
Certified BodyTalk Practitioner
BodyTalk combines aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kinesiology, Western Medical Science, and Ayurveda to provide a comprehensive Mind-Body medicine.



What I love about this work
I became a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner in early 2015. Since this time, I have witnessed many healing miracles and I’m repeatedly amazed by the quality and intensity of change that is possible when the body is given what it needs to heal itself. BodyTalk can address all types of issues and symptoms, mental, emotional, spiritual and physical. In addition to relief of symptoms from often long-term chronic issues, clients report having greater clarity of mind and purpose and feel more grounded and centered. I feel honored every day to do this work and look forward to helping you on your healing journey.
What is BodyTalk?

BodyTalk is a non-invasive energetic healing modality that locates the root causes of imbalance and disease in the client. The practitioner accesses the client’s innate wisdom to find the physical, emotional, environmental as well as ancestral factors that are interfering with the body’s communication pathways and ability to self-heal. Using biofeedback and non-invasive tapping techniques, the practitioner helps to clear the interfering factors, repairing lines of communication within all parts of the body and refocusing the body’s natural healing response.

How I got here...
From a young age I learned empathy, compassion and the importance of developing sensitivity to surroundings---both human and environmental. I traveled extensively in my youth and was exposed to many cultures, ways of thinking, and approaches to living. Adventures in higher education took me from Stanford University to Eugene Lang College in New York City where I was living on September 11th, 2001. Six weeks later I returned to California significantly changed. After eleven years of looking for solutions to the physical and mental symptoms that had been limiting my capacity to fully thrive, I discovered these symptoms were the effects of long-term, untreated PTSD. This lead me to explore different healing modalities and ultimately to the consciousness based mind and body health system called BodyTalk. After recognizing the system’s scientific basis in quantum physics mirrored my spiritual understanding of consciousness, I began studying the BodyTalk System in 2013. From the beginning I felt a deep resonance with its ability to utilize our self-healing capabilities while simultaneously contextualizing our experiences both intuitively and psychologically. I continually expand my learning in the advanced modules of the BodyTalk System, which allows for integration of new scientific discoveries into my sessions and my practice. I enjoy working with people of all ages from all walks of life.


Testimonials
“My friend introduced me to Lotara, a remarkable woman who grew up on a devoted path. Since she recently completed intensive training in Body Talk, I felt open to experience a session.
This modality offers a new map for Healing the Body, Mind Connection. The experience encourages interactive awareness, guided by ancient teachings based on respect and compassion. Body Talk sessions with Lotara feel gentle and supportive. She encourages a new way to reconnect to the Body, Mind flow and explains all she does throughout the session. This technique gave a real boost of clarity, hope and confidence following trauma and ptsd. Her session helped clear active memories and phobias that taxed my appetite. And she felt my body’s excitement as I was regaining the desire to be hungry again.
I highly recommend Body Talk sessions with Lotara.”
-K.D.
“A session with Lotara is something I feel blessed and honored to have experienced. From the moment I walked into her space I felt at home. I felt safe and comfortable to take all the baggage that I walk around with off and just surrender to the present moment. Although I still don’t have a full comprehension of exactly what body talk is I was able to really trust Lotara because of her extensive knowledge on the mind/body/spirit connection and because of her gentle approach to healing. During my session I felt energy moving all throughout my body. It moved to places in which stagnant energy was, and in ways I felt that it woke that energy up, and also released the energy that was no longer serving me.
What I really loved about the session was there were certain themes that came up during my session that I then saw appear in my life over the next week. The synchronicities between what came up in my session and what came up in my life afterwards were so on point, which made me feel very grounded and guided in my actions. Also after my session for the next few days I was able to feel and see (when I closed my eyes) energy currents moving from the top of my head to my feet. This experience was really special for me because I could tell that Lotara had woken up some dormant energy in me and it showed me that I have the ability to access these channels in me when I am relaxed and aware enough. Overall I’d really recommend Lotara to anyone who is looking for healing and support from someone who is extremely kind, comforting, professional, and humbly powerful.”
–S.B.
“Working with Lotara in the context of Bodytalk has been such a great experience! In our sessions I found myself elevated out of many years and layers of resistance and into a much more open and loving frame of mind. Deep relaxation and family insights have been only two of the beneficial components of the treatments and her work has allowed me to see into the deeper conversation the body and the mind are always having. She’s been a joy to learn from and I cannot recommend her highly enough!”
–E.G.
“I was so impressed with Lotara’s sensitivity to both my physical as well as emotional / psychic state. She was right on in sensing events in both my family history and patterns in how I was raised and how that was affecting my current state. The night after the session with Lotara I went through some type of emotional detox or discharge that eventually reduced the level of fear I had been feeling. It was rather intense and I was certainly surprised that one session could have that effect. I am sure that Lotara will help many with this method of healing as she has the sensitivity and intelligence for it.
Thank you so much Lotara, I look forward to more sessions.”
–V.M.
“I’ve had all these different kinds of healing sessions since the [Category 5 Fiji] cyclone, and what you did had the lightest touch, but went the deepest. Your treatment was a long breath of refreshment; kind of like cleaning out the closets and airing the room of body-mind.”
–J.T.
“I began seeing Lotara for Bodytalk 4 years ago. I was immediately drawn to this form of body work because at the core of the work is the premise that the body has the intelligence to heal itself. Sometimes the body needs a facilitator or witnesser to offer space for that to happen. When I refer to the body, I am not only speaking about the physical material body, I am also referring to the mental body, the energetic body, the emotional body and so on. Bodytalk does not privilege one body over the other, but offers a way through its language to hold space for identifying the relationship between these bodies.
Being that I am a bodywork practitioner myself and very cerebral, I appreciate Lotara telling me about the process of the session. Sometimes bringing the process into verbal context helps me to understand what is happening for me in my healing process. And then there are some aspects of the process that I don’t need to understand in the analytical part of the brain because the healing is happening regardless.
BodyTalk is a very safe and nurturing method of bodywork. Along with my spiritual practice, BodyTalk has been the most effective method of healing for me. The method offers space for my healing as an ongoing process. Lotara is an incredible BodyTalk practitioner, a healer with the utmost integrity, and I feel incredibly grateful to be able to work with her.”
–R.N.
“BodyTalk was a return to listening deeply to my body and helping me set stronger boundaries with my energy.”
–A.C
“I’d like to take a minute to share about the BodyTalk session I received from Lotara James in 2015 after the Valley Fire raged through Lake County and I lost my home.
First, I’d like to thank Lotara for her compassionate generosity to have sessions with people in Lake County after the fire. I found Lotara’s BodyWork treatment to be spot on in identifying not only the physical symptoms I was dealing with as a result, but also the mental and emotional aspects at play as well.
At times I have found it quite challenging to get to the roots or core of what issues I am dealing with physically and emotionally, and I found that Lotara’s gift with the BodyTalk training was an exquisite tool for doing this.
Lotara’s natural sensitivity and intuitiveness combined with the BodyTalk tools were able to quickly and softly get right to the issues at hand. This, as a result, brought swift healing and light to the subjects as well, and have provided continuous and ongoing understanding of the issues for further healing. Thank you, Lotara, for this gift of your healing art.
Thank you, again, for the session after the fire.”
–C.S.
“Lotara is sensitive and trustworthy. Using BodyTalk she unexpectedly helped me open to a subtler relationship to reality, which was a valuable healing. I look forward to the next session.”
–J.N.
“The bodywork was wonderful.”
–C.B.
“I didn’t know what I was getting into when I tried Body talk. I had an inflamed small intestine, and I was looking for more ways that weren’t allopathic related since the allopathic doctors had no solutions for me. I took a Body Talk session with Lotara. Body Talk is a very intimate experience, so it is important that you have a practitioner that makes you feel safe, and comfortable. Lotara definitely had no problem making me trust her. She was very amiable and knowledgeable. I felt comfortable immediately. I was very impressed with the muscle testing of the session. I feel like the session helped guide my intuition on what I needed to begin my healing path. I am definitely getting better and look forward to another session. Thank you Lotara.”
–V.H.
BodyTalk Sessions
In Person
Golden Folk Wellness : Friday AM, Saturday AM & PM Appointments Available
Meditation for Muscles : Wednesday AM & PM Appointments Available
Remote via Telephone, Skype or Zoom
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday Appointments Available
Tel: 323-329-7139
to book a session or find out more
Free 20 Minute Consultation

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Location
Address
Golden Folk Wellness
1615 Lucile Ave
Los Angeles, CA
90026
http://goldenfolkla.com/lotara
Contact
lotara.bodytalk@gmail.com Tel: 323-329-7139