PUBLISHED ON MINDBODYGREEN As a Reiki Master/teacher, one of the most common reasons people contact me is after a break up. It’s one of the most painful experiences we go through in life, and a Reiki treatment – whether in-person or via distance – provides a calming and soothing form of energy therapy to help [...]
PUBLISHED ON GLOBAL LOVE PROJECT Each year as we move toward its end, through the darkness of the Winter Solstice and peaking up on the return of the light, I think of a ritual I’d like to adopt for the New Year…a way to honor how far I’ve come and also what I’m calling in [...]
PUBLISHED ON MINDBODYGREEN Whenever I teach my Reiki certification courses, I always tell my students “you are the only person who can practice your kind of Reiki.” That’s because energy medicine is deeply personal – our energy bodies are as unique as our fingerprints, and also are constantly changing and evolving. This also means that [...]
PUBLISHED ON ELEPHANT JOURNAL Sometimes it’s easy to forget that he’s dying. Or rather, perhaps, it’s hard to remember that, some day soon, he won’t be alive. You’d think that the reminders would be in each moment I walk with him, as his friend and as his caregiver. Getting up multiple times in the middle [...]
PUBLISHED ON MINDBODYGREEN Many of my clients ask how they can best prepare for and receive the most benefits from their Reiki session. First and foremost you’ll want to check in with your Reiki practitioner and ask for his or her recommendations. However, below is a series of ideas to take into consideration both before [...]
PUBLISHED ON MINDBODYGREEN I do a fair amount of my Reiki practice via distance, which frequently prompts the question: “does distance Reiki really work?” The answer to that question, “yes,” is always followed by another question, “how?” 2nd degree Reiki practitioners learn and receive three symbols, one of which is the distance symbol. When invoked [...]
PUBLISHED ON ELEPHANT JOURNAL We’ve probably all seen the Zen proverb “let go or be dragged,” and maybe even groaned a bit as we resonated with the concept. Yet how many times do we still find ourselves hanging on for dear life to a person, belief, situation, or even past event, as we are dragged [...]
PUBLISHED ON MINDBODYGREEN Reiki circles or reiki shares began as a way for reiki practitioners to hone their skills and receive healing themselves. Over the last several years, these gatherings have become a popular way to send the loving, supportive energy of reiki healing where it's needed the most. What is a reiki circle, and [...]
PUBLISHED ON MINDBODYGREEN Admittedly, when I first embarked upon the process of becoming a Reiki practitioner, I knew little about the various levels and their meanings. I didn’t even really understand what the attunement process was all about, although I had several friends who had achieved Master level as well as taught Reiki courses. In [...]
PUBLISHED ON ELEPHANT JOURNAL There once was a time, not so very long ago, that I endeavored to make you need me. Finding ways to be invaluable to you, I’d become utterly necessary, completely indispensible. I’d found all the holes in your floors, your squeaky wheels, your cabinets hanging off their hinges; I’d searched out [...]
