By Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
Describe what you do in 15 words or less. I teach people about their energies and how to work with them to enhance health and vitality.
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Energy healing encompasses a broad range of therapeutic modalities, all of which focus on channeling healing energy into a client’s body.
When the energy of the body flows without disruption, you are in perfect health. When this energy is out of balance, disease occurs. Imbalances can be physical or emotional. Energy Balancing practices aim to restore this balance.
We bristle at the designation of certain qualities being inherently “masculine” (i.e., assertive, dominant) and others being “feminine” (i.e., intuitive, caring).
Polarity therapy is an alternative therapy that involves balancing the flow of energy in the body to improve or maintain health. It was developed by the chiropractor and osteopath Randolph Stone.
Catherine Ann Lombard explores how imagery and artistic expression can help clients cope with cancer.
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Energy Medicine (EM) is the oldest, most organic, most instinctive and most effective form of healthcare that exists. It exists in every country, in every community and it has existed since we were first living in collective groups or tribes.
The best healers often start their journey with a need for healing themselves. We’ve seen this across the board in the wellness world. It turns out that knowing the need for healing personally, makes for a great healer, teacher and doctor.
I was midway through the therapy when I felt a flash of anger. That's when I knew it was working. I was having a catharsis. But I wasn't undergoing psychoanalysis. Rather, it was a practice called sound therapy, and a specialist was playing tuning forks, drums, and Tibetan singing bowls.
Energy Medicine is a word coined by three researchers who gathered at Boulder, Colorado, USA in the late 1980s. This is defined as any energetic or informational interaction with a biological system to bring back homeostasis in the organism.
As recently as 2010, it would have been unimaginable for an annual medical conference including allopathic physicians to hold a meeting themed Illuminating the Energy Spectrum. Yet it happened at the sold-out Institute of Functional Medicine 2013 annual international conference.