OUR PROGRAMS
- Vinyasa Yoga: is a Vinyasa (flow) style of yoga in which you link one movement into the next while being conscious of your breath. This yoga class will help you to release the stress and tension you store in your body while becoming stronger and more flexible. It will help you move past old limitations and negative thinking.
- Privates and Semi-private: Enjoy a private or semi-private session in your home or office.
- Restorative Yoga: Create a relaxation response in your body with restorative yoga so you can operate at optimal health, releive stress and rebalance the central nervous system.
- Kids Classes: Kids classes vary in age group. Perfect for birthday parties.
- Yoga for the Athlete: is a yoga class geared towards the persons specific sport. We have taught members of the New York City Ballet and the New York Jets.
- Contact Yoga: is a partner yoga class. Whether you're partnered up with a close friend, a companion or someone you've just met you will be challenged to learn more about yourself.
- Colorgized Yoga: Participate in a yoga class set to colored lighting to balance the bodies energy centers.
- Pilates:Core Strengthening class designed by Joseph Pilates.
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WHAT IS REIKI?
Reiki (pronounced ray-key) means "universal life force energy". It’s a Japanese hands-on healing technique used for relaxation, stress reduction and to promote healing. Reiki is gentle, soothing, and non-invasive. The Reiki Practitioner acts as a pipeline for universal life-force energy. They treat their client through a series of specific hand positions placed gently on the body of the person being treated. This facilitates the flow of Reiki energy through the practitioner, manifesting a heightened feeling of warmth in the hands. The Reiki Practitioner merely serves as a conduit for the Reiki energy. Blockages of energy within our bodies can make us feel slow, depressed, and even sick. Reiki therapy works by rebalancing our energy system, on a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level whereby promoting total healing and peace. Scientists have discovered that every cell in our body is constantly striving for balance. This is called the “homeostatic tendency”. Reiki energy works to amplify this mechanism. Reiki has gained and continues to gain acceptance into the medical community as a meaningful, cost-effective approach to promoting healing. Reiki has demonstrated great success in decreasing the pain of cancer, proven effective in patients with AIDS, lupus, chronic pain, anxiety, postoperative surgery and even childbirth. Reiki has also been shown to:
- Decrease or eliminate the need for medical intervention
- Decrease side effects of medicine
- Reduce a patient’s recovery time from an invasive procedure
- Strengthen a patient’s immune system and accelerate their natural healing process
- Dissolve addictive patterns
- Improve focus and concentration
- Aid meditation, positive thinking and spiritual growth
- Increase your intuition and psychic awareness
- Provide relaxation, confidence, peace, joy and serenity
- Create balance, harmony and clarity in daily life
- Encourage personal development, self-love and love for others
- Help release tension, stress and negative energies
With Reiki, we can take our health and well being literally in our own hands by simply activating an energy, which flows within us all. Reiki creates and maintains physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance. Reiki offers you the opportunity to reclaim the power to shape and transform your life. You are given the power to consciously create the life you want for yourself. The more you use the energy and wisdom, the more power you have to shape your world according to the design of your highest dreams.
For more information, to schedule a Reiki treatment, workshop or certification training please contact Robin Appel at: (631)235-5307 or email: Always-At-Aum
TRADITIONAL USUI METHOD OF REIKI
Reiki Level I – Cost $200 – 3 Hours (depending on number of students)
First-degree Reiki graduates can easily treat themselves and others--including pets and plants. (Reiki gardeners treat their seeds before planting them.) I've used it for a once-persistent back problem, to sooth crying babies, and for a cat which used to vomit as part of his daily routine. In a Reiki Level I training you will:
- Participate in 2 group meditations
- Receive four attunements
- Learn the history of Reiki
- Learn the 5 principles of Reiki
- Learn the hand positions for giving self and for others a treatment
- Give yourself a Reiki treatment
- Give and receive a full body Reiki treatment with someone else
- Be introduced to other healing techniques
- Receive a Reiki Level I handbook
- Receive a certification as a Reiki Level I Practitioner
Reiki Level II – Cost $200 – 3 Hours (depending on number of students)
In second-degree Reiki students learn symbols which focus universal life force energy. The power symbol increases energy and seals its power. The mental/emotional healing symbol helps to balance the right and left sides of the brain, and can be used to calm emotional distress and for healing unwanted habits. One of my students used it to quit smoking; others have used it for weight loss. The distant healing symbol bridges time and space, and can be used to send healing energy across a room, a country, or an ocean, to the past or the future. My students have used it to heal childhood traumas and to manifest their goals. In a Reiki Levell II training you will:
- Participate in 2 group meditations
- Receive four attunements
- Learn the power symbol, which intensifies the Reiki energy
- Learn the mental/emotional balancing symbol, which helps to balance the right and left sides of the brain, enhances spiritual and emotional growth, and can be used for healing unwanted habits.
- Learn the distant healing symbol bridges both time and space. Our students have used it to heal emotional wounds from childhood, to empower the realization of future goals, and to send healing to others.
- Give and receive a full body Reiki treatment with someone else
- Receive a Reiki Level II Handbook - which includes tips on how to start your own Reiki practice
- Receive a certification as a Reiki Level II Practitioner
Reiki Level I & II Combined – Cost $350 ($50 discount) - 6 Hours (depending on number of students)
Course is taught over a 2-day period
Reiki III Master/Teacher Level – Cost $600 - 6 Hours (depending on number of students)
Course is taught over a 2-day period. As a Reiki Master you will be given the Master symbol. As a Reiki Master/Teacher you will be able to certify others to become Reiki preactitioners. In a Master/Teacher training you will:
- Participate in 4 group meditations
- Receive two attunements
- Give and receive a full body Reiki treatment with someone else
- You will learn the fourth and final Reiki symbol, which enables you to initiate and attune others, as well as certify them to the practice of Reiki
- Students will practice attunements
- Students will go over practical details of leading Reiki Workshops
- Receive a Reiki Level III Master/Teacher handbook
- Receive a certification as a Reiki Level III Master/Teacher, which will allow you to certify others
In addition to the Reiki material covered during the certification workshops, each handbook contains information on the chakras, crystals, flower essences, essential oils, and power animals.
No special meditative techniques are needed for practicing Reiki; you can give yourself a treatment while watching television, having a conversation, or reading. You don't need a background as a healer, either. I have taught postal workers, lawyers, artists, and engineers.
The ideas below, common to Western medicine, can cause difficulties for those who want to explore Reiki.
- One is that healing is a matter of repairing the body.
- Another is that medical cures give immediate (or at least speedy) results.
- A third is that the doctor is the healer, and that your only role is to do what he says.
Reiki operates within a different set of premises.
- One is that healing must occur on emotional, mental, and spiritual levels in order to accomplish physical effects.
- Another is that healing is not necessarily an immediate occurrence but a process of rebalancing on all levels.
- A third is that you are the healer.
Multilevel Healing
Reiki doesn't focus on physical healing alone (although physical healing often results from treatments). It's based on the belief (shared by other disciplines in the field called vibrational healing) that health on mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical levels is caused by the free flow of energy. When energy is blocked imbalances result. Stress, for example, is often caused by the mind being burdened by worry. Worry involves thoughts (I have so much to do; how will I ever get it all done) which create an impasse or blockage (I can't), with accompanying feelings (the sensation of fear, panic, etc.) which produce emotional blockages. These can lead to bodily tightening and tension, which can create the conditions for pain and/or illness. Medical, surgical, or pharmaceutical solutions may relieve the physical symptoms, but they or a new set of symptoms will occur if the basic imbalance remains.
Reiki treatments don't focus specifically on relieving symptoms (although, again they are often relieved), but on dissolving the blockages so that energy can flow to rebalance the individual on all levels. The Reiki symbols can be used to accelerate this process.
The power symbol amplifies the energy flow; the mental/emotional balance symbol relieves the pressure on burdened minds; the distant healing symbol, in addition to its many other uses, can send healing energy to past traumas and conflicts (I failed once, I'll fail again; I have to do well because it's always been expected of me) which, in the manner of a low-grade and chronic infection, provide the constant potential for imbalance.
Reiki is Not Pencillin
In saying this we don't want to close out the possibility of immediate results. There have been many instances in which a single Reiki treatment had miraculous results. Imbalances, however, are often a lifetime in development, and though it takes much less than a lifetime to heal them the process isn't a quick fix.
This is one of the reasons why we focus on teaching Reiki. If you are working on dissolving long-term imbalances being able to give yourself daily (or more often) treatments is more cost-effective than going to a practitioner on a daily basis.
We also believe that regular self-treatment can also prevent imbalances and blockages from occurring. If you're going through a stressful period in life regular treatments can help to relax your body, mind, and emotions so that stress, rather than building up, diminishes. In addition, if you have worries about the future, you can use the distant healing symbol to send energy to create those conditions which you desire.
We Are All Healers
Another, related, reason why we focus on teaching Reiki is that we believe that we are the creators of our own health. Any practitioner can tell you that people respond differently to a given treatment. Much of this has to do with someone's willingness to be healed, including the willingness to take responsibility for one's healing and well-being.
To learn Reiki makes a material contribution to this willingness. We are then both affirming that we have the ability and the willingness to heal ourselves, and giving ourselves a simple yet powerful way of doing so.
We come into this world as whole and balanced beings. With Reiki we can restore the wholeness which is our birthright.
Reiki Release stress and tension
Dissolve addictive patterns
Enhance your personal and spiritual growth
Increase your intuitive and psychic awareness
Awaken your innate power to heal yourself and others
In Reiki an attunement activates your healing energy and starts a cleansing process, which opens up the body, mind, and emotions. Once attuned you are attuned for life.
Reiki doesn't focus on physical healing (although many such healings have been reported). It's based on the belief that all imbalance originates on the mental and emotional planes. If not corrected an imbalance can affect the physical body. When that happens medical, surgical, or pharmaceutical solutions may relieve the physical symptoms, but they or a new set of symptoms will occur if the basic imbalance remains.
Reiki (with other disciplines in a field called vibrational healing) works on the principle that health on all levels is caused by the free flow of energy. When energy is blocked mental and emotional imbalances are created.
I am often asked exactly what this energy is and where it comes from. In Japanese Reiki means "universal life force energy." The idea is that all life forms are created and maintained by a universal energy source, which we translate into our personal energy. The natural state of things is to be in balance and to feel one's connection to all living things--or, as Einstein said, "A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe.'" He also noted that when we experience ourselves as being separate from that whole we find ourselves in a kind of prison. Energy blockages are the walls and bars of the jail cell.
QUESTIONS
What will I feel when I receive a Reiki treatment?
Everybody feels something different. The most common response someone will give after receiving a Reiki treatment is that they feel completely relaxed and refreshed. Some people go into a deep meditative state, some feel waves of energy washing over them, and others may see colors and images. Most people experience heat come from the Reiki Practitioners hands, while some have stated that they feel a cool sensation.
What can Reiki do for me?
Reiki goes where it is needed most.
Who should receive Reiki?
Reiki is for everyone regardless of age, sex, race, creed, or state of health. Reiki can do no harm and does not interfere with any other treatment.
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CHAKRA HEALING:
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