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Contact Dr. Vienna Lafrenz www.natural-therapeutics.com Christmas Gift Ideas! Energybits.com and the magnesium products at livingthegoodlifenaturally.com use coupon code LTH for both! Visit TakeYourSupplements.com to get on Dr. Wallach's protocol & the supplements that Ashley and her family have been taking for the last ten years. Check out IIN and get a free module: LearnTrueHealth.com/coach Remote Healing with SCIO Quantum Biofeedback https://www.learntruehealth.com/remote-healing-with-scio-quantum-biofeedback Highlights: What remote Biofeedback is What therapeutic ultrasound is Self-love and healing Emotion has a huge impact on healing Different modalities for healing How food choices affect our body and mood Did you know that you can get remote healing? In this episode, Dr. Vienna Lafrenz shares how she helps her clients heal by using different modalities. One amazing tool that she uses is the SCIO machine, which works through remote Biofeedback. She explains what the SCIO does and how it helped her clients. What's fascinating about Vienna's healing approach is that she helps her clients heal holistically—emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and energetic. She explains that if we don't have self-love, it hinders us from healing fully, so having self-love would be the first thing that needs to be worked on to heal. Intro: Hello, true health seeker, and welcome to another exciting episode of the Learn True Health podcast. You're in for such a ride today with Dr. Vienna. I can't wait for you to hear today's episode. You know, there are 53 days left until Christmas if you're listening to this the day I publish it. If you're listening to it later, Christmas is just around the corner. I love giving holistic presents to my friends and family. I'm going to tell you a few that I absolutely love. The Magnesium Soak, you can listen to my interviews. Just type in Magnesium Soak at learntruehealth.com and listen to those interviews. 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Have yourself a fantastic rest of your day and enjoy today's interview. [00:03:41] Ashley James: Welcome to the Learn True Health podcast. I'm your host, Ashley James. This is episode 450. I'm so excited for today's guest. We have Dr. Vienna Lafrenz on the show, a Ph.D. in Integrative Medicine. Vienna, you and I met through my friend Jennifer Saltzman. You have a beautiful clinic. Oh my gosh, just a gorgeous clinic in one of the most beautiful parts—remote parts—of Washington state. You're near is it Republic, Washington? Is that where you're near? [00:04:21] Dr. Vienna Lafrenz: Yes, I'm actually in Republic. [00:04:25] Ashley James: That was Republic that we drove to, okay. Gosh, it's so beautiful out there. You're just in probably the most beautiful part of the world. I just couldn't believe it. It's hard to drive the car because you just want to stare at nature, the mountains, and the scenery the whole time. It's really beautiful. You have this gorgeous clinic and what a gem in the middle of nowhere to stumble upon you and all the work that you do. You gave a Biofeedback treatment to our son. That was amazing, the results we saw. And then I was quite sick back in February—just fever, gasping for air, burning lungs, sore throat—the works. I was just suffering for days. I did telemedicine with my Naturopath. I was on all kinds of supplements, and then you did a remote session with me. This was days into just high fever, sore throat, really burning lungs, and hard to breathe. At the end of the session, it was like the suffering had ended. My fever broke, and I slowly recovered after that. About a week later, I was back to my normal self, but that was the point where the suffering ended. I thought that was really interesting. I'm always kind of skeptical but open-minded about things we can't see like oh, energy work. Long-distance energy work. We can't see it. I don't think I could say it's placebo because I didn't believe in it. I'm like, okay, I'm open to it, but I didn't have a strong belief like yes, no matter what, I think this is going to work. Because I w as sitting there suffering pretty badly or lying there pretty badly, and it was quite amazing that for a few hours of the session, I felt my body shift into super healing mode. That was my experience with it, but I've actually talked to others who have experienced the type of remote feedback that you do, including Eric Thornton, who I've had on the show several times. Everyone I talked to that has experienced the SCIO, which is one of the machines that you use, have all told me that they've had incredible results. I'm really excited to learn more from you today about what remote Biofeedback is because I've had a personal experience. I've seen my son, I've talked to others. What a great tool to have in our tool belts especially when we've exhausted all the other resources. We're eating healthy, we're taking our supplements, we're getting plenty of fresh air, sunshine, and walking. But if there's still something not getting better in our health, we should absolutely look to energetic medicine. I'm really excited to dive into this. Before we dive into what remote Biofeedback is, specifically the SCIO and the work that you do, I want to learn a bit more about what happened in your life that made you want to become a Ph.D. in Integrative Medicine and work with people using these types of therapies? [00:07:52] Dr. Vienna Lafrenz: Well, I'm glad you asked. Prior to that, I was an occupational therapist for 30 years. I was working in nursing homes. I was traveling all over the United States. I was a consultant where I worked for the largest rehab provider in the whole United States. I would go to all these different nursing homes, hospitals, acute care hospitals, long-term care hospitals, all these outpatients, and things like that. I would go to where they needed me, and basically it was where either clients weren't making progress and they were plateauing, or where business was really short, the therapists were having a hard time identifying clients, or just knowing what to do with them. They would call me in and I would spend the week there. During that time, I would consult on the clients, I would teach the therapist. They'd be sitting right there with me while I'm working with the patient, and then have them do it so there'd be a return demonstration so that the client would get better and they'd be able to go home. I would also spend that time doing some continuing education where I would provide courses that I would teach and things like that, and I loved it. About 10 years into my OT practice was when I first got involved with reiki. I learned reiki from a reiki master. That just opened up the whole new perspective of what energy is and how it works. How you can do distance healing, and how you can change somebody's energy just either hands-on or remote. That opened up my eyes. Then I went into aromatherapy, then acupressure. So it just started developing, I started going to all these courses, getting certifications, and things like that. I started implementing that into what I was teaching through OT, through all the places that I've been going. I really specialized in pain management, so I would bring different modalities from the eastern world of medicine into the western side and started to integrate those two. When I started doing that, I started seeing a huge improvement in the clients' outcomes and how they were responding in the healing process overall. [00:10:13] Ashley James: You were using reiki, which is energy work, and you're using essential oils and acupressure. Acupressure is a form of energy work in a sense that you are stimulating the nervous system, but also, you're stimulating the meridians, which is more of an energy work. You could even consider aromatherapy, although aromatherapy is herbal medicine. There is an energetic frequency component to it. Along with your many years of experience and rehabilitation as an occupational therapist, you're bringing in this energy work and herbal medicine to your—is it the senior patients that you were working with already? [00:11:05] Dr. Vienna Lafrenz: Yes. At the same time, I was teaching the therapists how to use this information. See, when it came to the acupressure, I also used ultrasound, electrical stimulation, infrared, and all different types of modalities that we've always used in therapy in OTPT. We've used those types of types of modalities in our practices. Bringing those into the eastern world as well was really nice because a lot of people have a fear of acupuncture because of the needle. Whereas with ultrasound, you get the same result as if you're using a needle. [00:11:48] Ashley James: Now, when you say ultrasound, just to clarify—I apologize for interrupting you. The listener might not know this but because you're on satellite internet, there's a delay. When we talk there's a delay, and sometimes we sound like we're interrupting each other. We don't mean to be. When you say ultrasound, could you clarify because a lot of people think ultrasound is imaging and not. That it's actually using deep heat or a wave of energy that creates heat in deeper tissue. [00:12:19] Dr. Vienna Lafrenz: This is considered therapeutic ultrasound. It does not diagnose like when people go in for an ultrasound to find out if they have a baby or not. This is actually called therapeutic ultrasound, and there are two settings. There's a heating setting, and there's a non-thermal setting. The one that I use with the acupuncture points is a non-thermal. Basically what it is is there's a little sound. There's like a little crystal within the sound head that vibrates and so it creates a frequency. That frequency then interacts within the person's energy and it gets the energy to flow through blood, through lymphatics, through the nerve system, through the musculoskeletal system, and through all of those different systems, and it gets it to move. How it works with the acupuncture point is that when you use acupuncture as in a needle, you have to be very precise where the acupuncture point is. With the ultrasound, because there's this sound wave that is vibrating within the sound head, when you get it over the acupuncture point, it will either flow into the body or release the energy from the point. It's similar to when you're using a needle. You either tap it or twist it to get the result you're looking for. Whether you're trying to push energy into that point or whether you're trying to release it. I use the non-thermal, which doesn't go deep into it because the acupuncture point is so superficial to the skin that you don't have to go deep. [00:13:58] Ashley James: Fascinating. Tell us about these results that you started seeing. You've got these clients. Have you been working with them for a while? You were traveling, were you always working with new people, or did you come back to the same patients? And then what kind of results did you see when you went from just regular occupational therapy rehab to occupational therapy rehab plus energy work, acupressure with therapeutic ultrasound, non-thermal with essential oils? When you added those three modalities in, what kind of results did you start seeing? [00:14:39] Dr. Vienna Lafrenz: Well, first of all we started seeing results right away, I mean during that session. What I mean by that is and actually, because I was an educator for the company, I was able to go to so many different types of continuing education so I could actually open up my toolbox and have as many tools available to work with clients as I needed. It was wonderful. I got my myofascial release training. I got some craniosacral lymphatic. You name it, I was able to get all these different types of tools in my toolbox. I just started implementing them every time I would learn something and master it. When I would work with a chronic pain patient, for example, I'd be just into the facility for the first time, meeting this person for the first time. The therapist is giving me as much information, I read the medical record, and then I start to work with them with the therapist. Literally, I would say 98% of the clients that I got to see while I was traveling would show an immediate, if not significant improvement, within that first session. Which is why it started becoming so popular for me to come to different locations and help some of the most sick or chronically disabled people. What evolved from that was just an excitement within all the therapists that we have other tools that we can use. We have other theories, we have other philosophies that we can implement. It also stayed within their scope of practice.…
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