Reiki Refresher Feb 10th

Reiki workshop for all levels

Has it been a while since your Reiki attunement? Would you like a Reiki recharge? Want an opportunity to practice with others? Have some questions that you'd like answered about Reiki? Brush up on old techniques and learn some new ones for strengthening your Reiki flow during the Reiki Refresher!

This 2 hour Reiki intensive is open to Reiki practitioners attuned to any level. Cost: $50 Meets 3-5pm on February 10th at 21 Bow Street in Somerville, MA. Registration form here.

Celebrate Being Festival Tomorrow

Celebrate Being:
A Festival For The Mind, Body, and Spirit
a town of Bedford healing arts day
Jan 27th 2008 Sunday

If you have been curious about alternative health but feel hesitant about where to begin or what to try, Celebrate Being is the perfect event for you. Here is a rare opportunity to sample from a smorgasbord of different kinds of energy work and healing modalities such as reiki, homeopathy, flower essences, meditation, shamanism, mediumship, and many more. Celebrate Being will offer a wide variety of classes, lectures, readers and healers to help warm hearts, strengthen tired immune systems and, in the heart of a New England winter, tap into deep sources of joy.

Celebrate Being is open from 1 - 5 PM tomorrow. For just $8 for an all-day-ticket ($4 for seniors), you get a personalized 20-minute reading or bodywork session, and admission to a wide variety of classes, lectures, and fun things to do.

For directions to the Council of Aging in Bedford MA, click here.


I will be at Celebrate Being! If you come, please stop by to visit!

Evening of Fun & Relaxation

Relax and Rejuvenate with your Friends! Have you been wishing for an evening of RELAXATION and FUN? Gather together a group of your favorite friends and spend an evening rejuvenating together with some fabulous ladies.

Reiki & Wellness Practitioner, Joanna Scaparotti will start the evening with a few easy stress reduction techniques you can do at home to relax and rejuvenate, and then she’ll provide deeply relaxing mini-Reiki sessions.

Want solutions for eating right and feeling your best? Add Health Counselor Kathleen Moriarty. She’ll talk about Sugar Solutions and answer your questions about nutrition.

Want to get moving? Add Bellydance! Phoenix Avathar will bring the energy up a notch by giving a short bellydance performance and then teach you and your guests the fun, ancient art of bellydance.

Want answers or guidance to life challenges? Add mini-readings with Spiritual Guide and Intuitive Counselor, Anna Murphy.

Contact Joanna at joannascaparotti@gmail.com or 617-429-1793 for information and to book your Evening of Fun & Relaxation at your place or ours here in Somerville. Rates are $10 per person per service. Contact Joanna for specifics.

Bios:
Joanna Scaparotti is a Reiki and Wellness practitioner who specializes in solutions for stress, tension, fatigue and worry. Find out more about Joanna on her websites: mysolutionsforstress.com or reikiandlifecelebrations.com

Kathleen Moriarty is a Certified Holistic Health Counselor who specializes in helping women find food and lifestyle choices that will bring them health, healing, balance and the life they desire. Find out more about Kathleen on her website: kmoriarty.com

Phoenix Avathar is a Professional Bellydance Teacher, Performer, and Choreographer who specializes in empowering women to celebrate and embrace their bodies through belly dance. Find out more about Phoenix on her website: phoenxifirebellydance.com

Anna Murphy is an Intuitive Counselor and Spiritual Guide who specializes in helping people improve the quality of their relationships and lives. Find out more about Anna on her website: nancydruid.org

Turn the blahs into playtime!

Over the holidays, a friend sent me a surprise package in the mail that included some very colorful and amusing Oracle cards called "Trust your Vibes" by Sonia Choquette. Most of them make me giggle, so I have been pulling one every morning to start the day off with a chuckle. I recently came across two cards that inspired me to change my perspective on winter. The first one was about scheduling downtime. Choquette points out:

"Your ego generally doesn't approve of downtime because it's asked to give up control, which it doesn't want to do. Rather, it wants to run your life through fear and anxiety, keeping things in your head and under control. Downtime liberates you from this fear based treadmill and reconnects you to the pace and peace of the Universal flow."

Instead, she suggests letting your inner child take over for the ego for a while and using that time to play instead. She says:

"To... instantly restore good vibrations, all you need is a serious dose of recreation and playtime. Rather than continuing to relentlessly press against the uphill battles of life, it's necessary to back off at regular intervals and do something fun. This gives your ego a break and allows your creative spirit to incubate...

I've been hearing it from everyone and have even been complaining about it myself - the winter blahs are here! We're all tired of the cold dreary days. We feel lethargic, unmotivated and bored, isolated and make ourselves unhappy with our mental clutter. Let's take advantage of the natural downtime provided by winter, shut off our egos and invite our inner children out to play!

If you need something to do - check out the Evening of Relaxation and Fun that my colleagues and I have put together.

By the way if you're interested in picking up your own deck of Vibe cards, you can find them here:

To be or not to be...

Do your New Year's Resolutions increase the size of your "to do" list? Consider an alternative approach to starting the year off right - set the tone for 2008 with an affirmative "to be" intention or two instead. For example, take a look at some of the intentions I've held over the years.

This year, I intend...

• to be mindful of what I consume
• to be moderate and balanced in my choices
• to be diligent about self-care
• to be able to go with the flow of challenges and opportunities as life brings them
• to be calm and compassionate
  
• to be grateful every day
• to be open to change and growth
• to be brave and step outside my comfort zone and self-imposed limitations
• to be someone who breathes fully and slowly
  

I put my intentions somewhere that I can see them, such as on the wall in my office, and re-intend them every day. You could also put them on a bookmark that you use regularly, up on a mirror, on your closet door, on a piece of paper you carry in your bag, etc... Through your daily attention to your intentions, you organize events and circumstances in your life around them. Your intentions become priorities and manifest in your body and your life. By affirming how you'd like "to be" this year, you can become.

Take a look at previous posts about thoughts and emotions as intentions, how highly successful people use intentions and affirmations, or using them to create healthy habits.