I came to understand this energy-based work through direct experience with clients. Again and again, I found myself returning to the vertebrae as a point of entry into the nervous system and the subconscious. When I work, I’m in an altered, highly receptive state—open to information arriving from higher frequencies, whether that’s guides, angels, or the unnamed awareness I call The Field.Information comes in different ways. Sometimes it arrives in flashes, like Polaroid photographs waved briefly before my closed eyes—inside my mind’s eye. Sometimes it comes as a sudden, embodied knowing. And often, it comes through my voice: I don’t know what I’m about to say until the words are fully spoken. This is how Vertebral Record Work first revealed itself to me, over six years ago.I was shown that deep within the marrow of each vertebra live the energetic roots of a person’s ancestral inheritance, childhood experiences, and belief structures—both true and false. Energetically “cracking open” a vertebra is like opening a book. Inside are stories. Each session begins with the client naming what they hope to create in their life—more abundance, creative flow, relational harmony. When I open the vertebral record, I look for the story that explains why an obstacle exists, then gently release it and rewire the story center.
I was later surprised—and deeply validated—to learn that Indigenous Hawaiian understanding includes a parallel concept called iwi-wai. In English it translates as “bone water,” which makes perfect sense to me. Water is highly programmable, and the cerebrospinal fluid flowing through the vertebrae is a form of crystalline water—an ideal medium for holding and updating information.
Vertebral Record Work also reminds me of the Vedic understanding of kundalini awakening, in which energy surges up the spine, creating space for universal energy to move without obstruction. It’s as though kundalini clears, in a single dramatic sweep, the many blockages held within the vertebral records.
I experienced a kundalini awakening at thirty-one, and it was intense—beautiful, painful, and profoundly disorienting. Re-aligning that much information all at once can be overwhelming, even when it is deeply clearing.
Vertebral Record Work moves differently. It works more gently, allowing the nervous system to integrate change over time—yet it is no less effective. The clearing happens in a way the body can receive, absorb, and sustain.
I now offer Vertebral Record Work as a standalone session for clients who wish to explore their lives through a deeply somatic lens. While it hews closely to the Healing Excavation sessions I offered between 2015 and 2025, this work is more focused in its energetic precision and requires less verbal processing. The emphasis is on direct transmission, quiet receptivity, and allowing the body’s record to speak for itself.
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