Many people like to know about the people they will be working with to make their lives better. This page tells a little about Anne Marie Gabrielle and how she came to study energy modalities. Since many people who look at this web site are considering stepping into something new for them, this mini-biography places an emphasis not only on Anne Marie's "normalcy" and her own journey to integrate body, mind, and spirit, but also her movement just ahead of the pack--throughout her life.

Anne Marie is a retired federal program analyst. During college, she was inspired by the work of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, whose study tours to some Southern States resulted in the unexpected finding of diseases of hunger and malnutrition that you would have expected in the poorest countries of the world, not the U.S. After she graduated with a degree in Economics from Hunter College of the City University of New York, she had a desire to serve and found work in the federal Government for an anti-poverty program.

During the 70s, Anne Marie understood that she really "couldn't have it all"--at least not the way most people thought. So she used her contacts from her successful career to gain permission to work part time to honor the birth of her daughter. As today, the issue for many Moms is how to combine work and career, but it was rare in the 70s to be a part-time professional, making Anne Marie a bit of a pioneer on the Mommy Track, which had not yet been invented.

During the 80s, Anne Marie pioneered in a new area. Following her interest in spirituality, she attended and obtained a Master's Degree from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C--while continuing to work part time and raise her daughter. She began teaching adult classes--primarily in religion and spiritual development over 25 years ago.

In the 90s, Anne Marie became another kind of pioneer--in a way which was not particularly welcome to her at the time. She began studies in the mind-body-spirit connection when she became ill with a disabling illness almost 20 years ago.

As for every other time she was a pioneer, Anne Marie's decision to pursue energy healing as a client evolved naturally out of her life--and the "wall" which conventional thinking could not help her get around.

Energy healing was part of a "black box" mystery she didn't understand. Yet that decision to engage in it as a client opened her to parts of reality she had not previously experienced. While energy healing wasn't the entire answer to her health issues, Anne Marie recognized that it was beneficial enough to study it herself when one of the people she was working with in spiritual direction needed more help than she could give as a more conventional spiritual director.

In fact, her own former spiritual director, a pastor who has known her since 1989, has been fascinated with her journey. When he had occasion to reverse roles and work with her himself, he wound up calling Anne Marie, a "Spiritual Pioneer", noting that the work she has done has helped him envision new possibilities for his faith and life.

Among the energy modalities and the teachers she studied with were:

• Reiki I, Reiki II, and Reiki II advanced topics with John Harvey Gray, one of the original 22 U.S. Reiki Masters and author of Hand To Hand. She received her Reiki Master Teacher certification from the Rev. Ethel Porter in 1999.
• Spiritual guidance and healing over several years and a 3-year energy intensive with the Rev. Sue Greer, shaman and healer featured in Belleruth Naparstek, Your Sixth Sense and Carole O'Toole Cancer Community Healing Network. After this 3-year intensive program, she was ordained a minister in 2003.
• Cranio-sacral therapy with the Upledger Institute.
• Multiple weekend classes with Rosayln Bruyere, author of Wheels of Light, the best book on chakras there is. (Classes include the root chakra, medicine wheel, archeology of illness, Egyptian healing techniques, healing from the ground up.)
• Light Language and Light Language Teacher Training, primarily with Richard Gordon, author of The Intuitive Tarot, Spiritual Light Journey, and Journey to the Golden Pyramid.
• Brain Gym(r) and Educational Kinesiology training from numerous teachers, including Dr. Paul Dennison, the founder of Brain Gym. She became certified to teach Brain Gym and to offer Brain Gym and Educational Kinesiology consultations in 2005.
• And previously Intensive Journaling with Dr. Ira Progoff and leaders in the field of 12 steps and spirituality.
• And much more. When your field is "the human condition" and you're studying what you love, study is one of the ways you have fun.

  Anne Marie has always been a socially-conscious person, having served in multiple church, Girl Scout, disability community, and holistic community offices. She was a co-founder of The Learning Exchange, a community based learning activity located in Bowie, Crofton, and Mitchellville, Maryland and has led holistic and spiritual classes at local businesses and churches, the Census Bureau, and Legacy College of the University of Maryland, Prince Georges Community College, Anne Arundel Community College, several senior centers, and more. Her clients and students include lawyers, doctors, mediators, other holistic healers (such as acupuncturists and massage therapists), and more. Anne Marie has written for national publication on spiritual topics and for many years took communion and prayer to patients at the local extended care facility. She routinely provides prayer, Reiki, and Light Language support on behalf of positive world transformation.

  Some of Anne Marie's other favorite activities are contra dancing, being in nature, creating art, and doing virtually anythng with her three grandchildren.

  Anne Marie's broadly-based interests and life experience as well as her studies of energy modalities help her to bring it all together with her mission which relates to empowering others to be in alignment and balance. When we are, miracles seem to happen, the entire universe seems to cooperate with us, and we tend to work more constructively in a more holistic way.

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