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March 2007
April 2007

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. But, the way I think about it, 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 actual muscle tissue?! 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 times ignored or unconscious, some may say intangible energy system of the human body. This kind of energy work can often deal with emotional blockages more apparently 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 incredible healing.