Essence Institute Mission, Philosophy and Practitioners

Our Mission

Essence Institute is committed to helping individuals, couples and groups to come into contact with their True Nature. Through workshops, retreats and private healing sessions a context is created for transformation and Self-discovery.

Our Philosophy

We believe that in each of us there is an inner pull toward a remembered state of goodness, wholeness and wellbeing. For some this is experienced as a mild feeling of discontent and for others it is carried as a deep and profound suffering. For all of us, it is the natural reaction to the loss of contact with Being, our True Nature, which sets us on the journey of our human experience.

Although this journey at times can be fraught with emotional and physical suffering, it offers us the opportunity to inquire deeply into who we are in our essential wisdom, and it offers us the sacred pathway to the embodiment of Essence. We believe that inspired learning and true healing arise from a courageous exploration of the limitations of our personality, the cultivation of spiritual awareness, and the application of these understandings in every day life.

Practitoners

Don DeMercurio is a spiritual healer and teacher in private practice in Bristol, VT and Rochester, NY.

Nina Miller, LCMHC has been a practicing psychotherapist, facilitator and teacher, in Vermont for over 30 years.

Barbara Morrish is an energy healer who practices the ancient art of Jin Shin Jyutso® and also offers therapeutic massage.

“The action of Being is Self-revelation” A.H. Almaas