Guide of The Sanctuary Path

Erika Scannliän Schäfer is a certified holistic health practitioner, somatic trauma practitioner, field-medic healer, and creator of The Sanctuary Path. 

The Sanctuary Path is a clean, grounded process that helps women & men return to safety inside themselves, even after years of overwhelm, survival, or internal fragmentation.

It is the place we set for all Healing to take place

Drawing from more than 30 years in injury recovery, somatic medicine, nervous system repair, and bio-energetic field architecture, Erika works at the level where body, mind, and soul reconnect into coherence.

Her approach is simple and powerful:

Stabilize the system.
Reconnect the truth.
Rebuild the internal home.

Clients describe her work as peaceful, precise, deeply supportive, and unlike anything they’ve experienced in traditional healing settings. 

The Sanctuary Path is not performance, catharsis, or emotional labor — it is a clean return to stability, clarity, and sovereignty.

Erika specializes in:

• trauma unwinding
• nervous system regulation
• field-collapse repair
• reconnection of the inner home
• rebuilding after parental wounding
• restoring coherence after long-term survival states

Her work is quiet, powerful, deeply human, and entirely free of performance. 

She meets each person at the architecture of their now — and helps them rise from the inside out.

Helping people get safe again — from the inside out.

Most of my work now is devoted to guiding people out of generational trauma responses and into a place where their head, heart, and body can finally work with one another rather than against themselves.

The last few years have pushed countless people into full trauma-trigger states. I see the effects every day: nervous systems locked down, bodies collapsing under pressure, minds spiraling, and lives organized around survival instead of truth.

My role is to unwind those locks —
to release the unconscious trauma patterns running your system, stabilize your body and your field, and restore the feeling of safety inside your own skin.

This is not “just” energy work.

It is the work behind the work — addressing the hidden architecture of your life:

the pressure underneath your anxiety,
the story underneath your pain,
the pattern underneath your burnout,
the grief underneath your exhaustion.

When the pressure clears, your system can finally move again —
from freedom, clarity, steadiness, and joy.

This is Sanctuary.

This is the return to yourself.

While my work is deeply informed by ancient teachings — including Tibetan contemplative practices, Taoist energy cultivation, yogic philosophy, Ayurveda, and global indigenous  holistic healing traditions

 — I do not teach these systems as formal lineages.

The frameworks I use today are entirely my own:

• Living Shui™
   
• Living Field Recalibration™
   
• Sovereign & Shield™
   
• The Sanctuary Path
  
   

My work honors where it came from —
but it is not a reproduction of any ancient practice.

It is an original system, grounded, lived, tested, and refined through decades of direct experience.

I honor the wisdom traditions that shaped the edges of my path — but the work I offer is a modern, living synthesis born from direct experience, field intelligence, ancestral healing traditions and the real needs of the people I serve.

•  32+ years on the healer’s path

•  1,000+ hours at the Brian Utting School of Massage

•  2,000+ additional hours of study

•  National Health Coach certification

•  Yoga Teacher Training

•  25,000+ hands-on healing sessions

•  A lifetime of anatomical, meditative, somatic, and field-based research

• 32+ years of continuous field study in anatomy, physiology, neuroanatomy, meditation, yogic arts, herbology, quantum logic, vibrational & sound healing
   
• Creator of Living Shui™, Living Field Recalibration™, and the Sovereign & Shield™ system