Types of Energy Healing Sessions

At the Body Luminous, we work with many different energies and our sessions are influenced by your level of comfort and the healing goals you have. Unsure of which you should choose? A good rule of thumb is that if you're looking for an extremely peaceful experience where you get an energetic tune-up and leave feeling refreshed, choose a Reiki session. If you're willing to go deeper and have more aggressive healing goals and are willing to participate more fully(including homework!), go with a Shamanic session.  Here's a run-down of our session types:

Therapeutic Massage

Julie is a licensed body-worker who is skilled in several types of massage, including hot stone, swedish, and myofacial. She's a very intuitive bodyworker who senses energy blockages (which are often manifested physically as aches and pains) and works to release it. Typically, a massage session includes Reiki, as it can't be turned off.

Komyo Reiki

Komyo Reiki is an energy medicine of Japanese origin, and both Julie and Homer are trained to the highest Shinpiden level and authorized to teach. A session is done fully clothed and lasts between an hour and one-and-one-half hours. In this session, you'll lay on your back, fully supported on the massage table or floor (if you prefer), listening to comforting music that transports you while the practitioner moves along your body from head to toe. We may or may not touch you (and won't, at your request); the energy flows into your energy field and has an intellegence that goes to whereever it is most needed. It is always beneficial and can never harm or be too much.  During the session, many report seeing beautiful waves of color. Clients leave feeling very restful and in peace.

Energy Medicine of the Americas

Shamanic Healing is a bit more active. During this type of healing, we work more with your active issues--what's causing you grief or stopping or limiting your progress?  Then we check in with our guidance to determine the best course to take. All work is conducted in two levels of sacred space; a space protected by the archetypal energies of the universe, and one within our own expanded energy field. This makes it extremely safe and ensures that no other energies can bother us.

Typically, as a client you'll lay on your back on the massage table. You'll most likely be asked to breathe forcefully, pushing out the stuck or disordered energy. At the same time, we will move around you, looking for or moving stuck energy. We may rattle, chant, or move around you. We will cradle your head in a safe and supporting manner, or we may simply not touch you at all. All of this work may actually be done on the energetic level alone. You may feel or see scenes or events in your mind as we do our work. 

All shamanic sessions end with an illumination, where we add light, ordered energy into your energy field.  This helps the healing to really take hold, removing the affinities within your energy field to repeat the same behavior. You're less likely to fall back into hurtful habits, and go forward with confidence and assurance.

We'll typically discuss what happened and give you a healing journal to document or keep track of the changes you experience as you live with this healing. Typically, you'll notice changes throughout the next few weeks or even months.