Healing energy offered at Evolve

By Pat Stinson
Sun contributor

A creative person, Cindy Kochis (pronounced Kō-shĭs) finds many outlets for the artistic energy that flows through her. She is close to finishing her first novel. She freelance writes and helps businesses and organizations promote themselves through her company, Creative Counsel, Inc. She sells journals and notepads decorated with photographs she has taken (“Beachwalker Designs”). She enjoys making candles and jewelry, loves to garden, and takes many hikes along Lake Michigan.

Kochis shares more than her artistic abilities with others. Each Monday afternoon, she brings her life-long gift as an intuitive channeler to Evolve bookstore in Glen Arbor, where she offers healing energy sessions for individuals. It’s a talent she doesn’t promote, not wanting to commercialize the help she gives others.

What is an intuitive channeler? Kochis explained that ever since she was a youngster, she has had premonitions, a “knowing” of things that have not yet taken place. Several life-altering experiences in her teen years convinced her that her intuition was a special gift — one she said helped her accomplish many “wonderful things” as an adult. It is her belief that we all channel information from the Universe (variously described as God, Goddess, Buddha, Source, whatever one wishes to call it), but we have to be open to it.

“Some people are more in tune with the knowledge, and some haven’t realized how much it affects us in our daily lives. We receive the information through energy vibrations … from infinite sources.”

She said channeling can be as simple as receiving energy from a person you pass in the grocery store. If a person is humming, it might make you smile. If another glares at you, you can choose to accept or disregard the unhappy energy. Channeling is also intuitive. When the phone rings and you know who it is, or you have a nagging feeling while shopping that you need something you didn’t put on your list (and company drops by your house later), that’s channeling. Some might choose to ignore the feeling, due to apprehension about the spiritual, while others trust that they weren’t imagining the feeling and embrace it, as Kochis does.

A Certified Level III practitioner of Flowing Liquid Light Healing, (founded by one-time area resident and channeler Sherry Lord), Kochis said she has the knowledge and techniques she learned last fall (during a guided meditation) to offer this service.

“Flowing Liquid Light transforms, harmonizes and balances the energies … spiritually, emotionally, physically and beyond,” she explained. “(It’s) a rainbow of colors that are very bright, clear, colorful and intelligent. It knows where to go and what needs healing at that particular moment in time. What you experience on one day will be different at the next session, because we are always evolving (changing).”

Before a session, Kochis discusses with a client what will happen and what she will be doing, physically. With the lights turned low and soothing music turned on, the client reclines on a massage table. Permission is asked to touch areas on the body, such as the head, shoulders, upper chest, abdomen, legs, between the shoulder blades (an area that Kochis calls the “angel spot”) and on the lower back. Her hands may hover above those areas for clients who prefer no physical contact.

“My hands get red hot,” she said. “I can feel residual energy even though my hand is not there.”

Her experiences and techniques are unique to the services she provides. (A channeler’s gifts vary from person to person, and Kochis has added some of her own hand positions and channeling sources).

“My techniques, just as with any lightworker, are forever evolving. I trust my intuition and allow it to come through. And, when I do, it’s magnificent. I celebrate each time it happens — it’s so exciting!”

What Kochis said she doesn’t do is intuit or foretell the future for anyone. If they ask her, she explains that the future is always changing. She does tell her clients when she has felt the presence of their angels or guides, who she sometimes sees as a bright or golden light and with whom she communicates.

Her clients’ reactions during healing sessions vary. Some drift asleep while listening to the music. One person thought she received a massage. (“It was the energy flowing through her,” Kochis said.) During one session, Kochis took the same journey (up a mountain) as the client.

“…Some people feel more relaxed, lighter, more “centered,” clearer in thought,” she said. “Sometimes they come to have a question answered from a higher source, and/or feel more connection with the universe.

“I trust that the people coming to me want the healing,” she said. “I don’t want the skeptics here. People who are open to it will have the best experience. Like when I bumped into Sherry (and talked for three hours at Higher Self bookstore before knowing her). I ended up making a close friend. It happens all of the time. It’s part of the magic, part of the mystery, the mystique.”

To make an appointment for Flowing Liquid Light Healing with Cindy Kochis, call Evolve at (231) 334-4200. For more information, visit www.heartsourcehealing.com.