RCGW News - October/November 2005

Vol. 3, No. 3-4– October/November 2005

Welcome to this issue of RCGW News, a monthly opt-in publication of The Reiki Center of Greater Washington (RCGW) in Rockville, Maryland. We are sending it to our community by email and giving it out at the Greater Washington Reiki Conference. If you would prefer not to receive this publication in the future, please click on the link at the very bottom of this email OR email us at dgleekel@reikicenter.info. You can always check our offerings by seeing our main website: www.reikicenter.info for our Reiki Classes OR www.reikivacations.com for our Retreats in Power Places OR www.innerhealercenter.org for our Crystal Healing Classes. Please note that archival issues of our newsletter can be found at our NEW blog: http://www.reikicenter.blogspot.com

CONTENTS
*Director’s Column
*New Accreditation Program at RCGW
*Second Annual Greater Washington Reiki Conference
*November and December Class and Events Calendar
*NEW Usui Reiki Master Class between Christmas and New Years
*RCGW Speaker News.
*Accreditation Program Applications Due 11/30/05 for first semester (1/06-6/06)
*Reiki “Technique of the Month”
*November Specials
*Reiki Table Packages
*Rock of the Month

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I finished August 2005 on August 31, by completing the teaching of a Sekhem-Seichim-Reiki Master class for Jennifer Chou who began it in May 2005. Congratulations, Jennifer, on being a new SSR Master and sticking with the sessions for so many times. September 2005 brought new ideas to RCGW. The beginning of the month brought my Dad (Al)’s 80th birthday in Minnesota. Steve and I were able to travel there for a large party brunch and then up to Northern Minnesota with our Wadena cousins Tom and Richard Paper (known as Tommie and Richie in the family) where they took us to Itasca State Park, the headwaters of the Mississippi River. We gave them a Reiki I attunement next to an ancient Indian burial mound. It was powerful and healing for all of us. Our first class of the month was a new Crystal Healing class called Strengthening and Protecting our Fields with Crystals. Tom Tetley worked with as my student for the class and it turned out to be a very healing experience for both of us (thanks Tom). The Reiki II Master Preparation group continued to grow and we hosted a powerful Usui Reiki I course composed mostly of Tai Chi Practitioners. On the 23rd of September, we journeyed back to Massanutten Resort in Harrisonburg, Virginia to give an Usui Master course. Congratulations to our new Usui Masters Alexandra Pallas, Mark Crewson, and Vince Sherwood. The last day of the month (and the first two days of October), Diane Ruth Shewmaker returned to RCGW to give three classes in an extended healing modality called Integrated Energy Therapy. I took the Basic class and found it very interesting to have a formal structure to using Angels in sessions for each section of the body. Comparing the touchpoints to Accupuncture points and ONE ™ points were also interesting. Diane may come back in the first quarter of 2006 to give more classes; we’ll let you know how things are developing. I heard from a number of people interested in our new Accreditation program. I need to receive letters of intent from all people who want to apply by no later than November 30, 2005. I will pick four people for the program each semester (January through June 2006 is the first semester). Applications for the second semester will be due April 30, 2006. October was a productive month teaching classes. We also presented at the Pathways Natural Health Expo in a booth and in an energy sensing workshop. Thanks to Reiki students Adrienne Clamp, Mark Guenther, Tom Tetley, Steve Ritch, Sabine Schmieg, and Lily Torres for helping see over 40 clients during the day. We also presented workshops at Institutional Shareholder Services in Rockville and DC and Thrive Yoga in Rockville. Thrive Yoga (under the India Garden Restaurant in Rockville) has offered our community a free Yoga class if they mention RCGW at their new Yoga center. This past week (from 11/4-11/12) we have been on a trip to Sedona, Arizona to teach a Sekhem-Seichim-Reiki Master class. Congratulations to our newest SSR Masters Feather Hannon, Darren Johnson, Mary Miller, and Tom Tetley. Also many thanks to Steve Ritch for assisting with the class. We’ve added a new Usui Reiki Master class 12/26-12/30 at the Rising Phoenix Retreat Center. It’s almost full at this time. Reiki blessings...-David Gleekel
RCGW Accreditation Program Starting in October 2005, RCGW began our new Accreditation Program. This program will allow our students to develop the skills necessary to practice Reiki professionally as either a Practitioner or Instructor at the Center. **Accredited Practitioner** The program will allow up to four students who have completed either Usui Reiki II or SSR I-II to enroll in it each quarter. Each of those enrollees will commit to doing a minimum of 11 documented hands-on sessions and 11 documented distant sessions per month, both at the center (in assisting at sessions, Reiki Student Clinics or Reiki Shares) or outside the center. The sessions will be done using our standard Reiki Clinic forms and intake forms for each client seen. After a student has completed 11 of each type of session (hands-on and distant), he or she will receive an Accreditation Certificate from RCGW with the title of Accredited Reiki Technician I. We estimate that this would be after the first month in the program. After a student has completed 22 of each type of session (hands-on and distant), he or she will receive an Accreditation Certificate from RCGW with the title of Accredited Reiki Technician II. We estimate that this would be after the second month in the program. After a student has completed 33 of each type of session (hands-on and distant), he or she will receive an Accreditation Certificate from RCGW with the title of Accredited Reiki Technician III. We estimate this would be after the third month of the program. After a student has completed 44 of each type of session, he or she will receive the title of Accredited Reiki Practitioner If the student has also studied SSR, he or she would also receive the title Accredited SSR Practitioner, if he or she has completed 44 of each type of documented session (hands-on and distant). We estimate that this would be after the fourth month of the program. Accredited Reiki Practitioners and Accredited SSR Practitioners will be able to see their own clients professionally at RCGW. The center will charge a fee of $15 per hour for this service. Space will be available on a first reserved first used basis. **Accredited Teacher** After a student has completed either Usui Reiki III or SSR VII or Karuna Reiki Master, he or she will become eligible to apply for our Accredited Teacher program. The program will allow up to two students to co-teach the type of course(s) that he or she has studied at RCGW. Co-teaching includes assisting in the presentation of the information for the class and participating in giving at least one attunement per student during the class. After a student has completed co-teaching of three Usui Reiki I classes, he or she will receive an Accreditation Certificate from RCGW with the title of Accredited Reiki Teacher I. We estimate that this will take approximately three months, since we usually offer this class once a month. After a student has completed co-teaching of three Usui Reiki I classes and three Usui Reiki II classes, he or she will receive an Accreditation Certificate from RCGW with the title of Accredited Reiki Teacher II. We estimate that this will take approximately six months, since we offer Usui Reiki II every other month. After a student has completed co-teaching of three Usui Reiki I classes and three SSR I-II classes, he or she will receive an Accreditation Certificate from RCGW with the title of Accredited SSR Teacher II. We estimate that this will also take approximately six months, since we offer SSR I-II classes every other month as well. After a student has completed co-teaching of three Usui Reiki I, II and III classes, he or she will receive an Accreditation Certificate from RCGW with the title of Accredited Reiki Master Teacher. The student will be responsible for his or her own lodging and food costs, if there is a retreat cost. We estimate that this process would take a minimum of one year, because we plan to offer three Usui Master classes in 2006. After a student has completed co-teaching of three SSR I-II classes and three SSR Master classes, he or she will receive an Accreditation Certificate from RCGW with the title of Accredited SSR Master Teacher. We estimate that this process would take a minimum of one year as well. Once a student has attained the level of Accredited Reiki Master Teacher or Accredited SSR Master Teacher, he or she may act as a lead teacher professionally at RCGW at a mutually agreed-upon rate. We estimate that four courses per year will be assigned to our Accredited Teachers once they have reached this level. To be considered for our Accreditation Program, please submit a letter of intent with a listing of the courses you have taken as well as any additional experience you have in healing to David Gleekel at the address below. The deadline for our first Accreditation Program quarter to begin January 2006 will be November 30, 2005.
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Second Annual Greater Washington Reiki Conference
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Our next Reiki Conference will be coming up in June 2006 at the Rising Phoenix Retreat Center. We will be staying there from Friday evening, June 24 through Sunday afternoon, June 26. Among our speakers will be Amy Rowland, author of Traditional Reiki for our Times, who will be speaking and demonstrating on Japanese Reiki Techniques; Mari Hall, author of Practical Reiki who will be discussing and demonstrating on the topic of Mentoring in the Reiki community; Carolyn Musial, a colleague of mine from upstate NY who will be speaking on Reiki and Animal Communication; Dr. Adrienne Clamp, LCAc, who will be speaking on Chinese Medicine and Reiki relationships. There will also be workshops on Chi Gung given by Chi Gung Master and Reiki II Ridgely du Pont and Reiki Drumming by me. More information will be coming soon.
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November and December 2005 Calendar
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**November 2005**
Wednesday, November 2 – 7:30-9:30pm. Healing Drumming Circle at Center for Inner Healer Rockville. Cost is free for RCGW community and $5 for others.
Saturday, November 5 through Wednesday, November 9 – SSR Master Class in Sedona, Arizona. Please see our website for more information. Cost is $1600.
Wednesday, November 16 – 7:30-9:30pm. Reiki Master Prep at RCGW Gaithersburg.
Saturday and Sunday, November 19 and 20 – 10am-5:30pm. Usui Reiki I class at RCGW Gaithersburg. Cost is $175, if prepaid by 10/19 or $200 thereafter.
Wednesday, November 23 – 7:30-9:30pm. Reiki Student Clinic – Cost is free for the RCGW Community and $5 for others.
Saturday, November 26 and Sunday, December 4 – 10am-5:30pm. Sekhem-Seichim-Reiki I-II class at RCGW Gaithersburg. Cost is $225, if prepaid by 10/26 or $250 thereafter.
Wednesday, November 30 through Friday, December 2 – 10am-6pm. Karuna Reiki Master class at RCGW Gaithersburg. Cost is $825.
Wednesday, November 30 – 7:30-9:30pm. Reiki Master Share at RCGW Gaithersburg. Free and open for all RCGW Reiki Masters only.
**December 2005**
Saturday, December 3 – 10am-12n. Reiki Share at RCGW Gaithersburg.
Wednesday, December 7 – 7:30-9:30pm – Healing Drumming Circle at RCGW Rockville.
Saturday and Sunday, December 10 and 11 – 10am-5:30pm – Reiki II class at RCGW Gaithersburg.
Wednesday, December 14 – 7:30-9:30pm – Reiki Master Prep at RCGW Gaithersburg.
Saturday and Sunday, December 17 and 18 – 10am-5:30pm – Reiki I class at RCGW Gaithersburg.
Wednesday, December 21 – 7:30-9:30pm – Reiki Student Clinic at RCGW Gaithersburg
Monday, December 26 through Friday, December 30 – Reiki Master class at Rising Phoenix Retreat Center in Flintstone, MD.
Paste the link below into your browser to see our complete calendar: http://www.reikicenter.info/pages/662511/index.htm
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November Specials:
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$25 off your next session or class if you refer a new client to RCGW. Give the Gift of Reiki: With each Gift Certificate purchased, earn a $25 discount on a session for yourself! Purchase three Gift Certificates and save 10%.
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Reiki Technique of the Month Charging Crystals with Reiki
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Using Crystals with Reiki is one of the more interesting ways to use the energy. It’s VERY simple to do so, especially with Quartz Crystals. With your Reiki II level, use the CKR Power symbol over the quartz (after asking permission) and it will continue to diffuse Reiki energy into the room for a continuous period. The SSR Symbol CKRT can be used as well for the same purpose.

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Reiki Tables at RCGW
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**Athena Pro Package - $588, plus shipping and tax (shipping is $47, for tables up to 31” in width; tax is for tables delivered in the State of Maryland. This package is great for practitioners who want a good table to use in their practice. It includes an Athena table with a lifetime warranty from CustomCraftworks. It also includes Posi-tilt Face Rest, a Deluxe 3-Pocket Carry Case, an Ankle/Knee bolster and three flannel Face Rest Covers, as well as the Reiki easy access end panels. This is a savings of $139 over the regular price for these items. The table is available separately for $500. We have a new purple Athena on-hand for demonstration.

**Featherlock Student Package - $499, plus shipping ant tax (shipping is $47 for tables up to 31” in width; tax is for tables delivered in the State of Maryland. This package is for students who want a good lighter weight table to take with them to clients or to use at home for sessions. It includes a Featherlock table with a lifetime warranty from Custom Craftworks. It also includes a stationary facerest, an ankle/knee bolster, and a carry case). We have also included the Reiki easy access end panel for you to allow you to sit at the ends of the table during sessions. Our price is a savings of 10% over the suggested retail price. We can deliver the table right to your home or office at no additional charge. The table is available separately for $409. ----------------------------------------------------------
Rock of the Month - Apophylite
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The Apophylite stone is shaped like a crystalline church. It possesses the energy of healing and calming and induces a meditative state. RCGW has them available for $5.
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Reiki Center of Greater Washington9059 Shady Grove CourtGaithersburg, MD 20877 Web Site: http://www.reikicenter.infoE-mail: dgleekel@reikicenter.infoPhone: 1-866-59-REIKI / Fax: 301-942-7853