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Amy offers a wide variety of care, including the following:
What is Energy Medicine?
Energy medicine is a complement to other approaches to medical care as well as a complete system for self-care and self-help. It can address physical illness, emotional or mental disorders and can also promote high-levels of wellness. The National Institutes of Health in the United States identifies Energy Medicine as one of five areas of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine. As a viable medical practice, Energy Medicine is gaining popularity in America and has become a subject of investigations at some leading academic medical centers. Energy Medicine includes all concepts of energy: light, sound, electro-magnetism, body, mind, and spirit. In addition to concepts of electro-chemical physiology and bio-fields, traditions of “life force” are common in the practice of Energy Medicine.
From Chinese Medicine comes the principle of Chi, with its Cosmic and Microcosmic cycles and flows through the channels or meridians in the physical body. From Yogic Practices comes Prana and the principles of multiple energy vortices in the body – the Chakras, and especially the concepts of multiple bodies beyond the flesh and blood physiological body – the subtle bodies. Many roots and paths contribute to the concept of energy. Amy has extensive training in the use of many of these paths for healing.
Through the use of Sound Healing, Yoga, CranioSacral Therapy, Pilates and hands-on alchemy, Amy utilizes her knowledge of the bodies energy systems to assist the body in healing and harmonizing. Amy recognizes energy as a vital, living, moving force that determines much about ones health and well-being. In Energy Medicine, energy is the medicine, and energy is also the patient. One heals the body by activating its natural healing energies; one also heals the body by restoring energies that have become weak, disturbed, or out of balance. Amy educates clients on how to restore their own natural healing capacities. As acts of co-creation between Amy and her client in one on one sessions, she holds a space that allows one to move freely through his or her inner worlds and enter states where deep healing and transformational experiences are possible.
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What is Sound Healing?
Sound has the power to heal our wounds, expand our consciousness, and re-unite us with the divine harmonies and rhythms of the universe. The growing recognition of the power of sound in healing and therapy, which Ancients have used for thousands of years, has given rise to the new field of Sound Healing. As a Sound Healer, Amy’s task is to assist the client to safely enter into a greater fluidity of perception in which both perceived time and space are altered, whereby other realms of being (i.e. the mythic and transpersonal) are more easily accessed. Amy does this through the vehicle of her own voice and the use of sound instruments including precision calibrated tuning forks (acutonics), singing bowls, and percussion. Due to its ability to alter perceived time and space, Sound Healing can create radical shifts in perceptions that challenge both neurological and cultural conditioning, and activate distinct changes in brain processing and our physiology. Sound is also transformed into a carrier wave for intentionality. Amy uses sound as a means of exploring consciousness and its inherent ability to create changes through the agency of conscious intention.
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Research studies conducted on the neurological effects of sound have shown that the human brain responds to pure tone in highly specific ways. PET Scans, which measure glucose consumption at the cellular level, show that pure sound and music (without words) stimulate an increase in cellular activity in the brains’ right hemisphere. During right hemisphere activity, the brain/mind/body can enter into extremely potent and extraordinary states. |
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Acutonics, n. 1. System of vibrational sound healing rooted in Oriental Medicine and philosophy that utilizes tuning forks and symphonic gongs tuned to the planets, Tibetan bowls, bells, drums, and rattles. Connecting body, mind, and soul in the journey toward optimal health, harmonic attunement or at-one-ment with all things in the Universe.
Acutonics, n. 2. The integral way, undifferentiated wholeness,
the essence of Tao."
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| In these altered states of consciousness, a plethora of highly unusual, potentially transformational and healing neuropsychological and physiological events can occur. This creates a means by which a client’s inner capacities can heal the brain/mind/ body bypassing the brains’ left hemisphere involvement, which requires language and logic about the process. The brain/mind/body is one interconnected system. Significant changes in one aspect, such as in the Autonomic Nervous system, Endocrine system, or brain wave activity will usually generate changes in all other aspects. |
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What is CranioSacral Therapy?
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CranioSacral therapy is a subtle yet profound healing form which assists the body's natural capacity for self-repair. It is increasingly well recognized for its ability to resolve issues that are not helped by other ‘conventional’ means and it is suitable for babies, children, and the elderly, as well as adults and people in fragile or acutely painful conditions. |
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| The craniosacral system is at the core of the central nervous system, which controls all of the other body systems including respiratory, cardiac, and digestive systems. It includes cerebrospinal fluid and tissue that surround the brain, spinal cord and sacrum (tailbone). This fluid moves and is used to protect, nourish, and remove waste from your brain and spinal cord. Sometimes when we suffer from a trauma – at birth, a physical accident or injury, an emotional or mental shock – this trauma can get held in the body’s tissues and nervous system, leading to ill-health and dysfunction. This is increasingly recognized in the rapidly growing medical field of psychoneuroimmunology. As a CranioSacral Therapist, Amy assists to release these deeply held patterns resulting from trauma, both physical and psychological. Amy engages with the client’s underlying energetic vitality, represented in the craniosacral system using delicate manual techniques. Through light, sensitive touch the tissues release restrictions to allow easeful distribution of this vitality throughout the body. |
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What is Core Awareness and Pilates rehabilitation?
| Pilates-based therapeutic exercise is a patient-centered, multi-faceted rehabilitative approach. Members of the medical community increasingly recognize Pilates as one of the most successful methods to treat many injuries including spinal disorders, joint disease and pain syndromes. Amy uses a repertoire of exercises constructed and modified to tailor the needs of each client. Using kinesthetic cues, rather than just visual or verbal, Amy assists in stimulating somatic awareness rather than muscular control. |
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| This method assists with development of the nervous system in order to ultimately create inner freedom. The ability to sense the core and the quality of attention to maintain core awareness are central to evolving a centered, self-healing body. Cultivating core awareness enriches ones’ sense of flexibility, suppleness, strength and stability so that with fluid motion ones’ vital life force becomes increasingly tangible in the body. Clients benefit from Pilates exercises and explorations that challenge them as a whole being, rather than as a specific injury. |
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What is Yoga therapy?
| All of life is related and connected. This is the science of Yoga: discovering and remembering the connectedness of reality. Literally translated yoga means "union...the remembering that all is united". Yoga Therapy is based on helping one discover all the ways his or her current health and life challenges are related and what one can do to relieve pain and adapt to the inevitable changes of Life. Using very concrete, simple tools, Amy works with a client to assess how their current life circumstances are generating pain and imbalance. Amy co-creates a strategy with a client to gently but effectively optimize health and well-being. Yoga helps one to understand that pain and imbalance are important calls for change in ones life and are best welcomed as "teachers" to aid in development. That's a big change in perspective for most people! And it is critical to the relief of breaking cycles of pain. |
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Yoga Therapy is a method that adapts yoga to an individual’s unique needs. When health is optimal, the body assumes a natural balance of muscle strength and range of motion. However, when illnesses, injuries or structural anomalies are present, they disrupt the body’s innate harmony and its ability to respond in a healthy way. With Yoga Therapy, Amy assesses the client’s imbalances using Yoga and physical therapy assessment procedures and creates an adaptive yoga program uniquely tailored to the individual. This therapeutic modality holds the potential to eliminate or greatly alleviate the pain and discomfort caused by misalignment or injury. Yoga postures are adapted for each individual so that the client can move in harmony with their unique mechanics. Amy observes the client doing the therapeutic practices and polishes them for optimal home practice. Handouts are provided for home practice. Client education, and the designing of a program that will encourage client compliance, are important components of the overall approach. As clients work with their individualized programs, reassessments are made, and the program is adjusted to address changes and encourage further progress and optimal healing. |
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| Yoga Therapy is unique. It has the technologies for addressing the necessary changes in those filters we have in place to understand our life experiences. For thousands of years techniques and methods have been evolving. Now, early in the 21st century we are seeing the wisdom behind that science and how it fits with our own discoveries today. As a certified yoga instructor and licensed physical therapist, Amy is passionate about not just studying the old traditions, but translating them into our cultural understanding so that a client can be comfortable and benefit immediately without having to sort through foreign terminology or unfamiliar practices that have no relevance to your daily life. Amy does the work of translating the science into tools one can use today and without any conflict or compromise of personal beliefs and worldviews. |
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