Dreams Do Come True!
“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
~ Albert Einstein
It has been such a thrill to teach the 1st year of the Eden Method practitioner certification program for students in the lower mainland of Vancouver. It was a dream I had back in 2016 when I first dived into Donna’s work. My journey began when I joined my first Energy Medicine Fundamentals class and was surprised to learn how to relieve my own pain. I was an older professional dancer who was training 5 – 8 hours a week at that time. I was stiff and sore and going to regular weekly Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) appointments to help reduce my discomfort. I had been living with muscle aches and tension daily, but after my first 4 days of learning and exchanging Eden Energy Medicine (EEM) protocols several things really surprised me!
We were told as practitioners that self-care was our 1st priority. It was unwise to believe that we could take care of other people if we weren’t properly taking care of ourselves. We were shown in the very first class how to work on our own disorganized energies and how these imbalances within ourselves could affect the energies of those around us. I understood philosophically that we were all part of one energetic field, but I was shown, through learning kinesthetic muscle testing, how we become a circuit with another person when we touch them. This type of testing allowed me to access other and get information people’s energies. By doing this I needed to be energetically toxin-free, well-balanced, and a clean vessel so my own messy energies didn’t start displaying themselves on my client.
We were immediately taught Donna’s very own self-healing “Daily Energy Routine” along with many of her other signature exercises that were designed to balance our energies and enhance our own health. I learned that energy flowed in patterns and was taught how to trace all my meridians in a perfect sequence that would be most beneficial for my health. It wasn’t until after the 4-day class intensive was over, and I went back to my regular life, weekly dance training, and weekly scheduled RMT sessions that I was stunned at what this powerful work had done for me.
I lay down on my RMT’s table, bracing myself for the excruciating pain I typically feel after a week of dance training, waiting for her to tightly grip and squeeze my shoulders to begin to loosen the knots. It was then that I realized that I wasn’t in much pain! I’d gone from a 10 on a pain scale down to a 3, and the therapist was astounded as well. She asked me “what had I been doing because I was so relaxed compared to my usual rock-hard tension?”
“How could that be possible”, I thought to myself. The only thing that I had been doing was what I’d learned in my 1st class to become an Energy Medicine practitioner.
Energy Medicine had made all the difference!
I remember learning two protocols in that very first class, out of the hundreds that I have eventually come to know, but these two protocols have been magical for me and my clients over the years. To this very day, I have trained my husband to give me a “Spinal Flush” every night before I go to bed because it just takes all my pain away. It allows me to exercise, garden, dance, and sleep pain-free. I wake up the next day and feel less tense and because I do the Daily Energy Routine along with my own self-care routine, I feel more vibrant, healthy, fit, and able to cope with the external stresses of my life. This has been a life changer for me.
The 2nd protocol I learned was all about sleep. I struggled a lot when I was in my mid-40s with insomnia. My hormones were out of wack from having four children, a big house, juggling my busy Interior Design career, and trying to stay emotionally balanced. After I learned the “Brazilian Toe” technique I suddenly was able to put people to sleep on my table who, like me, had been having trouble with their health, and stress, and were overwhelmed. I hadn’t realized that my big life had started to whack me out and I’d lost touch with my rhythms, my connection to my body and my center. Energy Medicine changed all that!
I knew I had to bring this work to the world. Although I had studied other Energy teachings throughout my life, this program of Donna’s seemed to bring it all together in an easy thought-out sequence. Her program taught me how to develop a practice while healing myself at the same time. I declared to my classmates and teacher that my vision was to build a retreat workshop space in order to bring award-winning programs like this one to my place.
Thoughts are things and in that very moment, I began to manifest a Wellness Centre that taught restorative life-changing work, while helping people who came to see us with their healing journey. As an Interior Designer, it was easy to build the space and I set out to revamp our large Red Barn into an inviting oasis that would nurture people as they were immersed in learning and experience. While my daughter, Britte, and I were finishing our schooling we took on clients for her manual therapy, for our holistic nutrition knowledge, and for my Energy Medicine sessions. As students, we began to build our clientele and after 7 long years, Britte is now an Osteopathic Manual Practitioner, I am an EEM Advanced Practitioner and an Eden Method teacher, and we have seen my vision come to completion. Watching as my students exchanged powerful work on each other reminded me of when I first discovered this new world of healing. I love seeing their faces as they begin to understand the wonders of energy medicine, and just like me, are blown away by the possibilities.
Even after many years immersed in this work, while teaching this 1st class, I was reminded again how potent this work is. I had a sudden unexpected family crisis occur during the evening after day 2 of my 4-day class and I remained cool, collected, and surprisingly emotionally calm. Being so empathic and sensitive, being calm and rational, has not been my strength. My usual pattern would have been to freak out and panic. Instead, I realized I had been teaching my students the exercises and how to trace their energetic meridians, (channels of energy that run in specific patterns throughout the body explained in acupuncture), repeatedly, to help them remember the work we had been doing together, and by doing so it had given me superpowers of emotional resilience! My family also noticed and was thoroughly impressed, and I was so grateful that I hadn’t become derailed.
If you have a dream, a vision, or a manifestation that you want to bring into this world I am here to tell you with perseverance, determination, passion, and belief it is possible it can and will come true.