Reiki Circles, Jan 11 & 17 6:30 – 8:30 pm
AM: Jan 25 – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Great for 1st experience, charging your battery, or to enhance your practice. $10.00 donation/No one turned away.

Komyo Reiki I Class and Attunement
Jan 21, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tuition: $150.00. Bring a friend and save $20.00.
Preregistration required 530 845-5943.

Komyo Reiki II Class, Inquire for next class. 530 845-5943
Tuition: $200.00. Reiki I and Preregistration required

Introduction to Stress Relief Tapping & Tools for Self Care
Jan 25, 10:00 am – 11:00 am. $10.00.

Private Reiki and Rapid Eye Life Coaching sessions available by appt. 530 305-6045
Location:205 West Main Street, Suite B., Grass Valley, CA

Stress Relief Tapping will:

help you tune into the emotion that is running you
help you identify an alternative
help you release the energy behind the emotion
help you feel better.

DECEMBER 28th
10:00am – 11:00am, $10.00
205 West Main Street, Upstairs Suite B.
Grass Valley, CA

Reiki Master Teacher Class in Western & Japanese traditions
November 9, 5:30 – 9:00 pm & November 10, 9 am – 9pm.
530 274-2496 Tuition: $1111.00.
Interview, Reiki I & II certificates, and apprenticeship required.

Reiki Circle, November 15, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Please Note Ongoing 2nd Wednesday CANCELLED for November.
Great for 1st experience, charging your battery, or to enhance your practice.
$10.00 donation/No one turned away.

Stress Relief Tapping & Introduction to Rapid Eye Technology
November 30, 10:00am – 11:00am, $10.

Private Reiki, Rapid Eye Technology, stress relief and life coaching sessions available by appt.

Reiki Circles, Sept 14 & 20 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Ongoing 2nd Wednesdays & 3rd Tuesdays
NEW AM: Sept 28 – 4th Wednesdays 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Great for 1st experience, charging your battery, or to enhance your practice. $10.00 donation/No one turned away.

Free Introduction to Reiki Natural Healing
September 22, 6:30 – 7:30 pm.

Sharing Reiki with Your Family, Friends, & Pets Class
September 24, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tuition: $150.00. Bring a friend and save $20.00.
Preregistration required 274-2496.

Reiki II Class, Inquire for next class. 274-2496
Tuition: $200.00. Reiki I and Preregistration required

Stress Relief Tapping & Tools for Self Care
September 28, 10:00 am – 11:00 am. $10.00.

Private Reiki and Rapid Eye Technology sessions available by appt.

Reiki Circles, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
August 10, , 2nd Wednesdays with Sushila
August 16, , with Valentin
Great for 1st experience, charging your battery, or to enhance your practice.
$10.00 donation/No one turned away.

Free Introduction to Reiki Natural Healing, August 19, 6:30-7:30 pm.

Reiki for Self, Family, Friends, & Pets Class , August 20, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tuition: $150.00. Bring a friend and save $20.00. preregistration required 274-2496.

Reiki II Class, August 27, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuition: $200.00. Reiki I and preregistration required 274-2496

NEW DATE August 9, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm 2nd Tuesdays
Gather the Women Energy & Meditation Circle
Together we can focus our Energy & Meditate together to support ourselves through the acceleration of consciousness. We co-create the sacred space together, share guided meditations through the Nine Dimensions, and end with a longer silent meditation. You are encouraged to bring an open mind, your prayers, songs, instruments, and something to place on the alter during the Circle.
$5.00 donation to Gather the Women.

August 24, Stress Relief Tapping & Tools for Self Care, 10:00 am – 11:00 am. $10.00

Reiki Circles, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
July 13, , 2nd Wednesdays
July 19, , 3rd Tuesdays
Great for 1st experience, charging your battery, or to enhance your practice.
$10.00 donation/No one turned away.

Reiki I Class, July 16, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tuition: $150.00. Bring a friend and save $20.00. preregistration required 274-2496.

Reiki II Class, July 30, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuition: $200.00. Bring a friend and save $20.00. Reiki I and preregistration required 274-2496

July 3 & Every First Sunday, Noon – 1:30 pm
Wellness at Unity in the Gold Country Spiritual Center,
180 Cambridge Court, Grass Valley.
Reiki, Quick Pulse, and other modalities.
$10 Wellness Love offering for Unity/No one turned away.

July 21, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Third Thursdays
Gather the Women Energy & Meditation Circle
Together we can focus our Energy & Meditate together to support ourselves through the acceleration of consciousness. We will co-create the sacred space together, share guided meditations through the Nine Dimensions, and end with a longer silent meditation. You are encouraged to bring an open mind, your prayers, songs, instruments, and something to place on the alter during the Circle.
$5.00 donation to Gather the Women.

July 20, Stress Relief Tapping & Tools for Self Care, 10:00 am – 11:00 am. $10.00

Would you like to learn how to release the energy that builds up when you are stressed or under the power of a strong emotion or thought?

Stress Relief Tapping will:

* help you tune into the emotion that is running you
* help you identify an alternative
* help you release the energy behind the emotion
* help you feel better.

This is one self care tool from my practice of Rapid Eye Technology.

Location: 205 B West Main Street Grass Valley, CA
Upstairs from Kaido’s Sushi Restaurant.

There may be a delayed beginning to honor Unity’s guest speaker Jean Shinoda Bolen.
Service is from 10:30-11:30. Jean will be autographing books after service.

$10 Love offering for Unity/No one turned away.
Unity in the Gold Country Spiritual Center
180 Cambridge Court, Grass Valley

May 4
Two Public Reiki Circles
Join us for our One Year Celebration Circle from 10:00 am – Noon.
and/or our evening Circle from 6:30 -8:30 pm.

$10.00 donation
This will also be our last Circles at Dragonfly Wellness
17328 Penn Valley Dr. Suite E, Penn Valley.

May 7, Reiki II Class 10 am – 4:00 pm
May 14, Reiki I Class 10 am – 5:00 pm
Tuition: $150.00, preregistration required 274-2496
205 B West Main Street, Grass Valley.

May 19, 7 – 8:30 pm Third Thursdays
Gather the Women Energy & Meditation Circle
Together we can focus our Energy & Meditate to support ourselves through the acceleration of consciousness. We will co-create the sacred space with our voices and bodies and share a silent meditation.

Suggested reading for exploration: Alchemy of Nine Dimensions:The 2011-2012 Prophecies and Nine Dimensions of Consciousness by Barbara Hand Clow.

$5.00 donation to Gather the Women.
205 B West Main Street, Grass Valley.

Listening to the replay of the show, I was thankful it went well. I noticed a couple key points that were omitted. I thought why not include the kernels of the talk here as a blog. Hope you enjoy the show.

Sushila Mertens is a Master Rapid Eye Technician and Reiki Master, retired librarian, mother and wife.

The work I do on myself and with my clients is remembering who we really are. We grow up learning to think and perceive as our parents, churches, and environments have taught us.

I grew up Catholic, but found more support in my daily life when I discovered yoga at 18. The practice brought peace to my mind and body. I moved from New Jersey to Nevada City in 1979 to Ananda community to integrate yoga into my daily life. Throughout the years I have studied and applied both metaphysics and psychology. My quest is to live a balanced life of heart, mind, and spirit.

So after my dad died in 1993, I developed a chronic condition that was a part of my own healing journey. In 1998, I heard about Rapid Eye Technology and flew to San Diego and had 6 RET sessions in 3 days. I felt so much happier and different from the inside, I signed up for Rapid Eye Technology training. The Rapid Eye Institute is a licensed career school by the Oregon Department of Education.

“How do you see your work benefiting families?”

Family dynamics are affected by life stresses – big events, economics, dysfunctional family patterns, addictions. We are witness to big events going on in the world as well. How we perceive these events and how we choose to act will model for our children their life stories. So 2 families can be experiencing money issues, one becomes more resourceful finding free activities for quality together time and the other family may argue more about what they can’t do anymore or start blaming each other or become victims.

The more stressed we become, the more energy builds up. I don’t think we are taught how to handle the energy of emotions. When a child gets frustrated, he may hit or bite because there are no words to get out this energy. Teaching early sign language can help even very young children how to express. Another way is for parents and caretakers to learn how to be responsible for their emotions and thoughts. Children learn from watching us more than what we say to do.

My mother did not have any skills to release her frustration and stress. She broke out in itch bumps and exploded. As a young mother, I responded in the same way.

So Rapid Eye Technology is a system that works with emotions and releasing the energy of the emotion from the body. RET Life Skills demonstrate how our thoughts and perceptions about events create our life. Whatever we give our attention to grows – either the positive or the negative life situation.

Einstein describes Insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Part of the RET process is using the principles or Life Skills to create change. We become empowered to create a life from a space of conscious awareness.
Instead of reacting to other people or events, we can respond in the present moment.
People can download a FREE Skills for Life Workbook or take the Skills for Life Course online for free at The Rapid Eye Institute.
I will be teaching New Life Skills at my office in Grass Valley. I would also be happy to introduce Rapid Eye Technology and Life Skills locally to gatherings of 6 or more people.

So what is Rapid Eye Technology?

Rapid Eye Technology is more than Rapid Eye Movement or REM that people talk about.
During our REM sleep cycle the brain functions in the alpha, theta brain wave state that processes information stored during the day.

I use an eye directing device that simulates the REM state and directs the eyes or vision to the different modalities of the brain – what you see, hear, remember, create, and feel.
The difference is you are awake and releasing with intention. People feel the energy moving around in their bodies but usually not the actual memories because it is all happening rapidly.

RET is a holistic system based on research of the brain, life coaching, stress reduction, and spiritual principles.

The basic premise is we are perfect and we are body, mind, and spirit, If our body, mind or spirit are stressed or out of wholeness, we can choose again. Ultimately we are responsible for our own healing.

I don’t diagnose or label clients or replace or interfere with the treatment of licensed medical professionals.

My clients are people like myself who want to improve their daily interactions and respond rather than react. It is about empowering people to create life supporting habits, patterns, and core beliefs.

You can work on a single situation or stress or choose the Birth and Inner Child sessions that address the basic issues–such as not good enough, fear of the future, other’s need are more important than my needs.
You can also clear the energy of the chakras or separate from other people’s energy or create a new belief about your health or life story.

So we start with and basically work with the energy of the emotions.
Emotions are just energy.
The kind of energy is determined by your perception of the event.
In a baseball game, you may be happy if your team wins,
while another person whose team lost may be sad or angry,
another person may be neutral.

A very quick demo of release work can be found on the Rapid Eye Institute website under Self Care Technique.

In a session during the coaching process, you identify a stress and emotion.
Then you release stress in the body with the Immediate Release Technique (IRT).

Can you tell us how that works?

IRT combines tapping on 9 acupressure points with eye movements and breath.
Let’s walk through the first point using the example of Worried.

What emotion is up for you? On a 1-10, 10 being unbearable, what is the intensity of the emotion?
If you are working with the emotion of Worried, what would you rather feel?
You might select Peaceful or Secure.

Keeping your head straight ahead, move your eyes in a zigzag from left to right straight across in auditory, then look down to feelings right to left, left to right back to auditory, and then look above your head in visual from right to left.

Next tap on acupressure points between the eyes at the brow with your fingers as you repeat verbally 3 times: “I trade worried for secure.”

In between acupressure points, whenever you feel an increase in emotion, and at the end of tapping, you can shut your eyes tight and open, scrunching your face. Do 3 times, Take a deep breathe in through your nose, and out your mouth. 3 times. This slows the release process down.

What is the intensity of the emotion now 1-10? You repeat all 9 points until you achieve the level of intensity you are comfortable with.

Immediate Release Technique summarized:
1. Name and quantify the emotion 1-10.
2. What would you rather feel?
3. Move the eyes in a zigzag.
4. Tap between the eyes at the brow.
5..Add the verbal: I Trade feelingfor feeling – 3 times.
4. Squeeze your eyes tight and open 3 times
5. Breathe in your nose, out through your mouth – 3 times.
6. Continue with all 9 points.
7. What is the intensity 1-10 of the emotion?
8. Continue until you achieve the level of intensity you desire.

This works very well if you do the entire sequence but whatever you can do in a situation helps.
If you can remember to do self care, you have already increased your conscious awareness.
You can even tap some points in public without looking too strange.
If you can release your tension or panic by tapping, you can model this for your kids.
It opens you up to new possibilities.

How can people contact you or learn more?
My phone is 530 274-2496 or blinkandbreathe@gmail.com
My website blinkandbreathe.com has all my services including my upcoming Reiki Classes.

Let’s look at the first chakra located at the base of the spine. This is where we hold our birth experience, formation of our identity, our right to exist and be loved, our right to get our basic needs met. It is where we hold our basic survival instincts and primal feelings. It governs the lower half of the body.

When this center is opened, we experience abundance, health, worthiness, and a belief in our own sacredness.

Signs of distress may be depression, feeling like you are barely surviving, aggression, nervousness, and skin issues.

Unresolved first chakra issues from preconception to 6 months may resurface throughout life cycles: 14-15, 21-28, 56-63, 70-77.

Rapid Eye Technology (RET) is a stress relief technique that helps identify and process where the body and auric levels have recorded limiting beliefs. When the energy centers or chakras are unblocked, your divine energy is flowing and grounding. We experience unconditional love. Your physical body becomes balanced and healthy. Life is good.

Call Sushila to book an appointment at Dragonfly Studio! 530.274.2496

Information based on Clearing Your Twelve Chakras by Sharlene Young, RET Trainer.