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Therapeutic Services
MUSIC EVOKED IMAGERY/GUIDED IMAGERY MUSIC
LABYRINTH BUILDING AND FACILITATING - See the Labyrinth page
REIKI
MANDALAS
EXPRESSIVE STORY ART
MARI CARD TEST
MUSIC EVOKED IMAGERY/GUIDED IMAGERY MUSIC
The Bonny Method Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) is a music-centered therapy. It is transformative process work, which blends the dynamic unfolding of inner experience evoked through music with the gentle guidance of the GIM therapist. Music Evoked Imagery is used to access, explore and dialogue with the human psyche and can lead to insight, emotional release and core integration of body, mind and spirit.
WHAT HAPPENS:
A GIM session can be individual or group. It can be used for process work in all kinds of settings. Usually about an hour long, the client relaxes in a chair or sofa. The facilitator gently guides the client using classical music and an intention to promote a dialogue between the inner and outer worlds to access an inner wisdom, connection or understanding.
WHAT OTHERS SAY:
-- My experiences with Kay and Music Evoked Imagery were both beneficial and enjoyable. The sessions helped to unlock blocks to my creativity and helped me rediscover my true Self. My past and present became one and the same as I made peace with both.
--“I had no idea what to expect when I arrived for the first GIM session. Years of more traditional therapies had barely scratched the surface of the deeply embedded patterns and pain of life experiences. Confused by the life transitions of an empty nest and death of my mother, I went in search of clarity. I never imagined that I would come face to face with the wisdom and beauty of my eternal being.”
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LABYRINTH BUILDING AND FACILITATING: SEE LABYRINTH PAGE
REIKI
Reiki is a powerful yet gentle method of healing touch that utilizes universal energy to bring profound peace and healing to the body, mind, spirit and soul. The Reiki practitioner acts as a facilitator or conduit for this divinely guided, prayerful universal energy. The energy supports the healing process of integration and oneness.
WHAT HAPPENS:
A typical Reiki session generally includes relaxation along with the Reiki energy for an hour on a massage table. The hands of the practitioner are gently placed on the client.
WHAT OTHERS SAY:
-- Combined Reiki and GIM Sessions for Mind, Body, Spirit Integration
“My mother died in March 2003 and by the end of April I noticed the first sore and swollen joints. Within weeks, stiffness and extreme pain had moved from my ankles to knees to elbows to fingers. The doctor’s called it Rheumatoid Arthritis. To me, it felt like the pain of my lifetime and the pain of the lifetime’s of the women before me- my mother, my grandmother and her mother. All had experienced some similar form of painful illness called Cancer, Fibromyalgia, Multiple Sclerosis and Depression. I tried to tell the Rheumatologist that I could work through the pain and find a way to heal my body. She smiled sweetly and told me that RA was incurable but medications could help. A year later, even walking brought unbearable pain and I could not longer hold a brush to do my own hair. I cut my hair and relinquished to more aggressive medical treatment. The pain faded with the weekly injections and movement returned, but I knew there had to be another way. I truly believed in body, mind, and spirit integration as a path to healing. The Reiki and GIM sessions with Kay Montgomery provided comfort and support as I searched for healing. It was through the combined work with Reiki, GIM, meditation, exercise, diet and dietary supplements I was able to stop all medication three years after doctors told me that I had an incurable crippling disease. It’s been close to nine months without medication and I can say that I no longer carry the pain of my or other’s past. My body is healthy, my mind is conscious and my spirit is eternal. I couldn’t have reached this point in my journey without Kay Montgomery as a member of my treatment team.”
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MANDALAS
"I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala, which seemed to correspond to my inner situation at the time. With the help of these drawings I could observe my psychic transformations from day to day…My mandalas were cryptograms…in which I saw the self—that is, my whole being—actively at work." -Carl Jung.
Mandalas appear in all aspects of life: the circles of the earth, sun and moon as well as the conceptual circles of friends, family and community. Within the mandala, we can find ourselves, as well as each other. The mandala is a template for the mind, a state of peace and order, a resolution to the chaos within. It is a reflection of the self in the moment and supports wholeness and integration in the developmental need to evolve towards union and a higher consciousness.
WHAT HAPPENS:
Mandalas are designs, usually circular that use color, shape and imagery to express something. Oil pastels, chalk, pencils, clay, leather, flowers, objects can all be used to create mandalas. Mandalas can be created in many different ways with many different materials. There is no right or wrong when creating a mandala; it is an expression of you at a particular moment in time. Drawing mandalas consists of clearing a space to focus, filling in the circle, allowing the color and shape to unfold in the mandala. Mandalas are often preceded by music, meditation, or intention. Work with mandalas promotes professional development, personal growth and spiritual enrichment.
WHAT OTHERS SAY:
"I will always remember the welcoming and peaceful atmosphere that we found with you. What we found in our groups, and all that we learned with music and mandala drawing will enrich our souls forever. Though I never have considered myself an artist in any way, I am still learning about mandalas - and even drawing mandalas! When I retire from teaching in a year or two, I will continue this new venture, which began with A Connecting Thread."
-Martha Sanders Brandt - Professor, Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA
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EXPRESSIVE STORY ART
Story Art is a visual, artistic form of image journaling that promotes and sustains health and well-being. Expressive Story Art supports both inner and outer access to a renewed sense of meaning and connection and is a bridge to wholeness through the untapped power of creative expression. Through the use of art, music and story, different understandings and concepts can emerge, moving the participant into a space that invites insight, understanding and integration. Mandalas can be created to reflect an intention or the present moment. They can honor the past or present and be used as a template for the future. Mandalas work with the everyday and ordinary busy-ness of life to explore, nurture and connect the dots between who you were, who you are and who you might become as you seek balance and life management.
WHAT HAPPENS:
This class may include but is not limited to working in the following medias: collage, mandala, journaling, poetry writing, masks, dolls, sculpture, clay, and painting. Story Art and mandala work creates a space in which to re-discover your creative spark.
WHAT OTHERS SAY:
The mandala and collage class has been life-changing. My energy and focus have shifted as I have participated in class and the "homework." This class has given me tools to deal with challenges in my life and in my thinking.
-Edrie Bays, Educator, Bedford, VA
A very cool way of being and becoming that empowers others to do the same.
-Ken Stiflet, social worker, Lynchburg, VA
My life is very different from yours. Yet the story art gives freedom to my own story.
-Becky Cloud, Minister, Gladehill, VA
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MARI CARD TEST
The MARI Card Test is a psychological assessment tool developed in the 70’s by Joan Kellogg at John Hopkins Hospital. The nonverbal choice of color and symbols is used to help identify road blocks in order to use “stuck places” as a turning point in the personal growth process.
WHAT HAPPENS:
A Mari Card Assessment has the client choose colors and images from the tool according to preference. These choices are then used to assess the process or stage of growth the client is in and to formulate questions around that process.
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