Holistic healing center in Medina targets mind, body and spirit
Photos by Ginny Kropf: (Left) These sound bowls emit different frequencies when rubbed by a special mallet, as demonstrated by holistic healer Cassandra Boring. (Right) Cassandra Boring performs Reiki in her Sandstone Holistic Healing Center, which includes this bed with lighted crystals, used to relieve stress, anxiety and acute pain.
MEDINA – Cassandra Boring, one of the owners of Mystic Dragon’s Lair, a metaphysical New Age store at 339 Main St., has also recently opened a new business, Sandstone Holistic Healing Center.
Boring has wanted to help heal people her entire life, she said. She wanted to go to medical school, but with two kids (now three) and a full-time job, she couldn’t keep a high enough grade point average. She did, however, graduate from Brockport State College, earning degrees in biology and criminal justice with a minor in sociology and forensics, as well as a second dual in biology and sociology with a minor in chemistry.
Cassandra Boring holds a stack of her certifications in different forms of holistic healing. She sits next to a selenite stone from Morocco, used to cleanse negative energy from a space and change it into positive.
“When I started Mystic Dragon’s Lair, I realized there were other ways I could help people,” Boring said.
The store sells jewels, incense, crystals and jewelry.
Mystic Dragon’s Lair and Sandstone Holistic Healing Center are located in the building where her father, Scott Wengewicz, opened Patriot Guns last November. He is also the Shelby town supervisor.
When Boring decided to open a holistic healing center, she began studying various forms of healing and has been certified in a dozen different fields, including traditional and Shamanic Reiki, crystal light therapy, sound therapy and Rife ray therapy.
Boring explained that holistic healing is a supplemental way for people to enhance their healing when traditional medicine does not do enough for them.
“If I can find something natural to help me, I’d rather do that than take another medication,” she said.
Reiki is a Japanese energy healing method which claims to help cleanse and align the seven chakras of the body. Boring said the body has 122 energy points total and when they are all working properly, we feel good.
Crystal light bed uses a light bed that emits frequencies through vogue quartz crystals to aid in reducing stress, anxiety and acute pain. It targets the mind, body and spirit.
Often in sessions, Boring said she may see spirit animals or other spiritual signs that have connections to the client.
She said the crystal light bed helps align the chakras.
“They are like a gear system,” she said. “If one is out of line, they don’t work.”
She said the therapy was first used on veterans for PTSD and pain.
She also performs animal Reiki, which helps animals in times of stress or transition. Boring said animals can benefit from Reiki just as people can.
Lights of all colors are used for crystal light therapy, as shown here by Cassandra Boring.
Boring is particularly excited about the Rife machine. She explained it was founded in the 1930s by Royal Raymond Rife to help his patients with cancer. He did a study on 16 people, of which 14 had immediate results and the other two had positive results later with more treatment. It has been found to work on other illnesses as well.
Boring said everything has its own frequency, and by using a Rife machine, those frequencies can be used to target unhealthy cells, causing them to divide and explode.
She also has singing bowls and tongue drums for sound therapy.
Aromatherapy can be added during sessions to make people feel calm and relaxed, Boring said.
The healing center is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Walk-ins are welcome, but Boring advises making an appointment by calling (585) 318-4565.
She stresses that her healing methods aren’t intended to replace traditional treatments, but to offer a supplemental treatment that might help.
