Welcome to The Root Integrated Healing

Restorative Touch is a gentle, hands-on healing practice designed to guide your body into deep rest and repair by engaging your parasympathetic nervous system, helping you shift into a state of restorative healing.

Restorative Touch is not a religion and does not require belief in anything for it to work, although its origins are rooted in the ancient tradition of laying hands. All that is required is a sincere desire to receive the healing energy for your highest good. 

The practitioner conducts vital life-force energy from the universal energy field into the human energy field, where the energy is transmuted into a form that is usable at the cellular level. This vital energy recharges, realigns, and rebalances the subtle bodies, bringing harmony and wholeness to all the recipient's systems. 

Your body is basically getting 'tuned' like a guitar to be more on key. When that happens, your mind, body, and soul function together in harmony creating a more aware existence. 

 Barnett, Libby, and Maggie Chambers. Reiki Energy Medicine: Bringing Healing Touch into Home, Hospital, and Hospice. Healing Arts Press, 1996. 

During a Restorative Touch session, your practitioner will have a chance to connect with you to discuss your goals and preferences for the session. These sessions can be performed virtually or in the comfort of your home. To begin the session, you will rest comfortably on a massage table, fully clothed with your shoes removed. The practitioner will gently place their hands in a series of non-intrusive positions on or near the body. There is no massage or manipulation and the client does not need to exert any effort for it to work. Your body's response works independently of belief systems, emotional state, or religious preference. The body's inner intelligence orchestrates the entire session.

Receiving Restorative Touch is a wonderfully passive experience. Don't try to relax, just let it relax you. Your state will shift quite naturally as the session proceeds. Meanwhile, feel free to daydream, enjoy the music, or simply observe your breath or the sensations of the therapy. 

Each person experiences Restorative Touch differently depending on their individual needs at the time. Benefits reported by recipients include deep relaxation promoting a calm, peaceful sense of well being on all levels. Some people feel sensations of heat, tingling, or experience seeing colors, while others can have an emotional response, indicating that shifts are taking place, allowing harmony to be restored. Most commonly, an almost immediate release of stress and a feeling of deep relaxation is felt in the first session. Laying on of hands is cumulative and even people who don't notice much the first time usually have progressively deeper experiences if they continue treatment. 

Depending on your individual needs, significant changes may occur in the body, mind, and spirit after a session, including various detoxification reactions. We recommend drinking water, light exercise like yoga or walking, sunshine and fresh air, and most importantly listening to your body's cues. Most find it helpful to journal following their session and while observing changes in the days following. 

Yes! This healing technology is hard-wired into each and every one of us, we just need to remember how to unlock it. Repetition is key to this practice, so if you are trying to instill a specific change in your health or wellness, daily practice is recommended. 

 We believe healing is a birthright, not a secret to be kept. That’s why we’re passionate about sharing this powerful energy work with as many people as possible. To learn how to heal yourself through gentle touch, please visit the Workshops tab and register for our upcoming virtual class, “Laying Hands, Holding Light.” 

Yes! Energy itself is not bound by time and space, which makes distance healing just as effective as an in-person session. With sincere intention, healing energy can be sent and received anywhere at any time, with substantial results. 

Distance  sessions are a great option for anyone who may not like gentle restorative touch or who wants to experience healing in the comfort of their own home.