Lucien Demaris is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner (GCFP) and Change Your Age™ (CYA) teacher, as well as a California Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac.) with a Master's degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine and Chinese Herbology (MTOM). He is also a Nationally Certified Bodyworker (NCTMB) trained in a variety of physical therapies including Craniosacral Therapy, Myofascial Release and Visceral Manipulation. He has been an explorer of human potential through somatic studies and embodiment practices for 20 years. He currently serves as Director of Wellness at RakSa in Culver City, where he also holds his private practice.

Lucien grew up among the indigenous peoples of Ecuador, where he apprenticed in ancient healing practices with traditional healers and shamans (curanderos, yerberos, and sobadores), both with Kichwa Yachags in the Andean highlands and with Shuar Uwishins in the Amazonian jungle. He later moved to Los Angeles to learn from renowned anthropologist and shaman Carlos Castaneda and his associates. While immersed in their teachings, Lucien continued studying other natural healing modalities, and ultimately became immersed in Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais's fascinating and revolutionary perspective on human motion and learning.

Today, Lucien brings to his practice the jewels of all these experiences: self-sensing, conscious touch, and experiential movement for a deeper experience of well-being and humanity. He helps his students and patients regain an intimate connection with themselves by the experience of physical joy and pleasure in their day-to-day movements and activities. Once that is set in our bodies, Lucien believes it is easier to reconnect with our innate ability to direct our own healing and achieve our full potential.

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