bodymindspiritworks   LLC

Our mission is
to live lives that are good, beautiful, and true,
lives that are integrated and whole,
lives that draw their energy from our hearts and souls,
lives that are supported and nourished
by the systems and environments we create around us.



Freda van den Broek
Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Freda has traveled extensively and lived in the Netherlands for a number of years before moving to the USA. She speaks English, Dutch and Afrikaans and has a thing for rocks, Belgian chocolate, cappuccino with plenty of sugar and South African red wine. Freda holds a B.A. from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg as well as certification in Reflexology (Center for Reflexology Training, Netherlands), Lymphology (International Academy of Lymphology), and Lymphatic Drainage Therapy ( Upledger Institute).
Freda is also a state licensed and nationally certified massage therapist, having received her training in massage therapy at Blue Sky School of Professional Massage and Bodywork (Grafton WI). She loves to do couples massage, and incorporates elements of therapeutic modalities such as Hawaiian massage, acupressure, reflexology, cranial sacral therapy and neuromuscular therapy into the massage experience for a result that is both relaxing and therapeutic. In addition, Freda holds certification in Heated Stone Massage, CranialSacral Therapy, and provides cold stone therapy for migraines and vascular headaches.
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Thomas D'Alessio
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tom's interests and experience have ranged from the repair of old VW buses to music composition/performance, from counseling to carpentry, from leading Intensive Journal workshops to building computer networks, not to mention cooking, bread-making and, of course, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. He is one of the few people in the world in recent history to have taken four years of Latin in High School, played accordion since age three, or admitted either publically until until now. Tom received his basic training/certification in counseling
from both the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and T.A. Associates (Milwaukee WI). He holds an M.Div. from Garrett (Evanston IL) and served as a United Methodist minister for 20 years in both local ministry settings and as state-wide Communications Coordinator. He is a state licensed and nationally certified Massage Therapist, having received his training at Blue Sky School of Professional Massage and Bodywork (Grafton WI). Tom received certification to lead Progoff Intensive Journal Workshops from Dialogue House; his leader training was with Ira Progoff, who developed the Intensive Journal process. He has also been Core Integral certified (Level One, currently the only level available. For more information see CI-Level-One and the Integral Life website.

Tom's work is thoroughly grounded in the Integral perspective and incorporates the principles/practices of transpersonal and depth psychology, family systems work, transformative spirituality, therapeutic bodywork, neuromuscular therapy, energy work, and the Intensive Journal process. His basic assumption about Life, the Universe and Everything is that "body" "mind" and "spirit" are not three separate things needing to be integrated or (even worse) "balanced," but simply three already-and-always dimensions (like length, width, height) of the integrated One, to be awakened to, now upon now.


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bodymindspiritworks
Freda and Tom created Bodymindspiritworks LLC in October 2005 to be a place where we could provide a comprehensive and balanced set of "bodywork," "mindwork" and "spiritwork" services for the integration of your life, based on the core values of
• integrity/wholeness • honesty/truthfulness
• freedom • sacramental living and working
• high standard of competence • joy, delight, playfulness
• strength/courage • care/compassion/gentleness
• adventure/openness • creativity

We're different from just about everything else out there: our work is informed by a very diverse yet profoundly connected and empirically-based universe of ideas. Some of the main threads (a woefully incomplete list) include the following. We stand on the shoulders of giants. External links open up in a new window and a couple of them have sound:
  • Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute
  • Ira Progoff, the Intensive Journal process, and the idea of "integral" long before it had a capital "I"
  • Aromatherapy: the use of essential oils for their therapeutic properties. All our essential oils and carrier oils come from Auroma.com
  • The rich tradition of "energy work" (including reflexology, acupressure, reiki, cranial-sacral)
  • Paolo Soleri ("Technology & Cosmogenesis") and Teilhard de Chardin ("The Phenomenon of Man")
  • Genpo Roshi's "Big Mind/Big Heart"
  • the architectural movement known as "regenerative"
  • Herminia Ibarra and her ideas about "working identity"
  • Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers ("Order Out of Chaos") and dissipative structures
  • Robert Pirsig's "Quality"
  • Thomas Hora ("Existential Metapsychiatry")
  • Samuel West's work with Lymphology
  • Transactional Analysis and Gestalt perspectives
  • Depth psychology/deep spirituality
  • Developmental Psychology, including the idea of multiple intelligences (or lines of development)
  • Carl Jung and the idea of "shadow"
  • Stewart Brand and the idea of "The Whole Earth Catalogue - access to tools"
  • Abraham Maslow's "Toward a Psychology of Being"
  • Martin Buber and the sacredness of the I-You relationship (giving rise to the miracle of "we")
  • Precision Neuro-muscular Therapy (thank you Doug Nelson)
  • All the wonderfully diverse "paths of liberation"
    including the major spiritual traditions of the world but also "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
  • Omanhene chocolate and Alterra coffee
  • The music of Chuck Wild ( "Liquid Mind") and Deuter and Nadama and Peter Kater and…
  • The Waterboys: "I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon"
  • Jimi (for those times when the keepers of the void ensnare you and all, all is vanity)
  • The whole life of Freda van den Broek
  • The whole life of Thomas D'Alessio
Bodymindspiritworks balances autonomy, strength, independence and freedom
        with
appropriate relationship, care and compassion for our clients as well as for the professionals who work with us.

We're located in the loft of the Grafton mill (north side of the building, look for the deck with the purple canopy awning, 1350 Fourteenth Ave, Grafton Wisconsin. Grafton is about 20 minutes north from downtown Milwaukee via I-43 (take the "Hwy 60/Grafton" exit, then go West). Bodymindspiritworks is easy to get to and just a few minutes (a little over a mile) from I-43.
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