----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <undisclosed-recipients:;> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:34 PM Subject: Healing Modalities
Dear Friends, There is a bill in committee to restrict alternative healing modalities. If you are a practitioner or recipient (consumer) of the following healing modalities this bill affects YOU, as A8704 states: "INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: accupressure, asian healing practices; Anthroposophy (Rudolph Steiner methods); Cranial Sacral Therapy; culturally traditional healing practices; detoxification practices and therapies; energetic healing; flower essences; folk practices; Gerson Therapy; Healing practices utilizing food, food supplements; nutrients and physical forces of heat, cold, water, color, touch, and light; healing-related kinesiology; Healing Touch; Hellerwork; hergology or herbalixm; homeopathy; Iridology; Jin Shin Therapy; Mind-Body Healing practices; naturopathy; polarity therapy; Qi Gong; reflexology; Reiki; Rolfing; Shiatsu; Trager Approach; Heawlth; Tuina; Yoga; or any combination of such practices." In addition to the drawbacks of this legislation as listed below, please be aware that the bill, A8704, clearly states that this state legislation supercedes U.S. constitutional protections and rights guaranteed by the 5th Amendment under U.S. law if a complaint is received against any healer using an unlicensed healing modality (sic, see above list). Also, "the Commissioner may issue an ORDER DIRECTING THE PRACTITIONER TO SUBMIT TO A MENTAL OR PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OR CHEMICAL DEPENDANCY EVALUATION." In other words, if A8704 is passed into law, NY State spiritual and other unlicensed healers (including priests, nuns, ministers who do laying on of hands healing) may be forced to surrender the privacy of their medical records and to submit to forced medical examinations in the case of any complaint made against them to the state regarding non medical healing modalities which do not harm!! We need calls (today and tomorrow especially) to Assemblyman Ed Sullivan's Albany office regarding bill A8704, especially if you know anyone in his upper west side district (and they can call his Manhattan office numbers). Callers should politely state their names, give an address, if asked, (especially important if they are constituents) and state their opposition to the bill as unlicensed healers and/or consumers. The bill A8704 is presently in the Higher Education Committee which Ed Sullivan chairs. His telephone in Albany is: 1518-455-5603. If you have ever done a Sun Salutation or enjoyed a massage, please call. Thanks. I send you all blessings for health, vitality and peace. xxMama Donna ******************************* Donna Henes, Urban Shaman presents: New and Full Moon Drumming Circles and other Celestially Auspicious Occasions, Ongoing Spirit Support Group Sessions, Public Celebration Events, Life Cycle Ceremonies, Seminars, Ritual Consultations, Spiritual Counseling, Life Path Coaching, Mentoring, Reiki Healing and Balancing, Tarot Readings, and a Spirit Shop. Mama Donna, as she is affectionately known, has offered lectures, workshops, circles, and celebrations worldwide for 30 years. The publisher of the highly acclaimed quarterly, Always In Season: Living In Sync With The Cycles, she is also the author of Moon Watcher’s Manual, Celestially Auspicious Occasions™: Seasons, Cycles and Celebrations, and Dressing Our Wounds In Warm Clothes, as well as the CD, Reverence To Her: Mythology, The Matriarchy, & Me. For further information, a list of services and publications, a calendar of upcoming events, and a complimentary issue of Always in Season: Living in Sync with the Cycles. contact: MAMA DONNA'S TEA GARDEN AND HEALING HAVEN PO Box 380403 Exotic Brooklyn, NY 11238-0403 Phone/Fax 718-857-2247 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.DonnaHenes.com
