Welcome
So many have passed through my trainings (embodied energy aligning) since I began teaching in 1981.
Initially co-designing, co-writing and co-delivering a brand new acupuncture course in Brisbane, developing post grad works – still in use – specialising in the Role of 8 Extras in Women’s Lives and Maternity, anything ‘hopeless’ as that is where the fun is – we choose to change when there are no more options open. Easy has abandoned us.
We have to start work. ON OURSELVES FIRST
Traveling the world – presenting in acupuncture symposia – often as an invited speaker. Always on practical matters. From a wise women’s approach – what works- here and now.
Now mostly online – with amalgamations of what I have collated over the past 30 years – captured as multi media.
Here are some of the recent musings.
Trish (New Jersey, USA)
Heather is a holistic practitioner, previously working as an acupuncturist, naturopathic physician, flower essence practitioner, doula, author, and teacher.
She has been teaching for well over 40 years, has created many courses, written many books, and has created multiple resources for her students~
As a Board Certified Nurse Midwife and licensed Massage and Bodyworker, I was searching for more.
I had studied with Rosita Arvigo, the creator of Andominal massage, and Jennifer Mercier, the creator of Mercier Therapy. Both created a skill set that I had never experienced previously.
What was missing was the work of Heather Bruce, who has truly brought together the knowledge of Eastern meets Western Medicine along with the crucial commitment to self-care.
Heather’s course begin with being brought into circle, owning your own stuff!!
From there, we are taught what is most crucial with Heather having already sent us class notes to download. Thus making it easier to manage materials.
And every midwife and doula should have a copy of her book(which I refer to as her handbook) WHAT DADS CAN DO!
Having participated in Heather Bruce’s classes, I highly recommend attending one of Heather Bruce’s classes.
I have loved her on-line classes and only wished I could have been in NZ or Australia live when she is teaching…
Megan (Indiana, USA)
Dear Heather, when I began studying with you two months ago, I had no idea how overwhelmingly right it would be that I am immersing into this information. I am so grateful to be able to learn from your 40+ years of accumulated life experience, multi lineage training, and clinical experience. I am grateful to your teachers, and their teachers too; I bow with respect.
When you warned me that ‘I’d be learning the things to do before I do what I already know’ – I didn’t understand at first, but now I SO get it!! What I am learning is filling in so many holes in my personal healing journey as well as holes in my other professional trainings in women’s wellbeing massage. I definitely recommend your work to all the womb centric abdominal massage therapists I know. Doulas, pregnancy and postpartum workers, maya abdominal massage therapists… You carry a very important bundle of women’s healing information that I’ve simply not been able to find anywhere else in the western massage world. You teachings are giving me the ability to shift out of a mode of heroic self healing done when things go wrong, and climb into gentle self support done regularly. This is a conceptual shift as much as a practical one. I am working with myself much more now that I am able to come at it from a deeply feminine way of ‘what would feel good and true right now for the next 15 minutes?’. 🙂 Your classes are helping me find this change viscerally in my own body; I grab a cup of tea, settle on the couch, show up as just myself and immerse in the flowing, non linear feminine storytelling/storysharing way of learning, experiencing, and understanding. The self study materials you are giving me to review before classes is also very helpful and intriguing. As the world changes from the pandemic, and people’s bodies are struggling to keep up vitality and immunity, I am finding these gentling ways are so key to centering…. and also being able to support clients where they are at with the healing potential they have created for themselves at this time. (Everyone is in a different place with that right now.) What a gift. Thank you so much, from my heart. I look forward to learning more.
In gratitude for all you’ve done and share, Megan
ONLINE – many come to me through the Pro D Orgasim – the Missing Link 2007
and – ‘Bun in the Oven’ 2008 works
OR – eLotus (2011 – 2018) and all that is stored there
Cara (Canada) – (online Healing Power of Touch) I love Heather’s work. A lot of the power of our medicine seems to be getting lost in intellectual based information, techniques and theories. We can often forget the basics of what it means to live as a healthy, integrated human being. We are embodied, and touch is vitally important. Simple things like how we think, what we eat, and how we move, are often over looked. A lot of what is in this course I will share with my patients. There are great graphics and posters which I can put out in my clinic and print off for patients as home work. The more my patients can reconnect with their own bodies, at home, the better they’ll get. Working through the exercises myself, just while watching the course modules, i can feel the difference in my body. More relaxed, more integrated, more flowing, and more joyful. Thank you.
Acupuncturists, this is a really great resource to help your patients (and yourself) reconnect with their bodies, without needles. Heather is humorous, caring and light hearted in the way she teaches. I sense I am reconnecting on the common sense wisdom of the elders. My acupuncture schooling was barely hands on, believe it or not. Mostly about theory and where to put the needle. But how to work with lymph, qi, emotion and feeling – those are missing link that Heather reintroduces.
Vanessa (Grampians, Aust)
How it looks to me when I teach in my teaching room in NZ – online students
Ancient Methods for Modern Times – Both Heartworks Lomi Lomi (two levels) and Kahuna Massage trainings (all seven levels) served to open up my experience in working with the flows of energy and as I progressed through the trainings, I really deepened my connection with healing. When opening up the massage with a traditional Hawaiian chant, I feel the energetic connection with the universal energy, and the closest I can describe is a flow of Reiki energy through my hands onto the body.
Working hands-on the abdomen has always spoken to me, I loved this aspect of Heartworks and Kahuna massages, leading me to study Arvigo ® Self Care and then Professional Training. There was still a call for more, I found Heather Bruce and her Gentling Way Work, and have found that there are so many answers to questions I had in the past, and so many connections to different areas I have studied which make this such a fantastic addition to my professional skills. This work has actually influenced the way I treat clients on many levels. I am more attuned to the various ways in which energy works within the human body, more aware of the basic chemistry and impacts of ‘life’ on the ability of the human body to function effectively. The work has had a significant flow on into my own personal health as well as those I see in my clinic.
I now find that when I practice Kahuna massage, as well as all of the amazing techniques that I have learned to use, my awareness of the body has become so much more tuned in than ever before. What I can give to a client in a session has become such that time is never enough, and my understanding of the human body continues to deepen.
I recently completed training as an Open Sky Qigong Facilitator and find that my awareness of meridians and energy Flows which has also been added to through the Gentling Way work, is beginning to help me to understand just how significant these traditional methods of healing are – passed down over generations, many of these traditional practices have continued because they are so amazing and so highly tuned over the years.
Vanessa Beckitt, Grampians, Victoria and Bruny Island, Tasmania
Sita, northern NSW – Burringbar, Australia
2nd intensive April (online experiential)
We can have a deeply personal response to being in a Zoom class with a trusted group
Melissa, (Millaa Millaa, Qld Australia)
Having been through an in person selfing workshop before – I have really enjoyed this SC we have had via zoom. Having a group around while we go through the discovery brings a beautiful safe tribe-like energy to the space. Also I found working online we have the opportunity to create whatever space we want for our self, individual to me/us and our own needs, while still having that connection, that energy of the community of tribe there with us.
I have learnt more again this time around, I hadn’t truly considered how valuable it was to redo the SC, and it would be easy (and remiss) to believe that attending again was not necessary…. although the core of the content essentially stays the same, delivery will have an ever-changing approach in light of the intention of the group, and the personalities, perspectives and differences of those attending… but also how I have changed since my first SC…. much has changed in my life and in me since the time of that first SC, this time I uncovered a different layer.
A part of my life journey that I thought was reconciled and healed many years ago, had the underlying emotion and unknown attachment revealed to me through this SC. I was completely unaware that there was anything left there needing repair and honestly felt it was a part of my life that I completely understood and at peace with. Not heavy…or dark… a little sad.. but incredibly restrictive in the most subtle way. And I felt entirely released with the revelation, having the chance to let it go through the work over the weekend and in my prayers to God.
A part of me had been held back for so many years, me completely oblivious to it, if not for this second SC. All to say how undeniably important I have come to see that these SC are, and the need to experience more than one. We can hold ourselves so tight, so close, not letting go for so many reasons and everyone’s will be different – not ready to, in old patterns, others in our life not ready for us to – and other times purely because time is needed to allow the healing to unfold and allow the soul to be freed in its own speed… I haven’t received all the answers yet, or know exactly where I want to head with this work…. I realise that I am still growing through this and have plenty of work to go yet, but I am feeling more myself each time and I believe my souls purpose will start to materialise alongside me sharing and using this work…. Melissa – Millaa Millaa, Qld Australia