What the heck is spinal energetics?

I wondered the same thing when I first laid my eyes on a video of someone moving their body while in sync with a practitioner’s hands on Instagram. But, it was in that exact moment, I knew I was meant to do this work.

I also knew I was in for a world full of eye squinting and head tilts. “How is this possible?” “How does one move like that?” I get it, I wondered the same thing but now I’d like to shed light on the who, what, and even the how on this incredibly transformative modality that’s changing lives for the better. So let’d dive right in…

For foundational context, let’s start with the famous quote from Einstein,

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.

So believe it or not, we are made of…ENERGY. Any science guru will stand by this (and so does my logically-led family I grew up with). So let’s drop the woo-woo misconceptions and begin to normalize energy as an integral part to each and every human, place, object, thought and even Big Macs with salty fries.

Now that I’m hungry, let’s compliment what I’m about to say with some icing on the cake. We are energetic beings so of course we can work within the energetic field of the body to make impact on the body, the physical. Our energy encompasses each of our aspects: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and soul.

Spinal Energetics is a practice that combines Eastern and Western thought to harness a person’s own innate wisdom to know and heal themselves.

This innate wisdom is the same intelligence of the body that automatically pumps your heart, digests your food, heals a cut and so much more. It also releases stored tension and traumas one can hold onto if not processed completely yet.

Natural ways for our body to process tension and traumas are through movement, sound and emotions. Ever wonder why you feel better after a good cry? It’s because your body needs to release what happened to you. Doing so signals to the brain and our nervous system that you can come back to a calmer state.

It’s similar to wild deer and zebra in Africa and how they would process surviving a chase by a lion. They go into a defense mechanism which is either fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses. It does this to survive, but then it needs to ‘shake’ off what just happened. Here is a YouTube video that demonstrates a deer needing to make movement after playing dead (freeze) to survive.

Now let’s talk about humans. We don’t always do this or know how to do this so instead we shove it down. Which then later manifests as pain in the body, illnesses, anxiety, depression and more. We don’t naturally do this, because we get stuck in our brain and try to process what happens mentally.

We then begin to overthink, ruminate or find ways to make sense of what happened to us. It may give you a sense of control, but in reality it ends up causing more harm then good.

So Spinal Energetics helps an individual tap into their natural healing abilities to ‘shake’ things off through movement, sound and/or emotion. In order to do this, one must also feel connected to their body. Most humans are not connected to their body so it usually takes time to establish safety back in the body first so one can begin to unravel the stressful imprints left on one’s physical, emotion, mental or spiritual bodies.

This work completes the defense feedback loop within the nervous system, which then therefore a human will begin to ‘remember’ their true essence who is at peace, calm, confident, joyful and so much more.

We can wrap our head around this all day and try to explain this through words but it’s not until you’ve been on the table yourself that you can experience it. Once you experience and feel it, it will all make sense. Your logical and rational mind will irradicate because it’s a knowing, not a trying to figure something out. It feels very natural and lethartic. It feels like a remembering of something that was always within you.