Energy Healing sessions promote stress reduction, relaxation, and healing, utilizing a combination of Reiki, energy psychology, and energy medicine. Energy work like this helps us to understand and harmonize life force energy and how it flows through us and our lives. Rachelle is also trained in the Let Animals Lead method of animal reiki and can offer reiki for your beloved animals too.
Energy healing treatments can feel very different to each person but people sometimes report feeling a warmth, a flow of energy, or experience nothing other than deep relaxation or peace and anything in between. This work can address healing on multiple layers of the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit. Sessions typically last 60 minutes unless otherwise requested.
FACILITATORS: Rachelle Cornelius
Meditation practices can be described and defined in a myriad of ways usually dependent upon which tradition the practices are rooted in, however most practices point to a common unifying experience, that of Awareness. These 1-on-1 sessions deepen both understanding and experience with breath, mind, and prana, and invoke the healing qualities of sound (gong, chimes, etc.). You’ll also have opportunities to ask questions about and assimilate your practice.
Thich Nhat Hanh often describes mindfulness as “being aware of what is happening inside and around you in the present moment.” Mindfulness and meditation are often used synonymously, here we will use meditation to refer to a presence practice contained to sitting or standing but removed from day to day activities and mindfulness to refer to a presence practice engaged in day to day activities or sometimes referred to applied meditation or meditation in action.
There are so many different types of mindfulness/meditation practices and somewhat different benefits depending on the practices you use. There are often a number of elements to these practices that are cultivated such as working with intention, attitude, presence, and insight as well as many layers such as working with the mind, body, heart/emotions, and external life. Some of the therapeutic benefits that we observe from mindfulness and mediation instruction and practice include cultivation of more compassoin and empathy, improved distress tolerance and adaptability to adverse circumstances, improved self-awareness and thus confidence, increased contentment in little things, improved focus and concentration, increased sense of interconnectivity, and on a physical level better regulation of the nervous system and reduced blood pressure, just to name a few.
When we add breathwork and sound healing to our meditative practice, we enhance not only our experience of awareness and inner being, but also the balancing effects of intentional somatic practice. Breathwork is integral to established yoga and meditation practices, though its benefits are truly important for anyone who desires greater health, awareness, stress-relief, presence, mental clarity, balanced energy, and restful sleep. Ancient instruments like singing bowls, gong, chimes, and more have been used for millennia for their balancing, healing effects on the brain, nervous system, and emotions. Depending upon your needs and desires, we can incorporate some or all of these modalities into your session.
FACILITATORS: Rachelle Cornelius
Healing ceremonial and ritual practices can help us understand and process our experiences from a symbolic, mythological, or archetypal perspective, and can help integrate psychological, physical, and spiritual experience. These take the form of cord cutting, soul retrieval, empowerment rituals, grief rituals, release ceremonies, death and dying rituals, and more.
Ceremony doesn't have to involve psychedelics (although that component can be very effective under the right guidance). Together we'll work together to craft and implement both the healing ceremony itself, as well as the integrative practices and support systems you'll need to solidify lasting transformation. Most ritual work involves natural settings and being outside, though depending upon your situation we can adjust. Typically this work involves a minimum of three sessions, and can be modified based upon your needs and desires.
FACILITATORS: Rachelle Cornelius