Talking to an Infinity Healer Practitioner: Lauren Ardman
While Lauren Ardman’s career is technically social work, she believes it’s not always the best fit for someone. This question of methods led her down a path toward a practice called Infinity Healing.
By meeting Gabrielli LaChiara, founder of Infinity Healing, and Ardman having her own healing experience, she went on to become an instructor herself. It’s a practice that can entirely transform someone’s stance and view of life, “I learned simple ways to clear people; things that I can say or do or shift or a kind of attention, consciousness, or perspective that I could bring,” says LaChiara, “When I brought it in people got incredible amounts of healing.”
As most of us likely are, “I was a skeptic about energy work in general because I’ve been an intellectual for years and years,” Arman said, “I’m like ‘Oh there’s more to us than a brain’ and ‘Oh okay, I don’t have to understand it all.” Even as a practitioner, Ardman feels as though she doesn’t completely understand what she is doing all the time, but that is the beauty of this practice. We are letting go of the rational side and expanding what may be beyond our comprehension.
Ardman teaches both group experiences and individual sessions. In a group experience, “It’s about creating a safe container for everyone to know they belong here on this planet,” Ardman stated, “I use a lot of tools to do that, some of them are called Activations.” Activation is when Ardman moves the energy inside someone that may not necessarily belong to them. By doing so, she is helping the client to create a separation and, “Bring them back to the light of consciousness,” as Ardman said. She gives them exercises that look to “Lift the spirit,” in her words.
In an individual session, “We would go to a deeper level of exploring and quieting that safety pattern,” Ardman explained. We may not realize it, but we may be carrying some things that happened in our childhood with us now in our subconscious. By doing this, she is helping the client to acknowledge it (Bring them to the light of consciousness) because it’s not required anymore and “Lift the spirit.”
There are plenty of other exercises that are used in this practice too with focuses of the exercises varying as well. The practice has a lot of what many yogis call shamanistic practices such as chakra alignment, but, as mentioned, LaChiara came up with this practice on her own through a combination of scientific and organic healing teachings, “It was a combination of a lot of things,” LaChiara said, “There is so much you learn about; presence, safety, and structure. There were so many healing modalities done on me that has come barrelling through and has combined into a new form.”
“Lives are really different,” Ardman says, “Being an Infinity client or practitioner is almost a way of life. It’s a way to think about the world in a different way and see the world in a different way.”
You can meet and work with Lauren Ardman at InnerLight Studio on 1 E Dorsey Ln, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601. They also offer spa services at their other location, InnerLight Health Spa, on 4326 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538.
