I want to take a moment to say Happy New Year to everyone today and reflect a moment on 2015. I would say every year brings with it, it's challlenges yet, is also likely filled with many moments of the positive. 2015 was no exception. Someone said to me this week that if a person has something that they specialize in, their "greatness" is typically not marked by their acheivements, but rather thier trials and errors. I thought long and hard about that because I am very oriented on the successes. But, it is true, that a person cannot be able to acheive successes without falling more than just a few times. If I look back over the nearly 20 years I have been doing this work, I can see that the many times that unwanted outcomes were rendered were what led me the most to more deeply understand issues that I may not have otherwise come to realize.

With every year that I practice, I understand more and more that the variable of "human" can not be underestimated. We are all human and therefore unique. In as much as we each have a heart, a liver, blood running through our veins, lymph running through that immune system highway..... the way in which we operate is not like a machine that can be treated by examining it's broken parts. We are comprised of many variable components that serve to identify who we are and the inter-workings of our physiology, psychology, spirituality and that "magical" force that connects all of those parts.

Every year that I practice, I feel humbled by so many things in life and in the world of healing. I am humbled by the vastness of it all and am in awe of the capacity for change that we all possess as human beings. I have learned to honor what I know as well as what I do not know and to remain standing with my heart open to the fact that each of our physical and spiritual journeys contain different messages and themes. I have learned to not judge. The thing that I cherish the very most are the relationships that I share with so many people (primarily women) around the world through this work that I do.

Looking forward and wondering what is to come, and reflecting back on what has past, may often be painful when neither seems to coincide with our imagined vision. I think a part of that road to finding that balanced, healthy place in our own life is seeing the positive in the struggles that have met us in life. This is not an easy task. I know, as I have been there more than once. But, I don't ask, "why me?", I always ask myself, "OK, what am I supposed to learn from this now?", and, it brings comfort becuase in my heart of hearts, I do believe there is purpose to everything, and at the very least that is my hope. As I have done for all of these past 20 years, and what I will continue to do as long as I am breathing, is to try to make the lives of others as better as I possibly can, using my hands, heart, and mind for the mending of those in physical and psychological pain. And, if each one of us does this on a personal level every day-the world will be that much better for it.

Boaz and I share many visions of what we hope for in the future for ICAMA to help others more and more. With every year we practice, more of the goals are being met. Touching the lives of the many people we treat, and even some we don't creates the small steps necessary to build the larger ones to come. So, when I reflect on 2015, it was another year, another step that, without, with all of it's victories and challenges, would not be the the whole, the sum of what we have built so far. We are grateful for all of it.

We wish you all Happiness, Love, Peace and HEALTH!

Boaz and Matia