Showing posts with label Holistic Healing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holistic Healing. Show all posts

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Be in Harmony, Be Healed

By Marivir R. Montebon
New York City

The world will get better if we start from within, from our hearts. - Dulce Sanchez

There is something about Dulce that will draw you towards her. In my case, it was her calmnness untypical of a New Yorker, when we first met at the Naam Yoga Center on the Upper West Side of the city. Well, she is a regular visitor of New York on a mission of sorts. Dulce Sanchez hails from Mexico, teaching English and running an events and party organizing business. But the main fulfillment in her life is when she straddles between home and New York to help people heal themselves through a wholistic therapy called Harmonyum, aside from being with her grandchildren.

From the word harmony which means 'a pleasing combination of elements in a whole', Harmonyum is quite clear by its own name, and a welcome treat, an accord, to oneself.

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It is a healing modality developed by Dr. Joseph Michael Levry known as bio-metaphysical medicine that is non-invasive, gentle, and energetic. Dulce, a Harmonyum therapist, is among the hundreds of students of Dr. Levry, using this soothing continuous touch on the entire length of the spine to heal physical, emotional, and mental ailments.

Before deciding to take on this mission as a wholistic healer, Dulce has had her share of excruciating pain from a failed marriage. She and her husband decided to divorce after being together for 8 months. After 12 years, they remarried. But the problem on infidelity has set in, hence they divorced again. She is now on her own, and rightfully happy, seven years after the second divorce.

How Dulce regained her composure and balance through the help of Naam Yoga and Harmonyum is an incredible journey of love, light, and healing.

Excerpts:

Dulce Sanchez

1. Tell me how you became an advocate and now a missionary for Naam Yoga and Harmonyum.

I was deeply depressed when I found out that my husband was womanizing. We were divorced for 12 years, but decided to remarry. We were together for nine years, and then I found out he had another affair. I felt devastated. Divorcing him the second time was scary, because I was getting old and did not know what to do.

I chanced upon a Hatha Yoga Center in 2006 and then later I found out about Naam Yoga. Life became so different after that. I was healed, happy, and grateful.

2. What was it with Naam and Harmonyum that convinced you this was your path to healing?

Harmonyum promotes self-healing energy. I studied Harmonyum under Dr. Levry for seven treatments or sessions. Each session lasts for 45 minutes.

We gently touch the nape of the client down to the spine. Harmonyum is known to reharmonize a person's entire presence in the process of strengthening and balancing the autonomous nervous system.

It doesn't even matter what faith you have, whether you have or have not any faith. The energy inside you naturally heals.

3. What is the most profound experience you had in Harmonyum?

I was shocked and was crying so hard in amazement when I learned that my client, a young woman afflicted with terminal breast cancer, was healed after the 4th treatment. That was in 2009.

She was a non-believer, a young mother and had a great career. Her breast cancer was eating her up, and her doctors have decided to stop all her medication because it would no longer be of help to her. The pain she experienced each night was unbelievable and agonized her husband as well who could not sleep because of her anguish.

On the second treatment, she noticed she had lost a little bit of the pain. On the third session, it was totally gone. As well as on the 4th treatment.

She decided to have herself checked by her doctors why the pain was gone. At that time, I fly in to New York for my continuous studies with Dr. Levry.

When I returned to Mexico, I immediately called her to find out how she was. She was elated. Her biopsy results, she had taken two exams, showed she had negative signs of cancer.

I was crying with joy and gratitude. That experience changed me.

4. Do you believe Harmonyum can absolutely change the world, heal people?

Yes. Compulsion, which brings about vices like gambling, can be healed through Harmonyum. Our job as naamists is to serve. And the more we are able to reach out to the community, the better. Believe that the world is going to get better if we start from within, from the heart.

Dulce

(Dulce Sanchez could be reached at dul000@gmail.com   For more details on Harmonyum, visit www.rootlight.com)

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

NAAM YOGA: The Complete Approach to Wellness

By Marivir R. Montebon

IMG_20130207_144138_676For young businesswoman Kristina Castaneda, her newly opened Naam Yoga Upper West Side Center is the last stop to business.

This is it, she says, as we talked and seated in lotus position on the shiny wooden floor of the yoga center on the bustling 72nd Street of Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Since she finished a college degree on Interior Design and worked in a Mexican restaurant thereafter, she had been running her own food chain of five Mexican restaurants, including Cafe Ronda and Cafe Frida, and very recently the Rigoletto Pizza.

The Naam Yoga UWS opened a month after Rigoletto Pizza, a thing which definitely made Kristina's hands full, other than the fact she has to be mother to two boys Cemil, 10, and Omer, 8, and wife to businessman Bulent.

How do you do that, I asked. She laughed and said, I don't know. I just tell myself relax, when in the thick of things.

The Naam Yoga is headquartered in Santa Monica in California, a spiritual and physical wellness center which operates 24/7 a week. The founder, Dr. Joseph Michael Levry, from Africa, has been widely respected for his Naam Yoga Therapies, the center of which is the Harmonyum Healing System (see separate story soon). Naam Yoga centers are also established in Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, and England.

IMG_20130207_140515_960Naam Yoga is flexible, as it can be combined with any modality of yoga techniques and meditation, focusing mainly on love, peace, and light as the way to self-healing.

Excerpts of our interview:

OSM!: Who introduced you to Naam Yoga and why did you embrace it?

Kristina: My friend of 20 years, Prima Vera Salva, who is also one of the yoga teachers of the center. Naam Yoga is life changing. Since I learned about it more than two years ago, it has changed my views in life. It changed how I think, speak, or act. It is amazing.

OSM!: What makes Naam different from the rest of the Yoga centers?

Kristina: Our founder, Dr. Levry, from Africa, has combined the influences of the East and West in the Naam Yoga. He integrated the philosophies of yoga which find its roots in Tibet with the western influence of Kabbalah.

Naam, by the way, means the word. We make sure that our modalities work on the sounds, a combination of singing, chanting, music, and action to create positive energy within us.

Our logo is the sun, because as you know, the sun is always up there, burning for us, giving light to all of us. This is also the reason why we are open seven days a week.

OSM!: What classes are being offered in the Naam Yoga UWS?

Kristina: We have Naam Yoga I and II, Vinyasa, Morning Meditation, Capoeira for Kids, Yoga for Kids, Yin Yoga, Tools for Self Healing, Power Naam, Shakti Naam, Jivamukti, Alignment, Restorative Yoga, Inner Look Book Club, and Ashtanga Yoga.

We also have free classes for the community, the Banis Meditation.

Right now, we are still filling up each class, and accepting teachers as well. But I am glad that the response to our Center has been overwhelming.

OSM!: Why did you say that the Naam Yoga Center would be the last stop to your business ventures?

IMG_20130207_144107_003Kristina: I find fulfillment in this business. This is actually my community offering. I am still with the restaurant business, which makes me so busy. But the Naam Yoga is my ultimate business. It is for me, and the complete healing for everyone, on the physical, mental, and spiritual. That is all we need.

(For more information on the Naam Yoga UWS, please log on to www.naamyogauws.com. Enroll for only $30/month within February 2013)