What is Reiki?

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

What does a Reiki Session feel like?

A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. Many have reported miraculous results.

Is Reiki hard to learn?

An amazingly simple technique to learn, the ability to use Reiki is not taught in the usual sense, but is transferred to the student during a Reiki class. This ability is passed on during an "attunement" given by a Reiki master and allows the student to tap into an unlimited supply of "life force energy" to improve one's health and enhance the quality of life.

What is Polarity Therapy?

Polarity Therapy is the detailed science of stimulating and balancing the flow of subtle energy to bring physical, emotional, mental and spiritual imbalances into equilibrium. Polarity Therapy finds out what is out of alignment, and then balances the positive, negative and neutral poles of the body. Using light and deep pressure point massage, gentle rocking and stretching, as well as nutritional advice, verbal dialogue and Polarity Yoga.  Polarity Therapy has the effect of being both relaxing and at the same time recharging ones energy. Polarity Therapy is a powerful healing technique which reduces stress, releases muscular tension, balances the emotions, improves postural habits, alleviates pain and discomfort, strengthens the immune system, and prevents disease, while maintaining a sense of health and well-being.

What is Polarity Yoga?

Polarity Yoga consist of a group of simple exercises which were developed by studying the movements and positions that we instinctively adopt when we wish to relax, ease pain in our bodies or wake ourselves up.

The postures are not held statically, but use gentle rocking and stretching movements combined with vocal expression. Indeed it is these features that distinguish Polarity Yoga from classical Hatha Yoga and other forms of exercise. The body movement and use of the voice stimulate the flow of life energy. A Polarity therapist will teach a client the most beneficial exercises for them. These exercises need only be done for a few minutes each day to be fully effective.

What is Polarity Nutrition?

Polarity Therapists recognize that the life force can not flow freely through a congested, toxic body and so one of the first things a Polarity therapist may recommend is that the client should follow a simple purifying diet and cleansing regime for a few days. It is not a starvation diet, the client can eat as much as they like of certain permitted foods. These consist mainly of fruit and vegetables (steamed or boiled) salads, soups, herbal teas and a morning cleansing drink.

The purpose of this diet is twofold. Firstly, it eliminates any harmful products that have built up inside the body due to poor quality digestion and secondly, it provides the body with good quality nutrients for rebuilding damage tissue.

Working with an understanding of the energetic qualities of food, a practitioner will often suggest modifications to a client's diet to support the energy balancing done during the body work session. Over and above any chemical or energy balancing of the diet, a positive mental attitudes towards eating is essential if the body is to digest food properly.

What is Meditation?

Meditation describes a stat of deep concentration in either a sold object (such as a candle flame) or an abstract thought (such as calmness). It usually involves turning the attention inward, and many practise meditation in order to achieve peace of mind or to deal with daily stress; some seek enlightenment.

Meditation takes many forms including prayer, TM (Transcendental Meditation), mindfulness meditation, and from the Eastern tradition, Zen meditation, Buddhist meditation, and Taoist meditation. The main focus of meditation techniques is to quieten the busy mind. The intention is not to remove stimulation but rather to direct concentration to one healing element - one sound, one word, one image, or one's breath. When the mind is "filled" with the feeling of calm and peace, it is less likely to take off on its own and worry, stress out, or get depressed. Meditation encompasses diverse methods including: Formal sitting in which the body is held immobile and the attention controlled, expressive practices in which the body is let free, and the practice of going about one's daily round of activities mindfully.

What is Aromatherapy?

Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils extracted from plants and herbs to treat a person's mood or health, individual blends are prepared in a base of cold-pressed oil and applied to the body through massage, Many believe that scent has the power to transform our emotions and heal our bodies. Note: Do not use essential oils directly on shin as they may burn.

Aromatherapy involves the use of volatile plant oils, including essential oils, for psychological and physical wellbeing. It is a natural, non-invasive treatment system designed to affect the whole person not just the symptom or disease and to assist the body's natural ability to balance, regulate, heal and maintain itself by the correct use of essential oils. As a holistic medicine, Aromatherapy is both a preventative approach as well as an active treatment during acute and chronic stages of illness or disease.

What is EFT? (Emotional Freedom Techniques)

The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a group of powerful processes that can help just about anyone to achieve genuine freedom from the emotions that have created problems in their lives. These techniques have been described by some as one of the most important breakthroughs in the area of psychology in this century. They have been used successfully with thousands of people with a broad range of difficulties.

What is a Chakra?

A sanskrit word meaning "wheel" or "circle"; usually refers to the centers or points of spiritual power that resides in or compose the human astral / subtle body. They are considered to have correspondences with the physical body and function as psychic portals to the world at large.

What is Crystal Therapy?

Crystal Therapy is the ancient art of laying-on-of-stones. Gems, stones and crystals are laid on the body over the chakra points. Each chakra resonates to a particular color, so by laying a stone of that color over the chakra, the chakras open, align and blend with one another. When the chakra system is balanced, the physical body is able to innately self-correct and heal.

What is an Aura?

Energy field emanating from the surface of a person or object. This emanation is visualized as an outline of cascading color and may be held to represent soul vibrations, chakric emergence, or a reflection of surrounding energy fields.

What is Relexology?

Reflexology is the physical act of applying pressure to the feet and hand with specific thumb, finger and hand techniques without the use of oil or lotion. it is based on a system of zones and reflex areas that reflect an image of the body on the feet and hands with a premise that such work effects a physical change to the body.

What is RYSE? (Realizing Your Sublime Energies)

RYSE is a state of the art energy system clearing. It is a revolutionary new paradigm of holistic healing. RYSE educates you on understanding your energetic systems and more importantly how to use them to quickly effect your emotional state, find your personal power and understand relationship through energetic system reality.