At The Anzelmo Wellness Center we have carefully selected various therapies as part of our detox plan and recovery program. These therapies help you on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level, in order to make your transition into a sober lifestyle as easy as possible after your Ibogaine treatment. When a recovering addict opens up new body and mind pathways of thought, emotion and being, new vibrations are created, thus disrupting and decreasing previous addiction memory pathways.
As you remove your old habit — addiction — we want to replace it with new habits: positive and supportive techniques that you will take with you when you leave and start rebuilding your life. Our Qigong instructor talked to us about how Qigong works, and why it’s so effective for those suffering from heroin addiction:
“In the first days, they don’t feel strong enough to do the practice, they don’t see the sense in it. Most of them have never heard about it, they don’t know what it is, it doesn’t make sense to them. But after a few days you don’t need to know, you just practice and you feel it . You’re going to find out by yourself, which I think is a better way. Qigong is not something that you read. It’s something that you do. It’s a practice, and you can not compare it with anything. You have to discover Qigong. And that’s what we’re trying to inspire.”
“Once you feel it, then you know there is something very strong and powerful that runs through your body. You will realize that it’s a very sacred and spiritual practice. You will realize you are alive and that you are really connected with everything around you and everybody. Then life will start to proceed in a different way. We start to perceive life in a different way, in a more connected way, in a more peaceful way, in a more joyful way. And the blessing that this practice gives to us is that we are free to go anywhere and we don’t need anyone to find the results that we are looking for.”
“Well, maybe at the beginning we need someone to guide us to stand up properly, and how to breathe and remind us how to hold the body and to relax but once we have these general guidelines, we can do it on our own and you don’t need to know too much to be able to practice on your own. You can do it just by standing properly and having the right intention. And sooner or later you are going to feel the energy flowing all over you.”
Qigong is a vital step in at The Anzelmo Wellness Center. We have found that this ancient Chinese practice will not only increase vitality but is directly able to re-direct cravings into emotional balance…in 5 short minutes.
The Anzelmo Wellness Center is an integrated clinic dedicated to healing severe addiction, deep trauma, and other challenges that life hands us. Our treatment philosophy combines the best of Western treatment modalities with ancient healing techniques and traditional indigenous wisdom.
