About
BIO | CV | Vision
Elizabeth Carpenter,
MSOM, LAC, CLHYP
I came to medicine by way of professional dance.
An injury became a blessing when it threatened my career. As a last ditch effort, I saw a colleague’s acupuncturist.
The treatment acted like magic, utterly rewriting the story around the injury, and my future, entirely. In the space of single hour, my life was returned to me.
I went from needing surgery and getting replaced (what I worked my life for disappearing), hopelessness, anxiety . . . to being back in the game.
I remember calling the company from her office: "I'll be back in rehearsal tomorrow."
That miracle was the beginning of a greater journey. My health transformed through the power of Chinese medicine. My life transformed through its wisdom teachings.
And so it was that I found my next calling, before I'd even concluded my first. I'd been planning on law school after dance. Instead I headed straight to Chinese medicine school the week after I retired.
Over the next 25+ years I would work with thousands of patients, and teach hundreds of students, and devote myself to studying several additional mind-body & energy medicine healing systems.
I came to develop a signature way of integrating and layering multiple therapies for amplified results.
EXPERIENCE
CV
Credentials
- • Bachelor of Arts, Religion, Oberlin College
- • Masters of Science, Oriental Medicine, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
- • NCCAOM Diplomat, Acupuncture & Herbology
Certified Hypnotherapist, Rapid Transformational Therapy, Marisa Peer School - • Certified Practitioner, Bowen Therapy, National Bowen Academy of Australia
- • Qualified HeartMath® Instructor, The HeartMath® Institute
Personal Resilience Mentor, The HeartMath® Institute - • Certified Harmonyum Healing Practitioner, Naam Yoga Therapies
- • Other Advanced Training: Eden Energy Medicine, Functional Nutrition, Meditation, Medical Qi Gong
Teaching
- Undergraduate & Masters Programs
- • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
- • Oberlin College
- • University of California at Sonoma
- • Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
- • Touro University
- • Elizabeth has helped train and supervise hundreds of acupuncturists and develop curriculum at the Masters's level.
Other teaching
Working closely with Dr. Randine Lewis (author, The Infertility Cure), Elizabeth has taught at Dr. Lewis' Fertile Soul™ retreats and is a founding member of Dr. Lewis' infertility integrative medicine specialist association, Clinical Excellence in Fertility Professionals (CEFP).
Advisory Boards & Organizational Consulting
- • Acupuncture Society of New York
- • American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
- • New York State Acupuncture Coalition
- • Elizabeth is a consultant on integrative medicine and the topic of how biomedicine, energy medicine and mind-body medicine can collaborate to serve the patient best.
- • Elizabeth was Director of Chinese Medicine for, and a member of the roundtable that developed, Haelth - an integrative medicine model adopted by several hospitals, using research in practice to bridge the gap between traditional biomedicine and CAM (complementary & alternative medicine).
Professional Memberships
- • International Association of Counselors & Therapists
- • American Association of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine
- • Acupuncture Society of New York
- • National Certification Commission for Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine
Speaking
Elizabeth is a featured speaker and presenter for both small and large organizations. Please visit the Speaking Page for more detail on keynotes and workshops for your event.
Over the decades
As an Acupuncturist & Herbalist,
Bowen therapist and Hands-on Healer
I experienced a thousand times over:
- • Your own energy’s power to heal you.
- • Your body’s innate healing intelligence jumping into action by simple cues given through instruments such as needles, herbs, hands & touch.
As a Hypnotherapist, Counselor &
Mind-Body Therapist
I became well-versed in:
- • How your interpretation of your own life events impacts your physical body, your mental health and your emotional wellbeing.
- • How your beliefs, thoughts and emotions heal or harm you.
- • How your mind-body connection & energy (the spirit of mind-body-spirit) can be used, by you, for healing, personal growth & making important change.
As a HeartMath® Mentor & Instructor
and Energy Medicine Teacher
I’ve seen that everyone can learn to:
- • Connect within to your own energy and to That Which is Greater
- • Foster wellbeing in all 4 energy dimensions of your life: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
My passion now
- • is mentoring, teaching & empowering people to become self-healers.
- • is helping as many people as I can to wake up & activate these energy, or spiritual self-healing and wellbeing technologies inside themselves. To connect within.
- • is guiding people to end “the war within,” to unlock the secrets of their own energy and spirit, so they experience more abundance in their bodies and minds, hearts, relationships and lives.
Vision
- Beyond our own individual needs for healing, personal energy mastery has the potential to become a common bond between us.
And that, in turn, has the potential to bring much needed healing to how we relate to one other, and so, to initiate healing on a grand scale.
In 2016 I attended a Women's Leadership Conference where the speaker, a futurist, painted the picture coming to life right now: the rise AI, robots, and much more. It was a grim evening as the audience gasped repeatedly.
Afterwards, a former patient greeted me and offered words I'll never forget, "I'm not worried - I'm counting on you. You'll be one of the guardians of humanity."
As we enter a new age of AI, will we give up our humanness to technology? Or will we embrace what most makes us human - our "divinity" technology? The programming inside us, that when enabled, is our ability to transcend, move beyond perceived limitation.
This ageless, timeless part of who we are fundamentally, the spirit of mind-body-spirit, is our energy - our native potential and our tether and access to That Which is Greater.
We use different words to denote that, depending on who we are. IIn some spiritual circles the talk is of our experience of God, Angels, and Higher Beings. In others the words are Consciousness, Infinite Mind. In science, the talk is of neurons acting as antennae tuning us to the Zero Point Field of creation where all information, ever, is stored in a conscious universe.
Art, breakthrough, genius of all kinds isn't something we do, it's something that comes through. We channel it. That's how healing happens in us. Our energy does it. A shift in an energetic pattern takes place, a dynamic turn in how things work. Healers, substances, methods of all kind simply cue it.
We, through our relationship with our energy, or spirit, can activate this technology within.
While the world can seem like a hopeless place full of enmity, division and disaster for so many, we're actually at an inflection point, a tipping point, where enough people are waking up to their energy and the power it holds.
I want to contribute to the shift to the other side of the equation - where energy self-mastery leads to unity, healing and thriving.
I see the transition happening every day in my work: People's lives improving through embracing their humanness and tapping in to their "divinity" - their energy.
And I see the influence that has beyond their own health and wellbeing - to their families, communities, organizations. The shift is possible and real. And available to everyone.
This is spiritual healing. Not a set of beliefs that bind a sect, but direct experience of energy. The science is leading us back to the secrets of energy and biology contained in the wisdom and healing arts of ancient paths and knowledge.
Alive freshly today, and never more relevant.
My role is to make practical and applicable the "what" and "how-to," that we might put down our weapons against ourselves and one another, to move into an age of thriving we've not yet experienced collectively - but can, as one by one we own, and own up to, the power we hold: our connection within, and to That Which is Greater.
Master Your Energy ~
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