meet the visionary
Angela Gorman
Hello, I am Angela; welcome to my world. I am a visionary, a facilitator and teacher of healing arts, bodywork therapies, yoga, somatic and emotional integrative trauma therapies, and group sharing processes. I have trained in many different healing modalities over the past 22 years. Yet this is not who I am. I am a conscious presence who is seeking connection, integration, and love with all parts of myself. Subsequently I am seeking connection, integration and love with others and with the Earth. Love is the process by which you take something as a part of yourself thereby making two separate things one. It is the process of merging, like droplets of water. It is my passion, service and purpose to help lead others in processes of love, integration and wholeness internally thereby helping ease our society of separation toward connection and trust creating a safe space to become aware of our shadows. Our shadows are simply the unconscious unintegrated parts of ourselves that are keeping us from internal and external wholeness Only as we Integrate the fractured aspects of ourselves will our world reflect the wholeness and unity within us.
I was born into abuse, violence, instability, domination, neglect, and abandonment. Because the abuse was commingled with times of care and support, my sense of reality was warped into confusion and fantasy. I was also born as an intuitive empath with extrasensory perception. Because of this I learned to fear the very thing I needed to survive, connection with people. The world, my body, and relationships had one common denominator, they were all profoundly unsafe. My life has been an exploration into the concept of self love, belonging, acceptance and choice. Authenticity, self expression, conscious communication, shadow work, self awareness, and deep body awareness have been my guides and allies on this journey that is as painful as it is rewarding.
Community is my passion because I am seeking what so many of us in the spiritual and self help field crave – a functional family, safe connections, and a compassionate place to know ourselves and be witnessed and embraced as we are.
I used to think that safety and security meant learning to be alone. But I now know that true healing is only possible as we learn how to be together.
About Angela, her Philosophy, Work, and Mission.
Angela has a rich background of diverse experience. She has been practicing in the holistic healthcare field for the past 22 years. She is trained and certified in 27 modalities of alternative healthcare and bodywork.
Angela has been trained as a:
Massage Therapist
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Thai Massage Therapist
Sound Therapist
Physical Therapy Assistant
Yoga Instructor
Nutritionist
Raw Food Chef
Integrative Medical Intuitive
Teacher of Authenticity, Emotional Well-Being, and Spirituality
Life coach
Self Acceptance Process facilitator
Completion Process facilitator
Founder of the Remembering Process for psycho-physiological healing
Shamanic Facilitator
Live Blood/Dry Blood Cell Analyst
Bio-Resonance Therapy Technician
Athlete
Permiculturist
Background in Life, Philosophy and Mission
Angela grew up in Southern California and has lived all over including Northern California, Florida, Texas, Virginia, Bahamas, Michigan, Hawaii, and most recently resides in Maui.
She draws from her extremely diverse and eclectic life experience that spans all major world religions and cultures and is able to personally relate to the thread of truth that connects all. Her work is drawn from her own personal experience of physical, emotional and psychological abuse, trauma, isolation, depression and subsequent long journey into the depths of self acceptance, self-love, and self-healing.
Her philosophy is radical authenticity with a willingness to feel deeply into every physical and emotional wound, with complete acceptance of what is, without a need to change it. This is what she refers to as emotional vipassana. The light of willing awareness and presence is all that is needed to shift the biological process of the body. Everything in one's reality will begin to align on its own when one gives permission to this simple natural ability of presence.
Angela holds a safe and nurturing container for one to gently move into this space of awareness for themselves. The process can be conscious: involving the mind, or unconscious: bypassing the mind completely and working only with body sensations. It is usually a combination of both. She also gives tools for awareness to each client to do this for themselves.
Angela uses many alternative tools and devices to assist the body in the process of becoming aware of and repairing interrupted energy patterns and reinforcing stability and balance. Angela is an expert in helping people to somatically release trauma from their past that has been stored as a disruptive program in the nervous system and tissues of the body. Releasing and Clearing the body of these programs allows the reconnection and recognition of neurological energy channels. When these Channels are reset to their original bio-frequency and bio-chemical programs the body will heal itself. She helps to facilitate this process through intuitive guidance of the mind and body. It is the goal to restore each person's natural internal healing instinct.
Love is to include something in your vibrational field. Fear is to push something further away. We spend our lives living in “fear-based realities” where our goal is to push our uncomfortable emotions or body sensations as far away from us as possible using drugs, medication, relationships, or other distractions as coping mechanisms to avoid our pain. We accept or deny parts of ourselves that we have been taught or socialized to believe is unacceptable. In so doing we deny and push away parts of ourselves. We make some parts of us OK and other parts NOT OK. This creates splits in our consciousness. In their infinite love, our bodies and emotions seek to reconnect and establish INCLUSION (LOVE) by sending us signals to put ourselves back together. These signals that we are out of alignment with ourselves most often come in the form of physical and emotional discomfort and pain. The goal is not to push these signals away, but to pull them in closer like a friend who is whispering the secret message to our eternal joy. This is the level on which I work with you. Get ready to dive into your pain, illness, ailments, or injuries and decode the messages from your body and subconscious mind that hold the keys to your freedom and wholeness. I utilize conscious communication, parts work, emotional guidance processing tools, somatic bodywork, and movement practices to facilitate a journey to completion. You are not alone in this, I am on my own healing journey with you. We are all in this together.
Background in Philosophy of Religion:
She has a B.A. in Textual Criticism of the Bible, Biblical Languages and Philosophy of Religion from Florida College of Biblical Studies.
Background in Nutrition:
She became a licensed nutritionist through an affiliate program of University of South Florida in 2002 and got her Raw Food Nutrition training with Dr. Gabriel Cousins through the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, and Ekkaya Institute of Living Foods in 2003. She worked as Detoxification and Fasting coach at The Optimum Health Institute in San Diego, CA and at the Hypocrites Institute in West Palm Beach Fl where she also worked as a living foods chef. Angela had her own Raw/Living Foods catering business and has catered Raw/Live food retreats all over the world including those for David Wolfe. She has also hosted workshops in Nutrition and Detoxification at International Health Expos and retreats.
Background in Massage Therapy and Bodywork
Angela was born with clairvoyant intuitive gifts of seeing and feeling energy patterns. She was apprenticed by psychics and healers from a young age in an attempt to help her manage these filters (or lack thereof). From early childhood she was taught to cultivate and develop her natural clairvoyant gifts in the art of Energy work and healing or “mirroring” as she called it when she was a child. In high school she began studying Feng Shui, guided meditation, astral projection, and channelling and translating these skills into bodywork practices. She began doing massage professionally at age 17. She met her teacher, Dale Mcknitt at the Bhakti Academy of Intuitive Massage and Healing in Safety Harbor, FL in 2001 where she trained for 2 years. Over the next decade she went on to train and become certified in 27 modalities of therapeutic massage, bodywork, and energy healing techniques including neuromuscular, shiatsu, Thai Massage, Physical Therapy, Reiki, Quantum Touch, Radiance Technique, Bhakti Massage, and Shamanic healing, to name some. Angela takes an integrative approach to bodywork weaving together many modalities to cater to each person’s individual needs.
Background in Sound Therapy
Angela began studying the multifaceted art of Sound Therapy and Vibro-acoustic sound healing in 2000 with prominent teachers Rosie Warburton, Silvia Nakash, and John Beaulieu. She uses various resonant instruments such as tibetian singing bowls, crystal singing bowls, tuning forks, chimes and vocal toning in specific succession on different points of the body to strengthen cells, release energetic, physical, and emotional blocks and reduce pain, inflammation and promote positive shifting.
Background in Yoga
In 2009 and 20010 Angela Deeply immersed herself in the study of yogic philosophy, meditation, and service at Swami Satchitananda's Ashram at Yogaville. She also served at the Sivananda Ashram in the Bahama's where she did her Yoga Teacher Training in 2014. In addition she completed a Teacher training in Russa Yoga “Rope Yoga” developed by world renowned teacher Jasprit Singh. In 2017 Angela completed a teacher training at Yoga Maya with teacher Trevor Eller, receiving an in-depth and diverse training in different yoga styles with an intense physiological focus on body mechanics.
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