Symmetry Health Kinesiology – Kelly Edwards

SYMMETRY HEALTH KINESIOLOGY

When Kelly Edwards speaks about her healing work as an intuitive Reiki master and kinesiologist, her passion for transforming people’s lives is evident.

Her gentle nature and intense desire to help children and adults with anxiety and stress has become a lifelong journey for Kelly, who has created a healing and supportive space in a cosy corner of Gippsland.

Her Nyora-based practice, Symmetry Health Kinesiology, has become a haven for healing the stress held in the mind, body and soul.

“My aim is to help people make positive change in their life by reducing stress in the body,” Kelly explains. “Because we hold onto stress, and we hold onto it just via our thoughts. And it can sit out in our energetic field. There’s nine months before it becomes a problem.”

The mum-of-three found her calling through her career as a massage therapist for the elderly more than two decades ago.

“I was starting to feel things. I could feel energy around these people I was massaging. They’d go away and they’d look beautiful, and their cheeks would be all rosy and then they’d come back, and the same things were still there. It wasn’t enough.”

While Kelly spent the last eight years home-schooling, she was also taking her children to see a Kinesiologist and was herself visiting an energy healer. It led her to studying kinesiology in 2012 – but her interest in the healing power of energy also continued. She continued to see the incredible impact of reiki and kinesiology for her family, leading her to becoming a Reiki Master and teacher with a diploma in the Bach Flower Remedies. She combines the gentle, non-invasive services of reiki, bio resonance therapy, integrated healing, facial emotional therapy and Qi Qong to ease the stress and traumas of her clients.

“My biggest passion is working with kids that are suffering with anxiety and school refusal and learning difficulties. I’ve seen a lot of it in kids in the home school community. But I also support mums and dads in their stress as well.

“There’s not really anyone teaching kids to be able to use those tools. In saying that the feedback that I’ve had from parents and the kids has been really, good. I’m teaching them emotional intelligence. Being able to help regulate themselves. They’re doing it on themselves, I’m not teaching them to go out and do it on other people.”

Kelly is also using her intuitive talents to work with mums who are feeling heavy under the weight of everyday pressures.

“I get a lot of mums that are burnt out, lost their direction in terms of being so busy being mums, they’ve forgotten what they’re feeling. Really stressed. So, I help a lot of mums with reiki and combining that with kinesiology as well.”

Kelly undertakes muscle testing to get biofeedback from her client’s bodies, so she can tap into their ailments.

KELLY EDWARDS

Reiki master and kinesiologist

A HAVEN FOR THE MIND, BODY + SOUL

WORDS BY ANITA BUTTERWORTH

“Everything’s emotional behind a physical pain. So, then we start talking about what’s going on in their life. We then get to the emotional side of it, and from that we’re able to create a goal where they want to be and how they’d rather be feeling. To be able to move forward and actually have changes for the better we have to create a positive goal. We can’t keep going back and looking at what’s happened to us in the past. We need to know how we want to feel.

“We create a goal and then I work with muscle testing or energetically – just placing my hands over their bodies and picking up on energetic imbalances that I feel intuitively.”

Reiki is intuitive while kinesiology is a learned practice – so Kelly’s combination of both is powerful in helping soothe her clients. No two sessions are the same, Kelly explaining that she assesses each client on an individual needs basis, to work out what modality or combination will help them the most.

“I always offer home reinforcement such as Qi Qong exercises, personalised flower essences, specific acupressure points for them to rub and personalised mp3 harmonies to help reduce stress and create balance and wellbeing.”

When it comes to her work with children, Kelly tailors her sessions to suit each individual child’s needs. “I do work a little bit differently with kids, I get down on the floor with kids and we’ll play games, and we go in a lot slower. We do it bit by bit. I’ll still be muscle testing, I work with kids while they’re sitting next to mum on the couch, they don’t have to be up on the table. I’ll basically get an idea when they walk in, and then I can tell. Some kids don’t even want to sit in the room the first day, and that’s fine. I’ve got to develop a relationship with them first so they can trust me, and I’ll talk to mum, I can actually work through mum.

“I’m seeing more and more children with anxiety and school refusal. Having kids that are too frightened to go to school. Particularly kids on the spectrum that don’t like change, dealing with change and transitioning to going back to school and moving away from the family again.

“I teach them tools for life. They’re tools that adults and children use. I use myself, a lot of the Qi Qong tools I give to people I use daily for myself and my family. I’ll teach them where there’s acupressure points that they can rub. It’s not just the session, I like to give people things to do at home in between, because it empowers them.

“Feeling empowered leads to feelings of self-confidence and away from anxiety.”