ISABELITA PAPA

Grounded in over 30 years of dedicated spiritual practice, Isabelita Papa is a healer, teacher, and guide whose work spans energy healing, bodywork, meditation, and Qigong. Based in Oakland, California, and Hawaii, she has helped countless individuals through her holistic and intuitive approach to wellness.

For more than three decades, Isabelita has offered individual and group healings incorporating a variety of modalities, including:

• Energetic & Intuitive Healing
• Pranic Healing
• Certified Massage Therapy
• Raindrop Aromatherapy Oil Massage
• Reflexology & Combo Barefoot Shiatsu
• Chi Nei Tsang (Abdominal Energy Work)
• Compassionate Communication active listening

Her diverse healing techniques focus on clearing energy pathways through the organs and chakras, promoting deep transformation and well-being.

Isabelita leads ongoing transformational healing, well-being, and Qigong retreats in the Bay Area, Hawaii, and Mexico. She is the founder of the Selfcare Qigong Teachers Training Program, inspired by Tai Chi/Qigong Shibashi and the Feng Shui Institute.

A certified Qigong instructor for 18 years, founder of Selfcareqigong Teacher training program. Isabelita integrates wisdom from various masters she has studied with, combining traditional and ancient practices. She and her husband, Tom Savell, currently lead the Selfcare Qigong Teacher Certification Program in Hawaii and the Bay Area.

Isabelita’s spiritual path began in 1973 after completing her degree in business arts in the Philippines and relocating to San Francisco. Her extensive training includes:

• Ordination as a Buddhist nun under Burmese Meditation Master, Ven. Taungpulu Sayadaw.
• Over 25 years of Vipassana Meditation practice under Dr. Rina Sircar, Head of the Buddhist Psychology Department at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
• Years of dedicated study in Syda Yoga, Advaita, and Taoism.
• Certified Dayan (Wild Goose) Qigong Teacher, personally trained by Master Hui Liu, a disciple of Master Jiang from the Kunlun Mountains, China (Wen Wu School).
• Certified Adult Education Instructor.
• Participation in the World Tai Chi/Qigong Opening Ceremony with Masters Effie Chow and Ming Tong Gu.
• Training with Mantak Chia at Tao Garden in Thailand.
• Extensive study and practice of Tantric healing, with both Isabelita and Tom serving as Tantra educators. Tom is a Certified Level Two Tantra Teacher under Charles Muir.

For over 15 years, Isabelita has returned to the Philippines to study with renowned traditional healers. A pivotal moment in her spiritual journey came during a 2004 pilgrimage to the sacred mystical cave in Palawan, where she experienced a profound initiation into the life-force energy of the mountain cave. She considers it her destiny to share the medicine and psychic power she received there.

A significant part of Isabelita’s personal and professional journey is her grief-healing work. She credits grief, ritual, and spiritual practices with opening her divine feminine nature and helping her heal from the loss of her parents, two brothers, and other deep traumas.

• She is a Certified Hospice Volunteer and has counseled many through grief and loss.
• For 15 years, she has led workshops and rituals for motherless daughters and guided others in grief and death rituals.
• She volunteers her healing touch and teaches Qigong for low-income women with breast cancer at Charlotte Maxwell Clinic and for senior women facing challenging health conditions.

Isabelita’s mission is to help her clients and students flourish as she does—by practicing Meditation and Qigong trusting in the natural flow of life, and embracing the many mysterious and wondrous ways that spirit reveals itself.

• Mindfulness Meditation on line
• Tuesdays weekly Selfcare Qigong KAC
• Tuesdays Mindfulness Meditation KCC Lihue    
• Wednesday Weekly Self care Qigong 14 yrs-Emeryville online
• Wednesday KAC Kapaa Qigong
• Thursdays KCC Selfcare Qigong
• Thursdays Adaptive Pilates KCC
• Saturdays Qigong Practice Online
• Monthly Meditation Healing Sound with restorative yoga poses
• Monthly Intimate communication and  Connection
• Specializing in working with: All ages, Seniors, ADHD ,PTSD and with Special Needs Patients
•  Selfcare Qigong Teachers Training
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Self-care is about checking in daily, taking a breath, pause, being present and listening to what your body is telling you. It is how to take care of your own needs and wants that will bring a sense of wellbeing, balance, and peace of mind.

It is as simple as stretching, breathing, exercising, resting, selfcare eating healthy nourishing whole food, seasonal vegetables, and fruits, slowing down: ex taking a bath, reading a book, learning something new, reaching out calling a friend, breathing fresh air, walking in nature, meditating, having a quiet time, going to bed early, conserving energy by doing less and plenty of rest more now than ever.