Practitioner to demonstrate Yuen
Kari Wagler tried healing with prayer, meditation and laying her hands on the pain. She finally found her answer with Yuen.
“It’s hard to expand your mind to believe it’s possible,” Wagler said Tuesday as she prepared for three days of free demonstrations of the Chinese healing method. “It relies on sincere compassion for a person.”
Wagler is a mental health counselor at the Center for Creative Change in Spokane. She’s also a Yuen practitioner.
Kam Yuen, a chiropractic doctor, martial artist and structural engineer, brought the ancient Chinese Shaolin temple healing art to the United States in the last decade. Yuen focused the practice on pain and attached his name to his method.
Like acupuncture, Yuen is based on the idea that pain is a signal that something is wrong with a body’s energy flow. Practitioners hand-test muscles to locate weaknesses, trusting their instincts to recognize where energy is blocked. Believing pain is a symptom of a deeper issue, practitioners search for the root. Pain could spring from physical, emotional, spiritual, psychological or mental problems.
Yuen uses no needles or medications. Instead, practitioners say, they focus their energy and that of the patient on removing any blocks.
Wagler is a certified practitioner and has practiced Yuen on her counseling clients for several years. Still, she struggles to explain how the method works. “We send energy to what’s weak,” she said. “I think it’s similar to visualization. We get validation when symptoms decrease.”
Wagler found that validation with Staci Wright. The Spokane woman told Wagler about a pain in her neck. Wagler tested Wright’s muscle responses to various questions until Wagler could identify the energy block. “The pain went away,” Wright said. “I was amazed, so I took a class on it. It’s helped me.”
Growing interest in the art motivated Wagler to offer two free demonstrations in Spokane and one in Coeur d’Alene this week. LeRoy Malouf, a certified Yuen practitioner from the East Coast, will explain the method and demonstrate on volunteers. The demonstrations will precede a training in Yuen this weekend in Liberty Lake.
Wagler recommends the demonstration for health care workers and people suffering from chronic pain, anxiety, depression or injuries slow to heal.