Meet Kirsten Bonanza, Founder of Conscious Being Institute

I am excited to invite you to join me on a journey toward greater consciousness. It sounds airy fairy, but in reality it can be a gritty adventure at times of being brave enough to look for awareness in everything.  It can also bring in the joy of experiencing as your life something that you never knew was possible.  Would you like to come along?

​I comes to this work from the belief that we all can make the choice to take our wellness into our own hands, a choice I personally made in the aftermath of 9/11 and in healing that trauma. 

​I am a Certified Facilitator (CF) with Access Consciousness and facilitate the following classes: Foundation, Access Bars™, Energetic Facelift™, & Body Processes. I offer sessions in Bars, Energetic Facelift, Body Processes, Symphony of Possibilities (SOP), Energetic Synthesis of Structural Embodiment (ESSE), Abuse Hold, & 1-on-1 as well as group facilitation.​

My healing path has included working with a vast number of modalities including the spiritual technologies made available through wisdom passed down through indigenous traditions of the Americas. This includes the power of the medicine song, plant spirit dieta, limpia, cleanses, breathwork, and immune supportive and regenerative physical therapies.  I've learned from the Indigenous Grandmothers, Paititi Institute, Don Oscar Miro Quesada, and many more who don't see the need to have a website. The Earth and her non-human beings have been some of my greatest teachers. 

An avid yogi, I have studied Iyengar inspired Hatha Yoga at Karuna Yoga in Northampton, MA with Eileen Muir receiving my YT200 in 2013.  I successfully completed 100 hours of training in  Equine Yoga with Kindred Spirits Yoga & Wellness in Costa Rica. I have a pending certification in 300YTT with Yoga Renew and as an Equine Om (EOC) instructor to teach one-one-one sessions and group based horse yoga experiences and on a Restorative Yoga and Yin Yoga program.  What can I say?  I like yoga.  I have a deep love for the power of the restorative Asana, Pranayama, Yoga for Equestrians, Equine Yoga, and Dhyana (meditation.) 

I work extensively with facilitating clients to live the life that they choose from C-level executives to individuals that find me beause they are looking for something different.  

I handcraft and wildcraft a variety of plant medicines for your wellness needs that I grew, formulated, and/or foraged.  Current products in my alternative medicine apothecary include 100% Organic and GMO free, full spectrum CBD hemp oil, flower essences, various salves & tinctures. These items can be very beneficial to supporting the body and mind as it engages in the process of change and are only available by direct request.  ​ 

I provide workshops, classes, trainings and programs on mindfulness, horses, and consciousness with clients across the United States as well as globally. 

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I provide energetic bodywork therapies to people, their animal companions, and the Earth.  Is it like Reiki?  No, but that's about as close as anything you might otherwise be aware of so you can think of it that way if it helps.

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When taking a break from global trotting and being joyously nomadic I find my home in Springfield, Illinois  where I'm re-wilding a suburban home into a permaculture inspired food forest with my enjoyable other Sean, my furbabies & feathered friends. 

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