It may not make the Ivy League list, but the Sacred School of Healing Arts in Warwick has definitely given those who seek alternative ways to learn, to teach or to discover a lesser-known career path.
In 1990, Sue Fick was a stay-at-home mom in Highland, scheduling her days around her children and dealing with a bevy of allergies that plagued her. When out on a playdate, another mother suggested Fick contact Eleanora Amendolara, founder of the nontraditional school Sacred School of Healing Arts in Warwick, to help her replace or cope with the antibiotics she was taking that brought limited or zero success.
“I contacted Sacred Healing Arts, hoping I”™d find some way to get through the day without having allergic reactions, sneezing and sniffling and coughing my way through taking care of my home and family,” said Fick. “I wanted to find a way to deal with my allergies without relying on medication and deal with them with natural remedies and with Eleanora”™s help, I managed to do it.”
After a consultation and treatment, “I walked out and realized I had never had an experience like it,” said Fick of her visit to the school. Through kinesiology, a form of acupuncture, Fick spent the next three years gradually taming or eliminating her allergies. “We did so much allergy ”˜clean-up”™ work that, before I knew it, I really started feeling human again; it was almost a miracle. I learned to enjoy life again.”
So impressed was Fick with her personal results that she started taking classes with Amendolara, learning to become a kinesiologist herself. Much of her extracurricular education comes from trips to Peru.
“We travel to Macchu Picchu, one of the most sought after places in the world for
nontraditional healing; you learn from the ancient arts left behind by the Mayans. It”™s a spiritual place that gives you a sense of inner peace and inspiration. I”™ve been there eight times. Each time I go, my work changes dramatically because of my personal experiences.”
Kinesiology is “a very different method of learning, teaching and practicing. I do some teaching,” said Fick, “but my main focus is on my healing practice. I see between 20-25 people a week.”
During the treatment, a sample of the client’s blood is put on the acupuncture point. “That is the point where the body”™s meridian meets,” said Fick. “It helps to balance that particular part of the body. Once it does that, your body is no longer disturbed and it gives your body an ”˜exit”™ for the disturbance.”
Now living and working in Kingston, Fick believes kinesiology is a way to heal the body, and she”™s joined by a growing number of homeopaths and nontraditional healers who believe that all cures do not come out of the pharmaceutical industry. “I know there is a place for medication and I never tell my clients to stop taking what they are prescribed. They need the antibiotics, but kinesiology can help balance out their bodies and works very well in conjunction with whatever they are taking. Ironically, nine times out of 10, my clients have found their problems stem from allergic reactions to the mixture of medications they are on.”
Many of Fick”™s clients are Lyme disease sufferers. “They have gone through the regimen of antibiotics, but Lyme has a way of coming back in different forms. I work with them on a long-term basis,” said Fick. “By testing their muscles, I can determine if acupuncture or massage will help.”
Like a detective, Fick works to find out what”™s needed by her client”™s body. “I do my part, and then I will refer them to the treatment I think would be the most effective if kinesiology is not the answer. Yes, it”™s a different way of teaching and a different way of learning, but the goal is a good result for the sufferer.”
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