You are invited to experience a relaxing Reiki TUMMO group healing session in our Healing Clinic.  The energy from group healing is very powerful, yet safe and non-intrusive and very relaxing.

The healing clinic is at 243 Swanson Rd. Henderson starting at 7.30

For enquiries about the Healing Clinic, please contact: Raewyn Somers   +64 9 8374629  OR email  raewyn.somers@xtra.co.nz

HAVE you ever heard the expression “Have a heart”? Taupo people are doing  exactly that on September 3rd in a day-long workshop.

Provided participants are ready and willing to smile and relax the workshops can be life-changing, least of all enjoyable. Having spent a lifetime closing my heart and becoming a hard-arse as a  consequence of life’s knocks, opening it again was liberation in capitals.

According to the Indian Behavioural Department of Human Sciences, a child smiles 300 times a day, a teenager 30 and an adult merely 21 times a day.

The heart that I refer to is the “heart-felt” place in the middle of your chest that you can feel in response to feelings such as love and joy. The happiness we practice when truly opening our  hearts is not because of some external stimulus, but comes from the heart itself. That’s easier said than done and takes practice but is well worth it. Once people have gained the initial skills, ongoing local and online support is available as are practise CDs. What I’ve learnt since practising the opening of my heart is that there is no need to analyse why certain blocks have arisen. It’s easy to smile relax and release the blocks.

Open Heart is a form of meditation that while practicing reduces the dominance of the brain. Don’t get me wrong, the brain which is a fantastic instrument, is not diminished but rather enhanced with the balance of a stronger heart. Making the right decisions becomes easier.

Open Heart is practiced world-wide and in the case of the upcoming Taupo workshop the teacher Vincent, is coming from Australia.  He is also booked to teach in Havelock North, Wairoa and Auckland (click on upcoming events for dates and contact information for all workshops). An early-bird discount is offered off the $175 beginners course fee if paid by 20^th August.

Taupo co-ordinator Gillian Cook

Profiling Francine Marsich-Mullins NZ’s first local Open Heart teacher