academy of ancient healing arts
SHODEN REIKi LEVEL ONE
Star and Stone Academy of Ancient Healing arts
Activate Receive Heal
Joy, bliss and power are your natural state - did you forget?
Imagine… Knowing how to activate the wild and free river of life force within you at any time. Living in direct conscious contact with the supreme Universal chi. You’re already healed, and you can heal yourself.
Then imagine offering your healing essence to the world around you.
Enter the Temple of Star and Stone, an eco-system of simple, ancient practices that work - to ignite the healing life force within your being and body. Learn to channel Reiki, ‘the secret method for inviting blessings’. Root deep into stone medicine. Activate the healing life force in your own fingertips, with your own voice. Come home to your true nature.
It’s the force of love. You’re that as well.
Star and Stone chanting
Activate and Amplify your Life Force
The first degree of Reiki works on the principle Heal Thyself First.
Practicing Reiki as path, you will establish deep safety and ground, from the root. Focusing on the lower dantien, or hara - your power center - you nourish the nervous system and heal the self on all levels, across all space and time.
During our 6 week spiral journey together you will learn how to run Reiki for yourself and others, and also:
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More about the Buddhist and Taoist roots of the Reiki system, how to live and practice mindfulness and energy cultivation so the chi enlivens and permeates all that you do
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How to use Buddhist and Taoist mantras, sound activations and chanting of the Japanese kotodama, word spirits, that formed part of the original Reiki system
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The DNA level healing of crystal technology and stone medicine, including which stones amplify Reiki and heal ancestral wounds
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How to set up and work with an altar as your personal power center
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Simple Taoist energy medicine techniques to activate your life force, give power to your communication and boost your immune system
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Other rich energy medicine tools you can weave into your healing work
What you have to look forward to:
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Reiju - original empowerments, as given by Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki. These sacred transmissions will attune you to the Shoden Level of Reiki (Level 1)
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Weekly group classes, with plenty of space to ask questions
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One individual mentoring session with Adrianna or Sarah to refine your practice and get personalized support, feedback and inspiration
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Comprehensive modules with information, worksheets and exercises which use different learning modalities, so you can get a solid grasp of it all and make it your own!
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Video guidance, including hand positions for self healing as well as exercises for energy cultivation, to watch and follow at your own pace
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Audio meditations and chanting
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A private group for community and connection, a partner system if you want to participate in it
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A certificate stating your attunement to the Shoden/First degree of Reiki via Star & Stone, including your lineage
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All materials are downloadable and so yours to keep forever!
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There are a maximum of 13 participants ensuring plenty of individual attention
If you're already attuned to Reiki but are intrigued by the course, feel free come back to the source with us to enliven and strengthen your practice in our thriving ecosystem of ancient practices - there are always new layers to explore!
When, where, how much?
next dates to be confirmed!
the course runs for 6 weeks, including the traditional level one reiki empowerment, weekly live teaching Sunday sessions on zoom, bi-weekly live connection sessions, a one-on-one zoom session with adrianna or sarah, and access to comprehensive modules with plenty of audio-visual material, all within a small, intimate group here on mighty networks, including a lively and supportive community space, where we can hang out between sessions
Investment
$897 to pay in full - best value!
$320 x 3 payment plan
Your Guides
Star and Stone is created and guided by Adrianna Renee Velez, along with Dr Sarah Luczaj, a reiki master with 30 years experience as well as a professional therapist, poet, writer, artist, sound activator and co-founder of the terrealuma healing refuge, author of creative regeneration: plug into your natural state of bliss (wayward publications, 2019) and the chi book: reiki from the roots (wayward publications, 2020).
sarah i'd describe as one of today's rare authentic shamans - shaman used in the broadest sense here, not asn someone pretending to be a native american, but someone who accompanies people down into the depths, to emerge into the fluidity that engenders a joyful life'
(The Barefoot Doctor, Stephen Russell
Heaven and Earth - a Star and Stone Testimonial
i've been thinking a lot about points of connection lately. specifically, about the metaphor of indira's net and the interconnectivity of all beings. i've been thinking about this in reflecting back over 2022, and i was struck by the fact that since i began my journey with star and stone's shoden level reiki course in march 2022, i have felt a growing sense of my interconnectivity with all life. it began quietly. one day, it occurred to me that i was walking between the falling raindrops.
then one day, it occurred to me that i am the raindrops.
the beautiful course created and facilitated by reiki masters dr sarah luczaj and adrianna renee velez has profoundly enriched my life. the materials were easy to navigate online and supplemented with a visually stunning workbook that i treasure as my go-to manual. the course meetings were informative and comprehensive, but even more importantly they were infused with sarah and adrianna's passion for healing and their absolute joy in sharing their gifts. i especially appreciated the private, online community for our reiki cohort where we could ask questions, explore ideas, share experiences, and feel completely supported as we journeyed together. our reiju empowerment was a potent experience.
being connected to a long line of people who have dedicated themselves to shining more light into this world is exhilarating and incredibly moving. i am a jewel in indra's net. and of course, that has always been true. the difference is that because of star and stone,
i am intentionally radiant.
and the impact on my life? though the word has nearly been stripped of its meaning thanks to buzz-wordism, i use it here in its literal sense - i have been empowered.
i have claimed my birthright of power.
i use the self-healing practices passed on by sarah and adrianna to improve my well being on a physical, emotional and spiritual level. reiki has become my instinctive response to daily life. an ambulance screams by on the road and i raise my hands and send reiki to the patient and the crew. my knee aches and i reach for reiki to ease it. i call on reiki to calm my kitty's digestive issues. i feel much like dorothy clicking the heels of her ruby slippers. who knew this power has always been right here at my fingertips?
Adrianna and Sarah have created a warm, welcoming and safe space to learn Reiki online. I particularly appreciated how they opened up different aspects and ideas about Reiki from their own life experience of learning and working with Reiki. It was a very nourishing and abundant learning experience.
Mags Smith (community musician, TRE provider)
'My Reiki Ryoho is an original method based on intuitive power in the universe’.
Mikao Usui