Walking Dove Healing
Energy Work & Trainings
The following are some of the bodywork trainings I have done and like to incorporate in my treatments.
CRAINOSACRAL Therapy
CrainoSacral Therapy is a gentle, hands-on approach that releases tensions deep in the body by working with the CrainoSacral system. Comprised of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord (the cranium) down to the sacrum.
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I've primarily studied this therapy with the Upledger Institute taking their CranioSacral (CST) and Somatic Emotional Release (SER) courses.
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CST was pioneered and developed by John E. Upledger from 1975-1983 at Michigan State University
CHINESE Acupuncture Points
I use the principles of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture in almost all of my massages. I first learned about these points, their corresponding organs and the emotions they rule in massage school. It's a deep, nuanced and profound healing system.
After massage school, I went on to take all of the Unwinding Meridian Courses taught at the Upledger Institute. Covering theses points and meridians from their physical to spiritual attributes.
POLARITY Therapy
Polarity therapy is another healing modality I first learned in school. It works on balancing the body's electromagnetic field by working with the negative and positive charges in the body. As well as the 5 different elements (fire, water, air, earth, and ether) associated with the body.
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In addition to massage school I did a distance healing training at the Life Energy Institute that incorporated Polarity therapy training and principles.
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Polarity Therapy was developed by Dr. Randalph Stone a osteopath, chiropractor and naturopath in 1947.
MYOFASCIAL Release
Myofascial Release is a gentle hands-on approach to free up fascial restrictions throughout the body. Tight fascia (the layer of connective tissue under the skin that links organs, tissues and bones together) is released by applying sustained pressure on restricted fascial tissue. Over time (3-5 minutes) of sustained pressure, fascial tissue elongates and releases.
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I studied with John F. Barnes taking several of this classes as well as doing a week-long skills enhancement intensive at his Sedona clinic, "Therapy on the Rocks" working with various outpatients.
VISCERAL Manipulation
Visceral Manpulation (VM) treats the body's functional and structural imbalances with the aim to affect their musculoskeletal, vascular, nervous, urogenital, respiratory, digestive and lymphatic dysfunction.
It works a lot with organs and their corresponding systems.
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It's based on the belief that the tissues in the body have a deep and innate intelligence. Everything that has happened in our lives - injuries, diseases, stressors, etc. - is recorded in our tissues. It utilizes "listening" to the tissues with the hands to feel restrictions and using various techniques to release them.
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I studied at the Barral Institute, the sister institute to Upledger.
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VM was developed by French Osteopath and Physical Therapist, Jean-Pierre Barral.
AYURVEDIC Treatments
I first learned about Ayurveda when I was living and working at yoga ashrams from 2015-2018. I took various courses and listened to numerous lectures by different experts in the field during that time including with the renowned
Ayurvedic practitioner Dr. Vasant Lad.
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Once I graduated from massage school I took a job working at Dr. Lad's Ayurvedic Institute's panchakarma clinic where I learned firsthand about the benefits and treatments offered during a panchakarma session (An Ayurvedic cleansing of the body's accumulated toxins).
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VORTEX HEALING:
Divine Energy Healing
I first heard about Vortex Healing in 2017 when I worked at Holistic Institute in Upstate New York. I thought it sounded like a fantasy modality so I took a reiki course instead. I will alway regret not pursing this magical modality then. Ultimately it took me 4 more years to remedy my mistake.
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Vortex Healing is based on Merlin's magical lineage. It is an awakening and healing modality that heals our deepest karmic and emotional issues. It is also a lineage that helps free the practitioner from their different veils "waking" them up.
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I have studied yoga for more than 10 years, lived at yoga ashrams with great yogi's, studied under different teachers, explored different lineages, but nothing has healed me or awakened me to my true nature more than this lineage.
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It is the best gift of healing I could have ever given myself.
HOLY FIRE Reiki
Holy Fire Reiki is a newer form of reiki that is powerful and gentle providing purification, healing, empowerment and guidance.
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I took this training with William Rand, the originator of this Usui/Tibetan system of reiki that he developed in 1989.