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Holistic Nutrition
Working with Karin
Karin is a Reiki Master Healer and Teacher offering training classes and private healing sessions. Karin's advanced work in reiki extends beyond situational stress relief and relaxation. She works closely with clients to identify underlying challenges and unresolved issues, effecting personal freedom and lasting change through growing self-awareness. Read the descriptions for each method of healing, and decide which approach focuses where you need healing most. If you are unsure which approach suits you best, you can discuss it further with Karin.
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Karin learned meditation in the monestaries of Asia. She participates in silent retreats in monastic settings as well as solitary silent retreats, and maintains a personal practice in her everyday life that extends into every facet of her life. Karin shares these approaches in a way that engenders personal freedom in how one chooses to make meditation part of their everyday life.
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Earning a BS in Heath Education in 1993, Karin's commitment to living well is decades in the making. Her study and commitment to holistic nutrition was born out of balancing her body's needs for nutritional support as a high altitude distance runner, rock climber, and snowboarder in the 1990s. As a champion of lifelong learning, she has explored and experienced a variety of whole-foods-based diets and ways of growing, harvesting, preparing, and ingesting the foods she eats, and she draws from this trove of knowledge and experience in her work with others.
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Credit cards accepted. All sessions $65.
You can use your health insurance Flex card (FSA) to pay for your healng services with Karin.
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Which approach is right for me?
Reiki Healing Sessions
Classic Reiki Healing Session
For relief from work and family stress, to alleviate pain or discomfort, as a complement other healing approaches, and in preparation for major life events, the classic session is a common choice.
If you find you carry a lot of responsibility for the emotional well-being of others, you need a respository for that burden. Whether you're running a bustling household, caring for an aging parent, or supporting clients or employees, it is vital to your own self care to lay those worries down. A classic reiki session can release what you're carrying and recharge you so that you are fully present for those who depend on you.
If recovering from an injury or trying to alleviate discomfort in the body, a classic reiki session can help. Pain and discomfort result from a slowing in the circulaton of vital energy - carried in the vital fluids and neural pathways of the physical body. By bringing vibratory healing to those areas of slowing, stagnation is freed and circulation can resume. If pain or discomfort persists without response to intervention, it is quite possibly linked to something more long-standing that needs to be cleared. Look to the advanced healing sessions, described below,
A classic session is also a good choice to ease the body, mind, and spirit in and out of major life events including birth, travel, job or home transition, surgery, and ultimately, death. Reiki helps to ease transitions; it soften the edges of major changes.
Book a session as needed or set up a recurring appointment.
Aura Cleansing
Like a sphere around the body, the aura is first to encounter the insults and injuries of living life. In its perfect state, the aura is an iridescent sphere of protection, filtering the tens of thousands of nanoparticals of stimuli an individual encounters each day. The integrity of the aura can be compromised by a nutrient-poor diet, routinely inhaling smoke or other pollutants, regular or excessive ingestion of intoxicants, repeated or consistent exposure to violence - including violent images or concepts in entertainment and media, carrying a consciousness around genetic disease, and repeated or consistent messages from self or other that denigrate the sense of self worth of the individual.
Over time and exposure, these stimuli can weaken the aura, leaving the individual more susceptible to illness and dis-ease, making the protective sheath more permeable to incompatible situations and energies. This can be experienced as an inability to move forward, unresponsiveness to intervention for or recurrence of illness or dis-ease, or resonance with the statement, "Those things didn't used to get to me, but now..."
An aura cleansing is followed by two classic reiki sessions.
Chakra Cleansing
Chakra is a Sanskrit word that translates to wheel or vortex. It relates to spinning vortexes of vital energy that function within every living organism and help maintain the smooth flow of vital energy. There are seven main chakras in the human energy system, and each has many interrelated correspondences. For example, one significant corrrespondence is that of chronological age, and the governance of the life experience in a given age by its corresponding dominating chakra.
While we manage to move more or less gracefully through our lives, at times we may recognize that something is consciously or unconsciously hindering our greatest potential. This may be related to physical, emotional, or spiritual trauma, and the memory that is stored in the corresponding chakra. Determining which chakra needs cleansing can rely on one's conscious awareness of a traumatic event, or it can be determined by examining symptoms within the life experience that correlate to a governing chakra. Determination can also be made during a classic reiki session, where Karin receives strong indicators of significant imbalance that requires deeper attention.
Choose from a single appointment to cleanse the specifc chakra, a series of healing sessions that couch the chakra cleansing within it, or a deep cleansing program that cleanses each chakra in turn for a total system reset.
Transcendent Healing
This modality is used to facilitate rapid healing of physical trauma and injury. Bridging the space between the physical and more subtle energetic bodies, Karin looks deeply at the affected area and pointedly directs the flow of vital healing energy to the specific location, directing healing to the very composition of the trauma site. This technique is effective on both recent and old injuries in which there continues to be malfunction or disturbance. If you suspect there are other, multi-layered aspects contributing to the imbalance or disease, however, look to aura cleansing or chakra cleansing for a more comprehensive approach. Transcendent healing is very specific. It can also be used to prepare for upcoming events such as surgery if your aim is very focused support.




Meditation & Breathwork
Meditation means, To become familiar. It is a practice of becoming familiar with one's own mind, with the nature of the mind. Meditation techniques all have the same purpose: to give the mind a place to rest, a place to focus, so it can disengage from the endless stream of thoughts. When you are able to disengage from the thoughts for even a moment, you can observe the process, the nature of the mind. When you can observe the nature of the mind, you begin to understand how all-consuming the unbridled mind can be.
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There are many approaches to meditation, and the key is to finding which approach resonates with you and how your mind works. Karin's training and teaching is from the tradition commonly called Mindfulness. In addition, she offers classes in guided meditation. Her training in this technique began in the early 1990s under the umbrella of stress management, and continues through today through various modalities, including her work in reiki . She offers a number of classes and courses that can be tailored to meet individual needs in privately-scheduled courses.
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Holistic Nutrition
When you approach your sustenance from the holistic perspective, you consider a menagerie of variables and consider the weight of each variable's importance on the decisions you make. You decide what truly matters to you.
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Karin helps you to explore the many aspects of being that influence the foods you put in your body and the systems those choices support. She helps you to make sense of mountains of information and develop a discerning eye in a field of growing possibilties.
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Services include:
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