Thanks for the continuance....

(and all those snacks and ease and clarity you seem to keep on hand to set back the meltdowns...)

Happy Mother's Day to ya.

Tribe friends

Last night I had the honor to be on Vancouver's Juice Box Radio (www.juiceboxradio.com). If you have never listened to the live show or podcasts, it's informative and always interesting; and the hosts Julia Saunders and Caroline MacGillivray are simply wonderful.

I had the opportunity to speak on my experience of the new American family, step-parenting, personal expression, and methods for creating healthy, interactive, and supportive lifestyles for the adults, the kids, --and the family as a whole.

I've been a rogue papa for 85 days as of today (May 8th, 2008), moving in with my new family on Valentine's Day. I waited til I was 42, and for me this was the right thing to do. If you are thinking of enlarging your family, or are simply curious about how others are doing it, I hope you find some of the ideas in the podcast useful. For me there is One Good Rule to start with, the same rule that exists for all positive human relationships: Just Show Up and Be Present. No better start.

Thanks to all the mamas, papas, infants, toddlers, kids, tweens, and teens for adding breath and spirit to this breathing, spirited world.

...

To listen to the podcast, click on the link below

www.juiceboxradio.com/


Robert Allen
www.roguetantra.com
www.reikiteaching.com

REIKI I AND II FOR HEALING PROFESSIONALS
WITH ROBERT ALLEN AND SHAKTI MOON
SEATTLE, WA
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY MAY 17th AND 18th
Noon to 6pm

For this class only we are offering a referral agreement to workshop attendees: refer a professional peer at the regular fee and you come at no cost. This is all in light of the circle of healing and professional standards -- the circle turns and we can all benefit.

If you are a healing professional interested in adding Reiki training to your list of skills and professional offerings, this class is right for you. Robert Allen and Shakti Moon will be offering a special class in the NW May 17th and 18th, designed specifically for massage practitioners, counselors, coaches, yoga teachers, educators, energy workers; anyone in the helping professions.

Reiki means "universal life energy" in Japanese and is a healing system that works on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Reiki is calming, Reiki is transformative, Reiki is powerful medicine.

Follow the link below to www.reikiteaching.com for complete information and registration details.

Thanks for the healing you offer the world.

www.reikiteaching.com/id15.html

Robert Allen
www.reikiteaching.com

The question I’m most asked as a Reiki teacher is “What’s the deal with the attunement and the magical symbols?”

A Reiki attunement is offered after levels of formal study with a qualified teacher. It’s a marker of the degree of learning, of study and time put toward the healing and meditative technologies of Reiki.

An attunement is an energetic transmission from teacher to student. Attunements channel vision, value, and coloring to the healing process, to our understanding of the unity of experience. An attunement is a ritual of passage, a recognition that something has been learned.

And as with most spiritual concepts, after the study and practice there is non-cognitive assignment through ritual. We can get to communion in many ways. Reiki attunment is a way, a technology, and it is a technology of healing.

It is in these states that most higher learning comes, when we are open to the non-linear and the non-substantial, to the energetic flow that pours through us, and without us.

A Reiki Master in this process is not sharing anything personal, anything from ego, but simply opening the moment to a greater gift, the student allowing power to be given back.

For a gift to be real, it has to be given. It’s no different with the gift of healing.

Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki, merged Buddhist, Christian, and Tantric rituals and healing practices, following a self-proclaimed vision of “Universal Life Energy.” From his vision he extracted three symbols, said to represent cycles of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

Symbols connect us to our unconscious drives and reaches, and from these subtle states we flower to divine power and wisdom. The bridge is the symbol, and then there is no longer a bridge or symbol, there is no need any longer.

The Reiki symbols are a ritual metaphor, a magic languaging like The Lord’s Prayer, or the Kabbalist’s Ladder. Shared language, shared symbols, and shared clues lead to shared vision. They’re pictures that get you there. Like a green light. Like a key.

The attunement and the symbols represent a moment of higher unity with teacher and student, a moment with a shared energetic and metaphorical language, a doorway, a liminal break, and as Chogyam Trungpa so aptly puts it, “ It is merely a meeting of two minds. Two minds become one”

As with abhisheka (the ritual “sprinkling” in Vedic rites) or Christian baptism this shared ritual represents passage in time and connection to the divine outside us, and the divine within. Healing and bliss are there. And there is everywhere.

Peace

Robert Allen
www.reikiteaching.com
www.roguetantra.com


copyright Robert Allen 2008

I've created a new tribe for those in the business of healing in Ukiah, CA and environs. There's power and abundance in networking, let's all meet and see how we can grow our work together. Massage therapists, energy workers, therapists, counselors, coaches, teachers -- If you heal others for a living, this is a tribe for you!

Join us! Tell your healing friends.

tribes.tribe.net/ukiahhealers

Peace

Robert Allen
www.roguetantra.com