Reiki and Transformative Touch

Touch is fundamental to our existence as human mammals; babies literally cannot live without it. Touch can be a powerful tool for healing trauma.

Over-the-clothes, gentle, therapeutic touch is appropriate for most people and can be very helpful, even necessary, on the journey to a more regulated nervous system.

The touch work I do is unique and has been adapted from SE Touch, SourcePoint, and Reiki.

Transformative Touch is similar to cranio-sacral therapy, with gentle, long holds; sensing, intentionality, and attunement. The process quickly creates profound and subtle shifts in body and mind.

Most people experience a state of deeply restful peace and relaxation. When the session has ended, you may feel like you just woke up from the best nap ever!

Transformative Touch is offered as part of Holistic Healing Packages, OR in single sessions as a stand-alone service.

No phone consultation is required to book a single session. Simply use the button below.

Touch sessions begin with setting an intention together, then settling in on the table with support under your legs (to protect the low back) and a simple guided meditation to begin relaxation.

Informed consent is woven throughout the session.

Our bodies know when touch is attuned, meaning the person touching us is fully present. You can feel when someone has their hand on you but is not fully present, and you can also feel if a touch is energetically merging or crossing a boundary — even if it is not actively hurting or causing physical damage.

Transformative Touch sessions are focused on attuned touch, which respects your energetic boundaries — and bodies usually really benefit from this type of touch. Most clients find it deeply relaxing.

Why do we need touch as part of healing?

Unfortunately, many of us have experienced harmful, mis-attuned, or dis-regulated touch, or a lack of enough touch.

If you have experienced harm, your relationship with touch may manifest as either avoidance and fear, or craving and lack.

In fact, we live in a mostly touch-starved society. And, studies have shown that practitioners who include touch are perceived as more connected and empathic, and clients who receive touch get more healing benefit.

If we are to heal through touch, we must do so in a way that is slow, gentle, and not rushed or forced.

Informed consent is paramount.

Reiki and Transformative Touch sessions always include dialogue throughout, to ensure your safety and comfort. (And it should go without saying that touch in this context is never with any sexual intent.)

The goals and benefits of touch include:

• Directly regulating the nervous system
• Creating safety and working with attachment
• Helping the client feel more embodied through gentle contact
• Enhancing a sense of healthy boundaries

Touch may be experienced while lying on a table, sitting in a chair, or on a mat on the floor. All touch is tailored to the client’s preferences, needs, and therapeutic goals.

Transformative Touch sessions can include energy work.

Reiki is an ancient healing modality that originated in Japan. Reiki has been passed from teacher to student through direct energetic “attunements”, in lineages going back thousands of years.

I am a Reiki Level 3 Practitioner.

I have also received beginning-level training in two other forms of energy work, specifically SourcePoint Therapy (developed by Bob Schrei) and Seido Bio-Energy Therapy (developed by Sheila Haddad).

SourcePoint uses energetic “points” both on and off the body, connecting the client to their unique “blueprint for health”.

Seido Bio-Energy Therapy includes targeted energetic interventions for injuries or other imbalances.

Although we cannot measure these subtle energies, or prove that they exist, the shifts created by working with them are usually felt immediately.

Profound change is possible through energy work, which has been used since ancient times and is only beginning to be understood by western science.