More Information about Emotional Freedom Technique

Emotional Freedom Technique, or Tapping,  is based on the meridian system in Traditional East Asian Medicine. Folks indigenous to Turtle Island also have traditions of acupressure/acupuncture that work with the flow of our energy pathways. In the 1980s Emotional Freedom Technique was developed based off of work using the meridians to heal phobias, which was then expanded and simplified into the tapping protocols we currently use as a way to make healing easily accessed and shared by lay people.

EFT combines stimulating acupoints while working with conceptual frameworks, emotional issues, life patterns, past events, words, song, imagination, and more, which supports us in reconnecting with our innate life force and capacity for healing.

This workshop is in the spirit of innate health and community care found both in these older systems and the intention of EFT. Because the stimulation of acupressure points helps restore balance, and because the verbal/cognitive/felt sense aspects of EFT are about reconnecting our distressed and isolated parts with larger and more supportive truths, in my experience EFT tends to be a stabilizing modality which is appropriate for community care. It is also easily shared and innately flexible, so it can be a great support in people’s empowered experience of healing.

There is a large and growing body of public access EFT material, and there is also a large and growing body of research for those who find empirical findings to be supportive and clarifying.

Why Include Variations?

For a lot of folks the basic EFT protocol becomes more accessible over time, as they heal trauma patterns, increase range of motion and capacity for intensity and healing, and feel more at home in their bodies. This varies from person to person, though, and EFT is about starting where you are. The fundamental principles and techniques of EFT are so potentially liberating that the aim is for tapping to be accessible for as many folks as possible.

Touching a sequence of points on your body can be difficult for folks who have sensory sensitivities, difficulty with intensity, discomfort with range of motion, fatigue, brain fog or dementia, dysphoria, autoimmune, boundary injuries, medical or care trauma and so on that are often part of chronic issues. This is why we’ll be spending time in the introduction on a lot of possible modifications to access the healing potential found in the principles of tapping.

About the Host

The AT Liberation Project is an open network of Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students who have come together to examine inequity and injustice in our community’s history, to educate ourselves on topics of inclusion, equity and social justice, and to create a more welcoming AT community for ourselves and those who may have been excluded from our work in the past.

We seek to question language, paradigms, and practices within the Alexander Technique which cause harm and limit inclusion, and develop those which foster social justice and belonging.

About the Facilitator

Moriah Williams (pronouns: q/surprise me) is a holistic practitioner, writer, and portal witch who works with folks who are interested in exploring body-based, sociopolitical, and/or spiritual and nature-based aspects of healing. 

Moriah practices Ortho-Bionomy®*, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, Animal Communication, and q is a NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM®)-Informed Professional with an Embodied Social Justice Certificate. Moriah is a white autistic genderqueer person who has healed from chronic illness, who has special interests in birds, spiders, liminality, and the spiritual function of humor.

Moriah has presented workshops for numerous organizations, including: TruHap Positive Psychology Center, (Un)occupy Albuquerque and Kalpulli Izkalli's Medicine for the People, Multicultural Efforts to end Sexual Assault (MESA), The Alternatives Conference, the Optimal Aging Conference,  the Society of Ortho-Bionomy International,Inc., and q has been a panelist for Southwestern College's Disability, Bias, and Access panel. 

*Ortho-Bionomy® is a trademark of the Society of Ortho-Bionomy International, Inc., and is used with permission. 

I acknowledge that by registering for this class, I understand that I am responsible for my physical and mental health and my decisions around my own well-being. I am participating voluntarily and I agree to hold Moriah J. Williams and Moriah J. Williams Intuitive Healing harmless regarding my experience.