Hello, reader. How are you doing? I love energy work to keep myself happy and well in everyday life, and to heal old pain. Feels great to have multiple people who help me hold my stability.
Recently I met an energy worker I trust here in Eugene. Their name is Ronin Quirke–their office is on Pearl St. I would recommend them to anyone. I want to tell you what it feels like to get energy work from them.
Ronin’s office is beautiful, and their demeanor is respectful. I love their directness. I love the serious, earnest way they listen to me.
format
Let me tell you how it goes. It’s a great format.
First we sit down to talk about what’s going on and what I might want help with. The pace of our conversation feels right, and the power is shared. We collaborate on what will happen during our session. They get consent for how they’ll touch me, which is chill.
Then I rest on the comfy body work table, with a heating pad. We pray in a sweet way for protection.
Second visit, I asked Ronin if I could call in entities that I love, like Jagaddhatri and my mom. Ronin was enthusiastic about that, so we’ve done that since. I like how they want my voice included in the prayers.
(That’s a good example of how Ronin is empowering and helps me work toward speaking up and stepping into more of who I am. In middle age I’m still healing the problem of being taught to sit still and obey, which I did for my survival during childhood.)
Then Ronin drums over various parts of my body, and wafts lovely smoke over me– sage or palo santo. The smoke is comforting, and I use both in my everyday life to shift energy and clean my spirit body, so they are familiar.
touch
There’s a part where Ronin will touch my feet. Also they slip their hand under a sheet to hold the back of my heart, and then touch different parts of my torso with their other hand. Also there’s a part where Ronin will have a hand under my tailbone.
I like how it feels to welcome Ro to touch my body. It’s vulnerable to be touched by new people. But I have practice from massage and being close with friends and lovers. It’s a big deal to let someone close to me, but there are huge payoffs for the risk of vulnerability.
Ronin will hum sometimes and might speak a phrase here or there, such as “Thank you, Jaguar.”
I like that there’s a tree where Ronin takes me, and the tree shares insight about what I need.
I like the gentle yet strong way Ronin addresses me, journeys with me, and holds the whole experience expertly. Feels safe, helpful, and slightly exciting. It’s a good growth edge– it’s significant but not overwhelming by being too much.
Then at the end, we sit again where we started, and we talk about what happened, messages Ronin received, and how what we experienced together shifted anything inside me. The container we make together feels flexible yet can hold a lot.
At the end I give them money, and they escort me back to the door, where I put my shoes back on.
trust
It’s a lot to trust a new person, and I lucked out with Ronin as someone who’s appropriate to trust. So grateful Mother God led me to their practice at a critical time in my life when I’m doing transformation work.
I’m deeply grateful to my friends for being there for me, and to chosen family including Ming. But it’s so good to have many people who have different specialties, helping me hold my well-being and health. My massage therapist, my talk therapist, the queer art therapy workshop I’m doing these days, my PA healthcare provider…
Ronin is a solid part of that team of people who are helping me heal and process the incredible changes I’m going through lately. The energy work gives me insight, and also helps me stay in motion. But just the feeling that I don’t have to do this on my own is meaningful.
Several of my friends are holy people, and witches are the norm, so I’m used to spiritual help. But Ronin has a special way of doing things, and the format helps me feel safe. To focus together on my well-being is extraordinarily comforting. Then I have so much food for thought afterward.
So it’s good in the moment, good afterward with thoughts, and good afterward with feeling stronger on the path of life, doing what I need to do.
hopeful
I’m hopeful that Ronin will get more energy work business so they can help more people.
Here is where you could learn more and schedule, if you’re here in Eugene.
Skilled energy work would benefit just about anyone. But Ronin’s enby-ness is extra great for me. They’ve gone on a gender journey and understand trans-ing.
Also they understand entities that matter to me a lot, like Jaguar. Also we both speak tarot, which is helpful for conversations about big ideas.
Ronin is white, and their spiritual teacher is a Person of Color. Ronin facilitates race-related training for white people as their main work, and I trust them to have gone to deep places, related to racial justice and self-awareness around culture. I trust Ronin that the energy work we do together is not appropriative, and it feels right for me as a mixed race person.
Also Ming has had one session with Ronin so far, and Ming feels similarly that the energy work was culturally ok, helpful, collaborative, and very respectful. Ming tells me that they and Ronin had a long talk about race and tokenism, and Ming appreciated what Ronin said about power in community.
love
Caring for ourselves helps us show up in community, in our families, in relationship, and for ourselves. I’m all about love. That includes being responsible with my own life and the hearts of others.
So I feel fortunate that Ronin helps me with energy work, so I can become the Strawberry I’m here to be.
