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the Sixth Sense®, a private study apprenticeship for advanced practitioners ready to move from practice into mastery. She is also the founder of the Love & Live Free Institute, delivering online learning opportunities to a global community of students and practitioners.
In her application, somatic tools are sensory practices that cultivate a sense of relaxed awareness and spaciousness — the state needed to transcend and transform difficulty, and to grow and evolve consciousness. Panya doesn't draw from one tradition or orthodoxy. She weaves practices from many — strengthening the conventional mind-body connection, and going further still, because true somatic development also awakens intuition. There is something remarkable that happens when somatic awareness deepens: somatic intuition grows alongside it.
Panya found her way to somatics out of pure necessity. She began to contemplate and dabble in somatic practices during her University years, especially during a period of study abroad in Southern Africa. After graduating from the University of Virginia, Panya landed a dream job in Japan, which began a 25-year career in communications across Asia and the Americas -- where she worked in education, publishing, corporate philanthropy and as a consultant.
It was during a 3-year stint in Hong Kong that she moved from dabbling in to devoted to somatics — realizing that without addressing her stress level, she risked being broken by the pressure of her workload and relationship challenges. She began seeking out teachers and healers, and over the following decades studied specialized kinesiology — which deepened into an exploration of Traditional Chinese Medicine — alongside Interfaith ministry and yoga, each expanding her understanding of the body as a place where opposites meet and resolve into wholeness.
In 2010 she was given a golden opportunity to share her good news. She opened a private practice in New York City offering soma-centered treatment programs to busy professionals, and hasn't looked back.
Panya's in-person, online and group programs are the culmination of her life experience, training and certification in powerful self-empowerment techniques (listed below), and have helped thousands of people across the globe achieve breakthrough transformation, mind, body and spirit. Her vision is to inspire "healthy humans to live in healthy community together, in a healthy ecosystem."
Panya currently lives in New Mexico with her beloved husband, daughter and son. She loves to travel, create, and spend time in nature. She is passionate about helping servant leaders and change agents achieve greater health and vitality so that they can serve at their highest level. READ OFFICIAL BIO HERE
TRAINING & CERTIFICATION
* Body Revitalization/
Total Body Modification
* Brain Gym
* Energetic Body Work
* Holistic Nutrition
* Interfaith Ministry
* Intuitive Linking
* Meditation & Relaxation
* Mind Body Medicine
* Specialized Kinesiology
Panya Walker is a somatic practitioner and teacher who centers her work around holism and somatic practices that facilitate personal and professional transformation, ignite creativity and develop the sixth sense. She practices first, always — what she teaches comes from what she has lived. She is the creator of the Onward & Upward Training System®, a step-by-step process for embodied transformation; Rooted & Rising, an ongoing monthly membership community for somatic practice; and Somatics for