Holistic is a term we hear all the time now-a-days. So many people claiming to be holistic or take a holistic approach to their practice or work, and so do we at A Thousand Paths. We say we are a Holistic & spiritual healing centre, & honestly we just assume that people know what that means…

Until someone comes in who has been recommended to look at “holistic therapies” as a treatment for some random illness or issue that they’re experiencing & they have no idea what they’re even meant to be looking for.

So lets see if we can clear it up a bit for us all!

‘Holistic’ as a word itself means – seeing the whole of something or someone as whole not just a part. It also comes up as a philosophy where it is the belief that parts of something are interconnected & only able to be explained & understood as a whole.

 It also comes up as a medicine – So you can have doctors who treat you as a whole human being instead of just dealing with the specific issue at hand. Generally this means that when you come in for an appointment they’ll also look at your diet, your exercise, your mental health, how stressed you are, what family, family history and financial life is like for you. This helps them get the bigger picture of what’s going on inside your mind & body.

At A Thousand Paths, when we say that we are holistic therapists, to us it means that we don’t just look at one aspect of your being. We wont just fix your injured shoulder but try to understand why it is injured, how it can best heal using multiple treatment types, whether there is an underlying issue that has caused your shoulder to be vulnerable in the first place, whether energetically you’re carrying some ancient wound in that shoulder & it’s only now coming to the surface of the physical body.

To us it means that we look at every person who enters A Thousand Paths as an individual who has different needs to treat everything in their MIND, BODY & SOUL! We use massage to treat the physical issues, energy healing or cranial sacral therapy to work with the mental & emotional trapped pain, it means we listen when you need to talk & release things to us, & we offer meditation to keep your stress down & your head on straight.

It means that we try to stock products to help our customers in all aspects of their health where we can. (Obviously it’s just not possible for us to stock everything, we just don’t have the space for that but we do try)

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You can go to just about anywhere these days & find somewhere that will give you a normal old massage. That is not what we want to offer at A Thousand Paths. We are a Holistic & Spiritual Healing Centre. We look after all of you the best that we can…  Mind, Body & Soul… & we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Blessing X

Michelle & Alana