Nora Benian is not just a healer—she is a guide who leads her clients on a journey towards total wellness. As a seasoned Yoga Therapist, Life Coach, Sound Healer, and Theta Healer, Nora brings a wealth of wisdom from diverse healing modalities to help individuals find their true path. Her approach is deeply personalized, offering Yogic practices, sound therapy, and life coaching to address a wide range of challenges—whether physical, emotional, psychological, or spiritual. With a belief that “your thoughts create your reality,” Nora empowers her clients to harness the power of their minds, guiding them through transformative experiences that bring them back into alignment and elevate their life force. In this Mystic Mag‘s interview, Nora shares her holistic philosophy, revealing how she inspires and motivates her students to navigate life’s changes with strength, clarity, and confidence. Whether you seek to overcome stress, embrace change, or achieve a healthier, happier life, Nora’s guidance offers a pathway to profound healing and self-discovery.
Your healing journey spans nearly three decades. How has your personal transformation influenced your approach to healing others?
Firstly I’m not really healing others, I’m facilitating the process in which they are accessing their own inner healer. Healing is a conscious choice of moving through what was and growing into what will be. People hang onto their pain/suffering for various reasons and have fear of the unknown. They become tolerant of their suffering to some degree in the sense that they know how to manage it. But with change comes a level of fear of whether they can handle stepping up and experiencing the unknown.
I have had much to heal from in my life. I came from an emotionally volatile home which affected my nervous system making me a very anxious person. Also as a first generation immigrant without extended family support and moving all the time for survival created some attachment/ detachment issues. But the worst was during the birth of my daughter. I was injured severely with an epidural injection that left me barely able to walk for many years from which I am 99% recovered, thanks to Yoga Therapy.
Actually it was during this time of recovery that I truly understood the value of patience, tolerance, rest and faith in my recovery. Had I not persevered in my recovery, I would’ve ended up in a wheelchair. It was through my faith that my body can heal that kept me going even when the improvements were so hard to detect day to day. But overtime with consistent effort I continued to heal and gradually regained strength and mobility.
I apply this wisdom with my clients to help them understand that healing is a process, it doesn’t happen overnight and it requires their continuous cooperation, faith and effort for any results to be gained. It is actually this push to challenge themselves through their pain that is absolutely necessary to move from where they are to where they want to be. Of course many skills and tools are taught so that they have the ability to continue the healing process even when they’re not in session with me. But Complete dedication is required.
Part of my job is motivating and educating the client in the process of healing. But the biggest part of my job is to read the client well so I know what they’re ready to work on and when to shift to another approach. I look for signs of resistance and know that this is not the way to go at this time, maybe later we’ll try it again. That is one reason why I have so many modalities that I work with.
Healing is really a form of self-mastery. Athletes master their abilities by practicing their sport in their mind, body and soul. Healers (all of us) master their abilities to heal themselves through the mind, body and soul too. But the added ingredient necessary is willpower. Nothing happens without it. We must want to heal and do whatever is necessary to accomplish that.
You emphasize the importance of uncovering the root cause of suffering. Can you share a profound experience where identifying this root cause led to a significant breakthrough in a client’s healing journey?
A client came to me who was feeling low energy, drained and unsatisfied with her life. She had various symptoms that mirrored these feelings. She came to deal with the symptoms which we did, I gave her a few Aura tuning sessions, which were helping to ease her anxiety. During the third session she began to release some frustrations that were held in her body. She trembled and cried and eventually settled down. Then she said that she felt like no-one loves her the way she loves them. Her spouse, parents, kids, friends didn’t return the show of love she displayed to them.
We talked further about this, as I knew what the root was but waited for her to realize it.
Then she realized that she doesn’t feel worthy of their love so it is possible that she was pushing their love away or not receiving it. Once she realized this we worked on ways of developing more self-love with practices and mantras and affirmations.
By her next session she had less pain in her body and was functioning better with more energy. She still has more work to do but this is an example of how finding the root cause of suffering can lead to understanding and healing
What type of services do you offer?
I offer Sound healing, Aura tuning, Life Coaching, Theta healing and Yoga therapy.
Descriptions here: https://www.dimensionsofhealing.com/service-menu
With your expertise in modalities ranging from Sound Healing to Theta Healing and beyond, how do you determine which healing approach to use with each individual client?
Each healing modality affects the whole person from another angle or approach. For instance, if someone is shocked by sad news or trauma they may not be ready to talk about it so life coaching won’t be the best place to start. Rather, a gentler approach is required to soothe the person and begin to relax their nervous system so they can process the recent events with less tension. Sound healing and aura tuning would be a better place to start. But eventually after several sessions the client will begin to emote verbally and will want to talk. This brings them to another layer of healing.
Addiction Counseling was a pivotal part of your early studies. How has your understanding of addiction evolved over time, especially in relation to the body-mind connection?
Addiction is a very complex condition or situation. It starts with a need to ease themselves from pain which can be caused from anything or from any time in their lives but it’s starting to surface now. They reach for the nearest thing, like sugar for instance, to distract them and elevate them from the state of their emotions at this time and lift them to a higher feeling.
Eventually that’s not enough and they reach for something more like alcohol or marijuana or medication. This is when addiction really begins with the coping methods chosen. I have found that if we were given skills to cope with stress and low feelings like depression better from an early age we would be able to manage life’s ups and downs with less damage done. Simple deep breathing, thinking positively, meditation, right diet, and sufficient rest are the basics of dealing with life’s stresses with more strength and power. But most people lack strength, especially in their self-esteem and this leads them to reach for things that temporally elevates them but also deludes them into thinking that they are fine and well.
Unfortunately it’s a short lived experience and they need their next shot of whatever their substance or method of coping with stress is. From here addiction is born.
So now my main way of helping people with addictions especially the milder ones is to begin with accepting the fact that they feel low or sad or whatever the emotion is and then working their way out of that emotion with some skills that I talked about earlier like breathing and meditation. The problem today is that everybody needs a quick fix because they have to get back to work and act as if they’re fine when really they’re not. So another thing that is highly recommended for those going through difficult times is rest and taking a break from their usual stresses.
The holistic approach you advocate considers mind, body, and soul. How do you maintain balance in your own life while managing such a diverse and demanding practice?
I make it a point to exercise daily and get out into nature whenever possible to help me with my physical tension that develops throughout my work week. It isn’t easy working with people who are in pain, you do take on some of it even if you have the skills not to. Empathy is like that. But it’s important for me to be able to energetically wash myself clean so that I maintain an inner balance and carry only my energy and not other’s energy.
I am fairly strict with my diet so that I’m not stressing my system with more things to detox from. I eat mostly vegetarian and occasionally eat fish and if I do I thank the fish for its life for feeding me. This helps me connect to the spiritual aspect of living. I make gratitude a part of my daily practice as well because this helps me remember that I am well and I have what I need. This keeps me connected to source or Life force thereby increasing it within me. By doing this I have more optimism to help me counteract my fears, worries and doubts which unfortunately I still have some. But for the most part I recognize that I am doing my best and this keeps me going.
I also make sure that I limit my screen time before bed to help me fall asleep faster so I can get a good long night’s sleep. Waking up feeling rested helps me cope with the stressors of my day in a much more successful way.
