Integrated Tattoo Healing (ITH)
“Science is Magick explained. Magick is Science unexplained.” - Krystal Bell
Integrated Tattooing Healing is the trauma informed, holistic and therapeutic process of translating intentions into personalized tattoos through psychology, ritual and ethereal BlackWork. Ethereal BlackWork is a geometric illustration style used to encapsulate and imprint the essence of those intentions into the body, heart, and mind. Instinct, Intuition, Intellect.
What I offer as a tattoo experience has shifted and adjusted over the years. The offerings have transformed to reflect my own changes and adjustments within my personal ethos of beliefs and intentions behind tattooing and life.
Raised primarily atheist, with my father’s esoteric lineage, and my parents varied cultural backgrounds, I was encouraged and empowered to study the world’s cultures, arts, religions, polytheisms, theologies, philosophies, sciences, social structures, etc. More than likely this was the foundation for my global thinking. Also the foundation for me to choose whatever systems or mixture of systems that worked best for me, if any. I swayed between observer and sponge, to believer and practitioner, to skeptic, to a practitioner/investigator with a critical lens and constant questions.
Through out my years of questioning and experimentations in different self-growth and expansion practices, I experienced and observed insights that helped to develop my practice of Integrated Tattooing Healing (ITH). A therapeutic and psychological approach to ritual. Trauma informed, Integrated tattoo Healing is artistically expressed through ethereal blackwork is a geometric illustration style used to encapsulate and imprint the essence of those intentions into the body, heart, and mind. Instinct, Intuition, Intellect. Often creating a talisman like design for the body.
The accumulative studies and insights on ITH are applied to tattooing, inviting each guest to participate in a consultation, taking a holistic approach to the process. This holistic overview starts by asking questions ranging from possible allergies to tattoo materials to intentions behind a chosen body art concept and placement. Then all the information is taken into a personal process utilizing meditative tools such as intuitive designing, breathing technique and mantras, along side empathic sensitivities, meridian line studies, acupuncture points, sigil magick, family ritual practices, other energetically based studies, and psychology research to attain an artistic expression of each guest’s desired vision collaborated upon within the consultation.
Once a design is finalized between guest and artist the holistic practices carry into the tattoo session itself. The set and setting is curated to create an environment that allows the experience of pain and art to be fully embraced. Meditation occurs pre and post session before the guest arrives and after they leave. Each step comes together to create an optimal experience to achieve beautiful art, acceptance of the physical process, and a transmutation of the mind, body, and heart. Intellect + Instinct + Intuition.
It is my hope to continue respecting the traditional elements of healing, rite of passage, and transmutation found within the timeless practice of tattooing.
I look forward to making Magick with you!
Here is a sampling of some of the books that have educated me in my studies of ITH:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/517218.The_Archetypal_Symbolism_of_Animals
https://www.harleytherapy.co.uk/counselling/symbols-in-psychology.htm