In our latest interview, we speak with Alison Zeidler, a Wholistic Wellness Facilitator for people and their pets, based in the Yukon, Canada. Alison shares her journey of self-discovery and transformation, detailing how she turned personal challenges into a mission to help others through a wide array of holistic healing practices, including HeartMath® and energy healing. MysticMag has the pleasure.
Can you please introduce yourself to our readers and share a few details about your professional journey?
I’m Alison Zeidler and I’m a Wholistic Wellness Facilitator for people and their pets, based in the Yukon, Canada. In my 30s, all the coping mechanisms I learned that kept me safe growing up in a very dysfunctional home stopped working, leaving me floundering, lost, anxious and overwhelmed, depressed, and incredibly angry.
I had to learn new coping mechanisms and I had to learn who I was and who I wanted to be, not who I thought others wanted me to be. I needed to learn what I did and didn’t want in my life, and what made me happy. I literally had to reinvent myself.
I found many tools that helped me including counselling, anger management classes, and Al-Anon. I also discovered Energy Healing. Each one got me a little closer to the “me” I wanted to be.
I was fascinated, albeit skeptical, that energetic healing could work for me, but when I opened my heart, I was astounded at how effective it was in reducing my anger, anxiety, and depression. This set me on a path of learning how to help others while continuing to help myself.
Over the last few decades, I’ve been trained in over 20 modalities and continue to add more, so that I can help others manage and eliminate the effects of chronic stress, anxiety, overwhelm, and negativity.
I am filled with gratitude and joy if I can help someone move forward in life and reconnect to their true self.
What are the main benefits of HearthMath and what does a HearthMath session look like?
HeartMath® (HM) is one of my favorite tools, quickly relieving stress and anxiety and improving our health. Chronic stress is extremely harmful to us, contributing to a host of illnesses – headaches, anxiety, depression, heart issues, digestive issues, muscle tension, reduced longevity, and much more. It’s estimated that over 70% of doctor visits are stress-related, and when we are stressed, it is difficult for us to concentrate, think, make clear decisions, learn, and physically perform.
HM techniques can:
- reduce stress (emotionally, mentally, and physically)
- improve sleep
- give us better concentration, focus, physical performance, and coordination
- boost our immune system
- quickly shift our emotions from anger, frustration, anxiety, or worry to care, compassion, gratitude, appreciation
- help release trapped emotions from past hurts or trauma
- allow us to find better ways to resolve conflicts
- give us the ability to tune into our heart’s wisdom
- improve the connection between our heart, mind, body, nervous system, and emotions (known as coherence)
When we are in coherence, when our heart, brain, body, and nervous system are in sync with each other, we can find balance and clear thinking, tap into our heart’s wisdom, gain improved mental functions, make better decisions, and all around positively impact our health.
Did you know that the heart produces hormones like dopamine and as much oxytocin as the brain produces? Our hearts influence our emotions, intuition, and our health. Our heart even has its own nervous system and sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. The heart produces an electromagnetic field that can be felt up to about 3 feet from our body, and this field can be felt by others, and it carries information about how we are feeling. This field is impacted by what we are feeling.
We can increase our coherence by shifting from depleting emotions to renewing emotions! And HM teaches us how to do just that. Not only are there quick and easy techniques to use, but HM has some amazing technology to help us. The HeartMath® Institute has conducted over 30 years of scientific research on our emotions and the interactions between the heart and brain (you can find more information at www.heartmath.com/science).
I could go on and on about HeartMath®, but you can experience it for yourself by contacting me or taking advantage of a free set of videos teaching you 5 scientifically validated HM techniques. www.heartmath.com/experience
What other services/sessions do you offer and what is the most popular one, and why?
I offer both in-person and distance sessions and I have local, national, and international clients. The only types of sessions that must be conducted in person are Foot/Hand Reflexology and the equine massage and somatics.
Energetic Healing/Balancing is one of my most popular sessions. I have clients who know they feel a little off and come in for an energetic tune-up, and I have clients who are in crisis and need to find balance, emotionally and energetically.
Because I am certified in many modalities and have training in many more, I can integrate much knowledge into unique and individualized sessions, depending on the needs of my client. Session work may include balancing the chakra or meridian systems; clearing energetic blockages; releasing undesirable emotional and energetic ties to others; releasing past traumas and ancestral patterns; working with the physical body and muscles to release emotional and energetic pain; running the Bars®; and offering love, kindness, and compassion.
Reflexology is probably the next most popular session for local clients who love being able to relax while their body begins to restore its natural balance. Reflexology can reduce stress, pain, insomnia, and anxiety; increase overall wellness and mobility; and provide support for hormonal and digestive health issues.
The types of sessions I can offer to my clients include:
- Quantum-Touch® Energy Healing (Instructor)
- Touch for Health® (Instructor)
- Reflexology (Registered Canadian Reflexology Therapist®)
- Muscle Tuner® Specialist
- HeartMath® Certified Practitioner
- Rahanni Celestial Healing Practitioner
- Equine Massage Therapist
- Equine Hanna Somatics® Level 1 Educator
Some of the modalities I’ve trained in include:
- Emotional Freedom Technique®
- Energy Kinesiology Fundamentals
- Body Management® Levels 1 and 2
- Epigenetic Healing Cycles® (Instructor)
- Core Transformation® Level 1
- Self-Created Health®
- Therapeutic Touch®
- Energy Medicine for Animals
You also work with animals, how much is that different from working with humans?
I love working with animals, I have cats, dogs, and horses as clients, among others. I believe that while our companion animals are here to help us, they also have their own path in life, and their own issues to deal with.
During a session, I connect with the animal and ask permission to work with them either by picture or live on Zoom. Since they can’t verbally tell me the issues, I use a combination of muscle testing and energetics to find out what’s going on and what the animal’s priority that day. Their priority for a session is not always their caregiver’s priority.
While I am not an animal communicator, I do pick up feelings and emotions and sometimes words or phrases. The animal’s Chakra or Meridian system may be unbalanced; there may be trapped emotions that need releasing; they may need a change in diet or an energetic healing session.
I’ve seen, and my animal clients’ caregiver’s have seen, some amazing transformations in behaviour or health with one or two sessions. Working with animals is incredibly rewarding because they don’t second guess the results, they simply accept.
What can you tell me about the work that you do through Passage to Power?
Passage to Power: Women’s Journey to Freedom and Joy is a program I put together to empower women to live fulfilling, motivated, and peaceful lives, with power and confidence.
I was sitting quietly outside in the sun one day and the program was just “there” in my head and heart. I wanted to give women easy-to-use tools they could incorporate into their lives to shift their emotional outlook, look at their lives with new eyes, learn to face challenges with strength, and find new solutions with grace.
I believe we need a LOT of different techniques to help ourselves because there is not one that will work all the time, for everyone. Taking anti-anxiety meds isn’t an overnight miracle cure, and taking a muscle relaxant isn’t going to cure a tight back – we still need to do the work on ourselves, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I like to tell my clients that sometimes we need a massage therapist, sometimes a doctor, sometimes a chiropractor; sometimes we need an energetic clearing or counselling or medication. It’s almost always a combination of these and others.
We cannot be our best selves if we are trapped in pain, trauma, anxiety, depression, and overwhelm. And there are methods that we can do for ourselves to take back control of our lives and our emotions and rebuild our resiliency.
Life is always going to throw us curve balls, some incredibly devastating. We need tools to get us back to a better state of equilibrium so we can function and move forward. I offer one-month and three-month programs and I’m developing a monthly membership program also.
To learn more about Alison’s work you can visit www.alisonzeidler.com or passage-to-power.com and you can get in touch with her via email at [email protected]
