Pregnancy and Childbirth

BodyTalk can be used during pregnancy and childbirth, and can also assist healing newborns and very young children. Having prenatal BodyTalk sessions can help the mother and baby to be in full and proper energetic communication with each other. This can allow the baby to properly develop and may address any issues that may arise during the term of the pregnancy. BodyTalk during labor can help the woman remain calm, and can assist the birthing process to be more efficient. Postnatal BodyTalk can help mom and baby recover from the stress of the birth quickly and easily.

Case Study:

A woman in her early thirties came in for a BodyTalk session. She was having difficultly getting pregnant and had been trying for 2 years. After 4 sessions with BodyTalk she was able to conceive. In the sessions, we addressed hormone imbalances, fear of getting pregnant and losing her independence and released a family pattern of miscarriage. I continued to see her during the pregnancy for sessions. When it came time to deliver, she decided on a home birth. She was in labor for 5 hours and gave birth to a healthy baby boy weighing 8 pounds. The birth went smoothly and she remained in good health during and after the birth.

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Cancer and Chemotherapy Support

As an adjunct to allopathic cancer treatments, The BodyTalk System helps the body to effectively deal with the nausea and other side effects from chemo drugs or radiation, helping the body come back into balance and heal more completely. BodyTalk is also effective in pain management therapies.

I have seen a number of cancer patients come in for BodyTalk sessions while undergoing chemotherapy, radiation treatments and pre/post surgical procedures. Overall, the results I have seen include reduced pain, healing faster after surgeries, less fatigue after cancer treatments, up keeping a more positive attitude and less overall stress. Many clients I have seen have worked towards a cancer free diagnosis. BodyTalk also helps to support clients spiritually and enhancing the will to live. This is an important factor when undergoing any major illness to help increase chances for survival. The aim is to go beyond survival and to help assist clients with the ability to thrive in their lives.

Over the past couple of months, I have noticed many people complain that there is a lack of funds in their bank account. Complaining of not having enough money for sustaining their lifestyle or paying for basic needs such as food, gas, health care, childcare...etc. The list goes on. We have all overheard conversations on the bus, in coffee shops, on the street corner of how we need to cut back on spending. I realized that many of us equate financial success with self esteem. When we are working and earning an abundance of money, we feel good. Our mood is elevated and we have a more positive attitude towards ourselves, life and others. Our relationships are more harmonious. We feel more productive in our professional and personal lives. I have noticed an increase in people's stress levels around finances in my private health practice. As the financial burden increases, self esteem decreases leading to anger, depression and anxiety. Then pessimism sets in. It has a negative effect on all other areas of life. Relationships sour, tensions flare and motivation declines. So here are some useful tips that you can do to heal the financial burden and turn the ship around:


1. Be gentle with yourself.
Kindness is the key to keeping up a positive attitude and vibration.

2. Focus on what you do want.
By focusing on what is important to you and what you want to achieve financially, you will open the door for attracting it into your life.

3. Have clear financial goals.
Know where you want to be, know what your spending habits are and where there are opportunities to re-balance your financial flow.

4.Work with a financial planner.
Most banks are offering this service, take advantage of it. A financial planner can help you get back on track.

5. Practice the art of gratitude.
Being thankful for what you have now in your life, keeps you in a high vibration allows abundance to flow into your life. This allows you to regain trust in the endless possibilities that life has to offer. Write out a daily list for yourself and spend time reflecting on what you are grateful for.

6. Seek out healing from a BodyTalk Practitioner.
There is an area of the BodyTalk System that helps to shift limiting belief systems around money. Many of us inherit these beliefs from family and the culture we live in and from the influence of media. These beliefs can keep us stuck in a certain salary level in our jobs, limit us in the amount of work we attract if we are self employed and keep us blind to opportunities that can grow our money tree. Here is a case study from my personal files:



CASE STUDY: Janet Massage Therapist



Janet was a part time massage therapist who had to take on another part time job in order to pay the bills. The massage clinic she worked in only offered her 1 day a week, not enough hours for her. She had a hard time building up clientele since she was the newest practitioner to join the team. She was frustrated that she was not able to do massage full time. That is when she came into my BodyTalk Clinic. She wanted to work on attracting more money into her life through her massage practice as well as building a solid community of practitioners in the workplace. In the session we worked on shifting a belief she had that inherited from her father that life is about suffering and that people with money are unhappy. So, this meant the more money she made, the more miserable she would become! So, we released these beliefs. Also we used techniques to elevate self esteem and release fears about taking on a leadership role in her profession. We worked on building a business/work matrix that would help to attract and establish her as a successful therapist. Three weeks after the session, she told me that she quit her part time job and found a new massage clinic where she was working 4 days a week. She had left the old clinic as well. Her client base was expanding, she was working full days and making more money. Her stress levels decreased and her depression lifted. She was feeling alot more joy flow into her life and even made new friends with the other therapists she worked with! Just remember that money is another form of energy and we can work with that in healing sessions to attract your financial goals.

I have been running a successful holistic healing practice for the last four years. I started in 2004 as a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner which is another form of energetic healing. It assists with healing on the physical, emotional, and mental levels of the physical and energetic bodies. It is based on neuromuscular biofeedback, thus making this modality more clinical in nature. After a year of being in practice using the BodyTalk System, I was drawn to study Usui Reiki. At this point in my career, I felt that I needed to blend my clinical practice with a healing modality that was spiritually based. I thought that this would bring a more balanced state to myself as a practitioner and to my work, making it a truly “holistic” experience for the client.

I have studied Usui Reiki to the the Master Level and it has enhanced my healing practice and benefited the work I do with BodyTalk in many gratifying ways. Most of all, incorporating the Five Reiki Principles to my everyday life and my healing work has really brought me to a place of stillness and presence when I am working with a client. It has helped me to be aware of my own ego and to help me to dissolve the ego when it decides to creep in. The result is that I am more open in my work, I am able to expand my heart center and work from a place of honesty, integrity, non-judgment, compassion and love. This is who I am being when I am working with clients. It allows for a clearer channel of healing and the results that clients are experiencing in their healing process are absolutely magnificent. Reiki is a wonderful healing modality that awakens us to a higher level of consciousness so that we can work consciously and live consciously and bring healing to all beings. I am truly grateful to be able to share this with others.

Just for today...

I will be grateful

I will not worry

I will not anger

I will do my work honestly

I will show love and respect to all

What is the Amethyst BioMat?

The Amethyst BioMat contains more than 28 pounds of amethyst crystals which naturally produce and are superconductors of far infrared rays. This energy radiates through the layers containing the Japanese Kurare Carbon Ceramic Super Fiber Material generating long wave far infrared rays that the human body can easily absorb. The amethyst crystals amplify these bio natural rays so that they can penetrate the body up to six inches. By comparision, other far infrared technologies only penetrate 1 to 1.5 inches.

The benefits to using the Amethyst BioMat may include:

* Reduce stress and fatigue.
* Ease joint pain and stiffness.
* Speed recovery.
* Strengthen the immune system.
* Increase blood circulation, strengthen the cardiovascular system & normalize
blood pressure.
* Burn calories and control weight.
* Improve skin and muscle tone.
* Assist in detoxification.
* Assist in reducing swelling & inflammation.
* Cell regeneration & metabolism.
* Reduce cholesterol.
* Assist in attaining a deep delta state of relaxation.

30 min. session: $30.00
60 min. session: $60.00
**Can also be combined with a BodyTalk session: $110.00**

A client in came in 2 weeks ago complaining of a stiff neck. She had been to the chiropractor and had some relief but the stiffness had returned. We did a BodyTalk session to focus on her neck. In the session we energetically re-aligned the cranial bones, released the occipital joint and released the emotion worry being held in the connective tissue surrounding the neck and shoulders. A week after the session, she told me that the stiffness and pain was gone and had better range of motion when turning her head. She also said the quality of her sleep had improved as well.

A client of mine tripped and fell a couple of days ago. Luckily I was there and was able to do the BodyTalk fast aid technique for her. When she fell, she said that her hip was starting to hurt. I worked on her for about 10-15 min doing the fast aid treatment. I called her that evening to check up on her to see how she was doing. When I asked her how she was feeling after the fall, she replied: "What fall?". She had forgotten about it! She said that her hip was doing great and she had no pain or bruising whatsoever. Gotta love BodyTalk!

On March 29, 2008 at 8:00pm local time we will participate by turning off our lights for 1 hour.

Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global warming.

This simple act has captured the hearts and minds of people all over the world. As a result, at 8pm March 29, 2008 millions of people in some of the world’s major capital cities, including Copenhagen, Toronto, Chicago, Melbourne, Brisbane and Tel Aviv will unite and switch off for Earth Hour.

See the difference you can make! Help to heal the Earth!
~Namaste~
Christa

A woman in her 30's came in with an upset digestive system. She felt as if she was not digesting food properly and became very bloated. She had not experienced this before. During the BodyTalk session, we discovered she was holding alot of emotions in the abdomen: worry in the small intestine, anger in the large intestine and was holding a consciousness of feeling rejected in the workplace which was affecting stomach energies. When I saw her a couple of weeks later, she said that the bloating disappeared the next day and has not returned.

There has been a theme to the healing session this week involving the dissolution of old patterns and belief systems. This week a woman in her late 40's came in wanting to work on creating a shift in her personal relationships. She wanted to be open to create a new romantic relationship for herself. During the BodyTalk session we discovered that there was an imbalance in her root chakra and sacral chakra that was linked to an old active memory and belief system relating to her body image. After clearing out the blockage we worked on the pancreas energies and her ability to adapt to change and flow with the change. A few days after the session she called me to say that she opened up her social circle and for the first time in six years has started to initiate dating again.