Shamanic Bodywork & Sonic Arts Studio
Erica Denise Franzen:
Sound Therapist. Body Work. Placenta Work. Educator. Doula. Folk Herbalist. Advocate for the Unseen.
Erica Denise Franzen
Erica Denise Franzen has held sacred space for over two decades. Through her ever evolving private practice and a seven year journey as lead instructor for the Vibrational Sound Association, Erica's works have reached local and international communities. Branching out like the veins of the Earth. Her physical office lies amidst the convergence of two rivers, in Moline, Illinois. Erica provides a full spectrum of modalities to assist the soma and the psyche through transitions in every stage of life. From a well-versed range of body work techniques to various forms of sound therapy applications, multiple types of energy work, herbal medicine applications, shamanic counseling, placenta work, full spectrum doula services, and death companionship, Erica brings forth holistic compassionate care into every encounter.
For Being More Than One Thing
“Fluid God,
Fear can make us demand definition from mystery. We tell stories of your static nature to make the Divine digestible to us. We condense and simplify our own stories to make them clear and resolved. Since we were little, we've been dissected not with nuance and complexity, but by a zeitgeist that favors categories and binaries. It feels like we must choose - to be smart or pretty, to be angry or kind, to be masculine or feminine, to be well or wounded. Free us from this confinement. Help us to remember that we are not singular, that we are free to be more than one thing. Protect us from a world intent on narrowing our selfhoods. Remind us that these binaries exist not so that we might be understood but so that we might be made small. Guide us as we honor the sacred spectrums within each of us, and within one another. There is a multitude in us. We will not be reduced. Ase. “
-Black Liturgies p. 18