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Stress Relief & Improved Brain Performance

Nancy Evans

Welcome! Do you or your loved ones struggle with symptoms of stress in these very intense times? Would you like to experience a relaxing energy work session to calm and rebalance your nervous system?

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I am a healing arts practitioner and teacher and have been working with children and adults for over twenty years, specializing in the effects of stress on the brain and body. Our goal together is to bring you relief while helping your body build resilience.

 

My approach with you can focus on general stress relief or we can focus more precisely on how your stressors are impacting your brain performance and your central nervous system.

 

The ultimate goal is for you to feel relief and to gain insight that will help you maintain that relief.​​​

Nancy Evans

About Pathways Energy Healing™

​​Pathways Energy Healing is an energy work therapy developed by Nancy Evans and her friend, Harolyn Ellison, LMT in 2012. This effective technique emerged from Nancy's many years of working with kids, teens, and adults experiencing stress and learning difficulties and from Harolyn's practice as a gifted massage therapist and energy healer.

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Pathways Energy Healing focuses primarily on relieving and resolving the effects of stress, that can compromise the quality of your life. Formerly called Integrative Alignment Energy Work, this energy work system has helped people of all ages overcome stress and fears, enjoy improved memory and brain performance, gain more confidence and achieve better relationships, while enjoying greater self-esteem.

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The list below shows some of the kinds of challenges that Pathways Energy Healing has helped clients to overcome: 

  • Stress symptoms

  • Anxiety

  • Poor self-esteem

  • Lack of motivation

  • Lingering fear, unable to move forward

  • Concussion related changes in brain performance

  • Compromised memory

  • Distractibility, poor focus

  • Reading comprehension and recall issues

  • Confusing right and left

  • ​​​​Poor handwriting

  • Poor organization, planning and problem solving

  • Poor physical coordination and balance 

  • Defiance

  • Sensory Processing challenges, including visual, auditory and touch

  • Listening skills, understanding, memory

  • Challenges with math, memorizing facts, calculations, word problems

As these stresses and brain processing impairments are reduced or resolved, a variety of positive benefits can result. This may include enhanced brain performance, emotional stability, better physical coordination, and easier success in academics. These improvements can lead to a stronger sense of self-worth, self-confidence, and overall resilience. 

Benefits Clients Have Reported

Physically

Mentally

Emotionally

Spiritually

Coordination
Decreased pain
Increased energy
Improved digestion
Restful sleep
Balanced senses
Improved relaxation

Mental clarity
Improved memory
Academic success
Focus and attention
Organization
Planning 
Problem solving

Confidence
Positive self-esteem
Optimism
Motivation
Happiness
Success
Peace and calm

Life balance
Spiritual connection
Self-Compassion
Sense of purpose
Ongoing gratitude
Feeling centered 
Healthy relationships

What to Expect in a Session

Energy Work Session

Pathways Energy Healing sessions are non-invasive and tend to be very relaxing, with the treatment time usually scheduled for an hour, although some children do better with 30 minutes.

​First, Nancy will consult with you to explore the major challenges and goals for your session. Then you will rest comfortably, fully clothed on a massage table while Nancy uses relaxing light touch acupressure and energy work techniques related to your needs.

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The number of sessions needed depends upon the goals for each person and can be estimated in the first appointment.

A Little About Nancy

An accomplished trailblazer in the fields of wellness and healthcare, Nancy's 20 years nursing career ultimately led her to serving as a Nurse Manager and Nursing Instructor in Richmond, Virginia until she moved to Fort Collins, Colorado in 2004. 

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Nancy's experience in major western institutional medicine helped her discover how effective and important integrative and alternative healthcare options can be. That led her to studying and practicing a wide variety of complementary therapies, including Applied Kinesiology, Brain Integration Technique, Yoga Teacher Training, Hypnotherapy, Hypnobirthing, Healing Touch, and Reiki. She has also attended classes and retreats with Sharon and Patrick O'Hara with The Growing Place since 1985. 

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​Nancy and her husband, Robert, moved to Billings, MT in 2023 where they are pleased to be able to offer their services.​

Testimonials
IA Energy Work is now called Pathways Energy Healing

​​"After our session yesterday I woke up feeling grumpy but had a massive shift this morning. When I drove by a place I had experienced trauma, I just started laughing, out of nowhere and it continued when I drove back by. My body and spirit are releasing the trauma in laughter and joy. It's mind blowing. I've never had something like this happen before." -AE
 
 
"A close friend recommended Nancy to us for our 8 year old son who had been struggling with anxiety on top of other things. When we first went to see Nancy we weren't really sure what to expect but within minutes of being in her office we knew we had come to the right place. From the moment we met Nancy, she was incredible. She was kind and understanding and was willing to take the time to really listen to us and the concerns we wanted help with. When she first started working on our son he was anxious, talkative, and could barely sit still. Within 5 minutes he was relaxed, calm and on the verge of falling asleep. I remember thinking, how incredible it was and how much he needed this.

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When we left Nancy's office the first time my son turned to me and said, "Mom, I don't know what that lady did but can I go back everyday." Nancy helped to change my son's life in only one session. It was truly amazing! Now my son is able to recognize how his body is feeling and will even come to me and say, "Hey mom, I think I need a session with Nancy!" when he isn't feeling 100%."     -AS

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"Integrative Alignment has changed my life! For the past 20 years I have experienced symptoms of PTSD, while also suffering from moderate to severe anxiety. I was in and out of therapy throughout this time, and experienced some improvement. When I was made aware of IA Energy Work I had no idea what to expect. Within a few sessions, I started to feel lighter and more joyful, and I was surprised by how much my anxiety decreased – the feeling was pleasant, and yet so foreign to me.

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​After three months of receiving IA Energy Work, I was presented with what would usually send me into a fight or flight response for hours at a time. To my surprise, my body did not respond and I remained calm and peaceful – this was shocking to me! For the past 20 years of my life, my body had responded to this trigger with overwhelming fear. Now my nightmares and experience of hyper-vigilance have ceased, and I no longer describe myself as anxious. I continue to feel lighter and experience more joy in my life. I am more patient, present, and better able to manage stress. Integrative Alignment Energy Work has helped me to heal deep wounds and live a life that a year ago I felt was not possible!"     -AB

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"For years, since being a young teenager, I had struggled with depression and debilitating anxiety. I went through the typical rounds of talk therapy and medication, but always knew that there was a deeper, more complete way to heal that I had not yet found. Integrative Alignment (IA) entered my life in my mid-twenties, and I am living fully today because of it. Never had I experienced such a restorative therapy, even having had some experience with acupuncture. IA has been the one and only therapy that for me, truly gets to the root cause of an issue and invites positive transformation. Thanks to IA, and Nancy specifically, I live a full, vibrant life, a quality of life I could not have imagined before meeting Nancy. IA restored in me the peace and wholeness I knew my being was capable of. From deep within my heart, I am ever grateful for IA as a means to healing and living fully."     -ES

 


"I just wanted to tell you what happened at my son's parent/teacher conference on Friday. His teacher told me he is currently doing 6th grade reading work in her class (with the help of his special teachers) but nonetheless he is at GRADE LEVEL! He has NEVER been at grade level before!

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At the end of last year he was a full 2 grades behind! Then if that wasn't good enough news, she told me that she had instructed all of the kids to write a paragraph. They had parameters they needed to stay within and special rules, etc. She said that my son wrote the most beautiful paragraph and followed ALL of the rules! She said he did better than most of the class!!!

...When she told me this, I was just grinning from ear to ear, thinking to myself, "It worked"! ...I'm TRULY convinced now that this has worked and has helped my son. Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!     -SD

 


"Hello - guess what? J (a student at Front Range Community College) had his first math exam last Friday, and today he learned that his score was a 90%. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! In the four years of math since we moved here, J has never even been in the 80% range. Thank you so much for helping J get back on track!"    -DL

 


"My 8-year old son's writing has improved tremendously -- from almost every printed letter written backwards in 1st grade to all of them printed forward facing and very clear after Nancy's BIT work during 2nd grade.  His teachers have been amazed.  His agility, balance and athletic abilities have also all improved as Nancy corrected his internal confusion balancing his front-back, up-down, and left-right switching.  This work has literally changed our son's life and our parenting focus forever."    -JG


"My 11-year old son actually asked to see Nancy as he was frustrated-to-tears with 4th grade writing.  He wanted the writer's block to go away.  He wanted it to be easy for him to read a passage, process the details and summarize.  During the sessions he also worked on his spelling and now we have a 'great speller'.  His CSAP scores went from below grade level in 4th grade to advanced at the end of 5th grade.  We and his teachers have celebrated much learning growth in his qualitative numbers, but bottom-line, writing now comes easy for him and he loves it."  -JG

 


"I just wanted to send you a quick note. I had met with Sara's teacher for her end of year results yesterday. She commented about how Sara is so much different in school now then she used to be.  She said that she started to notice a change in Feb and she is just more focused then before. She said the day before our meeting, she was watching Sara in class, and thought to herself about how much she has changed.  Before, she never could keep Sara focused and she would always have to redirect her at least couple of times a day. She said she never has to do that anymore and that she is just there!!!!...Isn't that great? Thought you would want to know!"    -SW

 


Hi Nancy,  Don't know if you got my last update where in November R was reading at 32 wpm and the same the first week of January and then at the end of February, she made a huge leap to 66 wpm!

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Spring break did wonders for her progress. So much so, in fact, that our first week back her teacher stopped me after school and urgently asked, "What DID you do over spring break???!!!" I responded (a bit concerned and taken aback) with, "Nothing, really. We just hung out." "Well, whatever you did, keep on doing it because she's a different kid! She's confident - raising her hand for every question I ask - and her work is amazing!" I'm certain that the BIT just keeps making more and more connections. Her private OT is thrilled, too! Things like deductive reasoning, which used to be so hard for R, are effortless skills now. At my last parent/teacher conference a few weeks ago, R's teacher says she's about one trimester behind (which is a huge improvement). I think the most important change is the confidence. It's great to see her believing in herself.

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We started a reading dog program at our school in March, wherein our reluctant readers read to therapy dogs once a week to reduce their anxiety. R LOVES it and seeks out reading on her own now, too. It's been a great program....Fondly, -SR

About Pathways Energy Healing Training

Energy Work Training

What if you could become an accomplished energy work practitioner while being gently guided in your own personal transformation?

 

Are you a Life Coach, Registered Nurse, Massage Therapist, Physical Therapist, or Energy Worker and know there is more that your clients need to reach their goals? Or are you simply ready to embark on a meaningful journey of self-discovery?​

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​Pathways Energy Healing, originally called Integrative Alignment Technique, has been helping people thrive since 2012 and the comprehensive training will afford you the opportunity for personal transformation as well as to help others who are ready for positive change in their lives.

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