About Peter Demers and FromOutoftheBlue.com
Fromoutoftheblue.com is a website of Peter Demers, Healing Educator.
Thanks for visiting this page. If you were wondering who the person creating this website is, I will give you some background information here.
As with all journeys, spiritual, physical and metaphysical, it likely began before I realized it. There were experiences in childhood, adolescence, and in my early twenties that contributed to who I am here and now. But I'm guessing you don't want to know about all that right now.
My official education in healing began with three years of workshops, seminars, and classes at Interface Foundation. After that there were other schools and workshops. Throughout, there was a guidance that cannot be quantified in any usual sense, but the result is unquestionably present: I am here.
I am grateful to the many teachers I encountered in those early years. Their teaching became my healing work. I will name them below so you will have some idea of the education I received. Before I do that, I want to thank a new friend-healer-teacher, Steve Chandler
Many teachers, workshop facilitators, and meetings influenced the work I would do. I will start with the two I spent the most time with.
Ron Kurtz invited me to the first workshop at Interface Foundation. He was presenting a weekend workshop on a new kind of psychotherapy, one that he developed. I was astonished at what I witnessed. I attended several of Ron's workshops and training programs and eventually received a certificate in the Hakomi Method, the name he adopted for his work.
Overlapping the training I did with Ron were workshops and seminars with Rosalyn Bruyere. Rosalyn taught healing as a literal exchange of energy. She taught wisdom with kindness and gentleness.
These two teachers were very different in their approach to healing. For me they were the best of the best and imparted far more than I could have found in any other way. I loved them both, but I did not follow of either one, but through guidance I fused the two into the work I would do later. The single most important thing both taught was to be present - in the silence, in a moment of healing presence.
I was a massage therapist for seven years. I also created classes, gave talks, produced events, and wrote a column called Focus on Healing.
Several other teachers, some I knew only briefly, yet they had profound effect on my work: Jerry Jampolsky, Carolyn Myss were pivotal in my involvement with A Course in Miracles; Robbie Gass, Gail Straub, Dawna Markova, and Ram Dass.
