Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Reiki I, II & Masters workshops in Worthing in September, 2009.
Reiki I
£95
Wednesday 16th September (10am-3pm)
Reiki I will introduce you to the basic history of Reiki and the hand positions involved in a treatment. Following the attunement, my main aim is to allow you to feel the energy of Reiki so that you are confident in giving a treatment. You will be a practitioner at the end of the course and I encourage you to practice straight away as this is the only way to heighten your experience of Reiki and bring it into your lives. You will receive a Course manual and Certificate.
Reiki II
£125
Saturday 19th September (10-3pm)
Reiki II enhances your practice with a detailed knowledge of the symbols involved in the attunement process. For many, Reiki II brings them back to Reiki after a time of non-Reiki practice and for these we also go over any Reiki I issues which arise. You will receive a Course manual and Certificate.
Reiki Master Teacher
£300
Thursday 17 September (10am-2pm)
Friday 18 September (10am-3pm)
The ultimate step in the Reiki journey but really just the beginning. The Reiki Master course is your decision to live Reiki, be Reiki and choose to follow your ultimate potential. You receive the Reiki Master symbol both in attunement and for your practice. As you can imagine, this enhances your practice and changes your awareness in whichever way you choose to follow it. You will become a Reiki Master Practitioner and also learn the fundamentals of becoming a Reiki Master Teacher which you may use to begin teaching and grow as a teacher. You will receive a Course manual and certificate.
To book a Course or talk more about the Reiki workshops please contact me via email reiki@rebeccahutley.com or send a deposit cheque for £50 (Reiki I & II) £100 (Reiki Master) made out to me: R Hutley, address to: 45 Maid’s Causeway, Cambridge. CB5 8DE.
I hope to see you there,
Rebecca
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Reporting from the UK still…we’re holed up here in a strange terraced house with small spaces on many floors. We spend most of our time in the basement which has been quite dull with the dark, motionless sky that hangs above our heads through the glass roof at the back of the house. Jasmin is at Granny’s in France and we can’t go back there until next week as there are too many visitors and not enough beds. We spent the first week busy cleaning the motorhome and sorting things out on the money front and then we found ourselves getting more and more lethargic and having less and less to do. We’ve put in the action and now as we need time to recover from what may be the swine flu or some kind of toxin working its way through our bodies, we’ve been given the chance to sit with only the odd thing to do. Its become a bit like big brother here with no-one watching. Through the day I alternate between the world of Bombay slums in my recent book, ‘Shantaram’ and the dramatic story lines of Neighbours and Home and Away, haven’t seen them for a few years how bizarre, and then suddenly we find ourselves listening to an old rave track Ray’s found on Itunes, transporting us instantly onto a beach in India watching the setting sun.
And in this space which the Universe seems to have created for us at the moment, I watched a film last night and had a massive emotional release at 2 in the morning. This is what I wrote at the time; ‘Tonight i’m sad, i’m sad, i’m so so sad that its not how they said it would be, how they promised it would be. I’m grieving, i’m mourning for the lost dream of the girl, for the fact that its all a lie and no-one cares or seems to see it. I’m sad that I can’t do anything about it, that its out of my power, I can’t do anything, i’m helpless, out of control and I don’t know my place in it any more. My choices are limited and I can’t breathe, i’m out of my self and I can’t catch a breath to tell anyone and they wouldn’t listen anyway and I’m on my own. I’m out of my self and i’m free-falling into the black hole and I know that there’s no-one who’ll be able to catch me, i’ll just have to find out what’s at the bottom now and that’s that.’
So, interesting stuff, coming straight from the little girl. She was, I have to tell you, deeply upset. I awoke the next morning with a big bad headache and looking like i’d been beaten up but with a creeping sense of calm. The calmness remains today and slowly I can feel a newness emerging.
Since committing myself more deeply to the exploration of ‘potential’, the choices I’m making every day have begun to come more often from my instinctive self and its making me feel that I’m not the only one here in my life. There is the sense of being looked after and guided and at points where it gets really hard, I am being carried. Like the story of the man who meets God in heaven and looks down to see his life. He sees God’s footprints in the sand next to his throughout his life apart from when things got really tough when there was only one set of footprints. He says to God, ‘why did you abandon me when life became so hard’ and God said, ‘no my son, at those times, I carried you’. I can really feel that now…
The release the other night has replaced what was a creeping tension with a deep sense of surrender. There’s only one thing to do and that’s to make sure your choices come from the depths of your soul, from love and you will be guided and carried. There is the love for yourself of course as you are part of the Universe, and the love for all else that is here. I think loving yourself is such a massive step for most people, we are capable of so much but do we really think we deserve it, how many voices do you live with telling you otherwise?
With Love
Rebecca x
Reiki Workshops in the UK - September 2009 - see page listing on the right
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
The second week of my blog about living in Spain sees me travelling two 18 hour days from our hill in Southern Spain up to France and then further on up to Dieppe, crossing the channel over to Newhaven and onto Cambridge in order to sell our motorhome to pay off the finance, buy a car and drive back down. The weirdest feeling when you travel by road is when your physical body gets there but your energy and sense of being seems to be still slowly travelling on the road to catch you up. Just as you see the hands clap moments before the sound, the body definitely arrives before the other aspects of your being. This feeling is a constant reminder to me of the many aspects of myself and that the physical reality I see before me is not all.
So, here I am in the UK. Up until now I’ve been travelling by plane every month back to England on our European travels in order to work, so when Ray said he thought it would be really weird being in England again, I disagreed and said it would be just as it always was and that he’d soon get used to it. Well, I was wrong. In the last few weeks in Spain i’ve been settling into a place where the majority of land is bare earth between the light, soft green of the olive trees which cast breathtaking shadows over the velvet brown earth at sundown. I’ve been breathing the same air that the horses I can see from my terrace are breathing in the cool of the morning before the crickets awake and being greeted by the bright eyes of Andalucian men who all say hello as they look deep into your eyes. And so I had been affected by my time already there and as we drove up through Northern France and into the cool evening of the ferry crossing and the landing in Newhaven, he was right, I found being in England this time very different. Most of all, I felt the presence of tarmac and roads and the suppression of nature under the sprawl of our towns and the presence of so many of us on this island. I began to sense again a deep sadness at the low point of connectivity to our world and to each other that we as human beings are experiencing today. And as we are all running around telling ourselves that we are advancing and becoming increasingly cultivated as a race, what hope is there, I ask? These reflections seemed to bring me deeper and deeper towards my inner self, my real self and reminded me of what it must have been like when I was brought to England at the age of 7 after growing up in Africa.
Since deciding on Spain and finding our place, I have felt very much in the flow of life. This is in direct opposition to how you feel when you can sense discord and unhappiness but don’t quite know where its coming from and you’re not sure what to do as everything you do seems to be so damn hard. This ‘in the flow’ feeling finds you spontaneously researching something on the internet that barely held your attention before and having that ‘I can put the world to rights’ feeling only previously experienced on vast quantities of unspecified social drugs. You know, the feeling which kept you and your friends talking well into the night (all at the same time of course) about issues which in the morning you all had no recollection of, the only thing you remembered is that feeling, the ‘I know what its all about’ feeling. Anyway, I’ve been having that and suddenly found myself blurting out a load of thoughts to Ray as we drove through the vast, scorched, blonde earth of central Spain. I think the vastness helped my mind to expand and I came up with three starting points for exploring my potential which, as promised, I will share with you:
To write in all genres as and when the feeling takes me, with the ultimate aim of writing a book.
To ride horses and become a ‘fearless’ horsewoman.
To bring music into my life.
How I came to these three aspects of my being which I feel need exploring is a long story and begins with my first initiation into the way of Reiki. I can hardly believe that only now, 10 years later have I cleared enough of the received influence of my life to be ready to explore and start living them. It has been quite a journey just to find them and then to release myself from the web of life I had created around me which kept me from them, but it is done and here I am. There is quite a way to go but now slowly, creeping, widening, expanding within and without, the moments and opportunities in which I might begin are presenting themselves.
With Love
Rebecca
Reiki Worshops I, II & Masters in the UK in September 2009.
Please contact me for information on these.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
We left the UK in March, rented our house out (actually we hadn’t when we left but just felt it was the right time to go), bought a £40,000 motorhome on finance because we wanted something big enough, made a mental note of our debts, secured work with an income from England and then travelled Europe looking for somewhere to live, a place in which we might be able to experiment with our potential. We could have stayed, like frightened rabbits staring at the headlights of the recession for fear of increasing our debt to follow an intuitive thought, but we didn’t, we left. After following the whole coast of Southern Europe and riding a rollercoaster of emotion, I am now sitting here in our little house in Spain, looking out over the ocean, writing this.
Spending warm nights lying under a dark star-filled sky, I can finally breath again and allow a certain reflective energy to return. It feels like the last time I took a breath was four months ago. It was a long, slow deliberate breath as I knew then that the journey to Europe would ask me to make decisions at forks in the road and experience the strongest of emotions which arise when faced with fear and uncertainty.
So why, you might ask did I need to go and place myself in the unknowing, uncomfortable, debt-ridden journey to Europe? You had a nice life, a nice house, enough money, a new job, the world at your feet. Because at the beginning of this year I finally realised I had been living everybody’s life but my own. I had recently made some wonderful discoveries about who I am but was unable to live this path because I had woken up and found myself living in someone else’s house, living someone else’s life – or so it seemed. What am I doing here, I thought? Time to go. I and my partner were having dreams of escaping years ago but had been in England for what I now know to be a very good reason. We weren’t ready to leave, we only wanted to escape and would have left and begun to live everyone else’s lives but our own in another country and truly, this is not the point. So, if you’re feeling like you don’t want to be somewhere, know that real change will come only when you are ready inside. And then, does it come big time and when it comes it is messy and challenging and asks you to trust and take risks and follow your intuition and find your inner strength, to know yourself, love yourself and know that you are loved. You have to do it and jump. That’s if you want to experiment with your potential…
Welcome to a new idea, something that sprang to mind before I left England and am now ready to begin. It is to be brief, an experiment in life, in following what you know to be your heart´s calling despite practical issues and the sense that you would be turning off the path well trod. Since the time of my first Reiki attunement, I made one decision and that was to choose all roads which called to my true potential as a human being. It has been a slow peeling of the layers and at times so frustrating as the layers continue to reveal themselves, but it is now my path and for some intuitive reason or another it appears that it is now time to share the experiment with you.
I had been thinking about all those wonderful self-development, new age, spiritual-type books most of which at some point have been a major influence in my life, and I thought the only thing about them is they are written after the journey. The author is basically saying, ‘here I am, I have followed a path of self-reflection and spiritual discovery and have finally achieved peace and abundance in my life by finding my potential and now I’m writing about it to help you all find yours’, check out the sparkly, bright-eyed, I’m a very contented, happy person photo on the back or on the inside cover. This is great but when you read a book like that you always seem to ask, ‘but how do I get from here to there? I’m enjoying the book, it reminds me of the fact that there is more to life, but how did you do it?’ So, I thought instead of carrying out my own personal experiment in life secretly and then writing about it once I’d achieved something I thought worth writing about, why not let you in on it when and as it happens. At the same time, you will all be my conscience and as I know you are watching and part of the energy of the thing this will help me focus, and so we will be experimenting together. Welcome to, a weekly blog detailing the journey as it unfolds, I hope to hear your thoughts as we go along.
With Love
Rebecca
Reiki Workshops in the UK
I’ve been given the opportunity to hold Reiki I, II & Masters workshops in Worthing or Brighton (location being confirmed) in September, 2009.
Reiki I
£95
Saturday 19th September (9am-4pm)
Reiki I will introduce you to the basic history of Reiki and the hand positions involved in a treatment. Following the attunement, my main aim is to allow you to feel the energy of Reiki so that you are confident in giving a treatment. You will be a practitioner at the end of the course and I encourage you to practice straight away as this is the only way to heighten your experience of Reiki and bring it into your lives. You will receive a Course manual and Certificate.
Reiki II
£125
Thursday 17 September (2pm – 8pm)
Reiki II enhances your practice with a detailed knowledge of the symbols involved in the attunement process. For many, Reiki II brings them back to Reiki after a time of non-Reiki practice and for these we also go over any Reiki I issues which arise. You will receive a Course manual and Certificate.
Reiki Master Teacher
£300
Thursday 17 September (9am-1pm)
Friday 18 September (9am-4pm)
The ultimate step in the Reiki journey but really just the beginning. The Reiki Master course is your decision to live Reiki, be Reiki and choose to follow your ultimate potential. You receive the Reiki Master symbol both in attunement and for your practice. As you can imagine, this enhances your practice and changes your awareness in whichever way you choose to follow it. You will become a Reiki Master Practitioner and also learn the fundamentals of becoming a Reiki Master Teacher which you may use to begin teaching and grow as a teacher. You will receive a Course manual and certificate.
To book a Course or talk more about the Reiki workshops please contact me via email reiki@rebeccahutley.com or send a deposit cheque for £50 (Reiki I & II) £100 (Reiki Master) made out to me: R Hutley, address to: 45 Maid’s Causeway, Cambridge. CB5 8DE.
I hope to see you there,
Rebecca
Retreats in Spain
November, 2009
A 5 day retreat including Yoga, Meditation & Reiki. There will be the opportunity to relax, breath and come together with others who share your interest in fulfilling your true potential. The setting is in a peaceful space up here on the hill, over-looking the ocean.
Further details to follow, please contact me if you are interested.
Price will be approx £400 which includes accommodation, food & airport transfers, but not flights. Nearest airport is Malaga.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Hi all,
Its been the most amazing journey, emotional and difficult, beautiful and wonderous - experiencing duality at such close quarters. We have settled in Spain but not where we used to live, as soon as we got here things just started falling into place and I guess that´s when you know you´re in the flow…
We´re selling our van. A CI Mizar GTL Living Fiat Ducato 130 bhp multijet engine - 4 berth, warranty to Oct 2011 a wonderful drive and a very comfortable double bed! Much more information if you want to email me. Price is 36,450 GBP. Please see photos and send the energy and information out there.
I will be back in the UK in September for Reiki I, II and Masters workshops and this will probably be my last visit. I then intend to have you all visit out here and experience the beautiful hills where we live near Frigiliana in Southern Spain with a series of retreats. I´ll keep you posted.
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Be the change you wish to see in the world…
As we feel the strong vibrations of change all around us, for many it is a time of great fear. For those who are able to connect to the source of this change however, it is also a time of great hope and a sense that if we take steps to move closer to our True selves we might just be part of this vibration of change. It is no longer only about us as individuals and our personal paths as much of the self development movement has thus far been, but about our place in the interconnected web of life on this planet.
As you all know, there are many forms and ways to connect to this Source. If you feel drawn to Reiki, healing and meditation I look forward to seeing you to explore this connection more deeply.
Reiki I
Friday February 6th
Saturday February 21st
Reiki II
Friday February 12th
Sunday February 22nd
Reiki Masters
You know who you are! What a great time to be taking that step into the fullness of your own Being.
Please contact me for individual appointments or to talk more about it.
With Love
Rebecca
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Dear all,
I must just take a moment out of what is currently quite a busy life to tell you about the Journey Intensive weekend I FINALLY went on a couple of weeks ago.
Brandon Bayes was a leading alternative health practitioner and travelled with Anthony Robbins around the world giving lectures on health and vitality. She then found herself one day with a tumor the size of a basketball growing in her stomach. She was shocked as she believed herself to be a very healthy person. She had heard about an area of study being done by Deepak Chopra who asked the question, ‘if our cells rejuvenate fully in the body every year, then why does disease continue?’. Brandon came to believe that cells held memory and she set about trying to release the memories held by the cells of her tumor to allow her body to become healthy again.
After about 6 weeks I think it was, she had successfully reduced the size of the tumour and went on to clear it fully, gaining a clean bill of health from the doctor. This, of course supported her belief in cellular memory and she wanted to bring this knowledge to as many people as possible. What she then created was a simple process which she called ‘The Journey’. This process is now used around the world and her book ‘The Journey’ has been translated into many languages. The South African government have adopted the process in hospitals for trauma patients as it has significantly reduced their after-care time. Also, in South Africa it has been adopted in schools where it is changing the lives of many children who have suffered great emotional and physical hardships.
Having experienced the process now a number of times using the CDs on my own, with a trained practitioner and recently at the Journey Intensive I am feeling that it is a great gift to us. Finally, in a very simple way we are able to clear our sub-conscious of past memories and emotions which are holding us back from our True nature as human beings. I have felt for many years now that we are all living in these bodies at such a low capacity of who we really ARE. And as I clear my own self and continue a regular practice of meditation and processing at this time, the awareness and revelations are coming thick and fast. What I truly know as a radiant being, which because of the stored repressed emotions I was holding onto surfaced only very rarely, are now surging forward and becoming more of a driving force in my life than the old ways, the patterns and the ever present FEAR.
Its all so simple, the hard part is getting enough strength to listen to your heart in the first place and decide to do it. That FEAR is so strong, but once you face it you find that emotion is the key to finding your true self. You are no longer afraid of emotion but begin to learn how to deal with it when it comes up. Be in it, immerse yourself in it and in the middle you will find what lies beneath it and if you continue you will eventually face your fear and experience what is on the other side. Can you guess? There are so many words to describe it; love, bliss, light, radiance, space, silence, knowing, Truth, contentment, spirit, god, source, grace…
So, if you feel your heart pulling you there…DO IT NOW, take action as the feeling may not last and you may find yourself falling back into old ways of putting it off, suppressing it, sweeping it under the carpet, keeping busy, working hard, drinking, taking drugs, smoking… Oh we have so many and so many around us are supported by our society.
www.thejourney.com
The Radiant Being in me sees the Radiant Being in you…
Namaste
Rebecca
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Can you be busy, yet maintain stillness and peace within?
This is the current question I am looking at. Since a couple of weeks ago I have begun to work more and have three projects on the go at the moment together with being a mum and still trying to get our house finished.
The answer that has come to me is that in order to experience a sense of peace, we must begin with the body. If there is discord and stress in the body this will be manifest in the mind and emotions and ultimately the energetic body. If we have Reiki and harmonise our energy this will not have a lasting effect unless we cultivate a regular physical and energetic practice.
How many times have we heard that to meditate every day is a good thing, but still many of us are not doing this. I have found that rather than sit still to meditate, being physical in meditation is much easier and at the same time helps the blood to flow and the endorphines charge, enhancing my mental state at the same time. So I am running and in the running or in any repetitive action, much as a chant would do I am finding my stillness. After running, I am practicing ashtanga yoga to calm the body and the heart. The key to this is continuity, not hours pounding the street because my mind is telling me to do it, but rather a daily check in with myself and a practice based on how I feel and what is a good thing for me at that time.
From this it came to me that it is not the activity we are doing, but rather how we do it. This holds true with all things. We may be running because we want to run away or we may run because today the body feels strong and wants to strengthen itself?
What are you doing and how are you doing it? We so often want to change our jobs, our lives, our relationships but maybe looking at how we do what is now present in our lives will be more effective and lead us to find that external change begins within.
If you would like to explore the way you are in your life and begin to make changes, contact me about my latest workshop:
Reiki for Life
Using Reiki to enhance your daily life by exploring what you do and why you do it.
Friday 24 October, 2008 - 9.45 - 2.15. Cost: £45
REIKI WORKSHOPS
REIKI I - Friday 10 October
REIKI II - Friday 3 October
REIKI MASTER - Friday 14 November
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Hi,
I’m over here in Cognac, France with my family and 5 year old daughter escaping the english rain and thought I’d share my recollections of the first retreat I organised which was held here at my parent’s house near Cognac.
It was early days in my Reiki practice and I had decided, living in London that what most of the clients I was meeting needed was to get out of the madness of the City and go somewhere totally quiet and peaceful, so I chose this house which is just that. Set amongst sunflower fields and with about 6 other houses in the hamlet, this place is totally silent and has a big starry sky at night. It was an amazing retreat and everyone took away a transformation of their own, including the practitioners. I am still in contact with some who came and my thoughts are turning to retreats again.
My sister is living in Marrakech and her Riad guest house will be open in October where I will be holding a Reiki and Ashtanga Yoga retreat early next year in January or February. Up-date to come when we have finalised the details. Retreats are a fantastic way of speeding up and enhancing your journey as it is often the routine of life which keeps us held in old patterns of behaviour and stops us from really moving on. I take every opportunity I can to either change my routine or get away just for a change of scenery no matter where that might be.
Other forms of retreat are also interesting. A friend of mine has just done the 10 day silent Vipassana retreat. This is held in Hereford in the UK but she attended in Barcelona. Its a rigorous practice which starts at 4 am and includes total silence and meditation throughout the day. She said that initially you just sit and watch the madness of thoughts become crazier and crazier until finally they stop and you do experience a sense of peace. At this time, the Vipassana facilitators then teach you the specific Vipassana meditation which she said takes you deeper into your psyche and older more held back thoughts begin to arise. Vipassana means ‘to see things as they really are’ and the aim of the process is to irradicate all mental impurities for the person to acheive the highest state of happiness. Although my friend said the schedule was gruelling at times, she felt totally alive and buzzing when she left. I think it depends how much personal work you’ve done when you go but she said that most people there have literally walked off the street and never really meditated before which I find highly admirable! Check out the website at www.dhamma.org
I’m interested in a Raw food retreat as I’ve recently turned to a 90% Raw diet. Its totally amazing and I’ll share all with you another day. Check out www.totalrawfood.com
Please get in touch if you’re interested in going on retreat as I’d like to hear your feelings about why and what you’d hope to gain from a retreat so I can fine tune the experience.
Love to you all,
Rebecca
WORKSHOPS
REIKI I
Thursday 11 September
REIKI II
Friday 12 September
REIKI MASTER
October - date tbc
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Dear all,
Having just completed a two day Reiki Master course on a one-to-one basis, I wanted to let you know the transformative time I have just spent with someone so committed to the Truth and to exploring all aspects of herself and her place in the Universe that the depth of the course was truly wonderful.
The Reiki Master attunement can be so deep and powerful and can literally shift awareness in that instant. I truly believe that the person who came on Monday is not the person who left on Tuesday. What are amazing are the facial changes that occur over any Reiki attunement course. People’s eyes are wider as if they really are seeing more, the skin is clearer and the personality is calmer. Often people close to those having just been attuned comment on the changes they see and feel, its also interesting to watch the reaction of pets after an attunement. After this Reiki Master course, the dog wanted to be close to the newly attuned Reiki practitioner and would not leave her side all night, enjoying soaking up the clean, clear energy of love emanating from her.
I wanted to write about this as I too received my Master attunement again at the end of the course as a way for the practitioner to practice the giving of attunements. This idea of re-attunement is one often not discussed by Reiki Masters in the West but in the tradition of Japanese Reiki it has often been referred to as an important part of the Reiki journey. A pracitioner would be attuned every time they saw their Master which at that time was fairly regularly.
I felt quite ill this morning and felt that my 21-day cleansing cycle was kicking in but instead of rushing about and not listening I was in quite a connected space and spent the day resting and taking herbs. I feel great now and very peaceful. I just did my weekly look at finances which usually stresses me out and I had a total feeling of detachment from it. It seems to be the emotional attachment to things which cause the rollercoaster or as the buddhists call it, the cycle of suffering. I’m happy when I have money and unhappy when there seems to be a shortfall and around and around the cycle goes. So, today the little figures on the paper were just that and I did what I had to do by moving them all around and I have to say what a relief, its done now and the feeling of peace remains. My own re-attunement feels quite deep and has been another shift of increased awareness for me.
So, as we continue to peel the layers of the onion, with each layer revealing more to us about our Truth, the use of the re-attunement can be a useful tool. Many people come to me at the Reiki II stage and ask to be re-attuned in preparation for the Masters but it can be used at any time by any level.
If you’d like to explore this with me or feel ready for the next level, please get in touch by email: reiki@rebeccahutley.com
In Peace
Rebecca
