What does it mean to heal with Alchemy Arts?
The traditional understanding of Alchemy understands that to heal is to evolve and to evolve is to heal. Healing without evolution - change, growth, and personal development - is like a plant without roots. We honor the body and the journey back to health. It’s a personal evolution and self-transformational process.
Here at alchemy we treat the whole person. We work with the different layers of the body: Physical, Physiological, Mental, Emotional, Energetic and Spiritual. We realize you are more than your symptoms and consider all aspects of your body, history and environment.
Alchemy Art of Healing, is a healing art form because it requires skill and expertise to know when and how to use certain modalities/interventions. There is an art to healing and medicine and we have perfected it. We recognize, one treatment strategy does not work for everyone, so we aim to create individualized treatment plans. We apply the art of healing in such a way for your body to bring about total health and healing from the inside out - creating integrity for your foundation. Leading you towards discovering your best self.
ALCHEMY OFFERINGS
Alchemy Art of Healing is a functional naturopathic medical practice that utilizes nutrition, herbalism, physical medicine, homeopathy and western medicine to meet your health goals. Our bodywork services blend multiple techniques that assess the whole body from the feet to the hips, spine, cranium and jaw. Everything is interconnected and we consider the multiple causes for pain and restrictions in the body. No matter your disharmony, we have multiple tools in our toolbox to help support you on your healing journey.
We use evidence-based research, along with a therapeutic order when forming treatment strategies. Most of the time disease can be corrected when nutritional and biochemical imbalances are improved. However, sometimes stronger interventions are needed. The importance is when to know the difference. Let us help you navigate the world of nutrition, supplements, medicine and the mind, body, spirit connection.
Through integrating Alchemy Healing Arts you can work on the many layers of Self to help transform your whole being to reach optimized health. Through Alchemy’s bodywork services and herbalism, we help to provide the deepest levels of healing needed during these critical times of change. Rejuvenating the body, clarifying the mind, strengthening the heart, healing through past trauma, so you can follow your dreams.
What is Alchemy?
Alchemy
is a term long-used by ancient healers and chemists around the world. Alchemy means transformation and transmutation. Alchemy began as a mixture of practical knowledge and speculation on the nature of matter. Over time it evolved into the science we know as chemistry. It is believed that alchemists would try to transform basic metals into gold and that they were the master of the elements.
Alchemy is a very broad topic. Like 'architecture', it means a lot of things and can be done in many different ways. Alchemists theorized over natural philosophies, universal laws and concepts of energy. Philosophers found correspondences among the elements, planets, metals and ether. Learning and beliefs focused around optimized health, personalized elixirs and self-realization.
Where does Alchemy healing come from?
One of our founding fathers of Naturopathic medicine, and all medicine really, includes Paracelsus, the notorious alchemist and physician. He appeared in Central Europe around 1520, whose practice and philosophy of medicine was essentially from nature and spirit. He introduced the essential doctrines of nature, much of which modern medicine is based upon. His approach united the spiritual and the physical, the divine and the natural, the whole to the part. His medicine encompasses the vital life force, the wisdom of nature, and the spiritual faculties of human nature.
However, these doctrines have since then been stripped of their spiritual orientation in modern western medicine. Paracelsus’ alchemical and spiritual approach to medicine and health have stayed alive predominantly through western herbalism, naturopathy, homeopathy and flower essence.
The historical connectedness of different healing traditions from around the world have largely been lost. Here at Alchemy Art of Healing we study and pass down ancient and traditional medicine-based healings intertwined with natural and spiritual.
Alchemy Art of Healing’s Philosophy
We use the concept of alchemy in our approach to meeting your health goals. When we break the body down, we can see that optimal health starts from the integrity of your cells, the foundation that builds you up. Transforming unhealthy cells into cells that function optimally is one part of what we believe contributes to long-term health. Every second of the day, our cells are in a constant state of transformation to carry out functions, provide energy and rebuild the Self. Our cells are responsible for our biochemical orchestra that sustains health. Are your cells singing in tune?
Your cells are the conductors of the orchestra that defines you. Groups of cells that work together for a specific function form tissues, tissues then create organs, organs work together to create organ systems. Organ systems then come together to create your body and expression as we know it. This is the essence of holism, to consider all the parts of the whole. This is what makes you beautifully unique.
This self-sustaining system is dependent on all parts to work synergistically together. However, in our modern world, we are susceptible to poor nutrition, stress, injury, oxidative damage and more, which can create disharmony and imbalances within these organ systems and their cells. Supporting these processes are unique to everyone as we all experience imbalances differently.
By building healthy cells and correcting the structure of the skeleton and organs, we can create an environment of an able and healthy body. Supplying what the body needs and removing what it does not sounds simple but as we are well aware, many things can complicate our health.
This is where we step in. We help you navigate your own terrain (Mind-body-spirit-and heart) as you explore what works and doesn’t work for your body. We will help give you the tools your body needs to correct imbalances all while helping to transform the elements of you into your best and healthiest self.