JAN & FEB REIKI FORUM CLASSES FOR DISTANCE LEARNING

email me herbs.and.reiki@dragonflyherbals.com to sign up for the reiki distance learning forum. $10 per month, payment accepted through Paypal.


JANUARY REIKI OFFERINGS, included in your monthly fee

1. Energetic Hygiene Workshop

Your body as a spiritual habitat & psychic protection.
I know that some of us are having issues with some sorts of attachments, or at the very least unhealthy cords or stagnant aura.
We’ll discuss ways to keep your energy field clear.
We will do an exercise to clear your energy field in 3 ways.
We’ll do the cord clearing again, but slightly differently that it was done last month.
We’ll discuss stones to use to keep your energy field protected or cleared use stones to clear the aura during your session.


2. Root Chakra

We'll do a bit of the root chakra work that I teach in my Personal Healing Course. Discuss issues related to root chakra, some journal work, reiki work to do on your own, stones you could use for clearing the root chakra.


3. Distance Healing as a group

I will discuss how to set up some crystals or visualizations for doing distance healing & we can send distance healing as a group.


I will post #1 and #2 about 2 weeks apart. I would like for us all to do a lot of discussion on the forum about our experiences related to the Energetic Hygiene & the Root Chakra, and of course, anything else to do with reiki.

At the end of January, this section will be locked. Only those who paid for January will still have access to it. I will open a separate section for February.



FEBRUARY REIKI OFFERINGS, included in your monthly fee

1.Ancestral Healing 


We talk about this briefly in my level 2 Usui classes, but I’d like to look more deeply at repeated patterns that we are holding & reliving from our ancestral lineage, we can do a discussion of this, I have some notes – food for thought, journal work on specific things that need to be healing or cleared & clearing with group energy that will go back to heal our ancestral lineage.



2. Sacral Chakra

We'll do a bit of the sacral chakra work that I teach in my Personal Healing Course. Discuss issues related to root chakra, some journal work, reiki work to do on your own, stones you could use for clearing the root chakra.



3. Distance Healing as a group

I will discuss how to set up some crystals or visualizations for doing distance healing & we can send distance healing as a group.



I will post #1 and #2 about 2 weeks apart. I would like for us all to do a lot of discussion on the forum about our experiences related to the Energetic Hygiene & the Sacral Chakra, and of course, anything else to do with reiki.



Each month you can expect something along these lines, I will post them ahead of time. I am offering my guidance for $10 per month at this time while the forum gets going. After we have a fair number of students I will most likely increase the price, but on a sliding scale, so you can pay what you can afford. I am thinking $10-$25 per month.

FORUM for HERBS & REIKI, & DISTANCE LEARNING FOR HERBS

Staring January 1, 2012 I am offering a forum with 2 separate communities: one for reiki, and one for herbalism.


I have wanted to offer something like this for a quite a while now, so here it is!

On the forum there is:

1. Reiki community $10 per month

2. Herbalist's Circle $10 per month

3. Herbal Distance Learning classes $60 per month

If you would like to join in please email me:



herbs.and.reiki@dragonflyherbals.com

I will send you a paypal link for payment.



The forum is located here:

http://dragonflyherbals.proboards.com/index.cgi

You are welcome to register an account there & familiarize yourself with how to use it.




There is a password that you will be given for the group you have decided to join. Your membership is good for one month, so at the end of each month that particular section will be locked, although you are welcome to still access it.



If you decide to renew membership for another month you will have access that month’s section as well. That way everybody has access to the month’s that they have paid for.



I would like this to be a space of loving support, non-judgmental to give everyone a chance to enrich their herbal or reiki studies & practices.



PURPOSE OF THE REIKI COMMUNITY:



• To provide information on all reiki teachings, this is the main goal of this, is to provide additional reiki teachings more on this in a different post

• To provide additional information for those who don’t have a regular reiki group to share with

• To do distance healing for each other

• Group meditations on specific dates

• Share experiences

• I can provide everything except the reiki sessions here!

• I am willing to send distance attunements, but not as a substitute for your regular classes, I won’t teach levels 1, 2 or 3 by distance, for that you need to be with a teacher in person



If you would like to become a member of the reiki community please email me, anyone with at least level 1 reiki can join in.



[email][/email]herbs.and.reiki@dragonflyherbals.com



I have been teaching reiki since 2005, I teach 4 types of reiki & offer many additional teachings & classes. I am pleased to be offering this online.

Learning reiki is all about personal growth,



releasing what no longer serves you,



healing yourself & others on a physical, emotional & spiritual level.





I am going to offer some class work each month for all of you to work on & as a group we can share our experiences with this. As part of this I will offer some parts of this course:



10 Month Personal Healing Course:



Healing the Body Mind & Spirit for 2012



A PATH TO SELF HEALING & EMPOWERING YOURSELF TO HEAL ON A PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL & SPIRITUAL LEVEL BY USING REIKI, CHAKRA BALANCING, CRYSTALS (if you own some you can incorporate this)



Working through personal healing using the chakras as a focus.



I have been amazed by the results my students (and myself) and getting from this. It really brings about some personal growth in a very focused way. And yes, it is hard to get through at times! You just have to love those lower chakras. But hey, we do our work, clear what we can, become aware of the things that lower our vibrational levels, and we move on.



So we can work through the chakra's month by month as a group & share our experiences & discuss.



I have a lot of other info on reiki to share for any reiki students who want to join this community.





PURPOSE OF THE HERBALIST'S CIRCLE:



• Support in your own herbal studies

• Answer questions

• Share information

• I will share information I am currently learning about

• This is a place to post & work with health issues. I will not be doing ‘consultations’ online in this forum, I no longer do herbal consults, I teach. However I know that we all learn so much as a group by offering input & sharing our cases with each other. One of the foundational concepts I teach is that is it is a whole body thing, its not ‘take this herb for this ailment’. Healing is based on a person’s constitution, how they eat, the state of their emotional health, and many other factors. I would like for us to share ideas & plans for overall health changes. So this is a community for herbal students who wish to enrich their studies, and I am happy to offer suggestions & teachings.



I would like for this to be a space of compassionate & non-judgemental support for anyone who wishes to enrich their work with the healing plants.




HERBALIST DISTANCE LEARNING:

This will be core work for those who wish to learn about herbalism, as opposed to the Herbal Community which would enhance this. The Herbal Community is for students of distance learning, or others with some knowledge of herbalism.

So, the distance learning is for those who wish to learn about herbalism! I have taught an 8 month herbalist course since 2009 & decided to open that up to distance learning.

Each month’s work will be posted on the forum, which you can then work with & post questions & insights on the forum.

Cost is $60 per month, paid through paypal.

More details on distance classes:



The classes will very closely follow the 8 month course I teach. I can’t include wild harvesting because I am not there in person to identify the plants with you, but I will give information on how to identify some common local plants. More info is on my website.

Green Smoothies

I am one of those people who walks around with a mason jar full of green smoothie, or green goo as a friend calls it. It seems to fasinate or horrify people who see it.

Some even try it. My niece was visiting recently and watched me make this green masterpiece every morning & decided to try it. As we drove around to beaches & trails & farmer's markets she also carried the mason jar of green stuff.

Such a great way to have a breakfast in a jar that gives you a lot of nutrition and keeps you full until lunch, but more importantly doesn't weigh you down & make you sleepy.



What to put in your smoothie:

some sweet fruit to make it taste good, frozen if that's all that's available

a banana or even a 1/2 an avocado if you need it to be really filling

a bunch of lettuce greens - like 1/2 a blenderful, this ensures you are getting your leafy greens & provides lots of protein & nutrients

I use water in mine, you could use some yogurt or almond milk

I add most of my supplements in here too, experiment with with, some people don't like the taste of B vitamins or other supplements, I am fine with it. I find that this way I am not having to swallow a lot of vitamins and I get a slower steady supply of them as I sip my shake.

Sunchoke Salad

I grew sunchokes this year for the first time. They are huge plants that kind of look like sunflowers. My plants are about 10 feet tall. The flowers are smaller & have less petals than a sunflower though. I cut the tops off & brought the flowers in. You eat the tubers, they look kind of like bumpy potatoes.

Now that it is October (ok, starting today its November) I am harvesting the sunchokes a few at a time. These are best harvested after a frost. I'll just keep going down to the garden & getting a few at a time since they don't last too long in the fridge.

Sunchokes aka Jerusalem Artichokes are rich in inulin which helps to balance blood sugar.  And they help to improve bacteria ecology in the colon.

I just eat raw food, so although they can be cooked, I have been finding ways to eat them raw. I bring them
along with a few apples when I go out harvesting herbs & just eat one like an apple. And yesterday I harvested a bunch to marinade in apple cider vinegar along with a piece of hot pepper, peppercorns, herbs, and garlic.

Freshly dug sunchokes

And some kale and a calendula flower from the garden

I sliced the sunchokes on the mandolin (carefully to keep my fingers intact) & marinaded them & the kale in lime, garlic, Bragg & olive oil.

Poured all that over the greens & added the calendula petals.

Harvesting Dandelions

Fall is the time to harvest dandelion roots.

I use the tops fresh in the juicer (using just a handful of leaves, you need to assess the condition of your liver before having too many of them juiced) and drying the rest of the tops for infusions during the winter. 

I slice the roots & dry them in a warm place - near the wood stove. Those I will use in  infusions this year, since I have plenty of tincture leftover from last year.

I have hung the tops on a little clothesline near the woodstove.

Mushrooms

Went to a local mushroom identification workshop this weekend. I have never learned about how to ID mushrooms before. It was very interesting & something I will look more into. We have so many kinds of mushrooms on the island ( apparently around 4,000 kinds !)

Found some chanterelles,  & a few other kinds as well.

Chanterelles hiding

I am in the process of working way more with our local trees: harvesting leaves & twigs, & making some salves, vinegars, infusions & tinctures. I will be including this information in my 2012 Herbal Apprenticeship & will most likely offer a workshop on local medicinal trees next spring.

Rosehips

Harvesting rosehips

Fall has arrived here at the coast, the leaves are bright yellow & today looking a little soggy as it pours rain. Took a long walk with the dogs to harvest some fall medicinal plants: some hawthorne berries, alder, salal berries, and found some wonderful rosehips.

I love using rose, since it is related to the heart chakra, so important for those of use who do healing work & reiki as it keeps a strong & open heart chakra for offering compassionate healing to others. I read an article last week that had a lot to say about the new energies coming in to earth at this time & in there it said : "We are in a time where we must open to the heart and reside within its wisdom."

I collect rose petals all summer & tincture them for a relaxing pain killer that also calms the nerves & tastes fantastic. I use rose essential oil in my body care products. And now in the fall I am collecting the hips. I am not a fan of the taste of rosehips in tea, although a lot of people like it. I prefer having rose petal tea. This year I am using my rosehips in an elixir I am making with a million others herbs in it ! 

Rosehips are rich in vitamin C. I am combining those with a bunch of fresh hawthorne berries from the trees in my yard, in my gallon of elixir. Hawthorne is also for the heart, for all aspects of heart health & offers strength to the the veins.