Michael offers Awakening Coaching, Energy Healing, Bodywork, and Physical Therapy in the following formats:

* Three types of private sessions:
1. Private appointments in my office.
2. Phone sessions.
3. Remote sessions.

* Workshops

* Classes

* Formal training program and certification

Services available during an in-person appointment at my office include:

1. Awakening Coach
Personalized coaching and support in awakening to presence which includes:
* Focused Inquiry
* Energy awareness coaching
* Grounding
* Contact
* Emotional and psychosomatic release
* Meditation instruction
* Conscious Movement and Exercise instruction including:
Chi kung/Qigong
yoga
core stabilization
continuum
bioenergetic exercises
developmental sequence exercises
* Custom Teaching including:
Anatomy and physiology of the brain and nervous system
Early child development and the formation of personality
Energetic character structure
*Awakening to Presence, Essence, and Being

2. Energetic Bodywork.
My style of bodywork is a unique, intuitive integration of the following skills:
* Barbara Brennan Healing Science (An in-depth approach to energy healing and spiritual healing)
* Myofascial release
* Cranialsacral therapy
* Direct technique (myofascial/connective tissue reorganization)
* Deep tissue massage
* Trigger point release
* Emotional trauma and psychosomatic unwinding and release

3. Physical Therapy
* Physical therapy evaluations
* Therapuetic exercise instruction
* McKenzie approach for neck and back pain
* Core stabilization exercise programs
* Closed kinetic chain exercise programs
* Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation
* Chi Kung (QiGong) and other conscious movement exercise (See 1 above)
* Manual therapy and joint mobilization
* Energetic Bodywork (See 2 above)
* Postural education and retraining
* Patient education in the anatomy and physiology of injury and rehab
* Custom designed home programs

Awakening and energy work can be conducted quite effectively over the phone. At your appointment time,
you would call me and I would be present with you, coaching and supporting you energetically during the time we had scheduled.
Services that work very well and are available during phone sessions include:

1. Awakening Coach
Personalized coaching and support in awakening to presence which includes:
* Focused Inquiry
* Energy awareness coaching
* Grounding
* Contact
* Emotional and psychosomatic release
* Meditation instruction
*Awakening to Presence, Essence, and Being

2. Energetic Bodywork.
* Barbara Brennan Healing Science (An in-depth approach to energy healing and spiritual healing)
* Emotional trauma and psychosomatic unwinding and release

Remote sessions

What is sure to be surprising to some is that certain aspects of awakening and energywork can be conducted
quite effectively without being in verbal contact during the session. You might be amazed at what can be
accomplished in this format. This format is especially useful for those clients from other countries who do not speak English very well, or who live in opposite time zones and can not arrange phone appointments during my regular office hours.

The format follows this sequence:

1. In the days prior to the appointment, you would send me an e-mail describing your intention for the session and any important history that you feel may be relevant to the condition or situation you wish to explore. In addition, you can ask questions and share anything else you feel is important for the session.

2. At the appointment time, you would find a quiet place to relax and enter meditation for the length of session we had scheduled, which is usually one hour.

3. After the session, I will send you an e-mail describing my perceptions of what occured during the session, answer any questions which you have asked, and offer you coaching or suggestions for further exploration.

I offer regular workshops in Colorado as well as in various locations in the U.S. and Japan. I also have facilitated workshops in Brazil and Mexico.

To see a schedule of upcoming events, click here.

To sponsor a workshop in your area, click here.

Workshops are custom designed for the group that attends, and can include any of the following topics:

* Awakening to Presence, Essence, and Being
* Focused Inquiry
* Anatomy and physiology of the brain and nervous system
* Early child development and the formation of personality
* Pre-verbal process work
* Energetic character structure
* Psychosomatic anatomy and physiology
* Body readings
* Energetic bodywork and energy healing techniques
* Group process work
* Individual process work
* Healing the Judge
* Healthy relationship boundaries
* Energy awareness training
* Grounding
* Contact
* Emotional and psychosomatic release
* Meditation instruction
* Conscious Movement and Exercise instruction
chi Kung
yoga
core stabilization
continuum
bioenergetic exercises
developmental sequence exercises

Michael will be periodically offering local classes in Colorado Springs.

To see a schedule of upcoming events, click here.

Classes may be formed from the following topics:

* Awakening to Presence, Essence, and Being
* Focused Inquiry
* Anatomy and physiology of the brain and nervous system
* Early child development and the formation of personality
* Pre-verbal process work
* Energetic character structure
* Psychosomatic anatomy and physiology
* Body readings
* Energetic bodywork and energy healing techniques
* Group process work
* Individual process work
* Healing from self-judgement
* Healthy relationship boundaries
* Energy awareness training
* Grounding
* Contact
* Emotional and psychosomatic release
* Meditation instruction
* Conscious Movement and Exercise instruction
chi Kung
yoga
core stabilization
continuum
bioenergetic exercises
developmental sequence exercises

Michael has developed a long term (multi-year) formal training program leading to a certification as an Awakening Coach.

This program is currently being offered in Japan, and will be offered in Colorado in 2008. It is structured as a proficiency-based program. Which means, students develop at their own pace and graduate when they have demonstrated mastery of each aspect and principle of the curriculum, rather than according to a set timeline.

If you are interested, please contact: info@awakeningtopresence.com

The integrated curriculum will include:

* Awakening to Presence, Essence, and Being
* Focused Inquiry
* Anatomy and physiology of the brain and nervous system
* Early child development and the formation of personality
* Pre-verbal process work
* Energetic character structure
* Psychosomatic anatomy and physiology
* Body readings
* Energetic bodywork and energy healing techniques
* Group process work
* Individual process work
* Healing from self-judgement
* Healthy relationship boundaries
* Energy awareness training
* Grounding
* Contact
* Emotional and psychosomatic release
* Meditation instruction
* Conscious Movement and Exercise instruction
chi Kung
core stabilization
continuum
bioenergetic exercises
developmental sequence exercises

Awakening is actually a very simple process. Truth is ultimately very simple. The basic problem is we are stuck in the habit of energetically “living in our heads”, identifying with our historical conditioning, trying to escape from the present moment experience of our body, of others, and our enviroment. We are trapped in the mental loops of our socially conditioned, memory-based conceptual minds. We are numb with denial and thus significantly "asleep".
Awakening is simply a matter of questioning this habit and being present. We investigate and question our thinking, and then we become present to our own body, and then we become present with others, and then we become present with our environment, and finally we become present with Presence itself, with Essence, with pure Being. When we integrate this felt realization in a relatively stable way, we are then truly “awake”.

Waking up does not require amassing a great amount of knowledge or skills. It is a function of being present to what is, to the present moment, with an attitude of wanting the truth more than anything else.

Therefore, as you scroll down and read the long list of services and skills I offer, please keep in mind that the essence of my work with people is very simple and straightforward. It can be summed up with two words, “Being Present”.

If you feel drawn to hire me to help coach you in your journey of waking up, the experience of the process will be far simpler and straightforward than it might seem by reading the list of services, skills, and curriculum which I have written below.

This list is simply for those who are curious and interested to know about my training, experience, and background. As you will see, I have a broad background, and thus there are a variety of entry points or doorways we can go through together in the process of Awakening to Presence.

Happy Shopping!