Energy Healing

What is energy healing?
Many people these days understand that everything in existence is essentially energy. We construct our world, including ourselves, from this energy by our perceptual apparatus – our minds.

One could think of the physical body as a condensed form of energy, compared to our thoughts, which have a less dense form but just as strong an impact in creating the events of our lives. A person, or anything else, can be perceived in their entirety as a field of energy, in which the more subtle levels interpenetrate and surround the physical. So whether we work with your emotions, your thoughts, your physical body or your soul, we are working with energy.

For example, the event we call ‘sadness’ has an emotional aspect, which we might identify as a kind of non-physical hurting; a thinking aspect such as, ‘X doesn’t love me any more’; a physical aspect such as an aching in the chest; and a spiritual/transpersonal aspect, which could be felt as a loss of connection with the true (or ‘higher’) self.

When something in our energetic system fails to process experience and move on, we can develop ‘stuck’ emotions, repetitive thoughts and physical blockages which can lead to illness.

Energy healing works on all levels, encouraging your system to reorganise itself for best possible health. This healing can bypass the usual interruptions created by negative habits of feeling and thinking, and go straight to the part of you that is able to receive and make use of it.

What happens in a healing session?
While you lie down and relax, I will work in your energy field to sense where your system needs work at the present time, and direct healing where required. This may involve simple focusing of healing energy, and/or more direct interventions to remove unwanted energies or to repair your field.

I offer healing either as part of ongoing work in therapy, or by itself, in which case we would use part of the time to explore what you want from the session, and your current needs. It can be very helpful to have a series of healing sessions.

Shamanic Healing

What is shamanic healing?
Shamanic healing is a form of energy healing which embodies specific values and techniques. It draws on teachings and traditions which formed and guided spiritual and community life, in most cultures of the world, for many thousands of years. These teachings arise from a deep knowledge, an active knowing, of the world as animate, intentional and conscious: a living, creative system. Earth and all the creatures with whom we share Earth’s body are honoured with love and gratitude. While ‘ordinary’ reality is given respect, it is seen as masking a deeper reality, which is the world of spirit.

Traditionally the shaman takes on the role of entering this underlying spirit reality and engaging with the beings and energies she or he finds there, in order to bring about changes in ordinary reality. A major part of this work is for the purpose of healing. Put very simply, the basic principle of shamanic healing is that illness and disease, including chronically difficult emotional problems, arise either from the presence of energies which should not be with the person and need to be removed; or from the loss of energies which should be present. The techniques of shamanic healing are directed towards removing unwelcome energy and restoring needed energy.

How is shamanic healing done?
Again, all the client is usually required to do is to lie down and relax. I might use any of a number of methods of extraction, which move energies which may be impeding the flow of your vitality, and send them back to their own domain; power retrieval can bring your powerful life force back to you, often in the form of a spirit animal helper; in soul retrieval, a missing part of your soul essence is restored to you.

Soul retrieval is a healing procedure which is often necessary when a person has been traumatised, and a part of her or him has become disconnected from them as a result. Many people describe the experience of feeling that they have lost part of themselves, and this can be literally true. Soul retrieval is a sensitive process in which the shamanic practitioner will go on a spirit journey to search for the missing part, and if it is willing, bring it back to be re-integrated. This can be profoundly transformative when performed with the right timing. Sometimes a series of healing sessions will be necessary as preparation, and further sessions may be necessary afterwards to ensure that the soul part is fully integrated.

All Our Relatives
The honouring and gratitude towards all life which is embodied in shamanic work once pervaded the community’s existence, including all relationships with animals, stars, plants, humans, rocks, weather and so-called ‘inanimate’ objects. Although this attitude has been all but obliterated in our modern globalised culture, it lies in our hearts as a powerful substratum beneath the constant buzz of surface activity and information. Reawakening this intrinsic respect for all life is surely essential both for our personal healing and for the healing of our world.

For more on the process of deepening your connection with Earth and the non-human world, please see Ecopsychology and Earth-Centred Therapy.

Fees
My standard charge for healing, or for healing combined with psychotherapy, is £50 per hour, or £70 for one-and-a-half hours.
Some shamanic work, such as soul retrieval, will require a one-and-a-half hour session.
In case of genuine difficulty these fees are negotiable to some extent, down to a minimum of £40 an hour or £60 for one-and-a-half hours.

Location
I work as an energy healer and shamanic practitioner in Dartington, Totnes, South Devon. My practice is easily accessible from the South Hams, Torbay, Dartmoor, Plymouth and Exeter.

Training and Experience
For information about my training and experience as an energy healer and shamanic practitioner, please click on about Moira.

If you have questions, please try clicking on FAQ as you may find the answers there.