One of the gifts I was born with is the ability to perceive tension (or trapped energy) in the tissues of the body and to be intuitively guided on how to release that energy to effect healing. A typical healing session will start with me asking you to briefly explain why you have come to see me. After listening to you fully, I will briefly scan your body and ask you to either lie or sit on the healing table remaining fully clothed.  I will then place my hands on your body (generally at the point you have identified in your complaint) and begin to extend my shamanic awareness into your being.  If it will facilitate your healing process, I will communicate to you verbally in order to help you have a mental understanding of how you are about to heal. 

As my awareness reaches progressively deeper into you, I am guided by intuitive perception to trace your blockages back in time to their root and facilitate healing.  I become a "Hollow Bone" and allow the healing energy to travel from the spirit world through my heart and into your being. For the receiver of healing, this may be a predominantly physical experience but most often there is an unresolved psycho/spiritual/emotional component that exists simultaneously with the physical injury and is holding the mis-alignment in place.  Bringing this internal conflict to consciousness can facilitate transformational healing when trapped life-force energy is released. The return of this previously trapped life-force energy to present time is sometimes termed soul-retrieval.

The universe is a dynamic and constantly evolving matrix. As the field of events changes so do the appropriate responses. One of the goals of shamanic healing in particular and holistic healing in general is to replace old patterns that were appropriate at the time of injury with new ones that are more effective for the person you are today.  From a shamanic perspective, learning is nothing more than the ability to effect change in the way our life-force energy system responds to the events that unfold around us. Shamanic energy healing is a method of teaching our life-force energy system to operate dynamically in optimally functioning patterns. It is also important to achieve elasticity so that if an external event interrupts the pre-established optimal pattern the system can adapt fluidly and effectively to achieve another state of optimal functionality.