Isa Gucciardi, PhD, Brings Ancient Spiritual and Healing Traditions to Rhode Island

Isa Gucciardi, PhD, Brings Ancient Spiritual 

and Healing Traditions to Rhode Island

The Foundation of the Sacred Stream (FSS), a California-based nonprofit organization, is celebrating 10 years of providing the wisdom of ancient spiritual and healing traditions to those interested in being of service in the world. A growing community of students and healers in Rhode Island has been welcoming FSS founding director and lead instructor Isa Gucciardi, PhD, each summer since 2005. We look forward to her return this July.

Gucciardi has spent over 30 years studying spiritual, therapeutic, and meditative techniques from around the world; and holds degrees and certificates in transpersonal psychology, cultural anthropology, comparative religion, hypnotherapy, and transformational healing. She is the creator of Depth Hypnosis, a groundbreaking method of self-transformation that has won rave reviews from psychotherapists and spiritual counselors. Combining practices of transpersonal psychology and hypnotherapy, this therapeutic model brings “the power of shamanism, and the power of Buddhism, into the therapeutic environment to help people transform longstanding and difficult to reach imbalances,” says Gucciardi.

She has an active Depth Hypnosis and Applied Shamanism healing practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, and finds these healing modalities helpful for a variety of issues including depression, anxiety, auto-immune problems, panic disorders, eating disorders and addictions. Gucciardi and her clients address the symptoms that arise by understanding them as teachers and using Depth Hypnosis and Applied Shamanism to help clients discover the roots of their symptoms, and to change their relationship to them.

Shamanic practice recognizes that illness at the spirit level will move to the emotional level if it is not addressed. Unaddressed, illness moves from the emotional level to the mental level and finally to the physical level – where it is generally harder to ignore. Thus, when modern western medicine practitioners only treat physical symptoms, according to Gucciardi, they are dealing with an imbalance long into its evolution. Many events have already led to that physical symptom. “Because shamanic practice is always focused on healing the spirit, it addresses the symptom at its point of origin no matter where on the spectrum it is manifesting,” she says.

While Depth Hypnosis is the centerpiece of the study at FSS, the organization offers a range of programs in California, Scotland, Colorado, and Rhode Island. Students study with Gucciardi for both personal and professional development, and consistently report the FSS healing approach is as powerful as it is practical. Well loved for her sense of humor, insight, and passion for teaching, Gucciardi will offer a free talk on the shamanic journey (July 10) and lead workshops in Integrated Energy Medicine (July 12-14), Applied Shamanism (July 19-21), The Shamanic Journey (July 11-12), and Grief and Loss (July 16 & 18) at All That Matters in Wakefield (allthatmatters.com). Gucciardi will also teach Applied Buddhist Psychology (July 22-24) at Energy’n’Elements (energy-n-elements.com) in East Greenwich.

Visit www.sacredstream.org for more information or click here for a video.