You are welcome to attend 

If I cannot accommodate everyone who wants to come on the date announced, I will offer a second date to those who call.

 

This is an opportunity to gather with other practitioners and share what is going on, ask questions, and receive support. It is also a time for both meditation and receiving Reiju and, of course, this is all followed by an exchange of Reiki. 

Click on the link below for directions and give me a call if you are having any problems.

There is a parking lot used by surfers and fisherman as well as others, opposite the front entrance of Asbury Tower, to the left of the boardwalk, which you can use FREE. 

There are also parking spaces all around the building 

which have parking meters.  

Also a block down any side street, there is open parking. 

 

It is a couple of blocks north of 404  5th Ave.  where we use to have it and you can easily see the tall building from there. 

 

 Feel free to call me if you are having any trouble.  (732-284-9990)

 

Just touch the #1 when you come into the main entrance and the security guard will let you in. Take elevator to 23rd floor.

 

CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS

WHAT IS REIKI 

The most consistent question put to me over the past 20 years has been "What is Reiki?" And I have always struggled to find a way to give an answer that would not turn off the questioner to being open to experience a Reiki session.

When I have 30 seconds to explain Reiki to an inquiring family of a hospice patient, I say, " Reiki is a spiritual healing energy practice that many people find comforting and relaxing." For some people the words "spiritual" "healing" or "energy" are turn ons and for others, turn offs. But it seems to help in determining an interest in Reiki in the time allotted during the phone conversation.

But I have found the use of the phrase "Spiritual Healing Energy practice" raises the antennas of different religious groups who feel an encroachment into their area.

When I first experienced this it was quite a shock, quite surprising to me. I help with a hospice volunteer training program and now and again we have a clergy person attend the training. It sometimes takes a while, but it seems to always surface. - the message being, that I have stepped into an area whose door is closed, without proper credentials. We have bishops in the Roman Catholic Church who react the same way. But I was totally blown away, when one of our chaplains in hospice took issue when I referred to Reiki as a spiritual practice. All quite interesting.

Frans Stiene was one of my more recent teachers and I have been deeply touched by his teachings - he transformed the way I both practice and teach Reiki. I highly recommend anyone, no matter how long you have been teaching or practicing Reiki, to take advantage of his yearly classes in different cities in the United States. (ihreiki.com)

Frans taught me that Usui taught Reiki as a spiritual practice which came from his own deep Buddhist spirituality and other esoteric practices in the culture of his day. I have come to believe that there is no doubt he was an enlightened being or we may use the word a mystic.

Tai chi produces the same benefits as physical therapy for patients suffering from knee osteoarthritis, according to a new study by researchers at the Tufts School of Medicine.

The study, led by Chenchen Wang, a professor at the School of Medicine, focused on osteoarthritis patients who reported significant pain. The average participant was 60 years old, and many were obese. "This was a really representative sample of patients we see in our clinical practice at Tufts Medical Center every day," says Wang, director of the Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine at Tufts Medical Center.

Wang defines tai chi in her studies as a multi-component traditional Chinese mind-body practice that combines meditation with slow, gentle, graceful movements, deep diaphragmatic breathing, and relaxation.

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