Thomas D D'Alessio

Tom’s interests and experience have ranged from the repair of old VW buses to music composition/performance, from counseling to carpentry, from leading journal workshops to building computer networks, along with cooking, bread-making, hiking, camping, exploring theology and the spiritual traditions, and, of course, meditating on the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. He’s built houses, taught in a public elementary school, served as pastor, and worked as counselor in a psychiatric hospital. He is one of the few people in the world in recent history to have taken four years of Latin in High School, played accordion since age three, or admitted either publicly until now. He is the co-founder of Bodymindspiritworks™, an intentional community, sanctuary, and integral therapy center. He is also the co-founder of Integral Treks™, a program of full day journal workshops, set in the natural world, incorporating journal work with hiking or biking. A basic assumption running through all of Tom’s work is that “body” “mind” and “spirit” are not three separate things needing to be integrated or (even worse) “balanced,” but simply three already-and- always dimensions (like length, width, height) of the integrated One, to be awakened to, now upon now.