Full Spectrum Healing takes into consideration how the energy you are made of flows through your: human energy field, chakras, body, emotions, thoughts, and intentions.  When that energy flow is blocked then disease, painful habits, stressful thoughts, intense emotional pain, hurtful relationships, and confounding situations appear.

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To clear a path of free flowing energy through you I expand into a deep level of conscious awareness, empty my mind of preconceived ideas, focus my attention, then use: hands on healing techniques, harmonic induction, internal vision, speaking, listening, deep compassion, acceptance, understanding, humor, physical movement, drawing, writing, and spacious silence.  Full Spectrum Healing gets you feeling connected to the infinite source of energy you are.  This enables you to think new thoughts, your body to heal faster, emotions to move through without you getting stuck in them, and life situations to change.   Together we create a practice you can do on your own that connects to your inner strength and keeps the healing happening long after our session.

During a massage I consider how your stress level, posture, injuries, movement habits, fitness, and overall health effects the way your muscles feel.  I apply pressure at a therapeutic level and use specific techniques that warm, relax, clean, and oxygenate the muscle, interrupt the pain spasm pain cycle in the nervous system, release feel good hormones, and create harmony throughout the body.  This results in you getting out of pain much more quickly and with a few changes you can keep the pain from coming back.  Then you can just get a massage to feel even better!

Reported Benefits of Full Spectrum Healing Work

Physical: decrease pain & swelling, speed recovery, remission

Emotional & Mental: increase mental clarity & ability, lift depression, break the cycle of painful habits, feel & express all emotions safely, understand your mind/ thoughts/emotions/needs/actions

Relational: boost your ability to express love, improve all relationships; body, family, intimate, self, others, God

Essential: access inner peace & wisdom, feel centered & strong, find purpose within life, express yourself creatively, feel connected to All That Is

Listen to our pod-cast! www.NextGent.com

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Reflexology helps to restore balance to the body and it’s many systems by applying direct finger pressure to specific points on the feet (and often the hands and ears).  As I press or “reflex” these different points,  a wave of energy/information travels through the body to the brain and, in-turn, the intelligence of your body sends the appropriate response for achieving balance and healing.

Reflexology is considered an ‘energetic’ therapy as it works primarily with the meridians of the body.  It also works very closely with the nervous system and the lymphatic system.  By keeping these channels of energy and information open and flowing, we allow our bodies the opportunity to restore and/or maintain balance.  It’s different than massage in that it works specifically with all of the internal organs and systems of the body, not just the superficial layers of the body.  Clients often report after a foot reflexology session that they feel as though they’ve received deep work over their entire body, and that the sensation feels more ‘profound’ than their experience of massage therapy alone.  I’ve been doing reflexology and different forms of massage for just over 15 years, and have witnessed the healing effects of both again and again.

JasonThatcher & Peter Bedard on the set of CYH

Rev. Stuart Lovett

Rev. Stuart Lovett

Healing Breath™ is a physician endorsed respiratory retraining system designed to help reduce stress and promote wellness. This simple yet powerful system assists in healing for those who suffer from a wide range of health conditions. These can include diseases and disorders such as cancer, diabetes, asthma and high blood pressure. Healing can occur with disorders related to the nervous system and/or stress. Such conditions include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, postpartum depression, post traumatic stress disorder, and many more.

Just as chiropractors note that we need healthy spines to be balanced, and doctors state that we need healthy bodies to function well, Healing Breath™ affirms that it is healthy breathing which is primary to our well being.  Our oxygen supply and how we use it is just as important as our food intake, although far less attention is usually given to breathing than to nutrition.  Lack of and poor use of oxygen in our bodies contribute to a multitude of diseases and disorders.

This system was developed by Stuart C. Lovett. Through his education and experience as an attunement practitioner and martial artist, and by learning about the breathing mechanics of newborn infants from the teachings of Uranda (pen name for Lloyd Arthur Meeker, founder of the Third Sacred School and of the energetic healing art of Attunement), Stuart recognized that, “We are born engaging in Healing Breath™ naturally but are later trained to shift into a pattern of breathing that reverses the natural sequence.”

The Healing Breath is sponsored by Zen Spin!

Healing Breath™ is designed to improve one’s overall respiratory foundation. It fully supports other health related disciplines such as Yoga, Pilates, Cardio Callanetics, the martial arts, and more. By applying the Healing Breath™ Respiratory Retraining System as part of your regular daily routine and well-being programs, you’ll quickly see how this more natural respiratory function enhances every area of your life and your very being.

Rev. Stuart C. Lovett
(323) 428-8863
revstuartlovett@aol.com
skype: rev.stuart.lovett
www.thehealingbreath.com

Peter and Kirk in the process of healing Kirk's chronic back pain.

My friend Kirk Palayan went through a windshield of a car during an accident a couple of years ago. He has been in chronic pain ever since and the Western medical doctors had nothing to offer him outside of drugs and surgery – which weren’t working for him. After exhausting his pharmacy he became willing to work with me on eliminating his pain through complementary alternative medicine. We took a mind, body, spirit approach and Kirk received treatments from an Alexander Technique teacher (Mind-Sharon Jakubecy), an Acupuncturist (Body-Michael Fox), and a Reiki Master (Spirit-Rev.Patricia Bankins). TGO.tv gave me $250 to use to heal Kirk and he was flying high and pain free almost immediately! WOW! Check this out!

My experiences…by Kirk Palayan

When I first met Peter Bedard it was for an amazing community mural we were going to create in Los Feliz with my students at King Middle School.  A year later I had a car accident.  The head on collusion left a permanent mark on my forehead and I had pain in my upper shoulder and neck area. Through chiropractic treatment the pain subsided and I was able to have a much better quality of life.  After a few months passed though I began feeling a slight pain next to my left knee cap.  The pain continued for months and in June of 2009 I found myself in the ER for this as well as a growing pain in my lower back.  By October the pain had reached a level where I was not able to walk or stand for more than a few minutes.  I was told that I had 2 herniated discs that were putting pressure on a nerve that went down my leg.  The neurosurgeon advised me that my only option was a surgery which required 2 months of recovery.  I had a very sedentary life and it was a very frustrating experience.  Peter, although not an MD, had some other ideas for me.
The 1st treatment he took me to was the Alexander Technique with Ms. Sharon Jakubecy.  Apparently I was walking, sitting and functioning improperly and that was causing undue stress and pain to my joints, bones and muscles.  Sharon was able to show me how to literally move through life. I can honestly tell you I felt an immediate strain lifted off my body while working with her.  I am very grateful for having learned the techniques that have since made a profound difference in my life.

The next treatment was acupuncture with Dr. Michael Fox at Silverlake Acupuncture.  Dr. Fox’s acupuncture technique was very subtle yet extremely effective.  He focused on my lower back and other areas and working with him felt like another layer of entrenched pain lifted off me.  It is amazing how pain I had experienced over a year, was affected by one visit, I definitely plan on going back again.
My final treatment was the Reiki healing at the Crystal Matrix. I had never felt sensations like that before.  Reverend Bankins was able to do a massage technique that was so unique and spiritually uplifting, that it is indescribable.  I can say that it felt like my soul was ‘massaged’ and the pain that had pervaded my whole body was diminished.

I am so very grateful for all of the professionals who I met that day in June, they all really listened and made an effort to understand what I was experiencing, and instead of just talking about invasive approaches to dealing with my problems, they showed me that there are alternative and healthy approaches that can make profound changes that really made a difference in my quality of life.  I thank Peter Bedard again for introducing me to a universe of alternative medicines.

Peter looking surprised by Emily while shooting her episode.

Somatic Trauma Resolution (STR) therapy is a client centered approach that facilitates healing of both shock-trauma and developmental-trauma.  STR is relatively short term yet highly effective. STR therapists define trauma as anything that has been overwhelming to your nervous system.  Symptoms may result from a wide range of experiences including accidents, injuries, emotional or physical shock, abuse, violence, sexual assault, invasive surgical procedures, loss/grief, or even birth. Somatic Trauma Resolution therapy can be used as an effective way to prevent chronic problems from developing as well as a way to release chronic issues once dysfunction has set in. A few STR sessions after an accident for example, can save years of psychotherapy, chiropractic, and drugs. You don’t have to wait until Post-Traumatic Stress has set in. Basic STR skills, are helpful to everyone wishing to heal an over loaded nervous system.

Keys to this therapeutic process involve developing resources, tracking sensations, and establishing healthy boundaries.  The client learns how to self regulate his/her nervous system through the careful guidance of the STR therapist, thus increasing physical and emotional resiliency.

This episode brought to you by Wellness Works

As you are guided to become curious about sensations in the body, neural pathways begin to open; held shock/trauma energies can begin to discharge from the nervous system one manageable step at a time.  These energy discharges are often experienced physically through such sensations as temperatures fluctuations, tingling, shaking, etc.  Titration, allows plenty of time and space for the nervous system to heal and reorganize in a way that feels safe and empowering.

You may schedule appointments in Emily’s Santa Monica office or for out of area clients, I offer sessions by phone or SKYPE.

Emily Van Horn
www.EmilyVanHorn.com
emyvee@yahoo.com
(310) 904.-3698

This episode is sponsored by the wonderful people at Tubemogul

Your birth chart is a picture of the position of the planets around the earth, in the zodiac, at the moment you were born.  The planets are symbolic representatives of the energy of life. This is the road map of your soul. You wouldn’t have chosen to incarnate at that moment, on that day if your soul’s energies didn’t match the energy in the sky at that time. From this map an infinite mandala of information, guidance and evolutionary instruction is available. Revealing your particular blue print, your strengths and weaknesses your chart opens the opportunity to apply more conscious imagination to your life choices.

Astrology is the golden key to conscious self-awareness, bringing help from the language of the stars to successfully meet the challenges of life.  My principal purpose is to serve you in understanding your unique personal journey.

STEPHANIE JONES  -  CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL ASTROLOGER

(323) 369-8221

Astrologer Stephaine Jones with our host Peter Bedard

• Thank you so very much for your amazing reading!  Your choice of words and explanation of energies are poetic!  They gave me goose bumps!  Thank you for sharing your gift with me.  You are fabulous! – Barb
• Thank you so much for your wise, uplifting and kind words – your message resonated so deeply with this soul’s journey. – Heidi
• Thank you for helping me understand my life path.  I know it may be difficult for me but you helped me see more clearly and that there is light at the end of the road.  People like you who are special help people like me feel special. – Kim

Peter Bedard & Athena Carillo for CreateYourHealth.com

Holistic Psychotherapy uses the tenets and practices of psychotherapy, while also giving time and space to dialogue with our mind-body-spirit. During a Holistic Psychotherapy session, clients sit on a couch or lie on a massage table; they talk with the practitioner and are guided through exercises of breathing and visualization as indicated. Holistic Psychotherapy acknowledges and works from the understanding that we are beings consisting of mind-body-spirit. These aspects of us are inextricably linked, influencing one another, and functioning all at the same time with and without our awareness. We may focus on addressing one aspect of ourselves knowing we are affecting the whole. For example, in exploring physical tension, i.e., chronic back pain, we may release emotional energy held in the body and experience greater insight and consciousness. As a way of surviving overwhelming experiences or trauma, we compartmentalize thoughts and feelings in the mind-body-spirit and experiences go unconscious. This may be helpful in the moment, but when we do not allow these experiences to move through us, we become defended physically and emotionally cut off from ourselves; we live a little less in the world. This can cause anxiety, depression, pain, low self-esteem and addictive patterns. Holistic Psychotherapy provides the opportunity for clients to address these issues and experience greater knowing of themselves, the meaning of their lives, as well as, transformation and healing.

Athena Carrillo, MA, MFT
(310) 854-9754
mbsp.athena@gmail.com
www.mind-body-spirit-therapy.com

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Peter Bedard & Brian Mahan

Stress and trauma occur in the body, not in the event, and they are the body’s reactions to “threatening experiences.” The fight/flight/freeze response, otherwise known as ‘instincts’, is how we are hard-wired for survival.

The word “trauma,” unfortunately, overshadows the intricacies and insidiousness of the long-term affects of threat, whether said threat were real or perceived. The easy way to differentiate stress from trauma is that any event is considered traumatic when the symptoms of arousal (reaction) don’t pass, even after the threat has passed.

Sometimes these unresolved physiological events can remain dormant in the body for years before getting triggered again. SE employs the awareness of body sensation to safely and gradually allow the autonomic nervous system to discharge previously truncated survival energy trapped in the body.

The results of this body / mind therapy include relief from anxiety, habits and addictions, patterns and cycles of self-sabotage, and dissociative behaviors. It brings on a sense of reawakening and access to instincts which illicits feelings of groundedness, centeredness, boundaries, empowerment, being “in the moment”, safety and joyfulness.

Brian Mahan, SEP, LMT
Body Centered Therapist
Stress and Trauma Specialist
(310) 991-3231
www.BrianDMahan.com

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You might be wondering why you can be so organized and on-the-ball at work – but the complete opposite when it comes to your own stuff at home. Maybe your intention has always been to someday roll up…

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The Amazing Kristine with our host, Peter

You might be wondering why you can be so organized and on-the-ball at work – but the complete opposite when it comes to your own stuff at home. Maybe your intention has always been to someday roll up your sleeves and tackle your files and piles (once and for all!) but after all these years, you are now a bit embarrassed that you’ve “let it get so bad…”

You can create a home that feels orderly and peaceful. You can have a desk that says: “come on over get something accomplished.” You can completely change the feel of your environment in a matter of days.

Kristine Oller
(818) 500-1683
www.KristineOller.com
P.O. Box 10133
Glendale, CA 91209-0133

Before Kristine's Magic

After Kristine's MAGIC-Creating Space for something new.

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Your facilitator will use proven gentle movement, sound vibration techniques and simple core affirmations so you achieve and maintain the wave-like “full circular breath” pattern. This activates a high frequency of electromagnetic vibration throughout the body and mind. According to the scientific principle of entrainment, low frequency energy patterns are raised and transformed in the presence of the higher frequency energy state. This clears blockages within the energy systems.

There is no set or predictable experience during or after a session. Since you are an individual, your experience will reflect your uniqueness. Common patterns include tingling sensations, temporary dry mouth, feelings of joy and even mystical adventures. Some experience their buried emotions which are integrated and healed in the session.

Mary Ida Kendall
(310) 274-1193
Words of Wonder
179B South Barrington Place, Brentwood Village, CA 90049
143 Triunfo Canyon Road, #227, Westlake Village, CA 91361
idakendallhypnotherapy.blogspot.com
www.idakendallswordsofwonder.vpweb.com


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Peter learns about NAET with Cedar Sinai Hospital neurologist Dr. Ravinder Singh.

Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques, also known as NAET®, is a non-invasive, drug free, and natural solution to eliminating allergies of all types and intensities. NAET uses a blend of selective energy balancing, testing, and treatment procedures from acupuncture/acupressure, allopathy, chiropractic, nutritional, and kinesiological disciplines of medicine.

One allergen is treated at a time. If you are not severely immune deficient, you may need just one treatment to desensitize one allergen. A person with mild to moderate amount of allergies may take about 15-20 office visits to desensitize 15-20 food and environmental allergens. Basic essential nutrients are treated during the first few visits. Chemicals, environmental allergens, vaccinations, immunizations, etc. are treated after completing about ten basic essential nutrients.

NAET® can successfully eliminate adverse reactions to egg, milk, peanuts, penicillin, aspirin, mushrooms, shellfish, latex, grass, ragweed, flowers, perfume, animal dander, animal epithelial, make-up, chemicals, cigarette smoke, pathogens, heat, cold, other environmental agents. It may take several office visits to desensitize a severe allergen.

NAET® was discovered by Dr. Devi S. Nambudripad in November of 1983.

Sanare Sanctuary
Ravinder Singh, M.D.
(323) 933-1112

www.singhneurology.com
6200 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90048

Paula Capps & Peter Bedard

A clairvoyant intuitive is a person who uses extra sensory perception or telepathy to hear, see, feel, or sense information about events, people and locations. By tuning into people’s underlying challenges and needs they can give them information to inspire and heal. Listening inwardly a clairvoyant can help those who would like to find solutions toward greater success whether it be personal, business, spiritual, or romantic.

Be sure to check out Paula’s book, Standing in Both Worlds.

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Laurie & Peter practicing Tree Pose!

Laurie Searle

Hatha/Vinyasa Flow Yoga is quite simply linking breath with movement. It is meant to stretch and strengthen muscles while balancing and calming the mind. Traditional yoga poses are used with breath and intention being the foundations of the practice. It is meant to stretch and strengthen muscles while balancing and calming the mind.  It is based in the tradition of Ashtanga which, in sanskrit, means ‘eight limbs’ which These are the steps and disciplines that one follows in order to purify mind and body.  The pace can be fast or slow depending on the needs of the student.

Proper physical alignment and strengthening of the body are bi-products of a yoga practice. These aid the body in healing itself and help the body recover from injury. The habitual practice of yoga helps also brings about another bi-product that is invaluable, relaxation. It helps to transform the individual by de-stressing both the mind and body and build a personal sense of spirituality thus allowing the practitioner to live at peak health and be at peace on the inside and out.

Laurie Searle
yogaandfitnesstogo@gmail.com
www.yogaandfitnesstogo.com

Peter with Angel Card Reader Lisa Beachy!

Lisa Beachy

An angel reading is when a spiritually based psychic medium intuitively connects a person with their Angels and/or the Archangels to help with issues they may be currently needing spiritual guidance with and healing from. The Angels are able to cover all areas of life such as money, career, life path, romance, and family/friend relationships. A reading may also consist of energy healing and etheric cord cutting that have been negatively attached to people and objects in their lives if necessary. All angel readings are based out of love as are the Angels and positive.

Lisa C. Beachy
ACP®, Certified Angel Practitioner®
Spiritual Angel Intuitive, Medium & Energy Healer
www.YourAngelsMessage.com

P.S. Maroma incense is some of the best around-100% natural.

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Peter gets hugged (for a long time) by healer Steve Maher.

Steve Maher

Steve discovered this most human phenomenon from a simple vision while meditating 10 years ago. He discovered that when two human beings hold one another for a prolonged period of time, a sense of ever-deepening comfort washes over them, obviously referencing the physicalized bond between infants and their mothers during the early months after birth. From that state of safety, participants go on an experiential journey.(what Steve refers to as a “magic carpet ride”). Withheld feelings related to daily stress, loss, trauma, unexpressed love etc. surface naturally and show themselves in their fullness. The two hour sessions (90 minutes of which is continuous holding) allow time for the full arc of experience to complete, leaving participants feeling profoundly relaxed, cleansed and energized. It is a journey of relaxation, personal and sometimes spiritual growth.

Steve Maher
(310) 433-5192
agentstevemaher@yahoo.com
www.theecstaticembrace.com

www.theecstaticembrace.com

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We know that plants grow faster, healthier, and stronger when we pay attention to them. Well, is it too far of a stretch to think that we do the same when we are around plants? Plant Therapist Heather Gently does a plant “reading” on our host, Peter Bedard, to see what his houseplants have to say about his health and where he’s at in life…this episode is really interesting!

www.PorterKelly.com

www.PorterKelly.com

Peter Bedard sitting down with Psychotherapist Wanda Jewell to talk about Dynamic Psychotherapy

Dr. Wand Jewell, LCSW

Begin to live your dreams. Improve coping and communication skills. Improve relationships…with yourself and others. Make the life changes you want.

Dynamic Psychotherapy is a term first used by Harry Stack Sullivan, a great psychoanalyst in the early 1900s who was one of the first to treat people who had psychological problems with respect and equality. He stated, “We are all more simply human than otherwise.” It is with this philosophy that I treat each person who comes to me for help. This therapy is based on equality between myself as the therapist and you as the client. In this process of respect and active working together a great deal of growth can happen. There many possibilities in therapeutic growth with your willingness and my experience.
Dr. Wand Jewell, LCSW
(323) 664-1846
www.wandajewell.com

Peter on the set with Dr. Ken Best

Kenneth Best, D.C.

Thetahealing™ is a process of accessing the Theta brainwave in order to connect with the creative force and communicate with the cells in your body to create healing.

Healing can be on the emotional level by changing certain core belief programs which are sabotaging your life or your health, or healing may be mostly physical by communicating directly with the cells of the body.

The Theta Brainwave is typically generated when we are asleep dreaming or under deep hypnosis. It is this frequency that cells talk to other cells in the body and this allows us to communicate with our body without interference. It is the interference that causes ‘dis-ease’ in the body. We have the inherent right to happiness and perfect health. This process allows us to work with the co-creative part of God that is within all of us to create happiness in our lives and perfect health.

Dr. Ken Best, D.C.
137 N. Harper Avenue , Los Angeles , CA 90048
www.ManyLevels.com
info@manylevels.com
(323) 655-5515
Cleveland Chiropractic College graduated Magna Cum Laude


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Peter Bedard & Michael Fox in the Lobby of Mr. Fox's office.

Michael L. Fox, L.Ac., Diplomat Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)

Acupuncture is the use of ultra-fine sterile, disposable needles which are inserted at specific points of the body to precisely redirect the flow of qi energy. There are thousands of acupoints on the body, with over 360 being commonly used. Each has its own specific function. Depending on the desired effect, different techniques can be used to either stimulate, sedate, or regulate the flow of qi. A typical insertion can last from fifteen to forty minutes, sometimes more, sometimes less depending on the desired outcome. This sets the stage for the body to repair itself and maintain its own health.

Michael L. Fox, L.Ac., Diplomat Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)
Michael@silverlakeacupuncture.com
www.silverlakeacupuncture.com
(323) 662-6560

Peter Bedard & Joanne Cohen while filming our episode of Herbal Medicine.

Joanne Cohen

Herbal Medicine is a system of healing that has been used since the beginning of time. What is greater than using the plants that grow in our own environment to help us heal; the plants that need us just as we need them? Botanical remedies treat both chronic and acute issues while bringing more natural vitality to the entire system. Herbs are generally ingested through a tea, capsule, tincture, or added to your foods. All herbal recommendations and formulas are based on an individual’s unique physical and emotional health.

Flower Essence Therapy uses the vibration or the energy of a flower to bring forward profound healing. Throughout our lives we experience woundings which we interpret and then form the foundation upon which we relate in the world. Flower Essences facilitate these imprints to come forward so that we may become even more deeply aware of our own limiting patterns and beliefs and begin to heal ourselves. This process ultimately allows us to be free and live as Our True Self rather than in a melting pot of pains from the past.

Both of these modalities work on babies, children, men, women and animals. Their range of healing in the emotional and physical levels is vast and varied and most importantly, they offer profound and deep healing!

Joanne Cohen
(610) 608-8818
www.sacredpassageways.com
info@sacredpassageways.com

Certified Herbalist, Certified Flower Essence Therapist, Certified Doula (DONA), Certified Medicinal Aromatherapist, Childbirth Educator


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Peter Bedard & Rachel Pray in the corral...what a great shoot this was!

Rachel Pray

Equine Assisted Learning and Equine Assisted Psychotherapy share the essential element of experiential, accelerated learning and personal growth. Imagine accomplishing more in a few sessions than could be achieved in months of traditional therapy or life coaching!

Equine Assisted Learning, or EAL, is groundwork-centered, interactive learning in the dynamic presence of horses. Unlike horseback riding instruction or therapeutic riding, EAL takes place on the ground, and emphasizes the non-verbal relationship between horse and human. Participants are encouraged to closely observe and interact with the horse, in order to understand and challenge their own assumptions and habits. EAL can improve self-confidence and social skills, help us to become congruent in mind and body, and shed light on our unconscious feelings and behaviors. Equine Assisted Learning can unblock creativity, non-threateningly reveal the key to resolving crisis in our lives and relationships, and help to illuminate the path forward. EAL sessions are facilitated by an Equine Specialist and designed, with the client, in a collaborative, individualized process.

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, or EAP, is a nationally recognized field that complements and accelerates traditional mental health counseling. Because of its intensity and effectiveness, EAP is a short-term approach, and can be a wonderful addition or alternative to traditional talk therapy. EAP is incredibly effective for identifying sources of trauma, and for increasing the accuracy of assessments and the focus of treatment plans. Perhaps most remarkable is the potential to restore a client’s sense of emotional balance and congruency in relatively few sessions. Equine Assisted Psychotherapy can be used as a powerful tool for treatment of attention deficit disorder, substance abuse issues, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and low self-esteem. Interacting with horses — dynamic and inspiring living beings — adds metaphoric and reflective strength to conventional therapy, and creates a non-threatening environment for revealing and accepting the authentic self.

Rachel Pray is a Certified Equine Specialist with over thirty years of horse experience. She has trained with Greg Kersten (OK Corral), Paul Striberry (Conscious Riding), Susannah Kellogg (Natural Horsemanship), and many others. Rachel has a B.A. in Environmental Studies, and an M.A. in English/Creative Writing. She’s worked as an Audubon Society Naturalist, a Literacy and Language Arts Tutor, Health Clinic Advocate, Community Radio Producer and co-host, and Women’s Self-Defense instructor. Rachel is a published poet and photographer, a mother, Buddhist meditation practitioner, women’s and gay & lesbian rights activist, and life-long feminist.

Rachel also does dog training and can be contacted for that here – http://rachelpray.blogspot.com

Rachel Pray, M. A.
Certified Equine Specialist
Pray Equine Services
www.prayequineservices.com
info@prayequineservices.com
(323) 663-1085
(818) 319-6400


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The CYH crew filming another episode for you!

Julie Solomon

Three In One Concepts utilizes specialized kinesiology (muscle testing) to identify and release negative emotional stress stored in the body with the intention of helping you easily and efficiently end patterns of fear and self-doubt that may be blocking your path to positive change. The method is gentle, non-invasive and remarkably effective, allowing the healing process to come from within in as little as one session.
(323) 717-9636
julie@visionarymediahouse.com


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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method of psychotherapy that has proven effective for the treatment of trauma. We know that when a person is very upset, such as in trauma cases, their brain cannot process information as it does ordinarily. The traumatic moment becomes “frozen in time,” and remembering a trauma can feel as bad as going through it the first time since the images, sounds, smells, and feelings haven’t changed and they are literally being experienced again in real time. Such memories have a lasting negative effect that interferes with the way a person sees the world and relates to other people.

EMDR has a direct effect on the way the brain processes information. Normal information processing is resumed, so following a successful EMDR session, a person no longer relives the images, sounds, and feelings as they did when the event first occured. They still remember the details of the event, but it is less upsetting as they are no longer experiencing the event over and over again. EMDR breaks this cycle of re-living the trauma and allows the trauma to fade into memory.

When a patient experiences an EMDR session their brain takes on similar patterns to what occurs naturally during dreaming or REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Therefore, EMDR can be thought of as a physiologically based therapy that helps a person see disturbing material in a new and less distressing way. EMDR has proven effective in treating post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as panic attacks, complicated grief, disturbing memories, phobias, and performance anxiety.

To find an EMDR therapist in your area, go to this address, enter your zip code, and interview a therapist to find the one you feel safe with - http://www.emdr.com/clinic.htm.


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Gerry Katzman teaches an incredibly supportive and popular comedy classes here in Los Angeles, California. After years of teaching comedy, Gerry began noticing a remarkable change taking place in his students. As the weeks of classes progressed, his students started looking even happier and healthier. A striking calm and confidence began asserting itself in their personalities. Performing stand-up was definitely having a therapeutic effect on them! Each week the students were being exposed to mega-doses of support, appreciation and laughter. As their unique, individual voices were being honored and encouraged and their health visibly responded.

Working as a stand-up requires the unmasking of taboo topics. It requires you to be honest with your pain and fears. This commonly overlooked facet of stand-up comedy asks you to take the thing you fear the most and reveal it to the world through your comedy. The result of this is a healing on the personal level that is then shared with the audience. A marked improvement in the student’s, and possibly the audiences’ health, occurs which can be staggering.

www.standupcomedyclass.com


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Elma getting ready to film her episode on CYH.

Elma Mayer
MA Certified Yuen Method Practitioner and Instructor

The Yuen Method of Chinese Energetics is a powerful energetic healing technique. Developed by Shaolin Kung Fu Grandmaster Dr. Kam Yuen, DC. It blends ancient principles with advanced energetics or energy work on the quantum level. The Yuen Method instantly shifts weak or blocked energy into normal flowing energy. Any issue or problem can be improved, by correcting its energetic component – whether it’s physical pain, illness, negative emotions, depression, relationship problems, self-sabotage, financial blockage, or feng shui issues. Many people report immediate results. The Yuen Method is easy to learn and apply. No prior experience is necessary. It is not a meditation technique or a belief system – it is a set of energetic tools that anyone can use.

(323) 309-7687
info@nowhealing.com
www.nowhealing.com

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Alex Cason & Evan McNamarra getting ready to film our episode on Feng Shui with Carol Assa.

(323) 665-8410
m.carolassa@sbcglobal.net
www.invisiblearchitecture.com


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Crystal healing is a healing art that pre-dates modern history. Through the use of various crystals and stones the healer works to open up and move blocked energies through the body. Each crystal has it’s own vibratory signature either from it’s shape, color, texture or type of mineral composition.

The practitioner uses these characteristics of the crystal to directly challenge a illness within the body.

(213) 703-3241
Patricia@thecrystalmatrix.com
www.thecrystalmatrix.com

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Hypnotherapy is for people who are ready to create change in their lives.

Old, unwanted patterns (fears, habits, relationships, limiting beliefs) are easily changed by creating new patterns in your unconscious mind.

Access to this part of your mind is provided through a deep calming of the physical body, the emotions, and your thoughts. Focusing on the pleasures, rewards, and benefits of the new pattern you’re choosing in the hypnotic state automatically guides your unconscious to make the changes intuitively. You can effectively create new, positive patterns through therapeutic office visits, hypnosis phone sessions, or hypnosis mp3 downloads.

BE SURE TO CHECK OUT BRENNAN’S DOWNLOADS IN THE CYH STORE

(323) 528-9096
www.BrennanSmith.com

Penny Layne helping yet another person using EFT

EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique. This technique works by manually “tapping” on acupuncture energy points on your body – primarily on your face and upper torso. The idea is to clear underlying negative belief patterns while engaging your physical body through taping, verbalization, and eye movements. This engages your emotional, mental, and physical self and creates change for the user on each level of awareness.

(323) 664-7788
healhh@aol.com
www.hollywoodhealinghands.com

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