Sacred Witness. Empathetic Scribe. Fierce Movement Into Positive Change
Change is the only constant. Change can—and does!—occur in the blink of an eye. These last couple of years have been a living lesson in this basic truth.
Agreement: Given that there are changes we drive forward with our own power, but, there are also many changes which originate from outside ourselves, and with which we can only flow, I will do my best to keep my site, services, policies and availability updated, but, ask for (and offer to you) understanding when things change. Please feel free to send me an email or use my Contact form to reach out to me with any questions or clarifications, or shoot me a text [651-724-1932] for quick questions on timing or scheduling.
Booking Sessions or Classes Both in-person and Remote (Zoom live or asynchronous) sessions and classes are available for booking here. Don’t see something that works? Ask me.
In-person sessions are usually either 90-minutes or 2 hours and always start with a “Conscious Consult”—a check-in on your body and your state of being. When you book, you will have to choose either Thai Bodywork & Therapies, or Energy Medicine or the Disconnection process as the ‘type’ of treatment, but, don’t feel too ‘limited’ by these categories—they give us an ‘entry point’ for working with you and help me understand how to set-up the treatment space. We have flexibility to adjust when needed. Most sessions range from $95-$125 per hour, depending on type and frequency of treatment.
My Basic Philosophy: Body, spirit and life are connected, reflecting, communicating with each other and the creative forces outside of us at all times. Work with the body/Positively affect spirit and life. Work with spirit/Positively affect body and life. Any ‘way in’ works to heal the whole of you.
Basics on my Training: After over 20 years of healing training, work & teaching, I have a huge ‘toolbox’, ranging from Thai Therapies like Herbal compresses, Herbal oils, Thai tools, Fire cupping, Abdominal and Organ tissue massage, all the hands-on Thai Massage techniques and Deep Tissue techniques from table massage work. I have an enormous set of Energy Medicine & Intuitive Reading training and techniques. I have many certifications and training in several styles of Yoga, meditation, Muay Thai martial arts, Herbal Medicine, Women’s Medicine, Pelvic Floor health. I have a B.A., and M.A.; am an L.M.T. and am working on an M.F.A. I am an adjunct Faculty member and teacher in the Massage licensing program at Santa Fe Community College and an Instructor in the Core Writing Department at University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.
Co-vid policies: If you are fully vaccinated and boosted, as I am, and have not traveled by plane in the last 2 weeks, you do not need to wear a mask for your session, but are welcome to. They are still required in the public parts of Heal space for all. For my own physical safety, my preference is to not be wearing a mask while I work or teach, but I am always happy to wear one for your comfort and safety! If you are not fully vaccinated my love for you is still strong, so let’s check in about scheduling when the most recent Co-vid variant has calmed down.
Please email me, call me or text me with any questions and I will do what I can to book you, help you with this system or make a change to the system, where possible!
I offer Ongoing weekly group classes in Conscious Core, Intro to Muay Thai boxing training, Muay Thai-based workout—In-person as opposed to Zoom seems to be changing, so keep a close eye on what is what, when!
PRICING
All listed prices include the NM Gross Receipts Tax of .084375 % and all payment processing fees.
Zoom class fee includes the live Zoom class plus access to the class recording for a week after each class!
All 1:1 Zoom sessions can be recorded and you may download your session to keep.
Class passes are available for reduced-rate classes.
Sliding scale can be available on a case-by-case basis—please send me an email about your particular situation and I will see if we can work something out.Book a class or session
When to book what:
Schedule Conscious Consults with or without Hands-on Body & Energy Work if you want to: ask me about any body thing at all and want to show me how you’re moving and would like to move better; if you have a question about core, pelvic stuff, anatomy, Muay Thai; if you are trying to figure something out—which job to stay or not stay with; what’s going on with the story about your family of origin; if you’re having a nutritional, exercise, emotional, story pattern you want to change or if you want to help me clarify and take your business or work life forward with concrete steps.
Schedule Energy Healings if you: know you want a specific type of treatment, like Usui/Karuna Reiki or Disconnection to the Collective Shadow, Cellular Activation or Ancestry & Other Lifetimes healing; if you are having an issue where the question isn’t necessarily clear—i.e., hard to sleep, why does my shoulder hurt, stomach hurts, I don’t know why I’m sad, what is the dynamic in this group of people that’s creating dissonance and how can we change it, or you just love to be in the energy healing space.
Schedule Deep Distance Healings when you want to send me an email, go deep at the appointed time and have a bunch of unconscious stuff articulated for you, moved out energetically and have it a written record to work with or refer to as long as you need it.
Schedule a Numerology Report and Consult as a jumping off point for a series of consults within which we will refer back to the report as we work to get you in a whole new phase of life; as a guide and reference to the ins and outs of you that will become poignant over and over again as you move through life; or simply as an absolute gift to the self about the self.
Schedule yourself for a Muay Thai or Conscious Core class when you want to create body-centered empowerment through focus on learning form, discovering old habits, creating new habits and increasing strength, stability, flexibility and ease in your movements.
What are:
Conscious Consults
Get help. Whether you’re hoping to correct the working posture that is causing you pain, want to ask about handling your prolapse, are wondering whether you need a new job or would love to stop getting into the same fight with your partner; join me on Zoom and we can either start with the body and what’s asking for your attention or start with your energy, emotions or story & what’s asking for your attention and move into clarity & healing from there. Two decades of reflective listening to clients along with observing and working on their bodies and teaching what I know has made it generally easy for me to help pinpoint patterns and habits that are both helpful and outdated to you and to assist you in moving into positive change. You can more joyfully move and grow and make life-supporting choices for yourself whether you simply need a new ergonomic desk, an updated mental framework around an old issue, help properly developing your core, ancestral healing or feedback on nutrition and exercise. Bring your questions or your confusion or the stuck places that are ready to move and feel the energetic shifts as we work together on Zoom, FaceTime or telephone and complete each session with concrete steps to take towards your higher vision of yourself. Use directed conversation or have me observe your body move and through any combination of body movement, intuitive guidance, card readings, or the myriad medical frameworks I use, such as Thai Four Elements or Functional Anatomy, we can hone in on the source of pain patterns, existing stagnation, confusion or blocks to bring in clarity and establish positive and appropriate next steps to further your growth and stay in alignment with your self. Most sessions require a minimum of 45 minutes and up to 90 minutes, however, if you have a simple question, or simple situation, let me know, and I’ll help you schedule a mini for as little as 10-15 minutes.
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Energy Healing
Schedule time for individualized Energy Healing work specific to your needs. You can send me a detailed email of priorities/issues coming up, or start your session with a Zoom, phone call or FaceTime with me to talk through current issues where we use the feedback coming from the body or the emotional and energetic patterns to guide the healing work. Stay online w/me while we work together, or I can work on my own and email/call you w/what came up during the session. If you know you like, or would like to try a specific modality, you may request it! Usui and Karuna Reiki employ various energy “frequencies” with specific healing purposes to facilitate deep healing, internal peace and harmony, and positive solutions; whether the apparent ‘conflict’ in the system is a physical disease, a persistent mental pattern or an emotional disturbance of some kind. Disconnection from the Collective Shadow, Cellular Activation and Ancestry and Other Lifetimes Healing work with different energy patterns and energy guides to shift patterns in the self, the family and the collective. Card readings, reflective listening and intuitive guidance may also highlight or reveal blocks and paths forward. Powerful insights can arise in these sessions which clarify situations so that they can be resolved, give us the information we need to make change or accept our present path; or simply reframe our situation in such a way that the ‘problem’ no longer causes pain, or simply disappears.
Deep Distance Healing
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Profound distance healing which can inspire insight, deep healing and change around personal and family/ancestral patterns and habits, seemingly immovable issues, sensitive, heavy or past-life issues, to bring in hope, positivity, well-being, understanding and transformation. Each distance healing session includes the healing itself, and a personalized e-mail write-up that clearly articulates the session, including what was found while working on you, insights into your particular life situation at the time of the healing, and recommended next steps for personal healing and transformation. Because I use a meditative yogic posture while doing the healings, the healing happens with you in your place, me in mine, without being on the phone or skype. Prior to the healing, you can send me any intentions you may have for the healing, any questions you have that you would like looked into, situations you're looking for clarity with, things you'd like to address in the healing, or information you feel is important for me to have. Alternatively, I can do the healing without needing any information from you at all and just work with what comes up. It works best if we schedule a time to do the healing when you will either be able to set aside some 'quiet time'--whether that's to do some self-healing, meditating, writing or drawing, or just sitting or laying down for about 45 minutes to an hour--or a time when you know you'll be sleeping or in bed. Most clients also find that it's best to schedule for a time when you know you don't 'have to do' anything directly afterward, in case you need to give yourself time to reflect on and incorporate anything that may come up for you. When the healing is complete, I write up a detailed account of everything we worked on and any 'information' that presented itself and then type that up to send to you within 24 hours of the appointment time. The write-up I send details the treatment as specifically as possible and usually offers suggestions for you to follow-up on, should you so choose. You can ask me any questions you might have about the healing or write-up as well and I will respond as best I can. Every ‘write-up’ is different, depending on the person, the situation at a given time, and the healing itself. Because they are so intensely personal, I haven’t included an example here, but, most write-ups are about 6-12 paragraphs and include as much ‘why, how and what’ as I’m able to give. Like most energy healings, some of the possibilities from the healing may be: the effect of shifting: a bodily situation (like illness or injury), an emotional situation (like sadness or anger), a mental block or negative mental habit pattern, or a life situation (like work/relationship/etc.); or changing the frequency around any one of these types of situations to emotionally or energetically open up space for new possibilities in relating to it/them; or bringing in information that offers new options, or clarity around the current life situation. I also ask, during the intentions for these treatments, that whatever clarity that can be helpful for you to come to you directly, so you may notice within yourself increased understanding or 'ah-ha's' on certain issues as well. I'm sure there are other effects I'm not thinking of now!
Numerology Reports
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Generally 10 to 14 pages long, numerology reports are chock–a-block full of the kind of detailed, insightful, personal information that has had some clients saying things like, “If someone would have told me all of this when I was a teenager, my whole life would have been different,” and “I finally feel totally normal and at home in my own skin, ” and “Have you been following me around and listening to all my conversations and watching my every move?” “The report was a gift I’ve returned to over and over for years and always helps me out when I’m stuck.” These numerology reports allow you to look at your core challenges and how to work successfully with them; outline your strengths and natural shine and help you understand and refine your basic motivations, your path and how to stay on it. Included with the Numerology Reports is your astrological chart with some helpful hints for following up on that information too. How does it work? Once you’ve let me know you want to do the chart, I get as much of your birth information from you as possible. We schedule a Skype, FaceTime or phone call to follow up about a week to a month after and the day before our online appointment, I send you your charts and we meet online for about 90 minutes-2 hours to go over them together. The charts are yours to keep.
“I hired Emily Graves to write a numerology report on myself as a fun treat. Thought I’d read numerologies viewpoint on me and compare it to my own view of self and my life. When I received Emily’s report, I was happily surprised at how extremely useful it was for me! She showed life purpose strengths, what I came to work on in this life with numerous categories of information to help me see myself through a different or expansive lens. She gives a section on how to strengthen gifts and balance and transform karmic issues. Its been very useful to re-read her report when I’m going through challenges, transitions and unknowns. Thank you, Emily, for your gift!” ~ Maureen Higgins
What happens in a session with me?
My focus is on providing the bad-ass, creative, outside-the-box support you need to enact the positive changes you want.
Every session, regardless of whether we're meeting in the classroom in workout clothes, on Zoom, or in the healing room on the Thai mat, begins with and is centered in and guided by the Conscious Consult. This is where you talk and I get super receptive and intuitive. I listen, take notes, and ask questions and observe, so we both understand what we're working with and what will most help you during our time together.
· For some people, the session IS the Conscious Consult--that's where the work they most need happens.
· For others, we move from the Consult to the Thai mat, where we work hands-on with your body or your energy field, to create as much positive change as possible with whatever tools we need--massage, cups, Thai tools, stretching, herbal compress or oils, Reiki or an energy upgrade--and we become as clear as we can about what has been going on and why.
· For still others, we move to working in the classroom, on posture, exercise, physical training and amazingly supportive physical form.
Every session is punctuated with, or ends with, an ordered, highly personalized, verbal Magical Re-cap of what patterns and connections we noticed during your session and what will be most helpful to you in continuing to move the work we started forward in a positive way when you leave. Exercises, stretches, nutritional guidance, emotional pattern clearing, ideas for supportive growth, herbs and other practical tools are possible suggestions.
Your notes will stay with me so that each time you return, we are able to track patterns that may help you moving forward, noticing what has changed and what is still asking for help in transforming.
What do I want you to bring to a session with me?
A notebook is often a good idea. I love to work as a "part of your team" of helpers so your doctor's notes or x-rays; your PT exercises, your acupuncturist's read on your lines and any herbs or meds you're taking can be super helpful to my understanding of your body. As well, keep an eye on patterns in your life, your body, your emotions, leading up to your appointment. Your session has space for anything that isn't working for you and you would love to see change for the better: your funky shoulder, your weird digestion, your bad back and lame posture, your cystocele and your scars; your *sigh* job, your tendency to sadly sacrifice all your needs for your children, your anger at your high school gym teacher...whatever is sticking out as so not working for you!
Because you are one big brilliant, connected system that tells an intricately detailed story and that responds beautifully to the desire to change. When we pull one thread, we are likely to see a whole lot of positive change on all different levels. And we LOVE that.
The type of Body-Centered Empowerment I offer takes many forms and I have more training, experience and tools in my toolbox than an old-timey blacksmith shop.
A detailed look at In-person first sessions
First healing sessions are aimed at getting to know you, your body, your history AND in identifying, working on and changing/eliminating as many unhelpful patterns as we can and then sending you home feeling better and with more information and strategies to help you continue any work we began together. They are usually rooted either in Traditional Thai Massage and Thai Therapies or in Energy Transformation & Life Path Work and are typically 2 hours & 15 minutes long. These extremely comprehensive first sessions are $250, and include the New Mexico State tax in the price. If you are in town briefly or have a different reason for requesting a shorter session or different type of session please let me know so I may accommodate your needs. You can book here or find my info to ask me any questions here.
All sessions include a conversation about you and your current state of health and any issues you want addressed, and both Thai Massage and Energy Medicine sessions address the entire body including hands, feet, head and abdomen (though your comfort level always directs the work). In either type of session, I help to recognize and assess patterns of balance and imbalance that may be present. Through work with the body and your energy system, intentional conversation with you or the use of other guidance, we can change or re-frame situations that feel "stuck" in order to create movement and flow and bring in new perspectives and awareness while also helping your body let go of pain and unhelpful patterns. Suggestions can also be made in the areas of body mechanics, yogic practice, herbal protocols, nutritional and digestive tracking and counseling, anatomical or structural assessment, follow-up with other health and medical practitioners, tools for personal transformation and goal-setting as an aid in creating home-care practices and anything else that will help you get the physical, mental or emotional support to better serve your process.
During a Thai session, I use a Thai Four Elements framework to think about where imbalance may be coming from and how to best address it. Generally, you are clothed for this type of session and often we will work on a mat on the floor. When disrobed, for work with herbal balls, herbal oils or fire cupping, you will be appropriately draped. The entire body is worked using palms, thumbs or other Thai tools, along with passive deep stretching to the body, joint mobilization and realignment, compression, rocking and energy work, with specific attention to areas that need it, including the abdomen and internal organs.
During an Energy Transformation & Life Path Work session, we check in verbally to see what patterns are showing up for you in your body and in your life. You may choose to use card readings as a part of your session. I will generally have you on a table or a mat on the floor and you will be clothed for your session. We often begin either with Reiki, Disconnection from the Collective Shadow or some other guided transformational energy session and I can either talk to you as we work about what I am noticing or we can work completely silently and we check in at the end of a session. We often end the session with a bit of time to rebalance the body and integrate the work and then check in on what was worked during the session.
After a first session, a normal session with me is generally 90 minutes to 3 hours long and includes follow-up on changes taking place and deep work on the entire body or energy field. You are encouraged to choose a session length that supports your health goals. Depending on your needs, a session may take place fully clothed on a mat on the floor, or on a massage table, with typical table draping. Follow-up sessions range between $100-$120 per hour depending on frequency of treatment and method of payment.
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What are Thai Massage & Thai Therapies?
highly effective healing at the root of my work
Thai Medicine is a part of the larger field of Thai Medicine. While we we may focus ourselves in the Orthopedic branch, treating skin, muscles, bones, tendons and organs through stretching, rocking, compression, kneading, pressure and the like, the spiritual (mental, emotional) state of the person along with proper diet, exercise & herbs for each individual are also a consideration. We are constantly assessing and treating the Four Elements (wind, water, fire and earth) and depending on our training, external or internal application or recommendation of the use of certain oils, herbs, foods may be made or assessed and daily habits or patterns most certainly will be considered in the treatment of each individual.
During a session, practitioner, in concert with the receiver and their awareness, directs the massage work towards clearing any impediments to the body's optimal flow, helping the system regain it's natural state of health. Every stretch, movement, pressure applied, rocking motion, breath and energy work is focused towards this purpose. This perfect balance of sensing, feeling, action and response has the capability to work miracles on multiple levels!
While I don't have the background of a scientist or doctor or the equipment and double-blind study to tell you exactly why certain things work, I can report to you from the clients in my own practice who have attributed to Thai Massage success in addressing such varied issues as: severe edema as a result of cancer/cancer treatment; life-threatening side effects of Interferon treatment, a treatment used to combat Hepatitis C; decade-long persistent vaginal pain and itching; frozen shoulder; painful and messy digestive system issues; assistance with managing symptoms of autism, and, support in sifting through, clarifying, reducing or erasing the effects of deeply painful physical and emotional trauma. These are just a few of the more dramatic results I have witnessed; but Thai Massage is also great if you just love to release discomfort, open joints and muscles, gain flexibility and feel wonderful!
My training in the healing arts is extensive, varied and on-going, however the primary inspiration in my Thai Massage work comes from Master Pichest Boonthumme with whom I have trained for hundreds of hours outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Pichest was recommended to me by my first Thai Massage teacher, Jo Biss, a student of Asokananda's, to whom I am indebted for opening up this path to me. Training and the writing of Dr. Pierce Salguero have also greatly informed my work and the philosophy behind my work and Nephyr Jacobsen from Naga Center has brought many disparate medicine pieces into one place for me through her written work on Thai Medicine and her Thai Medical Theory course. Many other teachers from the Thai Institute, other disciplines and countless clients have contributed to my learning and growth.
I love to work with clients through this modality and have spent thousands and thousands of hours with individuals, immersed in the practice of Thai Massage, over the last 20 years. I also love to teach Thai Massage and am excited to help you open up your practice, knowledge and skills in this field!
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Emily training in Thailand.
