Harmonic Resonance Bodywork

03/12/2025

Oh my.

09/03/2024

Barbara and I in 2021, after being together for 46 years we hired Penelope Hagan and Michael Hall to host a renewal ceremony. Penelope did the rituals which included candles and words well Michael played a wooden flute.

12/23/2023

We have reached 200 followers! Thank you for your continued interest and support.

See the first post below for the new direct approach for teaching harmonic resonance.

Here is the website:
HTTPS://harmonicresonance.org

Here is the new teaching approach:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=908037481083868&id=100056328739448&mibextid=Nif5oz

12/23/2023

REVOLUTIONARY TEACHING APPROACH EVOLVES ...

I am going to be doing individual classes on the bodywork therapy I've been doing for the last 35 years.

See the first comment for a link describing it ...

Classes will include myself and another instructor in private classes for one or two students.

Students will work with both instructors who will alternate being on the table. This ideal environment will allow for high quality instruction and rapid learning.

Anyone who is interested can contact me through my profile.

DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW APPROACH ...

In the last big large class we did in April 2023 I came down with a bad cold just a day before the class and I dragged myself through it. I wore a mask when I worked and no one got sick but I got sicker from forcing myself to work. I won't be doing another one of those!

We all backed away from doing large bodywork classes in favor of a different approach. Kye Harvey (a chiropractor and Harmonic Resonance instructor) or Alexa (a Harmonic Resonance Instructor) or Audrey Mairi (Trager Tutor) or myself can work as a team of two to do individual classes.

It's way more stress free: one instructor is the practice person on the table while the other instructor does the instruction by working on the other instructor and getting the student to take over. The two instructors swap roles every 30 minutes. Each of the instructors gets rejuvenated when they take their turns on the table.

There is a great advantage because the student gets excellent feedback from the table. The students get a much deeper understanding of the work than they would in a large class. The students get to experience the bodywork of two instructors as well. At the end of a class everyone feels energized!

The new way of working is totally stress free and each of the instructors only lays on the table for 30 minutes and then switches so each of us receives continuous rejuvenation throughout the teaching day. It's a miraculous improvement over the way classes are usually done.

The advantages are great because:

1/ Each of the two instructors receives body work throughout a day of teaching. Instead of being stressful a day of teaching is rejuvenating. Each instructor remains at their very best.

2/ Each student receives bodywork from the instructors and excellent feedback from the instructor on the table as well as the one providing instruction.

The very first student was a registered massage therapist who loved the intensive approach.

There are only three of us who are instructing but all three of us are thrilled with this approach!

It's an idea that represents a revolutionary new way of teaching bodywork.

04/19/2023

These are the waters off of Saxe Point Park just a few minutes walk from our house. Often I just sit and watch the waters play around the ancient rocks of the shoreline.

02/24/2023

Time to pay attention to herbalists for minor ailments now that doctors are largely unavailable in BC.

Barbara and I have not had a family doctor for years. We have been relying on Telus Health to talk with family doctors online to get referrals to specialists for critical health problems.

For minor health problems however such as cough and cold we have started to rely instead on local herbalists. Pacific Rim College in Victoria is graduating herbalists every year. Every neighborhood has at least one and usually several herbalists who have a storefront and will discuss symptoms and give herbal solutions just like you would have received in the 1800s. Herbalism has taken off in Victoria and in some neighborhoods there are two herbalists offices side by side downtown.

My partner Barbara had a bad cough with no symptoms of running nose, just a cough and she's never suffered from allergies. She talked with a Telus Health Doctor online who insisted she had post nasal drip and allergies. Neither of us suffer from these conditions.

The online doctor proceeded to give her quite a dangerous medication which was meant for people who suffer from chronic post nasal drip as well as allergies. She was clearly misdiagnosed and even had to argue a bit that she didn't suffer from those conditions.

She was prescribed a corticosteroid and one of the possible side effects was a perforated septum. It was only after we purchased the somewhat expensive medication and read about the side effects and also that it wasn't even meant to treat her symptoms that we started to realize how poor the advice can be from online doctors! We ended up taking the medication back to the pharmacy where it was destroyed and the pharmacist even agreed that this was an inappropriate medication.

My trust in the family online doctor has pretty well disappeared. I will only use them for referrals to specialists who know what they're doing in most cases. The online doctors are still useful for renewing prescriptions that you know work because they were prescribed by specialists. It's still worthwhile going to specialists who seem to know what they're doing for critical health problems.

However for minor health problems from now on we're off to see the herbalist! There is a herbalist right in our neighborhood called "Errant Empire" and another favorite herbalist who runs a shop called "Green Muse Herbs" who we just visited in order to pick up a little tin box of carefully blended herbs to help with Barbara's cough.

For all minor ailments from now on we're going to consult local herbalists just like Queen Victoria would have done.

02/10/2023

Here are the set of instructors for the upcoming gentle healing class happening at Pacific Rim College above the Market Square in Victoria BC April 22-23:

Dr Kym (Kye) Harvey
Kye Harvey has been a well known Chiropractor practicing in Victoria for several decades. She recently decided to teach Harmonic Resonance Bodywork after having taken several of the classes and completed her Harmonic Resonance Bodywork certification in 2022.

Audrey Mairi
Audrey has been an official Trager Tutor for many decades. The training she received is much more advanced than that of Harmonic Resonance Bodywork and therefore was given honorary certification in Harmonic Resonance in 2022. She is also author of several books including “The Power of Presence” which outlines how to cultivate the ideal state of mind for the practice of this type of healing work. She will be leading us each morning with the “Movement Medicine Exercises” which are a key “self-help” part of Harmonic Resonance Bodywork.

Alexa McFarlane
Alexa completed her training in Harmonic Resonance in 2020. She has been assisting with classes since the class which was held at Pacific Rim College in 2020 just days before Covid-19 closed the college. She is an excellent instructor who is gifted at teaching bodywork skills.

Ian Faulkner Soutar
Ian has been certified since 1990 as a practitioner of the work created by Dr. Milton Trager MD. He is the creator of Harmonic Resonance Bodywork in 2017. Harmonic Resonance Bodywork is a combination of the rocking work derived from the work of Dr. Milton Trager, Sufi Healing, Energy work, Chakra Balancing and optional Medicine Buddha ritual.

02/09/2023

New class coming up April 22-23 2023

It will be at Pacific Rim College.

Classes Harmonic Resonance Bodywork Class Main Classes April 22+ 23, 2023 at Pacific Rim College. Optional Class April 24 to learn integration with massage. Location: Pacific Rim College 560 Johnson St #229, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W3C6 Cost: Before April $400, $450 in April. What is it...

05/28/2022

Just dropped off a student Marika Tousignant , visiting from Quebec at the airport. She requested a crash course in Harmonic Resonance Bodywork, which is really a simplified form of Trager Bodywork blended with massage and ritual. She is an RMT in Quebec and also had been certified as a Trager practioner years ago. I was able to compress a two day class into two hours. She acquired a high level of competency in those few hours.

It's the first time an out of town student stayed at the studio. Before the pandemic a number of students from far away were going to stay at the studio for classes which were cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions. Great that the pandemic restrictions are over! It was an easy and fun class and it was great to be able to host her to stay at the studio for a few days.

Marika and I each picked up some knowledge from each other. I regained a few lost Trager moves which Marika has retained. I learned some new massage skills too. Marika absorbed the new bodywork easily and demonstrated great skill in Harmonic Resonance after only two hours of instruction.

It's the first crash course I had ever done. Thanks also to Kye Harvey for being a practice person for the class.

It was a great visit and my partner Barbara and I had her over for dinner last night. Barbara and I had lived in the Gatineau Hills, Quebec years ago and loved the province. It was so fun to visit a new friend from Quebec.

The studio is just a couple of blocks from Saxe Point Park and the pictures below are her own from nearby park visits. She seemed to enjoy Victoria and Esquimalt.

Her combined skills in massage and official training in Trager allowed me to issue her a certificate for Harmonic Resonance Bodywork after only a 3 hour training.

11/12/2021

Still offering until 2022 ...

FREE THERAPY SESSIONS FOR ANYONE TRAUMATIZED BY THE RCMP AT THE FAIRY CREEK BLOCKADE. THESE ACTIVISTS ARE PROTECTING OUR ANCIENT FORESTS ON VANCOUVER ISLAND.

For anyone who's actually been violently arrested I'm continuing to offer three free sessions in my Victoria BC Studio near Saxe Point Park.

On request I will send the website describing the therapy I do. It's very gentle and can be received wearing yoga type clothes. It uses a gentle rocking and gentle touch. A painless therapy that restores mobility and reduces pain.

Email me through my Facebook profile or message me on Facebook Messenger

I can also refer you to other practitioners as well such as Chiropractors, Massage and Accupuncture Therapists.

Best to see the website first if you're thinking of asking for a session ...

http://harmonicresonance.org

250-882-5896

BodyworksVictoria@gmail.com