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Hibiscus flowers carpet the ground.
David Roemer
Sunshine beams through skies painted with cottony clouds.
Horses graze on lush hills in the distance.
This is not a dreamland.
Paige Stables
ItsHacienda AltaGracia, Auberge Resorts Collection, a resort nestled in the Talamanca mountains of Costa Rica.
He started as a chiropractor before developing an energy-work practice that has gained a following among the .001 percent.
Amaral speaks of protons, neutrons, and stardust too.
Paige Stables
“Our bodies and our universe arent solid things at all.
Theyre patterns of energy,” he says.
I am on ayoga matsurrounded by nature at the intersection of science and magic.
Paige Stables
As an editor, I am here as a guest of The Well.
It was not an exorcism.
“Im helping to get the mind and body more in sync again.”
Paige Stables
It is as if I am entering another dimension.
I am present and away.
I feel like I am floating yet grounded.
Paige Stables
And I feel in control of this freedom.
Thats where the most energy is accessible," says Amaral.
Amaral’s work does not exist in a therapeutic vacuum.
Paige Stables
“The nervous system is what marries the body and mind.”
So how exactly does Reiki work?
Nine months prior to this retreat, I was diagnosed withmetastatic breast cancer.
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“We are programmed kind of not to feel our bodies,” says Childs.
“Thats our culture.”
As I lie on his treatment table, I feel nothing initially.
But as the minutes pass, it is as if I am entering another dimension.
I hear Amaral speaking and guiding my breath.
I feel his hands on my spine.
I am present and away.
I feel like I am floating yet grounded.
It is a fast boomerang of emotion, from excruciating agony to my body being fully liberated.
Tears pour down my face.
My pain is flowing out of my body like a waterfall.
It is wildly simple and ridiculously complex.
Theyre together," says Childs.
“But theres been very little understanding ofhoware they together.”
It seems Harvard Universitys entire department of physics says they can’t (or maybe won’t?)
speak to this bang out of energy work.
But I have lived it and that’s what makes it so magical.
We get less normal, at least by most societal standards.
I don’t claim to understand the science behind energy therapy.
I’m not sure anyone does.
All I can say is that weird felt pretty wonderful to me.
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