Healing Therapies
Reiki
Pronounced “Ray-Key” - Rei meaning Universal Life giving and Ki meaning energy - Reiki is the vital life energy which flows through all living things. It promotes healing on all levels - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
Causes of illness can often be due to emotional or mental patterns that require change in order to heal. Reiki can bring transformation by reinforcing our ability to make those changes in order to promote a healthier happier life.
Some possible benefits from treatment include -
Increased calm and feelings of peace, relief from stress and muscular tension, improved sleep pattern, feeling generally alert and more clarity of thinking, increased energy levels, elevation of mood, pain reduction & relief, increased joint mobility and improved circulation. Reiki can also be used on animals, plants, and food.
Reiki energy has an intelligence of its own, as has our body. The energy will find places where it is most needed.
At Yoga Dorset, we practice hands on Traditional Reiki - Usui Shiki Ryoho - which was reformulated by Dr Mikao Usui of Kyoto toward the end of the 19th century. Dr Usui’s biography is clouded with mystery, but it is known that he was honoured for his good deeds by the Maiji Emperor of Japan.
Individual Reiki Healings are available by appointment with Lynn, Jon or jointly. These are conducted fully clothed on a treatment couch or on a chair if required. Most recipients feel warmth and deep relaxation as the energy is channelled by the Reiki Healer. Blockages are gently released whether physical, mental or emotional. Reiki will compliment any other treatment and can often be offered in hospitals and other health centres.
Reiki Courses are held throughout the year.
Learning Reiki is a process of empowerment brought about through the attunement processes given during a Reiki course. When you are attuned to Reiki energy, your channels are opened to Universal Life Energy. Once attuned, you can then channel Reiki for yourself and others for the rest of your life.
The First Degree enables the participant to use Reiki on themselves, family, friends, animals, plants and situations.
The Second Degree is for the participant to work at a deeper level using the ancient symbols rediscovered by Dr Usui. It is for anyone wishing to work professionally as a Reiki Practitioner.
Third Degree Reiki is called the Master Degree. It is a more spiritual Course for personal growth to discover the inner Master and Freedom.
Fourth Degree Reiki is the Teaching Degree where we put the ego aside and let ourselves be guided by Love and Wisdom. You will then be able to attune others to the beautiful Reiki energy.
Certificates & Manuals are given at each Course and ongoing support is available where required.
Reiki Share Groups - Once attuned to Reiki, you may join our regular Share Group with other qualified Practitioners for discussion and sharing & receiving of healing. Of course, you are very welcome to join us if you have been attuned by other Masters...
The more Reiki can be shared, the better life gets !
Sound Healing
“Sound is the medicine of our future” - Edgar Cayce
Discomfort and disease arise when there is disharmony in the body. The right sounds can assist your body's realignment with its own Healing processes, leading to homeostatic balance.
Sound has always been a component of the healing practices of ancient cultures. Modern science now acknowledges its potential as a complementary healing force and uses it in applications such as ultrasound treatment & diagnostics.
Sound therapy at Yoga Dorset includes the use of Gongs, Tibetan and Crystal bowls, Tuning Forks, Drum, voice and more as a vibrational energy to support physiological, psychological and emotional wellbeing.
Tuning Forks
We are vibrational beings and, so, resonance affects our bodies. Each Fork is tuned to a specific frequency. During a Healing session, we choose the tuning fork vibration that is most needed at the time, it's resonance creating a correlate in the body.
Crystal and Tibetan Bowls
Bowls create specific deep vibrational frequencies that affect the main Chakras. Their sound is rich, penetrating, supremely gentle yet somehow powerful.
Gong
Lynn learned to play the Thai Gong with Master Veerayuth Pongsiri while visiting Chiang Mai, Thailand, who has developed a sound meditation called Mindfulness Gong Bath, an effortless passive Meditation.
Japa / Mantra
Sound, through the use of mantras, has been utilised in several cultures for thousands of years as a tool for Healing. Here at Yoga Dorset we might use Mantra during a Healing session and, also, during Kirtan.
What happens in a Sound Therapy Session
You can choose to either lie down or sit in the position that is most comfortable for you as you rest, relax & allow the Sounds to wash over, around & through you. Inevitably, you will find your way to a restful meditation that leaves you feeling completely relaxed yet refreshed.
There are many possible benefits of Sound Healing including increased feelings of deep peace and calm contentment of the mind, slowed & regulated breathing patterns, a deep relaxation of the body that aids sleep and reductions in anxiety and symptoms of depression, stress related disorders, pain and more.
“Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
- Albert Einstein
Shamanic Practices
Shamanic processes offered by Lynn for Healing, Protection, Journeying, Drumming, Ancestral work, Divination and Past Life Regression -
Shamanic Protection is invoked before Healings and any Shamanic processes.
Shamanic Journeying can be used for guidance on anything material, emotional, spiritual or ethereal.
The Shamanic Drum is used for Journeying and Healing.
Tarot, Divining Rods or Pendulum can be used for psychic guidance for empowering your clarity.
Past Life Regression is used to explore the depths of the inner Mind and Spirit connections taking you back through time using relaxation techniques. We can explore the reasons for certain behaviours, irrational fears, addictions and root causes of trauma. We can find out why we have made certain connections with others and places in this life and gain clarity on personal purpose, uncover hidden talents, reduce anxiety and improve self confidence.
Often, by merely uncovering & understanding the deeper causes of issues, we can find Healing...
Obstacle Removal & Boundary Keeping
For the elimination of personal Obstacles & general negativity...
Obstacles are encountered by all, manifesting in outer, inner and more subtle ways.
Clear Boundaries are fundamental to our well-being.
The lack of one is often to connected to the presence of the other..
OBSTACLE REMOVAL - What hinders us can sometimes be obvious and at other times feel frustratingly intangible. Now and then, what we usually or habitually apply to a familiar obstacle just doesn't work. Here's where I love to come alongside and hear you out. We will work together on where your habits are at, where your mind is at and where you are spiritually & energetically in relation to your problem via means of deep listening, Meditation, body/energy work & more shamanic methods where necessary.
BOUNDARY KEEPING - Healthy Boundaries are a vital element of a balanced life. Many confusing or complex life situations can be redressed simply by re-establishing good, clear boundaries.
Clarity begins with a conversation.
If you are struggling to clarify your personal boundaries within a situation, please get in touch with Jon for a chat and we will see if we can use a little therapeutic conversation, Meditation, body/energy work or other useful means together to re-establish your point of balance.