Category: Self Care

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Healing Touch Sessions To Support Spiritual Awakening

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Healing Touch is a powerful tool for spiritual and personal development. Several of my clients are currently undergoing spiritual awakenings, openings, and deep transformations.

Healing Touch supports each person differently depending on their process and journey.

Sometimes healings help people stay grounded as they integrate new energy or shifts that arise in day-to-day life.

Profound breakthroughs often occur during sessions because healing allows you to relax physically, emotionally, and mentally. Balancing your nervous system is a direct way to open your inner world, reconnect with your higher wisdom, and even experience your thoughts as separate from your true self.

A Healing Touch session can create space for new insights, clarity, and a deeper understanding of who you are and what is possible.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Healing Touch: After the Dentist

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Going to the dentist feels routine, right? We fit appointments in between work meetings and grocery runs like it’s no big deal.

But on a primal level, having someone work inside your mouth can be stressful for your body and nervous system. Even when you trust your dentist completely, your body may still feel threatened. Old childhood dental memories can resurface, and you can feel extra emotional after a simple cleaning.

A Healing Touch session can help reset the nervous system and restore a sense of calm. It’s a beautiful post-dentist modality—and a reminder that these are moments when we need to be especially kind to ourselves.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Joanne Avison: Fascia and Healing

Joanne Avison’s YouTube channel is a wealth of information. I highly recommend setting aside forty minutes to check out this video. I am learning so much from her “fascia-focused conversations.”

She writes about the video above:

You’ll learn how chronic tension, anxiety, and emotional holding patterns can physically embed themselves in your tissues — and how micro-movements, breath, and subtle awareness can begin to unravel them.

She describes how to heal burnout, brain fog, a tight jaw, and irritability. She explains how stress can feel like a buzzing sensation. The body is truly amazing.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Breathfun Retreat 2025

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Last week, I had the honor of co-facilitating a five-day Breath Retreat with Neika Embry Whittemore at Little Yosemite Lodge. This stunning location—the same place I’ve visited many times over the years for quiet meditation—feels like sacred ground.

This retreat was such a precious gift. Dedicated time and space for everyone to receive, process, and truly embody all that unfolded during the four breath sessions.

Everything felt absolutely perfect, even the imperfections—because they were a part of the beautiful, authentic journey. 🙂 Every soul present was exactly where they needed to be, each one of us a vital part of this extraordinary process.

It was a heartwarming reminder that when we come together in trust and openness, magic happens.

Although I will not be facilitating any retreats in the near future, there are other Breathwork (Breathfun) retreats at Little Yosemite Lodge. In October, Kristen Maurice will be leading one with Neika, and I tell you, I would love to be there!

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Healing Touch of Northern California Community Meeting on August 5th From 6:30 to 8pm

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On August 5th, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., the Healing Touch of Northern California Community will meet via Zoom. If you are interested in healing, energy, or wellness, you are warmly welcomed.

When we gather in community—whether in person or virtually—we step into a shared energetic field. This field invites compassion and helps regulate our nervous system. In this space, we are seen, heard, and held. This presence alone can ease feelings of isolation, anxiety, and overwhelm.

Please join us for this special meeting to share what has been most helpful in your life and self-care practice. It might be a daily ritual, a mantra, a quote, walking in nature, a book, music, or simply a practice that’s been helping you through.

I will begin with a longer invocation than usual to reconnect us with our power and light. If you have something to share that may take more than a few minutes, please email me at jerilawson@mac.com so I can ensure you have enough time.

You also don’t have to share anything; your presence is enough.

Being around others who are committed to healing—both their own and others’—can rekindle your passion and new possibilities when you feel discouraged or depleted. You are not alone. You’re part of a living, breathing, (and Zooming) network of light.

Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82732503140

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Healing Touch And Food Cravings

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Food cravings aren’t random – they’re messages from your energy field. Your body is wise. Sometimes, what feels like a craving for chips, sugar, or coffee is actually a deeper call.

Feeling drawn to comfort food? You might be needing emotional connection. You could also be feeling ungrounded. Reaching for sweets? Your heart may be craving joy or compassion. No appetite at all? That is sometimes a sign of a spiritual disconnect.

Through Healing Touch, we tune into these sensations and signals to gain a deeper understanding of what you truly desire and want to create in your life. When your energy is balanced, your emotional and physical needs become clearer. Your cravings become a source of guidance.

Every physical body is different, and only you can discover how to navigate your health. What is your body asking for? Book a Healing Touch session and find out.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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You Don’t Have To Be Stressed Out Or Sick To Greatly Benefit From Healing Touch

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You don’t have to wait for something to “go wrong” to take care of yourself.

In fact, when life does become overwhelming, it’s much easier to navigate it when you have a regular self-care foundation.

Healing Touch is a beautiful and effective way to prioritize your well-being, maintain balance, and nurture yourself in ways that go beyond physical health.

I schedule a Healing Touch session at least once a month. Every time I leave that table, I am so grateful for the session. I feel so much clearer and optimistic.

Even as an Energetic Practitioner who experiences healing energy every day, receiving a healing provides a sacred pause—a moment to reconnect with myself and simply be.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Self-Healing With Breathwork

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In April, I missed twelve days of work because I was sick. I had that crazy coughing cold/flu thing that was going around. I was exhausted, but I did not have a fever. From what I was hearing from other people, I knew it could last for two weeks.

Canceling clients is my least favorite thing to do. Disappointing people is irritating, and I have to talk myself through it every time. Knowing I would be down for a while, I decided to fully surrender to the healing process.

It still sucked.

I had a lot of time alone to think and meditate. Unfortunately, I checked the news a bit too often, and I felt the weight of the world.

Breathwork saved me. When I felt overwhelmed, I breathed for a full hour. It released all the sadness and grief that had come up, and my body felt so relaxed, calm, and peaceful.

I felt so much gratitude for my breathwork practice.

As you can see from the photo, my dog Berkeley also helped me heal by lying around being cute.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Free Monthly Transformational Breath®Gatherings With Dr. Judith Kravitz

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Breathwork saves lives. It saved mine and continues to support and keep me grounded in these ‘Transformative’ times.

“Transformative” with a capital “T.” At this point, I make sure I have time to do a short Breathe after I look at the news.

I envision, and am doing my best to manifest a world where everyone who wants Breathwork has access to it.

That is why I am writing you about this amazing monthly event. I did my first online Transformational Breath® in May. It was remarkable. Dr. Judith Kravitz, the visionary creator of Transformational Breath®, led the session.

Judith did a guided meditation, full Breath session, and then held a thoughtful Q&A afterward. It was at 8 a.m. here in California, and it was worth waking up early. I felt fantastic afterward: open, inspired, and clear all day.

Everyone can sign up; no experience with breathwork is required.

The next date is June 21st, 2025. See you there.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Healing: What Is An Energetic Block In The Body?

A Healing Touch session can clear energetic blocks in your body’s energy flow.

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What exactly is an energetic block?

An energetic block can be physical pain or tension. These blocks can occur in the body due to past trauma. Such trauma could include a car accident, surgery, dental work, or a sports injury.

Sometimes, a pent-up emotion can block muscle flexibility, mental clarity, and even that sense of well-being. Unprocessed or subconscious fear, guilt, or shame can also impede the flow of energy in the body.

There are so many reasons why we might be blocked. Sometimes our bodies simply forget how to relax, especially after a prolonged illness or a traumatic event like divorce. I find watching the news to be very “unrelaxing.” I always plan a decompression period after scanning the headlines.

My intention as a healer is to create a space where my clients can relax and self-heal.

Relaxing sounds so basic, yet it is a powerful state of consciousness.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com