Heather E. Daponde & Anchored in Light Reiki & Intuitive Healing
As a young woman, I was introduced to Reiki by a practitioner treating me for a life-threatening tumor. I was skeptical at first but decided to give the treatment a try. I was blown away by what I experienced during my session. Many years later, I turned to a Shamanic Reiki Healer for spiritual guidance. My experience was so profound that I had to explore this transcendent path I found myself on. I have never looked back and feel blessed by the love and light that Reiki has brought into my life and love sharing that energy and insight with others.
Anchored in Light Reiki & Intuitive Healing is the dream that I get to live everyday and the means with which I can share my love of reiki with my community. Through my practice, I offer my clients a safe space to relax, develop personal insight, and foster a deeper connection to self and divine source energy.
I believe we want to experience happiness and harmony in our lives no matter what may be going on around us or what has happened to us in the past. How we perceive, view, and react to things is a choice. When we feel off the path in our life, sometimes we forget that.
When unexpected events occur that affect our health, heart, mind, or spirit, it’s a call for us to stop what we’re doing, breathe, take a look at our life, identify what we are experiencing, and realize it’s time to make a change in how we view ourselves, others, and how we interact with the world. I use Reiki to help clients release energy road blocks and help open their energy centers so they can trust their path in life again.
Holy Fire Usui Reiki Master Teacher
Integrated Energy Basic Level Practitioner
Medical Intuitive Intelligence for Health and Awakening Training
Elemental Healing with the Medicine Wheel and Five-Element Theory Training
Shamanism the Path of the Seer Foundation Training
The Nine Rites of the Munay Ki Teacher
As the wife, daughter, and mother of veterans, I felt called to work with soldiers returning home or actively serving. Reiki can help with disrupted sleep, reducing feelings of anxiety, and helping to facilitate a gentle shift in perspective. Reiki is a complementary therapy that can help veterans begin to heal as they return home to their families and communities. Reiki can elicit the relaxation response, decrease pain, calm emotions, clear the mind and help to release trauma.
I work with women and men looking to regain their power and align with the better things in life. Reiki helps move out energetically stored trauma. Reiki can elevate the way abuse survivors feel and behave. Van Der Kolk (2014) suggests individuals who experience trauma and enter flight or fight during a traumatic event, are more easily able to process the hormones associated with the trauma. Conversely, individuals who freeze during trauma can hold onto the stress hormones. In a sense, trapping them within the body. The encapsulation of the stress hormones causes the elements of the trauma to be replayed, imprinting the memories ever more deeply in mind. The challenge of recovery for veterans and abuse/trauma survivors is re-establishing body and mind ownership. Awareness of how our body organizes emotions and memories opens the possibility of releasing sensations and impulses that were blocked to ensure survival.
I am from the foothills of South Mountain, Arizona and grew up in a town called Ahwatukee. I now live in the Whip City, also known as Westfield, Massachusetts, where I teach fifth grade in the public school system where I have worked since 2003.
I have worked in the field of education since 2001. I began working as a Literacy Interventionist for grades K-3. I received my Bachelors in Education from Westfield State University in January of 2003 earning my Elementary Education certification as well as my Reading teacher certification. In 2009 I continued my education at Westfield State University and graduated with my M.Ed. in School Administration. I am currently certified as a school administrator for grades 1-12, however my true love continues to be in the role of educator. I am currently finishing my doctoral research at American International College and am scheduled to graduate in December of 2023. My current research aims to determine how urban middle school principals identify, service, and refer homeless students for educational services.
I am a mom to two grown children, Mimi to four grandchildren and furry-mom to 3 tail-waggers who drive every aspect of my life.
I am a passionate teacher, student, intuitive healer, trail wanderer, and beach explorer. I believe in the strength of ancestral lineage. Honesty and Integrity are non-negotiables. I adore spontaneous road trips, sunsets, moon magic, and I am a lover of alchemy. Usually, you’ll find me with a messy bun swooning over guacamole or a steaming cup of coffee and embracing life.
