What is Tapestry Life Resources?
Tapestry Life Resources gets its name from ancient art weavings of the world's many cultures. A tapestry is made of many threads of different textures and colors that are woven together to create a beautiful whole. Our lives are also woven of many threads– some are rough and knotty; others are fine and delicate. Some are sturdy and difficult to break while others fragile and easily stressed beyond their limits.
Together, however, the strands of our lives also form a pattern, a design based on a Divine plan; woven together, they form a thing of infinite beauty — our Essential selves.
The goal of Tapestry Life Resources is to help us discover the pattern in the warp and weft of our lives so that we may see the Divine design at work in all that we are and do. By providing the space for silence and contemplation and the closeness of a supportive community, Tapestry hopes to join people of all walks of life and provide a vision of who we really are and all we might become.
Who is Suzanne Eller?
Suzanne Hollifield Eller is a retired educator, a nationally certified and licensed
massage and bodywork therapist, a retreat and workshop leader, and a spiritual
seeker.
Suzanne worked as a special educator and English teacher, finishing her formal career with the Catawba County Schools in 2004. She continues to substitute occasionally to keep in touch with young people and the profession she loved for so much of her life, and she is active in her professional organizations of the National Education Association, the North Carolina Association of Educators- Retired, and the Catawba County Retired School Personnel. She holds Masters degrees in English, Gifted and Talented Education, and Intermediate Education, and she has taught elementary, middle, and high school.
After retiring from teaching, Suzanne attended the Whole You School of Massage and Bodywork and passed the certification examination of the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork in 2007 after which she was licensed by the state of North Carolina to practice massage in NC. She is an independent contractor working out of her office at Body Balance II. She is a member of the American Massage Therapy Association.
Suzanne credits her work with Reiki with moving her toward a massage and bodywork career. "I wanted to be able to touch people physically, not just energetically. For that you need a license in NC," she says. She is an Usui Reiki Master, Karuna Reiki Master, Seichem Reiki Master, Golden Triangle Reiki Master, and Master of Amara Spiritual Empowerment. She also holds a level II in Gendai Reiki and has certification from the International Reiki Association. Suzanne teaches classes in Reiki to others.
Suzanne has had additional training in a number of modalities. She is on staff at the Upledger Institute as a teaching assistant and has completed training in CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release through the Upledger Institute. She is a member of the International Association of Healthcare Practitioners.
Suzanne has trained in Touch for Health, an applied kinesiology modality, and and is proficient in TFH I, II, and III. She is a member of the the Touch for Health Kinesiology Association of America.
Suzanne is also a certified Theta Healer. Theta Healing is a spiritual healing modality, and Suzanne has trained through the advanced level.
A 2001 graduate of the Stillpoint Ministries Retreat Leaders Training Program, Suzanne has completed training at The Enneagram Institute under Don Riso and Russ Hudson. She is a member of the International Enneagram Association.
Suzanne is a member of a covenant community with a rule of life, the Stillpoint Companions, and she is an active member of Church of the Ascension, Episcopal in Hickory, North Carolina where she assists with the Centering Prayer group and is active in the Episcopal Church Women.
A former student of the Diamond Approach with the Diamond Heart Atlanta group of the Ridhwan Foundation, Suzanne continues to see the teachings of the Diamond Approach as a key force in her psycho-spiritual development.
