ABOUT US
L’aura Kaláiki Bodmer is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and a Master Practitioner of ancient Hawaiian Huna techniques. Well known for her extraordinary intuition and her highly individualized approach to her transformational work, L’aura’s unique combination of powerful Hawaiian Way tools and hypnotherapy results in physical and spiritual transformation, which she and her clients co-create. In addition to her lively private practice, L’aura gives Huna workshops across the country. One of her workshops was presented at the Second World Wellness Weekend, which featured such luminaries as Deepak Chopra, Robert Kennedy Jr., Martin Luther King III, and T. Harv Eker.
L’aura, who was born in Honolulu, began her spiritual journey by following her university degree with a degree from the New Mexico School of Therapeutics in Natural Therapeutics and Massage Therapy in 1982. She studied Lomilomi Nui, the sacred dance of body and light, through Aloha International, integrating it into her massage and therapeutic practice in 1992. Thereafter, confident that she was meant to master the Hawaiian spiritual techniques practiced by her ancestors, she began an intensive investigation of Huna, Huna Healing, and Ho’oponopono, an ancient problem-solving process restructured and reintroduced to contemporary students by Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, a “living treasure of Hawaii.” L’aura also studied Self I-dentity through Ho’oponopono with Charles Brown and Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD, who gave her the name Kaláiki, meaning “the sun that gilds the mountainside.” Following her instruction, L’aura spent two years as an assistant in Ho’oponopono workshops.
Her ongoing study, practice of, and deep meditation on Ho’oponopono led her to develop her own approach to transformational work, which she calls Kala-Kala. Literally translated, Kala-Kala means “release in order to be released.” It is based in the ancient wisdom used by Hawaiian Kahunas and is built on two basic premises: each person is 100 percent responsible for what occurs in their “own universe,” and it is essential to release subconscious fixations in order to be released from them. Viewed by some as a forgiveness process, L’aura focuses on eliminating the concept of blame (which leads to powerlessness), and building introspection, connection, and releasing skills. She teaches this powerful process to her clients and students , and she integrates it into each of her paraliminal hypnotic patters.
L’aura lives “off the grid” with her husband, Arnold, in a Mike Reynolds-designed “Earthship” house in the Manzano Mountains east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information on L’aura Kaláiki Bodmer’s Hawaiian Huna work, visit her website at www.hhealing.com.
For Julie Mars, all paths have led to one ultimate destination: Paraliminal Hypnosis. Deeply devoted to the study of the imagination, including its vastly untapped power to effect positive change, Julie has investigated the nature of creativity and self-knowledge in varied forms since childhood. A writer from the age of eight, Julie always trusted her imagination and her subconscious mind to produce a better, more interesting world than the one she inhabited—though it was many years, and many paths, before she learned how to use the imagination rather than be used by it.
Her passion for self-exploration led Julie to an intensive study of Jungian dream theory and analysis, a seven-year immersion in the investigation of the esoteric interpretation of Tarot, and, more recently, a deep commitment to yoga and meditation. Each step in her spiritual evolution brought her closer to understanding her own subconscious mind, but she is convinced that using hypnosis is the key to releasing its unlimited creative potential.
Julie’s award-winning memoir, A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister, chronicles the seven months she spent caring for her dying sister, the spiritual crisis that followed, and her creative handling of her own grief. The book was selected by Barnes & Noble for its “Discover Great New Writers” series and was named finalist by the Independent Publishers Association for Memoir of the Year. More important to Julie, it generated a deluge of fan mail from readers around the country who thanked her for putting their grief into words, and offering an escape from it. Additionally, Julie has published a critically-acclaimed novel, The Secret Keepers, numerous gift books on traditional astrology, Chinese astrology, and numerology, and many short stories and works of non-fiction. A dedicated teacher for two decades, Julie helps aspiring writers to access their own creativity via the subconscious mind in every kind of setting, from universities to Indian reservations, from writing conferences to prisons.
At one point along her path, Julie experienced a profound personal breakthrough under the guidance of a talented hypnotist. This launched her into the field that ties all her passion and experience together: hypnosis. Julie sees hypnosis, and particularly paraliminals, as the most powerful tool for change imaginable, and she uses it extensively in her work. Her goal is simple: to set people free. And the path to that, she is certain, is the paraliminal one. Her hypnosis and paraliminal-based creativity retreats have convinced countless others that the subconscious mind is the gateway to every sort of personal development, self-realization, and creative freedom.
Julie is a Certified Hypnotist, a Creativity Coach, and a Registered Yoga teacher. She has a master’s degree in Creative Writing.
Joan Schweighardt is the author of three contemporary novels,
Island, Homebodies, and
Virtual Silence, published by the Permanent Press and one multi-award-winning historical novel,
Gudrun’s Tapestry, published by Beagle Bay Books. She is also the founder and president of GreyCore Press, which published 14 titles ranging from fiction and memoir to children’s books between 2000 and 2005. A testimony to her literary savvy, her writers have collectively garnered a multitude of awards, including Independent Publishers “Book of the Year,” Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers,” Borders “Original Voices,” Borders “Top Six Read-to-Me” titles, ForeWord Magazine’s “Editors Choice Book of the Year” and Writer’s Digest’s annual “Best Ten Short Story Collections.” In addition to creating and implementing the PR campaigns for all GreyCore’s books, Joan has worked as a publicist for several of the biggest publishers in the country.
About three years ago, an interviewer asked Joan what career would appeal to her if she ever stepped away from the publishing industry. Without hesitation, she answered, “I’d want to be a healer.” After the interview, it occurred to her that she had never done anything about this closet ambition except read countless books on the subject. Thereafter, she contacted Roseanne Farano, a renowned energy healer/author who was once the dean of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, and made arrangements to begin private instruction in Roseanne’s New York office. When Joan made the decision to move from the northeast to the southwest, she was determined that she would find a way to incorporate the healing arts into her personal and professional life.
Shortly afterward, she joined Paraliminal Pathways as the partner responsible for marketing and publicizing Paraliminal Pathways’ healing CDs. Says Joan, “Julie and L’aura like to kid me that I do the dirty work, because while they’re off recording, I’m trying to figure out the best way to bring the CDs to the public. But I also get to be their guinea pig: they are both perfectionists, and every time they record, they try it out on me. So I am the constant recipient of their powerful hypnosis skills. And it’s changed my life.”
In addition to her Paraliminal Pathways commitment, Joan edits, agents, and publicizes books. She is also hard at work on a memoir. And, fulfilling her dream, Joan does energy-healing work.
Arnold Bodmer, Paraliminal Pathways’ resident composer and musician, created the music for this CD in the solar-powered studio he built for himself high in the mountains east of Albuquerque, NM. Recording on 16 tracks, Arnold responds musically to the meaning of the words, the voices as instruments, and the subtle rhythmic themes that emerge—and he does it in a hypnotic trance. “The voices put me in a trance, even if you listen fifty, sixty, a hundred times,” he laughs. His challenge was braiding the two voices and his own music together into one beautiful, coherent statement. “The whole thing should be as deep as a good poem,” he comments. “I want to hear a good poem again and again because it has multiple meanings. That’s what I brought to the CD. One more level of deep meaning.”.
“It’s like the wood carvers in Bali,” he continues. “They take a piece of cedar, and they don’t have a preconceived idea of what it’s going to be. In this case, the cedar would be the voices. The men use big chisels first, and later the women come and do the smoothing, and the kids do the finishing. I have tracks that do all this: the forms, the glossing, the fine finish. It’s very organic.”
Arnold, a lifelong musician, was born and raised in Switzerland. Influenced by his father, who conducted Mozart and Hayden at the local church, Arnold, by his teen years, was performing Swiss folk music as well as Dixieland jazz at local pubs. He became particularly captivated by the music of Champion Jack Dupree, a New Orleans original who played for five years at the Club Africaine in Zurich, creating in Arnold a passion for jazz.
In 1962, following the international music scene, Arnold moved to Hamburg, Germany. There, his musical horizons expanded to encompass performers as diverse as the Beatles, the Stones, Moroccan drummers, vocalists from Roumania and Israel, and lessons in musical theory and tambourine at the Hamburg Opera. Occasionally, jazz greats like Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy, and R&B legend Ray Charles passed through, cinching Arnold’s love of American music, and he headed in 1967 to Los Angeles, where he immersed himself in love, peace, music, and Zen Buddhism. He routinely toured the country with rock and roll bands, landing—and staying--in New Mexico in 1971. Since then, Arnold, a much-in-demand musician, has performed in every kind of band: jazz, country and western, rock and roll, R&B, and, starting in 2005, salsa.
His interest, sparked in 1985 and continuing ever since, in ambient music and analog synthesizers helped prepare him for the Paraliminal Pathways composing challenge. His music is complex, trance-inducing, intriguing, unpredictable, and transformative. We are grateful to Arnold and proud of our association with this brilliant composer and performer.
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