Today we’d like to introduce you to Lisa and David Jones.
Lisa and David have 25 years of working in the healing arts. They came to Atlanta 1 1/2 years ago to open The Visionary Healing Center for Wellness because visits to Atlanta gave them an expansive and positive energy boost! Lisa owned and cheffed at her restaurants and catering company for 22 years, her specialty was Vegan Organic Food (although she was never militant about it). She learned to cook healing food during the beginning of the AIDS crisis in NYC and served many who suffered with AIDS. She has evolved from a Restauranteur to a healer with food and nutrition working within the Traditional Chinese Medicine System.
David grew from an abstract painter making healing talismans to a healer working with many tools including Acupuncture, Sound, Reiki, Zero Point Balancing, and Reconnection Therapy, among others. At VHC, David and Lisa also offer Floatation Therapy (also known as sensory deprivation or REST). The Floatation tank can, by itself stimulate a profound healing experience. At VHC, Float experiences are hosted with personal attention and guidance to deepen the results. Combined with Acupuncture and Nutrition, the therapies cover the spectrum of body, mind and spirit.
Has it been a smooth road?
The biggest challenge was undertaking a career change in our 50’s. For all of our 40’s we were unhappy in our work. We were digging deep inside to find the desire and direction to change our situation. David was an artist (painter) who worked mostly as a Cabinet Maker and Carpenter to support our family. I was 20 years as a Whole Foods chef, restauranteur and caterer and was exhausted and becoming unhealthy from stress and overwork. The youngest of our two kids would be done with high school and headed for college so we set our sights on making big changes. But when you are beat down it is difficult to even dream about what else you could do.
We began to have long pillow talks that explored the possibilities: work that was important to us personally and spiritually, work that did no harm and was of service to others, work that involved learning every day, work that used our wisdom and experience, work that allowed for financial ease and freedom to make our own schedule.
David went first because he is older. He began Graduate School in Acupuncture and Herbology at Tri-State in NYC. He and our son were in college at the same time so I took extra work to make tuition! He commuted every week and was away from home a lot during the four years while he completed his degree. Using his brain this way after being out of classrooms for so long was a huge challenge and he was the oldest person in the program. But he finished with Honors and was asked to speak at his graduation. After he graduated, his practice took off and it was my turn.
I took time off to rest and find myself again. I enrolled in Cornell University’s T. Colin Campbell School for Nutrition Studies. Slowly we began to see how a combined practice of Acupuncture and Custom Nutrition Counseling could work. Our sights had been on Atlanta for a long time so the final hurdle was saying goodbye to our friends in the small rural, agricultural town we had lived for 16 years. We planned on risking everything we saved to make a new start in Atlanta. The day we drove away, frozen snow on the ground, with only a UHaul filled with essentials, was a day when I was so filled with optimism and light.
Tell us more about the Visionary Healing Center for Wellness.
At Visionary Healing Center, we use a unique integration of therapies to activate the human body’s ability to heal. To our knowledge, no one else is combining therapies the way we do. Our tools include: Acupuncture, Energy Work, Cupping/Moxabustion, Zero Point Balancing, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Reconnection Therapy, Sonopuncture and Kampo Herbs. All of these may be used during your private session with David Jones depending upon your condition. All of our clients receive a custom Nutrition plan and lifestyle suggestions that will support their treatment. In addition, we offer the use of a Floatation Tank to our clients because this Therapy can accelerate recovery and achieve powerful results for everything from the relief of chronic pain, migraines, tension-related disorders, anxiety and sleep disorders.
While we treat for many conditions ( infertility and hormone balancing, asthma and allergies, acute injury,etc..). We specialize in Psychophysical release. Our belief is that most “dis – ease” is caused by a root trauma – emotional or psychological. Our tools are specifically chosen to free you from this foundational trauma and allow you to heal.
How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?
There is a tremendous momentum toward acceptance and use of Acupuncture and other non- conventional therapies in mainstream medical care. Wellstar Hospital is just one example of an institution incorporating self- healing modalities for their nursing and other staff in preparation for conversations w patients about what non-traditional therapies could be useful. Insurance will begin to cover therapies such as Floatation once the clinical data on its considerable success with anxiety and mood disorders, Cortisol lowering abilities are released in the coming year. The conversation about foundational healing is vigorous in Atlanta and we are thrilled to be part of a very connected and supportive wellness community here.
Pricing:
- Two 60 minute floats cost $110.
Contact Info:
- Address: Visionary Healing Center for Wellness
659 Auburn Ave., Studioplex Unit 130
Atl, Ga 30312 - Website: www.visionaryhealing.org
- Phone: 678 820 8403
- Email: david@visionaryhealing.org
- Instagram: @visionaryhealing
- Facebook: VHCenterforwellness
Image Credit:
LeeAnn Morrissette, Captured by Light
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