Gary Chatham, M.A.

Tomorrow night, Friday, June 21st, at 6:00 p.m., we will have our Summer Solstice Ceremony at Shore Acres Park in Chillicothe. There is no charge for this, but donations are accepted. If you have a drum, please bring it for the ceremony.

Our next introduction to Shamanism and Trauma Healing class is Monday night at my office. If you are not in the area and would like the zoom link, please let me know.https://www.facebook.com/share/BdhA4a51F8wn6R9T/?mibextid=9VsGKo

Tonight is our Ceremony to Heal the Earth at Shore Acres Park in Chillicothe at 6 pm. All are welcome. https://www.facebook.com/share/WwoGuHBYHvF26yfz/?mibextid=9VsGKo

Our second in person Introduction to Shamanism and Trauma Healing class will be tonight at my office at 7. Please see the Facebook group, or contact me to RSVP. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/GdewRBGWt2hC3kwF/?mibextid=xfxF2i

Our next Introduction to Shamanism and Trauma Healing class will be next Tuesday, April 8th at my office. We will expand the class to people attending remotely on Zoom , if needed. Please join the Facebook group and respond here.
https://www.facebook.com/share/GwwGhzSDHoTmX6VY/?mibextid=9VsGKo

Not my graphic, but I could not agree more.

Next Sunday, all day, I will be at the Awaken Faire at Miraspa in East Peoria. It will be a great day of natural healing! I will be presenting my method of emotional trauma healing, Victoria Mitchell will talk about healing grief, based on her most recent book, and others! We will have 45 minute presentations, and some practitioners will do short individual sessions (I will). Hope to see you there! https://miraspatherapeutic.com/the-awaken-faire

Ha! Looks like I forgot to post this video I did a few weeks ago. It's about how healers and people called to help others are being called to attend to their own inner healing now, so they can help others more later.

Why does the world seem upside down? For people called to help... Why does the world seem upside down now? For empaths and highly sensitive people, people with a calling to help in some way, it is part of the plan now. I a...

I'm excited to be speaking again Sunday at Universal Spirituality Center in Peoria on finding and moving into your calling or life's purpose! Please join us at Soulside Healing Arts at 10:15!

I'm excited to be speaking at Inner Wisdom bookstore in Galesburg, Illinois this Saturday on soul retrieval and shamanic trauma healing, at 4:30 p.m. If you are interested, please arrive no later than 4:00. https://www.innerwisdombookstore.com/

My office mate Jeanna, who is an art therapist, is holding a monthly meditative Art Moon Mingle each month for people from anywhere by Zoom. Tonight is the next one at 7 Central!

Congratulations to Sarthak and Keshav, who recently completed their Reiki Level 1 training, and are close to completing their Level 2! It is an honor to be your teacher and your guide.

As someone who has a healing calling and profession, and a musician, I have been interested in how sound and music can be used for emotional, energetic, and/or physical healing. Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine have been able to move heart tissue cells into patterns using sound. I'm looking forward to see how this continues. I am also using sound and music more in my work with my clients. Here is the link to the original study: https://stanmed.stanford.edu/innovations-helping-harness-sound-acoustics-healing/?fbclid=IwAR00mkzzzh0fCGa531cT-pPr0CWUlFFCQsbRBC3XdzYxP4csmHKjM4LJ-Gc

Research at Stanford University is finding acoustics to create new heart tissue!

This image shows the ‘cymatics’, or geometric patterns created in heart cells when applying various sounds. In bio-acoustic sound medicine, is taught that sounds are imprinting every cell and science continues to prove this ancient axiom.
Cardiologist Sean Wu, MD, PhD and Utkan Demirci, PhD, an acoustic bio-engineer use acoustics to manipulate heart cells into intricate patterns. A simple change in frequency and amplitude puts the cells in motion, guides them to a new position and holds them in place. Acoustics can create a form that resembles natural cardiac tissue. With sound they can create new tissue to replace parts of damaged hearts. Acoustics can be used in reconstructing other organ tissue and blood vessels.

Sounds are use to create and harmonize, as well as clean and release. Both principles are used in science using high precision acoustical generators. The same principles can be applied safely by individuals using non-invasive, natural harmonic sounds, such as our voices and acoustic instruments.

Ani Williams - Songaia Sound

Here is a link to the Stanford study: https://stanmed.stanford.edu/innovations-helping-harness-sound-acoustics-healing/?fbclid=IwAR2NuibIk0EEKIvSHwCY-me6-3Lt9OEHqSyOrRTBYxxeYMcGS3TM_YQL3qc

Welcome to the office! Even though I work with clients from anywhere through Zoom appointments, I also meet with clients in person in my office in Peoria. It is important to me to create a warm, healing environment. (My office mate Jeanna has painted beautiful murals on the walls!) I believe that through color, decor, lighting, and music, your energy can shift, which helps the healing process.

Many practitioners and therapists use cold colors and dark lighting, which can tend to increase clients’ negative emotions, rather than helping to alleviate them. My philosophy is to bring healing to the whole person.

There is not "humanity and nature." There is just nature, and we are a part of it.

You can't see him, or her very well, but my hawk came to talk to me today and landed on the light post down the street. Realizing that we are not separate from nature, but a part of it, is essential to human surviving, and can be part of our spirituality.

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Here is the replay link for the Facebook live I did this afternoon with Twillow Academy - "How to Survive and Thrive as an Empath During the Holidays - Protecting your Energy and Boundaries." https://www.facebook.com/581237645/videos/890423668792406/

It feels great to be teaching Reiki level 1 today and later next week. :-) If you're interested also, please let me know.

Don’t allow for the world to change you into someone that you’re not. What you have within you, a bright, beautiful light, must always shine.

Hi, everyone. I scheduled our next in person meeting for Monday, 7/11/22 at my office. We will learn natural, drug-free remedies for anxiety, and how to deal with being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). Please RSVP here. Looking forward to seeing everyone! https://fb.me/e/dq5xqg3rV

Even the smallest spark of positivity can spread like wild fire to everyone else you come across. It’s amazing what impact even the smallest acts of kindness can have on the quality of someone else’s day.

We are on live now. :)

Create yourself. Brick by brick. It doesn’t happen overnight, but gradually. Over time. Develop yourself, and notice as you grow. See as you blossom into who you are to become.