Hello and welcome!
My name is Alexis Archer Shanks. My life's work is helping others connect with their bodies, mind and soul. By creating balance and clearing trapped energy from the body we are able to enhance clarity and practice living a supported life.
Somatic Healing is the study of the mind- body connection and the relationship between thoughts, emotions, beliefs and physical sensations of the body. This connection recognizes that mental and emotional states can affect physical health and vice versa.
Healing on a soul level promotes healing in the body. I call this kind of healing “Epiphany driven healing”, for your greatest good.
These days I mainly work with Emotion Code Therapy. EC promotes a parasympathetic trauma release, from trapped emotions, inherited trauma and unpleasant experiences from the past. With Emotion Code we remove any stored emotional baggage from the body healing old wounds and aiding the body into balance.
Education and Background: I was first inspired by Children’s spirituality from psychology professor, Dr. Tobin Heart who was in the process of writing a book exploring and researching children’s experiences with spiritual connection. I was hooked and joined the phenomenology department at the State University of West Georgia. After graduation I moved to North Carolina where my family owned and operated, The Stillpoint Center. It is there where I began learning about the business behind the type of work I was drawn to.
As I continued my studies further I was drawn to take a closer look at energy transfer.
Starting with massage, I was accepted into the Academy of Somatic Healing Arts, ASHA, in 2007.
Through 18 years of focused massage experience, I expanded my studies with education in cranio- sacral therapy, cupping, nutrition, EFT tapping therapy, kinesiology/ muscle testing and meditation. I became an attuned Reiki master in 2017.
I was driven to explore emotional trauma, frequency medicine and removing energy from the body. This is where the work really began to take shape.
I became an Emotion Code Practitioner which quite literally changed my life.
What does a session look like?
The most popular session is a 75 min session.
During this session we will do some massage on a focused area. This helps to connect with your body and allows you to get you into a parasympathetic space. Once relaxed and connected with the subconscious mind, I will then perform an energy scan of the body, removing stagnant energy and creating balance. (I may use magnets and tuning forks during this part of the frequency work).
We will move into the Emotion Code portion. With permission I will then tap into your subconscious mind by muscle testing aka applied kinesiology. We will go through the EC chart to identify which emotions are trapped. Once identified, I will release and clear the energy using a magnet.
Once cleared, we will talk about desires for further sessions and I will provide detailed notes.
We all have intrinsic abilities and defining it helps to refine it.
What is your clair? I am “claircognizent” and “clairsentient” meaning that I am driven by an awareness and connection through feeling.
Connecting with our bodies allows us to pay attention to the way we FEEL.
Healing on a soul level promotes healing in the body. I call this kind of healing “Epiphany driven healing”, for your greatest good.
If you’d like to work toward refocusing your core beliefs we can resume with creating a personal practice.
Together we work towards creating new neural pathways that will provide new and empowering programs within the deep layers of our being.
In a state of ALLOWING, the focus is to develop a practice that becomes a regular activity until it comes without a lot of thought or effort, much like the urge to drink water.