MEET ALLISON

Allison Distler

Hi, I'm Allison. Welcome here! I'm an animist, born neurodivergent in the midwestern United States woodlands, a place currently called Indiana. I'm the face of a diverse lineage of people: a mix of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and English colonialist settlers along the Ohio River Valley, as well as recently immigrated people displaced from the Sudentenland after WWII (land now incorporated into the Czech Republic).

The land on which my work takes place are the unceded and formally unrecognized traditional lands of the Myaamiaki, Lënape, Bodwéwadmik, and Saawanwa people (Miami, Delaware, Potawatomi, and Shawnee). I also recognize the many unnamed people who have called this land their home, as well as the people of this place who are other than human (deep woodlands, wetlands, plants and animals.)

I work in service to the human body, ancestral healing, and the living earth. My formal background is in research psychology, sociology, and non-traditional psychotherapeutic disciplines. I've had the good fortune to live and study with Soto Zen practitioners and have an ongoing relationship with contemplative practice.

Professionally, I am a Certified Advanced Rolfer®, a Psychological Astrologer, an Ancestral Medicine Practitioner (in-training), and a Women Writing for (a) Change facilitator.  My special interests include ancestry, writing, train travel, photography, slow living, the history of medicine, nature as medicine, hillwalking and hiking, astrology, the history of the Midwest United States, near-death experience, and ancient ways of healing.

It's my intention to steward sacred repair, reconnection, and integration services for those who are called. I offer consultations, ancestral and ritual support, astrological, as well as body regenerative services. I work one to one, and with small groups (including professional groups and families).

In practice, much of the work I do is in the physical realm at the level of the human body. It's been my experience that the body loves to be seen, appreciated, and talked with in a kind, non-objectifying container. I take great care in building and bringing a wholesome atmosphere for body mind work. Especially where touch is involved.  I want for all of us who are divergent, different, and highly sensitive to have a robust, reliable physical container so that we can wholly be ourselves.  We are the medicine this time has called for, let us shine.
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