Welcome
Welcome, and thank you for visiting.
My greatest joy at Power Within is supporting people to gain clarity about what they truly want, and to access their deepest wisdom and inner resources to get there.
Each of us has multiple forms of intelligence: mental, emotional, physical, intuitive, social, and spiritual. When these are aligned, life flows. But often, we experience blocks. Your body may hold wisdom your mind hasn’t yet accessed. Your heart may want one thing while your mind says another. Limiting beliefs and old pain can quietly shape choices that don’t reflect who you really are.
Power Within is about aligning your body, mind, heart, and spirit so your life and goals have the full power and energy they need to create the relationships, community, and life you want.
What Becomes Possible
- Clarity about what you truly want
- Greater self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-trust
- Freedom from feeling stuck or blocked
- Lasting, sustainable change
- More authentic, fulfilling relationships
- Stronger inner authority and confidence
Your Next Step
If you’re ready to move forward with clarity and a deeper connection to yourself, I’d love to hear from you. Whether through individual sessions, workshops, or classes, Power Within offers many ways to support you on this path.
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About Janice
I began working with the body at a very young age. Starting around fifth grade, I massaged my parents before and after their long days running our family restaurant. Looking back, this early experience naturally led me to become a licensed massage therapist while in college, to support myself through school. I later served on the Washington State Board of Massage.
Through massage, I began to see how stress, emotions, and trauma are often held deep within the tissues of the body. Wanting to heal clients at a deeper level, I expanded into additional modalities that work not only with the body, but also with the heart, the conscious and unconscious mind, the energetic system, and the spirit. I earned a degree in Applied Behavioral Science, became a certified counselor, and later pursued studies in substance use disorders.
In 1998, I discovered Nonviolent Communication (NVC), also known as Compassionate Communication, developed by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD. This work profoundly changed my life. I came to understand how the quality of our communication shapes the quality of our lives and relationships, and it gave me practical tools to connect more deeply with myself and others.
Inspired by its impact, I co-founded two organizations rooted in this work: Northwest Compassionate Communication and Freedom Project. For over a decade, I facilitated workshops inside Washington State prisons. During this time, I witnessed something powerful. Freedom is truly an inside job. I met prisoners who were internally free, and individuals who, though living in the outside world, were imprisoned by their own thoughts and beliefs.
In 2018, I discovered InterPlay (also known as Body Wisdom), created by Cynthia Wynton-Henry and Phil Porter. Through movement, voice, storytelling, and playful theater-based practices, this work supports creativity, spontaneity, and access to the body’s wisdom. I became a facilitator and also served on the organization’s Racial Equity Team.
Over the years, I’ve gathered a diverse set of tools to support healing and wholeness. I continue to learn and evolve, guided by a deep passion for helping people reconnect with themselves and create meaningful change.
I invite you to experience this work through a session or workshop.
Offerings
Every healing journey is different. These are multiple doorways into the same work: aligning body, mind, heart, and spirit.
Individual Sessions
Healing from the Body Level Up (HBLU)℠. Through guided inquiry, often backed with muscle testing, I help you clarify your highest-priority goals and uncover the underlying blocks that may be holding you back.
Together, we identify the most effective ways to release these blocks and bring your body, heart, spirit, conscious and unconscious mind into alignment. When in alignment, you have greater access to your full power, in order to achieve your goals and create lasting change.
We draw from a range of modalities, including Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), hypnosis, Enneagram, and energy psychology techniques such as TAT (Tapas Acupressure Technique) and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique).
Nonviolent Communication
NVC / Compassionate Communication. The quality of our lives and of our relationships is often determined by the quality of our communication. Developed by Marshall Rosenberg, NVC is a framework for speaking and listening from the heart. NVC supports clarity, authenticity, and deepening of connection with oneself, in relationships, and in organizations.
NVC gives tools to honestly share what is going on for oneself without blame, to ask for what you want in ways that invite, and to listen for understanding without getting defensive. It can also help to give feedback and resolve conflict in ways that are more likely to deepen connection and motivation.
Workshops, classes, practice groups, and individual sessions to help resolve conflict.
See Upcoming Workshops →InterPlay
Creative Body-Based Practice. InterPlay is a fun practice developed by Cynthia Wynton-Henry and Phil Porter. It uses movement, stillness, storytelling, voice, and play to awaken the spirit and unlock the body’s wisdom. We are bodies in motion, bodies in relationship, and bodies in community, and InterPlay is a creative, un-intrusive, and affirming way to process and explore what is true for oneself.
Workshops and individual sessions.
Upcoming Workshops
Workshops exploring internal authority and personal power for Asian American and Pacific Islander women.
Two Upcoming Workshops
Start with the introductory workshop, or go deeper in the day-long intensive. Register for one or both.
Sunday, July 19, 2026
1:00 – 2:30 PM • $30
Introductory Workshop
- Deference as a trauma response — and the courage to break the mold
- The hidden costs of being "nice" vs. being real — with self, relationships, and community
- Gaining clarity on your needs and asking for what you want
- Navigating power dynamics in personal and professional relationships
Location: Japanese Baptist Church (chapel), 160 Broadway, Seattle
Register for July 19Saturday, August 15, 2026
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM • $180 • Light lunch provided
Deep Dive: Internal Authority and Personal Power for AAPI Women
- Exploring power dynamics in relationships through discussion and exercises
- Clarifying individual and relational needs — from invisibility to impact
- Showing up with voice and influence, grounded in our power
- Engaging conflict with courage to deepen understanding, using tools from Nonviolent (Compassionate) Communication, also known as NVC
Location: All Seasons Counseling and Spirituality Center, 16051 NE 6th St, Bellevue
Register for August 15Your Facilitators
Your workshop facilitators, Akiko Sakai-Kinney and Janice Eng, are mental health professionals and communication coaches whose expertise is in empowering individuals to trust their own voice, wisdom, values, and freedom. Both have taught Nonviolent Communication in public and in Washington State prisons for many years.
Akiko came to the US alone at age 16 from Japan and became a US citizen in 2012. After obtaining a master's degree in piano performance, she struggled with the idea of "performance," and pursued what is genuine, which led her to become a Jungian psychotherapist.
Janice is a second-generation Chinese American with specialization in body/mind healing practices, Nonviolent Communication, and addiction disorders.
Photo: David Yamaguchi
Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
A powerful, practical approach to expressing yourself with clarity, navigating conflict without blame, and deepening authentic connection. Join an ongoing practice group or start with the full-day introduction. Facilitated by Janice Eng.
1st & 3rd Thursdays
7:00 – 8:30 PM • $30 per session • Sliding scale available
NVC Practice Sessions
An ongoing, supportive space to refresh and deepen your NVC skills through exercises and role-plays drawn from real-life situations.
- Practice shifting from blame toward compassion, accountability, and repair
- Build confidence with the tools of Compassionate Communication
- Open to all — some prior introduction to NVC is helpful but not required
- Take a turn leading if you would like the practice
Location: 349 NW 89th St, Seattle, WA 98107 (Greenwood)
Reserve a SessionSaturday, August 29, 2026
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM • $200 • Snacks provided
Introduction to Nonviolent Communication
Transform the way you connect — with yourself and others — in this full-day introductory workshop.
- The 4-step NVC framework: Observation, Feeling, Need, Request
- How to identify and express your true needs
- Tools to listen deeply, even in challenging conversations
- Ways to shift from reactivity to intentional response
Location: 349 NW 89th St, Seattle, WA 98107 (Greenwood)
What to bring: A lunch and water bottle
Register for August 29Contact
Ready to reconnect with the power within? I would love to hear from you. Let's discuss your needs and explore how aligning body, mind, heart, and spirit can support your path to lasting healing.