Here Is Where Your Healing Begins

Martha has been fantastic. She is warm, trustworthy, supportive, and a very skilled practitioner. I recommend her highly. Her "Heal the Healer" program is necessary for all therapists looking to release, restore, and renew themselves.

 ~M. Bulger, MRET, Westfield, NJ

Some masters draw us to them through their presence, there are those whose words ring true to us, and we want to hear more, and there are those rare ones that prove to be a mirror where we can see our true selves – all undeniably beautiful in their unique power to draw us out of slumber. And yet there is a fourth kind – those rare masters who are windows that reveal the rainbow colors of our potential and innate magnificence. Masters who can not only show us what we are now, but what we were born to be. Masters who see it themselves and know how to show it to us! In one session with Ma Shakti, she hands you a picture of yourself, how you are afraid to imagine yourself lest you feel you’re in a fairytale.

Ma Shakti has an array of tools that she wields with utmost refinement…knowing how to use each tool skillfully and when it isn’t needed anymore. I ask myself what I learned from her – the one thing that has more meaning for me is Awareness. That secret ingredient, that potent essence she gathered as nectar from every Master she has loved, lived with, listened to and learned from, that priceless gem that yogis spend lifetimes yearning to achieve through penance, she simply hands out to you over a cup of tea, with a tender smile that lights up her benevolent eyes and a few gestures of her expressive hands. And you sit there wondering how on earth I got so lucky…until she snaps her fingers to wake you up and out of your daydreams, reminding you with her sharp voice, "You need to be practical, Navani!” 

Ma Shakti is an advocate and protector of the quality of feminineness, not just of femininity or women’s rights as most of us often might see it. She understands this essential quality as the fragrance of the innermost sanctum of both men and women, seekers and non-seekers alike, and rightfully channels its expression and preservation.

~Navani Dwara

My name is Manuel Gonzalez, and I want to emphasize the tremendous work we made with Shakti and the aid of Rapid Eye to surpass a depression stage that framed my life in the past months due to a separation. 

Thanks to Shakti’s undeniable gift of healing, her arduous work - she gave me sessions that sometimes extended to 3 hours, the Rapid Eye process, and my commitment- I can say that I managed to release my depression.

I can say that whoever decides to start this therapeutic process and is constant and persistent can go beyond their traumas and begin a journey of spiritual illumination. I am deeply grateful to Shakti for her love and dedication to her patients. I hope she can continue helping and enlightening many more human beings on their journey towards healing. 

~Manuel Gonzalez

Dear Shakti, being of light and love, I thank God for having met you as a friend and therapist; every session of Rapid Eye I shared with you was a wonderful journey to explore and recognize that happiness did not have to be searched for very far, as it was within me the whole time. 

~Maria Arias

I must tell my story because many people can benefit from it. I owe much to Martha Ballesteros and Rapid Eye. If I could pick one of the benefits from doing this therapy, I would say the most important is that I have myself back; I feel free. I didn’t know there was so much peace, power, and strength within me.

My father sexually abused me when I was 9. As far as I can remember, I always had a great fear of life and a horrible sense of insecurity within myself. My mother was dead, so there was no one there to care for me. I stumbled from school to school, later on from man to man, and had a time with drugs and alcohol. Life was very difficult; all I wanted was to be dead, but I have a child I have to care for, so friends talked me into doing something about it. I went to AA meetings and that helped, but I felt sort of imprisoned within, and I was still carrying so much fear. Then I met Martha. With her sessions, she helped me to let go of fear and negative feelings. With the life skill classes she gave me, I started to understand my experience. The abuse was a filter to my perception of life and the choices I made. I choose men and experiences based on my feelings as an abused child. It was such a strange game, for or against men, life, and work. I was certainly a prisoner of my unconscious memories. From the beginning, my changes within and without were so profound that I committed myself to doing as much Rapid Eye as possible. I went through all the sessions. I worked with the Life Skills book. It was like entering a new world. Martha is a real wise woman; with her help, I even changed my eating habits. I am no longer the needy person in my relationships, and I can enjoy intimacy now. The best is the wonderful feeling of being in my body and my enthusiasm for life. I feel grateful about my life now, and I know I have the power to make anything I want out of it. Thank you, Martha, and may God bless you for the wonderful help you are giving to people.

~Ann L. 

 RET is an absolute miracle, and my therapist, Martha, is a miracle worker. For years, I have been working on myself, and still, there were some issues I just never seem to be able to move past because they were so deeply rooted. RET is so effective and easy, it almost seems too good to be true, but it's TRUE. My life has shifted 180 degrees in only a few months, thanks to Rapid Eye and Martha's intuitive instinct in assisting me to get to the true root of the issue and then release it once and for all. Thank you for giving me true freedom. With love and in deep gratitude, I bless you, Martha.  

~Tracy R.

After years of searching and trying different healing techniques, I found RET to be very effective in helping me release and uncover deep emotional wounds. Martha is the best therapist and coach I have ever had. She is also an excellent massage therapist. I love her sense of humor. She is a great asset to the healing of this planet.

~ Michael B.

I met Martha previously to a very decisive time in my life, just entering the thirties in the middle of a crisis in my marriage and after being fired from my job as an attorney in a prestigious law firm. I know now that God always places things in front of us at the right time, and surely that was why Martha was there to help me find the strength and capacity to accept life as it is. That knowledge has allowed me to live my life with patience, love, tolerance, and great faith, virtues that I learned with her help, reside in me, and are for my enjoyment. More than a therapist, she has always been a comprehensive, tender, and warm human being for whom my difficulties have been important as a friend.

~CR Vaquero

Dear Shakti, I would like to say thank you. You have been a blessing in my life. I appreciate your integrity and clarity. God bless you!

~Don

 I write this testimonial with gratitude. I came to Martha Ballesteros looking to relieve my insomnia, depression, and worries. I found a very professional and compassionate human being who helped me let go of my negative thoughts and emotions, guiding me to accept and embrace myself unconditionally. I was very efficient in sabotaging myself. Today, I know I have the power to make a wonderful life for myself, and I am aware that I'm making my life with each one of my thoughts, perceptions, and decisions. Thank you, Martha, for your teachings and great help.

~Oscar B