What Kirtan and Homeopathy Have in Common

Kirtan and homeopathy are both forms of energy medicine.  Kirtan is a singing group meditation that uses repetitive mantras to change your vibration.  Similarly, homeopathy changes your energetic organization using highly dilute remedies from plant, animal and mineral matter.

Changing your vibration or energetic organization may sound esoteric but it’s common in daily life.  For  example: You’ve missed your alarm, you’re late for work and arrive to find an unexpected problem and many disappointed colleagues.  Try as you may, you just can’t turn your day around and by day’s end you are irritable with a pounding headache.  What can you do?  Some people take a painkiller or have a stiff drink.  Others might exercise or call a friend.   If you are a homeopathic patient, perhaps you reach for your constitutional remedy.  I doubt many of you would start singing Kirtan music but that would work too.  What’s needed is a shift out of the energetic pattern that has you feeling so irritated and stuck.

When unhealthy patterns repeat day after day, it becomes harder to step out of them.  Over time, those patterns become the energetic disorganization which form disease.   The core of my work is helping people unravel the layers of energetic disorganization that are inhibiting them from living a balanced and healthy life.

I used to see the various forms of my work as different and distinct. One day I was Alyssa, the homeopath. the next a yoga therapist, then a Kirtan leader.  I felt my time was too sliced up.  Almost two years ago a wise friend suggested that I look at all my work as one offering.  It has taken me quite a while to stand firmly in the belief that these modalities are just different roads leading to the same place.

As I am letting go of the distinction, the modalities are weaving together.  Yoga students are coming for homeopathy.  Body-based meditation is weaving its way into my homeopathic consults and enlightening my remedy selection process.  People from all corners of my life are coming to sing Kirtan.  I used to fear that chanting in Sanskrit might be too alternative for some people but surprisingly it seems to cross ethnic and religious backgrounds and resonate deeply in people’s hearts.

I am grateful to see all the forms of my work coming together.