If you’ve ever felt stuck carrying emotional pain that seems to weigh down your body as much as your mind, you’re not alone. Emotions, especially unresolved ones, often live not just in our thoughts but also deep within our bodies. That’s why Splankna therapy offers a uniquely gentle and effective way to heal, bringing together body, mind, and spirit in a holistic approach that supports lasting wellness.
What Is Splankna Therapy?
Splankna therapy is a Christian mind-body healing approach that blends physical techniques with spiritual alignment. It uses a light touch around the abdomen and chest — the splankna, a Greek word meaning “internal organs” — to help release emotional tension and trauma stored in the body.
Rooted in principles similar to those of functional medicine, Splankna looks at emotional health through a whole-person lens, addressing both physical and spiritual imbalances. It also integrates elements from proven modalities such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), and NET (neuro emotional technique), combined with prayer and spiritual guidance.
Splankna therapy recognizes that many emotional struggles have a physical component, held in muscle tension and nerve pathways, especially around vital organs. Using light touch and muscle testing, Splankna therapists relieve emotional blocks without the need for you to relive painful memories. Instead, healing is supported by inviting God or a higher power into the process, creating space for deep emotional and spiritual release.
How Does Splankna Therapy Work?
A typical Splankna session incorporates several key elements that work together to facilitate healing. Prayer is central to the process, creating a spiritually grounded environment that invites God’s presence for guidance, peace, and emotional restoration. This faith-centered foundation helps clients feel safe, supported, and open to deeper healing.
Muscle testing — also known as muscle monitoring — is used as a noninvasive way to identify where emotional energy is trapped in the body. By detecting subtle shifts in muscle strength when certain stressors or emotional memories are subconsciously accessed, this technique allows the therapist to pinpoint the source of emotional blocks and trace them back to their origin. Often, the body “remembers” what the mind has forgotten, including the age and context in which the emotion first became stuck.
Clients may also be guided to place their hands on specific areas of the chest and abdomen, points along the body’s natural energy pathways, or meridians. These areas are believed to store emotional tension, and engaging them can help stimulate the release of stored energy. Many clients describe feeling warmth, tingling, or a sense of deep calm as these energy shifts occur. Through a combination of Splankna’s structured protocols — blending muscle testing, guided touch, prayer, and Scripture — the emotional energy tied to past experiences is gently released. Notably, this process does not require clients to verbally relive traumatic memories, making it a compassionate and accessible form of healing. By working with the body’s own intelligence, Splankna therapy can help calm the nervous system, reduce internal stress, and restore emotional balance.
Who Can Benefit from Splankna Therapy?
Splankna therapy is especially beneficial for people dealing with:
- Anxiety and chronic stress: The therapy helps calm the mind and nervous system by releasing the physical tension that often accompanies anxiety.
- Past trauma or PTSD: Unlike some talk therapies that ask you to re-experience painful memories, Splankna involves working directly with the body’s stored emotional energy. This can make it easier to process trauma safely.
- Overwhelm and emotional triggers: It helps break repetitive patterns that keep you stuck in cycles of stress or emotional reactivity, giving you more control over your responses.
- Unresolved grief or loss: The therapy supports you in letting go and finding peace, which can be difficult when grief feels frozen or unfinished.
- Fear and phobias: By releasing the body’s conditioned fear responses, Splankna therapy can reduce intense reactions to specific triggers or general feelings of dread.
- Negative self-beliefs and shame: Emotional blocks that fuel feelings of unworthiness, guilt, or shame can be gently cleared, helping build self-compassion and confidence.
- Generational trauma: Splankna can help break unhealthy patterns and emotional legacies passed down through families, offering freedom across generations.
- Relationship barriers and trust issues: It restores the capacity to connect deeply with others and with God, helping rebuild trust and intimacy.
Why Choose Splankna Therapy?
One of the things that sets Splankna apart is its gentle yet comprehensive nature. It respects your body’s natural intelligence and healing capacity, working with subtle cues such as muscle responses to uncover hidden emotional pain. At the same time, it brings faith into the process, inviting divine presence to guide and support your healing journey.
This combination creates a safe, nurturing environment where deep healing can happen without feeling overwhelmed or re-experiencing trauma. Whether you’re new to therapy or have tried many approaches before, Splankna can offer a refreshing, calming path toward emotional freedom.
Clients often share that sessions leave them feeling lighter, more peaceful, and emotionally grounded. Because the therapy works at both the physical and spiritual levels, many find it helps them reconnect with their purpose and inner strength in profound ways.
The Holistic Impact of Splankna Therapy
Emotional pain doesn’t exist in isolation; it often affects physical health and spiritual well-being. For example, chronic stress and unresolved emotions can weaken the immune system, disrupt digestion, and create hormonal imbalances. By addressing emotional trauma stored in the body, Splankna therapy helps improve overall physical health.
Spiritually, the therapy encourages alignment with your core beliefs and values, fostering a deeper sense of meaning and peace. Many clients find that the integration of prayer and spiritual support helps them feel less alone in their healing process and more connected to a higher power.
By calming the nervous system, releasing stored tension, and fostering spiritual peace, Splankna therapy helps you move toward greater resilience, clarity, and overall well-being. It’s a truly holistic approach — one that honors the complex ways our minds, bodies, and spirits are intertwined.
What to Expect in a Session
If you’re curious about trying Splankna therapy, here’s what a typical session might look like:
- The therapist will start by talking with you to understand your concerns and goals.
- Once you’ve shared what you’re hoping to work on, the therapist will open the session in prayer, especially asking for guidance and support during your time together.
- While seated comfortably, the therapist uses muscle testing to identify important material that needs to be processed and cleared.
- After the clearing process is complete, the therapist leads a closing prayer to seal the healing work, invite continued spiritual support, and provide you with a sense of peace, closure, and renewed connection to God.
Each session usually lasts around 60-75 minutes, and many clients notice subtle shifts immediately, with deeper changes unfolding over time. And because the therapy is gentle and noninvasive, it’s suitable for people of all ages and backgrounds, including those who may feel overwhelmed by more intensive talk therapies.
Sometimes, healing begins with simply being seen and supported. Maggie Roney creates a safe, respectful space where your emotions, body, and faith are all part of the conversation. With certifications in Splankna therapy and functional medicine, she offers a grounded approach to real, lasting healing.
You’re invited to reach out whenever you’re ready — support is here when you need it.
