"One may be actively calm (still) and calmly active." Paramahansa Yogananda

Donald vanHowten is an Ayurvedic practitioner, Feldenkrais^® teacher and certified massage therapist instructor specializing in various types of soft-tissue methods, such as cranial & visceral Touch Of Awakening^®. Van teaches in the US, Europe, Costa Rica & New Zealand and he has a private practice in Santa Fe, NM. He has been in the field of bodywork and personal development for 38 years and is an associate instructor at the Ayurvedic Institute In New Mexico. He is the author of "Ayurveda & Life Impressions Bodywork."

Van’s most current teaching combines principles and practices from Ayurveda, Osteopathic medicine and the Feldenkrais method^® among others. Ayurveda & Life Impressions Bodywork^® embraces the fact that we are Spirit, that has become form. Our physical, emotional, mental and energetic aspects developed from embryonic stages to this moment hold information for personal growth. By exploring our form with great care, safety and support, movement exploration and hands on connect we tend to arrive once more at the indwelling Spirit from whence we began.

Van teaches that we all have holding patterns that are habitual, so that they leave a historical imprint on the membranes of the body. These membranes store our actions, experiences, emotions, and beliefs. They in turn represent our impressions of life in a "hard copy" of flesh.