Reiki healing

I love to give Reiki healing energy to people, animals and plants and even buildings.
You can send Reiki to anything, anyone. With Usui Reiki level II you will have received attunement to Reiki energy and symbols that enhance the power of the energy transmitted so to speak. The practitioner is only the vehicle, the channel through which the healing energy flows and makes its way to where it is requested or better yet, it finds its way to where it is needed. With level II you can send Reiki over a distance, even across the ocean to the other side of the world!
And believe me, it works. I have done it,and I have received it.
It is true, one person can be a more effective channel than another. I love it when people get up from the treatment table and say:" It's gone,( i.e. the discomfort, the stress, or even serious back pain) I am fine! Thank you".
I send Reiki to the studio before doing an art therapy session. It seems to help the work. At the very least, it fills the space with good energy and prepares my mind and soul to give all my best intentions and attention to the work.

Try a Reiki treatment, and perhaps even try a course level1, you will see what I mean, perhaps.

Best of luck
Rinske

peach blossom

A timely exercise to paint the color peach blossom. This color is commonly known as pink. Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe called this color purpur, which is not the same as purple.

Peachblossom is the color of the future. We are now in the process of developing the capacities to recognize the color more in our surroundings, in nature, the sky and even people. For instance, we blush if we experience certain emotions or the color disappears from our complexion with other emotions.

Peachblossom is a color that appears as a light that is overcoming darkness. It is a color that represents the unknown. Stepping into the unknown with the desire to overcome darkness takes great courage. I find we see this happening right now with the people in the Middle East and African countries that desire freedom for humanity in their countries.

The painting exercise can be quite simple, or you can choose the more elaborate way whichever way you choose to do it.
You use watercolor paint and paper and a 1" bristle brush.
The easiest way to do it is to mix carmine red and white in a little jar and bring it on to the paper, allowing the layers to overlap. Gently bring in the brush strokes horizontally from the top left to the right in one large stroke. Fill the entire paper going down with the same gentle brush strokes.

The more laborious but also more profound experience of peach blossom as the culmination of colors is as follows: start with covering the entire sheet with carmine red, then cover the red with aquamarine blue, followed by painting over this violet with black, then bring in white and finish with the tiniest bit of yellow.
You have moved through all the primary colors and the black into the white and yellow which represents the light.

Good luck, and let me know if it worked for you.
Peace.

to dream with those who have courage to imagine

up coming women's workshops

ART F/X
Creative perspectives for personal growth presents

INTRODUCTION TO ART THERAPY

2 SERIES OF WORKSHOPS FOR WOMEN

With Rinske Salverda, art therapist/ artist.
Kamila Miszelska, art instructor.

Explore the effect of colors on your body and psyche.
Delve into your subconscious mind with moist clay.

You do not need to have ANY previous experience with art work.

Has it been quite some time since you held a paint brush or modeled soft moist clay?
Would you like to discover your inner creative self or inner child? Would you perhaps like to dive a bit in your subconscious self?

We offer a safe and sacred space, in a beautiful and inspiring studio at 809 King Street. East Hamilton.

Give yourself some time off from daily stresses and relax while using your time wisely.

You will have a choice of: 8 sessions working with watercolors in abstract painting
or 8 sessions working hands on with clay.

Watercolor painting: 8 Tuesday evenings 6:30-9pm starting February 22nd 2011
Clay modeling: 8 Wednesday evenings 6:30-9pm starting February 23rd 2011

Costs include materials: $280.00 to be paid with registration

Register with Rinske Salverda at 905-664-6419 or send an email to: art_fx@bell.net

broadcast on hamilton TV

Rainbow Colours

A wonderfully entertaining Christmas gift is the glass optical spectrum prism. It is very reasonably priced and can give children and adults alike much pleasure in exploring the mysteries of light and darkness and colour filtered through a glass prism.

Find the right angle to hold it and look everywhere, on all objects you see in front of you and around you.

You will see the three 'warm' colours: red, orange and yellow,and you will see the 'cool' colours: turquoise, blue and purple at the other end. When you move the prism slightly, you will see the colours merging closer to each other and there appears the colour green where blue and yellow meet.

Play with it, explore to see that where darkness (matter) comes into the light the 'warm' colours appear (compare with the setting sun). You will also discover that where light shines into darkness, the 'cool' colours appear (compare to light shining into orbit or under water in the deep oceanic world).

Have fun, and let me know how it goes