Leta Herman, Energetic Acupressure

Leta provides one-hour sessions that are geared to helping people with general physical and emotional issues. Most physical and emotional problems are often helped by acupressure because acupressure helps get to the root causes of disease, rather than simply address the symptoms. Often the root cause of illness comes from imbalances of qi in the body.

Examples of the types of treatment include:

• Acute colds, rashes, or other recently developed issues
• Chronic long-term illness, sometimes unexplained or well-known but difficult to shift, such as auto-immune, asthma, chronic fatigue, Fibromyalgia, or Endometriosis
• Inherited issues or developmental issues
• Emotionally caused illness

One hour classical acupressure sessions can help you find greater balance and harmony in your body/mind/spirit. See also below for specialized treatments in Source Alignment Healing.

Most illness or emotional upset is caused by a vibrational misalignment with your source energy. The ancient Chinese understood the various ways this misalignment can occur and developed protocols for realigning your inner being with your source energy so wellness can be the predominant energy.

From the start of her career in Chinese Medicine, Leta has been focused on helping people become aligned with who they really are. She has coined the phrase "Source Alignment" to describe this work.

Leta provides many types of Source Alignment™ Treatments, including:

• Five Element Constitutional treatments (1 hour sessions focused on supporting who you truly are energetically so you can realize your full potential in life).
• Ghost point treatments(4 hour sessions that release the things that haunt us and reconnect us to our source energy);
• Systemic Block treatments(4 hour sessions to release energy that is stuck at the heart level, making it difficult for anyone or anything to get through);
• Alchemical sessions(1 hour sessions focused on increasing freedom in your life so that you can truly "fly").
• Grieving treatments (3 hour sessions) for those having difficulty recovering from the loss of a loved one.
• Healing Heart Pain (3 hour sessions) for those with self-esteem and/or addiction issues
  Will treatments (3 hour sessions) for those who are having difficulty making things happen in their life

While Source Alignment deals with non-physical pain, we still have to directly address those times when our bodies are in physical pain.

Leta recognizes this need to deal directly with pain. For this reason she specializes in a unique form of acupressure and massage focused on relieving pain. This approach can help in situations where other more traditional therapies haven't.  By addressing the underlying emotional causes of the pain, Leta is able to effect a deeper healing response in the body.

Common problems that benefit from this technique are:

• Neck and shoulder pain, especially sudden onset
• Carpal tunnel syndrome or similar symptoms that may or may not be causing numbness
• Chronic back pain or back muscle spasms from sports-related injuries
• Sports-related leg, knee, and ankle pain
• Other muscle/tendon pain related to emotional stress

Energetic differences in relationships cause anger and resentment that can erode a beautiful relationship. Leta identifies your elemental type and helps develop understandings between partners (or parents and children), creating forgiveness. In addition each person learns new techniques for communicating better and giving the other what they need.

Traditional counseling focuses on many aspects of a couple’s history and the individual personalities of each partner. However, there is one key factor in relationship that traditional therapy doesn’t account for – the energetics of the relationship.

What is relationship energetics? The Chinese believe that each of us has a specific energetic type that influences everything we do. The way we move, the way our eyes look, the tone of our voice, how we interact with others, what we want most from others, and even how our smell!

Imagine if you could understand someone you love based on their energetic type. Many misunderstandings and annoyances are caused by each person not understanding what is typical and normal for the other person. When you finally realize that a person is your love does those “darndest” things for a reason, and the reason makes complete sense, then forgiveness can come and you can let go of old resentments.

Understanding the Five Elements can help you have better communication with your lover, child, parent, friend, or co-worker. Even your bank manager when you’re asking for a loan will be more impressed when you understand Five Element energetic dynamics. Body language, hand shake, tone of voice, speed of language, length of sentences, look in the eyes, and the overall way you present yourself to someone all make a huge difference in how you are received by the other person, even casual acquaintances.

I’ve been working with folks to understand the dynamics of their elemental energies in the relationship. To do this work, both parties in the relationship come to my office together. I usually start with a longer session on the first day because we must begin by ensuring we understand the energy dynamics.  What element is each person? We use various techniques to evaluate your energetic type.

            Once we evaluate each person’s type, we often discuss some current difficulty as a way to explore the relationship dynamics. We often find some fascinating revelations. Some examples I can think of are:

• To ask your Wood partner for something, you have to talk in terms of the big picture, not a single specific request. You have to see the forest for the trees.
• When a Fire partner seems disinterested, remember that you have to light the fire with the sparkle in your own eyes and excitement in your voice.
• Slow down with your Earth partner and explore and savor life through discussing what you’ve learned along the way. They excel at solving problems so don’t try to solve their problems for them.
• To connect with your Metal partner, go for a drive or sit by the fireplace and just be with them for a day, an evening, or a few hours at least.
• Your Water person will just love if you get out-and-out silly with them. Let loose and do something truly bizarre and fun.

These are just tiny examples of what we do in the sessions. Often the outcome is that each person learns to forgive old resentments once they learn that the person is normal and being themselves.

But even more importantly, we discuss new tools you can use to help each other. You can’t change your true energetic nature, but you can learn new techniques for helping each other be more yourselves and feel accepted and held in high regard.

Examples of techniques may have to do with the kinds of conversations you have, the way you show appreciation for the other person, the time of day you spend together (because different elements are more at ease during different times of the day), and many other possible ways to make your connection stronger and easier.

There are two main categories of relationships. There is the “opposites attract” type—a relationship of two very different energies but a lot of zest. The other one is nourishing and easy but might not have the intensity of the first kind. A third type is much less common—a relationship where both are the same energetic.

Whichever type you have, you can learn about the benefits of that kind of relationship and how to leverage it so that both of you can be yourselves truly.