Ocean State Reiki provides Usui Reiki classes and sessions, Shamanic Reiki sessions, energy healing, intuitive guidance, cacao ceremonies, meditation, breathwork and other holistic healing modalities.
Reiki
Reiki is love, love is wholeness, wholeness is balance, balance is well-being, well-being is freedom from disease.”~Mikao Usui 1865-1926
Reiki is a gentle energy healing technique with profound results. After a Reiki session, people often report feeling less pain, less anxiety, a feeling of calmness, better mental clarity, and an overall sense of wellbeing. Reiki originated in Japan and is based on the Asian concept of ‘ki’ or ‘life force energy’. The client sits or lies fully clothed while the practitioner gently places his or her hands in positions around the head and shoulders, the abdomen and the legs and feet. The hands can also be positioned an inch or so away from the body. During the Reiki session, unbalanced or stagnant energy is transmuted and cleansed so a harmonious flow of energy can be restored throughout the energetic system. Reiki can also be performed distantly.
IN GRATITUDE TO MY TEACHER
My Usui Reiki Master Teacher is Gladys Ellen of Heavenly Hugs in East Providence, RI.
WHAT IS SHAMANIC REIKI?
Shamanism taps the power and energy of nature and expanded spiritual realities to encourage harmony for individuals and communities. Reiki focuses the universal life force energy to restore balance for ourselves and others. Separately, shamanism and Reiki offer powerful ways to heal. When these two methods are combined, their healing powers are multiplied.
IN GRATITUDE TO MY TEACHER
I have completed the Shamanic Reiki Master Practitioner course of experiential study in Shamanic Reiki practices and ancient shamanic ritual with Marg Tudino of Earthway Studios in Scituate, RI.
Ceremonial Cacao
“Ceremonies large and small have the power to focus attention to a way of living awake in the world.”~Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweet Grass
Ceremonial cacao is the main ingredient in chocolate, but so very much more. It was given to us during creation to active our connection to divine intelligence and the cosmos. It is a wise messenger, a heart healer and a means to remember the true beauty of who we really are. It is often referred to as “Mama Cacao” because it is a feminine energy fruit.Ceremonial cacao is tended to only by humans with deep love and is left in its most natural state with nothing modified or taken away. It retains all of the beneficial nutrients (antioxidants, healthy fats, minerals) and healing components (see below) it has to offer. It is prepared as a healthy and uplifting warm drink. Ceremonial cacao is used to deepen meditation, rejuvenate the soul, and look inward to heal any stagnant emotions. It opens the heart, calms and clears the mind, reduces depressive symptoms, and relaxes the body. Cacao creates an increase in loving connection to the energy field of others around you to allow for the collective healing of community and individual healing in community. Cacao allows you to feel calm, euphoric, alert, blissful, grounded, safe, loved and loving.Effects take place after about 20-35 minutes of digestion and will last about 5-7 hours. The neuromodulators released when drinking cacao create brand new neural pathways based on joy and connection. Working with cacao has a positive cumulative effect when continuing to work with it over time.
Main Beneficial Components of Cacao:
Theobromine – The primary stimulation molecule in cacao. Produces an increase in blood flow and oxygenation by vasodilation. Theobromine is mood boosting and produces energy without the crash of caffeine.
Magnesium – An essential nutrient that is vital for a wide range of biochemical reactions. Magnesium is a natural relaxant that helps deactivate adrenaline.
Tryptophan – An amino acid that when ingested gets turned into the neurotransmitter serotonin and then converted into the hormone melatonin. Cacao boosts the body’s natural production of serotonin, increasing our mood and ability to fend off stress.
Anandamide – The “bliss” molecule. Anandamide is a neurotransmitter that is released naturally in the brain when we feel happy.
Phenylethylamine – A neurotransmitter produced naturally in the body when we fall in love.
IN GRATITUDE TO MY TEACHERS
Trained in Mentorship with Alexa Iya Soro through an eclectic practice of transpersonal, humanist, animist, and depth psychology. This psycho-spiritual Lineage has been most informed by teachers of indigenous wisdom from Tz’utujil Tradition, Martin Pretchel, and the Yoruba Culture through Daniel Foor PhD.
I have also completed a 10 week in depth cacao training with The Mayan Wisdom Project. This training is taught by top experts in the field, who not only know this medicine, but carry its legacy and ancestry in their blood. The mission of this training is to put great focus on authenticity and has 100% Mayan indigenous teachers – spiritual leaders, history expects, nutritionists, cacao farmers and producers.
Intuitive Alchemy
Intuitive Alchemy is an intuitive spiritual guidance session that will assist you on your unique inward journey. We will set the intention together to step aside and allow in wisdom from the absolute highest vibrations of Love & Light. Together we will allow these loving frequencies to alchemize any unbalanced energies and align you with the peace of your purest potential. This session will look different for everyone. It may include holistic support, meditation, manifesting, mediumship, past life connections, oracle cards, sacred smoke, Reiki or sound healing. This session will be gentle and solution based.