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At the conclusion of this story, an invitation awaits . . .

Sean Marie Higgins, DO, osteopath, medium, author, and international lecturer, is gifting us with a free video event Discovering Biological Mediumship

I was racing to slow down and dying to live.

Back in 2006, life revolved around endless home repairs, my new baby girl Giulia, the Point Reyes Medical clinic where I worked as a family practice physician, and my budding private practice. A new baby, a new house, a new practice . . . I never knew I could do so much or sleep so little.

My body said, “Head to yoga,” but then, would a yoga class kill me? This was my inner dialogue as I raced down the hill to drop my daughter at daycare on my way to yoga. I was racing to slow down and dying to live. This was the paradox that I would love to think I somehow invoked to catalyze the mystical experience that followed.

When I finally landed on my mat, I was instinctively drawn into a practice that saved my life in medical school. I dropped out of my head and into my body, into my own particularly osteopathic blend of yoga, sound, breath, and micromovement. I felt myself dissolve as if to become wave, breath, and sound, as if to shapeshift from particle to light. My mentor Bonnie Gintis, DO, dives deeply into this and more in her book Engaging the Movement of Life: Exploring Health and Embodiment Through Osteopathy and Continuum.

Deeper I went. At one point, I became aware of grunts and groans throughout the room. Lots of efforting everywhere, but I wasn’t struggling. I felt like I was floating, flowing in and out of all the “postures,” yet doing nothing.

I felt completely attuned as if each bit of guidance from the teacher was in deep, intimate conversation with my body and the moment.

At the end of class, I felt calm, still, full, and sane for the first time in months—an incredible contrast to the zany frenzy that had defined my life up to the moment when I first melted on my mat.

Deeply slowed, I was soon the only one left in the room. I moved to the edge of the huge old wood subfloor to put on my boots. One boot lace and then the next, nothing else.

Suddenly I felt I was not alone. There was no one physically present, yet an unmistakable presence had entered the room. I wondered, was this an ancestor? A teacher? A healing spirit? I had never felt this before.

I had no words. I was a bit spooked, actually. How could I possibly speak of this? Who would possibly understand? Who wouldn’t think I’m crazy? No one, I decided. So I didn’t mention it to anyone. I simply finished tying my boots and left.

Many experiences followed, and I kept them mostly to myself. It felt like an impossible conversation until the day I found myself sitting in a room with many other doctors, exploring communication with the unseen world. Our guide was former Navy Commander Suzanne Gieseman, whose own first experience was far more strange than mine. Suzanne was recently honored with the prestigious Humanity’s Team Spiritual Leadership award for her work. We are so fortunate that many gifted communicators are coming forward to guide us in this time.

One such communicator is my friend and colleague Sean Marie Higgins, DO, osteopath, medium, author, and international lecturer.

She recently posed the question, “What if the secret to feeling deeply connected — not just to your own health but to loved ones who’ve crossed over — was hidden in something as simple as joy?”

What does she mean by this?

Her invitation: Join us on Saturday, November 16, to learn a completely new way to connect to loved ones beyond the veil and to experience the profound biological benefits of joy and laughter in action.

Everyone who registers will receive the replay, whether you are able to attend live or not.

I look forward to sharing this transformational hour with you.

In Celebration of your emerging Glow & Flow,

Dr. Michelle Veneziano

& the Flow is Medicine community