About Colin

I first became acquainted with ReConnective Therapy in 2006 when a friend who had attended the practitioner training offered to treat* me with RCT. I knew little about energy work but accepted, and every few days, he’d sit quietly with me for a minute or so, and I wouldn't notice a thing.

Then, after a few weeks, a strange thing started to happen: the chronic, debilitating lower back pain that I'd experienced for years simply started to disappear. Having seen countless chiropractors, massage therapists, and acupuncturists, I’d only ever found temporary relief and was otherwise in some degree of pain nearly full-time. Unable to attribute the dramatic change to anything but the RCT, I started attending Herwig Schön’s treatment groups, where I learned more about the work, watched intriguing phenomena occurring within myself and others, felt my back continue to improve, and was in awe of how much I enjoyed the feeling of just being in the room.

At the time, I had a successful but ill-suited career as a land surveyor, which I eventually left — a mandate I attribute to the influence of RCT.

I began my training in 2009 and my practice in 2010, and I have yet to encounter anything remotely as enjoyable or fulfilling.

*While the term "treatment" is usually used to describe the application of RCT, it's always frankly struck me as somewhat of a misnomer, as the practitioner doesn't do anything to the person being "treated" but merely holds open an energetic door, so to speak. The practitioner neither adds to nor takes anything away from the person doing the work, and the course taken is determined entirely by the body's wisdom.​

My RCT Story

Colin Hempstead by Joseph Italiano, 2020

Colin Hempstead
Colin Hempstead

My feline companion and I live happily ever after as digital nomads who seldom seem to venture far from Washington’s Whidbey Island. Born in 1970 in Wisconsin and raised in the suburbs of Minneapolis, I’ve lived a wide range of experiences in a number of locations.

While neither personality nor identity seem to play any role in this work, just by way of introduction, I might describe myself as a quiet, private introvert, and perhaps also as a heterodox, queer, chemically sensitive, non-binary (and non-dualistic!) tranny.

Since my existence seems so often politicized, I’ll say a few more words on this topic... First, I could hardly care less about the politics and would rather not be any kind of football. I am interested in the science, however, and I frankly suspect we’re going to increasingly find vaccine injury as a causal factor of transgenderism. To be clear, I celebrate that cross-genderism has existed for millennia, I have a working hypothesis that we choose every one of our own experiences, and I’m happy to be walking the path I’m walking, but the evidence that Pharma is playing a role appears to be already emerging, and I want to go on record with this perspective.

For anyone still reading... I might also use descriptive terms such as sober, community-oriented, back-to-the-land, sauna-loving, curious, skeptical, and stoic. I’m not affiliated with any religion, school, or dogma, and when I’m not deliberately offering up resonant frequencies, you might find me writing, cleaning beaches and roadways, foraging, hiking, biking, swimming, or taking endless pictures of mountains, mushrooms, and driftwood.

☀️♐/♏, 🌙♍, ⬆️♋
Numerological 5
Enneagram 6w7
INFP