❋ ENERGY HEALER
IMPRESSIONS ❋ FEBRUARY 22 , 2009 ❋ LEADER-TELEGRAM
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By Eva Apelqvist
few years back, Lisa Mattison
struggled with the after-effects
of a heart-wrenching divorce.
“I was barely holding on,” she
said. “I felt like I just couldn’t cope. My
thinking was completely chaotic.”
As though a gift from the universe,
Mattison stumbled upon energy healer
Sondra Lewis.
At some other point in her life
Mattison might not have considered
trying something she knew little about,
like energy healing. But at that point
she was searching for anything that
might help her cope. Today, she does
not regret her choice to trust Lewis
with her emotional healing.
Stepping into the vast room in Lewis’
home — an open area on the top floor
of the house, with large windows
and green plants — felt calming to
Mattison.
“When I lay down on the table,” she
said, “It felt like she had put me in a
warm bathtub. I could actually feel my
energy changing as I lay there.”
Lewis, whose background includes
four years of training at the Barbara
Brennan School of Healing, followed
by a 2-year graduate program with
focus on international service, has run
a bioenergetic healing and counseling
practice for more than 16 years out of
her home in rural Birchwood. Lewis
also has training in the Hokomi
Method, Past Life Regression, EFT
(Emotional Freedom Technique), flower
essence therapy, Myofascial Release
and Matrix Energetics. Lewis has
experience with Mattison’s emotional
situation.
“When you’re in a relationship with
somebody, there are energy cords
between you and that person. In a
break up, the cords are broken. They
are literally flailing about. In my energy
work, I reconnect the lose ends, so that
you can be free to connect to other
people again.”
Mattison instantly was impressed
with the healing. She could feel it
working.
“It was such a strange sensation,”
Mattison said of her first healing
session. “I felt so much stronger. I felt I
had more core.”
Of course, all great healing