

| What is a 60 Minute Personalized Healing/Relaxation Session Like? |
| It is a time for you to enjoy some quality, stress-free time for yourself. This is a time when you can truly relax and forget the demands of your busy life. Everyone deserves 60 minutes to themselves, to increase their productivity, recharge their body, energetically re-align their chakras, and help the body heal itself by eliminating pain and the release of built up toxins. On your first visit I will have you fill out paperwork so I have all your pertinent information. We will then discuss your history and issues at hand before going into the healing/relaxation session. The first session is usually 90 minutes long. My sessions begin with soothing music that sweeps you away to your favorite place within your mind. I start with therapeutic grade essential oils that are chosen specifically for you and then applied to the soles of your feet. You begin to feel the stress draining from your body as the oils are absorbed. Then oil is applied and spread across your back, shoulders and upper arms. The aroma of the oil and the slow, smoothing strokes to your muscles take you deeper into your relaxation. Once your muscles have been smoothed and any knots have relaxed, you are covered with a cotton sheet, or a flannel sheet in the winter months, and you are now free to drift off and relax deeper into your own meditative state. I move up to your head and give a relaxing head massage. As you are relaxing, I will work with your etheric energy field through Reiki and Therapeutic Touch, to increase the energy flow throughout your body, which in turn increases the benefits of the oils. I also balance your chakras and may use crystal therapy or tuning forks, as needed. According to the pain or issues you are experiencing I will incorporate a personalized guided visualization releasing the pain from your body and energy field and then visualizing loving, healing energy flowing through your body, surrounding and protecting you. At the end I will ground you once more before you are welcomed back into our space and time. You are now relaxed, recharged, and ready to face your busy schedule with a renewed energy and attitude. Please always make sure you drink plenty of water over the next 24-48 hours, as the toxins that have been released need to be flushed from your body. The guided visualizations are very personalized to your needs at the time and if you are going through chemotherapy we will be discussing the side effects that are showing up each time after your chemotherapy so we can address them and release them. Soon you may find that you are no longer experiencing side effects at all. ____________________________________________________________________ What is Essential Oil Therapy? Essential Oil Therapy combines the art of aromatherapy with the techniques of Vitaflex in the application of essential oils to various areas of the body. Essential Oil therapy is a wonderful way to bring balance and harmony to the body - physically, mentally and emotionally. Practitioners in all types of healing have used therapeutic grade essential oils for thousands of years. These oils add oxygen and nutrients to the cells. Using therapeutic grade essential oils can greatly benefit other natural healing processes. The overuse of antibiotics and side effects of many drugs are a well-understood problem. Natural substances often offer more balanced alternatives to one dimensional drug treatments. Essential oils are particularly suited for gentle and effective intervention that goes beyond mere symptom management. The evolving scientific knowledge of cellular metabolism shed light on how plant molecules are designed to address a multitude of conditions. Molecules found in essential oils often interact with different physiological target systems at the same time. It is not unusual that the many molecules found in a single essential oil interact in ways that even provide for natural feed back mechanisms, thus hedging against undesirable side effects. (paragraph taken from Bioexcel) There are many other Essential Oil uses and introducing them into your lifestyle can be quite easy and fun, besides therapeutically beneficial. You need to pay special attention to all safety precautions applicable for each oil that you choose, or by getting assistance with your choices. Most of all have fun and enjoy the relaxation and healing properties, either on your own or when seeing a practitioner. ____________________________________________________________________ What is REIKI? Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administer by "laying on of hands" and is based on the idea that the unseen "life force energy" or Chi flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy and ward off diseases. The word Reiki is made up of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "Life Force Energy." So Reiki is actually "Spiritually guided life force energy." A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, mind and spirit, creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and well-being. Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can benefit from. It has been effective in helping virtually every known illness and malady and always creates a beneficial effect of relaxation. It also works in conjunction with all other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery. It has been widely used for helping cancer patients with the side effects of their radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Reiki emits a range of healing frequencies from 0.3Hz up to 30Hz. There has been scientific proof that 2Hz creates nerve regeneration, 7Hz can create bone growth and at 10Hz begins to produce ligament repair. While Reiki is spiritual in nature, it is NOT a religion. It has no dogma, and there is nothing you must believe in order to benefit from Reiki. In fact, Reiki is not dependent on belief at all and will work whether you believe in it or not. While Reiki is not a religion, it is still important for the practitioner to live and act in a way that promotes harmony with the world and others. Dr. Mikao Usui, the founder of the Reiki system of natural healing, recommended that one practice certain simple ethical ideals to promote peace and harmony, which are nearly universal across all cultures. I follow Dr. Usui's guidelines in my life. During a meditation several years after developing Reiki, Dr. Usui decided to add the Reiki Ideals to the practice of Reiki. The Ideals were developed to add spiritual balance to Usui Reiki. Their purpose is to help people realize that healing the spirit by consciously deciding to improve oneself is a necessary part of the total Reiki healing experience. In order for the healing energies to have lasting results, the client must accept responsibility for his or her healing and take an active part in it by being at least open to it. Therefore, the Usui system of Reiki is more than the use of the Reiki energy. The ideals are both guidelines for living a gracious life and virtues worthy of practice for their inherent value. The art of inviting Happiness into your life is the miraculous medicine for all diseases and I share with you the Principles that I, as a Reiki Master lives by: Just for today, I will not anger, Just for today I will not worry, but my heart will be filled with Gratitude, I will devote myself to my work, and be kind to all of creation. Every morning and evening, I will speak those words from my heart, And chant these words with my mouth as I live my life as a Reiki Master and Teacher. By the founder, Mikou Usui ____________________________________________________________________ What is Therapeutic Touch? Therapeutic Touch is a contemporary healing modality drawn from ancient practices and developed by Dora Kunz and Dolores Krieger, Phd, RN. The practice is based on the scientific fact that human beings are complex fields of energy, and that the ability to enhance healing in another is a natural potential in everyone. Therapeutic Touch is used to balance and promote the flow of human energy. It is taught in colleges around the world and has a substantial base of formal and clinical research. This research has shown that TT is useful in reducing pain, improving wound healing, aiding relaxation and easing the dying process. It can be learned with a sincere interest and motivation toward helping others and is taught by persons certified in TT. Therapeutic Touch was started at Pumpkin Hollow Farm, a family camp and spiritual retreat center of the Theosophical Society in the foothills of the Berkshires in New York state. In 1972, Dora and her longtime student and colleague Dolores Krieger, Phd, RN developed Therapeutic Touch. They developed a program for teaching the procedures and attitudes necessary for TT. Formal classes began at Pumpkin Hollow where various physicians referred patients. Even now there are extensive summer teaching sessions for TT at different levels at Pumpkin Hollow. Dee and others lead these, as Dora did, until she passed away in 1999. TT is also taught worldwide in universities and workshops for health care professionals, as well as interested lay people. TT has become a widely accepted form of alternative therapy in hospitals and other health agencies. But it all began at Pumpkin Hollow with two people in the healing arts who envisioned the possibilities of a wider use of an ancient way of healing. I received my certification in June 2003 from a first generation graduate, Evy Cugelman, RN, BA, who was taught by Dora and Dolores at Pumpkin Hollow. She continues to go back every summer and teach classes there. I am very honored to be one of her students, and in turn, a second generation student of Dora Kunz and Dolores Krieger, Phd, RN. |