Frequently Asked Questions
What to expect during a Healing Touch session?
What to expect during a sound therapy session?
What to expect during a sound bath?
Is Healing Touch the same as Reiki?
The first session involves a review of your intake form which includes a health history and a series of questions about your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. At that time, I will answer any questions you have about Healing Touch. Then you will lay fully clothed on a massage table for a Healing Touch treatment. I will gently place my hands slightly above or on the body in specific spots and in specific sequences, depending on what our mutual goals are for the session. A session generally lasts 40 to 60 minutes, and people frequently report feeling deeply relaxed and peaceful during and after the session. Because there may be a cumulative effect of using Healing Touch over time, regular sessions are recommended.
The first session involves a review of your intake form which includes a health history and a series of questions about your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. At that time, I will answer any questions you have about sound healing. Then you will lay fully clothed on the floor, on a yoga mat. Tibetan Singing Bowls will be placed around your body. The bowls will be played, in specific sequences next to, above or on the body depending on the mutal goals for the session. A session generally lasts 45 to 60 minutes, and people frequently report feeling deeply relaxed and peaceful during and after the session. Because there may be a cumulative effect of using sound healing over time, regular sessions are recommended.
A sound bath is an opportunty to be bathed in various frequencies and overlapping vibrations to help relax the nervous system and to cleanse the mind and body of blockages caused by tensions, toxins and stress. This is a laying down experiece. While in repose, I begin with a total body relaxation process. Next you will be bathed in the soothing vibrations of my Tibetan Singing Bowls along with many other healing instruments in a sequence which will bring you to a state of very deep relaxation, where your mind rests, while your body releases tensions, and restores itself to allow for optimal energy flow & self healing.  This all is to bring you to a most peaceful, restorative and expanded state of being. Upon completion of the sound bath you should feel very relaxed, rested, cleansed, balanced and blissful.
Healing Touch and Reiki are both viable types of energy healing therapies. However, they have different training requirements for credentialing to become a Healing Touch Practioner vs a Reiki Master. They also have different approaches and varieties of treatments when working with clients. The training to use Reiki healing energy requires the Reiki healing energy to be "transferred" to a student during special "attunements" given by a Reiki Master. Training styles and requirements vary by Reiki Masters because Reiki practice does not hold a standardized Code of Ethics or Standards of Practice for all practitioners. Approval to practice is also not standardized, governed, or monitored. Healing Touch Practioners follow a standardized curriculum and are required to complete five levels of specific structured coursework, including documenting 100 client sessions, an apprenticeship period (typically a year or more) under a Certified Healing Touch Instructor, and formal submittal of case studies and writings to an international organization for evaluation that is acredited by the American Holistic Nurses Association. The Reiki healing approach was created by a Japanese man, Mikao Usui's upon a completion of a 21 day fast, when he was inspired and enlightened about the Reiki healing energy. He then opened a school to teach others how to access and use the Reiki enregies for healing. Healing Touch was created by a Registered Nurse, Janet Mentgen who brought together her nursing skills and a collection of several healing approaches from many traditions and many healers from around the world to create to Healing Touch therapies. Reiki uses a healing technique and symbols to promotes the overall healing of the entire body, mind, and spirit. Healing Touch uses a standard 10 step sequence, based on nursing practices with a focus on the case management. It includes over 30 different energy healing techniques, making it versatile. When providing individualized sessions, practitioners choose the specific techniques required for the session based on the patient’s symptoms and mutal agreed upon goals which focus the healing on that specific situation.