My Personal Experience
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org,
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My main information is based on an all-day workshop I attended, and a one hour private session, both with polarity therapist Zorka Grigorov. Zorka mainly teaches and practices in Los Angeles and Switzerland.
In my first experience of receiving a polarity session, I was very nervous. I had no idea what to expect. This practice was a total mystery, an unknown, and I felt uninformed in a way I haven't before with other practices. The session began with a mirroring conversation that at first annoyed me and made me uneasy. I finally realized that I had rushed to be there and needed to slow down. I became calmer once I was on the table. Still, I had no idea what to expect and had to let go and trust in the process that was about to unfold. A sacred space was held.
I didn't remember everything that occurred by the end of the hour. It seemed like a long journey and somewhat blurred. I felt a sense of the energy current similar yet not the same thing as meridian and acupressure points. There was a distinct channel in and of its own in the wireless anatomy model. When the therapist placed her hands under me, I was on my back, and she lightly pressed my right gluteus. There was incredible soreness and pain on my right gluteus unbeknownst to me before. This was along a definitely different source of energy than I have experienced before in acupressure and acupuncture. What stood out was a moment of tears that released in a steady stream from deep within my core being. Something shifted for me then. By the end of this session, I was talking about “carving out my space,” and even did some dancing gestures in the air with my legs and arms. Part of my theme for the day was in sharing about my natural rhythm. I felt that my interior life wasn't matching my exterior, and I wanted to feel natural and flow in my body. Also, there was a self claiming and speaking out, verbalizing that I am an Artist-Healer, Healer-Artist, that I haven't done before. I've written about it, and saying it helped me profoundly to be with it. I was clear about our distinct boundaries as people. That night I had the most intense dream, and I believe this is in direct relation to the polarity work of that day, as the symbolism was very revealing.
During the Sunday workshop, there was a gradual lightening of my energy, a feeling of things lifting away, and by the end of the day, which was full of several hands-on experiences, I felt very peaceful and soft, more so in my body than I'd experienced previously. There was a gentleness that reflects other sensory awareness experiences that bring me back to my own nourishing space in keeping myself “fluffed,” aired out, and meeting my own personal needs from moment to moment in my sensory experience.
The following weekend at an all day workshop, the teacher said, “Don't do this work if you're not ready for change!” My life began changing dramatically that week. I got a new car, and hadn’t had one in four years, I left my job, tailor-made several versions of my resume, which I had been putting off, and received numerous positive responses, more than I have received in recent years. A total reframe of life threw me topsy-turvy, even though I knew that I was moving back into healthy alignment from a misalignment I did not know how to repolarize.
I started feeling more socially integrated than I had for some time, and I felt something had lifted, a barrier. Everything became blindingly brilliant. My future awaited. I felt open to be myself, get in touch with everyone, and maintain consistent communications in my personal and professional life. Something clicked for me. A light went on. Something shifted from blocking my view to clearing it up. I've gotten more ordered in the home, and cleared up some physical spaces, which are a great daily mirror.
I enjoy the format of how touch is integrated intimately without the confusion massage alone may give off between being therapeutic and sensual. Polarity Therapy clarifies this boundary for me as a healer in regard to being present with a client. It offers relief on my part as a potential therapist to know it is not up to me to “fix” anybody. This protocol is in keeping with a basic philosophy I believe in, that each individual is able to respond to and be responsible for his or her own health and healing process. This matches my own personal healing journey, and the knowledge that there are many energies at work. I have felt these energies in my own healing when I was previously at a loss as to how to describe and communicate. I felt terribly misunderstood for so long in my attempts at receiving healing. Polarity Therapy provides a sense of advocacy for the client while maintaining sensory awareness and control by the client. The therapist is a traveling companion on the path of healing with the client, with an intention to be present and listen, which is what most people seem to be craving in our modern society today.
Personally and professionally, I received tremendous benefit from my intimate experience in the realm of Polarity Therapy, and I consider this a stepping-stone to delving more deeply into the heart of this practice. I encourage others to carve out their own path with these concepts. I envision that people are able to take these ideas and integrate them on their own in their daily lives as a type of “feng shui” for the body-mind and unifying energy fields. Thus, Polarity Therapy embodies quantum physics as a living energy system, applicable to body-mind health and well-being for the interested individual, and for the highest good of the client.