Evolutionary Reiki
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Evolutionary Reiki Newsletter
MARCH 2015  #53
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in this issue
COMMUNICATIONS 
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NEXT HEALING CIRCLE IS

WEDNESDAY MARCH 11, 2015 
AT 6 PM 

[BE CAREFUL COMING INTO BUILDING]


HEALING CIRCLE
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HEALING FLOWER
           
          
               NEXT HEALING CIRCLE               
            
 
   

 
You are welcome to attend the Healing Circle on Wednesday, March 11, 2015. It is from 6-9 pm. This is an opportunity to gather with other practitioners and share what is going on, ask questions, and receive support. It is also a time for both meditation and receiving of an attunement and, of course, this is all followed by an exchange of Reiki. Hope to see you there.
DIRECTIONS 

HEALING CIRCLE DATES: 
 
Wednesday, September 10, 2014  6-9 pm 
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 [cancelled] 
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 [Cancelled]
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 [cancelled]
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
 
(There are no healing circles in July and August)
UPCOMING REIKI CLASSES IN ASBURY PARK
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 NEXT CLASSES IN ASBURY PARK
[Taught by Bill Stevens]

 

Usui Reiki Ryoho - Level I [Shoden]

Saturday - MAY 2, 2015  - 9-5 pm - Asbury Park

With an optional evening from 6-9 pm for those who want more practice. Please make intention to take this class known to Bill,  as soon as possible 

CHECK HERE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
 

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Usui Reiki Ryoho - Level II [Okuden]

Saturday - APRIL 11, 2015 ,  9-5 pm - Asbury Park

With an optional evening from 6-9 pm for those who want more practice. Please make intention to take class known to Bill two weeks prior to class.

CHECK HERE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
 

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Usui Reiki Ryoho-Level III [Shinpiden]

Saturday/Sunday MAY  16/17, 2015 -   9-5 pm

[NEED TO ATTEND BOTH DAYS]

With an optional evening from 6-9 pm for those who want more practice. Please make intention to take class known to Bill two weeks prior to class. 

CHECK HERE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
 

 


UPCOMING CLASSES AT BROOKDALE
COMMUNITY COLLEGE

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THESE CLASSES 
WITH BROOKDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
CALL 732-224-2315 


 

REIKI LEVEL I TRAINING

Saturday, March 28, 2015
10 - 5:30  $149
LINCROFT CAMPUS
Call Brookdale College to register   732-224-2315
 
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND REIKI
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East-Coast | USA 4 Day Reiki Retreat | 16-20 April 2015

Pendle Hill 
Wallingford, 338 Plush Mill Rd 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


 

The 4 Day Reiki Retreat at The Barn in Pendle Hill takes your Reiki journey to a different level and understanding.


 

Arrive Thursday afternoon and leave Monday afternoon!

During these 4 days we will discussion the spiritual aspects of Mikao Usui's teaching and how to apply them in our daily lives.

We begin each day with a 45-minute silent meditation during which Frans performs Reiju for everybody. We will practice techniques like Hatsurei-ho, Joshin Kokyu Ho, Hands on Healing, chanting mantras and much more... AND if the weather allows, we might do a walking meditation through the retreat centre.


We practice 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon, with lots of time in the evening to share healing, stories, and fun with your fellow retreatees.

Frans has been hosting these Reiki Retreats for many years now and infuses them with great humour, knowledge of Japanese spiritual teachings, and his own depth of practice of Mikao Usui's teachings.

Come and share with all the other participants to create a wonderful Reiki community.
 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
 


 


 


 

Qigong vs. Reiki
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As I study for my certification as  a Qigong/Tai Chi teacher and continue to practice both Qigong and Reiki,  I become more convinced that there is little if any difference between Ki and Qi or between Reiki and Qigong except for the way we access this life force energy. 

 

I would like to share with you some quotations from a book written by my teacher, Roger Jahnke, entitled "The Healing Promise of Qi - Creating Extraordinary Wellness Through Qigong and Tai Chi, which I highly recommend to you. See if you can get a sense of what I am getting at.

 


[continuation from last newsletter]
One of my favorite teachers, Old Master of Pure Brightness, used to say,"Do not wait to water the garden until after the plants have withered, do not plant seeds after you are starving, and do not wait to dig a well until you are dying of thirst."  The timely gathering of Qi is like watering the garden in time, planting seeds before you are hungry, and digging the well while there is still ample water in the spring  Wigong is the method we can use to nourish the system evert day so that there is no risk of getting depleted and damaging the organs.  This way it will always send out clear brightness 

Let me tell you a story that Master of Pure Brightness told us.  She said, "If you wait to put the oil in the lamp until after the fuel is gone the wick will burn up, soot will damage the glass, and the light will become deficient.  This is a huge waste of your energy.  Instead of having trouble-free light, you now have to spend time and energy to do repair.  Do your Qi cultivation on time, schedule practice so that you always fill your lamp before it is empty. This way it will always send out clear brightness, unfiltered radiance, with no extra effort on your part."

It is the same with Qi.  If people live a tense, worried existence, and do not neutralize inner turmoil, stagnation or blockages with Qi cultivation practice, they are trying to live without refueling their lamp on time.  They burn up their body and their ability to see [think, learn] clearly becomes severely diminished by the soot that accumulates on the lamp.  Then it is too late to simply add fuel.  Now they need a full overhaul before they can get the light back on and clear the self so that the light can radiate.


[LOOK BELOW FOR INFORMATION ON BECOMING A QIQONG/TAI CHI TEACHER BY TAKING A LEVEL I TRAINING PROGRAM FROM DR. ROGER JAHNKE, FOUNDER OF THE INSTITUE OF INTEGRAL QIGONG AND TAI CHI] 

NEXT LEVEL 1 TRAINING IN ST. JOHN'S FLORIDA  MARCH 13-20, 2015

IN HARMONY WITH NATURE
BY FRANS STIENE
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It is said that Mikao Usui was a Shugenja/yamabushi, a practitioner who walks in the mountains to realize harmony with the natural elements. When we walk in nature with an open heart/mind we can start to feel how we need to practice the system of Reiki; more than that, we begin to realize how we need to lead our lives. Nature shows us how to live in harmony, but in modern times we have removed ourselves so far from nature that sometimes it is hard to see what nature is teaching us.

 

As practitioners of the system of Reiki we try to make our internal energy flow again as it has become stagnant over time due to fears, worry, anger etc. When our energy flows our heart/mind also starts to flow and is more at ease with what is happening in life. Nature is showing this to us: if water in a river is partly frozen and it hits a rock, it will hit the rock again and again over and over. If the water is completely melted it flows freely around any rock or obstacle. Nature is showing us how to be more free flowing; it is tell us to practice until our energy and heart/mind are like free running water.

"As human beings, we are animals on the move in search of food, and this is what makes the fountain of life possible. However, plants search for food simply by placing themselves in nature. Plants can get vital energy from the space around them as well as above and below them just by being situated in nature. That is what it means by being there. I think yamabushi practices are really close to this-placing oneself in nature."
Fumihiro Hoshino - Shugendo Priest

By placing ourselves in nature, we can illuminate the best way to do our Reiki practice. Many Reiki teachings are very strict with hand positions or how to do a specific practice, teaching that it cannot be done any other way. Does this strictness follow the way of nature? If we look at nature, we can see that nature is firm and flexible at the same time.

Let's look at the trees for example: the wind blows but each tree moves in its own unique way. No two trees move in exactly the same way. In the same way, we can see the wind as the energy that moves through and around us, and the tree is you as a practitioner. So the best practice is for you to move in your own unique way, yet rooted in the foundation of the practice and teachings. To be more in harmony with nature, we need to let go of the strict rules some people apply when teaching. Yes these rules are great as a foundation for our roots, but when we get higher into the teachings we becomes more and more flexible, like the tops of the trees gently swaying in their own unique way in harmony with the wind.

At the deepest level of Mikao Usui's teachings we will remember to "Be Reiki" instead of "Do Reiki." Again we can see this in nature, plants, trees and rocks: they are not thinking of Doing this or that; they are just Being. One rock doesn't say to the other rock, "I am jealous of you!" The rock is just Being. One tree doesn't say to the other tree, "You are taller then me and I do not like it!" The tree is just Being. The rain that falls on the forest is not saying, "You small plants, you need to receive this much rain (energy) and you big trees your will receive this much rain (energy)!" The rain is just Being. A river is not saying to an obstacle that it comes across, "Get out of my way." The river is just Being.

So be in nature and let nature teach you the way back to your own True Nature. 

 
TIPS FROM KATHLEEN PRASAD
SHELTER ANIMALS REIKI ASSOCIATION
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Reiki, Medicine and Self Care

with Pamela Miles

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"I want Reiki to be as common as aspirin." 

 

Hawayo Takata, the Reiki master who brought Reiki practice from Japan to Hawaii in the late 1930s with her Reiki master, Chujiro Hayashi, made that statement many decades ago. 

 

I feel the same way, and I'm guessing you do too. Who wouldn't want as many people as possible to experience the benefits that Reiki practice brings? 

 

My experience practicing Reiki professionally since 1986 is that people are very interested in the benefits Reiki practice brings.

 

They just need the practice communicated in a way that is accurate and speaks to their interests. 

 

Most Reiki practitioners are not as comfortable talking about Reiki as they are practicing Reiki.