Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Reiki for physical & emotional healing

Clarity, Guidance & Manifesting



It is amazing to be able to channel reiki energy on yourself or another & experience healing. On a physical level I often experience healing of recent physical problems while teaching a class. A sore back, a small skin problem, feeling like a cold is coming on.... all of these usually just clear up if I give a reiki session or teach a class. Attunements are powerful healing in themselves.

Long term physical problems sometimes heal spontaneously, or sometimes require many treatments. We begin to heal on a physical & emotional level when we do reiki on ourselves, but also when we channel reiki energy to another. One of my students had varicose veins in both legs & was scheduled for surgery on them. Repeated reiki sessions has cleared them up completely. And I know regular use of reiki helps prevent illness before it happens. Working further out in the energy field can clear issues before they becomes settled on a physical level.



Reiki can help with much more than just physical healing.

Reiki helps to heal on an emotional & mental level as well.

On of my students recently wrote that she's recently been reflecting on the past year of reiki classes & shares. She mainly used reiki at first to heal her dog who was having quite a crisis at the time, and couldn't walk. With many short reiki sessions, he is now walking most of the time & much happier. She says that her whole thought process has turned around so much this year, she is discovering spirituality, learning about herself, and developing compassion.

As we begin to heal on an emotional level, we release dense & tangled energies from our energy fields, and become more open to higher vibrations, and to being able to channel more energy.

You will often really begin to notice this type of clearing after you get Level 2 reiki. You can begin clearing more issues from your past, from past lives, and even issues we retain from our ancestral lineage.

You learn ways to clear on these levels with a level 2 class. You just need to keep reiki in your thoughts and remember to use it.

Ask the energy to help give you clarity on your life's path. Ask for guidance with finding a different job, or where you want to move to, help in clearing relationships. Ask reiki to help you clear patterns of behavior or negative thought patterns that no longer serve you.

Reiki can do all this. You just need to remember to ask or set your intention, while channeling the energy & gentle shifts will begin to happen.

One of my students wrote to me that Reiki can help you foster a strong mind-body connection and this can help you become more loving and accepting towards yourself and help you forge a positive relationship to your body which contributes to overall health and well-being. She went on to say that incorporating Reiki into your everyday life allows you to focus on being in the present moment and is a very helpful tool for people that suffer from panic and anxiety, insomnia and just general everyday stresses. Doing Reiki (particularly distance reiki) has given her the sense that she is more active and involved in her life (as opposed to just going through life passively, having things happen to that are out of her control) - and this has allowed her to really relax and enjoy life more and let go of the anxiety and constant worry that had been a continual theme in her life before she started doing reiki.

She also wrote that reiki is a great tool for gaining clarity as to one's path in life, and helps release energy blockages that can affect how you experience reality and life in general. This clearing allows you to become a clearer channel for information/inspiration from your higher self or spirit guides, and also doing reiki can really assist someone in bringing goals to fruition, because it really allows you to focus energy on specific ideas/goals so that you can carry them out.
I teach my students to use a healing book, to write their intentions, things they'd like to manifest in their life, healing for others, and things we'd like to release or heal in ourselves. We place the symbols around them & set this book up to send healing constantly. Its amazing to back & look through what you've written & see what you've manifested. It helps to have our goals written down so that you can go back & see when & how they've become reality & can express gratitude for this.

I remind my students that much of the distance healing work we do is invisible. We send healing to another & their higher self accepts this healing. Nothing is said. We know we've helped another & we are grateful to be able to do this.

Having your reiki is much more than just a tool for healing yourself & others on a physical level. You can use it to clear emotional issues from this life, past lives. You can use it to clear your ancestral lineage of physical & emotional issues that have been passed down through the generations. You can use it to focus your goals and what you want to manifest in your life.

Reiki brings clarity, wholeness, & healing.

Healing the earth with reiki is a tremendous part of our spiritual practice in the world. The earth is going through huge changes. Those who are called to learn reiki at this time are part of the earth's healing process.

We are all connected by a grid of consciousness. This grid and its energy is the overall vibration of everyone's collective thoughts & feelings.

By learning reiki we begin to change & improve ourselves & raise our vibrational level. We begin to heal ourselves. In doing that begin to change & improve the collective consciousness, and raise the vibrational level of all people.

By helping others heal, we help the earth to heal. We improve the overall energy on the planet.

Use reiki on yourself daily, and remember to use its energy to help heal yourself, others and to heal the earth.


If you'd like to learn more about reiki & chakras, I offer distance learning (not for attuning students for reiki, but for all the additional learning that I teach my students)  Course work is posted on my forum. Much more info on my website. 
www.dragonflyherbals.com 


Or sign up her for the 8 month herbal, other herbal workshops held online, and reiki & chakra healing workshops:


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

Monday, April 2, 2012


I have once again given my manuals & class structure an overhaul. I felt changes were needed for 2012 since our vibrational levels & the energies have changed so much in the past months.

I am now giving my reiki level 1 & 2 classes as one on one classes in which you will get private instruction on what reiki is, and what it will do for you. I go over the main points of what is in the 50 page manual so we can discuss this. And we will discuss ways to incorporate this into your daily life.

This year I have felt the need to give longer attunements which will be done as an attunement/session on the reiki table and takes about 40 minutes. This will attune you to the reiki energies, begin to open your energy field to the reiki flow, begin to release dense & tangled energy & reknit your energy field to begin to bring balance & healing.



USUI REIKI COURSE LEVELS

 

Reiki Level 1: ACTIVATION

booked by appointment

Cost is $220

several hours of instruction time, and an attunement session of about 40 minutes, a detailed manual of about 50 pages, you will be given 1 symbol, and a certificate of completion


classes are given to one student at a time, please allow 3 to 4 hours for this

Please bring a journal.



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Reiki Level 2: HARMONY & DISTANCE

booked by appointment


Cost is $350

this level is 2 days in length

DAY 1: HARMONY

DAY 2: DISTANCE

several hours of instruction time each day , and an attunement session of about 40 minutes each day , a detailed manual of about 50 pages, you will be given 2 more symbols, and a certificate of completion

classes are given to one student at a time, please allow 3 to 4 hours for this
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Reiki Master Level: EMPOWERMENT

please email me, I ask that my students have been practicing a certain amount of time before taking this level, and complete a practicum

click here for requirements for master level

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Chakra Balancing Sessions

8 sessions

$40 per session

an opportunity to do further clearing

focusing on one chakra per class

manual for journal work, healing attunement/session, crystals & tuning forks & reiki are used to clear & balance as we move through the chakras


Please email me if you are interested in any of these classes.

herbs.and.reiki@dragonflyherbals.com



LEVEL 1
ACTIVATION
Open to the reiki flow, begin to heal yourself
LEVEL 2 first day
HARMONY
Cleanse & let go of old
Habits, behaviors & emotions
LEVEL 2 second day
DISTANCE
Heal by distance, learn to heal others
LEVEL 3
EMPOWERMENT
Healing the soul, clarity on life’s path, teaching & attuning others


Saturday, March 31, 2012

BOWEL CLEANSING: The spicy stuff & the black goo

Here is some of what will be covered in the Cleansing & Detox Workshop:


To get on a waiting list for the workshop, please get on my forum & leave a message under the Cleansing & Detox Workshop section. It is also a space where you can ask questions about the workshop.

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



Another part of getting your health in order, is to have clean & healthy bowels.


When I first transitioned into eating a raw living food diet, I started doing a Dr. Schulze bowel cleanse. I teach my students how to make this formula, it works really well.


I started using the 2 formulas, the spicy Formula 1 that goes into capsules & formula 2, also affectionately know as THE BLACK GOO. This stuff looks amazing to your friends & family as you stir the black stuff into a glass & let it thicken !


I stayed on these formulas for 8 months. Definitely between that & changing my diet to raw & vegan I went through some cleansing periods. My face broke out for 3 months, and has since been more clean & looks better than it has in years. Also some emotional cleansing, as toxins were releasing. 


As I discuss in my classes,  & in my Detox Workshop manual, you can do this as quickly as you want, or can slow the process down.


Dr. Schulze Bowel Cleansing


This is a reprint of patient instructions from Dr. Richard Schulze's clinic. This is intended for educational purposes only . I teach how to make these formulas in my Herbalist Course. I have added his whole manual to my website, I am showing a bit of it here.


I have used the bowel cleansing formulas a lot with clients & students, and the vinegar for the immune system is amazing. I use the greens formula daily. I teach my herbal students how to make all of these.


BOWEL CLEANSING & DETOXIFICATION PROGRAM


Your cleanse needs to include bowel cleansing formulas, in addition to using a cleansing tea & a cleansing tincture. 


INTESTINAL FORMULA #1: 


Type #1: The sluggish bowel type. This formula is for 97 % of my patients. The ones who need a help getting their bowel working frequently enough. 
Therapeutic Action:


This stimulating tonic is both cleansing, healing and strengthening to the entire gastro-intestinal system. It stimulates your peristaltic action ( the muscular movement of the colon ) and over time strengthens the muscles of the large intestine, halts putrefaction and disinfects, soothes and heals the mucous membrane lining of your entire digestive tract. This herbal tonic also improves digestion, relieves gas and cramps, increases the flow of bile which, in turn, cleans the gallbladder, bile ducts and liver, destroys Candida albicans overgrowth and promotes a healthy intestinal flora, destroys and expels intestinal parasites, increases gastrointestinal circulation and is anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal. 
Contra-indications: Do not use during pregnancy without the guidance of a health care professional.




Type #2: The irritated bowel type. This is only a small percentage of my patients. This is the exception to the rule, those with bowels that work too often, more than 3 bowel movements a day. This includes those that have colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, Chrones disease, etc. If your bowels are irritated, hot or are working too frequently, skip this formula and go to the Intestinal Corrective Formula #2.


Dosage:


Take this formula 5 times each day beginning in the morning for 5-6 days consuming a total of 8 ounces of the powdered formula during this period. One hour after your morning nutritional drink mix 1 heaping teaspoon of Intestinal Formula #2 powder with 8 ounces of diluted juice. It mixes best if you shake it in a small jar. Do the same ½ hour before lunch, between lunch and dinner, ½ hour before dinner and 1 hour before bed, so that you are consuming a total of 5 heaping teaspoons each day. During or after dinner, take your Intestinal Formula #1 as usual but increase your regular dosage by 1 additional pill, or more if necessary to have sufficient bowel movements. It is helpful to drink additional liquid after each dose of Intestinal Corrective Formula #2, at least 8 ounces.



If you'd like to learn more about medicinal uses of herbs to use on yourself, friend, family, pets, or clients, take my 8 month distance learning herbalist course. Course work is posted on my forum. Much more info on my website. 
www.dragonflyherbals.com 


Or sign up her for the 8 month herbal, other herbal workshops held online, and reiki & chakra healing workshops:


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

Monday, March 26, 2012

Cleansing and detoxifying the body, part 2

I am offering a workshop on my forum on designing your own Cleanse.

We will be covering:


This is a 17 page manual explaining how to design your own cleanse. It covers:
  • What is cleansing?
  • Nutritional choices during cleansing.
  • What is fasting?
  • What type of cleanse is best for me?
  • Why health food store cleanses are harmful.
  • How long to cleanse, how to break a cleanse.
  • Bowel cleansing.
  • 3 day outline for food choices during a cleanse.
  • Specific food choices for cleansing.
  • What NOT to eat.
  • Herbs & supplements for cleansing.
  • Recipes: shake, raw crackers, almond milk, raw cereal.
If you'd like to learn more about medicinal uses of herbs to use on yourself, friend, family, pets, or clients, take my 8 month distance learning herbalist course. Course work is posted on my forum. Much more info on my website. 
www.dragonflyherbals.com 


Or sign up her for the 8 month herbal, other herbal workshops held online, and reiki & chakra healing workshops:


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

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Cleansing & Detoxifying the Body, part 1 of 2

What is a cleanse/detox?


Eating raw foods, or only specific foods or liquids to give your body a rest from the work of digestion, so it can begin to heal itself.

To tone & cleanse the main organs of elimination: especially bowel, kidneys & liver.  This will address the underlying cause of many health problems.

Being very mindful of what you are eating for a week or so gives your taste buds & your mind time adjust to foods that are nutritious. This can change what you desire to eat, and help you let go of unhealthy food choices.

Different degrees of cleansing will make it safer for anyone regardless of their toxicity levels, & current health.

My thoughts on cleansing the body is that it should be done gradually & gently. From my experience, severely limiting your food intake, fasting, juice fasting, etc. can be dangerous & tends to drop the blood sugar which can lead to shakiness, irritability, headaches, & feeling faint.

Cleansing kits from the health food store often contain strong herbal laxatives which most people do not need. None of this sounds too appealing & most people find it hard enough to want to take some time to restrict their diet to do a cleanse.

If you have health problems, or are on prescription medicine you should consult your doctor before attempting any cleansing. Do not cleanse during pregnancy or nursing.

What I recommend is gentle daily cleansing, which can be done for several months, or years at a time just through the use of a custom blended tincture to cleanse the body systems which are most toxic. This could involve candida cleansing, liver cleansing, bowel cleansing, cleansing the kidneys, lymphatics or any other major organ or body system.

Why should I do a cleanse or fast?

You want to clean toxic materials from your body to improve your health & improve any current ailments at the root cause.

Doing a cleanse, or eating a mainly raw food diet, or even eating a 100% whole food diet, plus bowel cleansing will do a lot to address ANY health problems you may have, whether these are physical or emotional.

More on how to design your own cleanse for safe gently cleansing of the body systems in a few days.


If you'd like to learn more about medicinal uses of herbs to use on yourself, friend, family, pets, or clients, take my 8 month distance learning herbalist course. Course work is posted on my forum. Much more info on my website. 

Or sign up her for the 8 month herbal, other herbal workshops held online, and reiki & chakra healing workshops:



Sunday, March 18, 2012

THE BASIS FOR GOOD HEALTH

Some aspects of getting yourself healthy that I teach in my herbalist course are:

1. Taking responsibility for your own health. Which is why I TEACH and don't work with clients.

CLIENTS COME TO YOU FOR RELIEF OF SYMPTOMS,
STUDENTS COME TO YOU TO CHANGE THEIR LIFE.
BECAUSE DRAGONFLY BRINGS TRANSFORMATION, THAT IS MY GOAL,
TO EMPOWER YOU TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE,
TO BRING ABOUT PHYSICAL HEALING, EMOTIONAL HEALING & SPIRITUAL HEALING,
TO OPEN YOU UP TO CLARITY ABOUT YOUR PATH IN LIFE
& WHAT YOU WISH TO MANIFEST FOR YOURSELF,
.......AND WHAT YOU
WISH TO LET GO OF.
FOR THIS REASON I NO LONGER WORK WITH CLIENTS OR ANSWER HEALTH QUESTIONS,
IF YOU TRULY
WANT TO MAKE LASTING CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE
I OFFER MANY COURSES TO
EMPOWER YOU TO MAKE YOUR OWN CHANGES

I know this can actually be quite difficult. But during 8 months of the herbalist course I just teach bits of information to do with taking charge of your own health & as you go along you get really comfortable with changes you want to make & what will suit your constitution.

2. Good nutrition

Good nutrition is needed for the basis of getting over any ill health & for PREVENTION is illness. I teach a lot about prevention of illness in first place and about using good nutrition as a base for getting your body healthy. Although you can still continue with bad eating habits & bad lifestyles & have the herbs work to assisting your body, if you truly want to feel great & have good energy, a clear mind & clean body you need to eat well too.

If you are continually putting poisons (which many people call their food) into your body you will not have good health.

I am 90% raw vegan. I teach not only how to move your diet towards raw & vegan, but also the steps in between, everywhere from letting go of junk food & sugar, meat, to leaning towards being vegetarian, to adding more raw food to your diet. As you begin to take steps towards getting non nutritious foods out of your diet & eating good whole living foods you begin to feel better & begin to crave more nutritious foods.

3. Cleansing the body

I also believe  in cleansing the body. I do NOT recommend store bought cleanses. In accelerating the removal of toxins from the body you can move towards better health. You need to cleanse the body in order to get your body working correctly tone & build your body systems. You need to have cleaner bowels & a healthy liver & a properly working digestive system in order to feel well.

More on this in my next blog.

I do have my Cleansing Workshop available in printed form as a download on my website.



If you'd like to learn more about medicinal uses of herbs to use on yourself, friend, family, pets, or clients, take my 8 month distance learning herbalist course. Course work is posted on my forum. Much more info on my website. 

Or sign up her for the 8 month herbal, other herbal workshops held online, and reiki & chakra healing workshops:



Sunday, March 11, 2012

Wild harvesting plants, part 4 - last part

Harvesting your own wild herbs and weeds can ensure that your herbs are fresher, richer in nutrients, and best of all, free from cost. By harvesting your own herbs you begin to learn things about the plants that help you to remember what they are useful for and get to know more about each plant. You will get to know the plant’s life cycle, the texture, shape of the leaves, the flowers, the scent of the plant, and where it grows, as you learn when and how to harvest the parts.

I prefer to use wild herbs whenever possible for myself and my animals. I use them for my infusions, tinctures, and raw in juices.

I have lots of the plants growing in my yard, by sprinkling some seeds collected in the fall you can get some plants to establish themselves in an area of your yard that you leave as ‘natural’. They don’t require watering or special soil. Usually once they establish you’ve got them forever.

I have plantain, dandelion, burdock, nettles, douglas fir, alder, aspen, thuja, violets, red clover, chickweed, st. john’s wort, barberry, salal, mullein, hawthorne, horsetail, probably about 40 different local medicinal plants.



HARVESTING HERBS:

These are the 2 most important points:

Be 100% sure of what you are harvesting, it might be best to just observe a plant throughout the growing season, see the flowers & seeds, this will help in identifying it.

Take only what you need, scatter harvesting, leave 80% of plant behind. Learn to harvest ethically, don’t pull up the whole plant if you only need the leaves. Don’t harvest the root if the leaves will do fine. Pick a little bit over a wide range of area.


Learning some basic botany will help too. Botany in a Day is a book that helps you distinguish between groupings of plants, and understand terms used in botany.

Just because you see a bird eating it, it is not safe for human consumption! In Texas I have seen a Mockingbird gobble back a whole bunch of red berries off a Poke plant. We can use Poke medicinally, but this needs to be done with knowledge & safety. Eating the berries in the wrong way can cause death.


Don’t harvest by roadside. Exhaust from vehicles will be on the plants.


I no longer tell others where I harvest because several times people have gone & taken all most all of the herb & it doesn’t grow there any more.


You may notice a difference in latin name between herbs in your herbs books & local ones. Get a local book on edible & medicinal herbs too

In the fall the energy of the plant moves down into the roots, that is the time to harvest roots: dandelion, comfrey. Harvest seeds when ripe.


Dry your plants in loose bundles, in the dark, where air circulates, not in direct heat.

Keep your leaves & plants as whole as possible to store them, crushing or grinding exposes them to air & breaks down constituents.

In the spring the energy of the plant moves up into the leaves, make spring infusions to get vitamins, minerals & chlorophyll after the winter. This is a great time to make spring infusions, either use the plants just in cold water, or in hot to make an infusion.


Tea tumblers like this are great for spring infusions. They are made of glass, and have a strainer in the top, so you can stuff the herbs in, pour hot or cold water over it and sip at it, the herbs stay in the lower part.



If you'd like to learn more about medicinal uses of herbs to use on yourself, friend, family, pets, or clients, take my 8 month distance learning herbalist course. Course work is posted on my forum. Much more info on my website. 

Or sign up her for the 8 month herbal, other herbal workshops held online, and reiki & chakra healing workshops: