Ingrid Bacci is an internationally recognized medical intuitive healer, author and inspirational trainer of personal and physical self-empowerment. Her two books, The Art of Effortless Living (Perigee, 2002) and Effortless Pain Relief (Simon & Schuster, 2005), both of which are translated into numerous languages, have been Book of the Month Club selections and have been featured in Oprah's magazine "O." Ingrid offers retreats on self-healing as well as training in craniosacral therapy and medical intuitive healing throughout the United States and Europe. She also offers private sessions both in person and on the phone, to help clients identify and treat core issues involved in their healing process.

Ingrid is a pioneer in creating and teaching mind-body techniques to transform one's life from a pattern of stress, effort, struggle, scarcity consciousness, physical and emotional pain, and even disease, to a condition of effortless achievement, inner and outer abundance, mental and emotional optimization, and radiant health. Her deep expertise grew out of an abrupt and catastrophic change in her own life. After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard University and receiving a doctorate from Columbia University in only four years, Ingrid had started a career as a college professor when she became crippled by a severe connective tissue disease. Mostly bedridden for three years, she found that prolonged medication and hospital care failed to help her. She then embarked on an exploration of bodywork and mind-body techniques, and healed completely. This led to a radical career shift. First, she trained in and taught numerous forms of bodywork and self-awareness (e.g.Alexander Technique, Craniosacral therapy) for healing from chronic pain. Then she expanded further, exploring how the powerful mind-body tools she had identified could not only eliminate pain and disease, but also transform limiting emotional, mental and behavioral patterns in all areas of life. She realized that the principles of effortless living that she had developed for eliminating physical pain could also be utilized to create loving and synergistic relationships, professional achievement, material well-being, intuitive self-development, and the capacity for spiritual service.

Through her lectures, workshops, individual consultations and educational products, Ingrid teaches clients how to use self-awareness to enhance personal empowerment. The process of achieving this is two-fold. First, clients release the negative conditioning that creates self-sabotage, struggle, fear, doubt and anger, and that results in external failure or only limited success. Second, they cultivate the inner experiences of effortlessness, depth, tranquility and power, and learn how to apply these to daily activities and goal-setting. This process automatically improves health, creates inner and outer abundance, and fosters a deep sense of life purpose. The personal sense of effortlessness that accompanies full self-empowerment, and that is the hallmark of finding one's life purpose, is not only the highest of gifts. It is also the precondition for empowering others and promoting social healing.

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