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Feel better, sooner.
Learn how to create emotional freedom in a 15-minute daily practice of movement and music.
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Healing that lasts.
Our method is tested by real people who are seeing real and lasting results in their daily life.
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Use it for life.
Once learned, you can apply the method to heal yourself and create an extraordinary life.
If you've tried everything from therapy, self-help, retreats, spirituality, and more . . .
You understand yourself. You know why you are the way you are. You know the parts of your past that create the problems you are seeking to heal.
You've done the therapy. The workshops. The retreats. You've read the books and done years of personal development work, but still feel stuck.
You've tried embodiment. You've tried crying it out, shaking it out, talking it out, breathing it out, dancing it out . . . ​​​​​
You know your story inside and out, but you're stuck in a pattern.
You're repeating patterns in important areas of life like love, money, or work despite years of working on yourself.
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You're trying to regulate your emotions, but you still react to things – even when you saw it coming - and end up in regret later.
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You've had peak experiences and spiritual realizations only to lose the benefits a week or two later.
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You feel stuck in patterns of people pleasing or avoiding. You have a loud inner critic or struggle with perfectionism. Or you're numbing yourself to get through the day.
Learn Ishtara and create healing that lasts.
​Most healing methods try to fix you, change you, or help you get rid of difficult feelings. But this only keeps us in cycles of more fixing.
Here's our truth: You are not broken. Your feelings are not problems. Your patterns are not a problem. Your body is not a problem. Your body is the solution. And if you are hurting, the remedy is love.
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In Ishtara, healing happens as a result of completing patterns at the source, your body, in a way that is safe and loving.
Ishtara is a beautiful way to heal that uses music + movement + method to free your emotions and every part of you.
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Lesley
"After trying numerous courses and self-help books for my mental health without success, Ishtara was a game-changer that helped me safely feel emotions and break free from the darkness that used to paralyze me."
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Nereyda
"Ishtara opened up a whole new world for me. I have so much love for my body and feel free to express all my emotions because I finally feel safe enough to feel. Ishtara is such a gift."
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Shannon
"I found the peace I craved and a love for myself that I never knew was possible. Before Ishtara, I tried many things to bring me the peace that I so dearly desired. Ishtara gave me what other methods could not and more than I ever thought possible."
Learn Ishtara.
Learn our method online at home in a live course guided by a trained teacher and personalized to you.
You understand it. We teach you how to heal it, body up.
Learn at home in online courses that are guided by teachers and personalized to you. Here's what you learn:
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Love your body.
Restore a true sense of love for your body and yourself. Learn how to listen to your body like a trusted friend and guide.
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Free your emotions.
Go beyond regulating and learn to turn sadness to love, fear to intuition, and anger to passion in your body with our method.
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Move your body.
Learn the foundation of our method - a movement practice that creates a feeling of pleasure and calm in just 15 minutes.
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Love all parts of you.
Learn how our method can be used to heal your past and your patterns and free you to create an extraordinary life.
Created over 10 years.
Hi, I'm Tracy. Ishtara is a method I created to heal myself from childhood trauma. I would love to share it with you.
Ishtara is the result of my 25+ year search for ways to heal myself. I tried many things. I like to say, I had a PhD in my own psychology. I understood myself, but understanding did not change anything for me.
Learning how to listen to my body changed everything for me. I learned to feel my emotions simply as sensation in my body. I tried releasing my emotions for years, but it wasn’t enough. One day, I began adding a loving response to my emotions in a way I could feel in my body. To my surprise, it worked! I quickly began to feel emotionally safe. And day by day, long standing patterns melted away both inside AND out. In time, my personal practice became a method. I shared it with others, and it worked for them too!
I created this method from my own body. Along the way, I also I devoted myself to studying somatic science, including in-person study with Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk (Body Keeps the Score) and online trainings with Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Stephen Porges, and Dr. Pat Ogden.
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Ishtara is also informed by my decades of practice and study* in gestalt practices, trauma psychology for CPTSD and PTSD, attachment theory, and transpersonal (Jungian) psychology. I am also trained as a yoga teacher (500 RYT with an emphasis on yoga for healing trauma) and a high practitioner of other somatic methods.
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*Tracy is not a licensed therapist and Ishtara is not therapy. If you are seeking therapy, please reach out to a licensed therapist.
Stacè
"I trust myself in a way I never did before. I have been able to cultivate a sense of belonging and safety I take with me everywhere I go. I am free to fully show up and fully self-express."
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Mary Jane
"At 72, I believed I’d learned about all I needed - but Ishtara and my body gave me a profound way to heal deep layers of myself and gave me renewed energy to discover what is next in my precious life."
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Molly
"Ishtara changed the entire way I relate to my body. I feel like the truest, most honest version of myself while also feeling lighter, freer, more trusting and confident. Ishtara changed my entire life."
Ishtara is guided by loving teachers.
FAQ's
Is Ishtara therapy?
No, Ishtara is not therapy. It's a self-guided method you can use on your own, with or without a teacher. Many students find it enhances their therapy work by adding the body-based, felt experience that talking approaches sometimes miss. If you are currently in therapy, we suggest speaking to your therapist before starting any embodiment program.
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I'm nervous about the movement – what's it like?
The movement is gentle way to follow your own body in breath and sensation as a form of meditation – no choreography to learn or "right way" to do it. You can practice sitting, standing, or even lying down, adapting everything to your comfort level and physical abilities.
How much time will I need to commit?
You can lean the basics of the method is our 2-hour class. If you desire transformation, the method takes about 6-weeks to learn guided by a teacher. Once learned, daily practice requires only 15 minutes, 3 times a week to create meaningful change.
I've tried other somatic approaches, how is this different?
Many approaches focus on regulating or releasing emotions through the body. Ishtara is a unique science-supported, body-based method that goes
beyond releasing and creates new patterns in the way you feel, act, and relate from the body-up.
Do you offer Ishtara to men and non-binary students?
Yes. You can email us for more information on teachers who are offering courses for men and non-binary students at info@ishtarabody.com.
Are you ready?
Take the next step.
You can start your journey in a 2-hour class to learn the basics of the method or Join a 6-week personalized course for deeper transformation. Our 6-week course is limited to just 6 people to make sure you get the safe and loving attention you deserve. Once you learn Ishtara, you can use it for life or continue growing in live groups with us.
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