THE HUMMO METHOD
An Energy Healing Modality for the rest of us
What if you could help yourself — and perhaps others — without needing to be an “energy healer”?
That question took me about twenty-five years to answer. This is the short version.
T H EÂ O R I G I N
How I Discovered It
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Back in 1998, a friend insisted I go and see an energy healer named Denis Chagnon. I had already been an NLP practitioner for years and, to put it mildly, I was skeptical. I only really went because my friend rolled her eyes and said, “Just go. He’ll amuse you.”
So off I went.
I remember sitting in the waiting room looking around at people who appeared to have very serious health issues and wondering what exactly I had signed up for. Then this very calm, very ordinary-looking man came in, brought me into a room with a massage table, said almost nothing, and put his hands on my shoulders, then near my ears.
And then something happened that I could not explain. A very deep peace descended. Not fireworks. Not theatre. Not “energy” in any way I would have described it at the time. Just a profound quiet. A kind of settled, pervasive stillness. I was entirely present in the room and yet free from the usual static of my own mind. It felt, in the best possible sense, unlike my normal experience of being alive. And it lasted for weeks.
So naturally I did the most reasonable possible thing and became mildly obsessed. Every time Denis came back to town, I booked another session. And every time, more or less the same thing happened.
Eventually I asked him, “What exactly are you doing when you put your hands on my shoulders?” He looked at me for a while and said, “I can’t explain it... but you should teach it.” Which was not, from my point of view, especially helpful. But the answer stayed with me.
Over the next fifteen years or so, I had well over a hundred sessions with Denis. I sent hundreds of people to him. And I heard story after story of physical, emotional, and spiritual change — some of them, frankly, difficult to account for in conventional terms.
Denis himself remained deeply humble about the whole thing. He attributed everything to the process he had discovered after healing himself from Stage IV cancer after being given three weeks to live.
In 2013, I finally asked if I could use NLP to model what he was doing. He agreed. So I spent years watching, asking questions, asking the same questions again, trying to extract a structure from something that seemed almost designed to resist explanation. And eventually I had to admit that much of what Denis was doing appeared to depend on capacities I simply did not have — feeling energy moving in his own body, sensing blockages in others, and several other mildly inconvenient things.
That should probably have been the end of it. It wasn’t.
During the pandemic, through a strange sequence of coincidences, experiments, and realizations, I found myself entering a state that felt remarkably similar to the one I had experienced on Denis’s table all those years earlier. That got my attention.
As I explored further, it slowly became clear that I had stumbled onto something unexpected: a way of getting many of the benefits of energy healing without needing to be an energy healer.
That discovery — refined, tested, and structured with roughly a hundred people — became The Hümmo Method.
T H EÂ M E T H O D
The HĂĽmmo Method
The HĂĽmmo Method is a structured breathwork process that combines Denis's healing insights with NLP and ancient energy traditions to create something anyone can learn and use, with or without the ability to "feel" energy. That last part matters. Denis can feel energy. Most of us can't or don't think we can. The HĂĽmmo Method was specifically designed for the rest of us.
FOUNDATION
Denis Chagnon's
Techniques
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The healing insights of a man who healed himself from Stage IV cancer, distilled into a process that could be made teachable.
STRUCTURE
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
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NLP gave me a way to model, organize, and structure the process so it could be repeated rather than merely admired.
ENGINE
Breathwork
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Breath became the scaffolding of the method — the thing that powers the process and helps move stagnant emotional material through the system.
OUTCOME
Presence
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What often emerges is a much deeper state of peace, presence, and internal quiet than most people are used to living with.
A P P L I C A T I O N
What It May Help With
Mental Health
Softening intrusive thoughts, rumination, and inner noise—within the limits of self-help.
Emotional Health
Easing anxiety, fear, grief, anger, and old emotional "knots" that have lingered for years.
Physical Wellbeing
Working with the emotional component of pain or chronic issues, while still following medical guidance.
Spiritual Connection
Feeling more present, more at peace, more deeply connected to yourself and life.
D I S T I N C T I O N
Why it's different
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No special abilities required
You don't have to see auras, feel energy, or identify as spiritual. The process was designed for ordinary human perception.
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Structured and teachable
Rather than depending on one unusually gifted practitioner, The HĂĽmmo Method is a clear process that can be learned, practised, and applied with consistency.
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Works on yourself and with others
Once you understand it, you can use it on yourself and, if you are a coach, therapist, or practitioner, as a modality with others.
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Integrates with what you already do
It does not replace therapy, coaching, medication, or medical treatment. It sits alongside them as a complementary tool.
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