A Different Approach To Healing
We are so excited to share with you what it is that The Vitalist Institute is bringing to West Michigan.
We aim to bring an alternative approach of therapy and healing to West Michigan, integrating somatic (body-based) therapies that provide clients with access to a “bottom-up” approach.
What is a Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Approach?
The majority of personal growth theories you will come across are approached using the MIND…to understand, analyze, and make sense of your experiences, and what you already know with the hopes that the mind alone will help you make changes.
What is lacking for so many people who are unable to experience the level of change or healing that they desire is access to the lower part of the brain. You access and heal this part of your brain through working with the body...
There is a way you can stop repressing who and what you have always been and allow a more vibrant and natural expression of you to bubble back up.
This is good news!
You can learn to suffer less and dance more.
This work will change you from the inside out.
At the Vitalist Institute, we integrate a bottom-up and top-down approach. Our priority is to create a safe space for deep work. Our practitioners are all trauma-informed and integrate the use of dialog, movement, touch, breathwork, somatic therapy, coaching, and education to restore the brain & nervous system to help you uncover and live out your most authentic expression.
The act of uncovering and living out your most authentic expression will create more space and vitality in your life. When you generate the courage to dig more deeply into your body, you will learn to engage life with more ease, creativity, passion, and clarity.
In order to support as many people as we can to have access to this work, we have built a comprehensive offering of services...
Whether it is an online Breathwork Ceremony, a weekend retreat, or a one-on-one session at the Vitalist Institute, we aren’t interested in the quick fixes that merely mask symptoms.
As you learn to uproot and examine your unexpressed emotions and feel your unmet needs, you can begin to cultivate more self-compassion.
By recognizing that many of your behaviors were formed during younger developmental years as “safety strategies,” you can find empathy for, rather than the pathology of, your inner wounds. By confronting outdated beliefs and beginning to rewire yourself to what is true in the HERE and NOW, transformation will arise from the inside out.
We can’t wait to hear from you.
Micah Mclauglin and Leah Grace have been working together since 2013 and have been a bit obsessive on their healing journeys. Driven by their own deep desires for contentment and meaning, they have traveled across the world seeking out teachers and modalities of embodied transformation. With 35+ years of combined experience, they are thrilled to share what they have learned in the simplest and most profound ways they know-how. Arising from their deep calling to teach the teachers, Micah and Leah have combined forces to bring this work into the world through The Vitalist Institute of Psychospiritual Transformation.