About Terri
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About Terri
Terri Moon earned her Master's Degree in 1982 from Memphis State University. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and worked as a research analyst for five years, until personal health challenges forced her to retire. Thus began her career as a healer, of her own body. After a few months of meditation and prayer about what her new career would be, she was encouraged to go to the San Francisco School of Massage for training. There she learned massage and Ortho-Bionomy, following in the footsteps of Jane Sisti, who had supported her in healing her lower back injury more than any other method she explored over the three year long process.
After many years of successfully practicing massage therapy and Ortho-Bionomy, Terri learned of Limbic Integration from a fellow Ortho-Bionomy practitioner, Jeri Jo Idarius. After her first session, she was told by others how much joy she brings everywhere she goes (prior to this time, she brought grief everywhere she went). This profound shift drew her to study Limbic Integration work in 1992 and to become one of two practitioners to receive the baton from both developers of the work, Lee Vagt and Jeri Jo Idarius, to teach this profound work in the world.
In 1997, Terri broke a dinner plate and a chunk of her right thumb flew across her kitchen. The bone was exposed and she waited for nearly five hours for the plastic surgeon to arrive at the hospital. He took one look at the white, lifeless piece of skin and decided skin grafts would be necessary. The plan was to take pieces of flesh from her inner thigh and place them onto the thumb, but that couldn't happen for another three days, due to the surgeon's schedule. He put fifteen stitches in her thumb, closing the wound so it wouldn't get infected over the next three days, and told her to "visualize lots of oxygen getting into the thumb." Coincidentally, the previous night, Terri had heard that "essential oils have more oxygen than any substance known to man" so when he said this, she thought to get some oils on her thumb. It took less than ten minutes after placing the oils on her feet (a very effective way to use the oils as they get nto every cell of the body withing 21 minutes) before the dead piece of thumb that the plastic surgeon had temporarily sewn back on was beginning to turn red and come back to life again! Terri stopped the skin grafts, got her stitches out on the third day, and did six hrs massage on the 10th day when it had been anticipated that her stitches would be removed.
Her thumb was completely numb from the severed nerves. This was upsetting to since she needed sensation in order to be able to discern what was happening during massages. She got her first bottle of Young Living essential oil, geranium, and applied it several times each day, whenever she washed her hands between clients. Each time the oil was applied, nerves were re-connected-like little sparks of electricity flying out the end of the thumb. In only two weeks, all sensation had returned! The healing was so complete that it was almost as if the injury had never happened. Terri has been singing the praises of oils ever since (for this and many other healings) and has generated monthly passive income that allowed her to purchase her first home, a twelve-year dream come true of living in community, which would never have been possible without the home-based business that came with the oils. Now Terri supports others in generating monthly passive income, meeting their own goals for personal financial freedom.
An enthusiastic student of Gary Young, founder of Young Living Essential Oils, Terri has studied Raindrop Technique, Emotional Clearings using Essential Oils, and many other things since 1997. Terri has been teaching Raindrop Technique since 1998.
A political activist for 25+ years, Terri feels her life's purpose is to change society by changing relationships between men and women from one of adversarial dependency to one of partnership. Terri has been learning communication skills for relating by studying Non-Violent Communication since 1998 and has taught it since 2005.
Also towards this goal, Terri has been studying relationships and men. Terri did the Sterling Women's Weekend in 2000 and worked with the Family of Women from 2000-2002. In 2004 Terri discovered PAX Programs, Inc. She took all of PAX's workshops and is now the Volunteer Coordinator for the San Francisco Bay Area. Terri just began PAX's year-long leadership program with Alison Armstrong in Los Angeles. She is delighted to be part of this community whose purpose is the same as her own, transforming relationships between men and women by offering acceptance, respect, greater understanding, humor, and compassion between us with integrity and partnership.
Terri enjoys offering empathy, coaching and mediation, as well as teaching NVC (in English and Spanish) through workshops, classes and practice groups, and researching, integrating, and teaching PAX's wisdom in her life with clients, community members, students, and friends. She delights in coaching and lkeading workshops and classes that foster scocial change and successful relationships which increase peace and compassion.
For more information or to schedule an appointment or training, e-mail moon900@earthlink.net or call (707) 792-0740.