Arabella Arkwright on Intuition, Energy and the Body

Hello.

I'm Arabella Arkwright, founder of The Alchemist Clinic in Warwickshire, England.

I'm an intuitive energy healer, and by that I mean I have the ability to sense everything in people because I feel what they're feeling in my own body. And I work with people who may be experiencing physical pain, emotional dis-distress, unresolved trauma, or a feeling that something within them is simply out of balance. Many of those people who come to see me feel as though they have already tried everything. They may have visited doctors, specialists, or other practitioners and still feel that something is being missed.

My role isn't to replace medical care. It is to create a safe and compassionate space where we can explore the connection between the body, the mind, our emotions, and our energy.

No two sessions with me are ever identical because no two people arrive carrying the same experience.

I don't follow a rigid formula. I listen, I observe, and most importantly, I discern. I feel things.

And when I connect with somebody, I often experience physical sensations in my own body. These might appear as warmth, tingling, or tiny electrical currents. The sensations can become stronger around particular areas, almost as though my body is acting as a compass and guides me towards something that needs attention.

I have this little voice in my head, and I get myself out of the way, and it really basically tells me what to do. I can often sense things that have been unspoken.

Sometimes that connection begins before a person is physically standing in front of me. I can sense something from afar. This could be a heaviness, an emotional blockage, or an imbalance that I feel drawn to explore. Often, when I'm talking to people on the telephone, I can feel what they're feeling, and I tell them, and then they become aware of it.

There have been occasions when I have felt connected to someone before we have even met in person. I may experience sensations, emotions, or an awareness that feels as though it belongs to them rather than me.

This can be difficult to explain because it isn't always something that can be understood logically. It is an intuitive connection that has developed within me that I have trusted and refined through years of study and direct experience. My sensitivity to people has really been present for most of my life, although I didn't always have the language to describe it.

As a child, I felt naturally drawn to caring for animals. There was something about their honesty and vulnerability that allowed me to connect to them deeply. And my own experience with illness, injury, and multiple operations later gave me a very personal understanding of the body.

I didn't know it simply as something described in textbooks. I understood how vulnerable it could feel to live in a body that endured pain.

These experiences encouraged me to question whether our physical and emotional lives could ever truly be separated.

I noticed that our bor- bodies often carried things that we haven't expressed. Fear, grief, stress, and painful memories can influence how we breathe, how we move, how safe we feel, and how we respond to the world around us.

That realization took me beyond conventional ways of looking at individual symptoms, and I wanted to understand the entire person, what they had experienced, what they believed, and what they might still be carrying.

This eventually led me towards energy healing practices, mainly from America, and a particular book written by Donald Epstein.

His work was called "The Twelve Stages of Healing." And during this period of learning and reflection, I experienced something that really changed the direction of my life, because

when I was 12, I suffered an injury that broke my coccyx and left me with a raised lump and a long-term misalignment around my sacroiliac region.

And years later, something extraordinary happened to me. I was sitting down after having read part of this book where it said I was gonna have a life-altering experience, and I needed to rest. And out of the blue, on a bright blue sky spring day, this bolt of energy came at me, and I can only describe it as otherworldly.

It hit me, and it took me backwards and forwards in slow motion, like a slow-motion car crash. I felt the energy move along my spine until it reached the area of this childhood injury, and it was as though a dormant current had found the precise place it needed to reach.

Afterwards, the raised lump that had been there for years just disappeared.

I have since come to understand this experience. It, it's l- it's an awakening, and I have a God-given gift. Often, in certain traditions, it might be called a kundalini arising also.

And from that point onwards, you know, this work no longer felt like an interest I had chosen to pursue. It felt like my purpose. There was a strange familiarity to it all, as though I wasn't discovering something new, but that I was remembering things I had always known. That sense of purpose eventually became The Alchemist Clinic. And at the heart of my work is a simple belief. Healing does not always have to be forceful or harsh to be powerful. Sometimes the deepest changes begin with gentleness, with a breath, with patience, with self-love, with being listened to without judgment.

I care deeply about the outcome my clients experience, but I also understand the importance of humility. I listen to my intuition while respecting the things I cannot know. I take gentle, considered steps and allow each person's experience to unfold in its own way.

One experience that has remained with me was a session with a woman named Stina.

Before every session, I ask my clients two questions, and the first one is, "If I could help you in any way, what would that look like?" And the second is, "Tell me what you really want." I love that last question because beneath our responsibilities, expectations, and everyday noise, I believe there is a quieter part of us that already knows what we need.

When Stina stood in front of me, I immediately noticed that she was breathing high into her chest. Her breaths were shallow and seemed to be moving in the opposite direction to the natural expansion of her body. In other words, she was breathing upside down. So that's where we began. I guided her to breathe more deeply into her belly and her sides. We slowed everything down and allowed each breath to become fuller and softer.

As her breathing changed, her body began to relax, her thoughts quietened, and she became more present. I encouraged her not only to think about gratitude, but to feel it physically moving through her.

And as I connected with her, I began to experience familiar tingling sensations in my own body. They would change or stop around certain areas, guiding my attention towards places where the energy appeared unable to flow freely.

The entire session, we conducted standing up, and as Stina relaxed more deeply, her bogo- body began to sway and move naturally. She was in a deep trance. This was so beautiful to watch. It felt as though her thinking mind had stepped aside and finally given her body permission to communicate.

At times, I placed my hands gently over an area and asked her to breathe into it. My hands became intensely warm, almost as though they were being drawn towards the places where stillness and attention were needed.

Neither of us needed to explain or analyze everything that arose. Sometimes words are helpful, sometimes they get in the way, and sometimes the body simply needs to be heard.

I guided Stina to imagine energy flowing through the crown of her head, down through her body, and into the earth. Then, um, I invited her to feel the energy of the earth rising through her feet, traveling through her body, and continuing beyond the crown of her head.

Earth below, the celestial above, and Stina connected between them.

At that exact moment, the lights in the room went out. The music continued, so we hadn't lost electricity. We simply stood there in darkness while the music played around us. The timing felt remarkable, as though the room itself had become still and all its energy and attention had moved towards Stina.

I didn't interrupt the session or attempt to explain what had happened. We remained present and continued. And when that part of the treatment was finished, the lights came back on. It may have been a coincidence. It may have been something more. I don't pretend to have every answer. What mattered was the experience of that moment and what Stina was feeling within it. As we continued, emotions began to surface, and tears came. We didn't try to stop or analyze them. We allowed them to be released. I guided her to visualize golden threads representing her connection to people, memories, and experiences. And when she felt ready, I asked her to imagine gently cutting the threads she no longer needed, those threads that bind you to everyone you have ever met. Not with anger, not with resentment, but with love.

Releasing something doesn't mean it never mattered. It means giving yourself permission to stop carrying its emotional weight into your present.

By the end of the session, Stina was deeply relaxed. I spoke quietly to her subconscious, reinforcing the intentions she had shared with me, to trust herself, to quieten her mind, to feel safe in stillness, to let go, and to move forwards.

When I happened to see Stina a few hours later, she told me that the pain she had been carrying in her chest had gone, and the tension she arrived with

had lifted.

But before she said anything, I could see a difference. There was a lightness in her eyes, her expression, and the way she carried herself. She appeared happy, almost elated. It felt as though I was looking at a different person. And I'm gonna share with you what she wrote afterwards.

This is what she wrote. "I honestly don't know how to put into words what my experience with Arabella at The Alchemist Clinic has meant to me. From start to finish, it was absolutely incredible.

I went into my treatment open-minded, but I never expected to feel such a profound shift. Arabella has an incredible ability to connect with you on a level that is difficult to explain. She helped me uncover and begin to release the trauma that I didn't even realize I had been carrying, things I had buried so deeply that I hadn't understood how much they were still affecting me. What made the experience even more remarkable was how intuitively Arabella was able to pick up on areas of my well-being that I had personally been struggling with. It felt as though she could sense things beneath the surface that I hadn't even spoken about, and the whole experience was incredibly powerful and emotional.

I left feeling lighter, calmer, and more connected to myself than I have felt in a very long time. There was a real sense that something had shifted within me."

Experiences such as Stina's are how I measure the impact of my work. It isn't about recognition. It is about the moment somebody tells me that they feel lighter, calmer, happier, freer, or more connected to themselves. This is why I do this. There will always be an aspect of healing that are difficult to put into words. You might call them energy, you might call them intuition, you might call them the divine, and we might call them spirit, or perhaps they don't always need a name. Sometimes we simply need to become quiet enough to notice what our bodies have been trying to tell us.

This is what I offer at The Alchemist Clinic, a place to breathe, to be heard, and to reconnect with yourself, a place where healing is approached with compassion, intuition, and gentleness. This is healing with a golden touch. [paper rustles]