Modalities

Transpersonal Drama Therapy is the first modality Luz Elena learned and mastered. Her mentor, the late Saphira Linden (May her soul rest in peace) drew on the teachings of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Carl Jung, Marion Woodman, Jean Houston, Jacob Moreno and many others. Luz Elena wrote a chapter in the book Saphira edited, The Heart and Soul of Psychotherapy: A Transpersonal Approach through Theater Art, which focuses on the application and effectiveness of using Transpersonal Drama Therapy for personal and collective wellness.
The foundational perspective of all of Luz Elena’s work dwells in the “Twelve Principles of Omega Transpersonal Drama Therapy,” as created by Saphira Linden, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT, CP:

• Assuming health rather than pathology

• Shifting the identity from a limited sense of self to the essential self

• Embodying and role-playing therapeutic issues

• Making the unconscious conscious through symbolic and metaphoric approaches

• Working with archetypes

• Embracing love while holding all emotions as sacred

• Creating a sacred space

• Fostering an experience of interconnectedness and unity

• Seeking mastery through self-discipline

• Achieving balance

• Identifying and achieving one’s life purpose

• Creating one’s life as a work of art
  
  

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a field that studies the relationship between our senses, language, and behavior, with the goal of being able to modify these patterns for personal liberation, better communication, and professional satisfaction . NLP techniques often focus on releasing limiting and conflicting beliefs and behavioral patterns.
Luz Elena uses NLP because of its fast, effective and lasting results. She studied NLP with Jenna Knapp and is certified as a Life and Success Coach by Mental Wealth Method (2020) with the “highest level of competence and skill” in the practice of NLP.

Luz Elena uses hypnosis, as needed and with a participant’s permission and guidance, in order to help people reach goals more easily and with less effort. Hypnosis involves entering a state of deep relaxation and enhanced suggestibility, where one can be programmed to feel and believe whatever one chooses to focus on, within high ethical standards which take into account one’s culture and basic reality.
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Subliminal stimuli is around us at all times; in our homes, work and environments. Subliminals are sensory inputs we perceive below our threshold for conscious perception: often visual or auditory cues hidden or masked in music and pictures to bypass conscious processing. Subliminals are often used to control people.
In this Inner Wisdom work, within ethical standards and with permission and guidance of the person seeking a certain outcome, Luz Elena uses subliminals to help people get desired results with minimal effort.
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Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art of placement that affects every aspect of one’s life. There are many ancient and modern schools of Feng Shui, which may take into consideration a person’s birth information, goals and current challenges.
Luz Elena has been studying and working with Feng Shui for decades, enlisting the help of Feng Shui masters as needed.
In order to assure her participants’ optimal results, Luz Elena often uses Feng Shui in the most basic of ways.

Developed by Bert Hellinger, Family Constellations is an embodied therapy which helps people understand and resolve challenges by exploring family dynamics and entanglements across generations. It works in and with the biomorphic field, similar to the biomorphic resonance discovered by biologist, Rupert Sheldrake. The participant notices patterns, uncovers hidden dynamics, and then returns ancestral patterns to their source. 
Introduced to this method decades ago, Luz Elena continues to study with Teresa Maza, who she trained extensively with in San Cristóbal de las Casas.

"Tapping" refers to techniques that reduce and often eliminate physical, mental and emotional distress. Luz Elena has studied, taught and currently uses many tapping techniques, including methods inspired EFT, TAT, and Dynamind. With tapping, the participant stimulates specific acupressure areas of their body while speaking out loud about challenging memories, physical symptoms, desired outcomes, helpful emerging beliefs and limiting and/or paradoxical thinking. Luz Elena chooses and innovates tapping techniques suitable for each person. These are chosen for their effectiveness and lasting results.
Luz Elena states, “I originally, reluctantly, took a tapping course about 30 years ago. I realized that in all my schooling to become a psychotherapist, I had never learned how to help someone out of suffering, quickly, effectively and in a lasting way. This method does this and opened up worlds of healing modalities for me!”

Qigong refers to a Chinese style of self-care and community connection going back more than 5000 years. Zhineng Qigong emphasizes gentle movements and a focus of awareness that enhances health, prevents disease and improves mental faculties. Developed by Dr. Pang Ming, who created the Medicineless Hospital, Zhineng Qigong is known for its accessible nature and effectiveness. This way of moving and perceiving the world connects us with the ability to move Qi, the essence of the wisdom energy of the universe. Luz Elena has studied Zhineng Qigong for over 6 years, originally with Lew Whitney and then for years with Lucia Morey. Luz Elena has also studied different forms of Qigong with Robert Peng and Chunyi Lin. Luz Elena is currently continuing her studies and certification trainings in Zhineng Qigong with Master Zhu Conghua of Beijing, who studied directly with with Dr. Pang Ming.

Luz Elena studied Sound Healing for decades with Zacciah Blackburn as well as with the late Sarah Saruah Benson (May she rest in peace). Both of these masters taught intuitive, intentional styles of sensing vibrations deeply in the body and then channeling sound, primarily vocally, individually and in groups. From the silence, frequencies, tones, rhythms and all sounds generated create a liberating and relaxing atmosphere promoting surrender, release and the opening of vital energetic pathways in and around one’s body and the environment.
Thus the way is open for promoting physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being and clarity.
Luz Elena’s Sound Healing, primarily vocal, and also via concerts, whether channeled individually or in group, generates an atmosphere of love, harmony and beauty.
Instruments and recorded music are sometimes used.

In Transpersonal Developmental Psychology, there are no limits assigned to human beings;
Our ultimate possibilities are purely unknown. From this point of view, evolution and expansion into the realms of the greatest mysteries are the essence of who we are.
Luz Elena holds a master’s degree in Transpersonal Developmental Psychology.
This perspective embraces the investigations of developmental psychologists of the past, and continues exploring spiritual and transcendental aspects of human experience beyond ego-related views. Transpersonal Developmental Psychology delves into the interconnectedness of the ‘self’ and ‘higher consciousness,’ exploring spiritual and transcendental experiences as well as mystical states.
Transpersonal perspectives, including those of ancient Oriental traditions, are helpful when cultivating an experience of being present as an individual as well as part of the greater collective and whole universe. 

Co-founder of the Vermont Wilderness School, Luz Elena studied ancient and creative ‘nature connection’ modalities with Saphira Linden and Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, and then more about nature connection with the deeply inspiring Jon Young.
All Inner Wisdom work addresses being present in the here and now, and is based firmly and completely on a healthy connection with the natural world, which lives and evolves infinitely within and all around us.

TIME Techniques, developed by Leslie Cameron-Bandler and others, is a collection of techniques for eliminating recurring negative emotions, disempowering beliefs and limiting decisions from the past, including past lives and generational patterns, while creating and setting achievable, desirable goals to create a compelling future. Luz Elena learned TIME Techniques from Jenna Knapp, and uses them as needed in the Inner Wisdom Work.