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   Marsha Craven, LMT, CCHt, RMT
Partner and President

For over 25 years, Marsha Craven has facilitated mind-body-spirit seminars. She is the originator of several energy based healing modalities that are amazingly effective.  Marsha is an inspired teacher and facilitator of the healing arts.  Her unique combination of extraordinary insight and innovation, compassion, humor, real life experience and fearless pursuit of excellence makes every moment of class time with Marsha a unique experience cherished by class participants.  Building on her innate gifts for healing, Marsha has studied and mastered many healing modalities over the last 40 years, incorporating only the most effective into her practice which includes private consultations, teaching and mentoring.  The modalities offered work with traditional allopathic healthcare to create an optimum healing environment.

For a three years period starting in 1978, Marsha had the privilege to work with two chiropractors, Dr. Thomas Faulkner, DC and Dr. Max Garten DO, DC in San Jose, CA. She was taught powerful techniques for working with the cranium, sacrum and vasomotor system, as well as the emotional aspects of the body. It is similar to what is called CranioSacral Therapy today. She has attended cranialsacral workshops from The Upledger Foundation, Shea Educational Group and Milne Institute. She has incorporated her training with years of experience to form her own style of working with and teaching this technique.

Marsha is a pioneer in the world of connecting mind-body-spirit through innovative and effective healing modalities.  Marsha has this to say about “Matrix Healing Technique™ and Lightbody Connection™, her original works channeled  in the early 1980’s.  "I taught one seminar in the San Francisco Bay area; after which, I put the material on the shelf and did not teach it again until 2000.  Since then, I have taught these seminars several times and a growing number of practitioners find resonance with this work.

DNA Cell(f) Imagery™” and Belief Systems Re-patterning™ evolved from my hypnotherapy program, “Cell(f) Command Therapy” which I began using in the mid-1980’s and began teaching in 1992.  Additional resources came from studying the work of individuals who have dedicated their lives to healing through integration of science, mind, body and spirit:  Lavona Stillman, PhD; Dr. Thomas Faulkner, DC; Dr. Max Garten, DC, ND; Robert V. Gerard, PhD; Vianna Stibal; Theresa Dale, PhD; Rupert Sheldrake, PhD and Rosalind Franklin, PhD.”

Marsha Craven is President of Healing Arts Connection, L.L.C., as well as its Education Director. Marsha’s unique qualifications for this work include Licensed Massage Therapist; Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist; Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist Examiner; Reiki Master/Teacher; DNA Practitioner/Instructor, and Ordained Reverend with the Universal Church of The Master, the oldest spiritualist church in America.

Marsha has taught healing arts through these schools and organizations:

Alternative Healing Connection, San Jose, CA & Phoenix, AZ
Center for BodyHarmonics, Santa Clara, CA
Healing Arts Connection, Phoenix, AZ
Kathleen Sikorski’s Short Courses, San Jose & Sacramento, CA
Phoenix Therapeutic Massage College, Phoenix & Scottsdale, AZ
Radiant Life Academy, San Jose, CA
Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale AZ - Continuing education
Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
Stillman Institute, Santa Clara, CA
University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ - Continuing Education

Recent Publications:

Craven, Marsha.  "The Cranial Concept... the Inner Solution for Self-Healing", Arizona Networking News, April, 2002.

Craven, Marsha.  "Integrating Bodywork Therapies" (format: audiotape) Recording from the 2000 Conference, Kona, Hawaii: "Taking Your Practice to the Next Level" Sponsored by: Innovision Communications  ConferenceRecording.com   Inn20010

Mary Ellen Brown, LISW, MBA, LMT
Partner and CEO

With more than 35 years of experience in non-profit, behavioral health, social service, business and academic communities, Mary Ellen is responsible for financial and operational leadership at Healing Arts Connection.  Mary Ellen has helped several healthcare corporations develop balanced management systems and optimum healing environments.

Following her passion for learning and continually seeking more pieces of the healing puzzle, Mary Ellen  studies and practices several hands-on healing arts modalities,  including:  cranialsacral therapy, polarity therapy, DNA Cell(f) Imagery, Activation & Transformation, Matrix Healing Connection, Light Body Activation, Transformational Breath, Quantum Touch and other energy therapies.  Mary Ellen is an Arizona Licensed Independent Social Worker, Licensed Massage Therapist, and holds a MSW and MBA.

Prior to co-founding Healing Arts Connection, Mary Ellen served as Managing Partner of an integrated services network serving over 5,000 children and families with serious behavioral health issues.  Prior to that, Mary Ellen served Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Phoenix for 24 years as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President and started a JFCS subsidiary, Topaz Information, an information technology company specializing in integrating electronic medical records and practice management system.   Mary Ellen came to Phoenix from the University of Nebraska-Omaha where she taught and conducted research.  Prior to that she worked as a child welfare supervisor on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indian Reservation in North Dakota. 

  Brian Skow, M.S., LMT, Dipl. ABT, NCCAOM
Certified Practitioner, AOBTA
Asian Bodyworks Instructor at Healing Arts Connection

Certifications, Licensing and Education

• Diplomate for Asian Bodywork Therapy by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), November 2003 and on.
• Certified Practitioner of the American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia (AOBTA), February 2003 and on.
• Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) by the State of Arizona, July 2002 and on.
• Diploma in Asian Bodywork Therapy and a Certificate of Excellence in Zen Shiatsu from the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA), June 2002.

Private Practice Experience

• Private practice in Asian medicine, including Shiatsu (Japanese medical bodywork), Kampo (Japanese herbal formulas), and BioPharma Scientific NanoGreens10 (phytonutrients) since July of 2002.
• Quantitative success in increasing immune system granular levels.
• Qualitative success in helping clients reduce aches and pains, eliminate migraines, recover quickly from injuries and surgeries, boost immunity and increase vitality during and after conventional cancer treatments, improve depth and length of sleep, enhance breathing, and obtain a greater sense of general well-being and freedom from stress.

• Healing Arts Connection (HAC) - teacher of Asian Bodywork Secrets, Chair Shiatsu, Meridian Exercises, Acupressure - Self, and Acupressure - Basic in 2008.
   
• Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA) - Meridian Exercises teacher for October/November of 2006, Energetic Acupressure substitute teacher in May of 2006, and Asian Therapy Clinic supervisor substitute from 2003 through 2006.
• Phoenix College - Shiatsu teacher for the spring semester of 2004.
• Presentations -  "Asian Medicine and Cancer" for The Wellness Community on April 10th, 2007, and "Asian Bodywork Therapy" for the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine on June 27th, 2006.

• NCCAOM ABT Exam Development Committee member from 2007.
• NCCAOM National Academy of Item Writers member from 2005 through 2007.
• President of the AOBTA Arizona State Chapter from 2003 through 2004.

• “Anger and Asian Medicine", AZNetNews, June/July 2007.
• “Professional-grade Shiatsu", AZNetNews, February/March 2007.

• Practitioner of Qigong and Tai Chi Chuan since 2001.
• Shodan (first degree) Black Belt in Danzan Ryu Jujitsu, September 2000.
• A total of eight years of jujutsu study, including two years of traditional Japanese jujutsu practice as a child (1972-1973) in Brussels, Belgium, one year of Kantan Kyo Jujutsu practice (1994-1995) in Boise, Idaho, and five years of Danzan Ryu Jujitsu practice (mid-1995 through 2000) in Tempe, Arizona.

• Master of Science in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, 1986.
• Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies (emphasizing human performance) from Arizona State University, 1985.
• Certified by Honeywell as a Six Sigma Black Belt.
   
• Eighteen years of success in corporate process improvement (working for a mid-sized insurance company, a start-up, and the electronics giant Honeywell).

Healing Arts Connection Seminars

Marsha Craven is President of Healing Arts Connection, L.L.C., an organization specializing in continuing education and consultation using various healing modalities that facilitate mind-body-spirit healing.  If you would like to bring one of these seminars to your area,  you can help make it happen.  For more information, including incentives for seminar host, contact "Healing Arts Connection"

 623.215.7988 or  info@How2Heal.com

Now booking 2008 seminars.  
 

Notice:  Information provided through Healing Arts Connection, LLC seminars, consultations, website and other written and verbal communication is for educational purposes only and is intended to complement, not replace medical treatment.  This information is not a substitute for medical advice and we are not diagnosing or treating specific health challenges.  Please do not delay consultation with an appropriate health care provider for a potentially serious physical, mental or emotional symptom or condition.