Acupressure Insights

My first experience with this was in 1996, with permission from Aminah, when I introduced the Deep Relaxation Release to nurses at a local hospital. It was part of a six-month Maternal Child initiative. The labor and delivery nurses used this protocol and noted that it was particularly helpful durin...

Darleen's Story: Darleen came to see me because she and her husband wanted a child. Her menstruation cycle was so irregular that she never knew when she was ovulating and when her fertility time was high. As we worked together it became clear that she was unsure.

Over several months we worked with ...

Special Invitation! 

We are excited to announce our

New Insight Acupressure Membership Program

 and the launch of our new

Insight Acupressure Self-Care Library

This is a special community, and we are thrilled to see how our old friends and new are gathering in creative ways! Many of you have as...

Anna Pearson, CCRP is part of an amazing team at Beacon Memorial Cardiopulmonary Rehab in South Bend, Indiana. With Anna's guidance to incorporate integrative health practices into patient education, the program recently won a National award for their education on Stress Management and Vagus Nerve R...

Insight Acupressure: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Founders Day Edition 2024 in Celebration of Dr. Aminah Raheem’s December 5th Birthday

Aminah’s birthday is December 5th and over the years many of us have been able to celebrate with her and each other in her beloved Borrego Springs or other locat...

MS Nurse International Acupressure Initiative by Megan Weigel, DNP, APRN-c

In 2018, after completing a fellowship in Integrative Medicine, I had the desire to introduce a hands-on modality in my practice, so I decided to try a Soul Lightening Acupressure course.  I got really lucky to a) have found...

 Memories of Early Process Acupressure Days by Leah Matalon

Many years ago in the early 1990’s I was a student and practitioner of CranioSacral Therapy. I studied with John Upledger and even had the privilege of assisting him in an Advanced CST class. It was at a CST conference that I first encount...

A few years after launching my professional massage therapy practice, I realized that the clients I was seeing required a different modality to relieve their low back pain.  It seemed that most everyone who was referred to me at that time suffered from chronic low back pain.  This encouraged me to l...

Is Insight Acupressure Simply Acupuncture Without Needles?

Cathy Miller, L.Ac., MM, LMT, ABT

For many years, in our outreach and publications about Insight Acupressure (formerly Soul Lightening Acupressure), we described our work as “acupuncture without needles.” This was an easy statement to make...

New Seva Stress Release Instructors

We are offering more Seva Stress Release classes with newly trained Seva Instructors!

During the transition period in 2023 from Soul Lightening International to Insight Acupressure, the SLI Board provided an opportunity for several Seva Teacher Training workshop...

Origin of the Seva Stress Release

In the aftermath of September 11, 2001
by Leah Matalon

“[Aminah] asked us to consider what we could do,
what we could offer through our work to the world.” - Leah

On September 11, 2001, New York City, Washington, DC, and the entire world was shocked and changed...