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The plants in the forest grew wild with abandon. Overflowing with the force of life. Then death suddenly came on the wind. A fire spreading with each exhale. Charred. Empty. Still. Those that survived became scorched by the flames. Blackened bark with life. And then, slowly…month by month…a layer of skin was laid down to […]

Each one of us has had their own experience with the last five months. On this beautiful summer morning, I am ‘honoring the pause’ to reflect what’s taken place in my little world and giving space for what may occur over the fall and winter. It was February when I began watching with regularity YouTube […]

In this 5 week series, you will transform limiting and fearful thought patterns and come up with tangible strategies to create and implement your own paradigm for the life you want to be living. Through the confidential and safe space and support of the group and the practice of self-empowering tools, gain the courage and […]

“What dream would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail?” This was my answer to that question when I was asked it over 20 years ago: “I’d want to feel as I had taught a class where everyone had gotten something out of it. I’d want to do the same for […]

As we all move forward through this pandemic, I wanted to ask this group for their thoughts, ideas and decisions they may be making in how they will be practicing Reiki in-person if you choose to do so. Below is a compilation of resources I created for my own practitioners enrolled in The Reiki Training Program. […]

What does the group practice of Reiki look like in this new world? I’m calling it Reiki Fellowship Distant Practice. Our ‘old ways’ of coming together and doing touch therapy with each other is off the table until such time that either everyone has immunity from the virus. So that’s going to take awhile. In […]

A few days ago I participated in the Seattle Sing-A-long on my front porch. It was an uplifting few minutes that lasted within my heart well into that evening. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Feileen.dey%2Fvideos%2F10157466250793583%2F&show_text=0&width=267“>Here is the video. It seems every day in some way, finding a method, technique or distraction to maintain lightness is an important goal amidst the […]

As a child I remember having this recurring dream. In it, all the old structures around us had crumbled to the ground and there were these bird people looking after us. I must have been about 5 years old when I first started having these dreams because it was before I was going to school […]

Washington now joins the ranks of the other states in the US that have declared shelter in place or stay at home orders for it’s residents. We’ve already been doing much of that over the last few weeks, but now, the pace of life begins to slow down even more as we are required to […]

Finally, I feel like I am able to start planning for the next phase of the Reiki work I do. Just like everyone else, I’ve had to process all the information and feelings and then find a way to adjust to all the recent rapid changes in our world to the best of my ability,. […]

Practicing Reiki: We all have the ability to channel Universal energy. Formal training increases our capacity. The flow of ki travels through our meridian and chakra system (energetic pathways) and assists in bringing our bodies and minds back into balance. Take time to do this practice each day and it will assist in calming and […]

Using the Story of Usui as a Model For the next 21 days consider Usui’s story as it relates to your life. Set aside morning and evening contemplation time and space to reflect on the following and give yourself Reiki and/or meditation. Note insights in a special journal, using the ‘signposts’ on this page as […]

“Fear is the darkroom in which your negatives develop.” I saw that statement on a billboard in San Francisco over 25 years ago. It’s a good reminder to me then and now to keep my fears in check and to not give them overwhelming attention. This has been a challenge, to say the least, over […]

‘We need to prepare for a marathon’ one of my clients, who works in public health, shared with me thinking about the months ahead. It already feels like we have been enduring, as Seattle and it’s residents lived 90 days without sun over the winter. The pattern finally started to break only in mid-February. Today’s […]

We are living in an extraordinary time. Even if the pandemic is not in your city (yet) you are affected by it in some way. I’ve found as a counselor working with my clients, that even in the best of circumstances, underlying conditions like anxiety and depression are difficult to manage. Add in an extra […]

I’ve been watching Dr. Campbell over the last week and found his perspective very enlightening and helpful in making sense of how the virus has been playing out in the US and the world at large. I want to introduce you to him if you haven’t met before: Hello Everyone, My name is John Campbell […]

Since last week, my daily habits have changed significantly, including looking at the statistics of newly infected COVID-19 cases in Washington state. Each morning, with my coffee in hand, I read the daily counts of infected and other news updates on what other part of the infrastructure has been effected. Increased testing of the population […]

With northern Italy now putting 16 million of their people in quarantine the US and more specifically, Seattle, where I live, is asking ‘what’s next?’. Since starting an online Coronavirus support group/healing circle last week, residents of King County have been joining me and sharing their own personal experiences. It’s been helpful to hear we […]

If we aren’t being proactive we will continue to be reactive to all the stories in the media about Coronavirus. I feel it’s important to know the facts of what is actually occurring, not the sensationalism of what is being slickly presented on some media outlets. So I scoured the web for trustworthy sources of […]

Finishing out this first week of living at the center of this epidemic, it was apparent to me how many details of living in a metropolitan area had dramatically changed. When I added up the several tens of thousands of employees of all the major tech companies in Seattle that had been requested by their […]