On this page you will find Brainsweep, Navigating Your Lifepath, and general testimonials. For spiritual travel programs, see Travelers’ Stories.
All stories and names used with permission.
Brainsweep Interventions
I am submitting my progress of practicing the Brainsweep intervention for a few months now. I wish to provide the following information on the progress I have made with anxiety and PTSD episodes that occur during moments of stress.
I have not remembered to do it every day. However, when I do it helps calm me down. The clarity in my thinking seems to have improved, and I have been able to accomplish projects that have been pending for over a year. Even though I am on medication for PTSD, I have had trouble driving into the city alone, and I found that I took a trip to Palo Alto on my own. I felt stress driving there, but the practice allowed me to arrive even though I was thirty minutes late.
Since the intervention practice, I have found that I can engage in things I had let go of a couple of years ago that required engaging with people and sharing spirituality practices. I am also finding joy in returning to this practice. I am not around people much. Although, when I do see people they say I look good.
I support this intervention because it is something I can do myself, and progress is visible to me. It prevents me from having to see a doctor and take additional medications. It has also helped with physical pain. I began having headaches earlier this year. But after using this intervention, my headaches have not returned.
It also serves as a time to quiet my mind when I can sit and do this intervention. I believe that it has the potential to help my brother and sister veterans to quell the roller coaster we can be on sometimes when suffering from PTSD or depression.
I would recommend this practice to those who have not found a solution to heal. I am not sure what effect it will have on another as I can only speak of my experience.
Eli PaintedCrow
U.S. Army E-7, (Retired)
Turtle Women Rising
Carla’s instructions were gentle and clear, given in easy to follow, progressive steps. I LOVE this method of clearing the brain! Through my life I have searched out, collected and practiced techniques for releasing destructive unconscious mental and emotional patterns. This is a gem, I am so happy to have learned it! It is simple to learn, self-administered, easy to use, takes little time to do and very effective! Thank you so much Carla – I feel I have another powerful tool literally at my fingertips.
HB, UK
I have been doing the brain sweep several times a day. I added an extra step to connect the part of the brain that I am clearing. I do the process in a series of 4’s. So before I began the clearing motion with my hands, I place each hand before I use it on the part of the brain I am clearing and command CLEAR! CLEAR! CLEAR! CLEAR!
About a week after starting this brain sweep I began feeling very strong prompts to love myself, as the amazing person I already am. I had always had trouble with this but now this task seems easy and the tools I need, accessible. It is an amazing outcome. I have never been able to love myself for who I am. Now it is amazingly and strangely accessible…out of no where! Much gratitude and many blessings…
Jenny
I had the honor of receiving training in the Brainsweep program and practice from Carla Woody. The program involves using a fairly simple hand movement technique to “reset” brain thoughts and patterns. I initially did the techniques several times a day for 28 days which served to integrate this powerful tool into daily use.
I received the training from Carla via an online program through which we were able to relate as if we were in the same room. Carla’s instructions and demonstrations were very clear and helpful. She gave feedback, including correction and encouragement in a calm and supportive manner. She conveyed her commitment and belief in the process in a way that strengthened my resolve to experience and do well in the training.
As I became more proficient in using the hand movements, especially as random thoughts arose during the day, I felt lighter and calmer. I had a bit more focus and was less attached to emotions that arose. The technique is very useful in disrupting repetitive thought cycles to bring attention back to the present moment. If scenes of past traumatic events came up, the hand movements dispelled the emotional charge associated with them. Several times, I used the technique when I felt any slight hint of a physical problem starting and managed to stay well during a harsh winter and flu season.
I highly recommend this training to anyone who wants to find a simple practice that helps on the path to a calmer, more peaceful, and healthy existence.
Linda Sohner
I have had back problems for several years, with it getting worse as I age (85) to the point that I was having difficulties doing housework and gardening. Even the chore of vacuuming the kitchen would cause me to reach for pain meds and sit for awhile before continuing. Carla had told me about Brainsweep and thought it might help. She taught me the intervention, which seemed awkward at first. But after trying a few times, I found it easy to do. I have been doing the technique every day for awhile now, and it has helped me greatly to the point I do not need pain meds now. A few days ago, I cleaned out my storage room, taking every thing off the shelves, dusting all and restocking. This took me 4-plus hours, and I had no pain at all. Before doing Brainsweep I would not have been able to do even 30 minutes without stopping. Another benefit is that I don’t let small things bother me anymore the way they did before.
Sue
Carla introduced me to the intervention which I have been using since. My session with Carla was very comfortable and relaxed. Carla is continuing to be very helpful and supportive to me with questions I have about Brainsweep. Thank you for this wonderful experience!
Charlene
Carla introduced me to the hand technique and provided continued support. She assisted me in reaching the full potential of the Brainsweep intervention. I am certain this technique will continue to be a valuable tool for my well being.
Glenda
Carla has broad and deep experience with people of all cultures and is sensitive, respectful, calm and full of integrity. I loved working with her and have huge respect for her intellect and her natural abilities. I recommend her as a coach unreservedly.
P. R. Hale
My experience with Carla Woody learning the hand technique was wonderful. At times during the 28-day process when I would do the process on my right hand, I would hear her coaching instructions just as if she were still in the room. I found the technique to be powerful in a couple of highly stressful situations…taking it down almost immediately. I have known Carla Woody for a number of years now and am grateful to her for adding another very effective and potent tool to what she offers in service of helping humans overcome difficulties and reaching highest potential. I will continue to use the hand technique as part of my daily routine. Thank you, Carla.
R. Hamilton
Carla’s life is dedicated to the wholeness of all of us. She provided a very comfortable & supportive atmosphere as I started the Brainsweep technique process. After the initial session she continued to check in to see how I was doing & continued her support of the process.
Stolinc
I found my session with Carla to be very informative and relaxing. It is obvious how inspired she is by this program and her skill at these techniques will help countless people. She is an amazing coach!
H. Seets
Carla is an inspired and carefully deliberate practitioner of the Brainsweep technique process. The session was not at all intrusive and very comfortable. I felt very supported and grateful to have been introduced to the process.
N. Vandervoort
Navigating Your Lifepath Program
I am deeply thankful for the opportunity to have experienced the Navigating Your LifePath Program by Carla Woody. I have found her to be extremely ethical, fair and balanced. She is able to meet you wherever you are on your journey and shift patterns and beliefs that are no longer serving you, presenting an open door for you to choose to step through with new insights and clear vision. She is calm, present and consistently comes from a space of “what is.” Always the information presented became tools to work with helping navigate you along your life path. At the point I chose to trust her by working with her, the ball began rolling. There were some things that I have carried with me for a lifetime that we were able to navigate, shift and illuminate the deeper aspects, thereby finally healing and bringing wholeness in that area. At the point of completion, I look back and am extremely thankful for her work as I can say with wholehearted solidity, “I am in a good place.” I highly recommend working with her if you are sincerely at a place in life that you are ready to make a shift.
Kate C, Texas
I feel fortunate to have gone through your coaching program … it was not at all what I expected. With my longtime background in corporate, I expected something very different. Thank goodness, it was NOT what I expected! Somewhere within myself I must have known this. Along with your books, your trips, and the LifePath program, the entire “package” helped me more than I can express. I was finally able to get past the biases/prejudices and ego … and to really begin to be me. I needed your gentle, but direct approach. I only can hope that others will find you.
Jacqueline Sirota
San Diego, California
In order to effect change in life one needs the most useful tools. I’ve found that this is where the best tool shed exists and that Carla has the best ‘power tools’ I’ve ever used!
Julianna Hamilton
Prescott, Arizona
A few years ago my stepmother suggested I attend a Kenosis seminar, Navigating Your Life Path, with her that would take place over several months. As I lived in San Francisco at the time and the weekends took place in Prescott, Arizona, it was quite a commitment for me. Fortunately, I signed up and experienced something that was pivotal in my life. At the beginning of the seminar, I was entrenched in a depression, and I was beginning to be rather afraid for myself. In my late 30’s my life was taking a slow spiral downwards which I felt powerless to do anything about. My home and family situations were sources of frustration and sadness. Physically, financially and socially I was in intense lack. (I felt unhappy and out of place even with the country I lived in, my own home country, and constantly daydreamed of living in the south of France — though it felt quite out of my reach and was yet another experience in poverty.)
Over the months, through Carla Woody’s artfully subtle and sage guidance, and the loving interaction of an enthusiastic and open group of fellow students, I was able to make a turn-around. Something that will always stay with me was a private session with Carla where she actually “took” painful energy that I had carried throughout my life, from my upper back and, literally, threw it out the window. It was gone, never to return. In that moment my beliefs about energy changed and I have happily and powerfully been building on that discovery ever since.
I am now writing you from my office in the south of France, and I am living the life I used to dream about. Most importantly, I have a deep love and appreciation for the same people and places that I formerly had associated with pain. I have the very powerful knowledge now that our lives are lived from the inside out. Carla showed me that.
If you are in the fortunate position of considering a Kenosis experience, I am fully confident that if you make the commitment to her practice, Carla Woody will bring you through it to a fuller and brighter life. Life is magic, all that we dream it could be. We just need someone brave enough and strong enough to guide us to a place where we can see it for ourselves.
Jill Mitchell
Venelles, France
I want to express my eternal gratitude for all the empowerment, insight, wisdom, healing and joy you have helped me to attain since I first met you in September, 2001… Words cannot express how much I have gained from our connection… As you know, I came to you at a time of great turmoil, both emotional and spiritual… In our group, I began to truly see what had and continued to motivate my thoughts, emotional reactions and beliefs about myself. Your (Navigating Your Lifepath) course was so divinely inspired. From the first time you guided the group it was impeccable. To this day I continue to be amazed at the positive changes that have occurred within me and others who have taken the course. I see that the course was not only a great awakening, but a foundation and a framework for the rest of the journey… We are growing exponentially, in no small part because of the courage and vision of people like you who have worked hard and evolved as leaders.
Sally Isaacson
Prescott, Arizona
My experiences with Carla during our private sessions were of significant benefit. She assisted me in gaining valuable insight about my personal issue. As a result, I was able to greatly reduce stress I had been experiencing and gain a much more peaceful sense of well-being… Participating in Navigating Your LifePath has proven to me once again how acting on intuitive promptings always provides what I need, at the time that I need it most. The content of the course work and the spiritual gifts that Carla brings to the sessions was exactly what I needed. I experienced a profound transformation in my awareness… The transformed awareness that I gained through Navigating Your LifePath has changed what I think and feel about who I am — and how I am experiencing the purpose of my life’s path.
Arminta Tupper
Prescott, Arizona
My day-to-day life is so different since I took the Navigating Your Lifepath course. I am only realizing the full amount of the benefit as time passes. Just what I need, as I need it, continues to step right into my path. I feel like I am growing in leaps and bounds! So much information in the class was new to me, but now I find reference to the concepts and beliefs in so many places! I just have to thank you again for coming into my life.
Debbie Alger
Phoenix, Arizona
Six months ago I was at a very low point; I felt stuck, confused and unsure of what to do. What I needed was assistance, instruction and knowledge. It was then that I was presented with the opportunity to take the “Navigating Your Lifepath” course. Through the lectures, readings, exercises, discussions and group process I gained a greater understanding, clarity and focus of who I am and what I want for my life. What I learned helped me to move through some blockages which created a firm foundation from which to move forward. I now have a clearer sense of self as well as new tools, skills and renewed confidence to walk my path with joy and purpose. Thank you Carla for sharing your wealth of knowledge, firm guidance and constant support through this transformational process!
Leesa Page
Wickenburg, Arizona
General
I am writing to send so much gratitude and appreciation for your work and commitment to support another’s growth. I just completed your books again! I actually devoured them. The increase in my receiving ‘ah-ha’s’ and revelations was [an indication] of my increasing consciousness and ability to receive guidance.
In Standing Stark it felt, at times, like this lifeline of ‘I knew it!!!’ There were so many things you shared of your own experience that I have, too, and it encouraged and acknowledged my knowing… Seeing someone I so deeply respect, so openly share some very, very vulnerable places with us has given me an exponential blast of endurance and open-mindedness to my higher possibilities… Thank you again from the bottom of my heart as your work has so deeply touched my life and my path. I really am at a loss for words.
Alisa Wright
Ben Lomond, California
Carla Woody came into town and breathed new life into the healing community already very present here. I had the pleasure of being with her in a one-on-one healing session… a cocoon of safety… very present, very aware, very attuned… She tapped into what my core issue was on this day even as I was unable to come up with it myself… just the ‘medicine’ I needed to shift this issue… feeling lighter, happier and more sure of who I am before I even exited the room. Grateful for this experience and life-changing healing session.
Peggy Fontenot
Lafayette, Louisiana
Thank you Carla for your open heart, passion and gifts… and for touching my mind and life.
Bekki Davis
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Carla, thank you for helping me get on my feet. Your kind, wise counsel continues to help me and so spreads your healing ways. You know what you’re doing… . You’ve blessed me with your grace. May your heart soar like a hawk.
Bill Eisenbart
Bethel, Alaska
In September 2005 my partner Paul and I travelled to Tibet with a close long-term friend. We went quickly into high altitude and by day two I went down with altitude sickness. The next day I was fine and our friend remained so but by day three Paul’s lungs were filling with fluid and he was battling to stay alive with what we now know to have been a combination of pulmonary edema and cerebral edema… in short for five days he came close to dying. By September 18th 2005, his birthday, he was able to get out of bed, from then recovery was fast.
As a result of this trauma plus a devastating argument with our friend, we went home shell- shocked to the point where if anyone asked me about Tibet I would cry or tears would fill my eyes and I would not be able to speak. Paul’s lungs began to fill with fluid and his body went into a panic as the first anniversary of our journey came around. Even thinking about it would send his body into a panic.
In January 2007 we traveled with Carla and her group to Mexico. Having spoken to Carla before the trip about both our problems she suggested that there was a process that she could take us through that would help.
The process was relatively quick and easy. Did it change anything? You bet it did!! September 2007 came and went. This time there was no physical or emotional response… in fact it was so far from our thoughts that Paul almost forgot his birthday. Thank you Carla for your assistance… . our minds and bodies appreciate it immensely.
Phoebe Hoogendyk
Lismore Heights
NSW Australia
I have such a sense of “rightness” in my life. My experiences at the retreat helped me to connect my past to those who went before me and enabled me to move into the present with new understanding of my role in life… one more validation that my experiences there were just waiting to happen… waiting to help me reach the place I am today. Thank you.
Jane Kroner
Prescott, Arizona
Our agency’s work with Carla Woody has resulted in higher levels of clarity and satisfaction amongst the staff. We have been able to clear the air, see each person’s unique contributions and discover our strengths as a team.
Becky Ruffner
Director, Prevent Child Abuse
Prescott, Arizona
I attended a (Kenosis) spiritual retreat… which greatly enriched that kind of positive, loving attitude toward living… rich in chanting, imagery, drumming, ceremony, and an outdoor at-one-with-the-earth experience. It was filled with love…and, most of all, it was a healing experience leading to increased energy for me. I highly recommend The Kenosis Experience next time it comes around. Spiritual healing only enhances physical and mental health!
Bill Chaplin
Yarnell, Arizona
I have known Carla Woody for approximately 15 years. I met her after a trauma in our family, and I was depressed and suicidal. I didn’t realize that I was ready for a new path in my life. Her gentle and caring guidance through meditation, retreats, private sessions, and her books helped me to heal, and I am doing well. She has offered me tools to help myself. I sometimes open her books — Calling Our Spirits Home or Standing Stark — at random, and a wonderful lesson or guidance is there waiting for me.
Penny Erholtz
Prescott, Arizona
I needed help to take control of my life. In seven sessions, Carla helped me clarify my goals and achieve them! The subtlety of the techniques she uses is deceptive. By the end of each meeting, I felt peaceful and relaxed. I did not realize how much I had changed, but the changes are evident in my thinking and in my daily life.
Dana Luse, D.V.M.
Prescott Valley, Arizona
Quite a few years ago, I had a traumatic illness with an accompanying coma. There was a lot of unknown territory in this blank spot of my life, one which held a lot of fear and lack of resolution. Using incredible gentleness and reassurance, Carla guided me toward a much more pleasant outcome than the one I had been holding onto for years. Through her eclectic style and intuitive timing, she helped me go forward in my life and use this particular deviation from everyday reality as an opportunity for growth. I have been able to turn this traumatic event into service toward my best advantage.
Marilyn M. Petrich
Prescott, Arizona
Much gratitude to Carla for her help dissolving and resolving the emotional and mental trauma associated with a serious auto accident. Carla applies her art with sensitivity and insight. Moreover, her work is most effective with permanent results. My highest thanks and recommendation.
W.P. Crim
Springfield, Missouri