Health & Wellness Services

On-Site massage not offered Fall 2010. Contact us for local massage therapy referrals.

Reiki Healing Sessions

with Marianne Snow

60 minute sessions, $75

The word Reiki (ray-key) is a Japanese word that means God Force or Universal Life Energy. Reiki is an ancient hands-on healing technique that is natural and holistic. It is a simple system that transmits spiritually guided universal life force energy from the practitioner to the client. It restores, balances, harmonizes and invigorates the energies of the body, heart, mind and spirit thus promoting healing, and facilitating personal growth.

Reiki is not a religion nor do you need to embrace a particular belief for it to work. It supports and compliments other traditional medical and alternative healing techniques. This wonderful and limitless energy is available to all. It facilitates and accelerates our healing process, and is used in a wide variety of circumstances: anxiety and stress reduction, migraine headaches, before and after surgeries, infertility, arthritis, asthma, helping people who are actively dying, chronic fatigue, back and neck pain, grief and other deep, emotional traumas, those undergoing cancer treatment, those making major life transitions, etc. The conditions and situations are limitless.

Marianne is a non-denominational minister, Reiki master practitioner and teacher, YogaKids tm certified teacher, Mass. Certified Teacher K-9, workshop and retreat facilitator, meditation instructor, writer, collage artist, art teacher and storyteller/singer. She facilitates weekly meditation and healing circles, and presents at conferences, workshops and retreats for small and large groups. As a minister, she creates and officiates weddings, baptisms/dedication ceremonies, funerals and helps people who are dying. In addition, she is a ceremonialist who produces meaningful rituals that honor the seasons. The thread that flows through each of these ventures is interconnected and encompasses both healing and creativity. She is the mother of two wonderful daughters who have been instrumental in spurring her healing journey.

Ear Coning

Chris Warner, M.ed, CYT

Treatment sessions last between 30 and 45 minutes, $45

Ear Coning (also known as 'ear candling') is the ancient Tibetan healing practice of ear care through the use of paraffin candles and sacred smoke. The cone of the hollow candle is placed in the ear, creating an upward vacuum that allows for gentle suctioning of excess wax and sinus/allergy debris. Coning is a holistic method of ear care that is also thought to stimulate and soothe the energetic pathways throughout the subtle body. You may experience improved hearing and dreaming, relief from 'itchy' ears, improved ability to breathe through the nose and relief from sinus infection symptoms. In general, seasonal treatment is recommended (2 to 4 times per year), although more frequent treatments may be in order if ears are particularly clogged or 'itchy'. It is recommended that the head not be submersed in water for 24 hours following coning.

Ayurvedic Assessment and Consultation

Chris Warner, M.ed, CYT

Ayurvedic Assessment, $65
Follow-up consultation, which may include: dietary consultation, yoga modifications, lifestyle choices and assistance, $50

Ayurveda is the ancient Vedic wisdom system of natural healing from India—Ayurveda is a Sanskrit term meaning 'science of life'. It is the medical side of the yogic systems of India that include Yoga, Tantra and Buddhism, and is a practical method of promoting health, happiness and creative and spiritual growth. Like Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda is based in the understanding of naturally balanced whole-health which leads to our ability to fulfill our biological and spiritual instincts—religious, financial, procreative and our instinct toward freedom. Ayurveda comprehends the body, the mind and the spirit as one and regards any breakdown in bodily function as having roots in the perceptual process, resulting from wrong use of the senses. Too much, too little, or wrong use of the senses results in wrong actions that cause us eventual pain and suffering.

Ayurveda is the healing branch of Yogic science. Yoga is the spiritual aspect of Ayurveda, while Ayurveda is the therapeutic aspect of Yoga, and thus, Yoga is far more than the physical exercise, or asana practice, that is most well-known in Western culture.

Your Ayurvedic assessment, comprised of two questionairres, followed by a detailed report, will inform you of the 'Doshic' type with which you are most constitutionally aligned, and will provide you will suggestions for balance and well-being in all aspects of your life, including: diet, lifestyle choices, colors and scents, pranayama, and therapeutic yoga asanas for your type. You may also choose to follow up your assessment with a one-on-one session in order to develop a home yoga practice suited to your constitutional type.

The assessment and suggestions are just that; this analysis is in no way intended to replace the care of your physician or other health-care providers, and is especially not intended to become yet another 'should' or ideal to which we compare ourselves, thus creating suffering. It is intended as a gentle guideline, to be used as a tool in conjunction with our innate intuition and commonsense.

Cancellation Policy

Beginning January 1st, 2009, Private Yoga Instruction, Massage, and all other Wellness sessions will be subject to a 24 hour cancellation policy (barring extreme New England weather conditions). Otherwise, a 50% charge of the full session price will apply.

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