I was just reading an article on Reiki and teens and how some schools are actually bringing Reiki to the students. The teen years are such turbulent times with so many emotional issues that arise it just makes it hard to be a teen. The article states how Reiki is great for teens as they don't have to talk. They can just relax into the experience. It also works well with ADD and ADHD students because it can calm and balance. Reiki can also help with depression. The article states that one school in Maine offered Reiki to students after they had lost 8 students to accidents and suicide in six months! The school reported that Reiki helped the students cope with the losses. Maybe we should have a Reiki practitioner on staff in the schools! Or a class to teach teens how to give Reiki to each other. I would love to be a part of such a program. Those of you who are teachers out there, let your administration know about the benefits of Reiki and how it might help your students. What a blessing this would be to our children and our world!
May your day be filled with all good things,
Jeanne
Monday, March 23, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Greeting the Spring Equinox!
It's spring! The time of the year when we all breathe in the freshness of the warmer air. The earth awakens and so do we! We come out of our dark and dreary dens of solitude and voraciously absorb the warmth of the sun and of the light. The seeds you planted during the dark days will now awaken to the sun and bloom in the coming months. What excitement! Mother Earth now opens her body to us all to plant, to grow, to dance upon her great belly!
To celebrate the equinox I am offering a spring trance dance this evening. A time to come and learn what seeds will now be growing within you in the coming months. Come and experience the spirit of the dance and the spirit of the equinox and dance their rhythms in pure joy!
May your day be filled with the promise of the new in your life,
Jeanne
To celebrate the equinox I am offering a spring trance dance this evening. A time to come and learn what seeds will now be growing within you in the coming months. Come and experience the spirit of the dance and the spirit of the equinox and dance their rhythms in pure joy!
May your day be filled with the promise of the new in your life,
Jeanne
Friday, March 13, 2009
Friday the 13th
I just received the following email on Friday the 13th and I thought I would pass this info on to you. It was written by Donna Hennes who wrote The Queen of Myself:
Why Friday the 13th is a Very Lucky Day, Indeed By Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman*
When the 13th day on the month lands on a Friday,the culturally unfavorable attributes of each are multiplied by infinity. Friday, the day of original sin, the day Jesus died, the day of public hangings, incombination with 13, the number of steps on a gallows, the number of coils of rope in a hangman's noose, the number of the Death card in the tarotdeck, is indubitably designated as a day of portent and doom. The pitiful suicide note of a window washer that was found with his body in a gas-filled room at his home and quoted in a 1960 issue of the YorkshirePost, underscores its powerful, popular reputation, "It just needed to rain today - Friday the 13th - for me to make up my mind." Poor sod. But up until the patriarchal revolution, both Fridays and13s were held in the very highest esteem. Both the day and the number were associated with the Great Goddesses, and therefore, regarded as the sacred essence of luck and good fortune. Thirteen is certainly the most essentially female number - the average number of menstrual cycles in a year. The approximate number, too of annual cycles of the moon. When Chinese women make offerings of moon cakes, there are sure to be 13 on the platter. Thirteen is the number of blood, fertility and lunar potency. 13 is the lucky number of the Great Goddess. Held holy in Her honor, Friday was observed as the day of Her special celebrations. Jews around the world still begin the observance of the Sabbath at sunset on Friday evenings when they invite in the Sabbath Bride. Friday is the Sabbath in the Islamic world. Friday is also sacred to Oshun, the Yorubanorisha of opulent sensuality and overwhelming femininity, and Frig the Norse Goddess of love and sex, of fertility and creativity. Her name became the Anglo-Saxon noun for love, and in the sixteenth century, frig came to mean *to copulate.* Friday the 13th is ultimately the celebration of the lives and loves of Lady Luck. On this, Her doubly-dedicated day, let us consider what fortuitous coincidences constitute our fate. The lucky blend of just the right conditions, chemistries, elements and energies, which comprise our universe. The way it all works.The way we are. That we are at all. That, despite whatever major or minor matters we might think are unlucky, we have somehow managed to remain alive and aware. This Friday the 13th, let us stand in full consciousness of the miraculousness of existenceand count our blessings. Knock on wood. * (c) Permission is granted to copy, reproduce, re-print orpromulgate in any manner this copyrighted material so long ascorrect attribution and contact information is included. *****************************************************Donna Henes is an internationally renowned urban shaman,eco-ceremonialist, award-winning author, popular speaker and workshop leader whose joyful celebrations of celestial events have introduced ancient traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies to millions of people in more than 100 cities since 1972. She has published four books, a CD,an acclaimed quarterly journal and writes a column for UPI(United Press International) Religion and Spirituality Forum.Mama Donna, as she is affectionately called, maintains aceremonial center, spirit shop, ritual practice and consultancyin Exotic Brooklyn, NY where she works with individuals, groups,institutions, municipalities and corporations to create meaningfulceremonies for every imaginable occasion. For information about upcoming events and services contact: Mama Donna's Tea Garden & Healing HavenPO Box 380403 Exotic Brooklyn, New York, NY 11238-0403Phone: 718/857-1343Email: CityShaman@aol.comwww.DonnaHenes.netwww.MamaDonnasSpiritShop.com/www.TheQueenofMySelf.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Henes Read her blog at:http://www.myspace.com/queenmamadonna http://queenmamadonna.blogspot.com http://mamadonnahenes.gaia.com/
Why Friday the 13th is a Very Lucky Day, Indeed By Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman*
When the 13th day on the month lands on a Friday,the culturally unfavorable attributes of each are multiplied by infinity. Friday, the day of original sin, the day Jesus died, the day of public hangings, incombination with 13, the number of steps on a gallows, the number of coils of rope in a hangman's noose, the number of the Death card in the tarotdeck, is indubitably designated as a day of portent and doom. The pitiful suicide note of a window washer that was found with his body in a gas-filled room at his home and quoted in a 1960 issue of the YorkshirePost, underscores its powerful, popular reputation, "It just needed to rain today - Friday the 13th - for me to make up my mind." Poor sod. But up until the patriarchal revolution, both Fridays and13s were held in the very highest esteem. Both the day and the number were associated with the Great Goddesses, and therefore, regarded as the sacred essence of luck and good fortune. Thirteen is certainly the most essentially female number - the average number of menstrual cycles in a year. The approximate number, too of annual cycles of the moon. When Chinese women make offerings of moon cakes, there are sure to be 13 on the platter. Thirteen is the number of blood, fertility and lunar potency. 13 is the lucky number of the Great Goddess. Held holy in Her honor, Friday was observed as the day of Her special celebrations. Jews around the world still begin the observance of the Sabbath at sunset on Friday evenings when they invite in the Sabbath Bride. Friday is the Sabbath in the Islamic world. Friday is also sacred to Oshun, the Yorubanorisha of opulent sensuality and overwhelming femininity, and Frig the Norse Goddess of love and sex, of fertility and creativity. Her name became the Anglo-Saxon noun for love, and in the sixteenth century, frig came to mean *to copulate.* Friday the 13th is ultimately the celebration of the lives and loves of Lady Luck. On this, Her doubly-dedicated day, let us consider what fortuitous coincidences constitute our fate. The lucky blend of just the right conditions, chemistries, elements and energies, which comprise our universe. The way it all works.The way we are. That we are at all. That, despite whatever major or minor matters we might think are unlucky, we have somehow managed to remain alive and aware. This Friday the 13th, let us stand in full consciousness of the miraculousness of existenceand count our blessings. Knock on wood. * (c) Permission is granted to copy, reproduce, re-print orpromulgate in any manner this copyrighted material so long ascorrect attribution and contact information is included. *****************************************************Donna Henes is an internationally renowned urban shaman,eco-ceremonialist, award-winning author, popular speaker and workshop leader whose joyful celebrations of celestial events have introduced ancient traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies to millions of people in more than 100 cities since 1972. She has published four books, a CD,an acclaimed quarterly journal and writes a column for UPI(United Press International) Religion and Spirituality Forum.Mama Donna, as she is affectionately called, maintains aceremonial center, spirit shop, ritual practice and consultancyin Exotic Brooklyn, NY where she works with individuals, groups,institutions, municipalities and corporations to create meaningfulceremonies for every imaginable occasion. For information about upcoming events and services contact: Mama Donna's Tea Garden & Healing HavenPO Box 380403 Exotic Brooklyn, New York, NY 11238-0403Phone: 718/857-1343Email: CityShaman@aol.comwww.DonnaHenes.netwww.MamaDonnasSpiritShop.com/www.TheQueenofMySelf.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Henes Read her blog at:http://www.myspace.com/queenmamadonna http://queenmamadonna.blogspot.com http://mamadonnahenes.gaia.com/
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Dreams
I had a very powerful dream last night that told me I needed to put on the play, The Serpent. In my dream I was very familiar with this story and all I could think was how powerful it would be for people now. When I woke up this morning I did some searching . I went to Amazon and found that there is a book called the Serpent, and, in fact, the story is a play!!!! It is a look back at the garden of Eden and Adam and Eve and the author states how we need to go back and heal ourselves there. Here's the blurb from Amazon on it:
"Writing in the turbulent late 1960's, Jean Claude van Itallie traces the chaotic, violent state of modern man to Genesis and original sin in the play The Serpent. Abstract representations of political assassinations and banal, detached monologues diagnose America as a sick society weakened by war, turmoil, and essentially lonely individuals. The Garden of Eden, complete with the Serpent itself, is van Itallie's meeting place connecting the fall of modern society to the fall of Adam and Eve. Van Itallie suggests that society can heal when we "revisit" the Garden of Eden and recover our collective lost innocence through hope and connectedness with ourselves and with one another. "
So I'm sending this out there to you all---I know nothing of putting on a play, but I plan on reading the play first and then maybe I'll know more what to do with it after that. Are any of you out there familiar with this? I'm open to your feedback! It certainly is a relevant theme for today.
Many blessings to you all,
Jeanne
"Writing in the turbulent late 1960's, Jean Claude van Itallie traces the chaotic, violent state of modern man to Genesis and original sin in the play The Serpent. Abstract representations of political assassinations and banal, detached monologues diagnose America as a sick society weakened by war, turmoil, and essentially lonely individuals. The Garden of Eden, complete with the Serpent itself, is van Itallie's meeting place connecting the fall of modern society to the fall of Adam and Eve. Van Itallie suggests that society can heal when we "revisit" the Garden of Eden and recover our collective lost innocence through hope and connectedness with ourselves and with one another. "
So I'm sending this out there to you all---I know nothing of putting on a play, but I plan on reading the play first and then maybe I'll know more what to do with it after that. Are any of you out there familiar with this? I'm open to your feedback! It certainly is a relevant theme for today.
Many blessings to you all,
Jeanne
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