Stress, anxiety and pain can sometimes make "self-care" feel impossible. A trusted healing arts practitioner can help you to become un-stuck and take the next steps into your healing journey. As Healing Touch Certified Practitioner, it’s my honor help you re-discover YOUR innate capacity to SELF HEAL and begin to FEEL BETTER.
About Virginia
Welcome! My name is Virginia and I live in Westchester County, NY. As a New York State Licensed Massage Therapist, I began my training in both massage and energy healing modalities in the 1980s. After many years of professional training in the healing arts, I took my first Healing Touch Program class in 2008. I am now a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner/Instructor and offer Healing Touch classes, workshops, presentations and individual sessions.
One of the most rewarding experiences of my life is sharing the gift of Healing Touch with my clients and students. It a privilege to help my clients and students discover the great variety of ways that they can deepen their own experience of self-healing, whether it be in support of their physical healing, to find relief from the effects of stress and anxiety, or to deepen the connection to their own personal evolution along a path that is meaningful in their own lives.
Sometimes our healing journey is quiet, inward and deeply personal. Sometimes we learn and grow in a community setting, with support and the presence of others. I have found both community and introspection to be valuable to me in my Healing Touch journey. It has given me a supportive, inspiring community and personal reflection that I intend to carry and share on this path for as long as I can.
My journey in the healing arts began when arthritis made it necessary for me to transition out of modern dance. It continues to evolve to this day but I became introduced when I was searching for a path forward after being a very active dance student. I began studying massage therapy in 1983 in North Carolina, and attended the Swedish Institute for Massage Therapy in NY in 1987. I have been a New York State Licensed Massage Therapist since then.
In addition to my 30 + year career with massage therapy, and energy modalities (Including Reiki, Healing Touch), I have a B/A in studio art, am a student of Botanical Illustration and enjoy creating travel journals, collage, painting and drawing. I have lived in Irvington, NY for 29 years with my husband where we raised our two now grown children.
MISSION STATEMENT
Throughout my 30+ years offering massage and energy healing, I have been deeply honored to support my clients' diverse goals and intentions for wellness.
Many people enjoy how effectively Healing Touch can enhance a well deserved day of self-care. An occasional energy healing “tune-up” can be the perfect way to refresh your outlook and renew your spirit!
Others come for support during the most deeply trying times of their lives. The common human experiences of illness, injury, grief, loss, or stressful transitions of any kind, can strain and deplete our natural ability to cope. It is now widely understood that prolonged stress and strain can impact our health over time. If self-care is currently beyond what you can manage, Healing Touch can provide an oasis of compassionate and complimentary care. The benefits of deep rest, clarity and balance that Healing Touch offers can help support your physical, mental and emotional recovery. Healing Touch can help restore resilience and peace, even while you navigate difficult times.
My interest in the healing arts began when a knee injury caused me to re-evaluate my dreams of pursuing a career in modern dance. Even though I stopped dancing, I remained interested in the healing potential of movement. While at the time, I didn't have the language to explain it, dancing introduced me to the healing connection between body, mind and spirit. Massage and energy work eventually brought me even more deeply into the journey of my own healing. They also taught me the skills and gave me confidence in my desire and ability to help others.
During the years that I was looking for something to take the place of dance, a new massage training program opened up a mile down the road from me. That was in North Carolina in 1983. It was there that I began a journey that changed my life. I will always be grateful that this course correction was easy and came along when it did. There, in addition to studying massage, I was introduced to several energy healing modalities.
Once back in New York, I attended The Swedish Institute for Massage Therapy, and became a NY State Licensed Massage Therapist in 1988. I have maintained my active massage therapy license ever since. My involvement with energy therapies has grown and deepened to this day. Before being led to my first Healing Touch Program class in 2008, I had experienced training in Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, Polarity, Reflexology, Shiatsu, Jin Shin Do. I chose to pursue Healing Touch classes and eventually became a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner in 2013 and Certified Instructor in 2020. Healing Touch is now the foundation of my work, as I continue to value skills from a variety of traditions.
While Healing Touch sessions can be deeply and even profoundly transformational, I believe in creating a down-to-earth atmosphere in my practice. I enjoy meeting clients who are both brand new to energy healing as well as those with more experience. Allowing each client the time to ask questions and express their goals and intentions for healing helps me remain committed to providing individualized, compassionate and ethical care.
About Healing Touch
Healing Touch is a compassionate energy based therapy that supports the healing of body, mind and spirit. Practitioners use gentle touch, both on and above the body, to assess and balance the flow of vital life force throughout the physical body and individual energy field. Restoring healthy energy flow throughout the body helps to stimulate the innate human tendency to self-heal.
Healing Touch Practitioners do not use their personal reserves of energy in their work, but are professionally trained to assess and help to balance your own energy field. Even when a “cure” for a medical condition cannot be guaranteed, and may not be possible on a physical level, “healing” has deep personal significance and may contribute greatly to the quality of life for those going through caregiving responsibilities, cancer, general illness, injuries, stress, grieving, loss and life transitions of all sorts. Healing Touch is documented to help reduce or eliminate pain, induce the physiological benefits of the relaxation response, decrease the overall impact of stress and improve immune function.
While not allied with any particular religion, some find that Healing Touch supports their journey of inner transformation and spiritual practice. As a complementary modality, it does not replace standard medical care but may assist you through your treatments. Clients are invited to share their concerns, personal goals for short or longer term healing, and remain fully clothed during sessions. The number and timing of sessions is flexible.
