Arts & Entertainment - May 1, 2007
"Healing quilts" bring warmth to both giver and receiver
For 12 years, Nancy Earle has sold insurance. It's a good job, but not one that necessarily fulfills her on a spiritual or creative level. Although she didn't plan it, over time, her love for quilting added a dimension to her job that made it more meaningful.
Tags: Nancy Earle, quilts, quilting, chakras, reiki

Marketplace - Oct. 27, 2005
Shalem Healing swirls Eastern and Western ways
Rob Fox moved his practice, called Shalem Healing (800 E. Locust St.), from Waukesha to Riverwest last May. Fox combines Western and Eastern techniques and sees medicine as a blend of science and art.
Tags: Chinese medicine, Reiki, yoga, holostic, Beans and Barley, Riverwest Co-op, Outpost

Marketplace - Oct. 5, 2005
Reiki flows the chi to all the right places
Thirty years ago, most Americans knew little about Eastern culture other than egg rolls and the "Ancient Chinese Secret" detergent commercial. Today, healers like Rennie Laing of Blue Earth Studio have brought massage -- and now reiki -- to the mainstream.
Tags: massage, reiki, oriental medicine, sushi, japanese, chinese, New Age

Marketplace - May 29, 2002
Seven Stones Wellness Center leaves no stone unturned
Three and a half years in the making, this new East Side spa offers a wide range of services: from massage to yoga to reiki to nutritional counseling to mud wraps to facials and more.
Tags: Seven Stones, wellness, spa, massage, yoga, Pilates, reiki

Living - Oct. 11, 2009
The 40 Days and 40 Nights of 40: Day FORTY!
Today will be my last entry as I have now been blogging for 40 days, the 20 days before my 40th birthday and the 20 days after.  Whew!I just went back and read day one for the first time since I published it.As I said, I do feel more impowered, "wiser," and I think I've finally sta...
Tags: Reiki, kindness, friends, family, 40, forty, 30

Living - July 23, 2009
Weekly New Thing: Reiki (Energy Healing) & Getting Centered
When my friend first told me of energy healing and Reiki, all I could think of was Whoopi Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown in "Ghost." I still contend that is one of the most unintended hilarious movies, by the way. And as Yve is explaining energy healing to me, I'm hearing, "Morticia, I ...
Tags: reiki, spiritual release, patricia heenan, chakra, karma, dharma, joy bach