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Reiki impacts the world. Children love it. It is helpful for caretakers, healers, and change-makers. Most of us can benefit from integrating Reiki into our everyday lives. Here are nine ways I often use Reiki. I hope you find inspiration here to create a ritual or practice with Reiki and feel the difference it makes when you weave this healing art into your day. 1. Calming Children I often Reiki my daughter to help her calm down, go to sleep, or settle in the middle of the

During autumn, our environment becomes more and more yin. As harvests are finishing up, a pleasant stillness arrives. It is the time of the

We are now entering the first days of winter - the time of the solar cycle when there is wisdom in slowing down to calibrate with nature's rhythms. According to Taoist medical theory, a huge cause of disease is a failure to live in accordance with the cycle of the seasons. As the planet rotates around the sun, it moves through progressive phases which invite corresponding shifts in conduct. Every two weeks, we enter a different qi node, or cycle. Each cycle invites us to shi

Naming our own matrilineal lineage is an initiation of our sovereignty and an invocation of our milk line. My daughter, Nymue, and I did not have the same last name for the first 5 years of her life. We both had the last names of our father, who had the last name of his father's father's father's father... etc. You get the idea. Nymue and I have been looking for a name we can share for a long time. It has been a big prayer of mine to shed an old skin that got too tight and

Our fluid bodies need water so they do not become rigid and hard. Water is a crucial aspect of our being, essential to life. It is what we are made of. Our relationship to water is part of our thriving relationship with life itself. Water is life. Begin the Day With Hydration Drinking water first thing in the morning on an empty stomach has great benefits. I recommend drinking it warm - hot (to protect the spleen) with a small amount of Himalayan sea salt added to it to gui