Healing Touch: Healing Touch is a program of energy techniques developed by a nurse, Janet Mentgen, in 1989. It is a Certificate program originally developed for the American Holistic Nurses Assoc. (AHNA). Healing Touch is used to accelerate wound healing, relieve pain, promote relaxation, and prevent illness.

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Energy Healing: A physically non-invasive therapy that seeks to restore the natural, smooth flowing nature of the body’s energetic field by releasing stagnant, excessive and/or depleted energies from the body and its cells.

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Crystal Healing: An alternative technique for strengthening the body and resolving issues and patterns. It is a process of bringing energy fields into perfect alignment.

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Sound Healing: Practitioners believe that different sounds can stimulate blood flow and increase awareness. They often use sound waves to restore the body’s natural rhythms. Treatment sometimes includes a machine that transmits sound waves directly to affected areas of the body. Sound healing is believed to treat stress, depression, dyslexia and muscle pain.

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Energy Healing: Hands and/or prayer and/or intuitive abilities are used as a conduit to address physical and emotional health and to help create clarity, flow and restoration.

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Shamanism: This ancient method of healing was practiced by healers (shamans). Combining ancient and modern healing/wisdom practices, to develop inter-dimensional consciousness (“walking between the worlds”), spirit helpers, power animals, and ritual, “journeying” for soulful wholeness.

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Jin Shin Jyutsu: Uses light pressure on acupressure points along the body. Brings balance to the body’s energies, which promotes optimal health and well-being, and facilitates our own profound healing capacity. It is a valuable complement to conventional healing methods, inducing relaxation and reducing the effects of stress.

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Therapeutic Touch: A specific method of healing touch developed by Dolores Krieger and practiced by registered nurses and others to relieve pain and stress. A TT practitioner attunes to the client’s energy field, finds weak or congested areas, and re-balances or refreshes them using touch techniques.

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Reflexology: Based on the idea that specific points on the feet and hands correspond with organs and tissues throughout the entire body. The practitioner uses fingers and thumbs to apply pressure to reflex zones to help the self-healing process. Some of the benefits are the relief of pain in the neck, shoulder and lower back, to relief of allergic reactions, headaches, upset stomach and colon discomfort.

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Tellington TTouch: This is a method of gentle touch for animals that uses circular movements of the fingers and hands all over the body. TTouch activates the nervous system to promote the healing of physical, emotional and behavioral problems, and to establish a deeper communication and rapport between humans and animals.

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Five Rythms: A form of free dance stemming from the work of Gabrielle Roth. The five rhythms, Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness form the Wave, a dance form that crosses the boundaries between art, therapy, Shamanic healing and spiritual impulse.

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Homeopathy: Based on the hypothesis of “like cures like” and a deep emphasis on the principles of holistic medicine (treat the whole person). Homeopathic remedies work by stimulating the body’s own healing power by introducing tiny doses of natural substances that should stimulate a person’s immune system and defense system to correct itself naturally.

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CranioSacral Therapy: This therapy is a system of full body evaluation and treatment that views the individual as an integrated whole and utilizes gentle, non-invasive techniques. The application of CST helps to enhance the body’s innate healing abilities and is helpful for many conditions, including chronic pain, headaches, immune system diseases, neurologic disorders, TMJ, postural imbalances, and more.

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Aromatherapy – Pure essential oils are used to treat stress and anxiety as well as a wide range of other ailments. Aromatherapy is often used in conjunction with massage therapy, acupuncture, reflexology, herbology, chiropractic, and other methods of holistic healing.

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Bodywork: A general term used to describe any type of manual, manipulative healing modality that aims to restore health of body mind and spirit. Some examples include massage, craniosacral therapy, acupressure and yoga therapy.

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BodyTalk- BodyTalk is a form of therapy that allows the body’s energy systems to be re-synchronized so that they can operate as nature intended. Our energy systems become out of balance primarily through exposure to the stresses of day to day life. Re-synchronizing them enables the body’s mechanisms to function at optimal levels thus preventing disease and rapidly accelerating the healing process.

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Breathwork: A general term used to describe directed breathing patterns that take breath to a deeper level, thus improving one’s physical health as well as one’s mental and emotional state of being. Breathwork is an integral part of many types of spiritual/healing practices such as yoga, chi gong, and meditation.

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Qi Gong: This practice of martial arts movements, meditation and breath promotes improved blood circulation and immune response. It is a system of self-healing that teaches patients how to stay well and balance the flow of vital energy or qi.

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Bentonite Clay and its spiritual properties: Intestinal cleanse of the colon is strongly recommended by Kalki and The Golden Age Foundation in order to be fully receptive for pranic energy. It is so vital that it should be the mandatory preparation before all deeper spiritual processes and as a continous maintenance of the body as an antenna of cosmic energies. Bentonite (also available at many pharmacies under alternative substance names to bentonite: bentonitum, montmorillonite) is believed to have exceptionally properties. This article from www.alternativemedicine.com desribes the genereal properties and use of bentonite.

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Rolfers: Developed by Ida Rolf, this system of body restructuring and movement education works with gravity to realign the body. Rolfers often focus bodywork on the myofascia, the connective tissue that surrounds muscles, to release tension.

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