Ancient Rainbow Consciousness Healing

I had the most amazing day today!!  (I know, I know, I say that every day, but again it really was the most amazing day).  I had a meeting with a woman named Barbara Coman, Ph.D.  Barbara works with another woman, Marilyn Utz, and they are the only team teachers for this energy healing technique in the world.  Barbara and Marilyn have agreed to do a mini-workshop here in Groton on Wednesday, February 18th from 6:30-8pm.  In the workshop they invite us to experience an ancient form of energetic healing, Kahuna ARCH, which uses the full spectrum of light frequencies and has the ability to heal instantaneously.  This form of energy healing has been used by the Rainbow people of Hawaii, Tahiti, and Egypt.  Workshop participants will receive a direct experience, learn how to use it in your daily life, and to recognize the power of beliefs and emotions and they role they play in healing dis-ease.  Speaking with Barbara is like feeling pure white light and I look forward to taking the workshop and then moving forward and becoming certified in this energy therapy!  For more information check out my workshops tab on my website...  Until next time, Stay warm, Janet

Breast Cancer Survivor founded SIS

This Sunday I met a lovely woman at the most not obvious place imaginable...  A motorcycle show at the OnCenter in Syracuse.  I was drawn to her booth because of the necklace she was wearing - a sikorsky crystal (beautiful) and we began to chat.  She began to talk about the organization SIS which she was fundraising for.  Interesting that I am trained in Cancer Massage through Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital and this is an organization for individuals battling breast cancer... 

The organization called SIS (Sustain Inspire Survive) is a non profit organization created to provide financial assistance to families in need when challenged with breast cancer.  A breast cancer diagnosis brings with it a wide range of fear, anxiety and uncertainty. I have found that many women confide in me that they fear "not being a woman" anymore.  Our society has put so much sexual emphasis on womens breasts that this diagnosis can make a woman really question who she is.   With all of the emotional challenge, many women are also faced with an enormous increased financial strain.  Needing to make the choice between paying for treatment or putting food on the table for their children. 

Andrea Caruso, founder of SIS (2005) and breast cancer survivor, was a single mom with two daughters.  She was fortunate to have the emotional and financial support of her sister.  With a personal understanding of this challenge she set out to help others who might not have the benefit of someone like her sister.  In her restored health, she was impassioned to create this organization to collect and distribute funding to those in need.  Their largest fund raiser is their annual calendar.  Each year the calendar features 12 beautifully artistic photographic interpretations of survivors' own thoughts about life since their diagnosis.  

Many volunteer opportunities exist within the organization.  Please look at their website (www.helpsis.org) or phone (585) 730 5720 if you are interested in helping.  If you would like to organize a fund raiser in our area, please let me know.  I know personally I have been touched by breast cancer within my own family, and it seems to me that most people I talk with either know someone close or work with someone who currently has, or has had breast cancer. Help them and help yourself by volunteering, it feels good in your heart and creates a very positive vibration!!

The Economy, What Do YOU Want to Believe?

I have been listening and paying close attention to the conversations around me (duh, like this is anything new...) and I find it sad that so many people are "buying into" the idea/belief that the economy is bad, etc...  Buddha says what you think is what you become.  Another way to put this in my mind is that we are not asked to choose (from the Universe) between wealth or poverty, but to choose fair exchange for providing necessary and meaningful service.  I have read that it takes 2% of the population to change the collective consciousness so I am hopeful that at least 2% of us are not allowing what the news and the government is handing out...  Lets focus our thoughts on abundance.  Maybe take some time to think about what your idea of fair exchange for meaningful service is.  Send your thoughts here.  Choose to see life as abundant.  Choose to believe that unexpected miracles happen every day and that you are so loved and always provided for and that you can change our world by being part of that 2%.   Seeing you filled up, rather than empty is my choice!  Be well, Janet

Gift Certificates or Custom Blended Massage Oil

I am finally taking a vacation and wouldn't you know it, I just happen to be out of town for Valentines Day...  Sooooo, if you would like to give the gift of wellness to your love this valentines day be sure to purchase your gift certificate on-line!  It is so easy and it is a gift that is truly treasured by the receiver! 

Rather do your own "massaging"??  Get Creative!!  Come in for massage oil, blended just for you and your partner!  Pick the scent that turns you on!  Whether it be flowery or more earthly scents that move you, I can custom blend massage oil that is just for you / your partner!  So, enjoy the day that is set aside for love and connect with the one(s) you love!

Stones, what do they say to you?

Yesterday I spent a few hours at one of my favorite shops - two hawks gallery in Homer, NY.  Lee and Dave, the proprietors, are so warm and inviting.  They have so much knowledge about the stones they offer that I could spend hours there.  One of my favorite parts of visiting them, besides holding the stones and feeling their vibrations, is that I get to  listen to their stories about where the stones come from, who mined them,  how they came to be in NY, and how people find the exact one that speaks to them!  So I purchased a number of stones that I will use in my massage practice and also one very special one that is set in a ring.  The ring is moonstone.  The energetic qualities of moonstone are that it is a stone of new beginnings.  It is strongly connected to intuition and improves emotional intelligence.  It is a stone filled with receptive, passive, feminine energy.  It balances male-female energy, and it draws out old emotional patterning so that it can be understood than dissolved  Moonstone's vibration is linked to the pineal gland and balances the hormonal system and attunes to the biorhythmic clock.  Ancient healers used an elixir blended with moonstone to cure insomnia and to prevent sleepwalking.  

With so many stones available sometimes it can get confusing and overwhelming to find the one for you.  That's why I recommend paying a visit to Lee and Dave, or purchasing one of the many books available about stones.  The one that I refer to most often is "The Crystal Bible" written by Judy Hall.  It is thorough and has pretty pictures (yeah!) to help me identify the stones that I have.  Some of the other books focus on the healing qualities or stones used in ritual, or love stones.  Be aware of what you want from your stones so that you can refer to the book that is most related to your  desire.  And, or course, if you have questions please ask me.  I may not have the answers but I probably can point you in the right direction!!  Be well, Janet  

Community, intentionally creating the one we desire

Today my thoughts are about community...  I have this dream which I intend to make a reality someday, whereby I live in a collective or community that is self supporting.   Where all members of the community offer a service that can be bartered (ie. massage, energy work, herbs and medicines, carpenters, cooks, teachers, seamstresses, etc...) so money as we know it is not necessary.  Where the precious assets are people rather than things;  where we are not judged or rated by what we have rather by who we truly are.  This is the world that I choose to live in.  I will continue to hold this vision until it moves from non-physical thought into physical reality.  Won't you join me??  Be well, Janet

Moon cycles, very helpful energy for self examination!!

I have been learning about the moon and its quarters and what energy is represented by them.  So I thought since the new moon on the 26th is coupled with a solar eclipse it is a good time to share the little bit of knowledge that I have...  

Here's a quick run down on the different energies of the moon and how you might want to focus your attention / intention during these times:

New Moon (happening on the 26th) is a great time to ask for a blessing of a new project or venture, healing of any kind, personal growth, new relationships, goals, etc.;  Full Moon is when you may want to release those things that do not serve you anymore...  unhealthy habits or relationships, dis-ease, negative thoughts and emotions, past hurts, etc. ; the time between the New Moon and the Full Moon is called the waxing moon.  This is a good time to attract what you requested during the New Moon.  The time between the Full Moon and the next New Moon is called the waning moon.  This is a great time to banish things in our lives that we no longer wish to carry around with us. 

I keep a moon journal it helps me to self reflect on those things in my life and circumstances that I would like to enhance or change in someway.  When I write in my moon journal I consider the definitions for the full, new, waning and waxing moons.  Then I prioritize those items that I would like to improve or change and I place them next to the moon phase and make a list.  I review the list (probably way to many times than is necessary, but alas that is who I am) and consider how many of the items are the direct result of one particular need or problem, then I know what I want to concentrate on first.  After a little while I find that some of the items on my list are no longer necessary, so I scratch them off and write the date beside them.   I review the list on a "goal or blue moon".    This moon occurs when the moon with its 28 day cycle appears twice within the same calendar month, due to that month's 31 day duration.  So this is the simple version of what can be a very complicated process and I hope it is helpful.  I know it has been for me!  

Love and light (moonlight and sunlight!), Janet