SWIHA Blog

For many students, the path to healing work is not a straight line—it is a remembering. For Larese Dockery, her journey to Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA) unfolded through timing, alignment, and a deep inner knowing that eventually could not be ignored.

“Before SWIHA, I was finding my way in the healing field—looking for direction and focus,” Larese shares. “I was naturally gifted, however, not truly grounded or certain of my path.”

Although she began the enrollment process years ago, it wasn’t until just over a year ago that everything aligned. “I always knew I’d become a student here; it was really about timing and alignment.” When the moment arrived, she stepped fully into the Integrative Healing Arts Practitioner program, a decision that would anchor her gifts and help her clarify her purpose.

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If you’re on social media, you’ve surely seen the devastating images of the fires currently ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. This delicate and ancient ecosystem is burning at its highest rate since 2013, threatening millions of species of plants and animals, indigenous tribes, and the climate of our entire planet.

If you are outraged and heartbroken, you are not alone. Southwest Institute of Healing Arts is a community of healers, and together we can consciously contribute to the well-being of our planet.

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Taylor Grace is one of Southwest Institute of Healing Arts’ inspired Toe Readers who remembers watching KC Miller do this healing work: “My first Toe Reading was by KC Miller. Watching her work through other people was an amazing experience. She helped me with quite a few things on my personal journey, and it’s the inspiration people get with her that inspires us.” Taylor found a connection to Reiki back in 1996, and then attended one of SWIHA’s Gifts and Graces for the first time, eleven years later in 2007. She knew she wanted to become a student, and so the program she initially signed up for was Life Coaching, then found herself on our conscious college community in the Mind-Body Wellness Practitioner program, in which she studied Hypnotherapy, more Reiki, and Toe Reading. She reflected on the Toe Reading classes: “I remember noticing how respectful of an art it was, yet the truth in it was mind-twisting. It made me feel uncomfortable! You get to know yourself really well when you study healing. This is a process.”

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