The Practitioners

The Practitioners

Healing Circle Practitioners

Amy L. Joseph, MA, LMHC, is a Certified Eden Energy Medicine Practitioner, and Reiki Master Teacher, She coordinates the activities at the Healing Circle, and is the contact person for information. Amy offers Energy Medicine and Reiki sessions. Her focus is on balancing the energy systems to support increased health and well being, and can focus on specific issues in the physical, emotional, or spiritual aspects of the person. Amy has co-led the Energy Medicine Study Groups, has taught a class called Energy Medicine Movement, and teaches Reiki. Contact her at 508-292-2798 for an appointment or if you would like to do a workshop, class, or rent space.

BJ Gaynor, is a Certified Eden Energy Medicine Practitioner, Reiki Master, and Archetypal Consultant. BJ has an Energy Medicine practice in Westerly, RI as well. Trained as a scientist, her career began in medical research. She holds an MA in holistic counseling. BJ offers sessions for clients struggling with stress, illness, change, and growth. She helps clients reveal, explore and trust their own natural healing energies to accelerate desired changes in mood, health, or patterns of behavior. The methods are without side effects and may improve memory and learning, and in chronic illness may complement the effectiveness of other medical care. BJ has led study groups and workshops on Stress Management, Inroduction to Energy Medicine, and Weight Loss with Energy Medicine at the Healing Circle. Contact her at (401) 374-2242 for an appointment.

Annie Geissinger, MA LMHC, creator of Hawk Dance Ceremonies of Transformation, has taught and led workshops for children and adults in a variety of settings, including at Salve Regina University and Kripalu Yoga Center. She has studied and taught West African drumming for over 15 years. Since 1990, she has been involved in the movement meditation practice of Authentic Movement, and was a founding editor of the magazine A Moving Journal. She is a student of Hopi medicine woman Willow Tequillo (www.sacredreflections.com). Annie currently teaches at the Healing Circle, The Women's Well, and All that Matters. For more information, visit her website at www.hawkdance.com

Cheryl Wright - Holistic Life Coach, Success & Empowerment Coach, The Sedona Method

The emphasis of my coaching is on supporting my clients in remembering who they Already Are! By being Wright Here Now:

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I have always been interested in living a healthy life. It is my passion to live my life working in an occupation that I have deep beliefs in. I have always had a strong awareness of my desire to work with people and guide them to find healthy methods to uncover and rediscover ways to improve their lives. I intuitively knew that if they were free from their supposed suffering it would enable them to support their own greater change, and send them on their journey to freedom.

Like many others, I share the belief that we are all adventurers on our own unique paths as we journey through our lives. About 13 years ago, I asked myself: "At the end of my life, which of the two career paths decisions would I regret most, not going into the healing profession and be of service in helping people find and choose a better lifestyle, or not going into the corporate business world?" This was a very easy question for me, and it was evident that path was to be of service to people and help to make life more fulfilling. Since then, I have been studying different types of modalities & methods of Healing Arts and Health & Wellness, including the following:

My first career was as a curriculum designer, trainer and educator in the field of Peace Promotion. I endeavored to teach students to make non-violent choices through programs that focused on building self-esteem, encouraging reflection and stillness within, unraveling gender stereotypes and media violence and helping students take responsibility for themselves as members of a greater Universal community.

I did not realize that my work with youth was already intuitively shamanic in nature until I was drawn to start studying shamanic healing in 1998, and this study further informed my work with young people. In 2002, I travelled to the Brazilian rainforest with my two shamanic teachers for my initiation into their healing tradition, and it was there that I became fascinated with the use of indigenous plants for healing.

By the next year, I was feeling such a strong desire to move into a new form of healing work that I left my career as an educator and moved to New Mexico to study herbal medicine. I spent an amazing year of full-time study among the plants of the magical, desert-mountain Southwest, and, since then, have had the opportunity to learn from some of the most respected herbalists working today including Matthew Wood, Chanchal Cabrera, Donald Yance, David Winston, Tiaraona Low Dog, Margi Flint and Erica Rountree. I bring this training to my massage work through the use of essential and herbally infused oils in treatment. Because what we put on or in our bodies is so important, all the products I use in my practice are made of all natural, and in almost all cases, organic ingredients. Many of the herbal infused oils I use are handmade, as well, and never contain any parabens or artificial preservatives.

I began studying bodywork, first as an aspect of shamanic healing and then as part of an Aztec medicine system. I went on to study Ayurvedic stone massage, Thai massage and spinal release work and eventually undertook my complete, formal massage therapy training in 2009, feeling that my work as an herbalist is augmented by hands-on bodywork. I view the human body as an amazing organism which strives for balance and has an awe-inspiring ability to heal itself when provided with the proper conditions. I believe the system of energy channels, or meridians, that are the basis for ancient Eastern medical traditions, holds an essential key to restoring and maintaining health. Because of this, I have developed a particular love of Zen Shiatsu and incorporate this into my sessions, moving, balancing and unblocking energy along specific channels in the body.

I also continue to be a practitioner and student of Reiki Jin-Kei-Do, (The Way of Compassion and Wisdom through Reiki,) a lineage of Reiki with a different approach than that of the dominant Western lineage. It has deep roots in Vajrayana Buddhism and contains a parallel system of healing and spiritual development passed down from the Buddha that relates to the origins of Reiki. Each of these last two practices is a form of self-healing, requiring the practitioner to undertake a meditation practice, the goal of which is to contact one’s true nature, allowing ego-centeredness to fall away and the inter-connected nature of our being to become clear. This allows the heart to open with unconditional love, or true Compassion for all beings. It is from this place that I strive to engage with each client, and in this spirit that I open my practice, Zen Moon Healing.