Karuna Reiki®

Back in May I travelled to Sedona, AR to participate in Karuna Reiki® classes. It was an amazing experience and I'm grateful for the compassion that Karuna Reiki® extends to those who are receiving it, as well as to those who are giving it.

Karuna Reiki® was developed by William Rand and The International Center for Reiki Training and is based on traditional Usui and Tibetan Reiki. Karuna Reiki® is a healing energy that assists us in awakening to Universal compassion allowing us to shine a light into those areas of our being where we hold judgements, criticism and unloving thoughts towards ourselves, others or the world. Karuna Reiki® enhances our ability to see everyone and everything through the eyes of the Divine.

Karuna is a Sanskrit word and is used in Hinduism and Buddhism. It is translanted to mean any action that is taken to diminish the suffering of others and could also be translated as “compassionate action.” Through our awakened consciousness our ability to have Universal or unconditional compassion helps us to alleviate our own and other’s suffering. In this process of healing we can understand that there is a Divine plan for all creation and that we are all part of that perfect plan.

Karuna Reiki® helps us develop an awareness of those personality traits that have been blocking us or perhaps causing us to doubt or fear our inner guidance. It also helps us to accept love and heal the shadows within our personality. Karuna Reiki® is the energy of compassion in action, teaching us to have compassion for ourselves and for others. It helps to harmonize the upper and lower chakras, helping us to discern guidance and wisdom for the Divine and moving us into the physical realm of manifestation where we are empowered to heal.

Karuna Reiki® goes very deep, gently but quickly, and it takes on many forms such as intense heat, coolness, tingling or pulsing. As issues arise that require healing, they can be acknowledged, processed and healed in moments because they are dealt with in their fundamental energetic form. Therefore, when appropriate, Karuna Reiki® can bring about deep emotional healing without the recipient being aware of or having to re-live an unpleasant or traumatic life experience.

As Karuna Reiki® assists us in recognizing repressed thoughts, emotions or beliefs these feelings can be released at a deep cellular level and through Universal compassion, foundations for healthy new patterns can be created. Although Karuna Reiki® facilitates healing, it does not do the healing, it simply assists by reflecting information to the body’s systems to allow for healing to take place within the person. Karuna Reiki® can assist in healing on all levels, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

I look forward to sharing this wonderful new healing modality with you!

(Source material; Laurelle Shanti Gaia – The Book on Karuna Reiki® and from The International Center for Reiki Training website.)

Happenings

It's been a while since I lasted posted so I thought I'd bring you up-to-date on what's been happening in my Reiki world.

I've completed four of the five required training sessions to become an In-Home Hospice Volunteer with Agrace HospiceCare. The last class is next Tuesday and afterwards I'm looking forward to putting my training into practice. I have the choice to visit patients in their homes or in long term care facilities. I'd like to go where the greatest need is so I'm going to leave myself open to either venue. After six month's I'll be able to take additional training and then be able to do Reiki, which is my goal. I can't think of anything I'd rather do than to visit someone and provide them the healing and comforting energy of Reiki.

I'm also enrolled in Aromatherapy and have completed two of the four classes towards cetification. My teacher is amazing and very knowledgable - teaching us the science bits along with the metaphysical aspects of Aromatherapy. Like Reiki, Aromatherapy can heal on all levels - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. I'm excited about bringing Aromatherapy into my practice, using it as a stand-alone session or in tandem with a Reiki session. Either way, you'll enjoy Aromatherapy and all it's many benefits!

I'm currently working on a presentation which I will be giving next Thursday for the Young Onset Parkinson's Group here in Madison at St. Mary's Hospital. I'm learning so much more by putting this presentation together and am feeling confident that it will be informational and inspirational.

Plans are also in motion for me to travel to Sedona in May to take part in Karuna Reiki® training. I can't tell you how excited I am about this! I'm looking forward to the classes and then incorporating Karuna Reiki® into my practice and then also being able to use this Reiki in Hospice. I'm also looking forward to visiting some sacred vortex sites and crystal shops. What's a trip without shopping?!

And lastly, there's still time to take advantage of $10 off a session for the month of February. I hope you'll take some time to come in and nurture yourself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually!