Dr. Stephanie Shelburne

12/05/2025

What is Bioenergetic Medicine?
At its core, it’s the study of how the body’s energy systems influence our physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing — and how these systems interact with nature, rhythm, and the environments we move through.

Every living organism generates subtle fields: electromagnetic, electrical, and vibrational.
These fields help regulate:
✨ mood
✨ stress + resilience
✨ physiological balance
✨ coherence between the heart, brain, and nervous system

Bioenergetic Medicine looks at the places where biology meets energy, where science meets sensation, and where the body expresses its intelligence beyond what we can see.

It’s an approach that:
🌿 honors the body’s innate capacity to self-regulate
📚 integrates research from quantum biology, physiology + subtle energy
🌙 understands the impact of seasons, light, and lunar cycles
🤝 views healing as a relationship, with ourselves, each other, and the natural world

At NESBEM, we teach Bioenergetic Medicine not as a trend or a technique, but as a coherent way of understanding the human experience — grounded, embodied, and connected to the rhythms of life.

If you’re curious to explore what this field can open within you, you’re in the right place.
🔗 https://www.newenglandschoolbem.org/

What would you love to learn more about? ↓

11/29/2025

“The Lunar Body: How Nature Teaches Coherence”

As the first lunar cycle of winter unfolds, the natural world is teaching us a quiet truth:

Your body is not separate from the moon.
It responds to light.
It responds to season.
It responds to rhythm.

In this week’s feature article, we explore how the moon acts as a regulator of biological and bioenergetic rhythms—shaping sleep, breath, emotional patterns, and the coherence of the human field.

Inside the blog, we dive into:

✨ How the body biologically responds to lunar phases
✨ The role of circadian light in coherence
✨ Why winter invites an energetic descent
✨ What the farm is teaching us during the first frost
✨ Simple practices to honor your own lunar body

If you’ve been feeling the shift into stillness lately…
There’s a reason.
And nature is offering you a roadmap.

Follow the link to discover:
🌙 “The Lunar Body: How Nature Teaches Coherence”

We’d love to know:
Has the moon been influencing your energy this season?

11/28/2025

As we move deeper into the first lunar cycle of winter, the natural world is softening.
The days shorten, the light cools, and everything around us begins to settle into a quieter rhythm.

This is the season where the Earth invites us to slow down — not as an escape, but as a recalibration.
A return to coherence.

Here at Stone Lions Farm, we’re feeling it too…
The longer exhale,
the instinct to pause,
the pull toward warmth,
the way the moonlight seems just a little brighter in the stillness.

We would love to open this space for community reflection:

✨ What rest rituals are supporting your body this season?

A gentle morning?
A slower breath?
A warm tea at dusk?
Allowing yourself to do less?

🌑 And if you’re attuned to the lunar cycle…
What is the moon teaching you right now?

Your words may be exactly what someone else needs to hear.

Share your reflections in the comments.
Let’s create a small moment of collective coherence.

11/27/2025

A Conversation on Coherence + Integrative Healing
Dr. Stephanie Shelburne featured on Saybrook University’s Mindful Moments Podcast

We’re honored to share that Dr. Stephanie was recently a featured guest on Mindful Moments, a podcast produced by Saybrook University, where she spoke about the evolving landscape of integrative health, bioenergetics, and the human capacity for coherence.

In the episode, she explores:
✨ Why coherence is not just a state, but an outcome of alignment
✨ How bioenergetic rhythms influence emotional and physical well-being
✨ The future of integrative medicine through a lens of science and soul
✨ The importance of teaching people to “be with” the world and each other

One of our favorite moments from the conversation:
“Healing begins when the body and the environment begin speaking the same language. Coherence is the dialogue that makes transformation possible.” — Dr. Stephanie Shelburne

Her insights weave research, lived experience, and embodied wisdom into a grounded understanding of what it truly means to heal in relationship — with ourselves, with others, and with the natural world.

🎧 Listen to the full conversation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ1JoEacPgI&list=PLxAJMtAEOIoWC-Q2f13QfAR9kKMii7VRW&index=1

11/26/2025

As we move from autumn into winter, the body follows the Earth: slowing, settling, restoring.
The moon calls us inward.
Love what you hear? Listen to Dr. Stephanie on Soundcloud
🔗 https://soundcloud.com/bonewisdom/first-lunar-phase-of-winter?si=cbbd6b7044884dc19eaaeaf85a5da87b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

11/25/2025

Early frost, quiet observation, and the body’s instinct to ground.

The first frost arrived this week at Stone Lions Farm — a thin silver veil across the fields, a softening of sound, the kind of quiet that invites you inward.

There’s a moment each season where the land shifts first…
before we do.
The air cools, the light tilts, and the body — if we’re listening — responds.

In this early winter rhythm, the farm teaches us what our cells already know:

🌿 Slowing down is not withdrawal.
It’s a recalibration of energy, just like the soil conserving nutrients beneath the frost.

🌿 Stillness is productive.
Roots strengthen in darkness. Trees conserve their life force. The farm becomes intentional with every calorie and breath.

🌿 Observation is a practice.
When we stop rushing, we notice the small things: the way frost outlines each blade of grass… the gentle breath of animals in the morning cold… the way silence carries wisdom.

Out here, we are reminded that coherence isn’t just an inner process — it’s ecological.

The land models it for us every day:
slow, intentional, grounded.

As we enter this first lunar cycle of winter, may we honor the same rhythm within ourselves.

What has nature been teaching you this week?

11/25/2025

The Science of Slowing Down
How seasonal light shapes our bioenergetic rhythms

As the days shorten and the first lunar cycle of winter begins, the body quietly adjusts itself.
This isn’t simply “winter blues.”
This is biology.
This is bioenergetics.
This is coherence.

Reduced sunlight signals the suprachiasmatic nucleus — the brain’s circadian pacemaker — to shift us into a different energetic pattern.
Hormones recalibrate.
The nervous system softens.
The biofield draws inward, conserving and restoring.

In nature, this is a season of rooting, not rushing.
Trees pull their energy down into their roots.
Animals slow their pace.
And our bodies ask for the same.

This is not a personal failing.
It’s an ecological rhythm.

When we honor these shifts — through rest, slower mornings, intentional presence — we support our own coherence:
✨ steadier heart patterns
✨ clearer emotional processing
✨ strengthened immunity
✨ deeper energetic regulation

In this season, slowing down is the work.
It is a biological intelligence.
A return to alignment.

What rhythms are you noticing in your own body this week?

05/25/2025

True Story! Your emotional depth and variability is a key component to not only cultivating a sense of overall well-being, but also bumping life up a level to enhanced experiences of Coherence and Quantum Mastery .

You are, in fact, designed to gracefully navigate a wide variety of emotions. It is a birthright and a gift as a human being.

If that is true, then why do so many people struggle with the fluctuation of their emotions? Because emotional diversity is not supported in mainstream modern society and most people do not know how to self-regulate. In fact, they don’t even know that self-regulation is an option.

Instead, typical current societal pressures encourage you to flatline your emotional experiences, rather than practice how to master them. Ultimately, as you know, the flatline only serves to make you feel worse and worse.

The problem isn’t with your emotions. The problem is with not knowing how to navigate them successfully.

The antidote is learning how to master your emotional chemistry so you can experience the super strength of living a deeply satisfying life.

05/17/2025

Feeling stressed? It’s time to rethink how we view it. Stress isn’t the enemy—it’s a natural part of life that helps us grow and find balance. The real challenge is the experience of chronic stress, the kind that lingers and disrupts our well-being.

In today’s fast-paced world, stress comes from everywhere—our food, the media we consume, even the background noise of daily life. But here’s the good news: you can interrupt the cycle.

By adopting tools and practices that support your overall health, you can take charge of your stress and turn it into a force for resilience and growth. 💪

Take a moment today to pause, breathe, and embrace the ups and downs of life. You’ve got this! 🌱

Interrupt the “chronic”:
* Breathing exercises: Deep, controlled breathing can help calm the nervous system and reduce stress levels.
* Meditation/Contemplation: Regular meditation practice can improve overall well-being and resilience to stress.
* Movement: Combining movement and breath work through yoga has been shown to reduce stress and increase mindfulness.
* Journaling: Cultivating a habit of gratitude can shift our focus towards positivity and decrease feelings of stress
* Eat well: Eating a balanced diet can support overall physical and mental health, reducing the effects of stress on the body.
* Connect with nature: Spending time in nature has been shown to reduce stress and increase feelings of well-being.
* Seek support from loved ones or a therapist: Talking through our emotions and experiences with trusted individuals can help alleviate stress and provide valuable support.
* Practice self-care: Prioritizing self-care activities such as taking breaks, setting boundaries, and engaging in hobbies can decrease stress levels and improve overall well-being.

02/13/2025

The New England School for Bioenergetic Medicine is starting its Applied Bioenergetic Medicine program March 20th. If you're interested in learning how to cultivate deeper levels of coherence utilizing Bioenergetic processes, this is a program worth checking out.

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02/06/2025

When it’s the first lunar phase of spring and it’s still snowing and sleeting outside… it’s time to brew up something good for the soul. Hildegard von Bingen called wine the “blood of the earth” and frequently brewed concoctions in wine for its ability to warm the constitution.
This brew has cacao beans, rose petals, and a hint of saffron to nourish our hearts, apple rings from our orchard to remind us of fall days to come, star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, to spice up the winter blues.

10/30/2024

And sometimes you just have to pause… as the sunset takes your breath away.