ARTICLES:
 Tlish Diyan Healing
by Maria Yraceburu
as originally appeared in Sonoma Women's Voices

 Meaning "snake energy" in Quero Apache, this 10,000-year-old healing system is right in sync with our growing awareness of multidimensional connection.

In 1987, Lynda Yraceburu was Cath Lab Manager and Cardiovascular X-Ray Technologist for Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital when she suffered a complete shutdown.  Diagnosised with Epstein-Barr, degenerative disks in her neck and back, and heavy metal poisoning in her kidneys from years of X-Ray exposure, she found herself at a threshold with some decisions needing to be made.  It was then she began chiropractic and massage as alternative therapies.  She eventually studied and became a certified massage therapist, "but it wasn't enough," she recalls.  Then she discovered Tlish Diyan, an ancient comprehensive lifestyle and energetic approach to healing from the southwest natives, the Quero Apache.  "Through Tlish diyan I transmuted the dis-ease that plagued my body and spirit.  Today I'm a traditional healer working through my knowledge of Western Medicine, and the healing arts of the Tlish Diyan and my own heritage, the Romani Chovani (gypsy healer)," says Yraceburu, who now teaches traditional earthways of healing and life through Yraceburu EarthWisdom.

Tlish Diyan was secretly practiced in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico by my ancestors.  In 1972, it entered the public consciousness through my college study work, when my mentor, Dr. Meredith Kane and I brought together the ancient healing system and clinical pyschology to assist women overcoming the post traumatic stress of childhood sexual abuse.  In it's broadest sense, tlish diyan is the understanding that all forces of nature are interconnected to us, and can be utilized in the process of life and healing.  The Changing Mother earth's electromagnetic energies are mirrored within our own body-mind dynamics - they affect us, and they heal us.

Practitioners of tlish diyan follow a balanced lifestyle that includes personal daily ritual, eating holistically, and enjoying a lifestyle of hozhoni - beauty.

Tlish Diyan teaches that each person is a blend of twentyfour aspects, eight directional energies and three cycles of time.  Dis-ease arises from disconnection and alienation from these planetary elements of physicality.

We can figure out if we have imbalance in one of the naadindi'i'i - aspects of self - and then track the imbalance to its source with penseh - the cycles of time.  Using counseling, herbs, energetic alignment techniques and ancient empowerment rituals we can effectively restore balance to life, releasing the dis-ease.

the healing concepts of the penseh are powerful:  Essence, Structure, Emotion.  Essence symbolizes the center of our being, the unbound self, the place of deepest knowing.  Structure correlates with the sense of being grounded, stable and safe in the world.  Emotion represents the world of our finite experience, the quality of our relationships with ourselves and others, and our emotional dynamics.

ESSENCE
Essence is Sky within us that expands and lifts us to lightness, freedom and space.  Essence is represented by both physical anatomy, and aliveness, innate intelligence and depth of one's being.  It is the spacious energetic center of the individual, and embodies the unchanging and infinite universal intelligence within us all.  All body/mind systems are regulated and revolve around Essence.  To communicate with Essence requires an intuitive touch, being open to listening, neutrality and allowing.

STRUCTURE   
Structure is the Earth in our bones, the grounded organization of body, mind, and being.  Structure is embodied in bones and ligaments, nerve and muscle systems, and the deep-lying fascias.  By embodying the natural laws of physical mechanics, Structure allows us to move through space in active relationship with our external and internal environments.  The ideal state of Structure is one of order and balance.  Balance is often compromised by injury and trauma, experiences of tension within the mind or psyche.

EMOTION
Between Sky and Earth lies the realm of feelings, our complex emotional and viseral territory.  This domain relates anatomically to viscera (organs) and connective tissues, which carry energetic pulsations experienced as emotions and impulses.  Viscera and connective tissues are approached through touch, detoxification and balancing rituals; emotional aspects are addressed with insight, expressing, allowing and accepting.  This penseh extends into the entire spectrum of the human experience, including work, family, community, culture, and personal growth.  It involves the pyshcological challenges of daily life, as well as physical and emotional relationships.