What I Do
What is Energy Medicine?
Energy medicine helps to balance the energy within and without our physical bodies in order to increase our overall vitality and health.
Energy medicine is an approach to healing and wellness that works with subtle energies to bring your body into balance for the purpose of increasing your vitality and overall health. It is both an independent approach to self-care and healing work and a complement to more traditional medical care.
I offer both EEM-focused and integrative modality sessions. To find out more about rates and session details, click on the button below.
The Body's Energy
We are energetic beings; our bodies are made up of molecules in constant motion and are greatly affected by energetic forces all around us. Sometimes those energetic forces, like toxins, other people, emotions, EMFs, for example, can disrupt and block the healthy flow of our energy systems. When energy is blocked or unbalanced, we experience physical and mental issues and disease in our bodies.
Enhancing Energy
Energy Medicine helps to balance the energy within and without our physical bodies in order to increase our overall vitality and health. Many healing traditions have referenced subtle energy using such terms as “chi,” or “chakras,” “meridians,” or “life force.” These traditions use various techniques to balance and bolster those subtle energies to enhance both physical and mental health.
What is Eden Energy Medicine?
Eden Energy Medicine (EEM) uses methodology and techniques developed by renowned energy healer Donna Eden.
Energy healer Donna Eden has used her incredible skill to visualize subtle energy to outline 9 principle energy systems. She used this in-depth understanding to develop Eden Energy Medicine (EEM) techniques that encourage these systems to flow and function according their natural patterns. The goal of EEM is to unblock and balance energy, which allows the body and mind to better function as they should. EEM draws from a variety of ancient healing and spiritual traditions, though Donna has adapted and modified many of those practices and techniques according to how she experiences and understands energy. EEM does not require rigid adherence to any particular set of beliefs or practices, and practitioners will often bring other modalities and techniques into a session depending on their background and their clients’ needs.
Roots
EEM techniques draw from a variety of ancient healing and spiritual traditions. These traditions include (but not limited to) the following:
- yoga
- tai chi
- acupuncture
- acupressure
- qi gong
Techniques
Along with intuition, EEM practitioners use a methodical approach and variety of techniques throughout a session to shift energy and promote balance and flow in your energy systems. These techniques include (but are not limited to) the following:
- muscle testing
- holding acupressure points
- stretching, pressing, and tapping areas of imbalance
- pulling energy across or down the body
- tracing meridians and other energetic pathways
- clearing or redirecting energy in the electromagnetic field
Additional Resources
If you are interested in learning more about energy medicine or Eden Energy medicine, check out the following resources.
What is Tapping?
In general, tapping techniques are designed to help individuals release stuck energy and to repattern unhealthy emotional belief cycles and energy patterns.
I came across various tapping techniques many years ago, and they have become a regular part of my personal wellness practice. Tapping is simple, and yet it can have a powerful and profound impact on healing patterns of dis-ease.
Though there are various tapping methods, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is the most well-known. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has long used acupressure points to release blockages and to shift energy patterns. In the 1980s, a psychologist named Dr. Roger Callahan used his knowledge of TCM to scaffold some of his psychology work. Then in the 1990s, Callahan’s colleague Gary Craig built upon Callahan’s work and developed what is now called EFT.
Essentially EFT is a mashup of Chinese acupressure and psychology and involves lightly tapping on a set of points that corresponds with the body’s meridian systems while simultaneously talking through various experiences, beliefs, and/or emotions that are creating energetic blockages in the body.
During both tapping-specific and integrative healing sessions, I walk clients through various techniques I have found to be helpful in releasing and repatterning stuck energy.
To find out more about rates and session details, click on the button below.
Additional Resources
If you are interested in learning more about various tapping techniques, check out the following resources.
What is Sound & Vibrational Therapy?
Vibrational Sound Therapies involve the use of various sounds and vibrations to move out dissonant frequencies that cause dis-ease, thus bringing harmony and balance back into one’s energy systems.
In general, sound healers see illness as a manifestation of disharmony in the body. In sound healing sessions, practitioners draw upon the principles of resonance and entrainment to shift dissonance in the body’s systems and bring them into a greater state of ease and wellness. In sound sessions, I use various instruments, such as Himalayan bowls, gongs, drums, and tuning forks, to create specific vibrations and frequencies that help to move out energetic blockages, release tension, and restore energetic balance and flow to various energy systems.
I offer both sound therapy-focused and integrative modality sessions. For more information about rates and session details, click on the button below.
Sound Healing
In general, sound healing is a holistic practice that uses meditation, sound waves, and intention to bring greater balance and flow to one’s energy systems. Sound healing is based on the premise that all matter, and most importantly, the cells in your body, vibrate to a precise frequency when healthy and a dissonant frequency when in dis-ease. Resonant vibration, rhythms, and tones can balance brain hemispheres, regulate stress levels, and reduce tension in body tissue and cells. The use of tuned, deep-vibration instruments, such as crystal singing bowls, drums, and gongs, can balance dissonant frequencies and bring them back into harmony through the principals of resonance and entrainment.
How does it work?
Research shows that sound, like chanting, drumming, bowls, gongs, etc., can synchronize the brainwaves to achieve profound states of relaxation, which is what the body and mind need to be able to heal. When a body is in a sympathetic, stressed-out state (which we often are in this high-paced world of constant stressors), its systems and energy flow becomes restricted in an effort to focus on survival; our healing mechanisms are unable to work properly as most of energy is diverted to only our most vital functions. The body needs to return to a parasympathetic state in order to be able to distribute energy throughout the body freely so that we can heal and achieve greater vitality.
Essentially, sound healing induces a meditative state, which helps the body to return to a parasympathetic state. Sound healing can also help to move out areas of constriction and blocked energy in order to restore balance and flow.
Roots
Sound therapy is based on theoretical principles found in Ayurvedic Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine (among several others). These ancient modalities include the premise that all life vibrates at various frequencies and that the human body has multiple vibrational frequencies that can slip out of tune, so to speak, due to emotional or energetic stagnation. When this happens, sound can be a very effective tool in moving out dissonance and restoring the body to its template of health.
Tools
During sound sessions, I may use one or a combination of any of the following tools:
- Himalayan Bowls
- Tuning Forks-both weighted and unweighted
- Drums
- Gongs
- Chimes
*I often use various sound tools during integrative modality sessions.
Additional Resources
If you are interested in learning more about sound & vibrational therapies, check out the following resources.
What is a Sound Bath?
A sound bath is a meditative experience in which individuals are bathed in healing sounds created by a variety of instruments.
Sound baths involves a practitioner guiding attendees–often supported in savasana (corpse pose)–through a sound meditation using various instruments to bathe the listeners in healing vibrations. The sound is typically generated by such instruments as crystal and Himalayan singing bowls, gongs, drums, chimes, flute, among other things. In addition to relaxing the body and mind and supporting the parasympathetic nervous system state, sound baths can balance the chakras and help individuals to explore greater states of conscious awareness.
If you are interested in experiencing a sound bath, I conduct them every Thursday night and the first Sunday of every month at Eagle Eye Yoga Studio on Sea Street in Quincy, MA. Come join us for a sound meditation!
Sound Healing
In general, sound healing is a holistic practice that uses meditation, sound waves, and intention to bring greater balance and flow to one’s energy systems. Sound healing is based on the premise that all matter, and most importantly, the cells in your body, vibrate to a precise frequency when healthy and a dissonant frequency when in dis-ease. Resonant vibration, rhythms, and tones can balance brain hemispheres, regulate stress levels, and reduce tension in body tissue and cells. The use of tuned, deep-vibration instruments, such as crystal singing bowls, drums, and gongs, can balance dissonant frequencies and bring them back into harmony through the principals of resonance and entrainment.
I do offer private, small-group sound baths at people's homes. If you are interested in finding out more, contact me through the link below.
Roots
Sound Therapies are based on theoretical principals found in the traditions of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine. One of the foundational principals of these ancient healing modalities is that all life vibrates at various frequencies and that the human body specifically has multiple vibrational frequencies that can slip out of tune due to emotional or energetic stagnation. When these frequencies are out of tune, so to speak, they can lead to physical and emotional health issues.