What is Mosaic Methods?

Mosaic Methods is Dr. Elaine Thornton’s creation born of energetic chiropractic care, yogic and spiritual teachings. It is primarily a somatic (body work) experience that restores health to the body.

By using very specific and gentle touch to the spine, this work helps to repattern the nervous system. Dr. Elaine is trained in Network Spinal chiropractic and most of the work will look and feel much like that!

Integrity is the cornerstone of the work that helps others to experience vitality in their daily lives while breaking old paradigms and seeking truth.

What can I expect on a first visit?

On your first visit, we will discuss your health history and goals. From there the doctor will do a nervous system analysis, by checking your posture, feeling your spine, and doing some simple neurological tests.

After a complete analysis, you will have your first table session!

With all the information gathered from the first visit, we can schedule a “report of findings” visit. On this second visit, we will create a plan of care. This plan may include care with Dr. Elaine or a referral to another practitioner. Our goal is to help you reach your goals.

The cost of the initial visit is $250 and the visit is 1 hour long.

What can I expect at an event?

These events are designed to move energy through your system, break old patterns, and create new positive changes in your body and life. Most commonly, clients report feeling more peaceful and relaxed after table sessions. During or following sessions, participants may experience a wave of emotions or sensations. It is our intent that the numbers of attendees are kept small, so participants feel safe and grounded. It is common to move energy at these events in the form of yelling, crying, shaking, and stretching. Not everyone will have this outward experience - sometimes the quietest people have the biggest shifts!

You can expect to breathe deeper, feel connected, and be in a state of peace.

If you’re a chiropractor, are you providing adjustments?

No, there will be no hands-on cracking or joint-popping.

The nervous system care provided includes Dr. Elaine’s assessment and light touches along your spine. 

You may also see another Mosaic Methods practitioner who is not a chiropractor. They are insured practitioners and are fully trained in the technique.

How are you affecting my nervous system?

The care provided during table sessions with Dr. Elaine or another Mosiac Practioner will help to establish a better connection with your parasympathetic nervous system (the part that helps you heal!)  to get you out of flight-or-fight and into a deep state of coherence (everything works better). This is done by applying light touches at specific places along the spine to cue the system to create new neural pathways- and new ways of being and healing!

What is somatic energy healing? 

This is a unique form of healing that bypasses the conscious mind, that works with the body to peel away layers of trauma and upgrade the nervous system. The body is a tool we can use to access all parts of ourselves, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

Is this “energy work”?

Yes, and it includes individualized attention and assessment during the group and private table sessions. She will be assessing physical indicators of stress and tension patterns held in the body before initiating each care session. The assessments inform her to work with your unique energetic systems.

I don’t believe in “energy work”? Will I feel anything?

We may not be the best fit for you. We do see plenty of non-believers understand the power of this work after they experience it. A consult or a workshop may be a better place to start if you have doubts.  

When the event description uses words like “integrate”, what does that mean?

Integration is allowing parts of yourself that were not safe to communicate with other parts of you to start to connect and create full body and self-coherence. For example, releasing some stored emotion from your shoulders and allowing that energy to move through so you can heal that chronic back pain. Or allowing your mind to turn off so you can experience your own creativity. This work will teach your body, emotional-self, mental-self and spiritual-self to communicate and work efficiently. If we focus on only one part of ourselves, we lose out on the gifts of the others. We integrate all parts of our being and then magic happens. 

What should I wear?

Wear something comfortable. You may feel like moving and stretching during and after your table sessions. Layers are always a good idea, you may experience your body feeling more warm or cold during sessions.

Can children attend and receive care?

Yes! Imagine if every child had the opportunity to regulate their nervous system. The world would be a much better place. And bonus- children 12 and under are free with a paying parent on a regular care plan.

I have an injury, rod in my spine, in a wheelchair, can I benefit from this work?

Yes! It’s safe for all, and can be an incredibly effective way of helping manage stress and improve function.