Introducing 'Healing the Deep' with AcuEnergetics®
There are many reasons why you might feel stuck in life. It can happen to anyone, even the most successful people. It happened to me once, too. I was struggling to find new direction and purpose in my life so I sought professional help. That’s how I met Cassandra Punita James and had the most powerful ‘Healing the Deep’ with AcuEnergetics® session with her that helped me to move forward by revealing why I am attracted to certain people and situations and how these could be changed.
What do you do exactly?
I work as a transformational specialist, a transition & growth breakthrough guide, and a healer in my 'Healing the Deep' with AcuEnergetics® work with clients around the world.
Though there's a number of ways I work, my core focus is to clear blockages, so a person seeing me can shift and transform their health, work and life on a deep cellular, even DNA level, to be open to vastly expanded possibilities.
What prevents us from moving forward?
The answer often lies in physical issues. In our lower body, from the waist down, we hold stress, hidden past traumas, fears and our energetic center for strength. Though these are not usually visible they can affect and limit our possibilities and health in so many ways.
From our past we gain strengths as well as patterns of compensating for past challenges - from our own, and even our ancestors', lifetimes. When these hidden holdings are cleared energetically from our physical body and brought out of the dark into the light, into consciousness, there is a release. This occurs at an energetic, electrical and cellular level. It can free up a huge amount of energy, heal physical problems and create an opening in our mindset so new options become possible.
As these old holdings clear, our eyes can open. We can see new possibilities. We find the courage to take action when before we may have felt held back by something within us.
That seems like it could be useful for anyone…
Yes, although I see a lot of people who are actively looking for help, as I was. It is easier to find someone who has walked the same path before when you’re seeking how to make a change at key points in your life, or with challenging health issues. Healers might look at someone and see that they need help with something obvious, like a physical problem, a mindset or an emotional issue, yet that might not be an issue for that person or simply not their journey or the right timing. So it is not up to the healer to recognize that someone needs them, it’s up to the client to know when they are ready. It is important that when someone comes to a healer that the healer listens deeply to what the client says is the priority for them. When we focus on clearing, healing and shifting that priority then they will have the energy, the passion and the will to be open to any unexpected shifts that might be needed to truly heal the issue.
With what kind of problems do people come to you mostly?
I work with busy people around the world, aged between 35 and 55, mostly with their own business, or aspiring to start one, who are seeking lasting healing from lower body health issues, or clearing past trauma and fears, or wanting to make radical mindset shifts so they can open new doors in their life or work.
From couples longing for a baby where other options have failed them, to those wanting to heal sexual problems that might be affecting their relationships, to people generally ready to clear inner obstacles that stand in the way of the opportunities they’re looking for, to high energy, high worth individuals seeking lasting solutions to heal from challenging accidents or difficult health issues.
When I say I treat lower body problems and physical problems I mean of the coccyx, lower back, hip or leg pain; fertility for people over 38; sexual problems; fears, stress and post-traumatic stress disorder that can paralyze areas of our lives.
When there are issues that are hidden and harder to define, they can affect how we think, how we feel and what possibilities we see. My clients share and become free from intense experiences that they’ve gone through yet may never have told anyone else about.
Sometimes a few one-on-one sessions, online or in-person, are enough, though more are needed for deeper issues.
In my work I help people become free from limitations, physical or mindset related, that might have seemed insurmountable before. Sometimes it can happen incredibly fast. There are also clients that want to work with me on a deeper level over time, in clinics or at my private retreats.
Often people come to solve one or two issues and when we start they realize that there are other, deeper layers to work with, so the journey will take longer.
How can you see others’ problems? Is it a skill or a special ability?
I’ve been practicing energy healing for over 20 years now so learning and understanding healing does take time and experience. Natural ability, a sensitivity to feeling energy and being able to listen to others - to really hear what they share and provide a safe space for them - are qualities that allow a practitioner to offer people the support they need.
Then there is actual experience. As Malcom Gladwell explored in his bestselling book, Outliers, it takes about 10,000 hours to master a skill and become world class in any given field. I have now surpassed that mark in working with clients and have found that nothing compares to what we learn in the hands-on practice of our skill. However, we also all bring to our work the sum of everything we have ever personally learned, discovered and experienced which is what makes each of us unique in the particular work we do.
I began my career in archeology, a brilliant combination of science and art training. Only many years later and long after I had begun working in this field did I see how I bring an archeological approach to my client work. In ‘Healing the Deep’ I invite people to come down and excavate the deeper hidden parts of themselves that could be limiting them or causing physical problems. We look into old thoughts, traumas, holdings, closed doors; things from the past that could be locked in the body yet no longer needed. My job is to help free these energetically.
Let's step back in time then. How did your healer journey start?
I started to learn about energetic healing in my 20s. I had joined the crew of a Hawaiian wooden yacht in Singapore and sailed the Pacific for a year. Living the simple life on the ocean and then the intensity of sailing through and surviving a super typhoon with waves over 60 feet high and winds over 150 knots, taught me a lesson in understanding how we can find courage as we go deeply into fear and come out the other side.
By the end of that year I started to realize that though courage was key, I needed to discover trust, in people and life, if I was going to find inner ease. This had been challenging for me since I was young and I felt drawn to energy healing as I thought it could help me.
So I went looking for healers in Java and Bali but I didn't find any traditional energy healers. I ended up in Vancouver, Canada, where I met followers of Osho, the radical, courageous-hearted and brilliant teacher, and saw that his teachings showed me a new path to trust. I spent time in his ashram in Oregon and later we moved to India. He taught the way of the heart, courage and clarity of truth. He taught how one can find and hold one’s center while living in the crazy modern world, meet the world through an unafraid open heart and stay true to oneself.
My journey of learning about healing began there, though it was myself I was helping. I did 3 months of intensive therapist training, no theory just experiential unraveling and learning. So I began my journey of bringing light into the wounds in my heart and seeing why my heart protection was so strong. I started to unravel this, to clear that protection and to understand that only when we can meet the world with an open grounded heart, without protection, can we find true strength and courage in the face of fear so we can step forward boldly and fully live the adventures life offers us. This became the core of what I was later able to help others with in my client work.
While in India I met my ex-partner, Kevin Niv Farrow. Together we moved back to Australia where I am originally from. On previous travels I had felt drawn to energy medicine without knowing what it was and not having found anyone I respected who was practicing it. With Niv I found someone who really understood energy medicine, both as a science and an art. He had been working in this field for many years developing his own method, which became AcuEnergetics®. I began to explore and experiment with him.
I also began studying astrology. I have always described it as being like a ‘weather report’, whether for a person, a season, a business or an event. It can help us understand ourselves, our business and our clients - the hidden forces, gifts and the right timing for events. When you understand these, there are many extra levels that can bring you more clarity. It is like knowing which day to go to the beach (like expanding an area of life) or which day to take an umbrella (to protect yourself, to avoid storms). Astrology is now part of my work with clients. I often look at a client’s chart if their problem is a hard one to find the cause of. I let them know when they are going through some of the big cycles of change that affect us all (at 28, 38-45, 50 etc.) so they can understand how to best manage that time and benefit from it.
Meanwhile, as I was exploring and practicing AcuEnergetics, I quickly realized it was such a unique, deep, scientific, accurate and powerfully effective approach and that it has similar qualities to archeology, as it includes the understanding that there are hidden layers and holdings within us all. We have an electrical energy structure, even though it can't easily be seen (except with MRIs), that we can tap into to rebalance these energy channels and centers giving us a way to treat issues in ways that I just haven't seen with many other approaches.
I became a senior practitioner and co-founded the school and clinic around the modality Niv had created, AcuEnergetics. It grew to be very successful. Later, when the school was going strong, we decided to go our separate ways. I returned to Europe, where I spent a lot of my childhood, and here I specialize more and more in the core areas I love treating clients for – the hidden issues held in our lower body, our hearts and navigating clear and courageous paths through times of transition in career and life.
I see you have a couple of very important people in your life who have led you in this direction. Do you think all of us need a mentor, a teacher or a school to find our path?
We don't know what we don't know. I tried doing it on my own in my 20s but then as I began to trust I started learning from others, and yes then I found it’s much easier to have a teacher, a guide or a mentor to learn from. Of course, our personal experience and practice is essential too.
The work we do, whether as a healer, in business or any other field, will always include everything we’ve learned on our journey and what we've learned through training, teachers and guides.
For someone interested in becoming a therapist you can start to heal people after you study even if you are quite young and maybe feel you haven’t had many life experiences. Trust that the right people will come to you for what you’re offering.
Some people do go on the journey on their own, though it's often longer and can be a hard one. It can be incredibly difficult to learn a skill without a teacher. There is no one to show you the shortcuts or to identify gaps in knowledge. You can't see your blind spots and you have to uncover skills on your own.… It’s definitely worth learning from others as well as listening to your own flashes of understanding, discoveries and bringing it all together.
If you find yourself saying ‘I can do it myself’, check in with yourself. Is that your ego talking because it doesn't want to be dependent, doesn't want to open up and accept learning from someone else?
Learning is a lifelong journey and we can learn from every person we meet on our path. Learning is also a reciprocal journey as we learn from each other. We learn more from some people than from others because we're more aligned with them at the time, or they are further ahead on a similar path to us and are sharing what we’re passionate about.
So if you find the right person, or people, teachers, mentors and schools to learn from they can save you so much time and may help you go further than you could on your own. Also take the time to be still and listen to the wisdom within you. It will all come together.
Where can you find Cassandra?
Would you like an invitation to Cassandra’s next Free Virtual Retreat?
She will be running her next virtual retreat in December. Details are still being finalized but for now the working title is ‘Balance Everything Before Breakfast’ – discover tiny, powerful meditation habits and insights that can transform your work and life before your day even begins! There will be events for different time zones, and everything will be recorded. Click here for details and your invitation https://www.healingthedeep.com/virtual-retreat-waitlist/
In the meantime sign up to hear Cassandra’s explorations of living life to the fullest, creating and sharing more, boosting your mojo, finding tiny moments of calm anywhere and mind-shift tips that she shares on the road in her weekly ‘Courageous Living’ vlog and Facebook Live.
Virtual sessions – Would you like to experience a taste of the powerful difference Cassandra makes for her clients in just an hour? She has space for a few people to book virtual ‘Healing the Deep’ with AcuEnergetics® sessions with her each week. You can message her for details at Cassandra@cassandrajames.com
Her online membership groups –
‘Pocket Buddha’ membership - tiny meditation habits for busy people looking for more clarity, focus, calm and productivity, whatever is happening around them.
This is Cassandra’s most recent project. A super easy group to join where she demystifies meditation to make it easy and quick for everyone - with her unique, guided meditations (2, 5, 10 & 30 minutes) that easily fit into the busiest day. (Doors will open to this after the December virtual retreat.)
‘The Courageous Way’ membership - shift your balance to unleash your dreams. This is a global online membership group with steps to help busy people with big dreams and big plans who find they can’t get them happening as easily as they want. Designed for therapists, small business owners, entrepreneurs and people just planning to start something new to find small amounts of time to nourish themselves, rediscover their mojo and make the mind shifts that allow them to move beyond past limits, to create a bigger life and work. Click here https://www.healingthedeep.com/courageous-way-waitlist/ to know when this will open.
Her in-person VIP events:
3-Day Private ‘Healing the Deep’ Retreats – These are Cassandra’s most popular in-person events during which powerful transformations are possible in so many levels of life. In these she specializes in healing lower body issues (spine, coccyx, hip, leg issues; fertility for over 38s; sexual issues; stress & past trauma limiting life now) and opening inner doors for radical career or life shifts. A chance to step out of your life for just three days that could change everything for you. Join her in a beautiful location around the world (Provence, Bali, Ireland, UK, Holland & beyond) and in a beautiful residential space discover what transformation, healing and radical shifts could be possible with Cassandra working exclusively with you.
Bespoke VIP Programs - Where ultra high-net-worth VIPs invite Cassandra to work with them as well as their family or team members on location at their residence, holiday villa or yacht. Bespoke programs can treat challenging issues with powerful and lasting results. These 1 to 3 week programs often treat difficult lower body health issues that traditional medicine has not helped, or avoid or heal quickly from extreme surgery after fast-paced lifestyle accidents. She has been invited to work with VIP clients around the world in places like Monaco, St Tropez, Bahrain, England and Romania.
Would you like to talk with Cassandra and discover what transformation, healing and radical shifts could be possible if you joined her in a beautiful location (Provence, Bali, Ireland, UK, Holland or beyond), where she was working exclusively with you? You can message her to find out more at Cassandra@cassandrajames.com.
