What is channeled healing?
by Jennifer Aquilina MAcOM Dipl.Ac L.Ac
Channeled healing is a distance healing - energy healing offering that’s evolved out of my work over the past 20+ years, through working with a variety of modalities like Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine, Energy Healing, Shamanic Healing, Maya Spiritual Healing, and Cranio Sacral Therapy - to name a few. All therapeutic modalities have the potential for channeling to occur, in my experience. As a channel, my body is a pathway to connect to energies and facilitate the healing process by allowing energies to move through me in a way that connects to the client. This session unfolds while held in space where energetic protection has been called in.
One way to describe it is, entering a trance-like, semi-conscious state during the session that allows channeled energies and energetic beings to do their work. It’s like being in the back seat and allowing someone else to drive temporarily, helping you to access your inner healing abilities. Since the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual are interwoven, holding one or several intentions is okay and the work will unfold how it is supposed to. It is is helpful if participants be open to the experience and open to allowing healing to unfold organically without intellectually guiding or interfering with it, once the session has begun. Hold the intention and then be open to how the energies will work through you and with you.
HOW CHANNELED HEALING BEGAN FOR ME
After finishing my Masters in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in 2004 and starting to practice acupuncture and East Asian Medicine, I added Reiki and AcuTonics sound healing to my toolkit first. Through the years, more ways of healing crossed my path, which led to more trainings and experience with both physically based and energetically based healing methods, especially Shamanic Healing. I traveled to learn and experience more deeply including spending a month in Peru in 2010 learning from Q’ero healers (paqos) and I started doing occasional distance healing in 2010. Traveling to Brazil in 2019 to work with the mediumship traditions there, helped me lean into my longstanding tendencies to channel and build on prior experiences.
I first started experiencing energies moving through me in that particular way in 2009, while helping to facilitate some Munay Ki classes that involved energetic initiations and rites, but I wasn’t ready to allow that to more fully guide my work at that time. During the pandemic, (like for so many others), work was extremely stressful and I entered a cycle of time (Dasha) according to my chart in Vedic Astrology that brought much change. The desire to move away from acupuncture and more fully towards distance healing continued to increase over time, and I knew that everything I had learned and experienced working with people over the years could be applied in distance healing. After I decided to shift away from practicing acupuncture at the end of 2021, I did some traveling and took more time for my personal energetic practices
Over time, my meditations and inner guidance began giving me messages about making some changes to the way I worked and to allow myself to be more completely “a channel” and “get out of the way” of healing energies. My energetic guides had specific instructions for me that led to this session being birthed.
As an acupuncturist, I was more used to directing the flow of things in a treatment. Even though acupuncture works with Qi, the insertion of needles into the body interacts physically with the nervous system, circulation, and anatomy. My guidance was instructing me to let go of the mental aspect of diagnosis, treatment plan, mechanical technique aspect, physical anatomy, and acupuncture points that I had become so accustomed to in order to allow channeling to happen more fully without resistance. It’s not that these things are no longer part of the session, but they are being worked with in a very different way.
WHAT HAPPENS DURING A CHANNELED HEALING SESSION?
An important difference between this work and other modalities is that this is not a manual therapeutic modality, and it is not a talk therapy or coaching session, this is energy healing and is a distance-online session. It is recommended that you try not to schedule this session on a day where you have lots of other appointments, because you may need time to process. Too many appointments may be overwhelming, depending on how sensitive someone is.
Here we are working at the energetic level that weaves the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual together. Sacred space will be opened before the session begins. At the beginning of the session, we’ll check in and discuss your intentions for what you want to work on and answer questions. What is most important is that you hold your intentions in your heart for healing. It is important that you are in a comfortable space during the session where you are able to lie down and relax. Wear comfortable clothing and have a blanket or anything you will need to be comfortable. Try to find a place where you won’t be interrupted for 1.5-2 hours, because you may need a little more time after the session before re-entering the everyday world.
Prior to beginning the session, we will also work with shells and stones according to five elements, which gives an visual relating to where the energy is currently, and where it may potentially shift to beyond the session. This particular system working with shells and stones originally came from the Dagara of Burkina Faso. Many traditions around the world have an elemental based system, including East Asian Medicine and Vedic Astrology. Names that describe elements may be different or similar depending on the tradition, such as: Fire, Earth, Mineral, Metal, Water, Nature, Wood, Ether.
Sessions are online or by phone. Online sessions are preferable so we can see each other as we speak before and after the session. This helps to create a safe space for healing work to happen. After we open by discussing the intentions for the session. You will lie down in a safe and quiet place at home or somewhere that you choose. It is best to choose somewhere you will not be disturbed for the duration of the session so the work can go where it needs to go. We may begin with some breathing to help you relax and tune in, this can support entering a relaxed, trance-like state. It can also be helpful for you to hold stones in your hands to help you relax, this can be anything from crystals to a stone you find outside. It’s helpful if you like the way it feels in your hand and has “good vibes” like a friend.
You will be laying down during the session and may close your eyes to help facilitate going deeper into a healing state. Initially, some people will not be relaxed, but over time, generally people go into a deeply relaxed state. Energetic clearing and releasing can happen, and you may sense things via any of your five senses depending on your level of sensitivity and experience with energy healing. Some people do not experience that, but will feel calm after initial releasing. Emotions can come up. This is normal. This session is very quiet to allow for the unfolding of the energies for both the client and myself as I hold space for you as a channel. You do not need to talk and can simply experience what you are experiencing in a supported safe and sacred space.
As the channel, I will also be lying down to enter a more trance-like state and allow energies to move through my body during the session In this way I also may sense what is happening with you, sometimes there are visual images or words, smells, physical sensations, lights and other phenomena occur.
The end of the distance healing work will be signaled by sound or voice to help you begin to start coming back into ordinary consciousness. Then we’ll discuss the experiences and information that came through during the session, as well as follow up and self care recommendations.
Being open to the unfolding of the work for 2 weeks - 1 month is important and you may have insights, experiences, emotions welling up, releasing and clearing. Each person has experiences aligned with their own journey. Journaling and making space for self care is the best way to open to the flow of energetic openings and possibilities. Continue with your regular self care, wellness care and medical care, medications, herbs, supplements etc. unless you and your healthcare practitioner discuss making changes in a safe and appropriate way for your care.
My prayer for this work is that you continue to open to your own healing capacity, greater awareness and possibility, and that it connects you to your inner self and the universal intelligence (by whatever name you call that) that flows through all things and beings. It is not a magical “fix it”. Healing cannot be forced or pushed to happen, it has it’s own timing, rhythm and intelligence. We can merely do our part and remain open to the wisdom of the universe within us.
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