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What’s the point of Reiki 2?
For people setting out on the Reiki journey, there are often questions about how far they will want to follow the path of training. Do you need to do Reiki 2? How long should you wait before doing it? And, if you decide to do the practitioner level, what do you really get out of…
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Ceremonies – for opening, for closing
Lammas (or Lughnasadh) – the grain harvest – is almost here, and I am opening up the Healing Through the Wheel of the Year three-day event again. This time, I am adding something extra – an opening and closing ceremony. I launched these season, three-day events at Lammas last year – so I’ve done a…
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Intuitive healing needs strong foundations
Healing is a creative art. I have always believed in our ability, as healers, to craft and create new ways of working that are effective and empowering, for us as practitioners and for our clients. In around 2007 or 2008 (I confess I cannot remember exact dates – somewhere back in the mists of time)…
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Energy blocks: negative energy?
I taught a Reiki 1 course the other day, and it always makes me think about the way I describe the energy body, and the sensations of perceiving it. I’m always stressing how important it is to notice the way our hands feel or what we see when we work on a client. And at…
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My thoughts on healing (an interview)
I know, I know, this whole blog is just my thoughts on healing 🙂 Recently I was interviewed by the lovely Ria Varma, as part of this year’s Goddess Conference. The theme this year is healing, which means I got to talk about my favourite things! You can see the interview below: If you are…
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Ingrid, the Rose and the Witness (or: how to recognise that the work is working)
When we come to a healing path – or any path of committed spiritual endeavour – we often do it to fix something in particular. For me, the healing path makes sense because of my magical background and heritage! But actually, I didn’t really come to it that way, or at least not so consciously.…
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How often should you do self treatments?
A couple of weeks back I blogged about tying my healing work to the cycles of the moon. It was a post about general, over-arching healing themes. It was about utilising the wider energies of the world around us – moon phases are one example, but working with the seasons or the wheel of the…
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Reiki for enhancing your healing skills
Reiki is one of my favourite things. In a couple of months I’ll have been doing it for 20 whole years. I’ve been doing shamanic healing that long too, and magical work for longer than that – and I think that’s why sometimes people in those worlds are surprised to hear about my love of…
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Moon timings: healing work on a schedule
Happy full moon, everyone! Every full moon and every new moon I publish a healing recording for my Propolos subscribers, but you might wonder why those days specifically? It wasn’t a decision made for any kind of marketing purposes, and it wasn’t done for convenience – in fact I tend to be busier and more…
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If we are guided by spirit – can we ever go wrong?
I live in magical, magnificent Glastonbury. As a pretty nosy person by nature, I do love to overhear a conversation in the cafe or in the pub – and where is a more interesting place to overhear conversations than Glastonbury?? Recently I overheard someone saying that we can’t (in the context of a spiritual healing…
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