Lorena Guenther

A good friend of mine once called me a "Tree Huggin' Otter Scrubber." At the time, I don't think she thought it was a compliment. In all honesty, I have never scrubbed an otter! I have helped the occasional wild animal, and I still do energy work and massage on dogs, cats and horses. I plead the Fifth on hugging trees.

I have been a massage therapist since 2001, specializing in chronic pain and injury rehabilitation. I attended two schools in San Luis Obispo, CA. The first school, Central California School of Body Therapy, was geared heavily into clinical sports work and used structural integration and deep tissue work as the basis for much of its program. I was approximately three quarters of the way through the program, when the school had to close, due to the unexpected and sudden death of the owner. I then moved to Hirudaya Holistic Life Center. This school was geared more toward an eastern philosophy, going in depth into shiatsu,  energy work and a much kinder and gentler version of deep tissue. Because of the immersion into both eastern and western philosophies, I feel I had a much more balanced knowledge base at an earlier time in my practice than many therapists receive.

For many years I have been studying and using Shamanic healing techniques in my practice. I have tried several energy and healing techniques, and the one that seems to work consistantly for both me and my clients are the philosophies handed down by a Southern Lipan Apache Shaman, medicine man and scout by the name of Stalking Wolf. Stalking Wolf taught Tom Brown jr, who passes on this wisdom at the Tracker School in New Jersey. I have taken many classes at the Tracker School, and continue to do so as time permits.

I just recently took levels 1 and 2 of the Matrix Energetics seminars. This work explains and uses healing from a quantum physics standpoint, and interestingly enough, it's amazingly similar to what I already know and practice from the Tracker School. This leads to the question that so many of my clients ask me after experiencing a body work session from me. What is it that you do, because I've never experienced anything like it before? I believe it is the combination of technical expertise and a gentle, artful touch, mixed with "energy." To this day I haven't been able to explain it even to myself, and so I have included a picture here that may help clear things up. Or maybe not. Who knows! The above print, entitled "IF YODA WAS AN INDIAN" is by a Native American artist named Bunky Echo-hawk. This print illustrates what I do far better than any words I have been able to find. After all, Shamans were the first quantum physicists.