• A place to relax and nourish your mind, body and spirit
  • We offer a range of holistic therapies aimed at enhancing both your physical and emotional well-being.
  • Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
  • Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
  • All healing is first a healing of the heart.
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The Cusco Experience - Energetic Healing




For thousands of years the Cusco region has been regarded as a vortex of spiritual energy. Today, visitors from the world over travel high into the Andes to taste it's spectacular aesthetic and mystical beauty. A sensation of inner peace accompanied with a feeling of connectedness with the outer environment and it's living organisms can be found here in Cusco. Some may it find by marveling at the awe-inspiring ancient architecture, conversing with the eclectic mix of natives, residents, and travelers that populate the Cusco region, or quietly taking in the powerful yet humbling natural splendor of the mountainous landscape.



At Paramatma Holistic Healing we believe that a balance of mind, body, and spirit is essential to getting the most out of your stay in Cusco. The stresses of traveling and acclimatizing to the 3,300 meter (11,000 feet) altitude can hinder your ability to access the magic of Cusco as described above. We would like to help you have the best experience possible here in Cusco by alleviating the mental and physical stresses that prohibit you from accessing a core feeling of balance and connectedness. Please explore the links on the right of this page to learn more about our yoga, reiki, massage, chakra balancing, sound therapy and more energetic natural healing treatments services in Peru.



What we offer

We are based in Cusco - Peru and offer a range of treatments and therapies including:


Tibetan Reiki
Ayurvedic Massage Thai Massage Sound Healing Therapy Yoga Aura Cleansing Chakra Balancing Pranic Healing Mantra Yoga Meditation Fire Ceremonies (Agni Hotra) Spiritual Retreats

Yoga Retreats in Cusco

 












Yoga Retreats Join us every Tuesday and Saturday for a guided hike to the Monkey Temple just outside Cusco. From there we will have a yoga class outside with a 360 degree view of the Andes.

Vegetarian lunch and Sound Healing session included.

We meet in the San Blas plaza at 10am. Cost: 25 soles Massage, reiki, and sound therapy treatments available for an additional cost.


Todos los Martes y Sábados vamos al Templo del Mono en las montanas arriba de Cusco. Alli tenemos una clase de Yoga con un paisaje hermoso.

Comida Vegetariana y Sesión grupal de Sonido Terapia incluida.

Masajes, reiki, sonido terapia, y mas disponibles por un costo adicional. Nos reunimos en la Plaza San Blas todos los Viernes a las 10 am. 25 soles Please contact ahead of time to reserve a spot:

Por favor contactanos con anticipación para reservaciones.

 

Research notes more ways music affects brain

Published: February 21, 2010
Source: News Chief
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Music to our ears not only affects our mood and, if too loud, our hearing, but actually reaches into many different parts of our brains. Tunes - especially those we perform ourselves - have a big influence in how our brains organize to process and filter sound, researchers have been finding. Playing a musical instrument appears to both improve our ability to hear and our ability to focus and remember, according to two recent studies.

In one experiment, neurobiologists at Northwestern University in Chicago found that musicians have a perceptual advantage for being able to communicate in noisy environments. Nina Kraus, director of Northwestern’s Auditory Neuroscience Lab, said the 16 highly trained musicians tested were better than 15 non-musicians at picking out key elements of speech from background noise made up of babble from six different speakers. The study was published in November in the Journal of Neuroscience.

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Cusco Healing Center

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Email: cuscotherapies@aol.com
Phone: (84) 974-292 739 (84) 974-287069
*We offer in-home services for your convenience. If you prefer the service in your hostel, we can bring all equipment and music to set up. Peru

Music therapy reduces requests for meds

Published: February 11, 2010
Source: KXAN
Location: United States (Texas)
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Leave it to an Austin businessman to figure out a way to make music more than just entertainment, but an alternative medicine for physical and emotional pain. “I was inspired by a family who had a baby in the neo-natal intensive care unit” said David Schofman, CEO of Coro Health. “While their child was in the hospital, they couldn’t touch him but they were able to connect with him through music.”

Schofman said he then started doing research into music therapy and realized that though there were proven benefits, there were no viable business models that could incorporate it on a large-scale basis in hospital or nursing facilities. That’s when he created Music First, a program that aims to reduce a patient’s pain, both physical and emotional.

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At Cunningham Creek Elementary, music therapy makes difference for special-needs students

Published: February 25, 2010
Source: The Florida Times Union
Location: United States (Florida)
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Amanda Hunter, 11, is a typical middle-schooler, sporting a Jonas Brothers backpack and gushing over the group. But for Amanda, music holds more meaning than a simple boy-band crush. “Music helps me with multiplication,” the wheelchair-bound Amanda said with a proud smile. “Music is awesome. I learn a lot from it.”

Amanda is one of 250 special-needs students at Cunningham Creek Elementary School in Northwest St. Johns County. She is also part of the music therapy program at Cunningham Creek, the only school in the county that offers it, said Principal Betsy Wierda. Music therapist Minda Gordon said this is the fourth year since she began the program at the school and she has seen drastic changes in students such as Amanda. “There were students who we didn’t even think could talk. Now they dance and sing,” Gordon said. “We found that if you raise the bar for these students, they’ll jump it.”

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Email: cuscotherapies@aol.com
Phone: (84) 974-292 739 (84) 974-287069
*We offer in-home services for your convenience. If you prefer the service in your hostel, we can bring all equipment and music to set up.

Conductor explores music’s healing touch

Published: February 24, 2010
Source: Boston Globe
Location: United States (Massachusetts)
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As a concert violinist and Newton Symphony Orchestra conductor, James Orent knows how music can lift an audience’s spirits. But while watching too many friends and family members battle life-threatening diseases, he came to wonder about another possible impact: music’s power to heal. This weekend he shares his fascination via a health fair and a concert that take a look - and a listen - at music and the mind-body-spirit connection.

The Newton Symphony Orchestra Wellness Fair will start at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, with the day’s offerings including talks by music therapists, medical researchers, and stress management experts, as well as alternative therapy demonstrations and exhibition. And at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Rashi School in Newton Corner, Orent conducts the orchestra in “The Healing Power of Music,” a concert that presents 14 short selections that helped others through illnesses or emotional difficulties or simply to relax or meditate.

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THE HEALING POWER OF MUSIC: The Mind/Body/Spirit Connection

Cusco Healing Center

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Email: cuscotherapies@aol.com
Phone: (84) 974-292 739 (84) 974-287069
*We offer in-home services for your convenience. If you prefer the service in your hostel, we can bring all equipment and music to set up.

Healing Music to benefit Relay for Life

Published: February 9, 2010
Source: Orangeburg Times Democrat
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On Sunday, Feb. 14, a local cancer survivor will present a concert to demonstrate the healing power of music and benefit the 2010 Orangeburg County Relay for Life. Healing Music II, set for 4 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, will feature Sylvia Trimmier, director of music at First Presbyterian Church; soprano and 2008 Orangeburg Idol winner Eden Graves; and cellist and former INine band member Bryan Gibson.

I think most cancer survivors feel a need to give back in some way, and this is the best way that I know how to give back,” Trimmier said. “A lot of people are saying, ‘Why are you calling it healing music?’ As I was getting over the cancer and the treatments and getting my strength back, practicing music became a very healing thing for me. It can be a healing agent not just physically, but mentally, psychologically and emotionally.

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Pleasant music overcomes the loss of awareness in patients with visual neglect

During the past 20 years there has been much research into the factors that modulate awareness of contralesional information in neurological patients with visual neglect or extinction. However, the potential role of the individual’s emotional state in modulating awareness has been largely overlooked. In the current study, we induced a pleasant and positive affective response in patients with chronic visual neglect by allowing them to listen to their pleasant preferred music. We report that the patients showed enhanced visual awareness when tasks were performed under preferred music conditions relative to when tasks were performed either with unpreferred music or in silence. These results were also replicated when positive affect was induced before neglect was tested. Functional MRI data showed enhanced activity in the orbitofrontal cortex and the cingulate gyrus associated with emotional responses when tasks were performed with preferred music relative to unpreferred music. Improved awareness of contralesional (left) targets with preferred music was also associated with a strong functional coupling between emotional areas and attentional brain regions in spared areas of the parietal cortex and early visual areas of the right hemisphere. These findings suggest that positive affect, generated by preferred music, can decrease visual neglect by increasing attentional resources. We discuss the possible roles of arousal and mood in generating these effects.

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Email: cuscotherapies@aol.com
Phone: (84) 974-292 739 (84) 974-287069
*We offer in-home services for your convenience. If you prefer the service in your hostel, we can bring all equipment and music to set up. Peru

VVS students fight cancer with the power of music

Published: February 14, 2010
Source: Oneida Dispatch
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Students at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School will be working with the KEYS program to provide comfort through music to young people with cancer. The students from an entertainment industry course will be working on all aspects of putting together a music therapy CD. Students can contribute music or lyrics for the songs. They will be able to work with professional musicians to record the music or may record it themselves.

KEYS was founded after losing my dad to cancer back in 1993,” said Colleen Bennett, founder and executive director of the program. “We founded KEYS in memory of my dad because music had such a powerful effect in helping him through his cancer battle. “We decided to help kids who are going through the same battle,” she added. “To teach them and their parents how powerful music can be to help them through their cancer battle.”

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Cusco Healing Center

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Email: cuscotherapies@aol.com
Phone: (84) 974-292 739 (84) 974-287069
*We offer in-home services for your convenience. If you prefer the service in your hostel, we can bring all equipment and music to set up. Peru

Music therapy for anti-suicide movement

Published: February 17, 2010
Source: The Times of India
Location: India
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Much has been said about the increasing number of student suicides that the city has witnessed recently, but very little has been done. And it is this very apathy of the system that resulted in an anti-suicide movement on one of the most popular social networking site.

Now, the ‘I Pledge to Stop Student Suicides’ movement, a common man’s initiative which is working actively towards finding a solution to this persistent problems is launching an album titled Follow Your Dreams. The album is a compilation of inspirational songs by artists giving out messages that life is beautiful and that one must never give up on life. Songs about the exuberance of youth and one which even talks about channelling teenage aggression in the right direction.

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Email: cuscotherapies@aol.com
Phone: (84) 974-292 739 (84) 974-287069
*We offer in-home services for your convenience. If you prefer the service in your hostel, we can bring all equipment and music to set up. Peru

An artist’s healing session for women

Published: February 18, 2010
Source: The Register Citizen
Location: United States (Connecticut)
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Dr. Leesa Sklover, a musician, therapist and artist, is offering A Women’s Circle at the Litchfield Community Center starting this month, and hopes to build a community of women focusing on their strengths and dreams, healing therapy and global awareness. Sklover, who runs a practice in nearby New Preston, says A Women’s Circle will provide “encouraging tools for inspiration, strength and creativity in personal and global, dreams and goals. We focus on lifestyle, community and world change.”

The first session of the women’s group will be held on Feb. 23, with subsequent meetings on March 23, April 27 and May 25, all from 7 to 8:30 p.m. She has scheduled inspiring guest speakers for each month’s meeting and plans to use inspirational teachings, writing, poetry, art, music therapy, art therapy and yoga as well as lifestyle coaching to help participants find their focus.

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Email: cuscotherapies@aol.com
Phone: (84) 974-292 739 (84) 974-287069
*We offer in-home services for your convenience. If you prefer the service in your hostel, we can bring all equipment and music to set up. Peru

Music therapy, the best form of healing

Published: February 20, 2010
Source: Sunday Observer
Location: Sri Lanka
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Have you ever noticed how you immediately relax after a hard day’s work when you listen to soft music? After a strong bout of negative emotion, haven’t you found yourself listening to easy music to calm your senses? If you’re one of those people who is ‘healed’ by good music, then don’t you think that doctors should use it to treat patients?

For many diseases or health conditions, music therapy is now becoming a valuable tool in healing and aiding in the healing process internationally. Taking this type of therapy forward in Sri Lanka is Dr. Samith Siritunga of the National Health Institute, Kalutara who has been researching into this area for some time.

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Email: cuscotherapies@aol.com
Phone: (84) 974-292 739 (84) 974-287069
*We offer in-home services for your convenience. If you prefer the service in your hostel, we can bring all equipment and music to set up.

Comments - Testimonials

Rebecca McAuley  
Kinesiologist from Melbourne

I would highly recommend to anyone a treatment with Druva. I had a massage and reiki combined session and felt beautifully relaxed afterwards. He is a natural healer and gives of his love and energy unconditionally.. Druva, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for the warmth and hospitality that you showed me during my stay at Ecotruly Eco Village. You are a truly amazing soul and I feel blessed to have met you. You immediately made me feel at ease - when I was new to a strange place. I have many fond memories from my stay at Eco truly and learn so much from you. Hopefully I can return someday. Druva, I wish you well.. !
 
Deborah McNicholas  
Yoga Instructor
 
Hi Druva, I just wanted to say a huge thank you for your massage. It was truly an amazing experience. You made me feel totally relaxed and very comfortable during the massage and I came away feeling energized and really comfortable in my skin. This was one of the best holistic treatments I've ever experienced and I'll definitely be recommending this to friends and fellow travelers. I wish you all the best and do stay in touch, Love
Deborah, UK
Tiffany Corbell 
United States

Druva, you are a true angel. I entered your studio a complete mess but after your amazingly powerful reiki and chakra balancing session I left feeling reborn, reconnected with my true self and feeling incredibly light and balanced. I cant thank you enough. You are blessed with an incredible talent and I can not wait t ...o return for another session. Gracias amigo!!!! :)
Namaste. ---
Tiffany  

Sarah Melbourne  
UK

I visited Cusco to trek the Inca trail. I arrived a few days earlier and spent my time wandering around the beautiful streets and breathing in the mountain air. On every street corner women were handing out leaflets advertising massages, some ridiculously cheap. I didn't indulge in a massage at this time as I thought this treat would be better enjoyed on my return from the trek through the Andes. Sure enough, a week later, after trekking 45k through the Andes, my body was crying out for a massage. A friend of mine had previously visited Peru and had given me the name and number of Druva. On her recommendation, I decided to visit Druva and get my massage with him.

Druva was slightly more expensive than some of the very cheap deals being canvassed on the street corners, but from speaking to other travelers, and from my own experience, i am very glad I paid the extra money. I had an hours massage with Druva. Before the massage he asked whether I had any particular areas that were causing problems. Unfortunately I have had lower back pain for some time and also suffer from very knotted shoulders. Druva worked on me for an hour. The results were fantastic. I could feel him locate each knot and work it out. He was thorough and firm, just what I needed. After the massage, Druva, helped me stretch. We had already discussed how I liked my massages, I'm not one for a light handed touch. i said I wanted a deep tissue massage and this is what I got, although I'm sure Druva could apply a light touch too, if this is what I wanted. The only drawback of my massage is that I had it at the center, next time, I would take advantage of the call out service - that way I could remain in my lovely state of relaxation without having to trudge back up the hill to my hotel!  

Laura Christie 
from England 

Thank you so much for a great yoga class and a an amazing massage! It was the perfect preparation for a five day trek to Machu Pichu. I would definitely recommend this place.

Orpheo H. Cassady  
France

I met Druva in the EcoTruly Park near Lima. I immediatly felt comfortable with him, and soon discover that he was also very interresting to talk with. He did a reiki session to me and it was an amazing experience. I felt good about myself and the present, somehow spiritualy risen. I would probably never forget it :) Im really glad I met such a wonderful spirit as Druva and hope our path will cross again at some point. Cheers my friend.
Orpheo

Brian H.
from Canada  

Hi Druva,
Thanks again for the reiki treatment in Cusco ! It was a wonderful experience and helped me restore and readjust energy imbalances within my body. The feeling of tranquility that follows a reiki treatment is what continues to bring me back to this therapy. I also really enjoyed the sound therapy experience; it seemed like the most appropriate way to end the reiki session!
Thanks again,
Brian

Healing with Sound: An Interview with Christine M. Grimm

Published: February 20, 2010
Source: Santa Barbara Independent
Location: United States (California)
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As I drove through the morning rain to meet Christine Grimm in her cozy cottage in Montecito, I was picturing a standard sit-down interview: me asking the questions, her answering them. Instead, in the two hours I spent with her, I found myself drumming, dancing, speaking into a voice analysis microphone, “toning” my voice to RA frequencies, and experiencing the healing harmonies of tuning forks. At the end of the session, I had the opportunity to ask this sound healing pioneer some questions about her practice.

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Email: cuscotherapies@aol.com
Phone: (84) 974-292 739 (84) 974-287069
*We offer in-home services for your convenience. If you prefer the service in your hostel, we can bring all equipment and music to set up. Peru

Music Therapy Gives Voice to the Voiceless

Published: February 21, 2010
Source: Science Now
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It’s an impressive video. An elderly man in thick eyeglasses and a blue shirt sits in a wheelchair. A therapist sits across from him, off-camera. She tries to get him to say he’s thirsty, but he can’t produce the words. Several years ago, the man had a stroke that damaged the part of his brain that lets him talk, a condition known as aphasia.

Then, slowly, things begin to change. The therapist starts humming a simple, haunting melody: two notes at the same pitch, a third a bit higher, then back down. “I am thi-i-rsty,” she sings. Resting her hand on the table, she taps the man’s hand in time, encouraging him to sing along. “I am thirsty,” he sings, in harmony. She sings the sentence; he sings it back. She says the sentence. He says it back. What would you say on a hot day like today, she asks. “I am thirsty,” he answers. In a matter of minutes, a stroke patient who’s been unable to speak for years has learned to express a basic human need.

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Music on the mind: CSU department connects music to brain activity, healing

Published: February 25, 2010
Source: Rocky Mountain Collegian
Location: United States (Colorado)
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In a windowless room of the University Center for the Arts Tuesday sat patients of a group meeting to undergo a less common form of physical therapy. Everyone in the group shared a common trait; they all have Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that impairs motor skills, speech and other functions of the brain.

Group members stood next to a wall, just in case they lost their balance, and turned their heads from side to side to the rhythm of a song being played on a piano in the corner of the room. The therapy session, headed by department research associate Ruth Rice and clinical coordinator Sarah Johnson, takes place every other Tuesday in the Center for Biomedical Research in Music in the UCA.

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Email: cuscotherapies@aol.com
Phone: (84) 974-292 739 (84) 974-287069
*We offer in-home services for your convenience. If you prefer the service in your hostel, we can bring all equipment and music to set up.

Yoga Inbound - Tours to India.

Dear Visitor, please let us introduce ourselves... We belong to a Bhakti-Yoga-School in Berlin and whilst living out our dreams and ideals we were carried to many places around the planet. We would like to invite everybody to take part in our programs, giving you the opportunity to meet extraordinary people in extraordinary locations. The Inbound Yoga Club is a place where our conciousness can evolve, a place where you are always welcome.
Swami Paramadvaiti has been living the Bhakti Yoga way of life for over 35 years and throughout his lifetime has opened up countless projects, ashrams and yoga centres. He developed the system of Inbound Yoga to give to everybody a holistic and individual way of approaching yoga and spirituality through a number of diverse and interesting techniques. On our tours we will visit some of these centres and we'll have the opportunity for intense practice, to discover unique ways of living and, most importantly, discover ourselves ...
Pati (Thomas Fiedler) will be your german and english speaking tour guide and is the chairman of the Inbound Yoga Tours. He will assure your trip to be an unforgetable one, so remarkable that you'll not want to come back home! In Germany, he offers the wellness seminar"VIsions & Movement", currently the only one of its kind.
Mohini (Elizabeth Lopez Osorio) has been practicing Bhakti Yoga for 14 years and has opened several centres in South America, emphasizing mainly on women's community work and spiritual refuge. Her warm and affectionate character, experience and maturity in social interaction makes her the ideal tour guide, specialising on South America.
Bhagavatamrita (Benjy Munro) has lived in Ecuador for many years and runs his own yoga centre "Tulasi Yoga School". He is the route planner and specialized tour guide for South America. He will teach yoga, especially advanced asanas, and lead the expeditions into Ecuador's diverse jungle. For five years he managed our wonderful yoga retreat "Vrindavan Jardin Ecologico" situated in Rio Negro.
Gourkeshava lives in Vrindavan (India) and has been leading several temple projects for many years. He is the route planner for our Indian tours. Besides this he is also responsable for the organisation of the Vrinda book store, the Vaishnava Academy (the leading institution in spreading the Bhakti Yoga philosophy) and the central Inbound Tours office in India. He is currently running the website www.vina.cc.
Vamsi (Waldemar Konrad Hartlaub) practices Yoga for more than 25 Years and developed his own style, called Aqua Yoga. As a musician he is known as Conny Hard and performs worldwide with Bhajan and Mantra Meditation combined with elements derived from Rock and Pop. He speaks five languages and visited all continents of Earth. He lived in Ecuador for the last 10 years where he founded several ashrams and yoga centers for international Inbound School of Yoga. Since 2009 he is a member of the Inbound Yoga Club e.V. and works for us as tour guide and yoga teacher.