"Dropping in" through the feet
When receiving massage, the ‘energies’ of the body are automatically being balanced. The more conscious the process, the more powerful the reconnection with one’s own highest potential. Please understand that your energy-body is not separate from your physical body. I consider the blood and circulatory system, the electromagnetic impulses of the nervous system and the spark of life or breath to be subtle energies (as well as all microcosmic functioning of the body). Tuning into and bringing healing intention to these functions can be quite soothing and regenerative. I can show you how.
Reiki is a Japanese system of natural, hands-on healing. Reiki means, roughly, ‘energy from beyond’ or ‘spiritual energy’. I use Reiki in the context above to attune to and balance energy. If you look at it from a pragmatic stance, Reiki is a very comforting and nourishing form of treatment that is used in hospitals in the U.S., partially due to its success in treating cancer. Reiki helps people to relax and become more aware of their own subtle body-scapes, which is healing in itself.
Reiki and Qigong sessions are $45.
I think of all bodywork as “energy” work. That is because I view all things as manifestations of energy of one kind or another. I happen to work with human energy for a living. The way I think about it, however, is that everyone is constantly working with energy. Their own energy, the energy of the gadgets and other animals and environments in their lives. Even thoughts and emotions are energies.
In many cases what I do is work to release energy blockages by accessing tensions caught up in the soft tissues of the human form. When I do this (or anything else for that matter) I am exerting energy, too. Did you know that emotions and even memories of specific events (especially traumatic ones) store themselves in your physical tissues? That’s right, it is not all in your head.
So when it is put into this context, energy work may open up and begin to take on a more viable existence in one’s thinking. When we move on to discuss more subtle energy modalities of healing such as Reiki, Reconnection, polarity therapy or zero point balancing (there are so many I can’t list them all), what we are talking about is the often ignored, unconscious, intangible energy system of the human body. This kind of energy work can often deal with emotional blockages more readily than physical but if there is one thing that I have seen time and time again – it is all connected, body, mind, emotions, everything. The human energetic system is at once simple yet all encompassing, and vastly complex and intertwined with all other energies in the universe.
Put together, subtle energy work and not so subtle energy work (massage), can lead to amazing exploration/ realization of one’s own self through nothing short of transformational healing.
