The Labryses Update, Fall Equinox, 10,009
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by Joan Margaret
There are ample happenings in the Labrys Healthcare Circle this year. Laura Knoff has written a new cookbook and has sent to a publisher a second book on healing with foods. Juliane Barner continues to practice Jin Shin Jyutsu. Cait Cain is in her last year of acupuncture studies. Joan Margaret and Janis Irvin have added the Bio Electric Meridian Energy Regulator or BEMER to the Meridian Stress Assessment System (MSAS) in our menu of health modalities. The office has been certified GREEN by the Bay Area Green Business Program.
And I am celebrating twenty years in the business of serving you, my community. Thank you, our clients and patients, for choosing the Labrys Healthcare Circle practitioners to guide you in your quest for better health. Thank you Laura, Juliane, Cait, Kristi, Tia, JB, Susan and all the many women who have served as staff members through the years. I would not be here today without you.
Cait Cain has been my apprentice for six years. The last four she has been in school to earn a license so we can add acupuncture and herbal medicine to our Labrys Circle offerings. We are looking forward to her graduating this year and taking the board exam next year.
Additionally Cait studies Applied Kinesiology (AK) in a monthly workshop in our Labrys School of Self-Healing Arts for Wimmin and Girls. Three weekends in last year she attended seminars with me. The two in Los Angeles were to learn updated muscle testing in Professional Applied Kinesiology, a new school of the International College of Applied Kinesiology. The third seminar in Burlingame was an introduction to Quintessential Applications, an AK protocol. Cait works with a few clients under my supervision, using Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Technique and basic Applied Kinesiology.
Janis Irvin continues to work as my technician with the Meridian Stress Assessment System (MSAS). Clients may schedule sessions to evaluate their health as reflected in their chi/qi meridians. Together Janis and I read the data produced by the computer including an individualized graph superimposed on the Table of Homotoxicology. Based on this new information we can then recommend changes in a client’s foods and food supplements regime.
You may have noticed in my treatment room a wall chart which says it all: The Six-Phase Table of Homotoxicology. As we become ill, our symptoms and diagnoses progress to the right through six phases from excretion and inflammation to degeneration and dedifferentiation. Our dis-ease also progresses from the top of the chart from the skin down through the respiratory tract, cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal system and other tissues to the immune system and psyche on the bottom, usually the last to show symptoms. As we heal, we retrace the illnesses up and to the left, until the spirit, mind and body are well.
Ask me on your next visit whether regular MSAS reports would benefit our understanding your case. By repeating the exam each 3 months, we can watch the changes of your illness in the meridians of qi.
The most visible change in the Labrys office is the addition of the BEMER, a mat you lie on over a massage table. Kristi Matthews, our office goddess, is glad to accommodate clients who add BEMER applications to their healing journey by scheduling weekly sessions. Kristi will read my prescription in your file, hand you a cup of filtered water to drink, settle you onto the table/mat in the back office and set the BEMER control panel to an eight minute session of calming/energizing energy. This is followed by a 20 minute intensive application to an area of discomfort or pain. A favorite spot to use the intensive applicator is on the liver, to improve its function.
You may also receive a BEMER session during your treatment while I am working with you. It amplifies my good work and speeds your healing.
“Anything in this basket is yours for a donation to the Women’s Cancer Resource Center.” This is the sign on the basket you’ll find in Kristi’s room in the center of the suite. We are offering you herbs, food supplements, Traumeel samples and things like that. It’s popular among those of us who like to browse for bargains.
The new ACE project we added last fall equinox, the Northern California Women’s Music Festival, was unable to raise the funds by January this year to insure production of a fifth annual festival in August. We continue to fund raise so that we may help produce one next year. Please send your tax-deductible donations payable to Associates for Community Education at our address above.