TRR photo by Karen Macbride Liz Gorrill uses her piano as a healing instrument. (Click for larger image)

Healing from down under

By KAREN MACBRIDE

Gazing up at the underbelly of the seven foot 1907 Steinway piano was an unusual experience. Never before had I even thought to lie beneath such an instrument. After settling myself comfortably on the mat, a soft blanket over my legs—the music began.

Liz Gorrill, a long time resident of Callicoon, NY has developed a unique form of therapy that combines creativity and intuitive healing. After an initial consultation and intuitive reading, she uses music and the visual arts to help release creative energy that may be blocked and preventing an individual from discovering their creative potential. This energy allows access to a deeper level of creativity and self-knowledge.

Having gone through her own tumultuous journey with depression and illness, Gorrill’s work comes from years of deep inner work and an extraordinary connection with nature, which became her “primary physician.” She studied Intuitive Counseling with Meredith Young-Sowers in 1997 and is a certified graduate of the Stillpoint School for Advanced Energy Healing. For several years Gorrill worked with Ronger Shen and Yi Wu and taught Soaring Crane QiGong.

Music has been a constant throughout Gorrill’s life and as an improvisational pianist and singer she is masterful. “I create works of music and art that read, reflect and release inner energy… images and information come to me as I create, offering intuitive insight into the physical, emotional and spiritual challenges of each person that I work with.”

Under that tiger mahogany piano, I was experiencing what Gorrill calls a “tonal treatment.” I would call it a “tonal transformation,” at times profound and penetrating to a cellular level, then shifting and lightly touching other areas with an intuitive sense as to what was needed—a creative intelligence was at work. “I see it symbolically; being under the piano is like going back to the womb,” Gorrill said. “Instead of creating a body, we are creating a life. It is all there, the connection between creation and creativity.”

For more information/brochure call Liz Gorrill at 845/887-4036.