Susan Chiocchi, CRMT, Dipl. BHS, Certified Soul & Life Force Retrieval Ritualist, BFA
Susan Chiocchi (key-o-key) began working with subtle energy more than thirty years ago in meditation practice. Her studies led to a year and a half of formal training in Reiki culminating with a Reiki Master Teacher certification in 2000. Susan completed a four year training at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing in 2004, receiving a diploma in Brennan Healing Science. In November of 2013 after 2 years of study and intensive practice she was in the first group of laypeople to be certified by Ligmincha Institute in Virginia to perform Soul and Life Force Retreival ritual in the Bön Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Her studies continue in the deep lexicon of healing practices from the Bon tradition.
Concurrent with her healing studies and practice Susan began an in depth exploration of yoga. She completed the first Teacher Training Richard Freeman offered in 1999 and many of his subsequent trainings. Susan was later invited to teach in trainings and intensives and to illustrate energy phenomenon in Richard's book, The Mirror of Yoga (Shambhala Press, 2010). Susan teaches for yoga studios and yoga teacher trainings internationally.
Susan finds that her healing practice, meditation and yoga practices support and enhance one another. Daily practice provides a venue for deeper exploration of subtle energy leading to better clarity, understanding and ultimately integration. Perhaps most important, “A daily practice helps me build a stronger energy container so that I can move through healing practices with curiosity and openness. Healing work can be very challenging in both subtlity and intensity. The more I can be present with the energies that are moving, the more beneficial the work is.”
Prior to her work with healing and yoga Susan was a professional Illustrator. She has a BFA. Some of her illustrations can be found throughout this website. She maintains a private healing practice in Boulder. Susan teaches Reiki, energy anatomy and reading and healing the energy body in workshops and apprenticeships. She is a consultant for the Urban Zen Integrated Therapist program in New York and teaches Reiki and other Urban Zen modalities to hospital staff and yoga teachers.