Massage and Movement

I've been doing energywork for over twenty years ( I just thought back to my first class, and realized its been that long, wow.)  It's a part of every session I do and every class that I teach. But I don't always talk about it. Its simply part of how I work. Some people do not understand it, or are unsure that it exists. Even so, it is an important part of every session. When a client brings up the subject, it is always nice for me, to be able to talk openly about energy--discuss it, answer questions about it, etc. 

Just last week I shared in the exciting moment of a client's first energy experience. Such a simple thing. But so lovely to be a part of. At the end of the session, I had moved to my clients feet, to draw energy downwards, from the head to the feet. Afterwards she said to me,"You know, when you did that, moved to my feet, I felt this wave of energy move through me, I've never felt that before!". I find it a cause to celebrate. Feeling energy in the body, is one more way to be Aware. Growing Awareness equals more embodiment which equals better health in many ways!

My experience is that everyone can learn how to feel energy. For some people, the skill has always been there, or an experience in their life 'wakes' it up. The rest of us can learn. I've taught students how to feel it in dance classes and yoga classes, and have taught friends and relatives how to feel it in crystal shops or just sitting at the kitchen table doing a few exercises. It's fun, it's interesting, healthful, and life enriching.

For animals it seems to come naturally. I spoken with a few colleagues recently about this. One, a dance theatre choreographer and now bodyworker whose company dances with horses, says the animals respond best to energywork. Therapists of all kinds have come to physical manipulate the tissues of her horses, but usually the injury comes back. She describes the horses as being very refined and sensitive. And when the refined art of energywork is applied to her horses' injuries', they heal. The injuries do not come back, the animals actually get better.

Interesting! And why is this? I spoke with another colleague, a Trager practitioner, teacher of bodyworkers, Pilates instructor for many decades.  She also uses a laser in her treatments with her clients. Her experience is that dogs (and other practitioners tell her it is the same for cats) respond immediately to the laser treatments. Whereas it usually takes longer for humans. The laser, like energywork is something many people can't feel, and simply have to believe in. We surmised that it must be that animals, like horses and cats and dogs, don't have the interference of skepticism, the doubt of the brain. They are more receptive to the healing properties of energy and the laser. And therefore heal much faster, if not immediately.

So, like beginner's luck, don't think too hard, be open, and you may receive benefits from your treatments, more strongly, and more quickly.