Hi First name / beautiful,

 

It is Monday afternoon, 4:39pm, sunset, energies of Autumn. My sister just landed back in America and I am overjoyed with gratitude and love. I cannot wait to see her and squeeze her. 

 

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This week I will be attending my Reiki Masters Training Retreat. I will be camping for 5 evenings and 6 days in the Ojai Valley, just a short beautiful winding drive north of Los Angeles. I am really looking forward to this. 

 

As I've been preparing for the retreat, I have been re-reading my notes from my Reiki 1 and 2 trainings (called Shoden and Okuden), and I'd like to share a bit with you of my Reiki journey and how this practice has gently rippled into every aspect of my life over the last 3 years. 

 

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The first time I received Reiki around 2017 at Maha Rose in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. There was community donation Reiki on Friday afternoons, and I received from a human named Teva (meaning nature in Hebrew). I left that day in awe of how truly relaxed and nourished I felt, like I was floating yet also so lovingly present and grounded. I remember asking myself, “how could I feel this way, she only was hovering her hands over me, hardly touching me?”. I think I had a passing thought at one point before or after this of, “I could see myself exploring this more once I move to LA”, not knowing when that would be. 

 

Fast Forward to late summer 2020, I've moved to LA and I recalled this sentiment. I checked to see if my teacher, Lara Elliot was holding any Reiki 1 trainings, and saw she was hosting a small one in her home in December. I signed up, and signing up for Reiki 1 was a great testament to me experimenting with trusting my intuition and my joy. I felt curious about Reiki, and wanted to expand on my personal spiritual practice. That was my intention upon entering <3 After the first day of our weekend-long training, I was like “hahah ohhh I see why I'm here. I have to do this.” I had been obsessed with meditation for years, and when I learned that Reiki encompassed meditation and was from the same Buddhist Dharma teachings that I loved so much, I was in. I started making a website and planning how to quit my job at Simon Miller over the following months, gave my notice at the end of February, and received my Reiki 2 training in March. 

 

Since then, I have been a Reiki Practitioner. Even after receiving these coming blessings and attunements of Master, I will probably still refer to myself as a Practitioner simply because a good teacher knows that they are also always a student. Always learning from who is around us and what is in front of us. 

 

I feel really blessed to get to embrace this week ahead and be in deep presence, spiritual study, and giving and receiving. That my circumstances allow me to be part of this training. That I get to deepen the capacity for love in my heart through the simple yet profound practice of Reiki. That I get to learn to hold more as a healer. How to empower my clients, how true healing is giving and receiving, how I can be the most clear vessel for the Divine and for Reiki to move through me. 

 

When I was re-reading my previous notes and writing them into a new notebook for this week, I was realizing that I really have been embodying the spirit of Reiki and understanding how it has spiraled and rippled into all aspects of my being. From repeating the sacred mantras and practicing meditation, to getting to support clients for Tenohira (Reiki palm healing), and even sitting with the ancient Buddhist philosophies of non-judgement and compassion, there is not one aspect of my life that Reiki has not touched. I had no idea when I signed up for that first training that this is what would be happening today. What a freaking FUN blessing.  

 

Thank you for being on this path with me. It is such a beautiful one. 

 

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A little housekeeping :)

 

To celebrate and honor this new training I will be receiving, I am offering 11% off in-person and distance Reiki Sessions through the end of the year. I don't have too much availability for in-person sessions since I'll be traveling, so if you've been feeling called or curious yourself…this is a tender opportunity to connect. 

 

The code is REIKILOVE1111

 

I share more plus music on the most recent episode of Almost Heaven RADIO ! too. Love you so much. 

 

 ~~~ REIKI BLESSINGS!! ~~~ 

Reiki is the energy of pure love and compassion, and is the foundation of Gaby's healing practice. Reiki translates to ‘spiritual universal healing energy’, a sacred Japanese practice that holds the container for sessions. It is deeply relaxing, nourishing, sparkly, clearing, and allows the body, mind, and spirit to come back to homeostasis. Reiki shifts the nervous system from fight or flight into rest and restore. 

 

The session begins with a quantum healing guided meditation, clearing our any energetic blockages and connecting you to Mother Earth. Once in this liminal sleepy state, you receive Reiki through light, gentle, nurturing touch. Sounds of singing bowls and mantras soothe your nervous system. Guidance messages from your Angels and Spiritual Team often come through and are shared. After receiving Reiki, you gently awake feeling gratitude in every cell of your body, aligned, and at peace. 

 

We sit together and drink tea, and will pull a few Tarot and Oracle cards to clarify any final messages from God/Angels/Heaven/your Spiritual Team/Soul/Higher Self.

 

This is a beautiful offering, meant to be a foundational piece of your daily life and spiritual practice.
 

 

You're feeling anxious, overwhelmed, like you need to clear out old shit, feeling dull, under waves of grief, not sure where to go next, want to feel at peace, want to connect to your true loving nature, want to explore your own spirituality, want a safe place to breath and feel, need some tender-loving-care, as a monthly self-care practice, to realign and rebalance 

 

 

Gentle touch, Guidance, Loving compassionate support, Resources and references, Big-sisterly advice, Spiritual and mindfulness tools, Product recommendation, Safe space, Non-judgement