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Energy Healing is a form of complementary and alternative medicine based on the vital energy that flows through the human body.
The goal of energy healing is to balance the energy flow in the client, restoring equilibrium.
Energy Healing is used in many different ways, specific to the client, their history and current state of wellbeing.
Often, energy healing can be as simple as reclaiming expended energy or reclaiming your energy source. It can also be sitting quietly with crystals and doing breathwork, or it can be allowing yourself to learn the art of self hypnosis, guided by one of our highly experienced Hypnotherapists.
There's no one way we conduct energy healing. It depends on what the client presents with.
Energy medicine is a method to transmit healing energy to the client's body through the hands of a practitioner to restore or balance the body's energy field for better health.
Energy healing therapy has been used to treat various health conditions.
There are several approaches to energy medicine, such as hands-on, hands-off, and distant healing, where the healer and client are in different locations. Interestingly, 57% of trials with distance healing intervention showed a positive treatment effect on any medical condition.
There are nine different schools of energy medicine: biofield energy healing, spiritual healing, contact healing, distance healing, qi do, therapeutic touch, Reiki, polarity therapy, and qi gong.
Biofield therapies, such as polarity therapy, Reiki, and therapeutic touch, are often used as adjuvant therapy for cancer-related fatigue.
Clinical trials have confirmed the impact of both polarity therapy and Reiki intervention in mitigating cancer-related fatigue.
Reiki intervention was further found to improve quality of life. It is a spiritual and vibrational healing intervention that maintains physiological homeostasis through a subtle vibrational field, without the involvement of physical manipulation or the ingestion or application of any substances.
This spiritual form of healing not only tends to the physical ailment but also addresses spiritual growth. A small, qualitative study demonstrated the positive influence of spiritual healing on the survivorship experiences of breast cancer patients who were in long-term therapy.
Qi Gong is an old Chinese art that combines gentle physical movement, mental focus, and deep breathing, each focused on a specific area of the body. It is an economical, effective, and nonaggressive intervention that balances mind, body, and spirit.
Our other energy healing modality is Somatic Release, which we find the most effective of all.
Please scroll down further to understand what Somatic Release may involve.
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Energy Healing means reclaiming our vitality and life force, some people refer to this as mana, verve, soul, primal self or inner goddess.
It doesn't matter what you decide to label it, we all need to check our batteries at regular intervals.
What is Somatic Healing?
The word "somatic" comes from the Greek word soma, meaning "the living body."
At its core, somatic healing is based on the idea that our bodies store the "receipts" for our past experiences. When we go through stress or trauma, it isn't just a memory in our brain; it's a physical state in our nervous system. If that energy isn't fully processed, it gets "stuck," leading to issues like chronic tension, anxiety, or burnout.
The Core Philosophy
The Mind-Body Connection: Your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations are a single, looped system.
The Nervous System: Somatic work focuses heavily on the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), helping move you out of "Fight, Flight, or Freeze" and back into a state of safety.
Bottom-Up Processing: Instead of talking through a problem (top-down), you observe how a feeling feels physically (bottom-up) to release it.
How do we do this? In several ways, here are our most popular methods:
Somatic Experiencing (SE)
Breathwork
Grounding Movement and Shaking
EFT Emotional Freedom Technique
Who Can Benefit from Somatic Release Therapy?
Somatic therapy is highly effective for:
PTSD and Complex Trauma: Especially for those who find talking about the past too "triggering."
Anxiety and Panic Disorders: Learning to "down-regulate" the nervous system.
Chronic Pain: When physical pain is linked to emotional suppression.
The "Bottom-Up" Somatic Approach
Most therapy is Top-Down: You use your brain (logic) to try to fix your feelings. Somatic therapy is Bottom-Up: You use your body to calm your brain.
If you have ever felt your chest tighten when you're stressed, or your stomach churn when you're nervous, that is your Autonomic Nervous System reacting.
Somatic therapy teaches you to tune into these signals rather than ignoring them.
Why Talk Therapy Isn't Always Enough
Sometimes, when we experience something overwhelming, our brain "shuts down" the logical part (the prefrontal cortex) and the body takes over with a survival response: Fight, Flight, or Freeze.
Even after the danger is gone, your body might stay in that "survival mode."
This leads to:
Chronic muscle tension(usually in the jaw, shoulders, or hips).
Digestive issues.
A "heavy" feeling or general numbness.
Hypervigilance(always looking for danger).
Somatic Therapy Tools
A somatic therapist won't just ask "How does that make you feel?" They will ask, "Where do you feel that in your body?"
Here are some of the tools we may use:
Grounding: Using your senses (touching a cold object, feeling your feet on the floor) to bring you back to the present moment.
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