Who is Rima Star?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Rima Star, M.A., R.M.T. is founder of  EFI Therapy (TM), Star
  Institute, education for birth, healing and creative living and
  developer of EFI  Perinatal Massage Services.
  
• She is an educator and therapist with a private practice in
  Austin, Texas, and also offers licensing to become and EFI
  Practitioner.
  
• She was honored as the “Mother of Water Birth in the United
  States” at an international congress, having birthed her
  children in water--her daughter Mela in 1980, her daughter
  Orien in 1984 and her son Hank in 1987.  
  
• She has worked in education, government, business and
  private practice and has over 30,000 hours working with
  adults and children.
  
• She is one of the founding participants in the Pre- and
  Perinatal Psychology Association of North America.
  
• During the last eighteen years a major focus in her work has
  been spending time each year people to enjoy, observe and
  experience the ocean wildlife refuge and the same pod of
  territorial free dolphins off the Florida Keys through her
  Dolphin Adventure Retreats.
  
• Her  ocean experiences have profoundly influenced the
  development of the Ebb & Flow Integration Therapy (TM)
  system.
  
• Her commitment is to support adults and children to express
  the fullness of who they are with joy, peace and compassion.
  
• Author of The Healing Power of Birth (1986) and the
  forthcoming, Water Birth, Water Wisdom (2007)
  
• DVD Producer of In The Heart of the Wave--Dolphin
  Adventure Retreat, July 2006
  
• CD Producer of the forthcoming, EFI Color Breathing
  Meditations (December, 2006)