Introduction to Holistic Peer Counseling

with Amara Karuna

   * Step forward into a new level of vibrant living and self awareness

    * Transform emotional pain and make permanent life changes

    * Connect with a community of others for mutual support

In this introduction we will explore:

  • Our true human goodness
  • How emotions and thinking effect each other 
  • Giving good attention to someone who is upset
  • How emotional distress gets stored and can be released
  • Our inherent natural healing process

This is a pre-requisite class for taking the whole 9 week in depth series.

You may watch this class without committing to the whole series. 

Ideally, watch this Introduction with a friend, so you have someone to do the practices with.


Class curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the Introduction to HPC!

    • Welcome from Amara!
  • 2

    Free Introductory Class HPC-Grounding, Human Nature and Intelligence

    • Psychic Skills- Introduction to Grounding

    • HPC Intro pt1 Human Nature and Intelligence

    • HPC Intro pt2 How Hurts Affect Thinking

    • HPC Intro pt3 How we Get Triggered

    • HPC Intro pt4 Effects of Distress

    • Psychic Skills 1A Grounding

    • HPC Intro pt5 How Emotions Release

    • HPC Intro pt6 Blocks to Healing

    • HPC Intro pt7 How We Can Help Each other

    • 0.1 Basic counseling theory handout PDF

    • 0.2 Grounding, Relaxation Handout PDF
  • 3

    What did you think? And what's next?

    • Thanks for watching! What opportunities are next?

    • Share Your Comments

Student Reviews

See what past students have said!

  • The Most Useful Tools

    “Hands down the most useful tools in my tool bag to date! AND via/fostering more connected community!! total win win. i'm pretty darn sure you'll feel enlivened and get some great tools even in the intro. The results... for me: quality, effective, sustainable, tangible shifts in my mind & behavior in historically contracted & problematic areas.” -Shana Deane, Eugene, OR

  • No Need to Spend $100/ hr

    “These methods are more powerful than anything I have experienced in the offices of professional therapists. We don’t need to spend $100 an hour to find inner peace for resolve relationship conflicts. Everyone in the class had something powerful to share, and all seemed to have breakthroughs or significant insights into the issues they were working with.” –J.D. Eugene student, beginning class, Spring 2016

  • Organized and Thorough

    “Your love and acceptance of each person encourages deep sharing. The class helped me remember how valuable and powerful I am! Your teaching is organized and thorough.” Cindy Zarzycki, Eugene OR

Instructor

Instructor, co-organizer

Amara Karuna

Amara has been studying healing since 1978, was a licensed masseuse in Oregon, having studied Swedish, Esalen and deep bodywork, Polarity and pressure point release. She was trained in psychic reading, healing and meditation, and taught Re-evaluation Co-counseling, an international method of peer counseling, for over five years, and has been studying and practicing it since 1983. She has been a professional counselor for over 30 years. Amara also developed Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy, a method of healing the inner infant-self using cradling, hypnotic induction and suckling to address emotional issues stemming from lack of breast feeding & loving closeness as an infant. She is the author of "Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy- Healing Our Hearts Together". In 1994 she began developing her own approach to peer counseling, called Wholistic Peer Support, integrating many ideas from RC with spiritual meditation practices, psychic healing and body centered techniques. She taught it to hundreds of people in Eugene, and then in Hawaii. This approach has been renamed Holistic Peer Counseling and has spread through the Northwest through several of Amara's students. It is constantly being expanded and re-created. It is actively being taught in Hawaii, Eugene, Portland and Seattle. She began studying Tantra and Sacred Spot work, a method of sexual healing, on Maui in 2003, and has since studied 6 different methods of pelvic bodywork. She has taught Sacred Sexual Healing Work for men and women, and led Tantra Pujas since 2007. She has been involved with Network for New Culture for many years and is the Director of the New Culture Hawaii Winter Camp. She lives in Oregon and on the Big Island of Hawaii in the New Culture community called La’akea Permaculture Community. Amara is a main organizer of the Oregon Tantra Festival, and the Cascadia Tantra Festival, both events that offer a variety of classes on sacred relationship and sexuality as a spiritual path. She also organizes for International School of Temple Arts, for their Level One and two week long trainings in sacred sexual healing through Karuna Retreats, in Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.