, courage, and years of experience to turn this gift into a body of knowledge for the education and treatment of others. Olivier is the founder and director of Alive & Well!, Institute of Conscious BodyWork® in San Anselmo, CA. She has dedicated 33 years to the development and refinement of Conscious BodyWork® and NeuroMuscular Reprogramming®. Integrating massage with muscle testing, structural balancing and emotional-energetic resolution, and the reduction of stress shock and trauma, Ms. Olivier created a highly effective and detailed approach to the resolution of physical structural problems, even those that have not responded previously to therapy. Gleaned from her study of neuromuscular re-education, educational kinesiology, Native American and Hawaiian Shamanism, and Chinese physical therapy (called Tui Na), a new form of NMR was born that clients and therapist across the nation have come to respect.
Jocelyn Olivier founded Alive & Well!, Institute of Conscious BodyWork® in 1987. Her commitment to excellence in education has elevated the institute to an unrivaled position in the San Francisco Bay Area with its diverse and integrated approaches to bodywork and somatic education.
Seeing an evolution of somatic knowledge through the communication between individual modalities, Olivier founded the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) Somatics and Wellness Community in 1990 recognizing the importance of expanding our knowledge about the human body and to build a more integrated concept of the human body than that generated by isolated, specialized approaches. Thus began a decade of refining the definition of somatics and expanding the boundaries of the wellness community through multi-modality fairs, published articles, and national seminars. During her year as president of AHP, she raised the capital, directed, and produced the 1999 International Somatic Congress: Body Wisdom, the culmination of a decade of work and celebrated as one of the finest conferences produced.
Dana Rose Arevalo, CBW
is one of Alive &Well’s first graduates.
Dana's grandmother introduced her to
massage and influences her work. She
integrates massage, Neuro Muscular
Reprogramming®, unwinding, sound,
movement, and underwater therapy
to promote health. Dana has been in
private practice since 1987.
Suresha Hill, Ed.S., H.S.E., C.M.T.
Suresha has lived a life full of passion for understanding and developing methods to maintain or return to health and wholeness. After earning three degrees in education and psychology from Kent State University in 1974, Suresha continued in the direction of wholistic approaches to health starting in 1978 by studying Shiatsu, Breath Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Breema, Polarity, Deep Tissue Massage, the Bowen Method, Applied Kinesiology, and Hanna Somatic Education. She continued to develop in the field of neuromuscular reeducation, and took additional classes from Upledger, Paul St. John, Judith Aston, and Anat Baniel.
Suresha worked in a variety of settings including spas, wellness centers, physical therapy clinics and chiropractic offices, and found rehabilitating injuries to be particularly fascinating and rewarding. She led workshops abroad in martial arts and psycho-physical integration in the 1980's, and has been teaching bodywork for over ten years. In 1992, Suresha developed NeuroSomatic Integration™, a comprehensive system to help prevent and correct dysfunction in the body, and is working on a four volume manual on the principles and practices connected to this work called “Somatic Intelligence™”.
More recently, her research has begun to blend earlier principles from martial arts and meditation with later studies in quantum mechanics and systems theory to help flush out the relationships between energy, consciousness, and the form and function of soft tissue and bone. Some of the exciting discoveries in these relationships are shared in her private sessions with clients and in her classes on Joint Mobilization, Consciousness Studies, and Movement Education.
Shatzi has a natural talent for sinking in with your body, and focusing quality conscious attention on your needs. After completing her studies in massage therapy and bodywork she continues to deepen her understanding of the body through courses in biology. She blends breathing with deep tissue bodywork, trigger points, and relaxing massage to tailor each session to meet your physical and energetic needs.
James has been practicing massage therapist for ten years and still finds that there always more to learn. James expertise is in neuromuscular modalities as well as deep tissue release of chronic tension. He has been practicing NeuroMuscular reprogramming going on four years and blends that cohesively with his other eclectic techniques. He has a practice in the Napa Valley which gives him exposure to many different case histories and is also interested in the neuro-energetic-emotional functions of the body and looks forward to increasing his knowledge in this area.
As a Conscious Master Bodyworker, my main focus is on working with the structural dysfunctions of the musculoskeletal system to help resolve the pains, increase range of motion/flexibility, and re-coordinate movement patterns.
If nothing is torn or broken, and does not have an extreme emotional or psychological investment in the injury, I have a high probability of resolving the pain and dysfunction. I am successful because of my strong belief in the combination of working with the body’s innate intelligence to know exactly what it needs to heal itself and using very dynamic, yet gentle manual therapy techniques.
By utilizing the client’s history of the pain and injuries, conscious palpation, visual assessment, conscious muscle testing, and body positional testing (to duplicate injury patterns, e.g. testing in a chair for MVA’s), we (the client and I) take the time to truly try to figure out exactly what is going on in the painful area, and how it is relating to the whole body.
I use myofascial release, soft-tissue mobilization, joint mobilization, and neuromuscular reprogramming into the directions that feel good to the client. That way, we know we are doing exactly what the body needs to correct itself. This empowers the client in a safe healing process.
Brad Yantzer, CMT, NCTMB, MQP, RYT
Brad Yantzer has dedicated his life to learning about and teaching health, fitness and movement in the safest, soundest, most natural, and most beneficial ways possible. He views health as a lifestyle that leads to a complete human experience. Over 15 years, he has schooled himself, both formally and informally, in how and why the body moves. His extensive training includes bodybuilding and fitness training, nutrition, chiropractic studies, functional anatomy and movement studies, biomechanics, several styles of yoga, a form of Structural Integration called Kinesis Myofascial Integration, a yoga-and-dance-and-breath-based movement modality called GYROTONIC® , and injury prevention and therapy through movement, mobilization, and nutrition. He blends all of this physically-based learning with a deep understanding of psychological and energetic forces that are integral to every person, and their interplay with the physical body. He continues to build on his knowledge with studies in Medical Qi-Gong and Visionary Craniosacral Therapy.
Brad is open, down-to-earth, warm, and genuinely caring about every client. His goal is to guide and teach people not only how to be the best they can be, inside and outside their minds and bodies, but also to experience self-discovery in the process. He believes that optimum health is dynamic, and that as the human body is one system comprised of many systems, if one is not in order, the others cannot perform optimally either.
