Home | Meet Lynn | Sessions
& Rates | Classes & Clinics | Testimonials and Articles | Locations | Email | Colors of Life Clothing
- “She heals my heart, my body and my soul.”
Majel Jordan, Director, Adult Day Health Care Center
- “Lynn is earthy, wise, humorous and vital,
yet deeply connected to Spirit. I find her work amazingly comforting
and releasing. It feels wonderful.”
Delia Farquhar, Nurse
- “I experienced severe neck
pain for almost 15 years. Medical doctors and chiropractors
gave me temporary relief. After one session with Lynn, the
pain disappeared and has not reoccurred. She truly has healing
hands.”
Russ Evans, Teacher
- “Lynn is a wonderful healer.
She understands and works with energy in a way that enlivens
and inspires the body and mind. Every time I am on her table,
I feel deeply nourished by her touch. Most times I am blessed
with a wonderful insight about myself, while I’m under
her tender care. I highly recommend her.”
Lynn Breedlove, Psychic
- “On the table, Lynn seemed
to sense exactly how far to take me for the optimal release.
Her hands were strong and sure. Her insights were gentle and
clear. The healing was physical, emotional, spiritual.”
Kristin Masters, Director, Community Center
- “After one of Lynn’s
deep and yet gentle massages, both my body and soul are renewed,
refreshed and awakened! The healing she does with the massage
is very effective. My spirit soars and my body sings!”
Lalana L. Vann, Artist”
- “Lynn inspires me to reach beyond myself.
She comforts me. A healing session with Lynn is the nicest gift
I can give myself.”
Laura Scribner, Community Center Supervisor
back to the
top
She acted like a Goddess and
she gifted me with LOVE. Pure love, for she gave without expectations
or anything in return. I accepted and opened my heart to receive
from another human being that which we can give freely to oulselves
and one another—LOVE. Making the decision to write about
my experience was MY idea—an equal exchange of energy,
and a giving to my community by the sharing of my heart. And
when I choose this path I am telling the universe that I am
open to receive that which is mine.
Walking into her office was
the first gift. Decorated with what obviously was her favorite
colors and objects, the room radiated with calm and peacefulness,
and I felt connected with her. There is no other way to say
it. I felt it. My body felt it. When I feel a sense of peace
I feel safe. And when I feel safe I open my heart for even more
receiving.
She is a quiet and unassuming
woman-goddess. She spoke with confidence and professionalism
and explained how she offers her work and what I might expect
at the healing session. And, as I have usually found, her particular
healing session had its own uniqueness, yet she has a purposefulness
that is the same as other healing sessions I have participated
in. That purpose is always one of an exchange of energy that
is given for whatever I choose to use it for. Her particular
uniqueness is how she brings her clients gifts of insight using
the spoken word, and hands-on healing touch to my body.
An extremely deep back massage—she
asked several times if it was too deep or made me too uncomfortable—was
given with great care, strength and reassurance. As usual I
had been holding a lot of my "stuff" in this area
of my body, and I looked forward to this important release.
I have found that massage or any bodywork is key to helping
release built up stress and tension while helping body aches
melt away. Yet, I have also discovered that there is more to
it than just the releasing. When I can be open to hearing what
the cause of the stress, anger, or resentments are that I hold
in my body, I allow for the possibility of an actual healing
to take place. This is often when we can uncover deep issues
that have affected our lives for many years. Energy that is
deeply ingrained in our cells, and patterns that are the most
challenging to alter. The root cause of these patterns are what
I continue to become aware of. Transforming the patterns at
different levels of awareness is the proverbial onion peeling
idea. Layer after layer. The layers begin to look the same,
but each time I peel one away I feel different. My life begins
to look differently. I see more clearly and trust that I am
not only the layers but I am the center as well.
She sensed in me more of the
same issues around my childhood; particular issues I am continuously
looking at. Patterns of low self-worth in disguise. It is like
she unmasks and reveals another piece of the puzzle as she speaks
of my mother, my father, my issues. She encourages me to not
just be aware, but to take physical action to affirm to my body
that I am worthy of love. Her suggestions are of bringing forth
and becoming the warrior that is within all of us. She intimates
a physical action like Tai-Chi or a Self-Defense Class can prove
to my body that I can defend myself perfectly well. I no longer
need to give up my power. I can realize the Goddess that I am.
She speaks to me of dark goddesses in mythical stories that
can guide me. I trust it. I leave her office in expectation
of a miracle. I walk back into my life with a sense that I am
about to discover more of the things I can do to feel safe and
secure in this world. I carry on the rest of the day with excitement
and expectancy that this healing session is only the beginning
of more adventures. As I feel movement within, the world outside
moves to greet me. As I greet myself with more LOVE, my outer
circumstances present more opportunities to LOVE. The magic
of it all begins with me. My inner life will create my outer
world.
Once again I have been gifted.
Once again I make the body/mind/spirit connection. Clearly I
can see how what was said to me, and how I perceived I was treated
in my youth, plays a role in how I act in the world today. And,
how my body reacts to various similar circumstances in my life
today.
Days later I am at the ocean
taking a few days rest. Everything I see looks like an arrowhead,
a club, a warrior's tool!
The Goddess, Hecate, is revealed to me through a paragraph I
am presented with by a friend and I begin to see more connections
with Spirit, Mind and Body. Hecate was the Greek Goddess of
the dark underworld who is a wise crone and understands the
cycle of death and rebirth. (Letting go of one thing and creating
the vacuum to be filled with something new). "Heka"
means "words of
power" or "effective utterance." It is exactly
what I have been paying more attention to lately-the WORDS I
use in everyday life. I am choosing to utter words of empowerment,
vision, and truth to me … about who I really am—a
powerful spirit from the God essence, instead of words of lack
and those that speak of negativity or being a victim. I love
the Goddess Hecate; she IS wise!
I have more to explore. I
have more research to do, and more to become aware about, yet
I know deeply that that IS the journey. My life is a journey,
and what a wonderfully magical one it is. Especially when I
open to LOVE!
back to the top
Deep sweet darkness…peace…total acceptance of all
that is…nourishment…gentle kindness… spirals…being
softly held in the Mother's arms…the lush beauty of the
earth…
Sensuous, sinuous lust…angry volcanoes exploding…righteous
destruction of evil…steady drip of water that erodes stone…wild
strength of living seas…the cycles of creation and destruction
and creation…
Healing that weaves together the parts of a self - recognizing
the equality and interdependence of body, mind, Spirit and emotions.
Healing large enough to hold apparent opposites and allow them
both to be true.
The Divine Feminine is not better than the Divine Masculine,
nor is the reverse so. The Oneness includes both. The Goddess
and God are helpful ways to understand the Oneness. And, the
time is here for the Goddess energy to be brought back to her
rightful place of equality and cooperation with the God energy.
For many of us who wish to feel and know Her presence in our
lives, it's necessary to let the pendulum swing towards Her
for a while.
In my youth, I was an atheist, feminist, scientist, rebel,
and unconscious healer. From here, my journey to the Goddess
took a long and winding path. Although I admired the basic tenant
of Christianity, "Love one another," I also saw the
hypocrisy, the sexism and the strife caused by the church. I
had some experiences of Spirit through nature and relationships,
and no way I liked to make sense of them. I found myself drawn
to a workshop in which we separated religion from Spirituality,
and each created our own definition of Spirit and how we wanted
it in our lives. I realized my version matched fairly closely
pre-Christian, earth-based ways to understand life.
Then I found a class on women's spirituality. We studied Goddess
stories from different cultures and times, and did rituals to
connect to these energies. In one guided visualization, the
ancient Goddess Isis appeared to me in all her radiant glory.
I could feel her overwhelming love and see her iridescent robes.
She has remained with me, in my personal Spiritual practices
and in my healing work with others. She represents the Divine
Mother, compassionate, merciful, loving, and healing.
As I began to learn and practice healing with earth energy,
Gaia, the earth as a living being, became more and more alive
to me. Pele was the next Goddess to have a strong impact in
my life. As I was healing from newly surfaced memories of childhood
molest, she came in as a powerful, lustful, lush, potentially
angry force, bringing me back to my own sensuality and sexuality
and my own anger and strength. As I became more aware of Spirit
Beings around me in my life and work as a healer, Sara was present.
She was a dark silent healer woman, who lived in a simple dwelling
near a stream, making pots and collecting herbs. Her quiet strength
grounded me, and allowed me to just BE. On a trip to France
alone, I connected with Mary, mother of Jesus, in Chartres Cathedral,
bringing peace for me with my own mother, who had committed
suicide 20 years earlier. Sekhmet, the lioness Goddess from
ancient Egypt appeared to me next, a ferocious, powerful energy,
able to effectively and thoroughly destroy evil. And finally,
Julian of Norrich came as a teacher about Divine Love.
These feminine energies have been so important to me in my
own healing and in my work as a healer. As I became comfortable
with the Divine Feminine, I was able to feel comfortable with
the Divine Masculine as well, allowing me even more balance
in my life.
In my work, I invite in both feminine
and masculine aspects of the Divine. And sometimes, I find wounding
within my clients about their parents or aspects of the Divine
Masculine or Feminine. In these cases, I often recommend that
a client explore Goddesses or Gods. If you need re-parenting,
go to the Source, the Divine Mother, the Divine Father. If there
is a strength or quality you wish to develop, read stories of
Goddesses and Gods, ask for their strengths or qualities in
yourself, put up paintings or postcards with the image of a
particular aspect of the Divine. The energies of these ancient
Spiritual Beings do exist, and if you have trouble with that
idea, turn to them anyway as powerful archetypal symbols, and
access that energy for your own healing.
back to the
top
At a basic level, everything is energy, and we are all connected
through that shared, constantly transforming energy. The possibilities
for using energy to effect change in the body, psyche and spirit
are tremendous. We are all healers. Every time we reach out
physically or even across time or space to comfort someone,
we are channeling energy. As a professional healer, I've studied
and worked to maximize my effectiveness with this innate human
skill. I open myself and set my intention for energy from the
earth and from the spiritual realms to flow through me and into
my client. The client often perceives the energy as warmth,
tingling, vibration, light, or deep relaxation. The result is
peace, relief from physical and emotional pain, and a strong
feeling of centeredness. The healing energy moves through the
body and the aura around the body and infuses it with fresh,
strong, nourishing energy. This breaks up and pushes out old
stagnant energy. Memories, traumas or patterns that were locked
in the body are released, making room for new ways to feel and
behave. This allows the physical body to heal as well.
During a session, a client
may experience the deep peace of meditation … spaciousness,
connectedness. Sometimes the client is seeing or feeling dream-like
movies—perhaps processing the past or envisioning possible
futures. Another client may re-experience emotions from old
traumas as they surface and are released. Or one session may
have all of these elements. I will use hypnosis as appropriate,
to assist a client to relax even more, or access her inner wisdom
about a decision or problem. I can also use it to help someone
to connect with guides or access past lives, or create new visions
for himself at a deep level. And, of course, hypnosis can help
with practical matters like insomnia or pain relief or creating
new habits.
I often receive psychic guidance
for my clients during sessions. It may be only five minutes
of my sharing a vision or words, or it might be forty minutes
of exchange and questions, or emotional release. I invite our
spirit teachers and guides to join us for each healing, and
they aid in integrating the session.
back to the
top
What did I do on my lonnngggg summer vacation? Well, there's a round-about story.
And before you read it, I want to assure you that I'm still doing all the healing, massage, psychic readings and hypnosis that I've loved doing for almost 20 years now. Just because I've learned something new and will be offering that as well, doesn't mean you need to try it.
A few years ago I had a powerful experience with a fellow healer when I was studying with my main healing teacher, Rosalyn Bruyere. He was accessing and using his own sexual energy (1st and 2nd chakras) to send tremendous amounts of energy through me, on the phone, from across the country no less. It didn't involve any physical touch or even any sexual reference, but the amount of energy was more than I'd ever experienced before, from any healer. And it was able to shift some deeply held wounding from my childhood.
When I questioned him about what he was doing and how, he answered that he was using those two chakras to significantly increase the energy he could use for healing. Several healings later, I was sold about how powerful it was, consistently. I couldn't, in good conscience as a healer, ignore it. So I started to study Tantra and Sacred Sexual Healing, from workshops and books and videos. The point was to get more of my own sexual healing, to open up even more to the energy I carry there, as well as to understand and learn how to use it myself with clarity and integrity.
The Universe was shoving me in this direction, even though I had lots of doubts and fears about it. After all, our culture is so Puritanical at the deep levels about sexuality, that any movement in that direction is immediately suspect. And it's no problem to find lots of examples of abuse. I liken my exploration to learning to play with fire. all those fiery red and orange vibrations. a powerful energy, with lots of potential for danger, OR for transformation.
In California, the state has recently licensed people to do Sexological Bodywork, which is basically an extension of both massage and energy work. The whole body is massaged, including all the parts we normally cover with drapes, with a sensual focus. The healer provides a safe place, both physically and emotionally, for the client to explore and learn about their own sexual energy. Breathing and connection practices are taught to intensify the energy and spread it through the whole body. This can lead to more powerful full-body orgasms and more pleasure overall. If the client wishes, the healer can teach skills and assist to move through particular sexual issues or traumas. And I have found personally, in spending extended periods of time in a highly aroused state, with no agenda for orgasm or mutual touch, that my cells and organs are bathed in powerful healing energy.
I was considering taking the training in California this last summer. Then I heard about a conference for sexual healers in Sedona, AZ. I decided to attend before I committed to the California training. Perhaps there was some other form of doing this work that might suit me more. after all, a California license would be pretty useless to me. And sure enough, the conference was amazing, with a myriad of different healers working with sexual energy in a myriad of ways.
I stayed for a week-long training after the conference, and then stayed on for several more weeks as a personal retreat. I spent a month with my step-mother in California after she broke her foot and wrist, then a couple of weeks back here in Seattle. I returned to Sedona for some further training, and stayed again, finally returning to Seattle for a friend's wedding. Then I went back again to Sedona for a month-long apprenticeship/training.
All told, I was basically gone for almost 8 months. a lonnngggg summer vacation, filled with healing and learning and adventure.
At this point, I'm not quite sure how I'll be starting to do some of the sexual healing work. I will continue to do the healing, massage, hypnosis, and psychic work I've been doing for the last 20 years, so you don't need to worry that I'll be asking you to shift in your healing focus. AND, if you have some interest in trying it, or in coming to a discussion about it, or just talking with me personally, call.
I'll be writing more about this for the web site, as I continue to process for myself the intense healings and study of the last year.
back to the
top
|
