Six Healing Sounds: A foundational component of the Healing Tao System. The Six Healing Sounds are a series of arm movements and vocalizations that releases negative energy.

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SkyDancing Tantra: Westernized form of Tantra developed by Margo Anand, author of The Art of Sexual Ecstasy and the bestseller The Art of Sexual Magic. SkyDancing Tantra is an approach to sexual ecstasy that borrows from bioenergetics, NLP, shamanism, and transpersonal psychology. It awakens vitality and hidden powers of the brain. The Fall 1997 New York Open Center catalog described the expression SkyDancing as an ancient metaphor for the ability to reach ecstatic states when love is experienced as a joyful meditation.

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Snake Style: A form of dong gong.

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Soaring Crane Qigong (crane style chi gong, Soaring Crane): Simplified and fast-acting form of Qigong developed by Zhao Jin-Xiang before 1980. Shen Rong-er introduced it in the United States with her husband, Wu Yi. Soaring Crane Qigong clears meridians.

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shamanic herbalism: Group of ancient techniques advanced by Susun S. Weed, author of the Wise Woman Herbal and Menopausal Years. According to its theory, plants repulse spells and act as messengers to unseen worlds.

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shamanic midwifery: A form of midwifery that borrows from Native American tradition and shamanism. Its theory depicts childbirth as vision quest, a potential sacred ecstatic initiation.

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shamanic prayer: A form of prayer whose theory posits God (the Great Spirit) and Mother Earth. One of its principles is that rain is alive.

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shamanic psychotherapy: Mode of spiritual healing based on shamanism and the doctrine of reincarnation. Its theory posits missing soul parts.

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shamanism (shamanic healing, shamanistic medicine): Any indigenous magico-religious healing system whose core doctrine is that all healing involves a spirit world.

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Shandra-Chi: Form of touch therapy developed by Nancy Deutsch, C.S.W., Mitch Klicka, M.A., and beings of light, including Archangel Michael. The method releases the energies of stressful events from bodily cells.

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SHEN (Specific Human Energy Nexus Therapy, SHEN Therapy): Psychological form of touch therapy. One of its principles is that an emotional energy field (also called the chi field and the biofield) permeates and surrounds the physical body. SHEN's design is to unblock clients' energy. (The Chinese word shen means deity, soul, or spirit.)

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Shen Tao: Combination of acupressure and Taoism.

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shiatsu (acupressure, schiatsu, shiatsu massage therapy, shiatsu therapy, shiatzu): Healing art whose major types are acupressure, shiatsu massage, and Zen Shiatsu. Its theory posits ki (vital energy), meridians (energy pathways), and tsubos: vital points or holes on the body that are susceptible to healthful stimulation. Shiatsu is the abbreviation of a Japanese word that literally means finger-pressure treatment (shi means finger, or fingers, and atsu means pressure). Practitioners may be called shiatsuists.

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scalp acupuncture: Placement of needles into the scalp over parts of the brain that control various body functions.

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scientific palmistry: Variation of medical palmistry practiced by Nathaniel Altman, author of Discover Palmistry, Medical Palmistry, Palmistry for Lovers, The Palmistry Workbook, and Sexual Palmistry.

It involves analysis of the consistency and flexibility of the client's hands and reveals detailed information about health and spirituality.

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Scientology Drug Rundown: A series of Scientology auditing actions that brings one into the present time. (See auditing.)

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Scientology: Philosophy, quasireligious movement, and system of psychotherapy that elaborated into the Church of Scientology. Science-fiction writer L. (Lafayette) Ron Hubbard (1911-1986), author of the bestseller Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, founded the church in 1953. The aim of Scientology, whose theory posits reincarnation, is to liberate one's essential Self (the true, spiritual self).

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Seicho-No-Ie (SNI): Supradenominational truth movement founded in 1930 in Japan by Dr. Masaharu Taniguchi (b. 1893), author of The Role of Mind in Cancer (1965) and The Truth of Life, a series of twenty books. Spiritual healing is a major component of Seicho-No-Ie, which combines Christianity and Buddhism.

In a nutshell, the principle of Seicho-No-Ie healing is that illness does not exist in Reality (the true spiritual world at the core of the phenomenal world) and that it is a false appearance. Seicho-No-Ie literally means House of Growth.

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seiki-jutsu: Japanese method wherein a therapist transfers seiki (universal healing energy) to a patient. Seiki enters the patient through the whorl of hair at the crown.

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seitai control technique (seitai technique): aid to the restoration of a true state of perfect physical and mental health. It is related to Yoshida taido. The Japanese word seitai means true physical and spiritual state.

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self expansion therapy: Style of psychotherapy practiced by Ralph Gray, C.S.W., of New York City.

According to its theory, one can attain growth and transformation by listening carefully to one's true inner self, re-connecting one's thoughts and feelings, recovering one's authenticity, and releasing physical and emotional blockages.

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somasynthesis: Form of somatic therapy developed by Clyde W. Ford, D.C. Somasynthesis borrows from theories developed by Roberto Assagioli (see psychosynthesis), Milton Erickson (see Ericksonian Hypnosis), Carl Jung (see Jungian psychology), Daniel Palmer (the founder of chiropractic), and Wilhelm Reich (see orgone therapy and Reichian Therapy). Its design is to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

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