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Reiki Training: Beginning Teaching/First Degree Shoden
First Degree/Shoden (Beginning Teaching) – 2 Day Training **Plus Additional requirements for 'Certificate of Completion.'
When: Sunday, September 16 and Monday September 17
Where: Peabody MA.
No pre-requisite necessary. Come with an open-mind and an open-heart!
The focus of this training is 'Self-Reiki for Self-Care' – Self-reiki offers a quick and easy way to relax, improve comfort and increase calm. Self-reiki also can help those wanting to make positive lifestyle changes and or enhance their meditation practice.
Contact Us for Details and to Register – 978-283-4258 or Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Coming in November! ~ Reiki Training and Retreat in Sedona Arizona ~
Contact Us for Details
Reiki Training: Beginning Teaching/First Degree Shoden
First Degree/Shoden (Beginning Teaching) – 2 Day Training **Plus Additional requirements for 'Certificate of Completion.'
When: Saturdays, July 14th and July 21
No pre-requisite necessary. Come with an open-mind and an open-heart!
The focus of this training is 'Self-Reiki for Self-Care' – Self-reiki offers a quick and easy way to relax, improve comfort and increase calm. Self-reiki also can help those wanting to make positive lifestyle changes and or enhance their meditation practice.
Reiki Training- 1st Degree Shoden
First Degree/Shoden (Beginning Teaching) – Two Day, 15-hour training.**
When: Saturday and Sunday. August 28th and 29th.
No pre-requisite necessary. Come with an open-mind and an open-heart!
Usui Reiki Ryoho – the Japanese Healing Art/Method that originated in 1922 with Founder USUI Mikao Sensei of Japan. Komyo Reiki System – "Hands-on. Nothing More." A Keep It Simple traditional system of reiki as taught by Buddhist monk INAMOTO Hyakuten Sensei, based on Japanese aesthetics – Less is More.
Learn Reiki (ray-kee) in this traditional apprentice-style training. Class is offered in a beautiful, peaceful setting on Cape Ann and includes instruction, discussion, practice, meditation, attunements (reiju,) manual, ongoing mentoring and more. Learn the history of Reiki Ryoho, technique for self-reiki and the reiki precepts (gokai) that guide our daily practice.
Today is American Diabetes Alert Day –
- Diabetes affects about 30.3 million Americans or about 9.4 percent of the U.S. population.
- Nearly 1 in 4 adults with diabetes, or 7.2 million Americans, are unaware that they have the disease.
- Another 84.1 million Americans have prediabetes, a condition in which blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.
- Nine out of 10 adults with prediabetes don't know they have it.
Some ways to prevent and manage pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and unhealthy cholesterol:
- Healthy Eating
- Healthy Weight
- Physical Activity
- Stress Reduction
Talk to Your Doctor about prevention and treatment of diabetes.
The third integrative nursing principle: "Nature has healing and restorative properties that contribute to health and well-being" supports the health benefits associated with the practice of Shinrin-yoku and Nature Therapy and serves as a part of the integrated healthcare model.
Contact us for information on how to reduce stress, eat healthily, manage weight, and motivation to exercise. Join in our monthly walking meditations beginning this June: Shinrin-Yoku (Forest Bathing) based on the Japanese practice of enjoying nature with all of your senses.
Email: email@example.com or phone: 978-283-4258
Enjoy today in a healthy way, ~ Karen
Karen Pischke BSN, RN, CCRN Alumnus, Author, Speaker, Nurse Researcher, Certified Hypnotherapist, Tobacco Treatment Specialist, Usui Reiki Teacher/Komyo Shihan. Owner/Founder of Dreamtime Wellness LLC. Your Bridge to Health. Promoting Optimal Wellness for Mind, Body and Spirit. Karen is a registered nurse with a background in critical care nursing, cardiac rehabilitation, cardiac risk factor reduction, wellness and integrative healthcare. Incorporating a collaborative, integrative approach, Karen strives to educate and provide evidence-based services and self-care tools that are safe as well as effective at improving health, happiness and wellbeing. www.DreamtimeWellness.com. Find us on Instagram and Facebook
Reiki for Veterans: Healing the Wounds of War
Thank You for Your Service!
Dreamtime Wellnesses™ is 'Giving Back' to Veterans throughout the month of November.
A Chance Meeting With a Word War II Veteran – A couple of days ago, I rode the elevator at the medical building where I have an office. A man riding the elevator with me mentioned, "I don't care much for elevators." Since I work with people in my professional practice to help them overcome fear including 'fear of elevators,' his mentioning this led to a conversation we may not otherwise have had.
Turned out Jack, (not his real name) is also afraid of other closed-in spaces, crowds, and fireworks that he related began while on active duty. I asked 'Which war did you serve in?' and was shocked to hear "World War 2." He looked much younger than his stated age of "92."
We spent the next twenty minutes in the freezing cold as Jack shared his experiences, then and now. Jack said, "four soldiers were from one street in Peabody. I was the only one that made it home." Jack kept apologizing for "taking up my time." What he didn't know is that I so loved talking to him and could have spent hours listening to his story.
Back then, the veterans of WWII and even Korean and Vietnam Wars had little support for what is now diagnosed as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD.) Most of the returning soldiers never spoke about their experiences, not even with their families.
Remembering My Uncles That Served in WWII.
My Four Uncles Serving in World War II – Four out of my eight uncles saw combat in World War 2. My cousin Cindy recently gifted me a beautiful book (*excerpts from her book) about our family's WWII history, for which am most grateful.
Cindy's father (Uncle Mike) was on the European front. My other three uncles from our mother's side all saw combat in the Pacific. "They all participated in key battles in the war and were awarded numerous wards for their participation and bravery."(*) Cindy had two other uncles on her father's side that served, 'Babe' and Anthony who were also on the European front. All of our relatives survived the war.
Uncle Warren – Warren was our remaining WWII family survivor, until this past January when he died at the age of 96. He started off in the Navy but was transferred to the Marines as a Corpsmen. "Warren saw about 25 days of constant battle on Iwo Jima." (*)
Soft-spoken and mild-mannered, I could never imagine my Uncle Warren (or any of my uncles) being in combat. Warren came home from the war with permanent hand-tremors, his only visible 'scars.' Many years later, Uncle Warren had the opportunity to return to Pearl Harbor on a U.S. carrier, along with his grandson Michael. There he told me he had the opportunity to "speak with and shake the hands" of former soldiers from Japan, which seemed to be very healing for him.
Uncle Al – Of all my uncles, Al spoke the most about his experiences in WWII, sometimes choking up and with tears in their eyes. He was in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. I loved looking at his photo albums, which reminded me of National Geographic. Al, a medic received an individual Bronze Star for rescuing and saving some wounded soldiers. "Al had a distant cousin from New Hampshire that was one of the men that assisted in raising the flag on Iwo Jima." (*)
Uncle Stan – Stan received 3 Bronze Stars while in WWII. He also rarely spoke about WWII. He returned from the Philippines with a pair of bamboo sandals which he gave to his mother, but which have since returned to the Philippines and are now on display there in a museum. (*)
Uncle Mike – Mike was in Germany and the only one physically wounded but refused his Purple Heart because "my mother would have a heart attack if she received a letter stating I had been wounded. He was awarded 5 Bronze Stars, later replaced by a Silver Star." (*) Prior to enlisting, he worked at Sentinel TV and was responsible for the radio communications equipment." (*) Uncle Mike was a man of few words, and I don't recall him ever talking about the war. He died (too) young at the age of 59 of a heart attack, taking his 'wounds' to his grave.
My Mother and Aunt's Role in WWII – My mother and her twin sister (Cindy's mother) both now 90 years old, worked in a factory that made raincoats for the military. Mom relates a story where she slipped a piece of paper with a note into a pocket of one of the raincoat.
Reiki for Seniors – Tomorrow at the Rose Baker Senior Center
Reiki for Seniors at the Rose Baker Senior Center. February 17th and every '3rd Friday' of the month. 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 pm. 15 minute chair reiki sessions for a nominal donation. Sign up in advance by calling – Rose Baker Senior Center Ph: ( 978) 281-9765.
Rose Baker Senior Center – 6 Manuel F. Lewis Street Gloucester, MA
Note: For people with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's or Dementia, family health agents may sign a simple consent form for their loved ones to receive Reiki. This Reiki Program for Seniors is coordinated by a registered nurse and Reiki will be offered by experienced, advanced Reiki Providers that are licensed or certified, and insured. Attention is paid to safety, hygiene and confidentiality. People receiving Reiki may feel free to stop a session at any time. Most people report feeling "very relaxed," "calm" and "peaceful." According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Reiki is considered generally safe and has the potential benefits of relief of stress and anxiety, improved comfort and increased calm.