Kay Gillard

Hi guys

There are lots of fabulous courses and events going on throughout August and September – book your places before they all go!

Sunday 1 August – Regression workshop (930-530, attendance by application only – very limited places)

Friday 6 August – Shamanic spirit circle (7pm, open to all)

Saturday 7 August – Cord cutting with Reiki (930-530, course for Reiki 2 and above)

Sunday 15 August – Reiki 1 (930-530)

Friday 20 August – Reiki share (7pm, open to all Reiki people)

Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 August – Journeying workshop (930-530, open to all Reiki people)

Friday 27 – Sunday 29 August – Reiki & Sound healing retreat (Kent, 5pm-5pm, Reiki 2 and above)

Friday 3 September – Shamanic Spirit Circle (7pm, open to all)

Saturday 4 & 5 September – Hemi-Sync workshop (930-6)

Thursday 9 – Sunday 12 September – Journeying & Firewalking retreat (Wiltshire, 5pm-5pm, open to Reiki 1 and above)

Friday 17 September – Reiki share (7pm, open to all Reiki people)

Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 – Reiki Drum Healing (930-530, open to Reiki 2 and above)

Pure Energy Healing is a buzzing beehive of energy at the moment, thanks to all of you who continue to dedicate your time and attention to healing and personal development. August and September will be my last months at the current venue (I’ll confirm details of the move before it happens) and it will be all change at Pure Energy Healing from October!

I’m very excited about all the upcoming special events – places are limited on all of them but there are still some places left at the moment. Get it touch for more info or to book your place: kay@pureenergyhealing.co.uk

I’m off on holidays for a few days now – Glastonbury here we come!

Love & blessings

Kay xxx

So last weekend (and this weekend as well) I was teaching Reiki Master Teacher level. It was brilliant, they are brilliant, brilliant students! But that’s not what this post is about… When we do the Master level training, I think it is really important not consider yourself a ‘Master’ – like you are done studying, and know all there is to know! In some martial arts, particularly those that are still heavily influenced by their oriental beginnings, tell their students ‘now you have your black belt, you have earned the right to truly call yourself a beginner’. With this sort of view in mind, I like to remind students to look back at the very foundations of Reiki at this level, see them through new eyes, and make sure that students remain grounded in those principles.

Last weekend we talked over the Reiki precepts again, the principles that Usui Sensei wanted us to keep in mind and try to live by. Here is a translation of the precepts:

The secret of inviting happiness through many blessings

The spiritual medicine for all illness

For today only: Do not anger; Do not worry

Be humble

Be honest in your work

Be compassionate to yourself and others

Do gassho every morning and evening

Keep it in your mind and recite

I think it is always great to look at the precepts, that as Reiki people we can use these to remind ourselves of the core of our practice at any time. Usui wanted us to meditate each day (morning and evening) and keep these tenets in our mind, reciting or chanting them. (Next week’s blog post is another video, where I’ll be giving you the pronunciation of the precepts in Japanese – they really do have a great energy when chanted in that language that they just lack in English.) But I wanted to share today some information I was going over in my Master manual, written by Taggart King of Reiki Evolution, about the origins of the precepts.  He states that the precepts – or their inspiration – has been traced back to precepts used by a Tendai sect of Shugendo in the 9th century. The wording of these resonates with me more strongly than the Reiki precepts, so I wanted to post them here for you. I hope you enjoy them – I think they are beautiful, and really capture the heart of the system.

Do not bear anger

For anger is illusion

Do not be worried

Because fear is distraction

Be true to your way and your being

Show compassion to yourself and others

Because this is the centre of Buddhahood

This blog post is about personal beliefs we have about ourselves, rather than the specific importance of making ourselves our own priority. It came about during a little disruption to my personal life a short while ago, that revealed a pattern of behaviour that I’d been unaware of.

I’d been let down by someone, and in retrospect I can see that the ‘fault’ such as it was – in this case just bad behaviour and disrespect – is with the other person concerned. (I have been reminded a lot during recent months that we should not take on responsibility for the bad behaviour of others – that is not what the Law of Attraction or spirituality is about! It is about our own actions!) Nonetheless, on some level I had attracted the experience of being so let down by someone. Why had this happened when I thought I was being so positive about these arrangements? Once all was sorted out I was calm and clear headed again and could trace the thought back. It had been about a week or two since I received an email confirming our arrangements and one line in that email had caught my attention when I received it. In making the arrangements I was told: ‘I want to prioritise you’.

Even reading the words now I can feel my body react to them – in my solar plexus, my stomach, my sacral chakra. It is like a physical twisting sensation.

My thought at the time was that this was an amazing thing for someone to say, because I am no one’s priority and don’t think I ever have been, certainly I have never felt like it. I kept reminding myself of it – but I am not the priority, remember all these experiences that prove I am not the priority? And so I attracted an experience that brought me back down to feeling like the last one on the list. And because it has been a while since I felt that way, I hadn’t even realised there was anything in me attracting it.

I had actually received some guidance a few days before this from one of my power animals, on a Reiki Drum journey led by one of my students. I was told that I needed to allow myself to be treated well. Rather astonishingly, this made me feel quite tearful – why would something I would tell anyone of my friends, students and clients, something I believe on a conscious and academic level so clearly, provoke such an unexpected emotional response?

In the last year or so I have been through a great deal of emotional upheaval. I am grateful for all of it, because it brought to me to this point, where my life is better than it has been before and where I am further forward with my own healing. I learned a lot about myself, but it seems I have not yet learned how to prioritise myself. Something always comes first – work, or someone else.

Making ourselves a priority is something often neglected, particularly in women. Like all things, this must be something that we have learned from the world around us, our female role models, and past experience. I’d like to hear what people think about this – have you learned how to prioritise yourself? How do you show yourself that you are number one?

Quick look:

Upcoming dates in Beckenham:

Reiki 1: Sat 5 June   Reiki 2: Sat 24 July

Reiki Drum: Sat 3 & Sun 4 July

Removing Blockages with Reiki: Sun 6 June

Cord Cutting with Reiki: Sun 13 June

Upcoming dates in Wiltshire:

Cord cutting with Reiki – Sat 29 May

Removing Blockages with Reiki – Sun 30 May

Reiki Drum Healing – Sat 26 & Sun 27 June

Regular shares & circles:

Shamanic Spirit Circle: Fri 7 May, Fri 4 June

DATE CHANGES – Reiki Share: No May share, June’s moved to Fri 11 June

Dear students and friends

I hope you are all doing well, summer is in the air, the warmth of the sun is noticeable already – Beltane is well and truly upon us! Beltane, the May day festivities traditional in the UK, is a festival of abundance and fertility. The old tradition of the maypole represents the combining of male and female forces, the union of the God and Goddess, and the fertility of nature that we see all around us. Now that the flowers are out and there are trees filled with blossom, this is a great time for you to reflect on everything that is abundant, fertile and joyful in your life. Fertility is not just to be taken literally (although it is a good time for that too!), our lives are fertile in many ways. So many of you have made big changes in your lives over recent months and I have been honoured to watch many of you grow spectacularly on your personal healing paths, manifesting new and exciting things along the way. I’d like you to think about what you have been growing and nurturing, what is flowering in your life (or what you would like to be!) and send positive energy to that. The sun is still increasing in strength and we can harness that growing energy, align ourselves with it, and see ourselves and our manifestations grow in strength as well. There is still plenty of time before we would traditionally celebrate the Harvest, so what you think about and work on from now on will yield you great rewards.

That said, Beltane is mostly a time of raucous celebration. Normally a bit of a workaholic, I have been remembering to celebrate a lot more recently and I feel better for it! We are very focused on the healing journey, the quest to be better people, healthier, more peaceful, more prosperous…over the coming bank holiday weekend I hope you will also concentrate on being happier and having fun – it’s traditional, after all! Go dance around some maypoles, and if you want to go see some good old Morris dancing fun and are in the London area, check out Bacchus Border Morris who are running the Pagan Federation open ritual tomorrow night (Thursday 29th) at Conway Hall in Holborn http://www.pflondon.org/ Or if you are further out in Kent there is the Rochester Sweeps festival over the weekend which is full of Morris dancers! Bacchus Border Morris will be there on the Sunday, and many of you know two of their dancers, Ella and George, and may want to cheer them on if you are in the area http://www.medway.gov.uk/sweepsfestival

Whatever you do I hope you have a fantastic bank holiday weekend with much fun, frolicking and merry making – we should always make time for that.

Upcoming courses:

Regression workshop: There is a shamanic healing workshop on regression therapy this Sunday, 2^nd May and there are still a couple of places left on it if you would like to come along. We will be considering past life and childhood regression and how this can effectively be combined with energy healing. The healing sessions are quite intense so if you’d like to book please do have a chat with me about whether it would be suitable for you – it runs 930-530 on Sunday and is £80. Here is the full outline:

Why regression is useful, the theory of combining regression with energy healing & body work

Past life  & childhood regression

Taking care of your client in this vulnerable state, your responsibility as a healer

Connecting to source, setting up space

Inducing a receptive, light trance state

The downward visualisation, counting your client into the past

Supporting their vision of the past

Questioning, successfully maintaining an interactive healing experience

Working on the body

Returning your client to the present moment

Healing in the moment

Closing things down

Sharing experiences

Events outside of London in May:

There are just 4 spots available on the Reiki and Tai Chi retreat at The Friars, Kent, 21-23 May. Get in touch asap to confirm your place, full details are here: www.pureenergyhealing.co.uk/reikiretreats.asp

There are also places on the Westbury Cord Cutting with Reiki and Removing Blockages with Reiki courses on 29 & 30 May. You can find information on both these courses here: www.pureenergyhealing.co.uk/reikicourses.asp

Other news…

Mind Body Spirit Festival – This festival/exhibition is happening Wed 26th to Mon 31st May in Victoria, full details are at www.mindbodyspirit.co.uk I will be visiting on the Wednesday this year, and will be attending the Jill Purce voice workshop at 2pm and then generally mooching about and getting a more up to date aura photograph If you are going on the Wednesday and want to meet for a coffee or a look around the stalls then let me know.

As part of the festival, Deva Premal will be performing with Miten and Manose on Friday 14th May at the Union Chapel in Islington. Many of you know I spent a day on a workshop with them at last year’s festival and they were incredibly uplifting. I can’t wait to see them sing their mantras live on 14th! A few of us are going along and if you would like to join us then book here: http://www.mindbodyspirit.co.uk/events.php?eventID=22 and drop me an email if you would like to meet up and sit together for the concert.

Next Shamanic Spirit Circle – Friday 7th May, 7pm. This will be a Power Retrieval ceremony, where I will journey to retrieve lost power and power animals for some members of the group (usually 3 people). The first ever Shamanic Spirit Circle was one of these and it was quite intense for the whole group. If you do not have a power retrieval yourself, you will be an important part of the process as this is a group healing and every person present plays a part. As always entry is £10, please do let me know in advance if you want to come and if you have any questions about the ceremony.

Reiki shares – Please note that there will be NO REIKI SHARE IN MAY as I am away on retreat.

I will be training in Scotland in June so I have decided to run that Reiki share a week earlier than normal – Friday 11 June. I hope to see you there, I’ll miss seeing you in May!

Rune readings with Magin Rose – Magin is available for more Monday night rune readings, on 10 & 24 May and 7 June. Please contact her directly to book (maginrose@gmail.com) or visit her website for more information www.maginrose.com

My blog – My quest to have my main Pure Energy Healing website updated continues, meanwhile my personal site is where I host my blog and this is updated regularly. In future it will be updated weekly – although this weeks entry is this newsletter Once a month there will also be a video tutorial, the first went up last week and I hope you all enjoy it – thanks to all of you who have sent me positive feedback for this recently! So if you want to keep up to date with all that is going on at Pure Energy Healing do come and visit me at www.kaygillard.com

Full list of courses & events at Pure Energy Healing in the coming months…

(Remember that private and group healing sessions are available during the week. So is one-to-one or small group training, so if your course is not shown here please get in touch so I can make arrangements for you)

Sat 1 May – Pure Energy Healing is closed for Beltane festivities

Sun 2 May – Regression workshop (930am-530pm – £80)

Fri 7 May – Shamanic Spirit Circle (7-10pm – £10)

Sat 8 May – Reiki 2 (930am-530pm – £180 – fully booked)

Sun 9 May – Reiki Master Teacher day 1 (930-530pm – £480 – fully booked)

Sat 15 May – Intuitive Healer, 3 of 6 (booking closed)

Sun 16 May – Reiki Master Teacher day 2 (930-530pm – £480 – fully booked)

Fri 21-Sun 23 May – Reiki & Tai Chi retreat (5pm Fri – 5pm Sun – £250)

Sat 29 May – Cord cutting in Westbury, Wiltshire (930am-530pm – £80)

Sun 30 May – Removing blockages in Westbury, Wiltshire (930am-530pm – £80)

Fri 7 June – Shamanic Spirit Circle (7-10pm – £10)

Sat 5 June – Reiki 1 (930am-530pm – £150)

Sun 6 June – Removing blockages (930am-530pm – £80)

Fri 11 June – Reiki Share (7-10pm – £3)

Sat 12 June – Intuitive Healer, 4 of 6 (booking closed)

Sun 13 June – Cord cutting (930am-530pm – £80)

That’s us all up to date! I hope to see you soon, have a great bank holiday!

Love & blessings

Kay x

Hi all

Well I’ve been meaning to start using YouTube for ages now and finally uploaded  something today! I’ve started with an in-depth description/tutorial of the Japanese Reiki technique ‘Nentatsu ho’, because people are always asking me how to go about working with affirmations, or how I am combining Reiki with the Law of Attraction. This is just one way to combine the two ways of working, but it’s a great start and it is suitable for all Reiki people, from level 1 right up to Reiki Master.

Please let me know what you think, and how you are getting on with your affirmations and using this technique!

Love & blessings

Kay

Magin Rose is returning to Pure Energy Healing for more Monday night Rune Readings. If you would like to book in with her then please get in touch with her directly: maginrose@gmail.com – you should also check out her website to keep up with her articles & blog entries, and learn more about the runes: www.maginrose.com

If you would like to book a reading with Magin she is available from 7pm on the following evenings:

• 19 April
• 10 May
• 24 May
• 7 June
• 21 June
• 5 July
• 19 July

Also – watch this space for details of her courses on healing and empowering the self with Runic energies – very exciting stuff!

The Shamanic Spirit Circle is a monthy event held at Pure Energy Healing to explore shamanic techniques. This open group is suitable for all those with an interest in shamanism regardless of experience, complete beginners are welcome.

This month we will be a drumming circle so the talk will be limited and we’ll be more practical than ever. We’ll work on drumming particular rhythms of our bodies, drumming to draw in and explore specific energies, drumming for distant healing & drumming just for the joy of drumming

So if you have a drum and would like to experience using it in a group then please bring it along & join us! Please advise in advance if you are coming to this circle as places are limited, attendance is £10: kay@pureenergyhealing.co.uk

Quick look:

Upcoming dates in Beckenham:

Reiki 1: Sat 24 April, Sat 5 June

Reiki 2: Sat 8 May, Sat 24 July

Reiki Master Teacher: Sun 9 & Sun 16 May – only 1 place left

Reiki Drum: Sat 3 & Sun 4 July

Removing Blockages with Reiki: Sat 27 March, Sun 6 June

Cord Cutting with Reiki: Sun 28 March, Sun 13 June

Law of Attraction – Mental & Emotional Reprogramming: Sun 18 April

Law of Attraction 2 – Body Awareness: Sun 25 April

Upcoming dates in Wiltshire:

Cord cutting with Reiki – Sat 29 May

Removing Blockages with Reiki – Sun 30 May

Reiki Drum Healing – Sat 26 & Sun 27 June

Regular shares & circles:

Shamanic Spirit Circle: 1st Friday of every month

Reiki Share: 3rd Friday of every month

Dear students and friends

A very special time of year is upon us: the Spring Equinox, also known as Eostre or Ostara. The equinox is a time of perfect balance, when day and night are the same length; this year it is on Sat 20 March. Perfect balance is something that all of us on the healing path are trying to achieve in some way or another and this is a powerful time for us to seek that balance within ourselves. Every time we sit down to do hatsurei, a gassho meditation, a self treatment or symbol meditation we are bringing ourselves towards balance. But there are other things we can do, outside of our energy work, that can help with this. This is traditionally a time for clearing out the old to leave room for the new – think about your spring cleaning. I’m in the process of the physical spring clean at the moment and it is very therapeutic! Louise Hay (mind, body, spirit pioneer and author of ‘You can heal your life’) calls this kind of cleaning out of your space a symbolic gesture to the universe affirming that you are ready for something new and better to come into your life, and suggests saying as you do it ‘I am cleaning out the closets of my mind’.

I hope that this year you will take the time to do a little mental spring cleaning. This is the perfect moment for you to look at any beliefs you have about yourself or the world that are throwing life out of balance for you, the perfect time to look at old fears that are holding you back. Take a look at those beliefs, and at yourself, and make a decision as to whether these beliefs or aspects of yourself are assisting you in your healing process or in fact keeping you out of balance. Remember that spring is a positive time, bursting with new growth, and so this exercise is not about blaming or berating yourself for any old patterns you see. Look at this as an opportunity to remove these old thoughts and beliefs, making room for you whatever you choose to be your new viewpoint. If you are stuck in a rut at work, cast out those feelings you have about your job and focus on what you want to be doing, that new job or promotion you want, and go for it. If money is always tight, think about where your beliefs about money come from (who taught you that finances are destined to always be strained?) and focus on replacing those beliefs with a positive attitude that attracts prosperity. If your romantic relationships display repeated patterns that aren’t making you happy, take a look at your beliefs about yourself and about relationships that attract that. Balance it out with a list of all the things about you that are positive and loveable, and a list of everything that you do want in a partner (whether they are qualities you would like to see in an existing relationship or something new you would like to attract into your life).

How you go about all this is personal, but I encourage you to take some time this equinox to throw out the old and make way for the new – and I’d love to hear from you on how you’re doing.

Reiki and the Law of Attraction workshops:

I am now offering regular half-day workshops on combining Reiki with the principles found in the Law of Attraction and The Secret, including detailed discussion and training on harnessing the power of Reiki to change your thought processes, heal yourself and attract your desires – as well as looking at how we can do this for our clients and students. The workshops are in three levels:

Mental and emotional reprogramming – how to cast unnecessary energy from your body to be a stronger channel, working with affirmations and Reiki, how to identify beliefs and work towards manifesting what you really want, working for others as well as self healing. Next date: Sun 18 April 2-6pm

Body awareness – understanding the control you have over the state of your energetic and physical body, locating old beliefs and traumas in your body, targeted healing for yourself and your clients. Next date: Sun 25 April 2-6pm

Constancy – Making self healing & development with Reiki and the Law of Attraction your default state, running background positive programming, coping with set backs. Coming soon!

You can see details on these courses and keep up with availability here:

http://www.pureenergyhealing.co.uk/reikicourses.asp#LawofAttraction1

Pure Energy Healing coming to Wiltshire:

This year I am coming up to Westbury and Pewsey in Wiltshire to teach some of my ‘Shamanic Approach to Reiki’ courses to those of you who can’t make it down to me in Beckenham – I know there are a few of you who do make journeys to me from the south west, west country and Wales so I thought you’d be pleased to know that I’ll be in in Westbury teaching Cord Cutting with Reiki and Removing Blockages with Reiki on 29 & 30 May, and Reiki Drum Healing on 26 & 27 June. If you have your Reiki 2 or above and would like to join any of these courses please get in touch and let me know. And watch this space for details of my Reiki retreat at a very special venue, the Martinsell Centre in Pewsey, this autumn. I love Wiltshire and can’t wait to start running the classes there!

Other news…

Next Shamanic Spirit Circle – Good Friday, 2nd April, 7pm. This next meeting will be a Drumming Circle, so if you have a drum and want to sit and drum in a group, please let me know. As always entrance is £10 but spaces will be limited (the drumming circle events are always popular!) so please do get in touch to reserve your place. If you do not have a drum but would still like to attend, I do have one spare and there are also rattles, or of course you can bring an alternative instrument, we also sometimes do spontaneous singing in these circles too I look forward to seeing a lot of you there – the energy raised at these events are quite astonishing!

Reiki Retreats – The Tai Chi retreat in May is almost fully booked now, and we are taking bookings for the Sound healing retreat in August already. Full details are here: www.pureenergyhealing.co.uk/reikiretreats.asp – please get in touch for a booking form.

Full list of courses & events at Pure Energy Healing in the coming months…

(Remember that private and group healing sessions are available during the week. So is one-to-one or small group training, so if your course is not shown here please get in touch so I can make arrangements for you)

Fri 19 March – Reiki Share (7-10pm – £3)

Sat 20 March – Reiki 2 (930am-530pm – £180 – fully booked)

Sun 21 March – Reiki & Law of Attraction 2: Body awareness (2-6pm – £40)

Sat 27 March – Cord Cutting with Reiki (930am-530pm – £80)

Sun 28 March – Removing Blockages with Reiki (930am-530pm – £80)

Fri 2 April – Shamanic Spirit Circle (7-10pm – £10 – please bring drum or other instrument)

Sat 10 & Sun 11 April – Reiki Drum Healing (930am-530pm – £240 – fully booked)

Fri 16 April – Reiki Share (7-10pm – £3)

Sun 18 April – Reiki & Law of Attraction 1: Mental & emotional reprogramming (2-6pm – £40)

Sat 24 April – Reiki 1 (930am-530pm – £150 – 1 place left)

Sun 25 April - Reiki & Law of Attraction 2: Body awareness (2-6pm – £40)

There is also one place left on the Reiki Master Teacher course on 9 & 16 May. If you are ready to take that step in your work then please book asap to allow maximum time for your pre-course study, which is much more intense than the other courses, as you would expect.

That’s all for now, I look forward to seeing many of you soon and wish you all the best with your healing spring clean

Love & blessings

Kay x

The next Intuitive Healer, a unique 6 month course of healing and self development, starts this Saturday. There is one last minute place available – are you ready to take this healing journey? If you are, join the group for this transformative training – full details are here: www.pureenergyhealing.co.uk/intuitivehealer.asp

Contact me if you think this course might be for you! kay@pureenergyhealing.co.uk

Kay x

This is my favourite mantra to listen to at the moment, really resonating with me! I’m listening to it on Deva Premal’s album ‘Dakshina’:

Aum Hraum Mitraya Namah

Aum Hraum Mitraya Namah

Aum Eim Saraswatiyei Namah

Aum Eim Saraswatiyei Namah

(It means: May the light of friendship shine through me, drawing noble companionship. Aum and Salutations to the feminine Saraswati principle.)

You can hear Deva Premal singing this beautifully here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzd8Ieox040