Beginnings
The EnergyTouch® School of Advanced Healing began in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2004.
The Energy Touch® School of Advanced Healing was founded in 2004 by Tricia Eldridge with its early home being in the Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Since its inception the School has steadily grown and expanded its influence in the Energy Medicine community. The Grand Rapids Michigan area was our home for several years and we are now on the move again with the intention of owning our own facility, During this transition time we are temporarily located on the second floor of the Lowell Arts Building in our home town of Lowell, Michigan.
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"The move is another of our many 'leaps of faith' and we trust that we will again land exactly where we need to be."
Tricia Eldridge
Over Twenty Years
In October 1998, Tricia Eldridge began developing a new energy healing modality that would focus on specific illnesses and ailments. Combining scientific medical knowledge with her understanding of the human energy field, she developed protocols to successfully treat many of Western medicine's most complex illnesses and conditions.
As Tricia continued to develop and implement her new modality in her private practice, others began learning of her healing successes. Soon, other healers were asking her to teach them her new modality. This interest prompted her to formally organize her teachings, and in 2004, Tricia began teaching her new modality, which she called EnergyTouch®.
The Energy Touch® School of Advanced Healing began as a two-year program in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and the journey has been a leap of faith from that point on.
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The Dolphin Breath® Teachings
Essential to Tricia's early teachings was a multidimensional chakra-clearing skill that would become the foundation for her work. This skill includes a grounding meditation, which begins by instructing the practitioner to open their pranic tube, allowing them to connect to Universal and Earth Energies and serve as a conduit between the two. She called this chakra-clearing skill the Dolphin Breath® teachings.
The Three-Year Program
Today the Energy Touch® School of Advanced Healing is a three-year program designed for adults, using both classroom and home study to complete their training. Each school year, students travel to West Michigan for hands-on instruction and lectures with Tricia and her staff. Small class size is maintained to insure direct contact with each student. Classes are scheduled to allow students to continue to maintain current jobs and/or develop their healing practices while discovering new skills for use with their clients. One day during each class week, community clients may be invited into the classroom for sessions with the students. Community client sessions can help the students build their confidence in the work, in their Guidance, and in their ability to communicate their findings with their clients. Homework assignments between each class week allow students to integrate these new skills into their practice and report immediate results. Students are also encouraged to explore their own unique talents and share their experiences, joys and concerns in a safe environment of compassion and respect.
Self-Evolution
During the course of the school, personal therapy sessions are required with an intention towards clearing the energies, belief systems and cellular memories that no longer serve the student healers. Because the heart is the gateway for this work, deep issues and beliefs held energetically in the heart—both conscious and unconscious—come forward to be released in a safe compassionate environment. Just as we help our clients remove unnecessary energies and beliefs, so do we need to clear our own fields to allow for the growth and multi-dimensional expansion that will bring us to our full potential as Energy Touch® Practitioners. These sessions are done outside the classroom to allow the student to process emotional issues in private.
"We can only take our clients as far as we ourselves are willing to go."
Tricia Eldridge