Avocado – A Health Food

We have found over the six years of providing SCENAR therapy, that an individual’s nutrition can enhance the effectiveness of the therapy. The body is being asked to produce the resources to heal itself. If the nutrition is optimum, the body has all of the resources it needs to answer the request for a healing response. For this reason, talking with our clients about health promoting nutrition is important to facilitating our efforts in helping them recover.

One of the most interesting, nutritious, and delicious foods that nourishes the body in healthy ways is the avocado. This tasty green food is believed to originate in Peru, as archaeologists have found avocado seeds buried with mummies dating back to 750B.C. The avocado is technically classified as a fruit because it has seeds.

In Guatemala the fruit, dried leaves, bark, and seeds have been used medicinally by the indigenous natives. The soft green tissue of this fruit holds nearly 20 vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients and is a source of healthy fat. Many parents serve mashed avocado to their babies as it is a nutrient-dense food that helps with brain development. Avocados are also considered to be the second least pesticide contaminated food available (but, to be safe, always buy organic). Read more »

New SCENAR Training

On April 15th through 20th SCENAR training with Dr. Alexander Revenko and Dr. Galina Subbotina of the Russian Scenar Academy will be held in Dallas, Texas. The two hold trainings twice a year in the United States. Dr. Revenko led the development team for the SCENAR in the Russian space program and is considered the authority on the RITM SCENAR.

The training will include the following courses:

SCENAR THERAPY COURSES: Lectures and hands-on 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

More information is available at the Tomatex website.

Spring Opportunities

This is a glorious spring! So wonderful after the hibernation of winter. Seems like there is “eye candy” everywhere!

In keeping with the parasympathetic plethora of enthusiastic blossoming, we at Healing Innovations are offering a new opportunity to experience the SCENAR in a way that is more affordable and efficient. Heretofore, we have offered hour long sessions only, but have found because of our work in other practitioner settings, that half hour sessions are as effective and considerably more affordable for our clients.

So, beginning April 15th we will be offering our clients half hour sessions for $45 per session. If you are a new client, the first evaluation session would need to be an hour at our usual charge of $65. Thereafter, the treatment sessions would be half an hour. If you pay in advance for four sessions you receive a 10% discount which would make the total cost for the four only $162. Usually, within 5 sessions (the total including the initial visit) our clients are experiencing noticeable pain relief.

Mention that you read about this offer on the blog and get the initial evaluation at half price!

Watch your well being blossom this spring and experience how SCENAR can help you stay pain free and active all summer long!

Call 828-337-6854 today to schedule an appointment!

A New Kind of Biofeedback

New Issue of Quantum Health Magazine

Here is the link to the newest issue of Quantum Health Magazine. What a great read!

More Musing About Healers

It has been nearly a year since I first posted musings about healers and healing.  I continually muse about this, trying to get a fuller picture of the amazing process I engage on a daily basis, both within myself and also with others. I encountered a description given by Abraham that gave me a fuller insight into what healers are about, which made so much sense to me that I wanted to share it:

“Every person who lives any experience that takes them in the slightest degree away from well-being, begins to summon well-being. And to that, Source responds, so no one on the planet needs to be a healer in the sense that they need to get energy and focus it towards someone who needs to be healed.

The power of a healer is someone who understands that the basis is one of well-being, and then influences the vibration of the one who needs to be healed in a way that they stop the resistance and allow the natural healing process. That’s what true healers do. They know so powerfully that wellness is the order of the day, that they allow themselves not for a moment to see anything other than that.

So, the power of the healer is in the power to influence the one who needs to be healed into a vibration that allows the healing that they are summoning, that they could get without the healer, but that they can get faster with the healer’s influence.”

It is getting clearer…

Penny

Organic Growers School

The event that heralds spring in these mountains will happen again this weekend at UNCA in the Alumni Hall in the Highsmith Union Building. This is always a wonderful opportunity to gather the latest information about growing organic and hanging out with interesting folks.

Healing Innovations will be there to provide free demonstrations of the remarkable biofeedback pain relieving technology called SCENAR. If you have been interested in trying the SCENAR, here’s your chance. If you mention you read about it on the blog, we will be happy to provide you with a free full session at our office (a $65 value). Drop by our table and meet the three highly trained and experienced SCENAR therapists now in Asheville. Besides giving you a chance to experience the SCENAR itself, we will be happy to answer your questions, provide information, and let you see what all the excitement over this technology is about.

The Organic Grower’s School is one of the greatest events of the year. Don’t miss it. See you there!

An Interview with Scenar Therapist Christina Morrison

Nearly six and a half years ago, Christina Morrison and her work with Scenar changed my life. Below is an interview with her about her journey as a healer using this remarkable healing tool.

Penny: What is your background that you think led you to Scenar?

Christina: I’ve been on a healing path my whole life…. always involved with healing arts in some way.  I was a licensed massage therapist in Texas for the past 10 years.  I’m certified in polarity, rebirthing, and cranial-sacral therapy.  I worked in two destination wellness spas for years, practicing massage, Thai massage, aromatherapy, Ayurveda, hydrotherapy, and chakra balancing. Prior to that, I studied movement therapy and taught dance. All those modalities were wonderful, but I wanted to help people heal and change in even deeper and more lasting ways.

Penny: What gifts, experiences, or interests drew you toward alternative healing?

Christina: I’ve always loved touch.  I love receiving massage and also sharing that experience with others.  I lost my brother to cancer when he was only 16…. and he spent a lot of time in hospitals.   That was a very painful experience that inspired me to pursue alternative healing.   I’ve also had some chronic conditions that kept me searching for relief.  I’ve experienced all kinds of healing art forms… and everything that’s helped me, I’ve shared with others.

Penny:  How did you encounter the Scenar?

Christina:  I took a workshop in 2003 from a Scenar practitioner who was also an acupuncturist.  He said it was one of those rare tools that could “raise the dead!”  That was a bit of an exaggeration but it definitely got my attention.  He found that Scenar treated his clients faster and more effectively than acupuncture.  It was not like anything I’d encountered before.  Here I was using a mechanical tool… a very different experience for a “naturalist” like me!   I was leery at first, but when I started seeing amazing results, I was convinced.

Penny:  What are some of the more dramatic results you’ve seen in working with the Scenar?

Christina: A client came to me with extreme fatigue and brain fog to the point of having brain scans. She was having trouble putting sentences together and no one could figure out what was wrong.  I’d just been trained on Denas Scenar and wasn’t sure I could help her.  Fortunately, Scenar shows where the dysfunction is, so I worked on the areas revealed: her neck and the back of her head. She came in hardly able to get up the stairs and left feeling great!  After eight sessions she had her full energy and cognition back. That amazed us both. I also saw a client who’d had a stroke that left her numb on one side of her body. After fourteen sessions she regained full sensation and her balance also improved. And then, of course, there was you.

Penny: Yes, you worked with me twice and I was so impressed with my improvement, I decided to buy one in order to continue to work on myself. My story can be found on the About page of this blog.

Christina: I’ve only had one person who experienced no results. They had neuropathy, which is when nerves die.  Everyone else I’ve worked with has had good results. I’ve worked with several hundred people and have seen it over and over relieve pain, restore function, improve energy levels, and enhance mood and a sense of well being.  Scenar causes the release of neuropeptides which the body uses to heal itself, including endorphins, which relieve pain and improve mood.  But it’s worth owning a device if all you ever did was neutralize insect bites and stings!  Living in Texas, I really appreciated that.  I’ve completely eliminated all effects of stings, including scorpions, in minutes.

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Holistic and Integrative Initiative in Asheville

Asheville has long been recognized as a “Mecca” of sorts for those interested in holistic and natural health. It has a large collection of practitioners involved in every sort of educational and service provision that encompasses the world of alternative medicine. For the individual who first begins the exploration of this world, the myriad of options can be overwhelming, and I have often heard expressed the concern that no one can seem to get a handle on this “cloud” of practitioners and what the opportunities they offer really are. This may, indeed, be changing.

To get a glimpse of the emerging vision of the future of medicine, I would recommend reading the white paper, 21st Century Medicine: A New Model for Medical Education and Practice, published by the Institute of Functional Medicine. It presents a vision of a multidisciplinary medical practice of the future where conventional medical doctors and alternative practitioners work as a team to provide the highest quality, cost effective, patient centered care to those seeking to improve their health.

Impossible you say? Perhaps not. I attended the meeting of the Asheville HUB this morning to hear the report of the Integrative Health taskforce which presented a breakout session during the recent Institute for Emerging Issues in Raleigh that focused on healthcare. In the IEI report given out at the HUB meeting, the regional healthcare innovations were highlighted. Our western region was designated for integrative healthcare. Also presented was the Integrative Health taskforce’s proposal for a Center for Integrative Health for Western North Carolina. From that proposal the following strategy is outlined:

“Establish Asheville as THE National City of Health and Wellness, a nationally recognized apex of the practice of Integrative Health in the U.S. This recognition will:

1. Provide a unifying focus for all providers of integrative health, including allopathic/osteopathic and complementary and alternative practitioners in WNC
2. Highlight the Asheville Area as a primary location of Integrative Health
3. Create a Board of Visitors composed of nationally-recognized allopathic/osteopathic, CAM professionals and other national leaders
4. Host national educational and research conferences on Integrative Health
5. Serve as a national Center for Public Healthcare Policy and best practices as applied to health and wellness.”

The implications of this are profound for those who are providing CAM services and those who are seeking a more comprehensive and organized access to those services.

I intend to follow this closely and will keep you abreast of what emerges.

Penny

Another Highly Trained and Experienced SCENAR Practitioner Comes to Asheville

Back in 2004, when my right arm had been put in a splint after 3 months of ineffective medical interventions, a friend of mine after watching my struggle and misery, said, “Penny, you need to let Christina (her daughter) work on you with her weird little Russian voodoo device.” Having nothing to lose, I did. And Christina Morrison’s work on me with the device changed my life.

Through the years, Christina (who lived in Texas) and I trained together and kept in touch about our various other training experiences and work with clients. Then to my complete delight, her mother told me last summer that Christina would be moving to this area. We have been working together since September both on others and each other. It has proven to be a valuable collaboration for both of us.

I plan to have an interview with her posted soon, plus a story about a recent amazing personal experience using SCENAR she has had related to a significant injury. Stay Tuned!

Penny