Shanna A. Schultz
Owner and Certified Massage Therapist
Lonsdale, MN

507-744-2490
Shanna@CreatureComfortsBodywork.com

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In traditional Native American healing practice, there is believed to be more to health and wellness (or disease, for that matter) than what we can see in the physical realm. A Stone Medicine treatment aims to address not only the physical causes for the illness or pain, but also the causes that come from an 'energetic' or 'spiritual' place.

A stone medicine session will often start out with smudging and/or drumming. During the massage portion of the session, a variety of strokes and stone placements may be used to help balance your energies as well as promote healing on a physical level. The session may use strokes intuited from the stones, or may focus on a particular set of movements and stone placement called "Sacred Strokes".

"Sacred Strokes" is the name given to special layouts and stroke sequence that come to the Shaman during vision time. Many of the strokes offered as a part of this treatment have been offered to Jenny Ray in vision, and taught to me in intensive training sessions.  

Each ‘stroke’ is actually a sequence of motions and stone placement that is a full body treatment. All of the strokes are offered in a ceremonial attitude but because they are so specific and reproducible they work very well for the treatment room setting.  

For more information about each of the individual "Sacred Strokes", please click here.

Stones will be placed on and around you to help anchor you firmly in the energies of the earth. Sometimes, I may click the stones together on or around your body. This song creates what is called Piezo-electric effect. The vibrations from the stones together travel deep into tight muscles to help to bring about release.

At the conclusion of the session, the stones will be laid on the floor on a towel next to the table in an intuitive manner. The stones have been in close contact with your energy field during the session. According to the teachings passed down in Stone Medicine, when laid out in this manner they may produce a picture or symbol of that interaction that may hold meaning for you.

Shanna is a certified Stone Medicine practitioner who has received her training from Jenny Ray (A Santee Dakota Sioux Elder and Medicine Woman). The techniques in Stone Medicine have been passed down to Jenny from her father, Chas Thompson, and from the ancestors in the Bear Clan of the Thompson family.

Tap into the deep wisdom of the Earth and Stone Clan in this deeply relaxing treatment.

For more information about Stone Medicine, visit www.SacredStoneMedicine.com

Or click here to see an article that I wrote about Stone Medicine for a local newspaper.