CLASSES & INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION
CLASSES IN QIGONG, REIKI, KARUNA REIKI, AND INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION
Qigong Classes
In a Qigong class, one must allow themselves to be open, and change gradually, to express who they truly are. Practicing qigong is a creative experience, focusing on three main points: according with conditions, without lingering, and uncontrived. When you come to a qigong class, you will find that no two classes are exactly the same. The classes reflect those in attendance, and because everyone is unique, that changes the energy of the area.
What To Expect
ROBERT'S CLASSES
At the beginning of a qigong class, the mentor, Robert, will have a dialogue with those gathered. What the class experiences will be based on the conversations that take place. Everyone may be doing the same form, but each person is having a different experience. For example, we all know the alphabet, but the way we use words differ. When you come to QiGong Studio for a qigong class, you must be willing to make changes inside, instead of insisting change happens on the outside. You will take what you learn in this class with you 24/7 out into the world.
This movement based class is about becoming creative. If you are new to qigong, and want to try it out, come by QiGong Studio.
VERNITA'S CLASSES
In her qigong classes, Vernita Leins provides for the beginner or experienced student a mix of movement, meditation, and breath work in sitting, standing, or walking forms. Various techniques are employed, as well as applicable anatomy and qigong principles are taught. For students, self-massage stimulates, loosening exercises free the joints, and movement improves the body’s balance. This integration encourages a smooth flow of vitality throughout. With practice, students develop mind/body awareness allowing them to develop improved flexibility, range of motion, and relief of held tensions. Classes can be therapeutic in nature, while providing relaxation, deeper and more filling breath, and peaceful revitalization.
Reiki
Reiki is a Japanese discipline first introduced to the West by Mrs. Hawayo Takata in the late 1930’s. From her teachings, Reiki has come to be taught and practiced around the world.
REIKI TRAINING
Reiki attunes the individual to Universal or Divinely Guided Harmony "Life Energy" for personal empowerment and healing, awakening a resonance within that permeates the entire being. This resonance influences the innate wisdom, which nurtures the physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual being.
Reiki attunes the individual to Universal or Divinely Guided (Harmony) Life Energy for personal empowerment.
Reiki is taught in progressive levels. It is up to individual choice as to how much training to take. These trainings can be close together or spaced years apart. Levels offered are Level I, II, Advanced (ART), Master; Karuna Reiki® (Levels I & II; Master).
REIKI SESSIONS
Reiki is a healing applied hands-on and/or hands-off the body. The recipient remains fully clothed and may even fall asleep. Reiki can benefit all living things to support health and wellbeing. Distance Reiki or Karuna Reiki® is used to help heal the past, prepare for the future, and heal present life situations.
When an individual's health, emotional or spiritual state becomes disrupted for any reason, then such difficulties as illness, disease, emotional instability, indecisiveness, and spiritual frustration can result. Reiki may assist in shifting and dissolving these distortions. By becoming relaxed and open, the body's own healing Wisdom can awaken, resulting in a more harmonious flow of ki (vitality).
REIKI… IS IT SCIENCE BASED?
The body's complicated and often mysterious system continues to baffle scientists in how it creates and responds to electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields, including light, sound, heat, pressure, chemical and elastic energy, and gravity.
Living tissue is a conductor of electricity. The first energy field to be documented was the heart. In 1924 Einthoven received a Nobel Prize for the electrocardiogram, which measures the bioelectric field of the heart. Other scientists established that other organs of the body produce these bioelectric fields as well. The currents set up by the heart and other muscles, and the brain and peripheral nerves produce fields in space around the body called biomagnetic fields. The SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) developed by Nobel Prize recipient, Brian Josephson, is an extremely sensitive magnetometer used to map these biomagnetic fields in the space around the body.
Other research has found that certain magnetic fields can jump-start the healing process in fractures that have failed to heal. In 1979 the FDA approved magnetic field therapy.
Dr. John Zimmerman found that electromagnetic signals (ELF) are emitted from the hands of trained healers (as in Reiki), but not from those without training. These low band frequencies are effective in jump-starting the healing process. Additionally, a hands-on and hands-off therapy, such as Reiki, influence living tissue which are far more sensitive to external fields than first imagined, as biological systems defy the simple logic that larger stimuli produces larger responses. For many, extremely weak fields can be more effective.
One way a system like Reiki works is that it opens up the communication channels that enable the cells in the body to talk with each other. Cells are able to migrate to places where they are needed to initiate repair or to fight diseases. Another effect is the calming of the person so their immune functions can operate smoothly. Reiki then could be considered an “energy medicine.”
Regarding a higher intelligence guiding the healing, James L. Oschman, Ph.D., explains, “…the higher intelligence you refer to is…the innate intuitive inner wisdom we all possess and can access when we relax our mental processes and allow our subconscious to sort out what is really going on…Most of the information from our senses goes to our unconscious, where it is processed below our level of awareness… So if you are able to leave your thought processes behind, you will find that your hands will go to the right places as if they were drawn like a magnet…” author of Energy Medicine; and Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is Reiki a religion?
Reiki is not a religion, doctrine, or require giving up one's religious practice or faith. It is simply a technique to assist the healing process. Asking for guidance through prayer is an important element. Many Reiki practitioners state that they feel closer to God's love and power. It helps them fulfill their faith's calling to help others. Throughout the centuries, many monks and nuns also practiced healing. Most known in the 20th century is Mother Teresa.
Is Reiki a Buddhist Practice?
The founder of Usui Style Reiki, Mikao Usui, studied a vast array of disciplines. Since he did have his spiritual experience at a Buddhist site on Mt. Kurama in Japan and he is buried in a Buddhist temple gravesite, he probably was a Buddhist but he also had studied Christianity. He made no effort to make Reiki a religious practice—only a healing technique. Various systems of Reiki for healing were offered at several temples and clinics throughout Japan at the time of Usui's life. With lack of medical doctors, the common people often sought this form of healing.
What will Reiki heal?
Often several sessions are required but it heals on the physical, mental and emotional, as well as spiritual levels. Reiki's relaxing qualities invite and allow a multitude of healing benefits.
Karuna Reiki
In 1993 William Rand, founder of the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT), introduced a system of Reiki that he later called Karuna Reiki®, the Reiki of Compassion. Historically, Reiki's Life Force healing energy was known by many, including Dr. Mikkao Usui and others of his time. The Usui Method of Reiki Healing was so named by Dr. Usui to distinguish its intent and practice from other similar disciplines.
Karuna means “compassionate action”. Those practicing Karuna Reiki® often feel the presence of various energies, such as: Quan Yin (Kannon, in Japanese) --- “One Who Sees and Hears the Cry from the Human World” --- a Buddhist Bodhisattva who chose to remain on earth to bring relief to suffering rather than enjoying Nirvana; Avalokiteshvara, “the Merciful Lord of Utter Enlightenment”; Mary, Mother of Jesus; a patron saint, or an angel.
Karuna Reiki® is a technique that extends one's Usui Reiki practice to deepen and enhance its healing qualities. There are a total of four to ten symbols (yantras/mantras) of attunement that can be incorporated into a healing session, depending upon the level of attunement one has received. The experience of many is that when a healing session is accompanied by these specific symbols (yantras/mantras), healing is on a deeper level. It can help address the healing of such issues as, trauma, heartache, learning, past situations, relationships, etc. Additionally, in Karuna Reiki® the mantras of the symbols can be chanted and toned during the treatment session. Sound creates a vibrational resonance that penetrates deeply into the cells and tissues of the client's body, as well as opening the energy centers of both the practitioner and the client.
Karuna Reiki® can be offered to those who have completed Reiki Level II, Advanced Reiki Training (ART) or its equivalent (Reiki 3a), or Master Level. Karuna Reiki® has three levels: Level I; Level II; Master.
Qigong Individual Instruction
If you are looking to experience qigong in a more intimate setting, individual instruction may be what you are looking for. When you are part of a qigong class, there is a group energy, which changes based on the people in the environment. Within a class, there is a discussion portion of the class that works the class into the movement portion.
In an individual instruction, this discussion can be more focused on you. Also, in a one on one environment, we can focus on the mentoring relationship more closely. In an individual session, Robert will have a conversation with you to see where your movements may come from.
Robert strongly believes in not correcting his students, as their movements make their qigong theirs. Robert creates a welcoming environment in which you can make your qigong your own. He will get a feel of your capabilities, and will explain movements as they come and their benefits.