I've been a therapist on the path for 25 years. I started out in the wellness industry as a Sports massage therapist, which I loved. As time went on, I always wondered why some people got completely better with massage and why some people had repeat problems in the same area of the body, or all their problems were on the same side, etc. I started to believe that there was more to healing than meets the eye.

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I became interested in the mind/body connection. In 1999 when I was at a particularly low point in my own life, I went to a massage therapist who had a certificate for Reiki on her wall. I had heard of Reiki but didn’t know much about it. I asked her to tell me about it and she said the best thing is to feel the energy. She put her hands on my back and I was instantly transported to a place where I felt connected to something so much bigger than me.

 

This was it, a wise, loving force that could of course move mountains to create healing. I didn’t have to know the answers. I just had to learn how to get out of the way for healing to begin.

 

I went on to become a Reiki Master, Ive taught thousands of people how to channel Reiki Energy. With incredible results. I recognised that getting out of the way involved doing your own work. Healing your wounds that stop you trusting and allowing.

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In 2009 I had an experience with my neighbor who was an Osteopath working mostly with Cranio Sacral Therapy. I had taken a mutual client to see her to find out why massage was not getting to the core of my client’s problem. I had an experience then of being able to see the root cause of my client’s problem as an emotional energy vortex in her hip. It was so apparent to me that to release her hip we had to work with the memories that were stored in there.

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I was able to witness this because my neighbor was attuned to and therefor able to transmit to me a particular way of listening to or seeing the energy field of the body. Cranio Sacral Therapists have a way of connecting with the body through a pure awareness of a particular quality. Non judgmental, non-invasive awareness. Again, not as easy to achieve as it sounds. However just being in the room with my neighbor the Osteopath was enough to entrain my already open energy field to this phenomenon.

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Again, I was hooked, I completed two different trainings in Cranio Sacral Therapy going on to teach this amazing modality.

 

Having studied various other modalities along the way, Theta Healing, Hakomi, ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), Non Violent Communication and Sacred Archetypes, I have found a way that works. A new modality has been born Somatic Energy Therapy.

 

Along with it my school of learning The Contemporary Healing Institute or CHI with its foundations in Compassion, Connection, Competency and Confidence was created.

 

At CHI we create a supportive container for our students to grow as empowered conscious Somatic Energy Therapists. To benefit from the long journey I have been on and to gain the wisdom of 3 decades of learning and transformation.