Renée Webb had a reputation as a fiery Member of Parliament with the Progressive Labour Party.

While holding portfolios for commerce, telecommunications and tourism, she won Pitbull Politician of the Year in The Bermudian magazine’s 11th annual Best of Bermuda Gold awards in 2001.

“I always just wanted to help people,” she said.

In 2007, she left politics to study quantum physics and then represented Bermuda at the European Union, in Brussels, Belgium.

She still wants to help people but is now taking a gentler approach.

In October, she and Rosamaria Machado opened the Energy, Rejuvenation and Wellness Centre in The Villages, outside Orlando, Florida.

The centre uses an Energy Enhancement System made by a Nevada firm to bathe clients in different sound frequencies, such as scalar waves, to bring about healing and relaxation.

Scalar waves are produced when two electromagnetic waves of the same frequency are exactly out of phase — opposite to each other — and the amplitudes subtract and cancel or destroy each other.

“The hardest thing about opening was just finding a place to operate,” Ms Webb said. “It usually takes nine months to get the equipment because there is so much demand for it.

“We got ours more quickly than that because someone else who had ordered it was not ready yet. The Energy Enhancement System firm sends a technician to install the equipment and calibrate it, so that was not hard.”

Building up clientele was also easy.

“We have had about seven or eight cancer patients that come in regularly,” Ms Webb said. “We have people with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. We have had autistic children come in. We also have people come in who just want to boost their immune system.”

However, she was in no way recommending people stop seeing their medical doctors, or go against their advice.

“When you are young you don’t think about what stress is doing to your body,” Ms Webb said. “Once you pass 60, however, you really start to feel yourself degenerating.”

Her partner, Ms Machado, has seen the transformative power of the EESystem.

“From my personal experience with the EESystem I feel more centred and less stressed,” Ms Machado said.

She felt it had also cured neuropathy she had since a horseback riding accident in 1999.

Ms Webb first tried the treatment in Washington DC at a friend’s clinic.

During the treatment, clients recline on a chair that puts your legs higher than your head, while equipment transmits frequencies, such as whale songs. People are encouraged to leave behind their mobile phones and bring warm socks and a pillow. Many people fall asleep during the treatment.

Ms Webb loved how happy and relaxed she felt afterwards and went back at least 100 more times.

“You can do sleepover sessions, where you go in at 9pm, go to sleep with the machine going and wake up at 7am,” she said. “I do not really have any health problems but I noticed a difference in my personality. I’m not as ready for a fight.”

In politics, combativeness was a plus for her.

“However, when you are angry and upset, it affects the body,” she said. “When you are a young whippersnapper, what is happening to your body is the last thing you are thinking about. When you get older and you are aware of what is happening to the people around you and, all of the sudden, people start dying, that is a wake up call.”

She and Ms Machado had to apply for a licence from Energy Enhancement System to open the centre.

It operates as a membership club.

The treatment is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States.

“Over the past 18 months, they have gone from having zero machines to just under 300,000 in the US,” Ms Webb said.

The firm has stopped selling their products in the United States due to over-saturation in the market and are now expanding internationally.

“They are getting into Africa,” Ms Webb said.

She has also heard that a facility is opening up in Bermuda and would love to chat with the owners.

“I did try to reach out to find out if they wanted some advice,” she said. “We, who have these centres, are all in contact with each other. I would love to share the experiences we have had.”