The wound is the place where the light enters you.
- Rumi
Reiki Therapy
When I first experienced Reiki, 25 years ago, I felt lost. I had recently gone through divorce and was trying to find my way back to myself. I felt that I had become buried under societal expectations of how my life should look and struggled with being an empathetic people pleaser. This resulted in me feeling like I no longer knew myself. I was talented, educated, and was adept at helping others, but not so great at helping myself. I felt like I could not make any more "mistakes". A friend contacted me after having had a Reiki session and told me she had found my calling. That irked me. My immediate response was that no one else can tell you what your calling is. I was wrong. I spent days reading everything I could regarding energy healing. I could not stop thinking about it. One night, I was awakened with a jolt. I remembered a journal entry I had written at least a decade before, describing what I felt my calling to be. While I didn't call it Reiki, I described the effects of a healing session. I felt deeply that I had to learn Reiki no matter what. The problem was that I was a single mom, with no resources, and the closest Reiki training was over 800 kms from me. One day, while walking downtown in my small, northern Ontario town, a paper flapping on a post caught my eye. It asked "do you want to learn Reiki?" I couldn't believe my eyes. I snatched the paper and ran home to make the call to book my first level of training.
I had been feeling like I was lost in a forest, with numerous paths before me. Each path was a potential life I could create for myself. I had been stuck for years paralysed with fear and couldn't make a decision. I asked everyone's advice, which only caused me to feel greater confusion, as everyone had a different view of me, and thus a different idea of what my life should look like. My first session was magical. I saw colours that resembled Northern Lights. As I received my attunement I could not stop laughing. Joy was bubbling up within me that could not be contained. I saw myself before the potential paths and suddenly one path lit up before me. I knew what I was meant to do. I felt a deep calling or dharma to fulfill this path. I dedicated myself to energy healing and it has sustained me ever since.
If you are feeling lost, unmoored, and feeling like something is missing, energy healing can help you find your way back to yourself. During a session I call on gentle, calming, and nurturing energies that work particularly well with stress reduction, insomnia, as well as mental and emotional burnout. I combine everything I have learned through various energy healing traditions, coupled with my training and experience in yogic teachings, and nervous system regulation to help you work through your pain to find spiritual integration. Reiki calls upon us to become still and observe the self to allow us to connect to our inner healing resources. My Reiki practice is deeply steeped in a background of Eastern holistic medicine from which Reiki was originally birthed. This allows a breadth of understanding of the physiology of Ki--or energy -- in the body and how to recognize and treat specific conditions more precisely. I often incorporate aromatherapy, crystals, sacred geometry, and singing bowls into the Reiki sessions. Your session concludes with information on where you were blocked energetically and guidance on how to keep your energies flowing with ease.
Investment: $95/hr
longer sessions are also available, as are Reiki retreats
Breathwork + Tarot for Chakra Healing + Reiki
Tarot is a healing tool and a trusted guide as you walk along your journey. Combined with healing energies to unearth the messages you most need to hear from, the cards become a road map for emotional and spiritual healing. By first identifying blockages through the reading, then addressing these issues with specific energy clearings, you will find yourself releasing the pain you have been carrying. This one and a half hour treatment includes a grounding pranayama practice, followed by a tarot healing session to provide you with guidance on your path and pinpoint where you are currently stuck. A one hour energy healing sesssion wraps up the treatment to unlock blockages and restore flow to your energetic body.
Investment: $140/1.5 hr session
Breathwork + Yoga Nidra + Reiki
A nervous system journey to release stress, clear stagnant energies, and reconnect you with your heart's intention. We begin with the ancient yogic practice of grounding pranayama (breathwork), from there we will move into a deeply restorative yoga nidra session (guided meditation/yogic sleep). We'll round up the treatment with Reiki to help support and integrate the energetic shifts, leaving you feeling calm and nurtured.
Investment: $190/2 hr session
What Can You Expect During a Healing Session?
During a healing session, you are fully clothed, lying on a massage table, in a quiet, and relaxing setting. Treatment lasts 60 minutes or more. I work at your head and feet, as well as above your body along the chakras. Chakras are energy centres in the body where the nerves converge. Chakras become blocked when you are stressed or in emotional pain and don't have the energy to address the root cause of your issues. Blocked energies lead to you feeling off. You never seem to be rested, find yourself reactive rather than responsive, and your immunity suffers. By listening deeply to your body, I am able to release the blockages, allowing your energy to flow freely, nourishing each cell. Each session is highly individualized. Most clients report feeling deeply relaxed and grounded, while others feel unwinding sensations as their bodies release tension. It is normal to feel emotional during a session as issues come to the surface to be released. You will be supported as I hold space for you in a safe and nonjudgmental manner.
Because each individual response to energy work is unique, the number of sessions needed to resolve issues varies. While one session can provide relief, you may require more treatments before the root cause of your health issue is completely alleviated
What To Expect After the First Session?
You may feel relaxed, refreshed, tired, or just different. Your body will go through a lot of internal change, letting go of old patterning and integrating new healthier patterns. Although nothing may appear to be happening from the outside, this requires a lot of energy from your body.
Please drink plenty of water after your session as this helps to flush out toxins. Do not do any strenuous activity afterwards as your body needs time and energy to integrate the changes that are taking place. By exercising you are redirecting energy towards that activity and away from the healing work that is taking place. Following your session, your body will continue to process changes. Emotions may be released as things come to the surface to be healed. Rest and continue to hydrate as needed. You may find it beneficial to sit quietly and engage in a breathing practice as you tap into your body over the following days. Please scroll to the bottom of the page for guidelines on a breathing practice.
Zenith Omega Energy Clearings
Zenith Omega Energies re-establish the link between mind-body-spirit using sound, colour and sacred geometry frequencies restoring wholeness. Over 400 specific clearings are available. One-hour treatment allows 12-15 clearings of your choice. Treatment is done in a safe and relaxing space. You are fully clothed, lying on a massage table, and I work above your body to remove blockages from your energetic blueprint while infusing your body with healing energies.
Investment: $95/hr
Reiki Certification
Usui Reiki Workshop Level I, II & Master - please contact us to book your class
Learn to transmit gentle, soothing energies to restore balance body • mind • spirit. Deeply therapeutic for anxiety, stress, trauma, mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional disorders. Each level builds on the previous and explores deeper levels of energy work. I feel that Reiki is essential to a healer's practice and have made it my life's work to share it as widely as possible. Ongoing mentoring and support are offered through my teachings.
LEVEL I: history, psychospirituality of dis-ease, chakras, how to provide treatment.
full-day instruction includes workbook • leads to certification as a Level I Reiki Practitioner
Investment: $250
LEVEL II: Reiki symbols and their use, crystal healing, sacred geometry, distance healing.
full-day instruction includes workbook • leads to certification as a Level II Reiki Practitioner
Investment: $350
LEVEL III - Reiki Master/Teacher: Reiki master symbols and their use, how to pass an attunement, step-by-step outlines on how to teach each level, and guidance. Provides you with the ability and tools to teach Reiki. Students are invited to join in on future classes so they can experience how to teach.
full-day instruction includes workbook • leads to certification as a Reiki Master
Investment: $450
Breathing Practice
This breathing practice is done lying on the floor (on a yoga mat or blanket) with your legs up on a low chair, sofa or ottoman. Prop your head with a pillow if you wish. You may want to cover yourself with a blanket to stay warm.
Set a timer, so you are not distracted by keeping the time. It’s optimal to do this practice for 20-30 minutes/day, but feel free to start with 10 minutes if that feels easier.
Breathe in and out through your nose. Breathe so that the sound of the inhale and the sound of the exhale are the same sound. Do a gentle ujjayi breath if possible (see below), if that feels too confusing, just breathe in and out through your nose and listen to the sound of your breath in your ears.
When you are finished, bring your knees to your chest, interlace your fingers over your knees and pause. Roll to your side and pause. Use the strength of your arms to push you up into a comfortable seated position, keeping your spine soft and relaxed. Notice how you feel after your breathing practice.
By practicing lying down, your whole spine and central nervous system are supported by the earth. This gives the nervous system the message that it is safe and supported allowing it to let go of tension and stress. As the body lets go of tension, all of its systems can function with greater ease which supports optimal health. As tension dissipates, the body is able to drop into the deeper peace, presence and relaxation that lies within us all. This increases the amount of oxygen in the blood and brings more life force to the body's systems.
How to Perform Ujjayi Breath
Breathe in and out through your nose.
Take an inhalation through your nose that is slightly deeper than normal.
Exhale slowly through your nose while gently constricting the muscles in the back of your throat. If it feels comfortable, keep a few muscles in the throat slightly engaged during your breathing practice, on both the inhale and the exhale.
The sound of the inhale should be the same as the sound of the exhale.
The breath should be even and steady in a relaxed manner.
Relax the jaw and drop the tongue from the roof of the mouth.
Listen to the sound of your breath.