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I want to share my deep appreciation for the work of Edd Edwards, and for what this past cycle of sessions has opened inside my body and being.

I began with four individual sessions and felt called to sign up for an entire month — five sessions a week. What I didn’t expect was the level of intensity that would follow. My body went into terrible, debilitating nerve pain along the entire right side, pain so deep that I could barely function. It was frightening, confusing, and overwhelming. But in my heart, I knew something profound was happening. My system was unwinding decades of stored energy, trauma, tension, and habit.

So I stepped back.

I took a month off.

I allowed my body to integrate and reorganize itself.

And that pause changed everything.

When I began sessions again, something was different. Something had shifted. My body finally had the space to let go. Now I’m experiencing deep, full breaths throughout the day — spontaneous releases, opening, unwinding, softening. There is finally movement where there was once only contraction.

For the first time, I’m truly feeling the benefit of this work in my body, not just in theory — but in lived experience.

Edd, thank you.

Thank you for the work you do.

Thank you for the integrity you bring.

And thank you, most of all, for keeping your fees so accessible so that healing is not reserved only for the wealthy. I’ve never believed healing should be for the rich — and you live that truth with such purity and generosity.

This work is magical.

It is powerful.

And I am profoundly grateful.

With a full heart,

Shelley

shelley Esler