Camille Xochitl Goss began her current life as a healing arts practitioner in 1997, when she was introduced to yoga, Shiatsu, and energy therapies. From 1997 – 1999, she trained in various Asian bodywork modalities and Reiki, entered a yoga teacher training and learned colon hydrotherapy through apprenticeship with Shayla Mihaly, owner of Abundant Health in San Francisco. It was in 1999 that her true path made itself known through a full page ad in Common Ground for something called Chi Nei Tsang. Inexplicably drawn to this practice she had never heard of before, she took her first class that fall and knew she had to dive in when a chronic low back issue was almost fully resolved after one session.
Camille’s training in Chi Nei Tsang and Applied Chi Kung includes over 700 hours of training with Gilles Marin, Founder and Director of the Chi Nei Tsang Institute in Berkeley, California; taking and assisting a year-long mentorship program with Chi Nei Tsang and Healing Tao instructor Tiffiny Fyans; as well as taking classes and receiving treatments from Chi Nei Tsang Instructor Erene LeJeune, who also practices in San Francisco.
In 2001, Camille received her first VortexHealing® session at a distance from her good friend (and fantastic energy practitioner, check out ambujamhealing.com and tell her Camille sent you) Ambujam Rose. Although the healing itself was palpable, Camille remained very skeptical of its supposed roots and effects. She took her first class in 2002, still very much a skeptic, but the difference in her being after each class compelled her to continue its study and practice through the present. In 2008, she received training in Biodynamic Cranial Touch with Deidre Sommers and in 2009 trained in medical qigong and Four Pillars (Chinese astrological charting) with Grandmaster Fu Wei Zhong. She also attends ongoing talks and classes with Liu Ming, Director of the Da Yuan Circle in Oakland, California.
Camille currently practices Chi Nei Tsang/Applied Chi Kung, Energy Healing, and Colon Hydrotherapy through her own practice, Alchemy Healing Arts, in the Potrero Hill/Dogpatch and Castro areas, as well as at Acupuncture Kitchen, also in Potrero Hill/Dogpatch. She continues to practice Mysore style astanga yoga at Mission Ashtanga with Chad Herst and Devorah Sacks.
What's with the name?
I get asked often about my middle name. No, I did not choose it - it was given to me by my parents. My mother is Mexican and my father was a mix of Italian, German and Cherokee."Xochitl" is a Nahuatl (indigenous Mexican language) word meaning "flower." Flowers as not only symbols of beauty, poetry and song, but of Truth with capital T. The true pronunciation is "SHO-cheetl" - the last two letters are a single consonant. In modern Mexican it is commonly pronounced "SO-cheel," modifying the "sh" sound to a simple "S" and the "TL" consonant to a simple "L" sound. Xochitl was really my first name until I got into school and teachers 1) couldn't pronounce it and 2) decided to go by what was written on my birth certificate. You can call me whatever you like. It's just a name.
Made it this far? Here's more about me:
I have practiced Mysore style astanga yoga and some form of spiritual and/or physical healing practice since 1997, and I have come to believe that there is no greater “healer” than awareness and simply allowing what is, and no greater teacher than relationship. And there is tremendous value in physical practice for learning to be present. In my experience, there are many people who are energetically clear and can meditate for hours and hours and do all sorts of amazing things, but who struggle with their humanity and as a being in a body, or don’t know how to apply their spiritual beliefs to what we may call the “mundane.” My interest since noticing this has been true embodiment.
I think that when I first started on this path I was attempting to escape my own humanity - clearing this and healing that, doing too much so that I wouldn’t have to feel so much, etc. I now believe that what we call “spiritual growth” is actually the movement toward becoming more fully human – a spirit, an aspect of
God/heart/energy/The Nameless/The Tao, fully inhabiting a body. The legendary supernatural powers of Taoist chi kung masters aren't superhuman at all, but normal human abilities that all of us as human beings have the potential to cultivate.
I believe people are essentially already "healed" and awake. One's true essence is healthy, whole, present, and loving - we just forget in various ways how to embody our essence, and the result of this is pain and suffering in a multitude of forms.
There is actually nothing miraculous about healing from anything, whether it's cancer or a minor scrape. Healing is normal. Your body holds the information with which to heal. Pain does not mean you are broken. Having pain means your body is healthy and is reacting to something it doesn't like. Your only job is to listen to what it's telling you. This may include changing the habits that keep you in a state of
dis-ease. Healing means changing, and changing takes courage.
So there's no such thing as a "healer" outside of oneSelf, really. Our body has the intelligence and energy to bring us back to health. Those we call healers are simply people who can give us a little boost to our own healing process. I believe the purpose of the "healer" is to create a safe and relaxing space of neutral, holding the vision of the client as whole, and encouraging awareness in order to welcome the Self in its entirety - warts and all. In this place of presence and neutrality, the client's physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies can relax, allowing the body's inherent healing abilities to arise and creating space for a stronger flow of life force energy. What people call healing is really just remembering and allowing.
I have studied many types of healing, wellness/nutrition, and meditation practices and protocols. Nothing has had as much of an impact on me and the unfolding of my life as Chi Nei Tsang, Qigong (chi kung), and energy healing.
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