Joseph Ulysse Saine LMT, RCST®
Bodyworker, Teacher & Facilitator
Based in the mountains of northwestern New Mexico, I am dedicated to a cross-disciplinary approach to healing uniquely culminated over twenty years of experience. My therapeutic work is primarily rooted in the synergy of Somatic, Biodynamic, Structural, & Vitalistic approaches to healing. He also brings together trauma theory, deep ecology, ancestral wisdom, social dynamics, herbalism and homeopathy with the intention of practical global healing on many levels simultaneously.
Somatic Bodywork
… works with the felt sense of the body and the sensing landscapes of the mind. By engaging with a more primal embodied language, we are able to have conversations with deeper and deeper layers of self and psyche.
Biodynamic Bodywork
… works with the intelligent rhythmic fluid tides expanding and contracting through all systems of the body. Profound healing is available through the organizing wave-forms of the neuro-endocrine system, visceral chain (internal organs), vascular tree (cardiovascular system) and extracellular matrix. By creating conditions for deeper and slower tides to come to the forefront, effortless unwinding and transformation abound.
Vitalism
… engages with all systems of the body as a coherent whole organized by intelligent vital forces. All division is artificial and only useful as far as discernment and definition is needed. The vital force within speaks to us through a pattern language of sensations and symptoms. By learning to listen to and understand what the vital force is speaking to us, inherent intelligence is allowed to guide the healing process.
My bodywork practice is a key part of my approach to Earth Healing. The Earth and our bodies are inherently interwoven and interdependent parts of a greater whole. Every part perceived as separate, from the smallest to the greatest, reflects and informs the whole. Healing our bodies and minds is an integral part of healing the Earth.
A Seasonal Practice
My work changes season to season and follows an annual flow that ebbs with the tides of our turning planet.
Late Fall through Early Spring: I deepen in with my inner work and professional practice as I focus on teaching and offering therapeutic sessions to clients.
Spring: Is the time of interweaving and walking between my practice and the land. I turn some focus to tending my local bioregional relationships while continuing to work with the processes unfolding with my international students and clients.
Summer through Early Fall: I take a break from my teaching and therapeutic practice for four months to dedicate my full attention to tending my relationships with the local land and people.
The heart of my practice is centered around Biodynamics and Vitalism. This informs my approach to bodywork as well as the Somatic, Energetic, and Trauma Resolution modalities I integrate. By allowing the intelligence of nature to lead, I am able to facilitate the awakening of profound healing potential within each person and group I work with. I strive to bring every client into sovereignty and empowerment in direct relationship with the deepest healing resources within.
“The most important part of healing work is the ability to listen deeply with all our senses. The impulse to heal comes naturally from within. All that is needed is to listen and follow the vital forces in and around us.”
More About My Background:
I descends from a lineage of natural healers on both sides of my family. My elders taught me to carry a deep reverence for the healing power of nature. I started my formal training in the healing arts at 15 when I was initiated in the Usui system of traditional Reiki. When I was 16 I began to study the ancient healing music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe which continues to be a very important part of my life. At the age of 19, I apprenticed under Sue Morrow, a pioneer in the world of therapeutic massage and a highly skilled Craniosacral Therapist. I spent two years learning her unique approach to Craniosacral Therapy and her deep philosophy of the art of healing.
Throughout my 20s, I immersed myself in ecological studies and the wilderness where I learned to listen to and follow the deep fluid ways of wild nature. Through my work with Traditional Ecological Knowledge, I became close with several Numu (Northern Paiute) and Noowuh (Western Shoshone) families, elders, healers and wisdom keepers in the Great Basin bioregion of North America and I’ve been humbly influenced by their culture and traditional relationships with the land. I continue to work with Indigenous communities in the Great Basin and Southwestern US in service to reclamation and sovereignty.
I’ve also worked closely with many elders and wisdom keepers of the Shona people of Zimbabwe and have been gifted with the sacred knowledge of one of their ancestral healing musical traditions.
In 2014, I graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Gaia University International in Integrative Eco-Social Design specializing in Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Intercultural Rewilding.
After completing college, I realized that so many of the ecological and social issues I was facing in my work were stemming from deeper issues of intergenerational (epigenetic) trauma that originate in our deeper shared past. I became driven to discover the roots of this collective trauma and what it would mean to heal collectively. This led me in many directions of learning and eventually became distilled into a multi-disciplinary approach based in vitalistic paradigms of healing. With my training in several bodywork and therapeutic modalities as well as many years immersed in the wilderness and indigenous ways of healing, I bring a unique perspective on trauma and embodiment to my healing work.
I’ve also been involved in the wide world of Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education for many years and have been inspired by Rudolph Steiner’s approach to education as a therapeutic art that can be curative in many powerful ways. My work as a collaborative teacher and curriculum designer with Evergreen Expeditions and Folk Soul Farm School in Ashland, OR has been deeply transformative and greatly influenced my approach to therapeutic work with infants, children and families.
“I have been so fortunate to be mentored by some of the worlds most unique and powerful natural healers. Now it’s my responsibility to make sure that others have access to the wealth of healing wisdom that has shaped me and my life in dynamic beautiful dancing with the rhythms of nature.”
Values
Nature is Intelligent and quantum coherent in form and dynamic.
The Body Knows How to Heal and does so with ease when given the right conditions.
Edges are Fertile and the in-between places are ripe with gifts and blessings.
Collective Intelligence Emerges When People Learn How to Listen. Global peace is possible when we orient to what’s communicating in the spaces in-between.
The Earth, Sky and Water Belong to Everyone. It is our responsibility to care for and protect our bioregional social-ecological systems.
The Stories We Tell Co-create the World We Live In. Our imagination, language, creativity and art bring reality into form.
Indigenous Sovereignty and Unraveling the Global Effects of Colonization are Integral to a Healthy and Sustainable Future. Indigenous ways of knowing are the basis of life.
Personal Healing/Liberation and Collective Healing/Liberation are Intrinsically Interwoven. Liberation and sovereignty for all people includes ALL people.
Lineage & Education
Homeopathy and Vitalism –
Dr. Pamela Snider, ND
Dr. Andre Saine, ND, FCAH
Dr. Bruce Milliman, ND
Craniosacral Therapy
Sue Morrow, CST, LMT
Craniosacral Biodynamics
Robyn Michele Jones, LMT, RCST®
Visceral Bodywork
Dr. Greg Yasuda, ND
Carey Benenson, DO
Somatic Bodywork & Trauma Theory
Brigit Viksnins, MAT, SEP, RCST®, BCTMB, LMT – Alchemical Alignment®
Mark Olson, PhD – Neuroscience
Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC- Neuro-Affective Relational Model
Jim Feil, MA, DC – Formative Embodiment
Linda Thai, LMSW, ERYT-200, CLYL – Decolonizing Attachment Theory
Robyn Michele Jones, LMT, RCST®
Asher Lymann, LPC, PhDc, SEP
Jessica Radovich, MA
Jessica Montgomery, MSW, CHT
Structural Integration
Ryan Mulnick, LMHC, LMT
Michael Polon, Advanced Rolfer™
Counseling & Group Fascilitation
Rev. Teri Ciacchi, MSW – Holistic Peer Counseling
Shoshonnah Crow – Zegg Forum
Nala Walla – Zone Zero
Liora Adler & Andrew Langford
Herbalism
Matthew Wood
Beautiful Little Dancing Crow / Dr. Deborah Frances, RN, ND
Susun Weed
Pre and Perinatal Therapeutics
Brigit Viksnins MAT, SEP, RCST®, BCTMB, LMT
Robyn Michele Jones LMT, RCST®
Ancestral Lineage Healing
Daniel Foor, PhD
Curative Education & Anthroposophy
Amanda Sanfilippo
Amy Evergreen
Emma Schauer
Traditional Ecological Knowledge & Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Finisia Medrano
Martin Prechtel
Misty Benner
Jay Smith
Permaculture and Earth Activism
Starhawk & Penny Livingston-Stark
Liora Adler & Andrew Langford
Faery Seership & Folklore (Traditional Western European Nature Mysticism and Spirit Work)
Therese Saine
Orion Foxwood
R.J. Stewart
Dorothy Maclean
Mbira (Traditional Healing Music of the Shona People)
Caution Shonhai
Fradreck Mujuru
Fungai Mujuru
Fradreck Manjengwa
Patience Chaitezvi
Jenny Muchiumi
Cosmas Magaya
Irene Chigamba
Tute Chigamba
Erica Azim
Petra Simione
Professional Certifications
- Alchemical Alignment: Trauma Resolution and Embodiment of Spirit
Brigit Viksnins - Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Robyn Michele Jones, Intrinsic Touch Institute - Trauma Informed Biopsychosocial Somatic Bodywork & Interoceptive Structural Integration
Pacific Center for Awareness and Bodywork - Licensed Massage Therapist
New Mexico and Washington State - Bachelor’s of Science in Integrative Ecosocial Design specializing in Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Intercultural Rewilding
Gaia University - Holistic Peer Counseling
Teri Diane Ciacchi, Terrafire Academy for Aphrodisiacal Living - Thai Massage
Pim Ganai School of Thai Massage - Permaculture Design
Starhawk & Penny Livingston-Stark, Earth Activist Training - Traditional Usui Reiki
Norma-Jean Young
Tide Song Healing Arts 