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Director of The International Institute of Hand Analysis (IIHA), in
Sausalito, California, Alana has read over 13,000 individuals. Within
the IIHA, she is Faculty Head. Duties include peer review evaluations,
individual instruction, and training's at Introductory, Intensive,
Year-Long Certification Program, and Graduate levels. She also holds
a position on the IIHA Executive Committee, and is a Contributing
Editor of the Hand Analysis Journal.
Within her private
practice, she has conducted readings, lectures, and workshops in
Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Santa Fe, and Seattle
as well as the San Francisco Bay Area where she lives. Abroad, she
has brought her work with hands to Belgium, Germany and Switzerland.
She was a long-term resident reader at East West Bookshop in Menlo
Park and Redwood City, California, and has read and lectured at
numerous other bookstores and convention centers. Alana has enjoyed
appearances on radio and television as well.
In a standard
interpretation of a person's hands, Alana makes inked handprints
and audiotapes the session of 1-1/2 hours. Her objective is to use
hands as a roadmap to aid their owner in taking personally satisfying
directions. She encourages follow-up sessions to deepen understanding,
to familiarize and personalize the owner with use of this "map."
She applies similar principles in other settings, including guidelines
for couples, for parenting, for family and other group and relationship
dynamics.
Alana has consulted
with businesses (including Wells Fargo Bank, Barclay's Global Investors,
Accountants Incorporated and other firms) and institutions of social
work (including Walden House [HIV Detox Center] in San Francisco
and the Center for Intuitive Healing [Heroine Addiction] in Marin
County). She has written hand analysis columns and articles
for periodical publications, and is writing a book demonstrating
the tenets of fingerprint-based hand analysis.
Current projects
include a research program addressing chronic or life-threatening
illness. In these situations Alana is interested in bridging Hand
Analysis with other disciplines such as Psychology, Medicine, and
Integrative Therapies. She is writing on the role of Hand Analysis
in developing theories of parallel sexuality and spirituality. Also,
she is and editor and consultant to the Fingerprints By Mail project
of Richard Unger, Founder and Director of the IIHA - and her Significant
Other since 1991.
Prior to her
career as a Hand Analyst, (1987 - present) Alana's pursuits centered
around arts (theatre, painting, photography, writing) and sciences
(wildlife biology: especially mammology and ornithology). Affiliated
with San Francisco State University, she was involved in wildlife
biology, wildlife photography, and was a mammal museum curator.
She was also a writer and leader of autobiographical writing groups.
Earlier she was a research assistant and co-leader of diabetic groups
established to study psychological concomitants of that disease.
Meanwhile, teamed with her former husband, Philip, she helped raise
a perfect child. These various threads of experience have
culminated in her hand-work tapestry.
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Richard's Bio
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