Avideh

Avideh is a seasoned practitioner of manual therapy, whether for bringing relief and curing illness or for helping healthy people reach a higher degree of well-being. A graduate in kinesiotherapy since 1991( ULB, Free University of Brussels, Belgium) and member of the Belgian Society of Osteopathy since 2000(D.O, The Belgian School of Osteopathy, Belgium 2000, Master in Osteopathic Approach of Cervical Spine, The British School Of Osteopathy 2001, D.O “Centre de recherche et d'enseignement d'Osteopatie”, France 2004, Osteopaths program training supervisor at The Belgian School of Osteopathy since 2002), Avideh considers people and human health in a holistic manner combining mainstream and alternative medical techniques with age-old traditions of various cultures around the world. Using the skills and experience acquired over nearly twenty years of health-care practice and continual training Avideh will guide each individual patient through the most adequate path to help solve health problems and subsequently to achieve the highest possible degree of well-being.

While studying medicine in the late 1980s in Europe( ULB, Free University of Brussels 1985-1990), she became conscious of what is perhaps the main limitation of allopathic( western style) medicine, the fact that it considers a human person as a collection of biochemical processes without necessarily catering for subtler aspects of psychology and energy. The terminal illness that eventually took Avideh’s mother provided ample albeit painful opportunity to observe how the allopathic approach often fails to involve the patient in the healing process, while the means and methods it uses are not necessarily respectful of human well-being in the longer term. Reaching this larger understanding of the challenges of modern healthcare, Avideh took the decision to explore and develop medical practices involving an integral vision of human health considering the body as the starting point for identifying sources of imbalance, reduced well-being or illness.

Touching the body to get a good grasp of symptoms and thereon develop and fine intuition of a person’s emotional state to identify adequate treatment is at the core of her practice. Starting from that core understanding of the most adequate path to health and well-being for a given individual, Avideh will select and apply tools coming from her training and practice of kinesiotherapy, osteopathetic manipulative medicine, energy therapy and various traditional medicinal practices.

Ultimately Avideh issues a permanent invitation to each person she guides to use their inner potential and take responsibility for their own long-term well-being.

She is also an artist (graduate in 2D Arts and Animation 2005, The Art Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and a musician.