I am not a fan of rebirthing techniques. They seem very nebulous and have always been ineffective for me to tap into past incarnations. But most recently I experienced a Vortex healing session by a practitioner friend. It was quite moving as this form of divine energy healing brought me back to my roots, and rather than shedding light on my past lives helped me center and ground.

The method discovered by Rick Weinman draws on Vedic writings that suggest the universe was manifested from primordial sound vibration and that human beings are a microcosm of this; a mix of different vibrations. Our ego can get in the way and impede us to vibrate at our purest frequency. Once we remove ourselves from the ego’s sense of separation and false identity we awaken to who we are.

The true awakening from Vortex healing reminded me that I don’t need to expand to become who I am, I just need to go deep enough, so that what I am emerges. In Vortex healing the practitioner taps into an energetic structure that functions as an interface between the physical world and a divine realm that contains pure healing energy.

Vortex Healing proposes that, the human body is composed of two energy webs; the vital web, which is a blueprint for physical form and the structure of life, prone to energetic blockage; and a divine web which holds the divine intention within the physical body, feeding the vital web.

It felt a little different the Reiki and more intense because I was bridging the two vortices  – one in my body, and one outside. Once I hooked the two funnels mentally, I could feel my body vibrating, shedding old stuff. Soon I was vibrating more intensely. My cells were rebooting. I was tapping into some healing energy that I had never known of.  I suddenly felt disappearing, somehow dissolving into my breath and vibration. And for the first time in my life I felt completely disarmed, naked. I had talked about naked awareness in class, but now I experienced it.

I felt my spine was beaming light, the beams branching out from my chakras. My hands and feet were glowing. I was somehow empty and shining. As I sat, I intuitively began to curl into very shell-like yoga poses, in an effort to contain and preserve the luminescence.

It was a sort of restorative yoga while emanating light from the vortex healing. I felt I had taken 10 pounds off my shoulders. The lightness of being, the joy of moving was indescribable.  There was no sense of worry, no desire to get anywhere, to obtain anything. All the imprints from the past that were inscribed into my inner vision had been deleted, somehow annulled.

The feeling of void, of luminous emptiness was overwhelming. I did not want to leave that place, but when I came back to my senses, I was much more grounded and grateful.

I took this experience directly to class. The students were spellbound. While all energy transmissions usually involve bringing light energy in to the vital web, Vortex Healing brings light energy in to both the divine and the vital web. Basically, you are not just drawing energy from the source, you are feeding the source with your energy – a cosmic exchange. That is what I try to bring into my restorative practice, the sense of connection and communication between source and soul.

Restorative Yoga Routine: Vortex Healing (open level)

This yoga routine offers a series of accessible and deeply nourishing restorative poses strung in a slow-paced and introspective flow. You will experience the soothing chill of forward bends, the cleansing effect of twists and the healing power of inversions to shift your focus and replenish from within.