Reiki Level I with Claire O’Leary

Reiki Level I

with Claire O’Leary

Saturday, May 7   $249

TBD Glenwood Springs

Reiki is the beginning of a wonderful journey filled with learning and growth 

on many levels. 

Be attuned to Reiki (Universal Life Force) to help you focus, feel less stressed, be more intuitive and have a deeper spiritual awareness. Gain knowledge and tools to heal yourself, family, and friends. Reiki combines extremely well with other therapies and orthodox medical care, particularly pre and post-operative health care, helping to accelerate the natural healing process. Feel comfortable working with clients, both locally and thousands of miles away (with Level II training). There will be plenty of time to practice and receive Reiki during the class.

The first degree connects the student to the Universal Life Force and gives them the tools to heal themselves, their family and others.

The first degree of Reiki is the beginning of a wonderful journey filled with learning and growth on so many different levels. Many people find that the first degree is all they need to study and incorporate, to lead a more fulfilling life. While others, will continue their studies and progress onto the second degree and some to master/teacher degree.

Find out more at ClearHeartHealingArts.com

303.525.6893

 Claire@ClearHeartHealingArts.com

About Claire O’Leary

A Reiki Master and intuitive healer, Claire has been practicing Reiki for over 20 years and has been teaching Reiki for 4 years. She offers Reiki classes, journaling classes, workshops, essential oils consultations, private energy treatments and retreats. She also speaks at various events about “ Living With an Open Heart“.  Claire believes the more your heart is open, the greater the gifts you will receive. Claire guides individuals and groups to open their heart and allow Divine energy to flow so they can achieve greater success in life and live in passion, joy and inspiration. 

CO HB 16-1320

Legislation you may want to be aware of:  Colorado House Bill 16-1320

The folks over at Change.org say this about it:

HB 16-1320 attempts to strip the consumer protections and guarantees created in the Colorado Natural Health Consumer Protection Act and provided in (6-1-724).These rights include the right of the public to access unlicensed alternative health care and the right of practitioners of unlicensed alternative health care to practice.  Removal of 12-35.5-110 (e) eliminates the protections provided in section (6-1-724).

To learn more, or to sign a petition to stop this bill, CLICK HERE.

Free Lecture & Personality Readings in Glenwood Springs

If your journey into wellness includes a curiosity and/or openness to the metaphysical, this entertaining and informative look into all the personalities that color our world and our wellness may be a great fit for you!

PAUL WAGNER LIVE

Free Lecture & Personality Readings

The Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, CO

Thursday, April 28, 7pm

Get the details!

Crisis Contact List

Thanks to our friends at NAMI Roaring Fork Valley for putting this list of resources together.  You never know when you'll need them, until you do.

Integration and Wholeness

As we enjoy the health fairs this spring and attend to our physical health, let’s not forget to put our efforts into the broader context.  Exactly why are we doing this?  The goal of health and wellness is to have our complete being operating without dis-ease (WOW what a goal).

To me this means paying attention to my thinking, feeling and spiritual wellness too.  Not a month goes by when we don’t see a major article on how our thinking is related to our physical health.  Articles abound about positive thinking, living with intention, reducing stress (which is how we respond to our environment), or eating better.

Let’s look at one important part of all of this.  How does our Subconscious work?  Well, for one thing it takes information literally.  For another, it is not part of our conscious processes.

So?  Well when we say, or think, something like: “Life is hard.”, our subconscious takes that literally and stores that as FACT.  It can’t discern that we might be talking about a task, or about today rather than life as a whole.  Make enough comments like this and it becomes the background screen for the subconscious to process everything.

So?  So when we have a great day, our subconscious stores that as an anomaly, a fluke, an exception and gives it little meaning.  After all, “Life is hard.”  On the other hand, if I am consistently saying things like “life is fun”, or “I enjoy life.”, then it is the tough day that is an exception.

This is critical because it is the subconscious background screen that determines the meaning of our moment to moment experience.

Clue – if you find yourself wondering why you don’t enjoy life more, look for that subconscious background screen.  Hint – you can’t “see” it, so you have to take its existence from your experience.

Solution – listen to the words you think and speak, correct yourself when you hear negative generalizations (all, never, etc.) and practice (a lot) affirming the truth of your positive experience, the gifts in your life and treasure what you have.

Carmen Iacino is a Certified Energy Medicine Specialist, a licensed psychotherapist, a spiritual explorer and, more simply, an individual committed to experiencing all the love and joy that life has to offer along with feeling free.  You can reach him at carmeniacino@earthlink.net, 970-309-3467, or www.embraceasecnsion.com.

What’s Love got to do With It?

There is a plethora of health information on the heart and how it operates. All this information can be very confusing or lead to a lot of misunderstanding. We often talk of broken hearts.  We have the expression of bleeding hearts. To use a pun, your heart is at the heart of many of your thoughts, conversations and, the focus of either pain or joy. How are you caring for your heart?

Most of our medical information on the heart focuses on heart disease and prevention. However, your heart is so much more than just an organ that beats and moves blood around to your various body parts. Treating your heart as only a mechanical device limits understanding of the huge potential of your heart.

I recently heard a talk by Gregg Braden. He discusses the energetic, electrical, and magnetic qualities of the heart.  He says the field of the heart stands out 5000 times greater than other physical energetic fields of our bodies. Because we are all electrical and magnetic and energetic beings, this is important information for us to know.

Your heart has the capacity to bring you into coherence with who you are, as well as being a crucial and vital component of love, forgiveness and transformation.

When you experience the emotion of love, your heart is the only place where a unique substance is produced. For lack of a better descriptor, scientists have named this substance as substance “L”. You literally produce a substance of love in your heart.

The emotion of love is one of the most beneficial emotion for health and healing that we possess. As we move beyond February, a month of heart centered focus, let’s take some time each day for a minute or two throughout the day to experience love.

What’s love got to do with it?  It has everything to do with a healthy heart—healthy life, healthy relationships and healthy spiritual connection.

Written by Dr. Stephanie Stanfield who has a private practice in Glenwood Springs. You can find Dr. Steph at www.makingshiftshappen.com and on her weekly podcast at Blogtalk Radio.

What is All the “To Do” About Tea?

The history around tea is vast and spans centuries. Tea was often used as a “currency” for trade and has been bartered for centuries.

Where does it all begin? Who thought up the idea of brewing tea leaves? It was a happy accident! According to legend, in 2737 BC, the Chinese emperor Shen Nung was sitting beneath a tree while his servant boiled drinking water, when some leaves from the tree blew into the water. Shen Nung, a renowned herbalist, decided to try the infusion that his servant had accidentally created. The tree was a Camellia sinensis, and the resulting drink was what we now call tea.

What is your favorite tea? Do you know how it is harvested, how it is grown or what beneficial properties it has?

Many different types of tea, such as white tea, green tea, yellow tea, black tea, oolong tea and pu-erh tea, all come from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. (Do you recognize this from the history?)  The type of tea produced from this plant depends entirely on the way the leaves are processed after harvesting.

Tea “rituals” abound throughout the world. The British Empire long thought that the sun would never set on all the lands it controlled. The English were big tea fans and the love of drinking tea is well established and practiced because they traversed the world and left their tea legacy in many different countries.

It is common in countries that have British influence to routinely brew tea. A visitor to one’s home is immediately made welcome by the homeowner starting the tea and setting out biscuits to enjoy together.

The medicinal qualities of tea are also well known. Can’t sleep? Brew Chamomile tea. Upset stomach? Brew Peppermint or Ginger tea. The list for this goes on far too long for this article.  You can go to WebMD for further research to find a tea that helps you heal and feel good.

Well, I am off to brew some Sleepytime tea so I can sleep well and wake up refreshed. How about you? Care to join me in some delicious tea and good sleep?  

Written by Dr. Stephanie Stanfield who has a private practice in Glenwood Springs and enjoys drinking tea with her friends. You can find Dr. Steph at www.makingshiftshappen.com and on her weekly podcast at Blogtalk Radio.

How About a Good Cuppa?

The holidays are over?  No, not for our minds or bodies they aren’t.

The effects of stress don’t end when the stressors do.  And, the stressors haven’t ended!  There is the whole process of taking down and putting away the decorations; all of the January 1st chores like changing calendars, closing out 2015; thank you notes to write; AND January is typically the coldest month of our year.

While all these are normal for this time of year, they are also stressors – they generate stress.  (By the way, stress is defined as an organism’s reaction to its environment.  So, basically, that’s everything.)  The challenge to dealing with stress is to reduce it where we can, and nurture our Spirit, Mind and Body to help keep ourselves in good health.

The very best way is to NURTURE our Selves.  Primarily, that means – RELAX.  A cup of tea is one of the very best ways I know to do both of these.

The relaxing begins with the ritual of preparing tea.  Taking a moment to choose the tea that will feel just right, getting out all of the accompaniments that will make it perfect for you – honey, milk, lemon, perhaps a small snack to go with the tea.  Imagine, sitting with your hands wrapped around a warm cup. Feels good, doesn’t it?  Imagine the relaxing smell – you get to pick your favorites!  Feel the warm liquid warming your mouth and throat. YESSSSS!

When you use herbal teas, you bring a complexity to your experience.  You not only get the benefits of ingesting the herb, you also use aromatherapy by just smelling the fragrance.

Here are a few of my favorite teas

Need an energy boost along with your relaxing moments?  Try green tea.  The stronger you brew it, the more caffeine.

Chamomile is beneficial for anxiety, depression and digestion.  What a cool bunch of benefits – tastes good too.

Licorice is a soothing agent that helps digestion, acid reflux and indigestion – all of which go along with stress.

Pomegranate/Hibiscus - Pomegranate is rich in antioxidants, is anti-inflammatory and promotes good heart health.  Hibiscus studies show it may help lower blood pressure and reduce high cholesterol.  Together, they just taste good!

How do you choose which one your Spirit is asking for?  For me, it is simple.  I open the tea drawer and choose the first one that catches my attention.  You can absolutely trust your higher knowing to choose the perfect tea for the moment.

So, brew a cuppa.  Play with the process.  Most of all, have FUN.

Carmen Iacino is an energy healer, psychotherapist and spiritual adventurer.  He is committed to living in Love and JOY and can be reached at 970-309-3467,  carmeniacino@earthlink.net,  or www.embraceascension.com

BLAB - Is It Right for Your Business?

Listen & Watch below as Kimberly Henrie and Dr. Stephanie Stanfield discuss the ways that Blab might increase your exposure to new and existing clientele and help you educate your clients, community and the general population.

Some of the points made include:

• Blab is LIVE and Open to the public - you'll reach outside your existing client list
• It is an easy way to record video and make it available for replay via your website, email list, social media etc.
• Great for Q & A discussions
• Great for Panel discussions
• Great for Webinar-style broadcasts and educational formats
• It's FREE and very simple to set up.
• You'll want to have fairly new computer, smartphone or tablet with video capabilities
• Practice by visiting some other Blabs first before hosting your own
• When you are ready to host your own Blab, have a 2nd person on as co-host to help keep the conversation rolling.

January is Hot Tea Month

Even a committed coffee lover (like me) can find a certain peace and comfort in sitting down with a cup of hot tea.  For many of us, it takes us back to mom serving us a warm mug when we were feeling unwell.  For others, it may bring memories of sharing a cup with grandma or another loved one on a cold winter's day.  Most among us can come up with a warm memory associated with a cup of hot tea.

In addition to the feel good, warm & fuzzy feelings that boost our mood and make us feel connected to more than ourselves, there are many cited health benefits of tea.  

The New York Times reports that tea is good for your liver:

 ...studies including more than 800,000 participants have looked at the association between tea and liver disease. Those who drank tea were less likely to have hepatocellular carcinoma, liver steatosis, liver cirrhosis and chronic liver disease. 

And, it eases depression: 

11 studies with almost 23,000 participants found that for every three cups of tea consumed per day, the relative risk of depression decreased 37 percent.

And heart health:

...drinking an additional three cups of tea a day was associated with a reduction in coronary heart disease (27 percent), cardiac death (26 percent), stroke (18 percent), total mortality (24 percent), cerebral infarction (16 percent) andintracerebral hemorrhage (21 percent). 

Tea is a more complex subject than you might think.  For example, this article, 13 Reasons Tea is Good for you, outlines the differences between tea and what we call herbal tea, as well as addressing the complexities of black, white and green teas. 

So the next time you are feeling blue, unwell or are looking for alternative ways to manage symptoms or chronic illness, you might reach for a cup of tea.  Which kind is up to you.... when it comes to hot tea, the options are seemingly endless and the internet is a wealth of information.


Kimberly Henrie is a coffee and tea lover that has many warm associations with hot beverages.  She is a yoga/fitness teacher, radio personality and local business owner who can put you in touch with some quality teas and fair trade organic coffees.  You can reach her at kimhenrie@vitalityforlife.com or by calling 970-930-1242.