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Energy Work

My underlying assumption in energy work is that disrupted flows of energy in, through, or out your body are contributing to your unease. By intervening into those flows, the disruptions are changed, diminished, or disappeared. I make a distinction between energy work and body work because the expectations, the methods, and the interventions appear different, but after practicing somatic education for more than twenty-five years, I’ve concluded that all body work is energy work; it’s just seems that the muscles, organs, skin, etc. are solid, but in reality, they are units of dense energy.

MODALITIES

My energy work is eclectic. Seldom do I find myself limiting a session to one modality. A session is a dance between the client’s energy body, my energy body, and it would seem-- a transpersonal energy body. I have had training in these modalities which tend to be incorporated into my energy work: Polarity, Windows of the Sky, Medical Qi Gong, Cranial-sacral, Visceral Manipulation, Therapeutic Touch, Essential Oils, Flower Essences, Active Imagination, Hatha yoga and have studied Arnold Mindel’s process psychology (Dream Body work), shamanic practices, and meditative and intuitive practices.

Criteria

I do energy work with those clients who request it, with those whose unease seems to be emotional, psychological, and/or transpersonal, with those whose physical pain is so acute that touching or moving the body would worsen their unease, or with those who are terminally ill.

Results

Clients should experience an immediate or eventual diminishing of their symptoms, a better understanding of the factors contributing to their unease, and/or a greater sense of connectedness.

 

EnERGY wORK FAQ'S

What do I wear?
Your “street” clothes.
What will I feel?
Maybe nothing. But more than likely, you may feel a tingling, a warmth, a cooling, a flow of sensation between parts of your body, a lightness, a feeling of more substance, expanded awareness, greater focus, relaxation, etc. But your sensations will be unique to yourself.
What do you feel?
After more than three decades of doing energy work (first nonprofessionally and then professionally), I can safely say that what I feel in a session is not what you would be feeling. For instance, you may experience my hands as very warm, but they might feel cool to me. Our perceptions in these sessions are more dependent on our expectations than on objectivity.
How do you begin?
By listening to the client.
This sounds like a lot of New Age flim flam.
The presentations, the explanations, and the terminology derive from current alternative health care practices. But consider: when a part of your body hurts, your first action would be to touch it. Before you rub it or press it, you will simply place your hand or finger on it. And in that simple touch you will be transferring energy from one part of your body to another part. That is energy work, the most ancient form of healing.

BENEFITS:

  • Calms
  • Stills
  • Expands awareness
  • Decreases pain

David McQueen

david mcqueenI graduated from the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics in Albuquerque New Mexico in 1984. The school was a six month residential program providing a thousand hours of education.read more >>

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David McQueen Somatic Education
4213 Larchmont Drive
El Paso, TX 79902
915-544-5710
Email: david@mcqueensomatic.com

What is Somatics?

I describe somatic education as discipline to change your body through my touch, my suggestions of images which you may feel, see, or hear, and through expanding your awareness of how you function, walking, sitting, standing.

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