When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home - Rumi
I am a doctor's daughter and grew up communing with the baboons at Stanford Hospital (you can imagine what they had to say locked in cages with electrodes implanted in their brains). I did fundamental science coursework and attended 18 months of nursing school so I could realize it wasn't the career for me. I worked in hospital, medical and holistic settings, and attained a Masters in Public Health emphasizing community health education. My father's era of medicine was before the discovery of DNA, and my model of a doctor was when medicine was considered art as well as science. I saw my father connect with patients deeply. Medicine shifted and became less humane and more about pharma, and it also personally failed me in a big way - thus ending my belief that western medicine was important in keeping me well. (Historical note - when I first began working at Stanford, acupuncture was kept quiet and housed in the basement, it was not the accepted modality it is now. Things have come a long way).
I was fortunate to spend a majority of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area, as it was progressive and an incubator for cutting edge ideas, full of smart people open to new ways of thinking. It afforded me the chance to be exposed to a lot of different wisdom, as well as choices in who I accepted the teaching from. In my mid-6o's, I moved (sight unseen) to rural Eastern Washington to continue my work and research in Walla Walla. Being in a rural area after Silicon Valley was a sought after and very welcome change, nature and a calm pace are important for someone sensitively wired. Shortly after I moved here I was in the kitchen one afternoon and heard a bird of prey shriek so loud it shook the house. I opened the door to investigate and there was a humongous Golden Eagle standing in my covered entry 3 steps away. With the gift of a dead animal for me. I understood I was exactly where I was supposed to geographically, doing the healing work I am meant to be doing.
Dr. Jules Constant says the best way to find and establish health is to get a disease and figure out how to fix yourself. My challenge was mercury toxicity, and the resulting Hashimotos Thyroiditis and destruction to my immune and endocrine system. Along the way I was educated by hormonal disruption. hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal dysfunction, leaky gut syndrome, chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue. My detox pathways were missing in action. Thankfully I regained my health (and then some). I understand the challenges of chronic illness and know what it takes to recover and maintain health and well-being.
Eventually I started to do energy work with animals and their people. Ultimately I reached mastery with bioenergetic healing and vibrational balancing, which uses my gifts as a body storyteller, medical empath, intuitive, and animal whisperer. I have always been energetically sensitive so this work is a natural fit and where my gifts are ideally expressed. I have spent many hours obtaining useful, reasoned knowledge through science, but as important are the healing skills beyond that explanation. Science can be a good tool, plenty imperfect, and a rigid box. There is much we don't know, and body wisdom has a great deal to offer us. I believe in stepping outside the box for a bigger picture, science will never completely understand anyhow!
Animals are my greatest teachers. They require I trust my instincts to serve them to the best of my abilities and hone my telepathic gifts (which is useful for human body consciousness as well). There is no placebo effect - when something works you don't have to guess, just respect and appreciate its power.
I am a doctor's daughter and grew up communing with the baboons at Stanford Hospital (you can imagine what they had to say locked in cages with electrodes implanted in their brains). I did fundamental science coursework and attended 18 months of nursing school so I could realize it wasn't the career for me. I worked in hospital, medical and holistic settings, and attained a Masters in Public Health emphasizing community health education. My father's era of medicine was before the discovery of DNA, and my model of a doctor was when medicine was considered art as well as science. I saw my father connect with patients deeply. Medicine shifted and became less humane and more about pharma, and it also personally failed me in a big way - thus ending my belief that western medicine was important in keeping me well. (Historical note - when I first began working at Stanford, acupuncture was kept quiet and housed in the basement, it was not the accepted modality it is now. Things have come a long way).
I was fortunate to spend a majority of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area, as it was progressive and an incubator for cutting edge ideas, full of smart people open to new ways of thinking. It afforded me the chance to be exposed to a lot of different wisdom, as well as choices in who I accepted the teaching from. In my mid-6o's, I moved (sight unseen) to rural Eastern Washington to continue my work and research in Walla Walla. Being in a rural area after Silicon Valley was a sought after and very welcome change, nature and a calm pace are important for someone sensitively wired. Shortly after I moved here I was in the kitchen one afternoon and heard a bird of prey shriek so loud it shook the house. I opened the door to investigate and there was a humongous Golden Eagle standing in my covered entry 3 steps away. With the gift of a dead animal for me. I understood I was exactly where I was supposed to geographically, doing the healing work I am meant to be doing.
Dr. Jules Constant says the best way to find and establish health is to get a disease and figure out how to fix yourself. My challenge was mercury toxicity, and the resulting Hashimotos Thyroiditis and destruction to my immune and endocrine system. Along the way I was educated by hormonal disruption. hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal dysfunction, leaky gut syndrome, chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue. My detox pathways were missing in action. Thankfully I regained my health (and then some). I understand the challenges of chronic illness and know what it takes to recover and maintain health and well-being.
Eventually I started to do energy work with animals and their people. Ultimately I reached mastery with bioenergetic healing and vibrational balancing, which uses my gifts as a body storyteller, medical empath, intuitive, and animal whisperer. I have always been energetically sensitive so this work is a natural fit and where my gifts are ideally expressed. I have spent many hours obtaining useful, reasoned knowledge through science, but as important are the healing skills beyond that explanation. Science can be a good tool, plenty imperfect, and a rigid box. There is much we don't know, and body wisdom has a great deal to offer us. I believe in stepping outside the box for a bigger picture, science will never completely understand anyhow!
Animals are my greatest teachers. They require I trust my instincts to serve them to the best of my abilities and hone my telepathic gifts (which is useful for human body consciousness as well). There is no placebo effect - when something works you don't have to guess, just respect and appreciate its power.
Education & Certifications
People
Master of Public Health (Community Health Education)
San Jose State University 1992
Bioenergy Balancing (1 year)
Bioenergy Balancing Center, Palo Alto
Childbirth and Infant Care Instructor
Kaiser Hospital, San Jose (until 1995)
Doula
Stanford Doula Services (until 1993)
Animals
Reiki Level II (Animal)
Kathleen Prasad/Animal Reiki Source
Animal Acupressure Level II
Tallgrass Animal Acupressure Institute
Master of Public Health (Community Health Education)
San Jose State University 1992
Bioenergy Balancing (1 year)
Bioenergy Balancing Center, Palo Alto
Childbirth and Infant Care Instructor
Kaiser Hospital, San Jose (until 1995)
Doula
Stanford Doula Services (until 1993)
Animals
Reiki Level II (Animal)
Kathleen Prasad/Animal Reiki Source
Animal Acupressure Level II
Tallgrass Animal Acupressure Institute
