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Practitioner
Close Up:
Mary Morrin
By
Madeline Caruthers
“The Quest for the Limitless You” course at the Kripalu
Center in Massachusetts, years ago, radically changed Mary Morrin's
life path. Now, at 54, she is established in the holistic field,
after years of studying many different, but complementary, forms
of healing.
But in 1981, she was a wife, mother of two, and on the verge of
a divorce. She became an expert in competitive research analysis
in the computer world, but she wanted to work with people, not
information.
So, on impulse, she took the yoga course, and also looked to God
for help. She asked God “to give me, in neon lights, in my
dreams, in signs – 'it' – even though she didn't
have a clue about what 'it' was. She just knew she wanted
to 'get it' – clarity about life's meaning, and
her purpose.
And something responded. She began to see energy around people.
She also 'saw' that the impersonal world of computers
was not going to take her forward. She became certified in Hatha
Yoga and Reiki, before she decided to move, with her new husband
Jim, to Atlanta. Jim, another computer expert, later became a
tennis pro. They sought and found new lives.
She first linked up with an organization called the Universal
Brotherhood Movement, founded by Rick and Jeni Prigmore. They
accepted her, unconditionally, as someone 'on the path.'
Then it gets complex. Her readings of books were taking her somewhere,
but where was not clear. And she had no personal teacher. Feeling
that she was 'flying by the seat of her pants,' she found
Babaji's Kriya Yoga classes were being taught in Atlanta.
She continued advanced Kriya Yoga teachings through 2000. She
was also doing a lot of additional metaphysical reading.
The books that were most influential were Autobiography
of A Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda, which she
perceived as a bridge between Christianity and the Yogic traditions;
Conscious Immortality, by Ramana Maharshi, and The
Masters of the Far East series, by Baird Spaulding.
But Mary also needed a new career. A spiritual one. She enrolled
in neuro-muscular massage school training at Atlanta’s Academy
of Somatic Healing Arts, and graduated in 1995. She worked at
The Herb Shops and studied iridology and raw foods.
She continued her career quest with studies of CranioSacral therapy
with the Upledger Institute in Florida. CranioSacral therapy balances
the cerebro-spinal fluid rhythm through light touch, imagery and
dialogue, which relaxes the client into releasing energy cysts
and mind-body links, breaking through emotional blocks. And she
added hot-stone massage to her 'holistic healing tool box.'
She was certified as a Nationally Registered Yoga Tradition teacher
and Karuna Reiki master in 2003. Her most recent addition to all
of her tools is a biofeedback machine, the QXCI. According to
Morrin, 'We are the cause of all of our misery and disease,
because of our reactions, and the Quantum shows comprehensive
reactions to over 8,700 health factors on a laptop computer.'
She loves the machine and what it can do for clients, because
it 'actually pictures and prioritizes in charts and graphs
both the conscious and non-conscious reactions from past to present,
and simultaneously balances those reactions.'
Mary is small, physically. Impish in appearance. Soothing in presence.
Comforting and embracing. Warm, but never “hot.” Strongly
self-disciplined. Her work with clients is to further the best
interest of whom ever seeks her, using both her skills and intuition.
I should know about her healing and helping abilities. I have
benefited from them. We’ve been personal friends for nearly
ten years. I am as diametrically different from Mary as a sinner
is to a saint, though she would never give either of us or anyone
else, a 'label.' She does with me what she has done for
so many others – that is, to urge, insist, that you look
for the higher meaning in every event. That you see a picture
of non-duality. That you are forgiving, kind, and accepting.
Comments from Mary reveal her current thinking:
Asked which people she acknowledges as most influential in her
life, she surprisingly responds: “I truly thank my quiet
self, my witness, whom I once called my conscience. It is she
who also hears, listens, observes, acts, reacts, feels, questions,
or not.” She also reverently acknowledges the teachers of
the Yoga tradition, particularly Patanjali, for his renowned Yoga
Sutras.
Her
words to live by:
Know self, there's nothing else to seek. (Ramana Maharshi)
Describing herself now:
I am truly you.
Her spiritual path:
My path is stillness, where all diversity ends.
What does it feel like to be a healer:
It feels like I'm not doing anything. I just sink into
bliss and relaxation, and that helps others release their physical,
mental, emotional, and chemical reactions, which cause disease.
In
2003, Mary and her husband returned to Massachusetts to be closer
to their parents and children, and she started the Quantum Wellness
Center in August of 2003. She offers the Quantum biofeedback machine,
Advanced CranioSacral therapy, Karuna Reiki healing training,
meditation, and private yoga sessions.
Madeline
Caruthers is a writer and spiritual seeker in Atlanta. You may
contact her at 404.288.7278, or ElucidateMC@aol.com.
Mary Morrin may be contacted 508.523.4974 or at mary.morrin@mindspring.com.
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