Author Archives: Sandra

INFERTILITY

Are you are trying to conceive naturally or through IVF? Are you feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, angry, full of doubt? As a Reiki Master and Meditation facilitator I have been supporting couples through infertility at The Healing Place in Oakville since 2009. In June 2018, I expanded my studies, I became a Certified Doula.  Recently I enrolled in a course to become a Certified Fertility Support Practitioner.  Fertility Support is a program to help and support couples through infertility. I offer couples and individuals who are interested in: 

  • A natural way of birth control
  • Cycle analysis
  • Stress coping skills
  • Considering starting a family
  • Trying to conceive 
  • Childbirth Education
  • Birth and Labour 
  • Postpartum support

This modality completes the full spectrum of services I offer from Conception to Pregnancy to Birth and Post birth care, and everything in-between.  I am a mother of three grown daughters and Grandmother to three beautiful grandsons under the age of 2 with two more grandchildren due Spring 2021.  I am passionate about my work and I look forward to supporting Parents with their Birthing Journey!  During this time of COVID all consultations and Sessions are done on-line with your health and safety being number 1!  

Contact me by email: sandra.reikihealing@gmail.com  or 

visit my website: http://www.sandra-reiki-master-healing-meditation.com/

What is a Postpartum & Infant Care Doula?

The word “doula” comes from the ancient Greek language and refers to a female servant.

Postpartum refers to after the birth, a Postpartum Doula supports much more than just  Postpartum Depression.

The journey of birth and becoming parents is an incredible experience! This journey is filled with emotion, uncertainty, creativity, compassion and awareness. The Birth journey begins from conception until birth.  For 9 months you are growing another human being inside of you.  You read, go on the web, receive lots of advice from friends and family members.  Remember your birthing experience is unlike anyone else’s, it is unique to you! Then it happens your baby is born! Now what do you do?

The support of a Postpartum & Infant care Doula can be very helpful!  A Postpartum Doula brings experience, compassion, and emotional support to parents and their newborns. The doula’s primary focus is on the new parent’s recovery from birth and the newborns adjustment to their new environment. The Postpartum doula is well versed in your emotional and physical recovery from birth, sleep guidance, infant feeding, bathing, soothing, and general coping skills. The Postpartum doula enable and empower new parents and help build their confidence. They hold space for very heavy, new emotions, while validating and affirming the not-so-joyous feelings. The doula ensures that parents have a judgement-free environment to make choices and help implement those choices as an extension of your parenting philosophies.

During this time of Covid-19 I am offering my Postpartum services over Zoom or FaceTime.

To contact me for a consultation or workshop please email: sandra.reikihealing@gmail.com

STRESS

Stress

Stress is the leading factor in disease. Over 75% – 95%  of Doctors visits are due to stress.

If we ignore stress and allow stress to take over our being disease will manifest.

What is stress?

Dictionary definition of stress:

Physiology. A specific response by the body to a stimulus, as fear or pain, that disturbs or interferes with the normal physiological equilibrium of an organism.

Physical, mental, or emotional strain or tension:

 

If you put physical stress on a piece of wood the result will be: It will break.

If we inflict emotional stress on our bodies we will break.

Take care and prevent stress.

How do you prevent stress?

Meditate

Reiki

Hot Stone Massage

Reflexology

Learn how to meditate.

Mindfulness Meditation Training helps to:

Reduces stress

Improves sleep patterns

Promotes healthier eating habits

Develops happier relationships

Improves personal growth

Mindfulness meditation enables us to become aware of our habits of thinking and reacting and eventually to be able to make wholesome changes towards a less stressful life.

Mindfulness practice is taught by means of guided meditation, exercises, silent meditation periods, and discussion.

 

Mindfulness practice has proven to be useful in counseling, education, therapy, and the creative arts. Countless people have used it successfully to lead happier and more productive lives, to improve the quality of their relationships, and to deal with the stresses of modern living. The practice of moment-to-moment awareness, attention to ordinary tasks, everyday events is conducive to transformation and healing oneself.

 

Reiki

Your physical body is alive because of the ‘life force energy’ that is flowing through it. If your life force is low or blocked, you are more likely to become ill, but if it is high and free flowing, you can more easily maintain health and a feeling of well being.

One thing that disrupts and weakens the flow of life force energy is stress. Stress is often caused by conflicting thoughts and feelings of fear, worry, doubt, anger, and anxiety that become lodged in one’s subtle energy system. Medical research has determined that continual stress can block the body’s natural ability to repair, regenerate and protect itself.

Reiki can help you relieve that stress!

The American Institute of Stress estimates that 75%-95% of all visits to doctors are due to the reaction of stress. The effects of unreleased stress range from minor aches to major health concerns, such as heart disease, digestive disorders, respiratory and skin problems.

Regular Reiki treatments can help reduce stress or help to remove it completely by boosting your immune system to an optimum healthy state and balancing your ‘life force energy’.

 

Hot Stone Relaxation Therapy



Hot Stone Relaxation Therapy involves the use of heated basalt stones that melt away tension and stress 
from your body. This massage is approx. 1 hour and 20 minutes. For some people hot stone massage
 can bring harmony, pain release and alignment in the Body, Mind, and Spirit.

Benefits of a Hot Stone Massage:

Helps to alleviate stress

Increases circulation

Aids elimination

Increases joint mobility

Sedating, deep relaxation, meditative

Warm stones on the face release sinus pressure and pain

Restores equilibrium to the Body, and Mind


 

Reflexology

 Reflexology is a natural, non-invasive healing art based on the principle that there are reflexes in the feet, that correspond to every body part. There is virtually a mini map of the body on the feet. The toes represent the head,the ball of the foot is the chest,the soft part of the foot is the internal organs and the heel of the foot is the pelvic area.

By working the reflexes using specific pressure techniques, Reflexology helps promote natural functioning of the body system and allows it to heal itself. Reflexology relieves stress and tension, improves circulation and helps balance the physical, mental and emotional aspects of the whole person.

 

What is Reiki? How can it help me?

What is Reiki?

Reiki is Universal Life Force Energy. If our life force is low or blocked, we are more likely to become ill, but if it is high and free flowing,we more easily maintain good health and a feeling of well being.

What are the benefits to Reiki Training?

Reiki is one of the Energy Modalities that you can use on yourself. After you complete your Reiki Level 1 Training you are able to self treat! If you suffer from chronic pain, headaches,or stress, you can help relieve these symptoms by treating yourself with Reiki.

I teach an intense 4 day training program for Reiki.  You receive a Certificate at the end of the program and become eligible to become a member of the Canadian Reiki Association. You will receive 4 attunements during the training and  you will receive a handbook and lots of practice for self treatment and treatment on others.

Regular Reiki Treatments can help reduce stress or help remove it completely. Boosting your immune system to an optimum healthy state and balancing your “Life Force Energy.”

 

Mindfulness Meditation Can Change Your Life

Do you find yourself focused on the past or the future; perhaps you are not enjoying life’s simplest pleasures?  Are you stressing about situations that have yet to occur?  Overanalyzing situations in your mind?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, your mind is likely filled with clutter.  But the question remains, where does this clutter originate?  Take a deep breath; recognizing these matters is a great place to start.  Mindfulness Meditation is a tactic used to help guide you through the development of eliminating this clutter.  This technique can help you to reduce your stress, improve sleep patterns, promote healthier eating habits, develop happier relationships, and improve personal growth.  This practice has the ability to positively change your life.

 

I asked my daughter (fourth year university student at UBC) to explain how mindfulness resonates with her; she described to me this; “when I think of mindfulness, I think of thoughtful awareness.  I believe anyone can be mindful, however, in most cases it resonates from the development of our values.  Mindfulness allows us to live in the moment, avoiding dwelling on the past, or focusing too much on the future.  I find this notion to be something that most of society takes advantage of.  It is human nature to think in different tenses; but it’s interesting to further investigate how we tend to focus on the future or the past.  Reflecting on my week I noticed myself focusing on frustrations from projects or time management leading up to today.  I also find myself planning for the future to compensate for focusing on the frustrations of the past to get more work done.  Unfortunately what is lacking here is the ability to focus on the present, the task at hand.  What I need to focus on is not either of these things.  What I have realized is how these tenses work as distractions from the present.  Instead of getting everything organized and doing it, I find myself drifting in thought with regard to what I have to do and why I didn’t prepare myself for a previous lecture.  I also find myself excited about an upcoming event, which I build up in my mind; usually once the event arrives I get so caught up in remembering things I need to accomplish next, the moment moves by at a high speed.  This is something I am working towards improving; I am working on directing my energy towards being more mindful of living in the moment.”

 

The notion of living in the moment has become an essential aspect of our being.  Mindfulness Meditation fosters this ability allowing us to be aware of our surroundings, and acquiring an appreciation for the present.  Further, this concept facilitates recognizing these moments to fully enjoy what is actually taking place.  Sometimes, it is the little things in life that work as kind reminders to achieve eternal happiness.  It is often we let these moments slip by, without even noticing.  Mindful Meditation is a kind reminder to value these special moments to capitalize ones ability to maintain happiness.

Mindfulness Meditation enables us to become aware of our habits of thinking and reacting, eventually leading individuals to constructing wholesome changes towards a less stressful life.

 

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Energy Shift!

The Energy Shift!

We are transitioning into an energy shift.   This shift is creating an immense openness to energy healing and acceptance of our inner spirit.  This is the beginning to a wonderful journey for us all!

Do you suffer from Stress, Anxiety, Pain, Cancer, or any other illnesses?  In my journey with Chronic pain I have experienced the true healing ability of Reiki.  It  is a powerful energy modality that you too can experience, learn, and practice.  Whether it is in interest to treat yourself, others or a lifestyle of purity and zen, Reiki is a practice for everyone.

Stress is a contributing factor to illness, when left untreated stress can manifest into disease.  It could be in your best interest to seek out energy modalities such as Reiki,  Black Pearl and  Meditation to aid this manifestation.  However, Reiki treatment can also help healthy individuals and contribute to leading a healthy lifestyle.

As a Reiki Master I am so pleased to be able to teach these techniques and also use them in my clinic to treat people.  My life has changed because of Meditation and Reiki, so can yours.

Can Reiki help comfort you after the loss of a loved-one?

Last Friday my Dad was rushed to the Hospital Emergency Ward in B.C.  Sunday I received a call from my sister that my Dad was not doing well.   I live in Ontario so I immediately started to send him Distance Reiki. I began at 10:05 pm and at 10:10 pm I could feel him slipping away, I saw a bright light and there were angels surrounding his frail little body. I finished sending Reiki at 10:30 pm (7:30 pm Vancouver time) and I knew he had passed. As difficult as it was I knew in my heart that he was transcending to a wonderful place and he passed away in peace

My Mother called at 7:40 (10:40 Toronto time) to let me know that my Dad had passed away at 7:29 pm Vancouver time, (10:29 pm Toronto time).

I was not able to be there physically for my Dad but because of Reiki I was there for him spiritually.  This was very comforting for the both of us.  It is a blessing to understand death as part of life, and in fact because of that, I know my Dad is just in a different state of being.

I am so very thankful for the gift of Reiki in my life.  It is very difficult to lose a loved-one; Reiki will bring comfort to those who are grieving.

 

This story was given to my Daughter from her co-workers:

Author Unknown

 Once, in a little pond, in the muddy water under the lily pads, there lived a little water beetle in a community of water beetles. They lived a simple and comfortable life in the pond with few disturbances and interruptions. Once in a while, sadness would come to the community when one of their fellow beetles would climb the stem of a lily pad and would never be seen again. They knew when this happened; their friend was dead, gone forever.

Then, one day, one little water beetle felt an irresistible urge to climb up that stem. However, he was determined that he would not leave forever. He would come back and tell his friends what he had found at the top. When he reached the top and climbed out of the water onto the surface of the lily pad, he was so tired, and the sun felt so warm, that he decided he must take a nap. As he slept, his body changed and when he woke up, he had turned into a beautiful blue-tailed dragonfly with broad wings and a slender body designed for flying.

So, fly he did! And, as he soared he saw the beauty of a whole new world and a far superior way of life to what he had never known existed. Then he remembered his beetle friends and how they were thinking by now he was dead. He wanted to go back to tell them, and explain to them that he was now more alive than he had ever been before. His life had been fulfilled rather than ended. But, his new body would not go down into the water. He could not get back to tell his friends the good news. Then he understood that their time would come, when they, too, would know what he now knew. So, he raised his wings and flew off into his joyous new life!

 

Congratulations to my first 2012 Reiki Level 1 Graduating Class

Congratulations to my first Reiki Level 1 graduating class! Today as I reflect over the last four days that I spent with my students, I realize why I wanted to become a Reiki Master and that is to TEACH. I enjoyed these last four days that were filled with lots of inspiration, history of Reiki, and practice time. To see the progression of the levels of energy that were exchanged is truly incredible. My students receive 4 attunements to the Reiki energy during our time together. I incorporate Meditation into the Reiki training to help enhance the energy levels. These students grew spiritually and energetically and have taken their first steps to an incredible journey. Thank you to my students, and future students!

Announcing the Opening of the Reiki Training Centre

Happy New Year!  I am very pleased to announce the opening of my treatment and training center, The Healing Place. The location of The Healing Place Training Centre is in my home located in Oakville, Ontario.

 

In December 2011, I graduated as a Reiki Master.  I am excited to embark on my next journey as a Master and assist in the teaching and healing of others.

 

I will be teaching a Reiki Level 1 course January 15  – January 18, 2012.  I will be teaching a Mindfulness Meditation 10 week program offered Saturday Mornings or Tuesday evenings starting January 24th.  Please visit my Website for further details and exact times.  If you are interested in training and receiving your Level 1 Reiki, participating in the Mindfulness Meditation program, booking a Reiki Treatment or know someone that may be interested, please pass on my contact information or direct them to my website.

 

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”. –Lao Tzu

 

Reiki is not just for those who are ill, it is also available for restoring vital energy for maintaining positive wellness and is known to help in preventing disorders.