Following is a descriptive listing of various modes of healing with the names of HANA practitioners offering that service. For contact and background information about each practitioner click on the practitioner's name.

For a alphabetical listing of the modalities, please click here.

Acupuncture involves the insertion of fine needles into carefully selected acupuncture points along the meridians (energetic pathways) of the body. Each meridian has a specific effect on a specific body system or organ of the body. Acupuncture removes blockages and stimulates energy flow.
	Jiong Gu
	Bob Hermann
The Alexander Technique is a Western system of movement therapy, a method of bringing the way we move under our conscious direction to avoid a buildup of muscular tension.
	Wes Howard
Applied Kinesiology (AK) is directed towards correcting structural imbalance caused by poorly functioning muscles and supporting chiropractic adjustments of the spine, pelvis, and other articulations. AK through the use of muscle testing helps discover the reason for functional disturbances, and suggests a direction for corrective therapy. AK also is used to balance chemical and electrical imbalances and to diagnose the reasons for the imbalance.
	Joseph Rogge
Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils for medicinal, personal, ceremonial, and ritualistic purposes. When diffused in the air and applied to the body essential oils deliver calming and healing benefits to the body.
	Gwenn Marie
Ayurveda is the study of how to achieve a balanced life style utilizing the five senses and the three body types (doshas). This approach to integration of mind, body, and spirit was developed by the ancient Vedic scholars in India.
	Mary G. Moore
Bach Flower Remedies are made of elements extracted from specific flowers and are designed to treat both emotional and electrical disruption in the body. Examples of treatable problems include but are not limited to: irrational fears, lack of self-confidence, depression, hopelessness, impatience, exhaustion, guilt, anxiety, self-denial, shock, over achieving, stress, etc.
	Joseph Rogge
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy® utilizes gentle touch to encourage optimum functioning of the craniosacral system. Stress, disease, and trauma may inhibit the rhythm of the cerebrospinal fluid and negatively impact the functioning of the central nervous system and the physiological systems. As the body’s innate healing mechanism is restored, clients report deep relaxation, well-being, and improved health. Click here for more details
	Kathryn Bell
Biofeedback is a psycho physiological approach using computer-aided instrumentation to help individuals gain control over their autonomic nervous system. Biofeedback has been very helpful for migraines, stress reduction, pain control and anxiety issues.
	Merlin Mather
The BodyTalk System is noninvasive and highly effective, with no harmful side effects. Practitioners use applied kinesiology to communicate with the body-mind and locate the specific areas that need repair. Communication is then reestablished between these areas by tapping points over the head and heart, utilizing the client’s own innate wisdom to promote optimal healing.
	Tonya Keach
Brennan Energy Healings are performed only by graduates worldwide of the four-year professional healing certification program at the premier college of energy healing: Barbara Brennan School of Healing Science. Healers work with an individual’s energy consciousness to create physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. Healers are trained to develop High Sense Perception, body psychotherapy, deep self-introspection, and the integration of creative arts in conjunction with their hands-on energy-healing techniques. (www.barbarabrennan.com)
	Gretchen Jacobson
Chiropractic is a form of bodywork that emphasizes the nervous system as fundamental to health. Treatments are comprised of adjustments to the spinal segments or to individual vertebrae.
	Mary Beach
	Jay Bersche
	Bob Hermann
	Susan Mitchell
	Joseph Rogge
	Cathy Schimelpfenig
Clinical Kinesiology (CK) approaches the body as an interconnected network for information processing. Using hand modes a practitioner poses questions for the body to answer through muscle testing. Specific hand modes correspond to organs, conditions, and treatment options. Examples of treatable problems include but are not limited to chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, heavy metal poisoning, malnutrition, ADD/ADHD, depression, headaches, menstrual problems, cancers, vertigo, disc problems, and scoliosis.
	Joseph Rogge
Counseling and Psychotherapy, which can occur in individual, couple or group settings, assists individuals in addressing, understanding, and healing mental and emotional difficulties. This work is comprised of a wide variety of talk and non-verbal therapies from many theoretical bases, some of which incorporate experiential exercises.
	Bruce Boeck
	Mariellen Griffith
	Ronald Maier
	Merlin Mather
	Mary G. Moore
	Michelle Staley
	Kathryn Tornquist
	Carolyn Treadway
	Naomi Wilansky
CranioSacral Unwinding is cranial sacral therapy from a Polarity perspective. It is a deeply relaxing subtle touch therapy that supports the individual in accessing their self-healing, self-regulating system, residing in the Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF) of individuals. Accessing & increasing the flow of CSF enhances potency of primary core energy, enhancing health of all the systems of the body for wellness. (www.polarityhealingarts.com)
	Gwenn Marie
	Karen Ridinger
Creative Arts Therapies utilize dance, music, art and other means of imaginative expression to circumvent the blocks between the conscious and unconscious mind in order to find meaning and resolution in one’s life.
	Mariellen Griffith
Eden Energy Medicine is both a complement to other approaches to medical care and a complete system for self-care and self-help. It can address physical illness and emotional or mental disorders, and can also promote high-level wellness and peak performance. To accomplish this goal, energy medicine utilizes techniques from healing traditions such as acupuncture, yoga, kinesiology, and qi gong. Flow, balance, and harmony can be non-invasively restored and maintained within an energy system by tapping, massaging, pinching, twisting, or connecting specific energy points (acupoints) on the skin; by tracing or swirling the hand over the skin along specific energy pathways; through exercises or postures designed for specific energetic effects; by focused use of the mind to move specific energies; and/or by surrounding an area with healing energies.
	Kathryn Tornquist
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Based on the ancient principles of acupuncture, EFT is a simple tapping procedure that gently realigns the body’s energy system, without the discomfort of needles. Unlike other energy healing methods, EFT incorporates an emotional element to the healing process, addressing unresolved emotional issues as a likely cause of physical disease, psychological dysfunction, and personal performance limits. Negative emotional experiences disrupt the energy meridians that run through our body. The physical changes we feel from those disruptions, like nausea or anxiety, become attached to the memory of that experience and affect the way we see the world…until we heal that disruption. Properly applied, EFT quickly realigns the energy meridians with respect to negative memories, disconnects the physical discomfort that we attached to it, and at disruption. Properly applied, EFT quickly realigns the energy meridians with respect to negative memories, disconnects the physical discomfort that we attached to it, and quite often removes the resulting symptoms.
	Ronald A. Maier
	Michelle Staley
Fitness and Exercise is a general category that includes strength, flexibility, and endurance training, as well as exercise consulting for the special needs of clients.
	Joseph Rogge
	Cathy Schimelpfenig
Healing Touch is an energy-based therapeutic approach to healing. Healing Touch uses touch to influence the energy system, thus affecting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health and healing. The goal of Healing Touch is to restore harmony and balance in the energy system to help the person to self-heal. Continuing education credit is available for nurses and certified massage therapists. http://www.healingtouch.net
	Mariellen Griffith
	Chris Kaufman
	Gwenn Marie
Herbal Therapy Consulting recommends the use of natural herbs instead of synthetic medicines to decrease the risk of unpleasant side effects and enhance the body’s healing life-force.
	Jiong Gu
	Joseph Rogge
HypnoBirthing® teaches techniques for safe and more comfortable birthing through guided imagery, visualization, and special breathing. Parents learn relaxation and self-hypnosis to eliminate the fear and tension that cause long labor, replacing it with confidence, calm and comfort. It returns birthing to the beautiful, peaceful experience nature intended. www.hypnobirthing.com
	Mary G. Moore
Hypnosis/Hypnotherapy is a mental state of heightened and focused awareness and inward concentration, not unlike what we call daydreaming or “spacing out”. While in this trance state, suggestions are acted upon much more powerfully than is possible under normal circumstances. The ability to create this state of mind can, with the help of a hypnotherapist, bring about valuable, significant changes in one’s life.
	Ronald A. Maier
	Merlin Mathers
	Mary G. Moore
Massage uses touching and stroking to enhance general health and vitality. Specialized methods can coax tension from muscles, ease stiff joints, promote healthy blood circulation and stimulate lymphatic drainage.
	Wilma R. Anderson
	Mary S. Arbuckle
	Kathryn Bell
	Gwenn Marie
	Cathy Schimelpfenig
Mechanical Linksm Therapy (MLT)is a method of manual Osteopathic Therapy, which restores the connective tissue to optimum flexibility and strength. This allows unrestricted blood flow to body tissues unleashing the body’s ability to heal. The treatment involves applying light pressure to anatomic locations that are found by an examination. This treatment is effective in resolution of chronic pain and speed the resolution of traumatic injuries.
	Carol C. Williams
Meditation is a set of techniques that have been used for thousands of years to clear your thoughts or focus your mind. There are many approaches to meditation, all of which can lead to insight, clearer thinking, and reduced stress.
	Bruce Boeck
	Mariellen Griffith
	Mary G. Moore
	Karen Ridinger
	Michelle Staley
Myotherapy is a deep tissue muscle therapy that incorporates trigger points with a variety of massage techniques for releasing the myofascia, while articulating and stretching the joints to increase range of motion. This technique allows for the releasing of stored holding patterns in the physical body. This therapy is beneficial for, chronic pain, rehabilitation from injuries, and releasing of tension and stress for deep relaxation.
	Gwenn Marie
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a unique method of getting direct access to our internal maps of reality (how our brains store and use pictures, sounds and other sensory information). Normal language isn’t able to communicate in that way, but NLP allows the person to shift this information that was entered as a child. This old information doesn’t reflect the experience, perspective, and wisdom we’ve acquired so we keep recreating the same undesired situations and expressing the same undesired behaviors. NLP allows us access so that we can rewire and reprogram what isn’t working and create new programs that results in being able to create the life we truly want.
	Kathryn Tornquist
Neuromuscular Therapy uses specific massage methods to eliminate pain arising from the soft tissues of the body. After the releasing of trigger points and constricted areas, the client experiences deep relaxation, increased circulation, and ease of movement. An NMT therapist works with the client to correct inefficient body mechanics that, over time, have damaging effects.
	Joseph Rogge
	Cathy Schimelphenig
Nutritional Therapy Consulting recommends the use of food supplements to restore health or prevent illness.
	Mary Beach
	Gwenn Marie
	Chris Kaufman
	Susan Mitchell
	Joseph Rogge
Pastoral Counseling is a counseling approach that utilizes insights and principles derived from spirituality, personal beliefs and values as well as those of the behavioral sciences.
	Merlin Mather
	Carolyn Treadway
Personal and Professional Coaching assists a person in creating the life they truly want. The coach works with the client to expand possibilities, define goals, take action, and assess achievements.
	Donella Hess-Grabill
	Ronald A. Maier
	Carolyn Treadway
Polarity Therapy (PT) is the science of stimulating and balancing the flow of life energy within and around the human being for vibrant health. The somatic bodywork of PT is a unique intentional touch and encompasses a variety of techniques to release deep stresses and bring balance to the energy, central & autonomic nervous systems. PT integrates Ayurveda, reflexology, acupressure, craniosacral, nutrition, yoga, and verbal interaction to enhance self-awareness. (www.polaritytherapy.org; www.energyschool.com)
	Gwenn Marie
Raindrop Technique originated by Gary Young, ND, Aromocologist, is a non-invasive tool to help release viruses and bacteria, which lie dormant along the spine. Anti-viral and anti-microbial therapeutic grade essential oils are used to reduce inflammation by killing the viral agents, thus bringing the body into structural and electrical alignment. Essential oils are applied directly to the spine reflexes on the feet and to the spine and back like droplets of rain.
	Gwenn Marie
Reflexologyinvolves manipulation of specific reflex areas in the feet, hands, ears and body that correspond to other areas and systems of the body. Sometimes referred to as zone therapy, this bodywork involves application of pressure to these reflex zones to stimulate body organs and relieve areas of congestion. Similar to acupressure principles, Reflexology works with the body’s energy flow to stimulate self-healing.
	Gwenn Marie
Reiki is a Japanese word meaning “universal life force.” It involves the Reiki healer channeling healing energy in order to open pathways of healing for the body, mind, emotions and spirit. A Reiki healing is done with the person receiving the healing being fully dressed and is a very relaxing experience.
	Kathryn Bell
	Mariellen Griffith
	Brenda Hooser
	Margaret Kelly
	Gwenn Marie
	Lee Ann Rasmus
	Karen Ridinger
	Naomi Wilansky
Sacral Occipital Technique (SOT)
	Joseph Rogge
Spiritual Direction is an invitation to explore ones relationship with God and the connection among daily living, God, others, self and all of creation. Spiritual direction provides support in moments of crisis and transition. You are on a spiritual journey, accompanied by a companion/director. You meet in private sessions with a companion/director to reflect and explore the dimensions of this journey.
	Mariellen Griffith
	Margaret Kelly
T’ai Chi is an old Chinese system designed to develop chi within the body. Students learn a sequence of flowing, gentle movements, a moving form of meditation in which the person flows with the direction of the energy in and around the body.
	Jiong Gu
	Bob Hermann
Thought Field Therapy or TFT is a form of energy healing that diagnoses and treats disturbances in the human energy field which cause anxiety, phobias, depression, guilt, shame, etc., and some physical pain. By tapping on the correct acupuncture treatment points in the right order to effect a cure. Sometimes only one or two sessions are needed.
	Merlin Mather
Yoga is an ancient Indian system of using various asanas (postures) to focus and control the flow of life energy in the body, mind, and spirit. When yoga is used as therapy, certain postures may be recommended to speed healing or recovery from illness or injury.
	Tonya Keach
	Michelle Staley
Health care products are physical products that are delivered for sale (as opposed to services). They include health foods, nutritional supplements, essential oils, health devices, and clothing.
	Chris Kaufman
	Ronald A. Maier
	Gwenn Marie
	Joseph Rogge
	Kathryn Tornquist

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