Consultations
~* Are you ready for profound transformation centered around food, physical healing, and emotional well-being?
~* Are you committed to devoting energy, time, and kindness to your healing journey and to yourself?
~* Are you open to traditional, "folk" medicine, likely to offer you radical "new" ideas on healing which often run counter to modern, mainstream interpretations?
Call to schedule an introductory conversation, which is an excellent way for you to get a feel for how I work with clients and to see if we are a good match. These usually last 15 - 30 minutes and are free of cost. Full initial consultations usually last one to two hours. Regular sessions usually run half an hour to a full hour, depending on the dynamics of the conversation.
The cost is $75 per hour. If you are currently experiencing financial difficulty and are still reading past that first sentence, please know that Rossana Rossi is happy to work within your budget, and is open to offers of exchanges or barters.
To schedule a consultation, please download the Client Questionnaire below in either .pdf (Acrobat) or .doc (Word) format. You are welcome to fill it out by hand or on your computer. Rossana requests that you email back the completed form at least one day before your conversation.
Group Workshops
Rossana Inés Rossi offers workshops on healthy cooking, medicine-making, and nutrition as well as Weed & Wildflower Walks in your neighborhood or park. She welcomes collaborations with like-minded medicine people, artists, and business folk.e
Rossana works with private groups, organizations, and businesses.
Bodywork in the Cherokee Tradition
Incorporating massage; storytelling; smudging and rattling; guided imagery; the use of feathers and stones; and other techniques which may present themselves at the time, bodywork in the tradition of the Cherokee people is quite a contrast from massage as we generally know it today.
Like other indigenous peoples who followed time-honored healing principles, the Cherokee used bodywork as part of a larger matrix whose foundation rest in the individual's relationship to his/her community. Such that the stories we create form our reality - stories that explain the events of our lives, the conditions of our bodies, our successes, our setbacks, and our loves and heartbreaks. By exploring these stories using their particular symbolic and literal meanings, we are able to shift their elements and create new meanings. Doing this is like using a trampoline, wormhole, or a tele-porter to promote physical and emotional healing.
How is this possible? The use of symbols by our conscious mind allows direct access to our subconscious processes. This is the reason why adults have traditionally used stories to teach lessons to growing children - and why the use of metaphor remains powerful well into adulthood. The efficacy of symbolic language contrasts the sometimes-difficulty of using direct explanation under the same circumstances. To illustrate, I will share Jelaluddin Rumi's poem, "The Guest House" (translated by Coleman Barks) to show how narrative/ story/ metaphor/ et al., is capable of resonating powerfully and substitute dense psychological analysis.