Angy-Lee Marcon — Founder of Our Heart Centre Healer, Traditional Healer, Energy Worker
With Angy-Lee Marcon — Founder of Our Heart Centre Healer, Traditional Healer, Energy Worker
In short
Angy-Lee Marcon, founder of Our Heart Centre in Midrand, describes a healing practice that mixes traditional medicine, Reiki, sound therapy, EFT and trauma release, matched to whatever a person needs. She explains her couples, ladies and mother-daughter retreats, the Butterfly Effect fund, weekly chakra and meditation evenings, and why her aim is for clients not to come back. The one takeaway: Healing is matched to the person: the same complaint may call for Reiki, sound therapy or trauma release depending on where the pain sits.
Who is Angy-Lee Marcon and what is she trained in?
A traditional healer from Centurion with a doctorate in traditional medicine, who has also studied metaphysics, trauma release, Reiki and emotional freedom techniques (tapping). She grew up in a large Afrikaans and English family, dreamed of being a social worker, and says everything changed for her around nineteen or twenty years ago.
Why does she use so many different methods rather than one?
Because every person's pain sits in a different place. One person may need Reiki, the next sound therapy, the next trauma release, depending on whether the pain body is in the physical, emotional or spiritual body. She works with wherever a person is, and meets them there.
Are South Africans becoming more open to energy healing?
Yes, there is a clear shift. She describes people coming to her because they have seen a difference in someone else, including a very traditional Afrikaans man who came after his wife's retreats and his son stopped drinking. David recalls a time when this work drew signs of the cross rather than curiosity.
Why check physical health before emotional or spiritual issues?
Because nutrition and gut health shape how a person feels. Her team includes someone in the medical field and a nutritionist, and they check the physical first: the right enzymes and bacteria affect energy levels, and something like gluten may leave a person sluggish and in pain. Nobody is simply labelled depressed.
How did the retreats start, and what happens on a couples retreat?
They grew out of plant medicine work, where she saw nobody was offering integration, so people would return to normal life without carrying the lessons forward. From there came couples retreats, where couples are taught how to be couples, including how different love languages, such as acts of care versus words, leave partners speaking past each other.
How did she meet her husband?
At a nightclub, after nearly two years of working on herself and writing down exactly what she wanted in a partner. When he approached her, she told him she was not interested unless he wanted to be an example to the world of what love is. He asked to buy her a drink.
What does the ladies retreat cover?
How to be a real sister and what a woman deserves: not to be abused, hurt or treated like nonsense. It runs from Friday evening with ice-breakers, then breath work, yoga, labyrinth walking, swimming and circles. Her youngest participant was thirteen. Much of the trauma traces back to mother issues, which led to mother-daughter retreats.
What role do the men on the team play?
They hold other men. Among eight facilitators are men she describes as real men, gentle and loving, holding the feminine and teaching other men how to be men, physically holding them through trauma release and their stories, against the message that big boys don't cry.
What is the Butterfly Effect fund?
A fund supporting foundations, animal outreach and people in need. The centre collects plastic bottle caps for the Sweetheart Foundation, which sells the plastic to make wheelchairs, spreading through schools, homes and offices. It also sponsors Jule, a jaguar at Waterberg Predator Park, which gives hunted and maimed animals a permanent home.
What runs weekly at the centre, and what does it cost?
Sound therapy meditation every Wednesday evening, and an eight-week chakra workshop on Thursdays from seven to nine, starting 6 February, covering one chakra a week with its sound and meaning. The meditation is donation based; she has been paid in a toilet roll or vegetables, because nobody should stay away over money.
In their words
everybody is so different every single person needs something different you might need Reiki but the next person might need sound therapy the next person might need trauma release every single person is different
I said to him look I'm not interested unless you are interested in being an example to this world of what love is and he looked at me and he said cool can I buy you a drink
I had a lot of abuse as a young girl and I attracted abuse growing up but I believe it's so that I can help people
I don't want people to think that they have to run to Angie Lee every single time I teach people how to look for the symptoms within themselves because we are all our own healers
that's where it's where we teach couples how to be couples I know it sounds strange but men don't have a clue and women don't have a clue about each other
Key takeaways
- Healing is matched to the person: the same complaint may call for Reiki, sound therapy or trauma release depending on where the pain sits.
- Physical checks come first, because nutrition and gut health can explain what looks like an emotional or spiritual problem.
- Retreat work only holds if the insights are integrated into everyday life, which is why integration became the starting point of the practice.
- Much of the aggression and nastiness people show is pain talking, and men need other men to hold them through it.
- The aim of the work is empowerment, not dependence: clients are taught to read their own symptoms so they need not return.
- Community work is built into the centre through the Butterfly Effect fund, from bottle caps traded for wheelchairs to sponsoring a rescued jaguar.
Show notes
On This episode I chat with Angy-Lee about Our Heart Centre and some of the healing work they do. Her work includes Reiki, Sound Therapy, EFT, Trauma Release and plant medicine. Its a fascinating episode and they are doing great work.
Frequently asked questions
Where are the retreats held?
At various venues rather than the centre: Magaliesburg, Waterberg Predator Park, the KZN Midlands and Namibia. Workshops, meditation evenings, chakra workshops, voice opening ceremonies and sound workshops happen at Our Heart Centre itself in Midrand.
What is a voice opening ceremony?
A Sunday session from nine until two for eight to ten people, working with the throat chakra for those shut down by a teacher or parent telling them to be quiet, and for people who want to learn to chant and sing.
Does the voice work actually change anything?
Chloe Joy, who has been with the centre five years, is offered as the example. She had a teeny tiny little voice, did the voice opening ceremony, and now facilitates ceremonies and sings the icaros.
What are Angy-Lee's working hours?
She starts at ten in the morning, after time with her eighteen-year-old son Adrian Lee and the gym, and works through until about nine at night. Monday is her day off. Chloe Joy is the first point of contact.
What else does the centre offer beyond retreats and workshops?
Sound workshops teaching why and how sound heals rather than just banging a drum, and family connection ceremonies involving children.
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