Reiki Event Collab with Onyx Acupuncture
Reiki and Acupuncture Combination Treatment Event
Presented by The Mindful Bird in Collaboration with Layne Bronson at Onyx Acupuncture in Denver, Colorado, February 2021
Emerging from the cocoon of the pandemic, Layne and I decided to merge two ancient energy healing practices in a group setting to reignite community, connection, and tuning into our energy systems. The impact on the attendees felt quite powerful.
The workshop event consisted of education, supportive tangible tools, and a combined Reiki and acupuncture treatment to maximize movement of energy pathways in the body.
Acupuncture and Reiki Event Outline
We opened the event with movement and invitation to be vulnerable to really open the body, heart and mind after being isolated from others over the year of 2020.
Layne began teaching on Traditional Chinese Medicine wisdom around the five elements in nature that correlate to the energy and elements within our spirit’s essence and the body. Layne talked about how we can balance each element within our spirit by engaging with the spirit of the seasons and what the earth has to offer in support of our movement through the times.
Afterward, I taught the group of ten women how to connect with the psycho-somatic energy centers of the body, similarly known as the chakra system in Sanskrit. I journeyed them through a worksheet that allowed them to take note of how they were feeling connected or disconnected to the concepts of these energy centers. Then, we used different clearing and enhancing techniques that are well known in energywork that had to do with sensing into, clearing, and reinvigorating each center. I wanted the clients to have the worksheet to look back on to see how they’ve changed in their connections over time.
After a small break where the women were able to mingle and connect a bit deeper, we started the Reiki and Acupuncture treatment. I began with a guided meditation to support the body coming into a deeply relaxed state.
Layne opened the energy channels of the body through auricular acupuncture. This is a method of using tiny acupuncture needles inserted to meridian correlated points of the ear. This method supports opening the energy channels or meridians within the body to permit easeful flow.
Following insertion, I went around and provided a few minutes of Reiki and Energywork techniques to further support and facilitate flow, clearing, and restoration. The women reported greater feeling in their visceral sensations, heightened awareness through visuals, and deeper feelings of love and compassion for themselves.
Post-Event Reflections
The results were so powerful! I remember one attendee had a major heart opening experience. Knowing nothing about her prior to or during the event, I could tell her heart was tender and needing support. I remember pulling a large energy from her heart as she broke down in tears from a sensation of feeling loved, seen, and supported.
I later learned she had recently left a 10 year relationship and the event provided connection and visceral engagement that she hadn’t felt in some time. This woman then decided to engage in a 10-session Reiki package facilitated by me through bi-weekly sessions over the course of a few months. The final results were so profound and this is when I knew Reiki and Energyhealing could truly support someone in coming into alignment. She stood in her worth to find a job she loved, feel her passion in purpose, and release old wounds and ways of thinking around her break-up. This client reported that these sessions provided energy, space, and openness to begin a new relationship and feel confident in who she was after infidelity. I am happy to say that even two years after the event, she is happily coupled with her new partner.
I truly believe that when we are invited to let our guard down, be a bit more vulnerable, and engage with community, we really are able to feel seen, supported, and heard. This concept of allowing yourself to be vulnerable is such a super power because it releases tension and allows you to open. When we are open, we can flow and when we flow, we move, create, and re-become.
The interchange of these ancient eastern practices, Reiki and Acupuncture combined, is incredibly supportive to opening and enhancing the flow of our qi, ki, or life-force energy.
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