Interested in learning about a natural way to support your body’s ability to target the cause of symptoms that has no side effects and is based on research?
If the answer is yes, watch the replay of the Kari Skinner’s awesome presentation. Here is the zoom link to watch:
Questions Reverend Holly Koster answered during my interview with her today follows. Her website: https://www.livegrowgiveohms.org
How do you believe alternative therapy paves a path to recovery and who do you think is most likely to succeed choosing natural therapies
How have you personally witnessed advancement in sound therapy as a healing modality for conditions in the body?
Have you witnessed miracles in your line of work leading people on their path to whole body healing?
Tell us about the results of the original research you participated in with vibroacoustic therapy
Do you believe there is a cure for Parkinsons?
I heard you’ve expanded to using scalar energy for daily energy shift, give us a lay person’s synopsis and what people should look for to find it in their area.
What are you plans for the near future to expand awareness about these leading edge technologies?
Brendan Thorson—an experienced energy healer, teacher, and founder of Vital Energy Medicine, a self-empowering healing system designed to restore vitality and support those living with chronic illness and neurological conditions, including Parkinson’s disease.
Brendan brings over 24 years of experience in energy medicine, with a background in acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, and therapeutic bodywork. But what truly sets his work apart is his ability to activate the body’s internal energy systems in ways that help people reconnect their mind and body, recharge their system, and awaken deep healing potential.
His method blends ancient energetic principles with modern understanding of health, helping individuals strengthen their internal wiring, improve symptoms, and transform their long-term well-being.
Today, we’ll be diving into Brendan’s unique healing approach, the success he’s seen working with individuals with Parkinson’s and other chronic conditions, and the hope this work may offer for those still searching for answers.”
Questions I asked Brendan
Personal Journey & Background
Can you share a bit about your personal healing journey and what led you to develop Vital Energy Medicine?
You hold a Master’s in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine—how did your path evolve from traditional training into the energy healing work you now do?
Vital Energy Medicine – How It Works
What is Vital Energy Medicine, and how is it different from other healing modalities like Reiki, acupuncture, or Qigong?
Can you explain what happens during an energy healing session with you? What might someone expect to feel or experience?
You often talk about “restoring the body’s internal wiring”—what do you mean by that, and how is it connected to healing?
You do both online and in person healing sessions and training. Is there a difference in effectiveness?
Healing Chronic Illness & Parkinson’s
You’ve worked with individuals with Parkinson’s and other chronic illnesses—what types of improvements have you seen?
Are there particular symptoms or challenges—like fatigue, tremors, or anxiety—that your work tends to support especially well?
How does your energy work complement or differ from approaches like physical therapy or medication?
Can you work with non-mobile people? If yes, how do you do that? Can you give me an example of how you work with people? Can you give me a short sample of what you do?
You mentioned something about planning to do research. Can you share more about your research plans?
Hope, Healing & Transformation
For people who feel like they’ve “tried everything,” what makes your work a different kind of opportunity?
Can you talk about the role that grounding, energy awareness, or inner connection plays in the healing process?
Why do you think so many people don’t know about this kind of energy work—and what needs to change?
Energy Medicine Next Steps for Listeners
If someone is curious to try your work, what’s the best way to begin? And what kind of commitment or mindset helps people get the most out of it?
Can you lead a brief sample exercise or session so people can see what your work looks like?
Sharry Edwards pioneered a unique technology that falls within a field of complementary medicine that is called BioAcoustics. This innovative discipline combines Vocal Profiling through voice spectral analysis and the use of low frequency analog sound presentation to assist the body to support optimal form and function. BioAcoustics is to be considered a complementary modality.
Sound Health has discovered that the frequencies contained in the voice are holographic representations of your state of health and wellness. Every muscle, compound, process and structure of the body has a Frequency Equivalent™ that can be mathematically calculated. It is our belief that people with similar trauma, illnesses, syndromes, psychologies, diseases, toxins… have similar, if not identical, vocal anomalies.
This interview is with Lilian Sjoberg who works extensively with persons currently experiencing Parkinsons symptoms. Parkinsons is traditionally diagnosed as a disease which only gets worse over time. This book challenges that view.
The book is based upon the connection between stress and Parkinson’s. Can you elaborate on this connection?
What’s the most common misconception about Parkinson’s that your book challenges?
This book features interviews – why this format, and what makes these stories so compelling?
What are some practical stress reduction strategies readers can implement after reading your book?
Many people feel hopeless when diagnosed with Parkinson’s. How does your book address this?
Can you share a brief, inspiring story from one of the interviewees?
What makes this book essential reading for everyone, not just for those with Parkinson’s?
Many people with Parkinson’s feel isolated. How does your book foster a sense of community and shared experience?
Interviews of people with a Parkinson’s diagnosis from around the world reveal that it does not have to be this way. Instead, hope and self-reflection can be part of the solution to a better life.
People can recover or improve, not via quick fixes or miracles, but with supporting psychotherapy and an understanding of why the body, due to chronic stress or trauma, has ended up reacting the way it does.
Movement often becomes more difficult as we age. When we add Parkinson’s Disease to that mix, we can feel trapped. Let’s examine how we can reclaim functional and pleasure in movement using the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education. Learn how working with curiosity and movement experiments awakens your brain to possibilities that were unavailable just a few moments ago. You will get a chance to do small movement experiments within this session from a seated position. Come ready to be surprised!
Cynthia Allen has been working in wellness practices, healthcare management, and organizational consulting for over 35 years. In 2001, she became a Certified Feldenkrais® practitioner and, more recently, a Senior Trainer in Movement Intelligence. She is the co-creator of the Integral Human Gait theory and the creator of Your Learning Body, an online Feldenkrais community
She has found Feldenkrais Method and Bones for Life to be a vital part of finding personal health despite life challenges. In her private practice, she has had the privilege of working with many people with Parkinson’s Disease, helping them to move through daily life with increased ease.
Cynthia has written about the Feldenkrais Method, pain, and trauma for the Alternative and Complementary Therapies Journal as well as the online Chronic Pain Partners. She has conducted and published a research paper: Alternative Movement Program in Geriatric Rehabilitation in the Functional Neurology, Rehabilitation, and Ergonomics.
She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband, business partner and NLP guru, Larry Wells and their new puppy Darby. Today her practice is held online allowing her to serve more people than she ever realized was possible.
Do you currently experience worrisome tremors? If so, I invite you to watch my short video below and listen to my 30 minutes interview with Bobby Krause, founder of Be Still Foundation, on his triumph over tremors.
Bobby Krause discusses how Focused Ultrasound changed his life below:
As a college athlete turned sales executive and father of two, I loved to live large and make the most of every moment. This was until a “nervous tick” began to occur in my left arm. After a series of doctor’s appointments, MRI’s and a pivotal appointment with a neurologist in 2016, my and my family’s lives were forever altered when I was diagnosed with young onset Parkinson’s Disease at the age of 42.
After my diagnosis, the harmless tick evolved into a relentless, debilitating tremor throughout the left side of my body. These tremors caused constant pain, embarrassment and a significant decline in my quality of life. I struggled to focus on life happening around me. I could not conduct business meetings without distraction. The tremors escalated greatly under the pressure of intense situations like coaching my son’s basketball games. I wondered how life could go on this way.
My Triumph Over Tremors
In 2020, a glimmer of hope emerged when I learned of clinical trials underway for a groundbreaking tremor treatment, called Focused Ultrasound. Thanks to an incredibly generous employer, along with an exceptional medical team at the University of Penn, my life-changing therapy was scheduled for June of 2022.
June 9, 2022, is a day I will never forget. While traveling to the University of Penn for my Focused Ultrasound therapy, I was full of hope, yet I could see my tremors intensify and feel my muscles tighten from the stress of it all. Little did I know, the profound physical and emotional impact the next two hours in the MRI tube would have on my life.
Laying fully conscious on the MRI table was surreal and incomprehensible. In real time, I communicated with the medical staff how and what I was feeling during the five sonication’s I underwent that day. While inside the tube during the third sonication, for the first time in nearly a decade, my body surrendered the tremors, my muscles eased, and the rigid tension melted away and I was finally able to…Be Still!
I’ve had the distinct honor of sharing my journey with Parkinson’s Disease and my Focused Ultrasound therapy experience at prestigious venues like Capitol Hill, Princeton University and within communities such as Rock Steady Boxing. Through these interactions, I’ve witnessed firsthand the hope my story instills. However, this optimism is tempered by the lack of awareness, availability and financial hurdles many face in accessing this treatment. These exchanges with those full of hope but greatly in need, are what sparked the start of Be Still Foundation.
Below are listed the questions I ask him during the interview as he discusses his triumph over tremors.
Tell me about yourself Pre-Parkinson
When were you officially diagnosed with Parkinson’s and what were your symptoms?
How did you initially treat your symptoms and what were the pros and cons of those treatments?
How and when did you become aware of Focused Ultrasound?
Once you learned about focused ultrasound what were your next steps with your family and medical team?
Can you take me through the day of your scheduled treatment?
What side effects did you experience from the procedure?
I understand it’s now been two years since your procedure, are you experiencing tremors again?
What led you to create the Be Still Foundation?
For those interested how can they support the Be Still Foundation?
My guest is Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD ND (a medical doctor and a naturopath doctor) who has devoted 50+ years applying the science of medicine and the gifts of nature to help people feel better, find more energy and take control of their personal health. The focus of her presentation today is on magnesium.
Promoting a positive message of health, vitality, and well-being, Magnesium – The Missing Link to Total Health (Revised)® provides evidence-based scientific research on magnesium’s role in human health. Website: https://drcarolyndean.com/
Alice A. Holstein, Ed.D was diagnosed with bipolar mood disorder at the age of 51, which interrupted her career and produced some 12 years of intense suffering with many manic episodes, many hospitalizations, thousands of dollars spent and overall, a bleak prognosis of recovery. She lives now, as an elder, with a full if careful life of extraordinary wellness despite still being on medication. She has a dramatic story to share about how she developed a revolutionary understanding of mental health recovery which she believes can be at least partially related to recovery with Parkinsons.
In her presentation she will explain this potential correlation by first enumerating the comparisons, such as that she too was given a bleak prognosis and told that heavy medication was required. She also understands that Parkinson’s can often produce depression in those who suffer. Her thoughts can help people specifically deal with that diagnosis. Alice believes that illness in general should be treated as a whole person approach—holistically, to include mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and social aspects. The medical profession does not proceed in this fashion. She accidentally discovered this more complete framework and has developed specific understandings that may be helpful to those dealing with Parkinsons. She also believes that recovery is partly a matter of developing one’s higher consciousness.
Her ideas and words will likely challenge, inspire and encourage the listeners on this broadcast to continue and add to the kinds of things they already are doing to improve their conditions vs. degenerate. Her example serves as a beacon of hope to living a healthier life regardless of one’s diagnosis, going beyond present practices to achieve stronger wellness and increased satisfaction.
Below are questions Alice answered during the interview:
What do you think are the major comparison’s between dealing with Parkinsons and dealing with mental illness? Why can this framework be a potentially helpful recovery correlation?
What is the essence of your dramatic recovery story and how you gained your expertise?
What are some of the specific things you did to get well?
Why is the brain so important in healing?
*Note: Alice’s website at www.aliceholstein has an article, “Heal Yourself and You Heal the Culture” which is pertinent. Go to the “site map” and look for this title. See also another title, “Things Helpers and Helpees Can Do.”
What part did going back to work at age 65 have to do with your recovery?
What role might volunteering or otherwise minimal work contribute to recovery?
What part did participating in a Spiritual Companioning Preparation program (3 years) contribute?
What do you mean by “The Hero’s Journey” and why it may be important to wellness?
What do you mean by saying that a Parkinson diagnosis and mental illness are whole person illnesses?
What do you mean by saying that suffering can be a purifying experience?
How did you manage to survive while living periodically on the streets in your 60s?
How do you maintain your wellness?
How much do you estimate your illness cost?
What was the hardest aspect of your illness that you dealt with?
What is the largest gift you’ve received from surviving and thriving?
What are your 2 books about mental illness and will they help me deal with Parkinsons? What about the 1992 book, written under my married name, Mack? Does it possibly relate as well?