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Archive for category: Natural Remedies

Healthy Living, Natural Remedies, Reiki

Kids Home? Reiki Can Help!

Want to be your best self as your kids come home from school this summer? We’ve got you!

Massage is fantastic for self-care, most of us already know the benefits. Did you know Reiki can reduce anxiety and also promotes a positive mental state? Reiki is all about balance and healing.

We’ve talked before about how Reiki can reduce pain and speed up healing, but we should not underestimate the effect Reiki can have on your mental and emotional well-being. Summer is a busy time filled with activities, and it’s important that we continue to take care of ourselves so we can both enjoy this beautiful season and also be our best selves for our partners, our children, and our friends.

Is it time you discovered what Reiki can do for you?

June 5, 2023/by Heidi
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Insomnia, Natural Remedies, Pain Relief, Reiki

5 Things to Expect from Reiki

Want a Deep, Overwhelming Sense of Love? Don’t We All?

  1. Your intention matters. Always. If you decide a session is not going to benefit you, then you will be right. Your mind is very powerful! This is why so many self help books focus on training your mind. Think The Secret and other such books – what we focus on really can manifest because our mind wants to make it so. As I was taught when riding motor bikes in the desert as a child – don’t look at the rock in the path, look at where you want your bike to go. If you look at the rock, you will hit it. Your thoughts are a form of energy, and they will definitely impact your Reiki session.
  2. There is no universal experience, so expect to have your own unique experience with Reiki. Some people can feel the energy shifting – which is what your Reiki Healer is facilitating. We all have an electrical field, and our neurons and synapses firing are themselves energetic. This we accept in Western culture and science, but Eastern medicine has found energetic pathways throughout the body, much like our lymph system, and keeping those pathways open and flowing is important to our health and well-being.

    In Acupuncture, you may have heard this energy force called qi (pronounced chee). The “ki” in Reiki is the Japanese version of that energy flow.

    You will generally experience things in the way you are most adept at (sensing energy, something visual, something auditory, etc.)

    Some other experiences people have had include:

    1. Feeling vibrations
    2. Feeling spacey
    3. Having vivid visualizations
    4. Seeing flashing colors
    5. Feeling a deep, overwhelming sense of love – doesn’t that sound fabulous?
  3. An immediate reduction of pain – if pain is what you came to work on. If you have chronic knee pain, for instance, you will very likely feel an immediate reduction of pain. Is it gone forever? No, but Reiki is very good at getting the healing ball rolling, so even one session will be helpful to reduce pain. For chronic conditions, it’s helpful to receive multiple sessions. And the best part? Your healing will speed up after your session.
  4. Improved sleep – you may even dose off during a session! (I have done this.) If you struggle with insomnia, Reiki can help you sleep that very night. And once again, it is getting the ball rolling for improved sleep going forward, but you will likely need more treatments for an extended benefit if the insomnia has been chronic.
  5. Relaxation – we all need more of this! When was the last time you prioritized your relaxation? Many of us are doing too many things and not taking nearly enough down time to feel restored. Reiki can help restore the balance our minds, bodies and spirits so desperately crave. Receiving energy work is investing in your health and getting some much needed restorative time. It will help support you during the busy times of life and help you feel better until you can take a proper vacation.

It is especially important to realize and remember that even if you don’t feel something during a session – since not all of us are attuned to our energetic force – Reiki will still be helping you for several days after your session. Isn’t it time you got some support for this challenging life?

March 8, 2023/by Heidi
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Craniosacral Therapy, Healthy Living, Natural Remedies, Reiki

Are You Part of the Great Disconnection?

Energy Work Can Help!

Do you feel overwhelmed? Like you’re reacting more than directing each day? Do you wish you could recover more quickly from things that upset you? Do you feel lonely and disconnected? Anxiety and stress are so prevalent these days. So many things are vying for our attention, and it’s so hard to be present and intentional throughout each day. It seems that many of us spend so much time putting out fires that we can lose sight of the bigger picture of our overall health and wellness. We have chronic pain. We feel anxious. We medicate (or self-medicate) to help us through the day. And we’re exhausted, stuck in a coping mode.

Our western society has evolved into a never-ending source of seemingly urgent matters, now that we receive notifications on our phones for absolutely everything. We’re in a constant state of having our attention pulled in so many directions, no wonder we’re exhausted! Those of us of a certain age remember the world worked just fine before cell phones and the internet. And while we now have much more convenience with that technology, are we sacrificing our inner peace in the process? (I suggest leaving your phone on silent for a week and see how that changes things… I get notifications from my contacts marked “favorites,” but nothing else till I check the phone.)

But this is not a post about healthy phone habits, as important as those may be. Our western society also focuses on treating symptoms when things go awry, rather than looking at ourselves as a whole to find a systemic cause. This is why energy work can be so important in restoring that feeling of calm and peace that most of us seem to lack. We seem to be collectively out of balance, and energy work is one of many ways to find our way back. Energy work will help build your resilience, lower your stress and anxiety, and help you feel better.

Renu has always been about healing mind, body, and spirit since we are all connected beings, and all three facets are important. We offer Reiki, Craniosacral Therapy, and Biochemical Kinesiology (listed as Muscle Testing for Energy Balancing), in addition to the acupressure we already incorporate into massage, because each individual technique works a little bit differently, and each is complementary to overall health and wellness. Energy work is not only important complementary, but also vital to your overall wellness if you are trying to heal or improve in any way.

We’ll be delving into more details about energy work in future posts.

Is it time to add energy work to your wellness regimen? Now’s a great time to try it and see!

February 22, 2023/by Heidi
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Healthy Living, Natural Remedies, Reiki

How Reiki Speeds Up Healing

Why is Energy Healing Important for Your Basic Health?

            The Human body is a wonder of physical, mental, emotional, and energetic components. All of these systems are intricately connected to each other in ways that are not fully understood yet. Since we are all energetic beings, our system being out of whack can affect multiple aspects of our lives. For the purposes of this article, we’ll just focus on how energetic imbalances can affect your body’s health.

            You may be asking; how can energy really effect how I am feeling? Well there are multiple ways that this can work. I’ll give a basic example. Scientific evidence supports that there is a direct correlation between your emotional state and your physical health.  It is much more common to get sick when you are feeling stressed, sad, or angry versus calm, and happy. When dealing with these “negative” emotions our body becomes more susceptible to disease and illness because our energetic system is out of whack and therefor by extension so is our body. This is why during the winter months, when the sun is limited and we are more prone to depression and stress, it is more common for people to become sick.  While “negative” emotions are all valid emotions, it is important to properly work through them and allow them to flow or they eventually turn into an energetic block that can create many more issues. Having these emotions is not the problem, feeling different emotional states is a cornerstone to the human experience. There is no such thing as a negative emotion, all of them are important and serve a vital function. Not properly feeling and working through the emotions is what turns them negative. It is perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, stressed and other iterations of these feelings. But when they are not properly dealt with and released, they become stuck in the body. The more a person suppresses their emotions, the more physical ailments manifest in the body.

            Think of your body in terms of a flowing river with the water being the energy that flows through all of us. This isn’t exactly how it works but bear with me for the example. If something, say a log (i.e. emotion), were to become trapped in the flow of the river it would disrupt the natural course of the current. If the log is not properly allowed to flow along with the current it could lead to more and more problems like debris piling up to create a damming effect. When the river is dammed, it only has a limited if any flow downstream and causes the upstream flow to go into a state of discord. The blockage would cause disruption and distortion to the ecosystems both inside and outside of the river.

            Let’s move on to talk about the physical body for a second. Depending on multiple variables, the human body is stated to be an average of 60% water. Water is a great energetic amplifier. If you are unfamiliar with how water can be shaped by thoughts and emotions, I urge you to check out Dr. Emoto and his studies of water. These studies go into detail about how water that is exposed to loving intentions result in pleasing geometric shaped molecular formations while those on the opposite side of the spectrum form distorted formations. This shows that the vibration of an emotion can cause distortion. One of the amazing things water is capable of is diffusion through the process of osmosis. Meaning that water will spread from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration until it forms an equilibrium. This is also true for your energy field. If the energy of a “negative” thought, emotion, or pattern is held in the body long enough it will spread throughout the entire body. While at first the body exhibits a more localized ailment relating to the specifics of the blockage, with enough time more ailments will pop up as the blocks become worse and the energetic discord elevates.

            How can Reiki and energy work help this? Getting to the root of the problem, dealing with the emotions, and balancing the blocked energy leads to the body healing the ailment caused by the distortion. While anyone can do this inner work, it can be difficult to see the solution to the problem when you are in the middle of it. Getting in touch with an adept energy healer can not only speed up the process, but help you out in the future. Reiki practitioners improve and redirect the flow of energy in and around the body to rebalance the system. This allows the body to properly heal what was in a state of constant discord. When our energy is balanced, our immunity is strong and our physical health increases. No matter who you are and what you have been through, you deserve to be happy and healthy. Try out a Reiki session with me and experience how it can help you.

Rebecca, Reiki Master Practitioner

February 9, 2023/by Heidi
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Healthy Living, Natural Remedies, Reiki

Want To Be Less Reactive to Triggers?

Each of us is plagued with our own internal saboteurs, who once protected us during childhood, but now just get in the way of us feeling at ease. Finding your true inner wise voice takes time and practice, but it really is just as simple as noticing what your saboteur is up to, and choosing a different path and reaction. (Note that simple does not mean easy!) It helps to set a timer throughout the day to retrain your way of thinking – do a short meditation, ask your older, wiser self what matters most about the things troubling you today, that sort of thing.

There are many tools out there to help retrain your brain out of its typical reactions to triggers. But another big help is to focus on your own “life force energy” – and that is where Reiki comes in.

Reiki is a form of energy healing that originated in Japan. At Renu, our clients are very familiar with various Chinese methods of healing that we employ, including cupping therapy and acupressure.

Reiki is more akin to acupressure in that it seeks to bring balance and flow to your energy fields. Reiki is simply another methodology to accomplish what acupressure and acupuncture also see to do. As with acupressure and acupuncture, you may or may not notice your energy shifting during a session, but the session will still be helpful to your overall wellbeing and growth.

Are you seeking more balance and wellness in 2023? Perhaps it’s time to try something new and different like energy work and see if you start feeling better after a few sessions.

February 3, 2023/by Heidi
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Healthy Living, Natural Remedies, Reiki

10 Things You Didn’t Know about Reiki

Renu is thrilled to have a Reiki Master joining our team! Rebecca has many years of experience with energy healing. We’re excited to build a practice with her.

Here’s 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Reiki:

  1. It’s not just for people
  2. You don’t have to be physically present to receive a session
  3. It’s not just about stress relief but can be used for physical, mental, and emotional ailments
  4. It’s considered and “intelligent energy”
  5. Intention matters
  6. Works in tandem with other modalities or professional healthcare
  7. It’s Japanese it it’s origin (ok, you probably knew that one…)
  8. It’s not a religion, but a spiritual practice
  9. Anyone can learn it
  10. It can be used for almost anything, including charging objects

Interested in learning more? Check out Rebecca’s FAQ’s on our Reiki page! Book a Reiki session here, and book any session from the Schedule Online button above.

January 20, 2023/by Heidi
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Natural Remedies

New Scheduling System!

We are now live on our new scheduling system – we switched to Vagaro this past week. We think you will have a much more pleasant user experience going forward. We hope it’ll be as great as we’ve heard and that this will be the last time we need to do this!

As we transition, a few things are not yet set up for you: electronic intake forms and memberships. Those still need to be configured and will be available soon. Memberships will need to be structured differently, so things will be a little different going forward. In the meantime, you are still able to use any unused sessions from your membership as you have before – we are tracking those on a spreadsheet. If you are caught up on your membership, just pay as you go until we get our new ones set up.

We have updated the links on our website. If you are still being directed to Acuity, you will need to clear your cache. You should see this when you click on one of our scheduling links:

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You can also find us by going to Vagaro and searching for us, and you can download the Vagaro app for even more convenience. You can even pay from the app for a contactless purchase.

Please do let us know of any issues as we transition – there are always things that come up, and we appreciate your help in getting all the little things fixed.

August 3, 2022/by Heidi
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Body Treatments, Craniosacral Therapy, Healthy Living, Massage, Natural Remedies, Renu's History

Welcome Zhanna!

Announcing our newest team member – Zhanna! We’re so thrilled to welcome her, and we think you will all love her work. Zhanna was trained in massage therapy at East-West Healing Arts (as were the rest of us), so eastern therapeutic techniques are incorporated into Zhanna’s massage sessions, using meridians and acupressure.

Zhanna is also trained in Craniosacral Therapy (CST) from the Upledger Institute, and she really has a passion for this work. This is hands on, unlike reiki, but it is also unlike a massage. CST incorporates gentle pressure, focusing on the Craniosacral system and fascial system of the body. Clients stay clothed for CST work.

In addition, Zhanna is a licensed esthetician, and we may add those services in the near future. Zhanna has limited availability this summer, and we plan to add more days and hours starting in the Fall.

We hope you’ll book a session with Zhanna and see why we’re so excited to have her on the team!

June 29, 2022/by Heidi
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Natural Remedies

Why We’re Still Requiring Masks

We’re keeping all our Covid safety protocols in place for the time-being, as many other places have relaxed their requirements after Dane County’s latest order expired. Here’s our top reasons why:

  1. Massage therapy is considered health care in Wisconsin. We must comply with HIPAA, and we have higher standards when it comes to health and safety. We follow the guidelines for healthcare workers, not for general businesses.
  2. The pandemic is not over. It does feel like we’re turning a substantial corner, which is great! Dane County’s cases are finally below 100 per 100,000 for the first time since last summer, but we want those cases to be even lower than they currently are as of this writing. Hospitalizations and deaths are also declining, but people are still dying every day from this pandemic, and we are not yet to endemicity.
  3. Lots of people have immunocompromised conditions (or live with those who do). It’s not uncommon for people who seek massage therapy on a regular basis to have other underlying conditions that massage helps manage or alleviate. We would rather err on the side of protecting everyone’s health and safety than have an environment that makes anyone with an underlying health condition uncomfortable. 
  4. The CDC is in the process of revising its guidelines again. Per the Associated Press, the US just extended its federal mask mandate for travel through mid-April, and in the meantime, the CDC will develop new, more targeted policies that will consider the number of cases nationally and in local communities, as well as the risk of new variants Speaking of…
  5. We don’t yet know what the next variant will become. It’s already out there, and experts are unsure whether we’ve reached a level of vaccination and immunity that will preclude another spike like we had with Omicron, or whether it will be different enough to start a whole new wave. We want to protect both our staff and our clients until we know which way things will go, since we cannot do massage from a safe distance. 

These are the most significant reasons, and most of the clients we’ve spoken with about this topic are grateful we are keeping our precautions in place. We do hope we’re finally on our way up and out of this long challenge, but we’re going to wait until more is known. We don’t want to be among the first to relax the protective measures; we will be among the last to do so. And we sincerely hope that cases continue their swift decline, and that we are finally coming out of this pandemic at long last. 

March 13, 2022/by Heidi
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Healthy Living, Natural Remedies

Are You Drinking Enough Water?

I learned something from one of my regular health care providers that I found surprising. And evidently it’s become a more common problem for all essential workers in general. I could see this being a problem for anyone who’s wearing a mask all day at work, which includes many of us. 

You guessed it – water consumption is way down for those wearing masks at work all day. And that is leading to an increase of kidney stones in otherwise young and healthy individuals. I’ve never had one of these, but I hear there are miserable! This was confirmed by my health care provider, who seemed way too young to have had this problem. 

I don’t think there’s a magic number of ounces that you need to consume; the best way to tell if you’re hydrated is by the color of your urine. If it’s too concentrated, then you need to find a way to drink more while maintaining your safety from Covid by wearing your mask. Especially during these drier winter months: make a plan, set reminders, drink your water. 

Another factor that has led to more instances of kidney stones is too much Vitamin D. Did you know that was a thing? I sure didn’t! If you’re taking more than 1,000 – 2,000 iu’s per day, that’s too much – according to the people who treated my provider’s recent kidney stone. 

So here are a few other small things you can do to improve your health and wellness as we begin a new year – more water, and (potentially) less Vitamin D. That seems doable. 

February 3, 2022/by Heidi
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