Acupuncture for Trauma, and Memory of Light - Book Announcement and Specialism

For a long time, I thought I understood the meaning of inner light and working with the Heart. I also thought I understood the meaning of we are God, and we are light.

I thought I knew how it felt, how it works. But during these past eight months, I have experienced a deep shift — one that has required me to stop and reconsider what I thought I knew.

What I experienced completely reshuffled my brain. It was different from all the books had described, from all I had been told by others, from what I was expecting.

This journey has led to a deep discovery of the Self and a new, more personal understanding of healing — one I have decided to start sharing.

It has felt pretty lonely in the past few months, as I have kept quiet about this, internally worrying about how to start talking about it.

Partly because, each time I’d try to explain it, I would struggle to find words to talk about something so profound, yet… simple. I had a few experiences with people responding with comments like… oh yeah, I thought you were already doing this! This highlighted that I had to go within once more and ask for guidance on how to talk about something simple like… breathing.

And so, I found myself realising… How do I explain breathing? Such a simple task to perform (for most of us at least!), something we do without even realising.

And so, spiritually speaking, this has been a time of remembering how something this simple works — beyond the rhetoric, beyond the teachings, beyond what I thought I knew.

This journey required reviewing most of my beliefs and accepting the need to ask one simple, radical question:

Is it possible that indeed, I AM already perfect, and I DO have all the answers I need?

Although this sounds pretty philosophical and existential, as well as what I perceive as a rather over-utilised spiritual platitude — this is not what the question was about, nor is it what this is all about.

However, as I asked this question openly, without trying to come up with spiritual explanations like I’m a divine being, or I am my soul, etc… the answer came, but not in the form of words.

For years I had been trying to heal certain parts of my life, and with great effort and struggle. I embarked on a long journey of self-discovery, navigated spiritual teachings, different belief systems, modalities and techniques. The deeper I dug, the deeper I found myself diving into a rabbit hole with virtually no end in sight.

Asking this question with an open mind (and heart) changed everything.

As I stopped assigning importance to finding explanations and answers and ways to heal, all that was left was looking within. This exercise led to a powerful experience of Inner Light — one that turned the idea of I am God into a felt experience.

This experience led me to discover how to heal myself from within, how to accept myself, how to feel the light, how to let it shine. But most importantly, it led to the realisation of this Light being an organising force within the body — present at the atomic level, expressed through the meridians, and observable in the body and energy field.

When awakened — or rather - remembered — the effect is not only the resolution of the presenting symptoms, but also, and most importantly, a deep sense of return home, which creates a profound sense of peace and confidence. A knowing we have remembered who we are.

This inner light physically contains all that we need — all the information, all the knowledge and resources necessary to stop feeling disempowered, to heal trauma, to reawaken the Self, to come back home.

From this knowing, the possibilities become endless.

Healing from the Inside Out - The Eight Extraordinary Vessels

And so, I learned how healing can come from this inner light — one that heals from the inside out.

The course with Yvonne felt like coming home, as it grounded all these experiences and knowledge in the understanding of the body’s meridian system and TCM — through the use of the Eight Extraordinary Vessels.

These are deep channels of life force that hold the original blueprint of the body and spirit. Going back to our origins as souls, they regulate and integrate the flow of Qi and Blood beyond the daily rhythms, reaching into the ancestral, embryological, genetic, epigenetic, and spiritual layers of being.

When engaged with precision and presence, they allow us to access the deepest aspect of ourselves — and I’d go as far as saying — who we really are. Through these vessels, we can access our Inner Light.

This type of acupuncture is about accessing the body’s deepest intelligence and is done with the understanding that we already have all the resources we need to move from surviving to healing and thriving. These are the resources the Creator — or Life — gave us at birth.

This aligns beautifully with what I have been experiencing and developing: accessing the body’s deepest essence, and experiencing the meaning of God is already within.

A New Understanding of Healing

This understanding completely shifts healing from something we receive to something we activate — and, most importantly, remember.

Healing becomes an act of remembrance. The healer is no longer needed as a channel, but rather as a mirror — a friend who reminds you: you already know it, look inside, you indeed are divine. And this is precisely what this type of acupuncture — and Memory of Light — do.

This type of healing shifts from looking at resources received to resources remembered, reawakened, taken out of the attic.

It also shifts healing from understanding the human body and experience as ultimately flawed, in need of fixing, reprogramming, and rewiring, to an inherently perfect being, from the inside out.

And this fits magically — in a way that moves me deeply — with what I have been working on during the past year.

From this space, healing is no longer about helping the body ‘realign’; it is about empowering the person to remember their inner light.

I know the concept of inner light is something we have heard many times before, and something widely used in spiritual work. However, this type of work takes the concept and brings it into practice.

This type of healing is about consciously accessing this inner light — the equivalent of talking to the body and saying: you are perfect as you are, you have all that you need within you, all you need is to come home.

This type of healing is about empowering the body — and ourselves — to remember this and to physically activate the process of remembrance, and bring it into conscious awareness.

And so, healing shifts from channelling light from the outside, to remembering the light within.

So, how does Memory of Light work, and how does Acupuncture for Trauma work?

Memory of Light - A Way Home

Memory of Light™ is a multidimensional method that helps the person to remember and reawaken their inner light — not as a metaphor, but as a living force that organises, restores, and heals. It integrates acupuncture, energy medicine, and soul-level work.

→ The core idea (and practice) is: the information, knowledge, and intelligence we seek are already present in the body. All we need to do is reawaken the memory — in the body, energy, and awareness.

→ The body itself is made of energy, and, diving down from the outer energy to tissues, cells, atoms, and beyond, we find the ultimate essence that makes up who we are: divine beings. I call this essence The Particle of God.

→ We do not need to change, rewire, or reprogram ourselves to heal. All we need is to remember. The program already exists.

→ The focus shifts from the outside to the inside: instead of looking at external aspects such as the aura and chakras, we reach down to the innermost essence — where confidence, knowing, and being are found in stillness.

→ Trauma is no longer seen as deeply rooted and debilitating. From the point of view of the Inner Light, these experiences, events, or blocks can be seen as dust on shelves. Through the inner light, we can release them and move forward.

→ There is no need to understand why something might have happened as a prerequisite to healing. The practice calls us to return to the light, and from this place of remembering, allow our essence to restore equilibrium — regardless of the why.

Acupuncture for Trauma

When we experience a traumatic event—it can be disease, a life-threatening illness, an accident, the death of a loved one, a difficult relationship, childhood trauma, abuse, or anything in between—we need to ask ourselves:

How does the body itself cope with a traumatic experience, and where does it go?

It is hugely empowering and interesting to understand how the body and its energy (meridian system) treat the experience as a pathogen. Just like the immune system, the meridians work to envelop the experience and push it somewhere in the system where it can no longer be life-threatening to major organs.

This is how latency is formed. The more traumatic the experience, the deeper into the system it is pushed.

For example:

We have a car accident in 2014—we go through some counselling, maybe do some healing and, after a few months, we feel we are ready to drive again. A few years go by, and we’ve forgotten all about the accident.

In 2025, we start to develop arthritis. Why would these be correlated?

When something like this happens, the first line of defence in the internal energy system works to take the traumatic experience away from the central organs, pushing it into the first port deemed safe: the joints.

Another example is childhood trauma—when we were four years old, our parents got divorced. This is a particularly interesting example, as the experience happened in what we term the first cycle of Jing—when our core energy is formed, between birth and age seven.

This is when our body does not yet have the resources necessary to digest traumatic experiences. The digestive aspect of our system is formed later in life, after the first cycle, and anything that happens in between will be moved to remote areas of the system, where it cannot hinder us to a debilitating level.

And so the trauma is pushed into one of the Eight Extraordinary Vessels, where it is stored for safekeeping.

From there, however, it creates latency, as storage takes priority over flow and access to our inner resources stored in those vessels.

→ Acupuncture using the Eight Extraordinary Vessels is about accessing our inner resources and memory of Inner Light, and chiefly, allowing the body to reconnect with it. These innermost resources are freed, and by reconnecting with them, we remember who we are, remember our resources, and are able to start using them (again!).

→ Precision Diagnostics: The Eight Extraordinary Vessels offer an incredibly precise diagnostic tool to identify how adversity has affected the body — physiologically, psychologically, and spiritually — as well as which meridian is involved. This works to release trauma and imbalance by way of restoring conscious connection with the Inner Light and our inner resources. The body (and Spirit) will take care of the rest!

Concluding the Chapter

And so, I am so excited to share all this with you — as I am continuing to work on Dr. Tiziano Pilon’s translation (now nearing completion), and as the Seeds of Light Conference takes shape, I can see how this fits beautifully with what I am looking to achieve through what I now feel is my life’s mission: connection.

I can't wait to share my book, Memory of Light, which will talk about the method in depth. From this, I will aim to teach it both to those who are looking to heal themselves, as well as other acupuncturists, energy and body workers who wish to delve deeper into the Artchitecture of Trauma and how to release it at all levels, through the Inner Light.

If you’d like to learn more about acupuncture for trauma, here is a list of FAQs you can look at.

Also, here is a link to one of my blogs with more information about Memory of Light, the book and the journey behind it: The Light in the Heart.

But in the meantime — thank you so much for reading this. I am so grateful for your presence in my life and for… the connection!