March Classes & Healing Services at Earth Lodge

March Classes : Mark Your Calenders!

Shamanic Journey Circle, Thursday, 3/11

Reiki Share, Friday, 3/12, 3/26
Drum Circle, Wednesday, 3/17

Dream Circle, Monday, 3/22

Usui & Karuna Reiki Certifications, Call to Schedule

Course in Miracles Circle, Call to Schedule

For more information about our classes see our full March schedule at www.earthlodgeherbals.com/classes.htm

Earth Lodge Services

Make an appointment for healing!

We offer many wonderful healing therapies and services at Earth Lodge. Our therapists are all certified with 100s of logged table hours between them. We enjoy working with all ages and species: We all can use a little boost from time to time, don’t be afraid to treat yourself or ask for help.

Call (860) 237-8801 or email info@earthlodgeherbals.com

To schedule an appointment and put yourself on the road to health today!

Reiki: 45 minutes, $65

Shamanic Healing: 1-2 hours, $120

Polarity Therapy: Initial visit, $90. Follow-up: $75

Animal Reiki: Cat/Dog, $45 Large Animal, $80 (House-call $125)

Tarot Reading: $30

Palm Reading: $80

Home & Property Clearings: $150 Followups $50

Lymphatic Drainage: $90
Immunity Boost Treatment: $30

Channeled Readings & Advice (online only): $20-$80

For more information about any of our treatments visit our website or give us a call.

If you need help and are in financial distress, please don’t let that stop you from calling us: we are often willing to barter our services on a need basis.

The Many Benefits of Drumming: Circle Meets Tonight!

Tonight is our monthly drumming circle from 6-7PM, free for all ages. We drum in the Native American heartbeat style. Rattles and chanters are welcome, too. Drumming is a wonderfully healing and therapeutic activity that gets us in tune with our own hearts and minds, and allows us to release the stresses of the day, week, and month. Drumming helps us relax and enter meditative states (read more about that below), and tends to also increase feelings of ease and joy for those who attend the circle. Children of all ages and attention spans are welcome, making this a community-minded event that re-awakens our memories of being one-family, one-village, one-and-all. We have plenty of extra drums and rattles, so don't feel like you can't come if you don't have one :)

Below, I have compiled a list of many more benefits of drumming: even if you can't make it to our circle, just see how a little drumming at home could increase your well-being:

Blood samples from participants of an hour-long drumming session revealed a reversal of the hormonal stress response and an increase in natural killer cell activity (Bittman, Berk, Felten, Westengard, Simonton, Pappas, Ninehouser, 2001, Alternative Therapies, vol. 7, no. 1).

Stanford University School of Medicine conducted a study with 30 depressed people over 80 years of age and found that participants in a weekly music therapy group were less anxious, less distressed and had higher self-esteem (Friedman, Healing Power of the Drum, 1994).

Subjects who participated in a clinical trial using the HealthRhythms cancer protocol showed an increase in natural killer cell activity and an enhanced immune system. While this does not indicate a cure for cancer, such results may be of benefit for those facing this disease. (Bittman, Berk, Felten, Westengard, Simonton, Pappas, Ninehouser, 2001, Alternative Therapies, vol. 7, no. 1).

According to Clair, Bernstein and Johnson (1995), Alzheimer’s patients who drum can connect better with loved ones. The predictability of rhythm may provide the framework for repetitive responses that make few cognitive demands on people with dementia.

Rhythmic cues can help retrain the brain after a stroke or other neurological impairment, according to Michael Thaurt, director of Colorado State University’s Center of Biomedical Research in Music. Researchers have also discovered that hearing slow, steady rhythms, such as drumbeats, helps Parkinson patients move more steadily (Friedman, Healing Power of the Drum, 1994).

AND From "The Healing Power of the Drum" by Robert Lawrence Friedman, who quotes Layne Redmond, author of "When the Drummers Were Women."

"One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason that people have done it since the beginning of being human is that is changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, brain and the nervous system are energized and transformed. When a group of people play a rhythm for an extended period of time, their brain waves become entrained to the rhythm and they have a shared brain wave state. The longer the drumming goes on, the more powerful the entrainment becomes. It's really the oldest holy communion. All of the oldest known religious rites used drumming as part of the shared religious experience.

It is interesting to look at these ancient drumming practices from the perspective of the latest scientific research into the functioning of the brain. Using electroencephalographs, scientists can measure the number of energy waves per second pulsing through the brain. A system of classifying states of consciousness according to the frequencies of these waves was created.

Normal outwardly focused attention generates beta waves which vibrate from 14 to 40 cycles per second. When awareness shifts to an internal focus, our brain slows down into the more rhythmical waves of alpha, vibrating at 7-14 waves per second. Alpha is defined by relaxation and centering. Dropping down to 4-7 cycles per second the brain enters the theta state in which there is an interfacing of conscious and unconscious processes, producing hypnologic dream-like imagery at the threshold of sleep. Theta is the course of sudden mystical insights and creative solutions to complex situations and is marked by physical and emotional healing. People with a preponderance of theta brainwaves are also able to learn and process much more information than normal. Without some form of intensive training it is hard to stay awake in theta--one slips quickly down into delta. This is the slowest brainwave frequency, 1-5 cycles per second, the state of unconsciousness or deep sleep.

The brain is divided into two hemispheres that are basically split in their control of the thinking process. The right brain functions as the creative, visual, aural and emotional center. The left brain is the rational, logical, analytical and verbal administrator. Generally, either the right or left brain dominates in cycles lasting from 30 minutes to 3 hours. While one hemisphere is dominant, the memories, skills, and information of the other hemisphere are far less available, residing in a subconscious or unconscious realm. Not only do the right and left brain operate in different modes, they also usually operate in different brain wave rhythms. The right brain may be generating alpha waves while the left brain is in the beta state. Or both can be generating the same type of brain waves, but remain out of sync with each other. But in states of intense creativity, deep meditation or under the influence of rhythmic sound, both hemispheres may becomes entrained to the same rhythm. This state of unified whole brain functioning is called hemispheric synchronization or the awakened mind.

As the two hemispheres begin to resonate to a single rhythm, a sense of clarity and heightened awareness arises. The individual is able to draw on both the left and the right hemispheres simultaneously. The mind becomes sharper, more lucid, synthesizing much more rapidly than normal, and emotions are easier to understand and transform. The conscious and unconscious levels of the mind interface and integrate more easily. Insight quickens and creative intuition flourishes, giving one the ability to visualize and bring into manifestation ideas more easily. An expanded, more complete and integrated state of consciousness comes into existence. Scientists believe that hemispheric synchronization may be the neurological basis of transcendent states of consciousness.

Research has shown that rhythmic music is one of the most effective ways to induce brainwave synchronization. Musical comprehension is a joint function of left and right brains and rhythmic sound can drive the brain waves into alpha or theta states. Many ancient religious practices seem to have originated in attempts to induce the transcendental experiences of hemispheric synchronization. Traditional drumming rituals appear to be efficient techniques for entraining the right and left brains, leading to emotionally and physically healing experiences."

Drum on!

February Classes

Shamanic Journey Circle
The second Thursday of each month from 6-8 PM (2/11)
$15

Reiki Share
(2/12, 2/26)
This community-inspired Reiki Share meets every other Friday from 11am-1pm and is open to all Reiki practitioners, whether you are a Master or just beginning. $10 Donation for use of the space, which is regularly cleared, empowered and blessed by the healers at Earth Lodge.

Drum Circle
3rd Wednesday of each month, 6 Pm (2/17)(FREE)

Animal Healing Clinic
3rd Saturday of each monthly, 2-4 pm. (2/20)
The time for each session will be a minimum of 10 minutes. Sessions are $10, as these are introductory demonstration sessions by Sandra, Maya and Lisa.

Dream Circle
4th Monday of each month, 6 PM (2/22)(FREE)

Course in Miracles Circle -- FREE DEMONSTRATIONS
Sandra is conducting free sessions to demonstrate the planned Course in Miracles Circle - contact us to set up your 2-hour demo.

Usui & Karuna Reiki Certification Classes - Levels 1,2,3 & Master
$150 - $350
Call to Schedule!

Please see our full class schedule for more details.

Fall Classes, Clinics & Events at Earth Lodge

Highlights:

Usui & Karuna Reiki Certifications

Immunity Booster Class

Polarity Therapy Open House

Drummaking Workshop

Crum Circle

Dream Circle

Course in Miracles Circle (Free Demo!)

Reiki Share

Animal Healing Clinic

Shamanic Journey Circle

details below...

Shamanic Journey Circle
This circle meets on the second Thursday of each month from 6-8 PM (9/10, 10/8) and is led by Maya and Sandra.

Commune with your guardian spirits and power animals, journey to power places of wisdom and healing, and experience new levels of Spirit. Shamanic journeys are meditative visualizations, or miniature vision quests, that allow you to access divine wisdom through your subconscious mind. At each open circle we drum, journey twice, and share our experiences. Led by shamanic healer and author Maya Cointreau. Bring a drum or rattle, pen and paper, something to lie on and an eye mask. Beginners welcome. $15

Course in Miracles Circle -- FREE DEMONSTRATIONS

Schedule One Today!
Sandra is conducting free sessions to demonstrate the planned Course in Miracles Circle - contact us to set up your demo. It will be a two hour session and will include a guided meditation lead by Sandra that will be very relaxing and will provide insight on the step by step experiential life-changing Course in Miracles. The meditation will be followed by discussion. Sandra has been through the course three times, and has spent at least 1000 hours on the Course.Once we have an full group for the Circle, we will agree on a schedule to meet: The future class times for the Circle will be set by the demonstration participants who want to move forward with the Course. These first sessions will be free demonstrations. Once the circle officially begins, there will be a $10 fee per class session. No materials are needed.

Reiki Share

This community-inspired Reiki Share meets every other Friday from 11am-1pm(8/21, 9/4, 9/18)and is open to all Reiki practitioners, whether you are a Master or just beginning. Everyone who comes gives and receives, building their Reiki as well as new friendships. The share often begins with 2-4 people working on a person on the table for 10 minutes, then sharing views of what they felt. Then we move on to the next person, until all at each table have experienced the healing for 10 minutes. We find the sharing of perceptions provides useful learning and affirmation on our intuitive physical and ethereal scanning. Earth Lodge has a table for our use, but as the group grows, we may need some to bring their tables. For those with tables, if you could have it in your car, just in case it needed, it would be helpful. $10 Donation for use of the space, which is regularly cleared, empowered and blessed by the healers at Earth Lodge.

Animal Healing Clinic

Saturday, September 26th from 2-4 pm.

People may bring one dog on a leash or one cat in a crate. The time for each session will be a minimum of 10 minutes.. The sessions will each be $10, as these are introductory demonstration sessions by Sandra, Maya and Lisa.

Drum Circle

4th Wednesday of each month, 6 PM (9/30, 10/28)

Bring a drum or a set of rattles. Heart beat native american drumming only. $5 per session.

Dream Circle

4th Wednesday of each month, 6 PM (9/28, 10/26)

Each participant will bring one dream to share and discuss. It can be an old dream, if current dreaming is minimum. In time, dreaming will increase, as one looks forward to the monthly circle and becomes more involved with their dream circle. Experience with dream circles shows that dreaming becomes richer, more intuitive, more prophetic, and provides more messages from Source, one’s higher self, and the subconscious. Each participant assesses their own dream’s meanings, with suggestive ideas from the Circle. Sandra and Maya will lead the circle. $5 donation.

Drummaking Workshop

October 10th from 2-4 PM

Make your own one-sided Native-American style drum in this class, using genuine deer and elk hides ethically hunted on Tribal Reservations. Registration & pre-payment for this class is required by September 25. Specify your choice of drum size. The smaller drum is good for kids under 14, while the larger sizes are recommended for adults. The larger the drum, the deeper and more resonant the sound, generally. $45 + materials cost ($45 for 10" drum, $75 for 14", $95 for 18").

Polarity Therapy Open House

October 17th from 2-4 PM

Are you curious about Polarity Therapy and what its all about? Spend Saturday afternoon at Earth Lodge during this relaxed meet-and-greet, let Polarity Therapist Kathy Lalonde answer your questions and receive a free 10-minute session to balance your chakras and elements.

Immunity Booster - Class

November Date TBA

This experiential class with Kathy Lalonde will teach you the hands-on technique for boosting your immune system and help keep your energies balanced this winter.

Usui and Karuna Reiki Training & Certifications:

I, II, III/Master Available by appointment.

All classes taught by Usui Reiki Master Maya Cointreau or Karuna/Usui Reiki Master Sandra Cointreau

Usui REIKI I: Level One teaches and attunes you to do hands-on healing work. introducing one to the basics of Reiki Healing and all the benefits that can be realized you are a Reiki Practitioner after this first class. Receive four attunements and your first sacred symbol. Experience a guided meditation to your Reiki Healing Guides, and exchange Reiki treatments also. Cost: $150

Usui REIKI II: Level Two teaches you to do distance/absent healing and karmic work. You will receive distance healing attunements and other sacred symbols, and instruction on how to use them. Cost: $150

Usui REIKI III/Master: Level III/Master brings in the final master symbol and attunement, as well as sacred symbols from other Reiki traditions, and teaches you how to pass on Reiki attunements. Cost: $350

Karuna Reiki I: Karuna Reiki is the next step up from being an Usui Reiki Master, bringing in significantly stronger symbols and healing methods inspired by the Reiki Masters of Japan and further improved over many years here in America by the International Reiki Center to raise the vibration of one's healing potential. Students must be certified Usui Reiki Masters with at least 6 months practice following certification. Registered Karuna Reiki® brings in healing energies that are noticeably stronger and more able to heal a wide range of challenges. The Level I Practitioner brings in use of 4 new symbols. $300
Karuna Reiki II: Only for Registered Karuna Reiki I® Practioners. Level II brings in use of 4 new symbols. $300.

Karuna Reiki Master: Receive Karuna Reiki Master training. Prerequisite: Karuna Reiki II. Registered Karuna Reiki Master students will be required to sign a code of ethics, developed by the International Reiki Center and will receive a training manual developed by the Center. Special training will also be provided on animal healing; and an Earth Lodge Animal Healing Level I Practitioner certificate will be awarded. $450.