Profiles

Since taking their first Acutonics classes in 2003 Mary Elizabeth Wakefield (MEW) and MichelAngelo have been collaborators and huge supporters of our work with sound vibration in a clinical setting. Although based in New York they travel the world and are frequent presenters at conferences. In this contribution from MEW for the Acutonics Newsletter we catch up with some of their past and upcoming events

“There’s no way we would ever teach separately,” says Katie Mink, who, since she first came to Acutonics 14 years ago, has only ever learned it and taught it alongside her teaching partner Laurie Herron. “If I wasn’t teaching with Katie,” says Laurie in turn, “I wouldn’t teach it.”

Molly has completed the first four levels of Acutonics with Donna Carey and Ellen Franklin at the Mothership here in New Mexico. Molly loves the outdoors, the mountains, rivers and hot springs, which drew her to Big Sky Montana in 2009, to practice massage and take advantage of the natural world, exploring the Rocky Mountains and learning to ski. In 2012, Molly moved to Bozeman and started her own massage practice.

“Acutonics is more than what we do,” say Jude and Paul Ponton, “it’s who we are.”

Roderick is newly certified as an Acutonics Practitioner. He began his studies in November 2013, with Barrie C. Andrews in Questa, New Mexico. Roderick completed Acutonics Levels I – IV, and Point and Meridians, with Barrie and began assisting Barrie in the community Acutonics clinics held in her center, OCHO, an art, event and teaching space. Roderick completed his Acutonics studies at the Mothership. Where in addition to the core curriculum he completed 3 electives, Harmonic Geometry: The Fibonacci Process with Ron LaPlace, Evolution of Consciousness with Erin Taylor, and the NSEV: Non Somatic Extraordinary Vessels with Alicia Villamarin.

Every first and third Thursday of the month, Certified Acutonics® Practitioner Laurie McDonald and her acupuncturist colleague Terrie Harris hold a free Women Veterans Clinic at the headquarters of Acupuncturists Without Borders in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Terrie started the clinic three years ago and asked Laurie to join during the fall of 2015. Participants sit in chairs arranged in a circle, and Terrie inserts five needles into each person’s ears, a protocol for stress and PTSD known as NADA.

In 1996 we had been working as clinical faculty at Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine (NIAOM) in Seattle for several years. We thought of ourselves as fairly mainstream practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It was about that time that the school hired Donna Carey to be the new Clinical Director. To welcome her and find out more about our new boss, we took her to lunch. In sharing our backgrounds with each other, we learned that Donna had been employing the use of sound, in her prior practice in Wisconsin. Our interest was stimulated by her description of the use of tuning forks to stimulate acupuncture points. We asked her about receiving treatment with sound so we could have a first hand experience of the sound work. So began our excellent Acutonics adventure.

Whether known as teacher, sound practitioner, professional musician, composer, vocalist, wellness specialist, or ceremonialist, Lynn is committed to bring healing heart-by-heart, to assist in creating harmony and peace on the planet.

Dori Miller began her studies in 2005 with Maren Good in Westfield, NJ. She completed Acutonics I, II, III, IV and Sedna with Maren and has also studied with Ron La Place (Fibonacci). A senior at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, she is currently applying to graduate schools to obtain her Masters in Fine Arts.

“I’m a mystic born into a scientific environment,” says Maren Good, who indeed grew up in an area that uniquely blended the mundane (the natural beauty of Richland, Washington), the ulramundane (her own inner world, which gravitated toward the planets and the unexplained), and the übermundane—1950s America.