What is it like, having an appointment with Body Whisperer Lynne Porzel? She asks you where you would like attention. If you have pain or tightness or other specific problems, you tell her at the start of your appointment. Then comes the amazing part!

Every minute that she works on you, doing Intuitive Massage, Lynne listens to your body. All of it. Tightness in your shoulders could go all the way down to your toes. To take the pain away, you can't simply adjust one part. Not for lasting results. Each human body works as a complex system. Lynne has studied that system from different angles. (Click here for a list of trainings and certificates that form her background.) This technical knowledge helps Lynne to understand what the body tells her.

A CONVERSATION LIKE NO OTHER
What happens next is a conversation like no other. Your body whispers to Lynne and she responds with the gentlest possible touch. Are you ready? She asks the muscle, the tendon, bone or organ. Then she waits, she breathes, she listens. Soon the body responds. Frozen shoulders come back to life. Sciatica flares down. Chronic injuries heal. Even partly-atrophied organs can come back to life. (To use one of Lynne's favorite words for this, under her hands they become "plump.")

Lynne's secret of success is simple. She doesn't just work on the body. She listens. A true Body Whisperer doesn't just imagine she listens or wish that maybe she could listen. She establishes a connection that is absolutely real, deep, and dependable. When Lynne Porzel listens, your body knows it.

You really care? You're not just going to push me around and try to force me into doing what you want? What, you value what I've been doing lately, trying to support you the best way I can?

Gently the body responds. It's not forced. Doesn't it make sense that the best results come through teamwork, not forcing? 

RESPECTING THE DEEP INTELLIGENCE OF YOUR BODY
Maybe you know what a Horse Whisperer does to break in a horse. It's different from what you'll find happening in most stables. Usually the owner of a horse plays a psychological game, dominating the horse until its will is broken. I'll teach you a lesson. Do what I tell you or else!  Now that horse can be dominated, saddled, used for work or for sport.

By contrast, a Horse Whisperer is a particular kind of intuitive, an animal communicator. How can we work together? Don't worry. I'm not here to hurt you. Tell me what you need. The Horse Whisperer connects empathically and experiences what is really going on within that particular animal. In turn, the horse feels heard. No longer bullied, it enters into a relationship and communicates. Results are astounding. True Horse Whisperers amazingly effective at training a horse. Horse Whisperers are rare indeed.

So are Body Whisperers. Lynne Porzel is one, a gifted healer in Burke, her professional office near George Mason's Burke campus, right off the Fairfax County Parkway.

Lynne does a kind of healing work that can't be taught. Body Whisperers are born, not made. To prepare for your first session with Lynne, click here.

To make an appointment, click here.

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Questions I ask
If the client is having pain in an area of their body, I need to know whether this is chronic pain or the result of a recent incident. If the pain is chronic, how long has it been there? When did it start? When does it get more or less intense? What do they do to relieve it?  What movement or activity makes it worse or better? Each of their answers guides my approach to their care. If the pain is new I need to know if it was an accident or the result of an intense activity like raking the leaves or moving boxes or too much tennis playing. If it’s an accident, I need to know how the accident happened. What happened to their body at the time of the accident and immediately afterwards. All these questions give me information that will guide how I work on their body.

So what are the tools I use and the methodologies that I use.  My tools are my hands which I use not only to do the work but also to listen to your body. I sense contraction points in the muscles and fascia, I sense other parts that are connected to the point I am working on and I sense release of tension. The methodologies that I use are: therapeutic massage, craniosacral therapy, energywork, sound healing and intuitive guidance. 

Through massage, I open and lengthen the muscles and fascia; Craniosacral therapy  allows me to access the brain, the spinal cord, diaphragms within the body and the craniosacral fluid flow. This is helpful with systems that are tight overall, with headaches, migraines, and TMJ.
 
Energy work allows me release energy that is caught in tissue that is too deep in the body for me to touch with massage.  I use this for joint pain, abdominal issues and meridian congestion. 

Sound healing is used in conjunction with all the therapies above to add vibration which assists the tissue in moving as it needs to. There is a body wisdom that I work with instead of forcing my idea of how the body should heal on the process. Last I use what I call Intuitive guidance. This is an expansion of the listening skill that I talked about earlier. I use my ability to listen to the whole field of a client to assist them in working with issues that are more spiritual than physical.

Acute and Chronic Conditions that Lynne can help alleviate

Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle method of detection and correction that
encourages your own natural healing mechanism to dissipate the negative
effects of stress on your central nervous system. It allows the natural Cranial Sacral Rhythm to re-establish itself thus increasing flow of fluids in cells and massage of organs necessary for good health. After a session, clients feel deeply relaxed and experience lowered levels of tension or pain. 

Every healing modality assists the body/spirit in releasing restricted patterns and re-instituting correct energetic flow through a specific vibration or physical touch.   I have been trained in Craniosacral therapy, Chinese Medical Chi Kung, Chi Nei Tsang, Reiki, and Chakra Therapy, 

Clients who would find Intuitive Healing helpful have:

Sound Healing
Our scientists state that there is energy that they cannot measure that connects all things. As creatures made up mostly of water, we exist within these fields of connecting energy and respond to the sounds and vibration of our environment.  These responses can be unconscious adaptations of our systems or they can be conscious.

There are certain sounds that can assist the body in its healing just as there are sounds that make it hard for the body to heal. I use a variety of sounds both vocally and sub-vocally to enhance the energetic vibration of the client’s physical or energetic systems. Clients can learn and use these sound patterns to continue the healing at home and work. The sound methodologies come from Living Tao Healing and Tom Kenyon’s work on Sound Healing.

Therapeutic Massage
Deep Tissue Massage is a critical help when individuals need  relief from acute  or chronic pain. If you have pain, discomfort, and/or tightness in the muscles or joints of the back, neck, shoulders, hips, legs or arms, then this would be an appropriate therapy for you. Additionally, It is an excellent support therapy for individuals with with chronic illnesses such as Asthma, Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Parkinson’s and Cancer.

Massage Therapy is an effective support for good health because it increases circulation, lowers blood pressure, relieves tension/tightness in muscles and stimulates the immune system. 

Individuals who are changing their workout programs or preparing for a race or athletic contest often use regular massage to improve their performance. 

Overall, clients report that, after a Massage session, they feel very relaxed, can move more fluidly and easily, and that their pain/discomfort has been significantly reduced.

Chi Nei Tsung
Chi Nei Tsang is abdominal massage focusing on energizing, strengthening and detoxifying the internal system. All internal organs react to the stress and emotions of our lives. Those reactions impact the functioning of that organ system and neighboring organs.

Clients who want relief from intestinal blockages, constipation, cramps, stomach/liver discomfort, headaches, poor blood circulation, asthma, back pain or want to balance their internal organ energies, would choose Chi Nei Tsang.

The benefits include relief from discomfort and lessening of symptoms, overall health improvement and feeling of balance internally. This therapy can include teaching of meditations so that clients can learn to recognize/direct/increase the energy flow in their bodies while maintaining daily balance of their internal system.