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   EXPERIENCES AT THE IANDS ANNUAL CONFERENCE HELD IN SAN DIEGO, CA

The theme of the conference, “Transformed in the Light:  Helping Humanity with Balanced Abilities,” reflected the psychic, healing, and artistic abilities many near-death survivors discover and the changes they made in their lives’ directions following their near-death experience. Another focus of the conference was how higher consciousness can be put to good social purposes. 

IANDS held a pre-conference Healing/Arts day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on October 15^th which was followed by the full conference over the next two days.  I was one of the healers invited to give sessions during the Healing Arts day. 

I agreed to be a healer at the IANDS pre-conference after I was double-teamed by two beloved sensitives who had visions of me participating.  Well, triple-teamed, if you count my internal prompting that participating was “right action” to do!

Registration began at 9:00 a.m. for the participants for the Healing/Arts Day, though the healers could arrive earlier and set up their space.  The Healing Room was held in the Ballroom, and doors opened to the attendees promptly at 10:00 a.m.  IANDS set up a registration table on the patio outside the Healing Room, which was personned by friendly, helpful people who took reservations for the healers.  Each healer had an individual sign up sheet with their available blocks of time. The staff provided registrants with a Healers Directory, showing the healers' modalities, contact information and our pictures. They also reminded us healers to block some time for lunch and for breaks!  

Download the .pdf  Healers Directory here 

Registrants paid $25 and could sign up for a maximum of 3 healing sessions - receiving a session from up to 3 different healers during the day.  In addition, registrants were able to visit an Arts room to view and purchase books, art, and music, and a Video room to view NDE documentary videos during the day.  An area on the patio outside the Healing Room held 2 tables with a wide mix of refreshments for those waiting for their sessions.  IANDS promised in their e-mails to me it would be a magical time for all of us.

Over 200 people participated, and IANDS had a cheerful army of local volunteers organized who were quick to assist me in unloading and helped ferry two massage tables, SOQi equipment, SHEN cradle, cushions, and linens from my little Toyota and a friend's SUV to the Ballroom and back at the end of the day.  One registrant in a wheel chair had terrible pain and spasms in his shoulders and arms, which alleviated when I did some hands-on work while he was in his chair.  He wanted to try the SOQi, too, and so a lovely volunteer helped me move him from his wheel chair onto the SOQi bed, and then back into his chair again after his session.

My first 2 clients had wonderful experiences on the table, and when I went to check my sign up page after the second session, my book for the day was filled with a waiting list!  Apparently word got out fast that good stuff happened at the Ayleyaell space!  I ended up facilitating 12 people by the end of the day. (7 registrants, 3 staff members and two “emergencies.”)   Several times I had one client under the SOQi equipment, and another on the SHEN table! 

I jokingly described the healing day as “speed dating!”   I had just 20 minutes to connect with each person's essence, invite expansion, midwife change and facilitate integration!  What was interesting to me was that each participant from the conference that I worked with had chi with a similar “soft” quality to it, and each “experiencer” quietly demonstrated their ability to stay present to their internal experience on the table.   Some just had a SOQi treatment,  but most received table time plus some SOQi.   A soft gong was sounded at the beginning of the 20 minutes, at half time, and at the end of the session.  It was quite beautiful and the IANDS healing day definitely lived up to its pre-conference promise to be a magical time for all of us!

I know the sessions I give have sometimes been called “big medicine” because they can reach into and heal very old, buried wounds.  SHEN often precipitates a psyche to ‘seize the moment’ and release as much as possible to lighten, and that the momentum of chi from a session continues for a while after the table time.  It seems to me something internal or perhaps heavenly recognizes an opportunity, and wants to utilize the space I've set up and me to continue to facilitate more and more release and insight, especially if trauma was part of their history.  So knowing that,  I freed my schedule and made myself available for the next 3 days to conference participants. My office is about a mile from the Mission Valley Resort conference site as the crow flies.  Sure enough, I ended up with a full schedule, working until 9 pm at night.  Some wonderful souls come back for additional sessions, and a few folks who had been 'closed out' during the Healing Day came to see what was possible. We shared the joy of expanding their healing and getting to know each other better, as well as the sublime bliss of pomegranate soup at Soltan Banoo, our terrific local family run Persian restaurant.

* Follow up: I was invited to Chicago speak with the IANDS group and to be available for individual healing sessions!  I'll be in Chicago from February 13 to Feb 16, 2010.  For more information, please press here: Chicago IANDS.

Click here for information about The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) organization.

 

 

Speakers included authors Charles Tart, PhD, internationally known transpersonal

psychologist; Jeffery Mishlove, PhD, parapsychologist and President of the

Intuition Network; PMH Atwater, LHD, near-death experiencer and researcher;

and Melvin Morse, MD, pediatrician and pioneering researcher of children’s

NDEs.  Research and experiencer presentations and panels round out the program. 

The conference was held at Mission Valley Resort, 875 Hotel Circle South, 92108

                                                     Articles about the conference in local San Diegan publications:

The Light Connection http://www.lightconnection.us/article3.html 

and Vision Magazine: http://www.visionmagazine.com/archives/0910/InnerHealing_mishlove.html