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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Valley&State Backpage O&E Sports Archives Classifieds Faith&Beliefs Obituaries Revels November 19, 2004 Healing through charkas By John Darling Tidings Correspondent If it isn't fun, Debra Hurt isn't going to do it. A longtime Ashland energy kinesiologist and artist, Hurt this weekend is offering an unusual (and fun) seminar combining the healing arts and the visual arts, learning how to balance and harmonize the body's energy centers (charkas) - as well as creating a colorful piece of chakra art. Debra Hurt, an artist and energy kinesiologist, will present a class on how find balance in life through chakras. Submitted photo The class, "The Art and Energy of the Chakras," teaches the use of energy kinesiology - energy testing and muscle testing to discover where the body is out of balance and then using simple acupuncture meridian touch to restore that balance, said Hurt. "It's a gentle, non-invasive method, using the hands, to bring harmony to body, mind and emotions, countering our cultural predisposition of gathering energy to our heads for use by the intellect, thus separating us from the perceptions gathered by the heart and gut," said Hurt, who teaches the class is all day Saturday and Sunday at Nuwandart Art Gallery on A Street in Ashland. It costs $150 (488-5872). Hurt learned kinesiology 18 years ago from master practitioner Donna Eden of Ashland and Florida, author of "Energy Medicine." Hurt combines it with verbal counseling and guided visualization, operating on the understanding, said client Alex Forrester of Ashland, that "we each have an invisible energy field around us that's affected by what we do, think and say," with outcomes in health or illness. Forrester, a land use planner, suffered from necrosis of a knee bone after a fall and the doctors were talking about knee replacement, he said. After six weeks of kinesiology with Hurt, with explorations of personal attitudes and expectations, he learned the root causes of the energy at work in the injured bone and, when he visited an osteopathic surgeon, he was told he was 90 percent healed and needed only some physical therapy, he reported. "She specializes in treating the energy, in finding out what's behind this, because something is trying to come out," Forrester said. Hurt teaches the system of chakras, the subtle energy system that governs the nervous system - each chakra carrying an electromagnetic field that moves out from the body and interpenetrates it. "Learning to balance and harmonize the chakra system makes it easier to manage emotions, stress, induce calmness, stop mental chatter, perform better in school and work and get along with your partner," said Hurt. A balanced energy system allows one to be more tuned into body wisdom, such as that of "gut instinct," which is information from a part of the body that, unlike the mind, "has not yet evolved to experience self doubt," she noted. For the artistic dimension of her teachings, Hurt, a former stage designer and scenic artist, has students do a creative visualization of the nature and energy patterns of each of their chakras, then paint them on fabric, putting the paintings together as an artistic representation of their energy system to later use as a memory tool in meditation and healing. Students learn the use of flower essences, which are "bottled energy patterns" that carry a specific frequency to balance the chakra system, she said. When Hurt was learning kinesiology, she treated a son with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. "He was a maniac, out of control. I would read him a bedtime story, then clear his chakras. In a few months, he was a different kid, much more in his body and comfortable with himself." Said Hurt, "What it does is support wellness and prevent the return of disharmonies and brings about a return to balance. You should clear your chakras like you brush your teeth." DailyTidings.com Home Page Valley&State | Backpage | O&E | Sports | Archives | Weather | Classifieds Columnists | Faith&Beliefs | Obituaries | Revels | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2004 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Click Here Site Search: .:Advertisements:. RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams