Then
she discovered essential oils. She stumbled upon the oils when her
friend who had just returned from England gave it to her as a souvenir.
Struck by the positive effect the oils had in altering her mood, she
found herself less irritated and better able to concentrate on work as
her headaches alleviated.
Around
the same time, she enrolled in “Pathways to Wholeness” a spiritual and
self-realization course at The Work Sanctuary. Having had enough of
nine years in the petroleum industry which she felt was characterized
by pressures, stress and widespread penchant for money and materialism,
she chanced upon a life-transforming opportunity through her delightful
experience with essential oils.
Armed
with three diplomas in aromatherapy/anatomy, physiology and massage/
reflexology, she set up Healing Gardens, a holistic healing centre in
1999. The aromatherapy centre was the realization of her dream to offer
a safe place to people to transform their minds and bodies. “I wanted
for those who came to the centre to experience a bliss-consciousness,
which is very important for our well-being,” says Kyoko.
With
the satisfaction of fulfilling her desire to bring a sense of
well-being and healing to people’s lives, she continued her search for
new alternative therapies which would help people address mental,
emotional and health challenges. In 2000, she came across an innovative
therapy called Cranial Sacral Therapy (CST), which is a gentle,
hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the function of the
Craniosacral system.
“I
was so thrilled with what this therapy could do and how it could
benefit almost anybody - babies, children, adults, even the elderly. I
decided to continue to advance my knowledge in the area,” says Kyoko.
She completed her course and was certified by Upledger Institute in the
United.States.
In
late 2001, she started seeing children who were diagnosed as autistic,
Sensory Integration Dysfunction, using CST. She discovered the
effectiveness of CST in treating children with special needs.
Each
half hour session saw them calmer while alleviating their erratic and
unpredictable behavior. Autistic children with delayed speech or those
diagnosed with dyspraxia showed dramatic improvements in their speech
skills after three months of weekly CST sessions.
Over
the last five years, Kyoko has seen in excess of 600 children. She has
been treating Autism, speech delay, learning difficulties, cerebral
palsy, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ ADHD),
Hyperactivity and Dyslexia and children who cannot handle their
emotions. She has witnessed great results in them.
Whilst
treating special needs children, Kyoko met many mothers who spoke of
their experiences during their pregnancy and childbirth. She detected a
sharp correlation between difficult labor and pregnancy and children
who suffered from Autism, speech delay, learning delay, global
developmental delay, cerebral palsy, ADD/ADHD, Hyperactivity and
Dyslexia.
An
instance, a mother who had a premature baby at 32 weeks of pregnancy
was given a host of medications for three days to stop her early labor.
She had a son who was diagnosed as having Ataxia Cerebral Palsy.
Another mother who described her difficult labor because the baby was
stuck in her pelvic and had the umbilical cord around his neck, was
purple at birth and was diagnosed as having Learning Delay. The
numerous accounts she heard directly from the mothers of autistic
children who visited her clinic set her thinking of how and what women
could do to have healthy babies and avert the complications of
life-threatening labor using the science of Aromatherapy. Her early
years of practice as Aromatherapist also helped her to write Hormonal
Balancing Programme to share her knowledge with her co-therapists which
they could then use to treat women during and after pregnancy.
When
she launched her Aromatherapy practice, she attracted many women who
were suffering from irregular menstruation, cramps during menstruation,
infertility, PMS, menopause. She experienced unexpected yet wonderful
results in restoring the hormonal balance of many women so that they
could have children they desired. Kyoko, now a well-settled Singapore
Permanent Resident, researched how doctors in Japan were using
essential oils to treat a host of medical conditions. Essential oils
work very much like any other medicines due to their bio-chemical
effects. The molecules of essential oils also reach the limbic system
in the brain to affect our mood and emotions. Today, Kyoko combines
special customized essential oils and Aromotherapy to help restore
hormonal balance in women..
