Healthy Lives, Healing Journey open house and book sale

Just a quick reminder of our upcoming open house and book sale at Lake House Health & Learning Center:

Sunday, Aug. 16, from noon to 3 p.m. at 932 Lake Ave., Racine. Watch for the colorful flag!

Lake House practitioners and friends will gather to speak, demonstrate and share important information about starting you on a healthy journey – or helping you move ahead to your next step of personal growth and change.

If you want to make changes in your life – or are seeking second opinion – or looking for some good bibliotherapy -- or just want to gather with kindred spirits, join us.

Here are the practitioners you'll meet and their specialties:

"Psychotherapy as Experience: How It Creates Real Change" with Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, psychotherapist, coach and psychodramatist.

"Animal Reiki" with Judy Warner, nationally certified massage therapist and Reiki master.

"Pet First Aid" with Michele Safcik, owner of Little Pals, a pet-sitting and pet care service.

"Stress Relieving Yoga" with Marie Boyum, certified yoga teacher, meditation teacher and wellness coach.

"Chiropractic Care for Improved Posture and Reduced Pain at Work" with Dr. Scott Sheriff, chiropractor.

"Spiritual Guidance" with Karen Aiken, spiritual teacher and raw foods consultant based in Lake Geneva.

Plus, Laura Sebastian, Feldenkrais practitioner and macrobiotic cook, will circulate within the open house and answer questions about her work.

We’ll have stacks of affordably priced health books on topics ranging from parenting to self-help to mental health to recovery, plus healthy refreshments, printed information – including the 2009 Guide To Health, Wellness and Creative living in Southeastern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois – and discount coupons and door prizes.

Call (262) 633-2645 for more information.

Relax with Reiki and build your vital energy

Helene Hellesen’s June special with Reiki turned out so fabulously that she’s extended the offer through August 2009. Here it is:

Book a session or buy gift certificates during July and August and mention this offer for a $45 (regularly $60) session for Reiki, Reiki-ssage or a Reiki-reflex session.

These 50-minute sessions great gift idea for birthdays, stress relief, weddings, showers, new mothers, and yourself - and Helene will give you a pretty gift certificate, too. I like to refer to this amazingly calming modality for people experiencing stress, anxiety, racing thoughts and difficulty sleeping, among other difficulties.

The Reiki technique involves a Reiki practitioner focusing energy on the client, either through direct hands-on contact or with the hands several inches away from the client's body. The universal energy may be directed to an area of the body or it is simply "allowed" to flow to where it seeks a balance.

Watch a demonstration of a treatment by well-known Reiki instructor John Harvey Gray here, one of many excellent examples on the Web, where he tells how the method raises general physical vitality:

Reiki is a positive form of energy and cannot cause any harm. It does not have any side effects and it only serves for the highest good of the person who is receiving it.

People who receive Reiki-ssage are finding better results than with traditional massage or pure energy work. They describe the benefits as "a massage that keeps going for days" or "refreshing - like waking up from a 10-year sleep."

Reiki-ssage is much more than just another technique. It is blended within a complete philosophy and approach to healing that can support and strengthen any other modality of healing. Reiki-reflex blends together concepts from Reiki, Reflexology and Zone Therapy. Working on the feet, shoes and socks are removed. The session begins with the client laying on his or her back on a massage table or sitting comfortably in a reflexology chair.

Reiki-reflex cannot make any condition worse. It helps nature normalize body functions. A session relaxes the stress that can affect your health safely and effectively -- and who doesn't need that right now!

Reiki-reflex is blissfully relaxing for the client, and lasts about 45 - 55 minutes. Call Helene Hellesen, Certified Massage Therapist, Reiki Master and Certified Reiki-ssage Practitioner, at (262) 880-7594 to order your certificates.