‘ Allo Vera
.......
“I’ve been
down so long, it’s starting to look like up” are the chorus lines from a
Seasick Steve song. In this case you could just substitute my name as I was
lower than a snakes belly just after Christmas this year. A combination of
illness, infection, exhaustion, mood swings and general lethargy and depression
had seen me lose my joie de vivre, suffer constantly with pain and stiffness,
insomnia and weight gain. A chance
meeting in a coffee shop would lead to more than the consumption of pecan
plaits.
Vera Whelan
is quiet. Unassuming, grounded, stable and in fact the polar opposite of me.
Which is good. “Come to me for a session, I may be able to help” .
(I should
at this point add that I had met her before when I signed up and paid for a
series of Yoga classes and attended only 2 ! - Self
sabotage at its finest. Through a series
of phone calls where she desrcibed my Heart
energy as a beautiful Emerald green I ascertained where her rooms were and
got my Octogenarian Father to drive me out.)
The Kyle
Gallery in Crossabeg used to be a school house and her treatment room is a relaxing tourqoise. There
are tea lights lit and charts on the walls showing the energy channels of the body.
The sounds are of the sea - waves,
dolphins, gulls. It is very relaxing. Because my persona is normally somewhere
way past high doh, and I have a constant manic thought process and am usually
skidding from pillar to post, I was
almost swaying with complete exhaustion when I stood on the mat for her to “read”
my energy channels with her hands.
“Oh,
Michelle” she says. “You are not in your body at all.”
Vera was
studying at Art College when she was herself diagnosed with M.E. and used bio-
energy to treat and remove her symptoms. She trained in the Mandala Yoga Ashram
in Wales, and in Ireland with Jenny Beekan, and the legendary Michael O’
Doherty. ( He is renowned as the guy who “fixed” Michael Flatley when his
famous legs just stopped. ) She explains that the frequency of clients energy
manifests as colour in the creative brain, and that the therapist can literally
see
the blockage. It’s like how electricity works. A house is filled with
electricity but there is only a socket to channel it. Ditto, the human body.
It is part
of the human condition that we spend an inordinate amount of time “in
our heads” ( or off them !) and
it is part of the bio-energy practice to bring awareness into the body. To be
present. To be grounded, and so she led me to the bed and I lay down like a
hundred year old woman and tried to relax. My butterfly mind was even then
trying to sabotage the process and my thoughts were running at a mile a minute.
I was already analysing the session, and trying to imagine how I would write it
– which is surely counter productive. I closed my eyes and focused on deep
chakra breathing and tried to calm down and be in the NOW. Vera placed her
hands over my ears and I felt like crying. It is a beautiful feeling. In a
world where we have an instant gratification mentality and a goldfish memory,
it is so nice to be just touched . As she moved around me I could feel myself
calming and relaxing and when she moved down to my ankles and held them firmly
I was finally coming back into my self.
“Wow” said
Vera, when the session ended. “In all my years of treatments I have never
worked on anyone who was so high and had so much colour and
presence around them. Your problem is that you are never present in your body
and are speeding and playing with the angelic forces around you. You need to be
focusing on your feet and legs and be grounded all the time.”
Grounded ?
I barely know what that means. When she told me to get up I could barely move.
Feeling like I weighed about fifty stone, I lurched from the bed and tried to get
my boots and coat on. Dear reader, if I tell you that I was slumped like a four
stone bag of spuds against the window of the car on the way back and had barely the ability to put the key in
the door when I got home, you will realise that this stuff works . And quickly.
These are not stand-alone sessions and are usually followed up by about two to
three treatments in quick succession, ( in MY case ...........SIX ! ) and the
client usually feels instantly better and pain and blockages are released.
These sessions combine powerful movements which help clear and maintain the
physical, emotional, and mental well being and health of the body. On
subsequent visits Vera described “an orange shower of sparks pouring out of
your spine” , and “legs that are like tree trunks rooted in the earth” . She
wasn’t joking. One of the many benefits was indeed a feeling of being aware of
feet and legs and consciously bringing my attention back to them. In my own
meditation practices I have always been aware that to be out of ones egoic mind
, it is necessary to “go” into the feet.
In
summation, my thinking became far more relaxed and positive. Aches and pains
disappeared and a feeling of well being and calm takes over. My sleeping
pattern improved dramatically and I just generally felt “better” . Whether you
are a convert or a sceptic there is definitely a link between this energy
treatment and the ability of the body to repair, and function, and enhance the
quality of life of the client.
Figure 1 This is NOT what it was like !!
Vera Whelan – Bio-Energy
Therapist/Yoga Master
Kyle Gallery,
Crossabeg,
Co. Wexford.
Tel.05391 – 28433 .
Mob. 086 – 4009535 email – vewheel@eircom.net.
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