Why Kusala?
Kusala Healing Arts embodies the skillfulness at the heart of its name, “kusala.” Drawing from ancient Pāli and Sanskrit, kusala (pronounced “kuśh-ah-la”) is defined by The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions as the quality of being adept in choosing actions that avoid hindering spiritual development, instead focusing on those that foster and accelerate one’s spiritual wellness.
Our mission is deeply rooted in facilitating authentic healing, by offering a compass to navigate through the terrain of current and past life traumas. We provide guidance towards choices and actions that encourage spiritual and holistic growth, ensuring a genuine restoration of the self.
What About Akusala?
In our journey towards wellness, understanding “akusala” is as vital as embracing “kusala.” Akusala, the antithesis of kusala, serves as an essential reminder of our current state and our progress in cultivating skillfulness.
Defined simply, akusala represents unskillful actions. These are actions that yield unwelcome consequences, often leading to suffering or adverse destinies, as they spring from the three detrimental roots: greed (lobha), hatred (dosa), and delusion (moha). Recognizing and transforming these unskillful actions are essential steps in our healing process, ensuring we move towards a path of positive growth and true healing.
Understanding Karma and Past Life Traumas
The Soul Remembers
At Kusala Healing Arts, we explore the karmic imprints of past lives through the lens of cause and effect — karma that flows across lifetimes. We believe the body and mind hold traces of these experiences, which can surface through healing practices rooted in somatic awareness and intention.
Revealing Somatic Patterns
As individuals allow memories and traumas held in the body to rise to the surface, they begin to open a pathway to deeper healing. This process brings unconscious influences into conscious awareness, offering the chance to experience them directly and transform long-standing habits and patterns.
Karma as Spiritual Development
Karma is not a straight line, but a web of connection — linking actions across lifetimes to our present state of well-being. It weaves through the cycle of rebirth (samsara) and reveals itself in the patterns that guide our spiritual growth and evolution. At Kusala Healing Arts, we support patients in deepening their awareness through practices like meditation, conscious dreaming, and movement-based therapies — inviting their own spiritual insight to lead the way.
Karma in Focus
Karmic imprints can live in the body and mind, quietly shaping how we feel and relate to the world around us.
Karma reveals itself through patterns – sometimes physical, sometimes emotional – that ask for attention and care.
Somatic healing helps surface memories stored in the body, allowing them to be felt, expressed, and released.
Healing karmic influences isn’t about fixing what’s broken — it’s about returning to your natural wholeness and vitality.
Karma is not judged by any personal or impersonal force; notions of “good” or “bad” karma are projections of the ego, while true insight emerges through self-awareness.
Healing the Bodymind Through Awareness and Integration
Working with the Present Moment
Our approach to healing centers on what is present in the bodymind today. Rather than chasing past-life causes, we meet what arises — physical sensations, felt emotions, and psychic imprints — through the lens of somatic awareness. In this grounded presence, transformation begins naturally and authentically.
Empowering Self-Healing
We serve as facilitating reflections, helping individuals recognize and resolve the deeper imbalances beneath their physical manifestations. Through this process, clients are supported in reclaiming agency over their healing journey and aligning with their natural capacity for wholeness.
Living Beyond Old Patterns
With continued practice, individuals often begin to experience a greater sense of ease and joy. The path of healing becomes a return to self — one marked not by struggle but by integration, growth, and freedom from the cycles of pain and the relationships that shaped them.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
Contact Ryan to begin your path toward deeper healing. Whether you’re navigating old wounds or seeking a greater sense of clarity and ease, we’re here to support your journey.