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	<title>Reiki Artist Studio ~ Training &#38; Sessions &#187; Goddess</title>
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		<title>Earth Energy Tree Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Hansen-Buth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Energy Renewal</p>
<p>Here is my basic energy meditation that I do using the Earth&#8217;s own energy&#8230;call it Chi, Pranic Energy, Ki, Magic, by whatever name it&#8217;s still the same and it still works.</p>
<p>Go to a quiet place where you will not be disturbed and can sit comfortably in a chair with your feet touching the ground. [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here is my basic energy meditation that I do using the Earth&#8217;s own energy&#8230;call it Chi, Pranic Energy, Ki, Magic, by whatever name it&#8217;s still the same and it still works.</p>
<p>Go to a quiet place where you will not be disturbed and can sit comfortably in a chair with your feet touching the ground. Have a glass or bottle of water nearby. Begin by closing your eyes and breathing slowly and deeply, expanding your rib-cage and your belly for six breaths. Notice how this feels by focusing on the expansion and contraction of your ribs. Relax and breath normally. Now bring your focus up between and behind your eyebrows, this is your Ajna Chakra or Third Eye and will help you with visualizing the rest of the meditation. Keep your eyes closed and picture a ball of white light in the center of your body, imagine it growing and expanding filling your body and creating a glow to about two feet from your body all around. At the outer edge imagine that a light blue electric light starts to form, like a forcefield it is protecting you and your space from any distractions.</p>
<p>Now feel the weight of your body where you are sitting, and imagine your chair as a tree stump, with roots reaching deep into the earth. Focus on your contact to the stump, and imagine that the white light flows freely from you to the stump and back again. Notice any sensations you may feel as you connect and ground yourself to Mother Earth. Move your feet back and forth, and wiggle your toes while touching the floor. Imagine your feet have sent shoots down deep into the heart of Mother Earth as energy begins to flow effortlessly like water into your Energy Body. Picture the energy as a warm, golden-green color or loving pink color, whichever you are more comfortable with. Still your feet as they continue to drink and focus on the rising warmth as earth energy fills your legs, knees, hips, torso, arms, hands, neck and finally your head where it flows out the top, down your body, and back to the earth through the trunk of your tree-chair to the center of the Earth to be transformed into clear clean energy again. Allow it to flow at it&#8217;s own pace, and imagine as it does so it&#8217;s cleaning away all your doubts &amp; fears, anger &amp; frustration, and any negative speck or blocked idea that keeps you from pure love and joy. As Earth Energy cleans out a space, it fills it with love, peace, and contentment. Focus on how this makes you feel.</p>
<p>When you are ready, open your eyes and drink your glass of water. Know that the water came from the earth and is nourishing your Energy Body which just had a good workout! As you continue your day, you can renew your connection to the earth by imagining a vine reaching from the base of your spine to the center of the earth. Like an anchor it keeps connected to Mother Earth and you can make it as large or small in your imagination as you think it should be. Use it any time you need to eliminate any negative or unpleasant emotions or energies throughout the day.</p>
<p>© 2007 Beth Hansen-Buth. All Rights Reserved.<br />
You may print a single copy of this page for your personal use, other than that, no reproduction of any kind is allowed without my express written permission. Please contact me at if you would like to use this in a newsletter, online or in print.</p>
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		<title>Tapping Into the World Tree</title>
		<link>http://www.reikiartist.com/2009/10/tapping-into-the-world-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Hansen-Buth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goddess]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Today I followed my intuition to Eye of Horus where I took a workshop on Staving. You just might wonder what the heck staving is right now, and I&#8217;m getting to that. The teacher of this workshop is Kari Tauring, a musician, author, rune reader, and staff carrier. Through her studies of the Norse Myths [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img title="VolvaStav" src="http://www.reikiartist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/VolvaStav.jpg" alt="VolvaStav" width="250" height="250" align="right" />Today I followed my intuition to <a href="http://eyeofhorus.biz/">Eye of Horus</a> where I took a workshop on Staving. You just might wonder what the heck staving is right now, and I&#8217;m getting to that. The teacher of this workshop is <a href="http://www.karitauring.com">Kari Tauring</a>, a musician, author, rune reader, and staff carrier. Through her studies of the Norse Myths and Sagas, her practice of working with the runes, and her inner journeys she has developed a wonderful tradition of working with the deep and ancient energies of the Nine Worlds.</p>
<p>Today I learned to align my spine with the world tree, or Yggdrasil in Norse Traditions. Tonight I will be working on my staff to bring it into my healing work. Here&#8217;s more about Staving from Kari&#8217;s website:</p>
<blockquote><p>Völva is a reclaimed word from Old Norse which means literaly,          staff carrier. The women who were Völva carried their healing, far-seeing,          ceremonial, and magical practice from farmstead to farmstead. We have          learned about them from the medieval texts, sagas and eddas, the folk          stories and songs. Today, many women in the United States and abroad are          reclaiming the title and practices of the Völva.</p>
<p>Here in Minnesota, Kari Tauring has developed Völva Stav. It&#8217;s a          way to use the staff to create rythm for chant and song to journey and          do energy work. In Ms. Tauring&#8217;s classes you will learn the history and          vocabulary of the Northern pre-Christian mystical tradition. You will          learn to use your body as the tool for your spiritual work — carrying          your spine as the great stav and freeing your voice to call the ancestors.          In group work, you will feel the fabric of the web of wyrd that holds          all life together, you will hear it in the rhythm of other Völva          as we shift and change and journey together.</p></blockquote>
<p>Kari is an excellent teacher, and part of the workshop was doing a journey while we Staved. It was a wonderful experience for me, and it was the beginning of a journey from my heritage of Finnish and Norwegian to my love of the Celtic ways. So tonight I take the branch I staved with and I will be stripping the bark to what lies beneath, and then I will adorn it with symbols that mean a great deal to me in my personal journey. When I am done with the project I will definitely post it here! But here is a small sample of what I&#8217;m learning from Kari:<br />
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		<title>Reiki Weekend Report</title>
		<link>http://www.reikiartist.com/2009/09/reiki-weekend-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Hansen-Buth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reiki Adventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reiki Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[halloween]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intuitive readings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Well my first big Reiki Weekend went well indeed. We began the festivities with the Friday Night Reiki Share, which caused all kinds of confusion among the cats as to why Mom was cleaning every night all week, but I digress. The Reiki Share went well, and everyone got a turn on the table. Even [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well my first big Reiki Weekend went well indeed. We began the festivities with the Friday Night Reiki Share, which caused all kinds of confusion among the cats as to why Mom was cleaning every night all week, but I digress. The Reiki Share went well, and everyone got a turn on the table. Even the cats helped. Now, I&#8217;m very excited about the next Reiki Share, and I&#8217;ll be sending a reminder out to the Meet-up group. Oh yeah, and in an effort to be inclusive, rather than exclusive, I&#8217;m welcoming those who do other types of hands-on healing and to people who want to learn a little bit more about Reiki before jumping in and taking a class. Just sharing the love is what it&#8217;s all about. I&#8217;m a healer not an elitist after all.</p>
<p>And that brings us to the next two days of my big Reiki Weekend, with The Shadows Holistic and Psychic Arts Faire, where I was offering Faeries Oracle Readings and Mini Reiki Sessions. I had a really good time both days, and had the same number of clients each day, though the overall traffic was better on Sunday. It was all weather related, as on Saturday it was still Summer and on Sunday it suddenly became Autumn. And it is still blowing in even as I write this tonight. One of the interesting things is that I got a couple of readings which really has uplifted my outlook about my future. I&#8217;m doing what I need to be doing right now, and I&#8217;m just going to keep on with it. <img src='http://www.reikiartist.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  It really feels good to know that I&#8217;m pointed in the right direction and going and the proper pace as well.</p>
<p>The evening finished off the weekend with sending Reiki to my Sister-Outlaw who had a challenging morning, and then to my husband who had a challenging day. While I was at the Holistic Faire, my darling David was trying to do a yard sale on a windy and occasionally rainy day. So he was pretty tired and sore by the time I got home, as he had chased things across the yard, put shelving units back up that tumbled down, and scurried everything into the garage before the rain got too hard.</p>
<p>The good news is that while going through boxes, he found my long lost cloak which I thought was gone for good these past four years or so. I really could have used it during the 2006 Renaissance Festival season where I was selling my artwork, because the weather was about as blustery as today&#8217;s for much of the run. But I have it now, so I get to wear it and be all Witchy for Halloween (a.k.a. Samhain for us witches) this year. This and the cats were extra snuggly tonight and I consider it a wonderful ending to an excellent Reiki Weekend.</p>
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		<title>Happy Freya&#039;s Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.reikiartist.com/2009/06/happy-freyas-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Hansen-Buth</dc:creator>
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Dryad Designs Freya Statue</p>
<p>by Paul Borda, the original was carved from caramel alabaster. I have one sitting on my home altar.</p>
<p>Freya, Norse Goddess of Love, Fertility, Cats and Seeresses, is the most beautiful of the Norse Gods. Queen of the Vanir and Commander of the Valkyries, she flies using her hawk wing cloak [...]]]></description>
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Dryad Designs Freya Statue</p>
<p>by Paul Borda, the original was carved from caramel alabaster. I have one sitting on my home altar.</p>
<blockquote><p>Freya, Norse Goddess of Love, Fertility, Cats and Seeresses, is the most beautiful of the Norse Gods. Queen of the Vanir and Commander of the Valkyries, she flies using her hawk wing cloak and protects love relationships. Freya possesses a chariot drawn by two giant cats and has a love of jewelry and ornament. Her most precious possession is the necklace Brisingamen which she won from the dwarves. In ancient times, amber was often referred to as &#8220;Freya&#8217;s tears&#8221;.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s Friday, and I&#8217;m looking forward to a fun-filled Saturday morning weeding and planting at the Eye of Horus Labyrinth Garden. I hope to get up early and do a little work in my own sandbox as well. Getting my hands dirty and spending time in nature keeps me grounded. It works wonders for my mood, and because it rained all last weekend, I&#8217;m extra excited to make the most of my time this weekend.</p>
<p>Yesterday I caught a wiff of a new mood moving across the Universe. It was one of optimism and excitement, of exploring new ideas, music, art, and spirituality grounded in the earth but soaring through the sky. We are looking toward a new Era embracing Kindness, exploring relationships with each other and the Earth with a greater understanding of One-ness. We are all part of the cosmic whole and people are catching on. Can you feel the gentle caress of a breeze of change coming? I do. Happy Freya&#8217;s Day!</p>
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		<title>Baby Steps in the School of Life</title>
		<link>http://www.reikiartist.com/2009/06/baby-steps-in-the-school-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Hansen-Buth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>When you&#8217;re working toward a goal, it&#8217;s easy to see how very much there is to be done. My goal is to have The Reiki Artist Studio up and running on a regular basis by July. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been busy beautifying the front yard. There&#8217;s a long list of Things To Do, and it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you&#8217;re working toward a goal, it&#8217;s easy to see how very much there is to be done. My goal is to have The Reiki Artist Studio up and running on a regular basis by July. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve been busy beautifying the front yard. There&#8217;s a long list of Things To Do, and it&#8217;s easy for me to get discouraged that they&#8217;ll ever get done. But today, I got my <a href="http://www.tut.com/">TUT&#8230;A Note for the Universe</a> and it brightened my day.</p>
<blockquote><p>The baby steps in the beginning of a journey,  Beth, always  seem inadequate compared to the brilliance of the  dream that inspired them. This is natural. If the dream  wasn&#8217;t so far &#8220;out there&#8221; and dazzling, it wouldn&#8217;t be  worth dreaming! Just don&#8217;t be led to think that the  physical ground you cover with your baby steps is all  that they accomplish. Because for every mortal step  you take, another cog in a giant wheel behind the  curtains of time and space advances, and with it,  10,000 new possibilities.</p>
<p>Better than Star Trek,<br />
The  Universe</p></blockquote>
<p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s better than Star Trek, but it brings to mind how the Star Trek universe is organized to work towards developing each individuals potential. Outside the structure of school, Life becomes much more chaotic. We are required to create, develop, and maintain our own life path. Nobody out there does it for you.</p>
<p>But maybe the Universe is working in my favor after all, maybe my master plan get&#8217;s laid out in advance on an energy level and all that I really need to do is follow it after all. So I will make my List of Things To Do, no matter how small, and continue with my master plan. And I will present it to the Universe on a regular basis, and ask for advice along the way. Maybe the Gods, Goddesses, and Guides are just the Universe providing my life path guidance counselors.</p>
<p>I think I&#8217;ll move forward with that as a working hypothesis and see where it leads me.</p>
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