Get Out Philadelphia Adventure Group

Introduction to Reiki

Suggested by: Rita

Nov '09 20 Fri 7:00 PM

Location: No location was chosen

Attendance: 15 people attended.
4.508 (8 ratings)
Who organized?
Amy and Rita
Price: $5.00 per person
refund policy

Are you very stressed? Restless? Get sick a lot? Have chronic pain? Have a loved one that's going through a hard time? Just curious about learning relaxation or pain relief techniques?

Join us for a introductory session on Reiki, a Japanese holistic healing technique. Reiki means life-force energy. The practice redirects your energy, and has many health benefits.

Rita is a Get Out Philly member and Reiki Master/teacher who has been practicing Reiki for 7 years and teaching it for 5 years. "I have used reiki a lot on my adventures, reikiing knees and feet after a long hike or reikiing my whole body to get over a night in a tent when I was about to catch a cold, or overcome jetlag."

Rita and two other reiki practitioners (called "channels") will guide us through the basics of the practice, with a special focus on sports injuries, such as those incurred from hiking, running, repetitive motion like paddling, biking, tennis or climbing. But the course will be suitable for all health issues, including things like colds, exhaustion or your general/chronic aches & pains. You'll also learn some techniques to be healthy in a lot of hard circumstances. Reiki is often used as preventative alternative medicine.

We'll play with the energy a bit by doing some exercises, and then we'll be given the chance to see the practice in action. Ask many questions, and when we're done, just relax and socialize!

www.reiki.org

Edit: This will be held at Rita's house in Germantown, and directions will be sent a few days before the event!

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Nishi
Oh I just missed that one spot that opened up :( Hope I can make it.

Posted Nov 20, 2009 2:32 PM
Maura
Amy & Rita, thanks for the heads-up on Germantown Ave, as that was the way I had mapquested. I'm guessing that if coming that way taking Wayne ave to Coulter Street should be an okay way to avoid whatever's going on with Germantown Ave?

Posted Nov 20, 2009 12:35 PM
Amy
LOL you're quick! Just sent you directions :)

Posted Nov 20, 2009 11:59 AM
dylan
I know!! I just got in!

Posted Nov 20, 2009 11:29 AM
Amy
Hey Dylan, there's still one spot available!

Posted Nov 20, 2009 11:01 AM
dylan
Dang!!! I missed another chance to jump from waitlist to yes :-(
I hope you do run another class like this in the near future cause I'd love to do it and it seems like lots of others would love to as well.

Posted Nov 20, 2009 10:52 AM
Amy
Directions have been sent as of the date & time of this email; if you grab one of the last spots, email me and I'll fwd the email along....will be reachable by email tomorrow. See you then!

Posted Nov 20, 2009 12:07 AM
Dave
Woohoo! So I got in.....but I'm gonna need more than "Rita's house in Germantown"! I suppose I could just pick any old Rita in Germantown....but I think once I started trying to do Reiki in the wrong house it might freak people out:0)

Posted Nov 19, 2009 6:58 PM
Amy
There are a few people who haven't yet paid, so we'll give them another week...then they'll be bumped to the waitlist too. Based on the interest, we may do another one in a few months!

Posted Nov 6, 2009 2:18 PM
A former member
This is really exciting! I hope there will be room for those on the wait list!

Posted Nov 5, 2009 8:41 PM
Dave
Right up my alley, any chance of increasing the limit? I must have missed the intial posting<

Posted Nov 5, 2009 8:37 PM
Maura
Thanks for the update, Amy! I can offer a ride to anyone coming from outside of the city. I'm over near the Main Line area, so just let me know.

Posted Nov 5, 2009 11:48 AM
Amy
weird, i didn't want to put Rita's address, but left a comment & it didn't show up...? it will be at Rita's house in Germantown.

Posted Nov 5, 2009 11:16 AM
A former member
Great idea! I have a sports injury right now so this is perfect.

Posted Nov 5, 2009 11:08 AM

Who attended?

15 attendees
- Olivia
  
  “ Very interesting and informative - thanks Rita! ”
- Janet Horwitz
  
  “ It was a nice, basic introduction to Reiki with some experiential learning which was helpful in getting more of a "feel" for Reiki. ”
- Keith
  
  Diablo Rojo
  
  “ A very informative & fun learning experience w/ a great group of people. Thanks Rita, Jen & Susan for providing Reiki to the group. ”
- Lisa
  
  “ This was so cool that I signed up for the weekend reiki lesson! I can't wait to learn more! ”
- dylan
  
  “ Rita was great and the group was very open-minded and interesting in learning about Reiki! ”
- Rita
- Vlady
- Nishi
- Alison
- Rachel
- Amy Yuki
- Dave
- Maura
- 2 former members