Occasionally I get requests for online versions of Reiki training, and although I believe online courses and electronic media is a most powerful development for easier access to information and training, there are some things that simply can’t replace the experience of live instruction. Read More

by Letha Hadady-During the mid 1990s, after being nationally certified as an acupuncturist in New York, I traveled to China for advanced training with a wonderful professor, Dr. Chao, who had worked with patients for forty years at Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The cheerful, rosy-cheeked man treated everything from overweight to depression, thyroid conditions and schizophrenia to post-stroke paralysis using acupuncture needles and Chinese herbal medicines. I marveled at the ease with which he inserted the needles that immediately put his Chinese patients at ease. Read More

By Dr. Steven Farmer- Recently I was pondering the various new age and metaphysical groups, practices, and in particular the various leaders and the styles of leadership they provide. While there are many fine teachers and healers in this broad category we call new age, there are some I’ve seen or been around that trigger an uneasy feeling in my gut. Read More