About Me

Christine Palafox, LMT, NCBTMB-certified

My Background

I graduated in 1978 from the Boulder School of Massage Therapy. The work I do has been informed by my studies with the following leaders in their own fields: Mary Burmeister, (Jin Shin Jyutsu, who brought Jin Shin Jyutsu to the U.S.), Ron Kurtz (founder of the Hakomi Method for body-centered psychotherapy), Stephanie Mines (founder of the Jin Shin TARA/ TARA Approach), and Anna Halprin (modern dance pioneer and creator of the Life Art Process).

My Jin Shin studies began forty-two years ago in 1978.  I have specialized in using Jin Shin TARA for a broad spectrum of trauma for eighteen of those forty-two years. For ten years I served as the practitioner in rigorous clinical research studies about Jin Shin through the University of Colorado, Boulder's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.

For twenty-nine years I have facilitated people in creating personal ceremonies for their personal growth and to mark important life transitions while in the presence of witnessing friends and family. These ceremonies can be incorporated as an additional aspect to the trauma recovery work or simply for personal evolution.

My Philosophy

Our bodies harbor a profound well of body intelligence and regeneration that Jin Shin energy balancing effectively accesses. I find this work to be an elegant healing art that helps restore the natural wholeness of who we are beneath our conditioned life experiences and the tensions, imbalances, and limiting beliefs that arise from those experiences.

This work is a privilege to do because as I'm giving Jin Shin treatments to clients, I experience their essence directly through my hands as well as through the joy of observing them shift during a session from imbalance and tension into the flow and peace of energetic harmony. It's deeply gratifying to follow the positive impact that Jin Shin treatments has on peoples' bodies, minds, sensory perception, awareness, spirits, and quality of life.

In Case You Were Wondering...

I am passionate about wellness, consciousness, dance, sustainable living, and nature. For pleasure I participate in the Wilderdances (NatureMoves.org), Japanese butoh dance, Contemplative Movement, the Freedom Chorus in Paonia, and am the creator of community dance movement rituals for important themes or specific issues related to enhancing community resilience. Ask me about my twenty-four year old son and watch me glow.