How to Illuminate Your Intuitive Dashboard

On the healing path, a few well placed words of wisdom can sometimes trigger a much needed “a-ha” deep within that brings everything into focus. One of the most powerful lessons that I’ve been taught is this: A true healer doesn’t actually heal us; he or she simply helps us remove the blocks that are […]

The Ancient Art Of Chakra Bathing

Seven Chakra Cleansing

Okay, I have to admit—it took me a while to get on board with my chakras. First of all, they don’t teach us about our energy systems in science class. Second, we can’t see them, so they’re not obvious parts of our bodies like, say, our hands. But the more I learned about chakras, and […]

Loving Your Jing – Winter Medicine

Two thousand years ago, the following words of truth were spoken by one of the world’s legendary healers: “Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed thus… Consider the seasons of the year, and what effects each of them produces  – for they are not at all alike, but differ much from themselves in regard […]

The Power Of The Invisible

A few weeks ago, I had a conversation that blew my mind and heart right open… Know the kind I’m talking about? An exchange with another person that pulls you right back into alignment with your spirit path? This is what happened to me during an interview with Colette Baron-Reid – a psychic medium, seer […]

Do We Need a Daily Practice?

Woman in White Dress Meditating by Bamboo

Are there benefits in creating a daily practice? Well, I have two answers: the ‘up-level’ answer is, “It doesn’t matter.” The other answer, the one most of us want and need to hear is, “Yes, it’s absolutely wonderful to have a daily practice,” because most of us are embedded very deeply in the world and […]

Healing With Your Hands – A Forgotten Art

There is a feeling that comes over us when we’re being cared for. A warmth that floods our senses when someone is devoting their complete attention to our health. A vibration that courses through the body. An inner sigh of relief. The phenomenon of human touch is at the heart of the healing traditions we […]

A Breathing Exercise To Take You Higher

A few years ago, one of my teachers taught me a powerful breathing exercise that I’d like to share with you today. Variations of this technique have been used for millennia to induce altered states of consciousness and connect more deeply with the divine. On the surface, it’s hard to fathom how breathing alone can take […]

A Taoist Priest Shares 9 Secrets Of Life

Monk in Orange Robe Walks Barefoot on Urban Street in Front of Graffiti

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein As a Taoist monk, much of what I learned from my teachers was passed down from shamanic heritage throughout Asia. Communion with nature, “animal play”, herbalism, energy practices, […]

How To Hold Healing Space For Another

Clay Human Figures Encircling a Flame

Have you ever felt drawn to or repelled by the space a healer holds for you? Well more and more evidence, from a wide range of disciplines, points to the idea that one of the most critical aspects for a person to reach true healing in a session, is how safe they feel in that […]

We All Have This Power. Time To Use It

The word below has been hailed in just about every major spiritual text, it is the centerpiece of hundreds of songs (rock, folk, and even opera), and if used properly, it can create almost immediate transformation in your life. The word is forgiveness. Over the past month I’ve had the honor of meeting with a […]

The X-factor Of Energy Healing. Trust.

Levitating and Meditating Human Figure with Energy Hands

For the past couple of years, my greatest number of Reiki patients has been those with a variety of cancers. Having worked in the field of oncology as an RN for nearly 9 years I can tell you that not all cancers are the same. Not all cancers are treated with the same drugs. Even […]

Soul Intervention: Treating Mental Illness in India

A Folk Healer Places His Hands and a Mala on a Patient's Forehead

Mental illness can mean different things to different people. In the scientific community, we believe that it can be a totally chemical based condition, but that’s only one possible diagnosis. Is there sometimes more than meets the eye? In many civilizations around the world, it’s not so much about what is physically wrong inside, but […]