"DEEPENING INTO SOUND"

with Transformational Sound Healer, Barbara McKell
JULY 8 and 9, 2010 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm 

Soul Connection,12 Oakridge Cres. Guelph ON

Description:

A fun and inspirational 2 day interactive workshop introducing Healers to the  premise and practices of Sound and Vibrational Healing.

• Learn how to access your own sacred sound and transmit this energy with your voice to create an effective healing response.
• Learn about the crystal bowls and the subtleties of sounding them properly.
• We will cover the use of tuning forks, Tibetan metal bowls, gongs, bells and chimes.
• Drumming and shamanic journeying
• Soundscapes - Chakra, Elemental and Archtypical Sounding for healing and transformation.
• Practice time for giving and receiving sound healing sessions.

Once you have completed the initial "Deepening into Sound" course you will be eligable for further training and a practicum for anyone interested in continuing towards receiving a certificate in Sound Healing.

Barbara McKell is a certified Sound Healer and registered member of the Healing Music Organization and the Sound Healers Association founded by Jonathan Goldman. She teaches Transformation Sound Therapy and offers Sound Healing perfomances across Canada.She has a released three sound healing CDs and an instructional DVD on Sound Healing with the Crystal bowls. Enjoyed three relaxed and fun evenings of learning how to incorporate sound into your healing practice. No previous sound healing or musical experience is neccessary. This class will be limited to 6 participants, so register early.

• The cost of this 2 day Intensive training is $300 plus gst. Includes all course matrerials.
  Contact Barbara by email Click Here or call  519-823-1262 to register for this workshop.

Barbara is 110% into the training . You can tell she loves what she does.

Ariene B.

Fantastic class. I loved Barbara's guided mediations and practicing Reiki in class.

Julie L.

The level of training,materials, location and snacks were more than I expected. a very loving environment was provided.

Kim C.

I loved the mediation and practice time. It really brought me back from all the stress, worries and will definitly help me in my life.

Wilma H.

Barbara's loving guidance will always be something I cherish and she continues to be a constant inspiration in my  Practice of Reiki

Jamie M.

Reiki Share Group
In order to support our students and the Reiki community in the area, Soul Connection facilitates a Reiki Share Group once a month in my home office at 12 Oakridge Cres. in Guelph. We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of the month from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. to share information and Reiki.
*Be sure to check the calendar for any last minute date changes or cancelations. Click Here

Anyone who has taken at least one level of Reiki training is welcome to attend. It is not necessary to have trained with me to attend the Reiki Share. We honour all teachings of Reiki. Soul Connection Reiki students are only asked to pay $5. Please bring the correct change.  A fee of $20 is required from students who have taken their training with another teacher or school. If you would like to join our group... you must confirm your attendance the day before or the day of the Reiki Share by email or call Barbara at 519-823-2162.

***Please park at the continuing education facility at The Old Brock Rd. School at 1428 Gordon St.We have had complaints from neighbours about the number of cars parked on the street. In order not to have them call the city and create problems for me. I am asking people to park at the Continuing Education facility at 1428 Gordon St. Park at the back of the school and walk across the back of the school yard to my house. I back onto the old school yard, you just have to head towards the grey house with large glass deck across the back of the house. The house is obscured by the stand of trees in the summer months, but as you walk across the park follow the pathway to the left and then take the wide walk way at the side of the house and come around to the front door.

If the weather is bad, someone will try to be at the school to shuttle people around from the school parking lot.

* As a courtesy attendance must be confirmed in advance. Please wait until the day before or the day of the Reiki Share to confirm your attendance.

* Do your best to arrive on time, but please do not arrive more than 15 minute prior to the Share. 

* If you arrive late please come in quietly and join the group in session.

* Please do not wear any perfumes, aftershave, heavily scented lotions or hairspray.

* If are working on your CRA Practicum. Please have your forms printed and filled out in advance. If you have them ready, I will be happy to sign them and credit you with 2 practice hours towards your Practicum.

Usui/Tibetan Reiki
Mikao Usui was responsible for bringing Reiki into the modern age. He is the founder of the Reiki system of healing. Usui Reiki is the most widely used form of Reiki today. It was brought was to the west by a woman named Hawayo Takata who made some variations from the Japanese style Reiki practiced in the original school founded by Mikao Usui.
Usui/Tibetan Reiki combines the original Usui Reiki with a powerful Tibetan method of attunement.

Karuna Reiki®
Karuna Reiki® is a registered trademark of the International Center of Reiki Training. In October of 2002 I traveled to Niagara Falls, Ontario to take Karuna Master Training. I am a register Karuna Reiki Master with the International Center for Reiki Training and teach classes in Karuna Reiki. Karuna is the motivating quality of all those who are working to end suffering on Earth. As I develop Karuna in myself I become more receptive to the Karuna that is being sent by all enlightened beings. Karuna Reiki® uses healing sounds that can be transmitted silently through intention or by chanting and toning these sacred sounds for deeper levels of healing.

Gendai Reiki
Gendai Reiki has its roots in original Usui Reiki. Mr. Hiroshi Doi is a Japanese Reiki Master who has been spreading the teaching of Usui Sensei and the original Usui Ryoho Gaikai (school) around the world. His school of Reiki is called Gendai Reiki Healing Kyokai. (Gendai means modern) Doi Sensei brings a strong Buddhist perspective to his mix of western Reiki techniques and the original Reiki teachings.

Rainbow Reiki®
Healing and Developing the Body of Light
Working with the seven main chakras within the physical body since 1998 I came to realize there there was something beyond this system which is related to the Tree of Life. I began working with the Tree of Life or Kabala and began to open to expanded perceptions of our true nature. Walter Lubeck is a Spiritual Teacher and Reiki Master who lives in Germany. In 2002 he began teaching a new part of his Rainbow Reiki system for Healing and Developing the Body of Light. The Body of Light is the spiritual energy structure beyond the main chakras. Within the the aura of a human being there are several chakras which organize the Body of Light. It provides a balance between the tasks and responsibilities of the material existence, spiritual laws and the individual vision. This is a profound and esoteric teaching. I was delighted to have Walter as my teacher and guide.

Five-Element-Seichem, Violet-Flame Seichem and Golden Dragon Healing
I have had the pleasure of receiving the teachings and initiations of two levels of this system from Alex Baisley, who is presently the only teacher of this system in Canada. Alex proves to be a wise guide on this journey into the ancient teachings.
Five Element Seichem Reiki consciously utilizes the principals of the five element aspects of Universal Life force that lives in all creation. It is based on ancient Vedic, Yogic, Buddhist, Egyptian and Christ teachings.
Violet Flame Seichem is a tool for spiritual transformation. Its powerful alchemy assist in transmuting lower vibrations to higher vibrations or the lower self into the Divine self.
Golden Dragon connects us to the energetic frequencies of specific healing rays, minerals, metals and crystals so that we may work with them in a more conscious manner. Golden Dragon reclaims connection to the Divine Mother and the ancient initiations of the Sacred Feminine.

Shamballa Multidimensional Healing
In the spring of 2006 I began working towards the Master Level in Shamballa Multidimensional healing with Deb Caldwell. Originally called Shamballa Reiki, it offers a more esoteric perspective to the Reiki energy with the incorporation of many vibratory symbols and healing rays. It allows the practitioner to work with the multi dimensional self repairing damaged energetics. It restores the client to the wholeness, which allows them to complete their soul's experience.
Shamballa offer many techniques, which are fast and efficient in helping to cleanse, repair and balance the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. It works to strip away the illusions of separation that keep us from experiencing the full brilliance of our light bodies.

Reiki Drumming
I am a Certified Reiki Drumming Practitioner. In a Reiki Drumming session I use the Shamanic drumming methods I learned from Michael Baird. When we combine the energy of the drum with Reiki we have a healing method that takes the power of Reiki to a new and profound level of healing. Every organ, every cell in the body is a drum and drumming reminds our body of its ideal vibratory rate, which is in harmony with the pulse of the earth and the Universal flow of creation. I have found that Reiki Drumming affects the physical and subtle bodies simultaneously, helping to bring them into harmony while raising the vibratory rate to levels, which allow the body to accelerate its innate healing abilities.

"Reiki Kids"
Bringing together Reiki and the young is a sure recipe for magic on Earth. In the spring of 2001 Soul Connection designed a "Reiki Kids" program for the special children who will be the teachers and world leaders of tomorrow. We published a Reiki Kids book for the children to use in the classes along with a Teaching Guide for Reiki Masters. These materials were received so well that we have put together a meditation CD designed especially for children. To order any of these items, go to the Reiki Kids website: www.reikikids.ca

The Crystal Bowls and Reiki
The idea of healing with sound is both ancient and futuristic. The crystal bowls are healing tools that have been brought back into modern times through technological advances. Each bowl is tuned to resonate with a particular chakra. The clear tones of the crystal bowls move through the body in vibrant waves, calming, aligning, and healing the energy centers and auric field. The presence and resonance of the bowls will help you to achieve balance and harmony in these times of vibratory acceleration. Crystal amplifies, holds and transmits energy, each bowl is also infused with Reiki so that it will vibrate with the highest healing intention.

Reiki and Crystals
Crystal have been used in technology as powerful transmitters and receivers. Crystals and gemstones grow very slowly and the gemstone realm is a living one. Like the plant and animal kingdoms the crystals are filled with life force energy. In energy healing we use them because they also have the ability to hold and amplify the healing intention. By infusing crystals and stones with Reiki we can father amplify that intention. I find that just by having crystals present in my healing space helps to energize and uplift the vibration in the room.

Reiki for Hospice
Reiki is used in Hospice to bring comfort and ease anxiety. It alleviates discomfort and pain. It makes the process of ‘letting go’ easier. Hospice Wellington is a volunteer organization in Guelph, Ontario, which incorporates Reiki into the services they offer their clients. Along with many other dedicated volunteers I offer my Reiki services to assist the dying and those around them who are dealing with grief. This is one of the ways we can offer Reiki in service to help others.

As a Reiki Master I remain open to understand the many schools and teachings of Reiki. I am constantly studying and learning, so that I can offer my students and clients this knowledge and experience. I received my First Degree Reiki Training and Practitioners certificate in 1999 from Reiki Master, Lisa Lindsay. I took my Second Degree from Kathy Glover Scott, a Reiki Master in Ingersoll, Ontario.

My Advanced Reiki Training and Reiki Master Level in Usui/Tibetan Reiki were received in September of 2000 from William Rand, founder of the International Center for Reiki Training. I am grateful for the training I have received from my Reiki Masters; each attunement has been a valuable and enlightening experience. I have been guided to each one of my teachers.

The Master training I received from William Rand was very beautiful and profound. I deeply connected with the Tibetan symbols that were passed to me during the attunement. They have been very powerful in my work as a healer and in my connection to all of life.

I have since taken all levels of Reiki from William Rand in order to be sure I have a full and complete understanding of all Reiki teachings and the attunement process. I am fully certified to teach all levels of Reiki as well as many other forms of Energy Healing. I am a registered teacher with Canadian Reiki Association and a registered Karuna Reiki® Master with the International Center for Reiki Training. I believe in the Center’s philosophy, code of ethics and teaching standards. I want my students to be aware that I am offering them a complete course of study according to the standards set out by the International Center for Reiki Training, the Canadian Reiki Association and the International Association of Reiki Professionals. I am dedicated to teaching this information to them with integrity and honesty.

In July of 2002, I was appointed to the Board of Directors for the Canadian Reiki Association. The Canadian Reiki Association is a federally chartered, non-profit registry of Reiki practitioners and teachers. The aim of the association is to provide the public with referrals to Registered Practitioners and Registered Teachers, promote ethical practice and teaching, encourage educational standards, inform and protect the public and provide a national voice for CRA members.

In 2003 a group of Reiki Practitioners in Ontario formed the Reiki Association of Ontario in order to create a strong Reiki community within our Province. Reiki Ontario has the same mandate as the federal association, but with more focus on the practice of Reiki within Ontario. I resigned my position with the Canadian Reiki Association in order to better serve the Reiki community within my own Province and took over as President of the Ontario Reiki Association in 2004.

I continued my study of Reiki and working with the Divine Rays. In October 2002 I became a Karuna Reiki® Master. I began teaching Karuna Reiki® the following year. I love the beautiful compassionate energy of Karuna. The opportunity to use toning and chant with Karuna Reiki® is extremely beautiful and effective. It opened me to the unlimited possibilities of healing with sound.

I had the opportunity to study Rainbow Reiki, ‘Connecting to the Body of Light’ with Walter Lubeck in August of 2003. It was a wonderful course as only Walter can present it. Walter is a bit of a wizard who has spent many years as a student of the esoteric. He brings lightness and fun to all that he teaches.

My connection to the power of sound became even deeper when I became a Reiki Drumming Practitioner. Combining sound and Reiki was a natural progression and I love how they work so powerfully together. I went to Sedona in November of 2003 to complete those studies with the founder of Reiki Drumming, Michael Baird. The magic of Sedona surrounded me. Each day I took long walks in the red rocks to help integrate all that I was learning. I came back ready to use the drumming work in my practice and teach it to the Reiki community.

My understanding of the ancient powers within the Reiki system deepened even more when I took Five Element Seichem and Golden Dragon training with Alex Baisley. The Alchemical processes within this system have similarities to the Alchemical Healing studies I did with Nicki Scully in the summer of 2005. Seichem and Golden Dragon give me new ways to combine it all.

In April of 2006 I became a Gendai Reiki Shihan, which is the Master Level in that system. Gendai Reiki has its roots in original Usui Reiki. Mr. Hiroshi Doi is a Japanese Reiki Master who has been spreading the teaching of Usui Sensei and the original Usui Ryoho Gaikai (school) around the world. Gendai offers a strong Buddhist perspective with mix of western Reiki techniques and the original Reiki teachings. It was very interesting to learn from a lineage that come directly from Japan. While some of the teachings differ, the essence is the same. The more I learn, the more I understand the limitless energies we are tapping into when we are connected to this beautiful healing power called “Reiki”.

In the spring of 2006 I began working with the healing rays and Divine Beings of Shamballa through Master/Teacher Deb Caldwell. By the summer I had attained a Master Degree in Shamballa Multidimensional Healing.

“Has Reiki changed your life?” This is one of the questions people often ask me. In answer to this I can say my life has been changed in the most wonderful and uplifting ways. I was fortunate not be a healer who came to this work because of serious disease. My personal healing has taken place on many levels and has led me to a greater understanding of myself and my divine purpose. Reiki enhances my life everyday. I have connected to its creative force. I use it to assist in creating positive changes in my life and to get me through the not so positive moments. In moving from a place of struggle and effort to a life of grace and ease, I answer, “Yes! Reiki has changed my life profoundly.”

I delight in seeing how it changes the lives of my students and clients. I have seen wonderful changes that have transformed people who have suffered from Chronic Fatigue, Depression, Fibromyalgia and many other dehabilitating illnesses. I have seen traumatic injuries heal very quickly, I have witnessed people taking control of their lives and I have had the honour of being present with the dying in their final act of peacefully letting go. I consider Reiki to be a magnificent gift from the Universe and I feel honoured each time I am able to use this gift either for myself, my family or a client.

In my studies with many wonderful teachers I have learned techniques and methods of using Reiki to support wholeness. Each time I work with a client, we discern together, the most appropriate method to facilitate their healing. I have found that whatever they are comfortable with will be most effective.

Reiki has become an expression of creativity that allows for very deep levels of transformation and healing. I have learned to combine it with powerful methods of healing through sound, light and alchemy. As I tell my students, ‘Reiki is only limited by your own creativity”.

Intuition plays a major role in how we act and react to the people and events in our lives.  It is not as mysterious as many of us think.  When we learn to use it consciously it begins to make more sense than a fax machine, satellite dish or any other of the technological advances of the modern age.  We are moving from an age of technology to an age of consciousness.  Intuition can be used consciously, as a tool to navigate in this changing world.

Intuition is a perception of truth beyond logical explanation or reason.  While it is a function of our consciousness acting through the mind, through the subconscious and conscious levels of mental awareness, intuition comes from a deeper source than the mind.  It is a unique language of the soul to help us gain insight and understanding beyond our busy analytical minds. 

Intuition requires a shift in consciousness, a shift into the lucid state of clarity, innocence and wonder.  It is more than a sixth sense; it is the divine consciousness within us.  It is a knowingness felt in the body, the heart and the soul.

In a lucid state of imagination we can access higher knowing and open our intuition.  Intuition is one of the most powerful tools for knowing ourselves and the world around us.  By accessing our innate intuitive capability we access our own truth, as well as the truth of others.  We are free of the restraints of the ego and we can depend on our intuition to provide the answers.

Healing is a process which restores health or wholeness, to balance, harmony and equilibrium: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.  It is a transformative, alchemical and spiritual process involving movement from a lesser to a higher rate of vibration and state of consciousness.

Healing is a sacred honouring of the all that we are and all our wondrous capabilities.  It requires the setting aside of judgments and belief systems so that one can completely and whole heartedly be present in the moment.  This is the transformative moment.  When there is only the now and all preconceived ideas and thoughts fall away.

The Healer is within each one of us.  Our bodies are vast pharmacies, which when activated can produce whatever we need to return to a state of wholeness.  When we enter into a co-creative, loving and conscious healing process the healing is activated.  This is the role of the Intuitive Healer.

The Intuitive Healer gives themselves over to the messages and direction of Spirit to access the higher wisdom which is available in the lucid state of imagination.  They tune into the alchemy of what the body needs in the moment to begin the healing. 

While the healer may bring a vast wealth of knowledge to the healing experience it is important to remember that the only authority lies within the mind/body/spirit of the person wishing to be healed.  This is where the impeccable art of attending is a healer’s most valuable tool.  By paying attention and listening to the body’s messages the healer will be able to access the root cause and the best course of action which will help activate the healing process.

The body responds when the healer is listening and paying attention.  By following the messages and intuitive hunches there is a trust, which develops between the client and the healer on both the conscious and unconscious levels.  It is in this trusting, accepting and receptive state that deep healing occurs.

The Healer’s Role is to provide their presence, honesty, trust and compassion.  The healer offers their healing skills to facilitate an individual’s self-healing capabilities.  The word “facilitate” means to make easy.  As a facilitator it is the healer’s complete presence on all levels, which assists the client to move towards healing with grace and ease.
 

Barbara's thoughts on Intuitive Healing:

"Intuitive Healing is not fortune telling or predicting the future. It is a direct connection to spiritual guidance. While it is possible to predict someone's fate, financial issues, relationships etc. by being sensitive and observing the 'path' of an individual based on their current tendencies, habits and energetic patterns, it is ultimately not particularly helpful. You are not your problems or your current habits nor are you destined for any bad event or a particular fate. I do not encourage those myths, false fears or misunderstandings. You are an infinite choice maker in a field of infinite possibilities with more control than you can possibly imagine. My commitment is truth, trust, healing, personal empowerment, and awareness."
"An Intuitive Healing session reveals where you are stuck and together we find ways to get your energy moving. I will not tell you what to do. I will not tell you that you are broken of faulty. I see who you really are, always focused on the reality that you are already whole and perfect, even if you may have forgotten that for the moment. I will attempt to show you why you are feeling poorly, seemingly lacking resources, feeling victimized etc. and how it is affecting your life. I offer solutions to change these patterns, for only with change will current problems be resolved. Even a small shift in consciousness will have a huge impact on health. The work I do with you is a gentle process, we move as slowly or as quickly as you are equipped to handle. At times when you cannot hold the possiblity of health, happiness and wholeness with in your own energy field... until you are strong enough...I will hold it for you."

Soul Connection offers private healing sessions and certificate courses in Intuitive Healing and Intuitive Development.  If you wish to know more about how we can assist you please contact us at 519-823-2162 or contact us through email

For more information about Barbara’s Treatments and Fee Schedule click here.

"Sound structures energy fields and brings the physical into existence.”

Sound Healing is a vibrational therapy that is being incorporated into many energy medicine practices. Sound Healing works on the belief that the human body is not solid. Rather it is energy that is held together by sound. Sound is a creative and formative power. The Practitioner uses sound to create balance and alignment in the physical body, the energy centers called “chakras”, the meridians and the etheric field.

While the use of sound and music for healing is ancient and is found in many spiritual and sacred traditions, it is a relatively new modality in the modern complementary healing arts. Sound Healing encompasses virtually all aspects of the auditory phenomenon… music, drumming, nature sounds, electronic sounds, and vocal sounds.

All things in nature vibrate with sound, light and color. Everything is made up of energy at various frequencies. Sound frequencies affect everything about us. While certain sounds affect us negatively, the correct vibrational frequencies can be used to heal and balance our bodies.

Your body and all its parts are a wondrous orchestra that is playing a beautiful symphony when you are healthy. If one player in the orchestra begins to play out of tune, playing the wrong notes with the wrong timing pretty soon that begins to affect the whole orchestra. This is what happens in the body when one part of the body is not in harmony.

Disease indicates that something is out of tune. Currently, our medical approach to dealing with this problem is to either to sedate it with drugs or to remove the part that is no longer functioning properly. The premise of Sound Healing is to simply re-frequence the out of tune, cell, organ, or entire body.

With the intent of creating the correct resonant frequency for a part of the body, organ or cell, which is vibrating out of harmony, and projecting this frequency into that area the practitioner can restore the imbalanced area back to its natural resonant frequency.

There are many methods of Sound healing. Musical instruments can be used. Sacred vessels, bells, tuning forks, drums and voice are just some of the ways Sound Healers project sound for healing. No matter what is used intention is one of the most important components of Sound Healing. Intention plus frequency equals healing. When the healer combines these two factors with intuition and total presence, profound transformation is possible.

Crystal Bowls
The singing Crystal bowls are one of the most powerful sonic healing tools we have today. The crystal bowls have been brought into healing practices through technological advances. The bowls were originally created in the Silicon Valley to grow the crystals for computer chips.

We have discovered that each bowl can be tuned to resonate with a particular chakra. When the bowls are sounded, the clear tones of the crystal bowls move through the body in vibrant waves, calming, aligning, and healing the energy centers and auric field. Scientific studies show that sound waves produce changes in the autonomic, immune, endocrine and neuropeptide systems of the physical body.

The calming sound waves which emanate from the bowls immediately put the brain into the alpha state. They speak to the entire body vibrating each, organ cell and atom. Shaking loose old patterns, realigning and refrequencing and allowing us to easily access higher states of consciousness.

Private Sound Healing Sessions
Barbara has created a Temple of Sound in her healing room. In this sacred space a bath of sound reunites and reconnects the client to the Music of the Spheres. It is in this awareness you hear the universal harmony, which resonates within your own body. There is a connection with your soul’s purpose and recognition of the inter connectivity and sacred relationship with every living thing. This unification increases your ability to hear the strange music, which is recognized at the deepest level of the soul.

Group Meditations and Sound Healing Sessions
The bowls are wonderful to use with a large group. Barbara does group presentations in churches, yoga studios and sacred spaces. Her presentation called “Celestial Awakening” uses the crystalline frequencies to connect to the light body and the celestial realms. This is an intimate and powerful session with the bowls creating strong concentrated light forces that awaken our divine light.

Another of Barbara’s presentations incorporates a guided meditation called “A Journey Through the Chakras”. The journey takes the group through the seven chakras, tuning and re-frequencing each chakra. The effect of doing group work is very powerful and everyone benefits both individually and collectively.

Tibetan Bowls
Tibetan singing bowls are sound generating instruments traditionally used by Tibetan Buddhists as meditation aids. These bowls are made of metal. You make the bowl "sing" by continuously rubbing a hard stick known as a "Puja" around the outside rim of the bowl. When rubbed in this manner, the bowl resonates with two pure tones. This is due to the shape of the bowl, the rim thickness and the relative masses of the rim and base of the bowl. The sound is beautiful, haunting and unique to each bowl. Each vessel is a relic of discovery to awaken the divine that is innate within us.

Tuning Forks
The sound waves of the tuning forks vibrate and travel deeply into the body along energy pathways, affecting human physiology and reaching places not easily accessed by traditional medicine. The sounding of the forks stimulates and balances the body's physical and subtle energy field to promote healing and inner harmony. Listening to the forks speaks to us deeply accessing our sense of motion, balance, space, memory, and healing.

Drumming
The drum is one of the most ancient instruments dating back tens of thousands of years. It has been used for healing, celebration, ritual, worship, rites of passage, divination, communicating tribe to tribe, and with the earth and spirit realms. Drumming connects us with the deeper rhythms of life.

Drumming increases our Alpha brainwaves, those brainwaves associated with feelings of well being and euphoria. As the drum provides seemingly limitless ranges of emotions from deep relaxation to extraordinary aliveness, we can explore the vast range of experiences offered by shamanic drumming, from its ability to create euphoria to its deep and sacred power to heal.

By drumming over the body each drum beat sends healing deep into the physical and subtle bodies simultaneously. Every organ, every cell in the body is a drum and drumming reminds our body of its ideal vibratory rate, which is in harmony with the pulse of the earth and the Universal flow of creation. Drumming creates a harmony that raises the vibratory rate to levels, which allow the body to accelerate its innate healing abilities.

Chakra Chimes
With the Chakra Chimes long sustaining notes are produced by striking the aluminum bars with a rubber mallet. Pure tones are produced in wave patterns corresponding to the body’s seven primary chakras. As well, there is an eighth note representing the first chakra over your head, known as the transpersonal point or soul star.

The chakra chimes use ancient Pythagorean tuning, which is said to bring harmony to the soul and body in a very special way. Pythagoras recognized that music was an expression of harmony, the divine principle that brings order to chaos and discord. Sounding these beautiful chimes during periods of relaxation balances and harmonize the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies.

Bells and Tingsha
Bells and chimes tend to provide a gentle focus for the clearing of the mind. Bells and Tibetan Tingsha have a wonder way of clearing discordant energy from a room, person, or object. The Tibetan Tingsha, or hand cymbal, is rung to start or end a meditation, a teaching, or simply to create a moment of quiet concentration. The Tingsha is made from a combination of metals, which create a beautiful, sweet ring, when struck. Following the sound with ones attention clears the mental chatter producing a sense of stillness, clarity of mind.

“The human voice has the power to mold the substance of astral light into shape and form.”

Toning
Toning is vocalizing a pure sound and requires no singing ability whatsoever. Creating sound in this way has a powerful healing effect on all levels. The vibrations massage the vocal chords and course throughout the whole body, leaving it humming with vitality. The mind is also refreshed and clarified by being cleared of its usual distractions. Toning is excellent for those who 'can't sing' and encourages confidence in self-expression in those with low self-esteem. An invigorating sound bath can be given by a group to an individual, in which they are bathed for a prolonged period in the vibration of a group toning. This often gives rise to powerful feelings of support and connection.

Chanting
The repetitive use of sound or a phrase to induce trance, invoke a deity, or enter an enhanced state of consciousness is called chanting. The repetition stills the everyday mind and frees the creativity of the unconscious mind, giving rise to visions or a sense of blissfulness. A mantra or spiritually significant word or phrase is often used. Particular mantras will stimulate specific chakras, to open them up and move energy from one center to another.

Music
Our intuitive selection of harmonious music can become a very important part of our everyday environment to support tranquility and wellness. Music is the language of the soul, which connects us to our spiritual nature. Our world is blessed with a fine selection of music that is created to inspire, relax, energize, heal and keep us well. Music is a way to tap into the innate knowledge that resides deep in our cells. We live "in" music. Great music nourishes us in ways we don't even realize. It resides everywhere in our world. Music is the pulse of the energy that courses in and through everything.

“We are each an active conductor and participant in the process of orchestrating health.”

For more information about Barbara’s Treatments and Fee Schedule, click here.

The Japanese word Reiki (pronounced ray-key) means Universal Light. It is the God-Consciousness universal knowledge called Rei that guides the fundamental Life Force energy called Ki. Reiki guides itself with its own wisdom.

Reiki is an ancient healing art. It is a laying on of hands touch healing system of incomparable ease and power. It is a simple technique for transferring healing energy from a giver to a receiver.

During a session, the Practitioner has the receiver in a comfortable position, usually laying on a treatment table. The receiver is fully clothed. When the session begins the receiver will experience a gentle sense of relaxation. The Practitioner will gently lay their hands on the receiver in various positions so as to free the “Ki” energy and allow it to begin the healing process.

The Treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through the body and surrounds it. The recipient falls into a deep relaxed state of consciousness similar to the meditative state. It is in this deep relaxed state that the body begins to regenerate and heal. Reiki treats the whole person including mind, body and spirit. It creates many beneficial effects including calm relaxation, peacefulness, security and well being.

Reiki is a perfect way to releave stress. It is also a wonderful preventative therapy. It is important not to wait until stress builds up in the body and a serious illness sets in.

Reiki compliments any other type of “conventional” treatment the client may be receiving. Treatments do not involve manipulation or massage. It does not even require hands-on application. The hands-off technique is especially effective for clients who have experienced abuse. Because Reiki is a Universally guided energy, it can do no harm. It always knows what a person needs and will adjust itself to create an effect that is appropriate and assist the body in regulating its own energy.

Anyone can learn to tap into this unlimited supply of “life force energy” to improve health and enhance the quality of life. Reiki is a technique for transmitting this energy to yourself and to others through the hands, the thoughts, and the chakras contained within the human energy system.

Through Reiki we experience the blessing of spiritual growth and change. Reiki is divine grace, a sacred gift and a tool to help develop conscious awareness. It is the very key to enlightenment.

As in most things in life, Reiki must be experienced to be fully understood and appreciated.

Reiki Principles

Just for today, Do not be angry Do not worry Be filled with gratitude Devote yourself to your work Be kind to people The founder....Usui Mikao

Reiki Research links:

http://www.reiki.org/reikinews/reikin24.html

http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/acm.2006.12.911

http://www.reiki-research.co.uk/references.html