The Women’s Health Protocol Story by Alvina Quatrano, L.M.T.

A Request in Class

Missy Grace Oleaga and I co-taught a Clinical Acupressure 2: Meridians Class with Susan Grant in Wilmington, North Carolina, in a hospital, which sponsored the program for its nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and massage therapists. A student came to Missy Grace asking for acupoints applicable for women’s breast health.

Missy Grace got an intuitive hit that we needed to pursue this request.

We all started to make suggestions, Spleen acupoints for blood and such. I opened the question to the Insight Acupressure Community for input. I wrote to Dr. Aminah Raheem (the originator of Insight Acupressure), Leah Matalon, Angelique Priscilla and Betsey Baker, senior teachers, and others
who gave their ideas of which acupoints would be beneficial to woman’s health.

So, we started with a question. Gathered some data. Arrived with books. A lot of books!!! Yet we didn’t need a one. Not a one. As you will hear.

Travel Ensued

Several months later, Alvina Quatrano, Missy Grace Oleaga and Cathy Miller met one weekend at St. Micheals, MD, a sleepy fishing village on the Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore of Maryland near to where Cathy Miller (former President of Insight Acupressure) lived.

We arrived to a quiet motel situated by the Bay at the turn of spring. The back of the car was piled with texts. Each woman carried her sworn texts on the subject. There were piles of books no two alike.

We thought we’d be hunkered down all weekend delving through those books, pouring through, discovering secrets of the ultimate healing potion for women’s health.

That’s not what happened.

Books and Magic!!!

Alvina left her Ocean Grove, N.J. home to pick up Grace in PA on the way to meet Cathy in St Michaels, MD. Grace and Alvina met Cathy and they all trundled their books into the motel room. After the long trip in the car Alvina used the bathroom and when she came out of the bathroom Cathy was on the massage table set up between the beds, surrounded by piles of books and Missy Grace moved around her. Are you guys???…and they never stopped.

I (Alvina) grabbed a pad and pen and started writing but Missy Grace said, “We remember it.” They moved easily from one set of points to another as though spiritually guided. They were spiritually guided. We all
tapped into the spiritual guidance, checking in to our experience of how the points felt and adding suggestions along the way. And, before we knew it it was done. The Women's Health Acupressure Protocol.

Ta-Dah!! Forty minutes after arriving to St. Michaels, MD for a studious weekend we finished the protocol.

We were annoyed, elated, shocked, a little confused, grateful and happy. Now, we had vacation time in this beautiful location, not indoor study time as we had anticipated.

We practiced the protocol to be sure and we were sure.

And Then...

After the weekend, we brought the protocol to our teachers Dr. Aminah Raheem and Susan Grant, the developer of the Clinical Acupressure Program. They tested The Women’s Health Protocol and made decisions about what we gave them.

It was/is a very powerful protocol. Aminah wasn’t ready to let us teach it yet, for a long time. She wasn’t ready to grant the whole community to teach it but we developers could teach it if we wanted. And so we taught The Women’s Health Protocol for many years on our own as a one-day class (8 hours).

Finally, 20 years later Cathy Miller who was by now the President of Insight Acupressure and also the Graphics Designer, was redesigning the Clinical Acupressure Manual, which has 75 protocols in it, asked Dr. Raheem if she could add the Women’s Health Protocol to it. And she said 'yes!'

Currently

Since that original time, Cathy Miller has developed Clinical Acupressure 3: Extraordinary Vessels Lineage Material and she implements the Master Points for the Chong Mai Meridian to support the original WHP, and so, that sequence is added as an option to the beginning of the protocol.

Subsequently, the manual size and style changed, so, several versions of The Women’s Health Protocol exist as it has been explored over the years.

In-Person & Online Classes

Join us as we present the newly sized 3-hour Self-Care Version of the Women's Health Protocol , created to present on Zoom. We also offer a 6 hour version for Insight Acupressure Certified Practitioners for giving to
others.

May 10, 2024 9-12 Self-Care, 1-4 For Others

Register here: https://aohmassage.com/project/the-womens-health-protocol/

In Good Health!!

Written by Alvina Quatrano, L.M.T.