Healing modalities

Modalities offered at The Storytellers (by Tracy du Plessis) include Specialised Kinesiology, traditional Stick and Cowrie shell Divination, and healing with plants.

Specialised Kinesiology or “muscle monitoring” forms the basis of various modalities, all of which use the body’s proprioreceptive response to identify imbalances that may be (amongst other things) structural, electrical, nutritional or emotional in nature. These are then rebalanced using a variety of techniques ranging from physical manipulation, massage, work with the fascia to acupressure and meridian work, reflex points, electromagnetic balance, techniques from neurolinguistic programming, reflexology, nutritional interventions, plant medicine and more.

Tracy du Plessis is qualified in a number of biofeedback modalities, including Touch for Health, Specialised Kinesiology (Neurotraining), Neuro-organisational Technique and the Stress Indicator Points System. She incorporates all these into her work, depending on the needs of the client, and also incorporates massage where needed. This type of therapy is gentle and non-invasive, yet effective for a broad variety of issues, ranging from chronic pain, severe illness, serious injuries and alignment issues, allergies, learning disorders and poor immune response all the way to emotional trauma, addiction or simply personal goal setting. Sessions 60 minutes and are offered in Clanwilliam town or at The Storytellers.

Traditional African stick divination and cowrie shell divination: Our is a time of great disconnection from the natural world, and all of what is unseen. This context of separation has made it possible to keep on consuming our planet in the way that we are. In ancient cultures across the world, people have sought to gain insight on human affairs from a perspective outside our own limited point of view. The practice of divination brings the opportunity to move ourselves back into reciprocity; to align ourselves with the frequencies around us, to experience reverence and gratitude for the natural world and the Creator, and to clear up personal and intergenerational trauma.

Tracy is an initiated stick diviner in the ancient tradition of the Dagara people of Burkina Faso, West Africa. Stick divination has been described as truth medicine – a technology for working with the ancestral and natural forces that are demanding our attention. She also practices cowrie shell divination. Both techniques are “prescription oriented”, in the sense that you, as client, are given information accompanied by homework – unique/specific rituals that are intended to bring the story that has emerged into conscious action in your life.

A session may take anything from 45 to 90 minutes. Sessions are offered at the The Storytellers or online.

Plant medicine: Plants are keepers of ancient wisdom and stories. The more we learn about a plant, whether studying its phytochemistry, the environment it prefers, its growth habits, its stories and traditions, proven uses (medicinal or otherwise), its appearance and colour, its taste and the experience of ingesting it, the more we start to understand its teachings. Tracy has been writing about the plants since 2016, with work informed by personal experimentation, by what she is learning through her interactions with traditional knowledge holders, and through the study of published literature. She has recently published her first book, which is available for purchase.

Tracy currently offers plant medicine in the following ways:
Assessing plant nutrition needs through kinesiology
Topical application of plants, through balms, creams and hydrosols
Using plant tinctures – we have our own range, distilled from scratch
We do not offer any form of questing through the ingestion of mind-altering plants.