Sometimes imbalances can run deeper in the body than you know, so deep you don’t even know they’re there.
Amanda Roemer, a Touch for Health practitioner and yoga instructor in Lethbridge, has the ability to find these imbalances in the body.
Touch for Health is a system of balancing posture, attitude and life energy to relieve stress, aches and pains.
“I do a form of muscle testing that mostly tests the physical muscles. It tests for imbalances in the body,” she says.
Such imbalances can include physical, mental, spiritual or emotional things that someone may not know are even there. By tapping into the body’s energy system, the process can rebalance the body so that it can go through the process of healing itself.
The Touch for Health process is different for each person, Roemer points out.
“Your biology becomes your biography. When people are sick, they are more imbalanced. Some things can’t be fixed in one balance. It varies on the person.
“I have one lady right now who, after six balances, is off anti-depressants she’s been on for 20 years. She’s doing fine.”
Roemer discovered Touch for Health, also known as kinesiology, after getting into a car accident at 17 years old. She says she knows that it works because she experienced the healing touch for herself.  
“It was the most fantastic thing to experience,” she reminisces. “The headache had gone away and the aches were gone. I kept going and felt better and better.”
The kind of trauma similar to that from a car accident might cause wounds that are physically able to be healed by a doctor, but Roemer says that doctors might not fix all the lingering issues.
The mental and emotional stress caused by traumas can create energy imbalances throughout the body without someone even knowing it.
A session with a Touch for Health practitioner is simple.
The session is done lying down, fully clothed, while the client is active in being self-aware of his or her own body and what is happening, to help the practitioner pick up on problems. Roemer says that self-awareness is one of the keys.
“You have to be proactive in the process.”
Touch for Health is not a practice that is well known. Roemer herself gets clients purely through referrals.
She has a small practice in Lethbridge of 12 clients. She says that about 90 per cent of her clients rebook for sessions. She also teaches yoga.
Anyone interested in trying a touch for health session can reach Roemer by email at amanda_roemer@hotmail.com or by phone at 1-403-393-4523.