Welcome to Kochikara Healing Arts!
Kochi Kara, Japanese = From Here. “From Here” means to heal from your own sense of yourself; I view embodiment as a conversation you can have with your own cells and tissues, experiences and memories, through the mediums of touch and movement.
Gift Certificates:
Consider giving your loved ones a relaxing experience. Good for one year from the date issued. I can mail these to you, or directly to the recipient. To order a Gift Certificate, email kochikara.malia@gmail.com.
About the Kochikara logo:
I created this painting in 2007-2009. It depicts a monarch butterfly caterpillar in the “J-phase” just before it turns into a chrysalis. When I painted this image, I was raising monarchs, observing them closely, and was fascinated by the deep meditative state the caterpillar entered during this time.
After many growth-spurts and changes of skin, constantly eating, the caterpillar hangs upside-down for 10-12 hours before shedding its skin one last time. Underneath is a smooth green skin that soon hardens into the shell of the chrysalis.
Transformation takes time; it is a deeply inward process, when your cells prepare and communicate with one another. I believe in the wisdom and knowing of the body; and its inherent ability to heal itself.
I hold space for these transformations; attentive, meditative, slow and unfurling.
Change comes from here.