We focus on a natural healing approach to trauma, vicarious trauma, and post-traumatic stress and building greater resilience by working energetically with the body’s innate wisdom to facilitate physical, mental, and emotional transformation.
Our approach helps survivors of sexual assault or abuse, advocates, SANEs, and first responders such as law enforcement officers who work with survivors and may suffer from cumulative and post-traumatic stress and are interested in an effective, consistent self-care and wellness program.
Trauma, vicarious trauma, and post-traumatic stress (PTS) frequently impact sexual assault survivors and those who work with them. Significant traumatic events as well as longer-term, chronic trauma or stress impact the individual mentally, emotionally, and physically. “The body keeps the score” is a well-known paradigm. Unfortunately, clinical and counseling interventions may not always succeed in helping the individual to fully process or “move past” the trauma, because they do not fully address the healing that needs to occur at all levels of the body, mind, and spirit to be successful.
Working WITH the Body to Repair, Heal, and Improve
Medical Qigong is a subset of Classical Chinese Medicine, a 5,000-year-old medical tradition that provides a complete body-mind-spirit approach and considers the whole being to enhance health and resilience. Its key principles operate in a holistic way by working with the energy centers and pathways of the body, helping clear out disease, blockages, old hurts, and emotional stagnation to kick start the body’s ability to repair and heal itself. Physical ailments often have an emotional and mental component (and vice versa) and energetic treatments and exercises operate on the physical, mental, and emotional levels to help restore balance and harmony and facilitate change and transformation.
This ancient, proven “technology” can empower individuals who have experienced a traumatic incident (including post-traumatic stress), as well as those within the helping professions who experience cumulative stress and vicarious trauma because of their work.
Empowering the Individual
In addition to treatment and consultation, our approach also includes simple, accessible Qigong exercises which combine breathing, specific movement patterns, and visualization in a powerful practice that helps transform stress, center, and ground the individual, and improve health and internal energy. They help redirect attention from stressful physical or environmental stimuli to a more inward, relaxed focus, leading to a greater sense of personal control and resilience.
This holistic combination of treatment, consultation, prescription Qigong exercises, stress management, and lifestyle recommendations can produce powerful, positive shifts and is often a “missing piece” for people who have been trying to resolve chronic emotional or physical issues, better manage stress, or increase energy levels. It provides the individual with the tools and practices that support and encourage responsibility, control, and agency, resulting in greater resilience, health, and happiness.
Mind-Body Resilience 