Energy Medicine recognizes that how we feel about ourselves, our emotions, and how we are doing mentally, physically, and emotionally as a whole person is important and interrelated.
Energy Medicine simply means a few things:
that there is a force called energy (qi, prana) that runs through your body and how well the energy flows through your body determines disease as well as health, that you are a whole being, a whole person who should be treated as such, and that there is no division between how you are feeling mentally and how your body is doing physically.
Energy Medicine overall works with the natural flows of energy in your body to restore balance, promote greater flow, and strengthen health where it is found. The work is done clothed, and is gentle but profound at releasing areas of stagnant energy (where you likely feel pain or like something is out of sorts), balancing the body overall, and allowing the natural resources and health of your body to be known.
There are many types and styles of Energy Medicine, all with the same purpose: to bring you closer to balance, to rid your body of anything physically or energetically that is causing disease or imbalance, and to bring you closer to a state of feeling whole, grounded, to understand what your body is trying to communicate to you, and to tap into your natural resources and "wake up" natural processes and systems in your body. Here are the styles (along with Acupuncture and CranioSacral Therapy) that I practice:
Zero Balancing is a clothed, light touch modality that combines Western anatomical thought of the structure of the body (bones, joints, ligaments) with Eastern energetic thoughts of the body (qi, meridians, flow of energy). Zero Balancing works to bring the body back to a “zero point”, a place of physical and energetic alignment, before physical, emotional, and/or spiritual trauma began causing imbalance in the body, and to bring a clear strong flow of energy through the body as a whole.
Zero Balancing focuses on the energy of skeletal structure and the deeper layers of energy that run through the body. Your session will incorporate light touch, finger pressure (acupressure) and held stretches (fulcrums).
Reiki derives from two Japanese words, Rei- meaning higher power, and Ki, meaning energy or life force. Reiki is a clothed, no-touch or light touch modality that works with the energy flows through the meridians and chakras of the body, as well as the outer layers, or auric layers and background field of the body.
Reiki is excellent at reducing stress processes that occur in the body from emotional or physical injury and is suitable for those seeking healing with minimal touch as well as those undergoing high periods of stress, immune concerns, Cancer, PTSD, and is helpful at calming an overactive mind and body. Mary has studied Usui Reiki, Tummo Reiki, Five Element Reiki, which blends the theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine with the chakra system, and Karuna Reiki, which focuses on compassion in the healing process.
SomatoEmotional Release (SER) is a mind-body technique which allows for release of the emotional layers of past traumas that are still present in the body. Dialoguing with specific areas of restriction in the body is done to allow for the body to release the conflicts that are delaying your full return to a healthy, balanced, and more functional state.
Shamanic Healing is a powerful method in discovering undercurrents of larger imbalances, as well as genetic and/or karmic issues that may be playing a role in illness. The session can provide connection to deeper insight and patterns in your life, discovery and return of fragmented parts of yourself that may have been lost through illness and trauma, releasing of spirit attachments, and releasing of unwanted blocks.
Symptoms that may lead to exploration of Shamanic Healing in your session would be if you have been feeling numb, apathetic, detached, not in your body, if you have not felt the same since a certain event in your life, or are struggling to find passion or interest in life. Chronic and multi-generational health issues can also be assisted by this work, including depression as well as other negative or obsessive thought patterns. Shamanic Healing can be especially helpful for those who have "strange", "spiritual" or difficult illnesses that do not correlate to current Western Medical paradigms.