About us
Origins
Established by Shelley McConaghy in 2003, Divine Balance® was created to help people find balance and peace in their lives. For the first 13 years Shelley provided her clients with energy balancing sessions incorporating Usui Reiki, crystal healing, polarity energy balancing, breathwork, and sound healing techniques.
In 2016 she began providing duo-practitioner sessions with her partner Jason Engelbrecht, who brings the powerful addition of Kurradji healing techniques, his own unique way of working with crystals, and the support of healers and Stewards of the land.
The perfect balance.
Divine Balance’s mission is to help people find balance and peace in their lives
Divine Balance today
Jason and Shelley see their clients from their base on the Central Coast of NSW, 1.5 hours north of Sydney. They provide sessions for adults and kids in their healing room at LakeSpa Wellness Centre. Distance sessions can be arranged either by phone, or done remotely if schedules don't match.
Shelley facilitates My Wellness Wednesdays to come back to a centred place with tools to remain balanced amidst the chaos of life. She also offers half day and full day workshops on weekends to learn more about your energy field and how to maintain its' integrity.
Jason has created a range of Kurradji crystal wands that are available for sale either by appointment at LakeSpa Wellness Centre or from wellness events.
'We love helping facilitate your reconnection to self. What we love even more, is seeing you empowered with the understanding that you have your own innate healing abilities. Your healing brings us joy.'
Modalities
We incorporate techniques in our healing work that vary with each session depending on our clients' needs.
Crystal healing
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Crystal healing involves the placement of specific crystals on the body, under the massage table, and held in the hands. They are selected according to the clients’ needs to enhance the healing response.
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A crystal pendulum helps restore energy flow to parts of the body where stagnation has set in. A pendulum can help attune and retune.
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Crystal wands amplify and direct the energy. The body is either calling for something to be cleared, or for a specific frequency to be brought in to help shift and release energy blocks.
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Crystal bowls are divine musical instruments that create deep relaxation and a sense of sublime calm. Some call it the closest thing to the sound of heaven.
Intuitive healing
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Intuitive healing acknowledges the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual nature of our being, and that none of these are separate from the other.
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Intuitive healers respond to their client in each session, and this is why no two are the same. One session can incorporate breathwork, crystal healing, sound healing, holistic pulsing, and meditative releases, and a restful polarity energy balance with tuning forks the next time.
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By tapping into highly tuned intuitive gifts such as clairsentience, clairaudience, and clairvoyance, Shelley and Jason can either feel, see, or hear what is required to help their clients. Clairsentients can often feel what another person is feeling in their body, giving them an innate understanding of their clients' experience.
Polarity energy balancing
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Polarity therapy is a hands-on form of energy medicine that draws on many healing traditions from the East and West, ancient and modern. Developed by Dr Randolph Stone, this powerfully effective healing art combines balancing the body’s core energy field with therapeutic techniques covering diet, exercise, self‑development and the spiritual and psychological dimensions.
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The purpose is to reawaken the body’s innate intelligence that carries the self healing mechanism—allowing the body to rejuvenate, instead of being in fight/flight response. Techniques can include gentle holds, holistic pulsing, cranio-sacral holds, gentle muscle releases, and more to instill deep nervous system relaxation.
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According to Polarity Therapy Australia, Energy medicine considers that bio-fields of energy are what give us life. When we are stressed, in pain, experience discomfort or dis‑ease our bio‑fields are disturbed. When we are healthy, these bio‑fields are strong and balanced.
Usui Reiki
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Usui Reiki is a natural form of healing therapy that aims to increase energy levels. The underlying philosophy of reiki is that if a person’s 'life force energy' is low, they are more likely to be unwell or stressed. If it is high, however, they are more capable of being happy and feeling well. Reiki will not cure illnesses or disease, but it may help your body to heal itself. Reiki can do no harm.
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Reiki is applied through non‑invasive gentle touch—or indirect hands-above the body treatment.
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Reiki is not a religion—there is nothing you have to believe in to use or receive reiki. Reiki is not an 'alternative' therapy—it is a 'complementary' therapy in that it works alongside other medical and therapeutic techniques. There are different types of Reiki, and while they are all valid healing modalities, they all spring from Usui Reiki as originally brought to the world by Mikao Usui in 1922.
When choosing a reiki practitioner:
Sight their reiki qualifications, professional association membership, and insurance details; and
Don’t trust any therapist claiming to be able to cure serious illnesses, or ask you to abandon other medical treatments without first seeking the advice of your medical practitioner.
We adhere to the same standards of ethics and professional conduct as outlined by the Australian Reiki Connection and Association of Australian Reiki Professionals.
Helping humanity to heal and achieve balance, because we're all here to shine our light into the world
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