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Quotes about Gypsy Hands

...something truly miraculous has just happened to me. I'm lying on Sara Griscom's massage table at Gypsy Hands Healing Arts Center, spent, open, healed, and grateful.

The release I got from her energy work was mind-blowing in a way that's harder to describe than, say, a hamstring letting go- it was like a weight had been lifted off my soul.

This is all in a day's work for Griscom, who's not your average massage therapist by any means. She is, rather, an intuitive guide... and a healer trained in multiple traditions- massage therapy, Mayan and Maori healing, and Reiki among them. “For me, massage is just a platform...” she says. “But I think everything that is happening with the physical body is a guidepost to what is happening with us energetically....”

“Pain calls us into awareness of ourselves in a very deep way. It's a gift if you can see it that way,” she says.

Energy work is a field that seeks to channel and move energy via very subtle manipulations of the body combined with an intention set by the practitioner. ...It is an intuitive art, a tuning-in process that defies physicality altogether- and sometimes transcends it.... Energy work can help you find peace and solace as you stumble along your spiritual path (whatever it may be).

Hillari Dowdle, Metro Pulse, March 13, 2008

A few of Knoxville's finest healers... share their advice on staying healthy and happy.

As for Sara Griscom, owner of Gypsy Hands, a healing arts center in Knoxville, she goes to her front porch. “I receive healing from the universe,” she says. “I look out onto the fields and all around me is my sanctuary.” Griscom adds, “All the things I love to do nurture me...”

Ajeet Khalsa, Eva Mag, October, 2007

The key words are transportation and accessibility to this part of town (the Broadway/ Central intersection). If the corridors linking our part of town to Market Square, the Old City, and Gay Street were better nurtured and beautified, then people would feel safer, and have a better understanding on the connectedness of these places. Attitudes about this part of town would likely shift for the positive, as the experience of traveling from one section of town to another improves. Ideally, changes to these corridors will be eco-friendly and encourage people to be on their feet... people's perspectives would shift, allowing our town to evolve into an ever better place to experience.

Sara Griscom, Metro Pulse, January 3, 2008

Healing Touch Practitioners:

(Reiki Master Teacher, Sara Griscom) Offers students self-paced, one-on-one sessions designed to uphold the integrity of the Reiki tradition. The first session includes a brief intuitive reading to foster the student's self-awareness. Says one of her students, Marcia Brown, “...My hope is that this tradition will go on with the respect and sacredness that it deserves and that I can be a part of that.”

News Brief, Natural Awakenings, December 2007

Sara Griscom has gypsy hands and a gypsy heart... Sara also wanders far as an intuitive, who says she has communicated with guides and angels since childhood. A visit to Bobby Drinnon helped her come to own her gift. “You don't get a degree in this type of thing,” Sara reflects... “Going to Bobby was like getting a diploma”... “It's connecting to the Divine, and allowing that connection without worry or doubt. Bobby says all we're here to do is love.” She sees her mission as helping others connect with their highest self- their soul's truth. “I'm basically speaking with their soul. Through her gypsy hands and heart, Sara wants to help souls come into alignment with their truth. ”How they receive and what they do with it, it's up to them... My expression of love is to share the information.”

Ronda Robinson, Perspectives, Nov/Dec 2007

Gypsy Hands proprietor, Sara Griscom, has expanded her Healing Arts Center to include a street-level office... two doors south of the existing studio... “All Gypsy Hands practitioners are naturally intuitive with their touch, drawing from various modalities such as myofascial integration, neuromuscular therapy, shiatsu and Thai Yoga massage.”

News Brief, Natural Awakenings, October 2007

Intuitive work ... is just what it sounds like; ...a therapy session to delve into the client's psyche and emotional well-being. Unlike psychoanalysis though, intuitive work is less defined but certainly more relaxed. "It's heart stuff. I've just been sharing the information I have and it's been such a gift that people will just open up and trust," says Griscom.

Molly Kincaid, Metro Pulse, Jan 13, 2005

If ever anyone had emanated a calming vibe the women of Gypsy Hands do.

Wayne Bledsoe's blog for the Knoxville News-Sentinel, Bonnaroo '04

Bellydance Classes:

I follow Griscom's directions, isolating abdominal muscles I never knew were there, undulating in a way I never knew I could. And this is not to say I was skilled... But at least I was writhing to good music, from hypnotizing Middle Eastern instrumentals to booty-shakin' tunes to rock...I feel myself slipping into a trance-like state, and all of the sudden, I'm starkly aware of my belly. I'm quite literally "one" with my belly. Yet, absent is the self-consciousness that's been ingrained for a lifetime. My belly is radiant and capable and alive, I think for the first time. It is my core and my strength.

..."The belly itself is a woman's center. All the different muscle groups you use bring in and release energy. That's all we are, just a sum of parts energetically," she says.

... Women come to class for other reasons than just spiritual benefit. Exercise and social outlet are the obvious. More surprising is its reputed ability to increase fertility, which Griscom swears by and cites numerous clients who have successfully conceived (sometimes unintentionally, she laughs) with the help of bellydance.

Molly Kincaid, Metro Pulse, Jan 13, 2005

The most relaxing place in Knoxville: Sara Griscom's beginner bellydance class at the Gypsy Hands Healing Arts Center is a soothing workout with an international flair.

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