A BOUNDARY IS A CHOICE, NOT A WALL
Many people struggle to create healthy boundaries in their relationships. If they weren’t modeled for you when you were young, it’s hard...
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KIM LOHRET, CCEP
Somatic Practitioner and Healer
All healing is a movement toward wholeness and connection. It's a deeply transformational process, involving not just the physical body, but the mind, emotions, will and spirit.
HOLISTIC HEALING
The Mind-Body-Spirit Connection
Have you ever felt nervous about something and gotten a sick feeling in your stomach? Or given yourself a headache from worrying? Conversely, have you ever felt physically stronger, happier or even healthier after a positive experience such as listening to a beautiful piece of music, watching the sunrise or going to church? What you’re feeling is the interaction between your mind, your emotions, and your physical body.
MIND/
EMOTION
Every thought and feeling you have affects your physical body in some way. Your body will respond to the thoughts you're habitually thinking and the emotions you're habitually feeling.
BODY
Your body is the "record-keeper" of all your thoughts, feelings and experiences. Negative images, blocked emotion and trauma get "locked" in the body, resulting in tension, holding, and patterns of pain or disease. Many times, these patterns can be traced to earlier painful experiences.
SPIRIT
You are more than the physical form you see. Your spirit or soul is complex and ancient. Your body, in sickness and health, is the perfect guide for understanding your deepest soul lessons, as well as uncovering your greatest soul gifts. Healing is the natural result of an evolution of consciousness.
MY APPROACH
An Integrative Method
Healing work is a deeply transformational process. I have studied many modalities and am a certified psychosomatic practitioner and reiki master. In my work, I utilize many approaches to address the whole person. Through movement, breath and body work, it's possible to gain a felt experience of the interconnected nature of body, emotions, mind and spirit. Through energy work, places in the body where energy isn't moving freely can be identified. Oftentimes, challenges being experienced now reflect fixed, energetic or emotional patterns developed during earlier, difficult life experiences.
Healing work can also offer insight into your deepest experience, the kinds of lessons that you're learning and the gifts you're here to share. Integrative healing is not only a method for working with physical, emotional and relational difficulties. It can also provide a doorway into deeper knowledge and facilitate an evolution of consciousness.
Energy Medicine
Energy is the unifying force behind everything. Everything is made of energy, including your body, your thoughts and your emotions. There is a natural intelligence at work within your subtle energetic field. This intelligence strives to keep your system operating in a healthy, balanced state. When energy flows freely, your physical body receives what it needs to maintain vibrant health. Mental, emotional and physical health is a natural outcome of a balanced system.
Trauma and blocked emotion can cause blocks within this energy field, which not only impacts your physical health, but keeps you locked in limiting emotional, relational and behavioral patterns. Oftentimes, these patterns are rooted in earlier painful experiences, in which you experienced fear, abandonment, invasion, betrayal or rejection.
Some of the energetic healing modalities I use include:
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sound healing
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relational cord restructuring
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astral clearing
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guided visualization/meditation
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ancestral work
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chakra restructuring
Psychosomatic Process
Core Energetics, developed by John Pierrakos, MD, is a synthesis of body-centered psychotherapy and spiritual development. Breathwork, simple movements and exercises are designed to create awareness, increase charge, contain energy and release blocks.
Belief systems, habitual emotional responses and coping mechanisms are not simply psychological in nature but are deeply anchored in the physical body. Somatic therapy can provide the "missing piece" for healing. The body remembers, even when we don't have any conscious awareness of what it's holding. When we lovingly invite the body to reveal what's stored in its tissues, habitual patterns can be released or evolved. New insight and understanding can be gained around limiting subconscious "images."
Some of the somatic techniques I use include:
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breathwork
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slow movement and body mindfulness exercises
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stretching
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expressive movement to release held emotions
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vocalization
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grounding, charging and discharging postures
Integrative Healing Sessions are a combination of energy work, psychosomatic therapy, breathwork and spiritual/intuitive counseling. It's my intention to be present with all of who you are, and to create a safe and supportive environment in which you can explore and experience more of your authentic self. Want to learn more?
We live in a world of attraction, magnetism and resonance, where our vibration and our expectations determine our experience.
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Aligning with Earth's Natural Rhythms
Life on this planet is both cyclical and dualistic. Everything moves in a circular pattern through states of being that seem in opposition to each other.
Every human being is composed of many “bodies,” not just the one you can see with your eyes. (See also CHAKRAS for a summary of the colors, sounds and elements associated with each Chakra.)
Here are a few simple tools that are very effective for quickly clearing your energetic field. These should be done as a daily practice, in the morning, evening or both.
Expansion, Contraction and Integration
Growth occurs through a process of expanding, contracting and integrating. Each of these phases is an equally important part of your healing journey.
Higher Self, Lower Self and the Mask
Together, these three aspects make up your essential nature. As you work to relinquish your mask and purify your lower self, more and more of the light of your higher self can pass through.
Using Affirmations to Change Your Operating System
We all have an "operating system"...that set of ideas or beliefs we've built around how the world works. Your life, for better or worse, is a mirror of your beliefs.
In order to gain the most benefit from a healing session or other expanding experience, it’s important that you practice good self-care in the days following a session.
Being grounded means being fully present. When you’re grounded, you are fully present in your physical body (not your head). You feel safe and can easily connect with Mother Earth and her rhythms. In order to ground, you need to have an open root chakra.
One of the things you’ll have to deal with on the path of healing is resistance. Simply put, resistance is all the things that are going to get in the way of your healing. It's all the reasons why you can't (or don't want to) grow and expand.
Everyone has a shadow. It's called a shadow, not only because of its connection to your dark side, but because it tends to remain hidden.
In your natural state, energy flows in a balanced way. Unfortunately, most of us have learned how to function in a chronic state of imbalance or lack. This defensive state is so familiar, you might not even realize it's there.
As a young child, your energy body was very open and sensitive. (Defensive Pattern guides are designed to help clients who are actively working with specific patterns identified in session.)
Rituals, when done mindfully, are exercises in bringing the sacred down to earth. Rituals connect us to our history and our ancestors and strengthen the energetic bonds between us. They provide comfort and stability in a world that's always changing. They help us align our intentions with our actions.
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