Energy Healing for Depression – A Gentle Path Through Grief
A Gentle Path Through Grief Grief has a way of blanketing our lives, turning once-vibrant moments into shades of gray and making everyday tasks feel...
Neurolymphatic Reflex Points for Stronger Immunity
Neurolymphatic Reflex Points are important for helping your lymphatic system to process the metabolic waste that comes from strong emotional...
Nadi Suddhi Breath (NEW)
Nadi Suddhi Breath is one of the best ways I know how to balance polarities, get energies crossing over the mid-line of the body, and get centered...
Summer Solstice and the Divine Masculine Impulse
I love that the celebration of Father’s Day is timed so closely with the Summer Solstice, because they both call our attention to the masculine...
Honoring the Divine Feminine on Mother’s Day
Since on Mother's Day our collective focus is on Mothers, I would like to broaden the perspective and evoke our memory of The Divine Feminine, the...
Discernment and Choices
"There are no wrong choices - just different outcomes." How invested are you in the idea that there are right and wrong choices, and what does it...
Calming the Fight, Flight, Freeze Response
This is one of my favorite techniques from Donna Eden, used to gently calm the Triple Warmer meridian, Vagus Nerve, and bring down the Fight,...
The Persistent Energy of Wood Element
The Five Elements of Nature each have a unique vibrational signature to them (Donna Eden calls them the Five Rhythms for this reason). If we look at...
Expelling the Venom (aka the Blow Out) for releasing pent up energy
This is a great energy medicine exercise from Donna Eden for releasing anger, embarrassment, frustration and just being 'up to here' with other's...
Tracing the Radiant Circuits with Madison King
The Eden Energy Medicine faculty trace the Radiant Circuits (responsible for carrying thrill, wonder and joy through the body), led by the...
An Equity of Grace
All things cycle. The blessing of being a student of the Chinese Five Elements theory is recognizing that everything under the sun has a cycle: a...
The 10 Principles of Energy Medicine
The 10 Principles of Energy Medicine, adapted from Donna Eden's Energy Medicine Certification Program. When we understand what subtle...
On Empathy and Being a Spiritual Champion
On the topic of empathy, the virtue of contrast, and being a Spiritual Champion. Talking about the skill of empathy (as opposed to...
The Aura and Boundaries – an excerpt from a Self-Healing Session with Janie
Learn the Self-Healing Basics that evokes a 'yogic presence' to enhance any energy work that you do for yourself, and learn about the aura's role in...
The Sacred Pulse
What good beauty, without an eye to behold? What good song, without an ear to hear? What good the sweet flavor of peach without a...
New Year’s Eve Ritual
For the past 20 years on New Year's Eve our family of four has gone out for a high-end dinner and done a ritual that we all love. Each person takes...
Celtic Calendar – Seasonal Year
This is one of my favorite subjects - the Celtic Calendar, or the Seasonal Year - and how it melds with the Chinese Five Element model of the cycles...
Clearing Negative Energy that Comes from Adverse Interactions
There's a lot of adversity going on these days, with contentious interactions cropping up all over - online and in person. If you are...
Two Fascial Adaptations to Donna Eden Techniques
Those of you who know me know that I am keen on engaging fascia in order to facilitate the movement of subtle energy in our bodies. ...
Strengthen Your Immunity
Are Your Tending to Your Immunity? You've probably noticed this - but the world is a very weird place right now. The strength of our stamina and...
Prayer is Energy Work Using Words and Emotions
I am re-reading The Isaiah Effect by Gregg Braden (Random House, 2000) the subtitle of which is Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy. I...
YinYang Sweep
Support the facilitation of the YinYang impulses as they move through your body temple.
Triple Warmer Embrace
A refined and loving way of soothing Triple Warmer, the governor of our Fight/Flight/Freeze response. With this posture-breath...
Artemis Stretch for Grief
This posture-breath combination helps to move energy out along Heart, Pericardium and Lung meridians, clearing those channels that are key to...
Moving the Grief of Our Time
Grief, anguish, and despair are so prevalent in our time that no one is immune. Unless you’ve had your fingers in your ears, face turned toward the...
Tracing Meridians
Janie Chandler and Debra Burchard illustrate how to trace your meridians to help facilitate the flow of chi in the channels. Filmed...
The I AM Body Prayer
This is an affirmative prayer that I use daily to remind myself that I am an expression of Source, the I AM Presence, and that I am much more than...
Immune Boosting Routine
Boost your immune system with these energy medicine techniques.
Eye Challenge with Janie Chandler
Here is a very simple but powerful energy medicine routine for the health of your eyes. These exercises come from Donna Eden,...
Thanksgiving 2018
No matter how much gratitude, or grief, you are feeling on this thanks-giving day, take a deep pause and settle into your heart center and remember...
Inner Space – The Final Frontier
Space - the final frontier. The frontier I’m referring to isn’t external however, but the internal space that we all have to explore for ourselves,...
Wake Up Your Fascia
Wake Up Your Fascia - a Morning Routine with Janie Chandler. This unique routine is great to do in the morning - a combination of...
The Core of the Matter
I first became aware of Kegel exercises when I was in my late teens, early twenties. No doubt they came to my attention as something that...
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” ~ Rumi
I heard from so many of you about January's blog (Life is a Balance Between Holding On and Letting Go) that I thought I'd better continue on with...
Daily Energy Routine with Cultivate Your Artistry Class
Donna Eden’s Daily Routine done by senior faculty members Janie Chandler and Debra Burchard. With students from their Cultivate Your...
Nadi Suddhi Breathing
This alternate nostril breathing technique comes from the tradition of yoga. Nadis are channels in the body through which prana, or...
Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
“Life is a balance between holding on and letting go” - Rumi Next week my husband Joseph and I will be celebrating our 32nd anniversary of living...
What is Energy Medicine and What Does it Have to do With Me?
Energy is the life force impulse that is inherent in all things, living or otherwise. I'd like to share with you a lecture that I developed, which...
“Dredging” Central Meridian
Activate the energy within your Central Meridian, via the fascia. Scar tissue and other issues in the abdomen can disrupted the flow...
Tending to The Immunity of Our Consciousness
It is my firm belief that consciousness is subject to viruses as much as our bodies are. Pierre Teilhard De Chardin coined the term “noosphere” to...
All Things Being Equal
Believe it or not, here in the northern hemisphere, we are in the midst of spring, the Vernal Equinox, the season of Wood Element. Though many...
On Meditation and Making Space
One of the conversations I’ve been having quite frequently of late is about meditation. Many of my clients, friends, and kids (I use the term...
The Deep Yin of Winter
For the past 23 years my family has marked the Winter Solstice with our own ritual, which I will hereby relate. When the natural light fades on the...
Immune-Boosting Protocol for Winter
Here is an Immune-Boosting Protocol for Winter Flu Season that we are offering here at our office. The combination of energy medicine, massage, and...
Winter’s Water
We are now fully in the season of Water Element, a time of contemplation and gestation, moving inexorably to the still-point at the bottom of the...
Musings on November, and Spiritual Practice
I hope that you are enjoying your November as much as I have been. I know we’re weird in this household, but we revel in the cool, damp and...
Triple Warmer Speaks
This piece comes from The Vibrant Life System™ a seven week course I teach for energetic self-care. The philosophy behind the Vibrant Life System™...
The Celtic New Year: Samhain and Dia de los Muertos
Happy New Year! We're fast approaching the "still point" of the year that I mentioned in last month's column - October 31st, Samhain/All Hallows...
Greetings
I've just returned from my second visit to England this year (and yes, I feel crazy blessed). I love the UK beyond reason, and though I've only been...
Hydrotherapy at Home
Here is my standard hydrotherapy practice (which I use about once a week during the warmer months of the year) to detoxify my cells and keep my...
The Autumnal Equinox
We are now in the fullness of fall. Don't be fooled by the idea that fall begins on the equinox, or that the trees aren't fully golden. The season...
The Wonder of Water
I've been vacillating about when to write about the use of hydrotherapy as a health-care treatment, but I think the time is now. I thought maybe I...
The Artemis Stretch
This exercise is good for clearing both heart and lung meridians, and since we have moved from summer (heart/fire) into fall (lung/metal) I think...
The Grace of Metal Element
With the passing of Lughnasad, we're easing into the season of Metal. This is the season of release and letting go, of cutting away the chaff....
Greetings
As many of you know, I came to the world of energy medicine through the doorway of massage therapy. As a beginning massage therapist, I knew that...
Taking Down The Flame
This is an exercise to use for balancing your Fire Element when you are feeling panicked, outside of yourself, or overwhelmed by chaos. It eases...
Looking Forward to Lughnasad/Lammas
Come the first of August, Earth Element will enter again to mediate the shift from summer's firey nature into autumn's metal rhythm. This...
Adrenal Fatigue and Herbology
I have a confession to make. I am challenged by July. Well, it's not July per se that challenges me, but the qualities that July brings with him...
Heaven Rushing In
I can't think of a better energy exercise to celebrate (and take advantage of) the joyful and abundant energies of high summer than Heaven Rushing...
Spleen Organ vs Spleen Meridian
I have recently been asked by several energy medicine students to clarify the difference between the meridian energy, which governs an organ,...
The Fiery Nature of the Summer Solstice
Ok, one more rant about the messed-up-ness of the Gregorian calendar's perspective on the cycle of the year:June 21st is not the "beginning" of...
Janie Chandler working on Donna Eden (San Diego, September 2011)
During Donna's advanced energy medicine class held at the Hard Rock Hotel in downtown San Diego in September of 2011. Donna surprised me by...
Harmonizing the Chakras
This easy exercise helps to bring your chakras into resonance with each other. Nice for "pulling yourself together" and feeling...
Balancing Heart Energy
Balance heart energy with simple energy medicine techniques to support the energy moving through heart meridian.
Soothing Triple Warmer
A quick way to take the charge off of your fight or flight response.
Alternative technique for balancing a homolateral condition
In this brief conversation, Laurel Camden tells me about the alternative technique for balancing a homolateral condition. It's a...
A Conversation with Donna Eden
Janie has a brief opportunity to ask Donna Eden to clarify a couple of techniques that have recently made their way into Donna's bag of tricks....
Zip-up & Hook-up
Here is our contribution to Eden Energy Medicine Programs' Hook-up Challenge for August! Hooking yourself up fortifies your inner...
A quick crown pull
Giving yourself a crown pull is a great way to get your brain going!
Spinal “Flug”
This is a hybrid version of the Spinal Flush we like to call the Spinal "Flug".
Spinal Flush with Flare
Here's a more elaborate version of a spinal flush. To add a little juice - a little more somethin'-somethin' - to your 2010 Spinal...
How To Do A Spinal Flush
Here's a quick demonstration of how to do a spinal flush. This is an important part of Donna Eden's Daily Energy Routine....
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