MICHELE MAYAMA LIGHTSMITH PROFESSIONAL
In 2005 Kara completed advanced Professional Training through the Center for Mind Body Spirit Medicine in Washington D.C. Hakomi institute and the Institute for sensory motor sequencing. Kara has augmented her energy bodywork training with studies in body-centered psychotherapy and healing from traumatic wounding through the Kara has provided Healing Touch at St John’s Hospital to patients with cancer and was a member of the Healing Touch team at the Integrative Medicine Dept. Kara has many years of training in the Healing arts in modalities such as Reiki, Flow Alignment and Connection, Cranial Sacral and is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner. During this time Kara published many articles for Twin Cities Wellness and The Edge newspapers about the nature of energy work and healing. In the mid 1990s Kara was the ritual director at Lake Harriet Community Church.
Kara’s early spiritual studies centered on developing intuition as a vehicle for healing self and others and spent many years developing these ways of knowing under the guidance of her teacher, Michelle Mayama of Lightsmith, These studies resulted in her participation as a ritualist and energy channel in many large public healing events in the Twin Cities. She continues to travel to Wisconsin, California and Colorado at least five times each year to study with her teachers in a retreat setting. Kara has extensive experience in the practice of self- reflection and inquiry, and has been a devoted practitioner of meditation for over 15 years. Kara’s work, while inspired by the tradition of the Divine Feminine, is deeply imbedded in Buddhist and Sufi teachings, most notably as a student for the past decade in the Ridwan School or Diamond Approach method. Kara co-founded The Cauldron Studies Program and has been affiliated with The Powderhorn Phillips Cultural Wellness Center for eight years. She also mentors Touchstone’s Intentional Community. She was a founding member of the Healing Services Consortium which brought practitioners from mental health and the healing arts together to collaborate on mental health treatment. Kara Vangen, LSW, CHTP, is a Teacher in the Tradition of the Divine Feminine, a practitioner of Healing Arts with expertise in mindfulness, meditation and recovering from traumatic wounding, and is a Holistic social worker specializing in Mental Health at Touchstone Mental Health where she combines traditional social work practice with her work as a founding member of Touchstone Healing services team which provides acupuncture, Healing Touch and mind – body medicine to adults with serious and persistent mental health problems.
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