About Margaret Ziegler
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Margaret is a Stratford resident and co-owns The Jiiva Center with her twin sister, Elizabeth.  Knowing early in life that her purpose was to help & heal others,  Margaret began a career in nursing at the age of 23.  During this training she was introduced to a healing modality called Reiki by the nurses who mentored her. She immediately knew this was a practice she wanted to integrate into her care of others but had no idea how life changing this would turn out to be for her own healing journey and her work in the future.  Margaret went on to become a Nurse Practitioner and spent the next 15 years providing medical care to patients in Internal Medicine, Geriatric, and Psychiatric settings, where healing modalities such as Reiki and energy healing have not yet been widely embraced. Throughout her years working with traditional western medicine, Margaret noticed that despite medical interventions, many patients continued to become more ill or develop new ailments (including herself!).  It became clear to her that in order to truly help people heal she needed to focus on treating the underlying emotional and energetic causes of the physical & mental symptoms from which so many suffer.  She began having dreams that she worked in a wellness center with other like-minded healers to provide truly holistic care to her community.  Always one to follow her intuition and heart, when the opportunity came she and her sister partnered to bring this dream into reality! At The Jiiva Center Margaret practices with a Holistic style of care for her community, helping to heal not just the body, but also the mind and the spirit with sessions including Spiritual Counseling, Reiki, Meditation, Sound & Yoga.  She also commits herself to the education of others so that they are empowered to take control of their health and advance in their spiritual journeys.

Certifications/Education
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Margaret has and continues to pursue diverse education in the modalities of energetic and spiritual healing.  She is a Certified Reiki Master in the Usui Method of Energy Healing and a Certified 100HR Meditation Teacher Trainer.  She is a certified instructor of Yin, Restorative & Chair Yoga which she teaches weekly. She has over 10 years of formal music education which she applies to her Sound Healing sessions & education of others. She is trained in Kinesiology & Meridian Autonomic Testing of disease processes & herb/supplement treatments.  

Since 2008 Margaret has been a nationally board certified Nurse Practitioner from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, a licensed Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, and has held a Master of Nursing Degree from Quinnipiac University. 

At the start of her career Margaret earned her Bachelor of Science Degree from The University of Connecticut and has been a licensed RN with experience in critical care since 2003.