The Healing Touch, Reiki and Clarity Breathwork Practice of Jeri Lawson
The Healing Touch Professional Association is building a great resource of interviews of their members. Each interview focuses on how the individual practitioner is bringing Healing Touch into their healing profession, community, and life. I was very honored to be included.
Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork Monday through Friday.
510-601-9632 jerilawson@mac.com
Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork Monday through Friday.
510-601-9632 jerilawson@mac.com
At our last online Healing Touch Meeting, I mentioned something new I have noticed in my practice since the pandemic. More and more clients have compromised seventh chakras.A few days after the meeting, Healing Touch Practioner Katheryn Darlington HTCP, RN, BSN, HNB-BC, wrote me this amazing email:
Dear Jeri,
Ever since our HTEB meeting last week, I have been thinking about your observation of closed crown chakras that you brought to our attention. While meditating, some thoughts came to me that I would like to share.
Many of us humans describe “The Divine” not as a single entity (God or other personifications) but something that encompasses
“all that is” within this universe and beyond,
more than we can comprehend,
absolute Love,
not “out there somewhere” but within each of us.
Each of us a manifestation of this Spirit,
all connected while individuated,
our Higher Selves being unconditionally loving and compassionate,
filled with Divine guidance and wisdom,
and so many more descriptions than I am aware of ……
If the opposite of Love is Fear – the fear of actual loss of life due to the pandemic, climate change, gun violence, and whatever other factors promote anxieties or fears – we are currently living through an era of fear-based perspective and choices. When an individual’s perspective on life is dominated by fear rather than love – perhaps we are cut off from our normal connection through the crown chakra.
Perhaps the fear of the unknown and isolation of the pandemic, mixed with the polarizing style of politics that has dominated our news the past few years has caused many individuals to disconnect from “the whole” of the Divine. The anxieties, fueled by real and/or imagined fears, have caused retreat in protective mode. This is worse than other situations because now many people have not had the usual camaraderie with our communities of family, neighbors, or friends. Families and friends have become divided due to distance, fear of an unseen contagion, fear of not understanding all of this medical jargon and rationale, fear of having various perspectives and beliefs about what is the “right” or “best” practice and care, fear of being “wrong or called stupid” (losing self-esteem), ……..
In disconnecting from each other – we have disconnected from the Divine goodness among us all.
I hope we as healers can continue to do our best to clear our chakras and strengthen our connection with the Divine and the Higher Selves of each other daily. We can persevere in finding respectful ways to communicate with those who we do not agree are not in agreement or at least send them compassion while keeping our distance from them.
We must help ourselves, family, friends, and clients to hold on to a connection with our Higher Selves and those of others to bolster our connection with the Divine as a whole.
I hope my thoughts in words make some sense. Please call or write if you like – this is such an important and pivotal moment/era that we are traveling.
Sincerely,
Kathy
After reading Kathy’s poetic email, I know I feel bolstered, and I hope you do too. Her statement, “In disconnecting from each other – we have disconnected from the Divine goodness among us all.” makes me realize again how important family and community are at this moment in this human experience.
Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork Monday through Friday.
510-601-9632 jerilawson@mac.com
A few client comments after a Venmo payment:
This session changed my LIFE
Regrouping!
Healing session for creativity
Joy
I love my “work.”
Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork Monday through Friday.
510-601-9632 jerilawson@mac.com
There are two Molekule air filters in my healing space. In the last few months, the FDA has approved my Molekule Air Mini & Mini+ air filters for medical use in destroying viruses & bacteria – including Covid-19.
If you are interested in getting a small air filter I recommend the Mini+ over the Mini. The Mini+ turns up by itself when there is something in the air that needs filtering. I don’t have to worry about wasting energy when the air clears.
I took both of these units on my retreat last month and the inside of our air meditation space and the sleeping area never smelled like smoke. There were several days when there was a LOT of smoke.
Since I have had these filters I have never had to cancel a client due to smoke and fires around my office in Oakland again. I love this. My healing space will always be safe.
Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork Monday through Friday. 510-601-9632 jerilawson@mac.com
This is my first week back at work after a month-long meditation retreat. I have been doing these retreats for the last five years, and I remember thinking how extravagant a month away from my regular routine seemed when I first started back then.
I don’t think it’s extravagant now. Getting away from my routine revitalized my life. Spending time in deep meditation is essential for my well-being. Selfcare is so essential in these times.
Of course, spending a month meditating is not always easy. I was highly irritated and super sensitive for five days straight about two weeks into the retreat. I was surprised at how much came up. My nervous system felt fried. My body ached. Deep emotions from the last few years kept surfacing and releasing; I could never have rebalanced so deeply if I did not have the space and time. When it started getting smokey from the nearby fires, I found exit scenarios forming in my head. I wanted to escape.
Finding the stillness underneath all the chaos was worth it. That experience of connection, of quiet, of suspended enoughness, is everything. It can hold it all.
I could go on and on about the experiences I had this month, but the important takeaway is getting away is a good thing.
Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork Monday through Friday.
510-601-9632
For many of us, stepping out of a pandemic appears to be as challenging as it was to step in.
There have been times in recent healing sessions when my clients are just not ready to relax.
During a healing last week, I had my left hand on my client’s knee and my right hand on her ankle when I intuitively felt resistance in her leg. Her body was letting me know there was too much fear to relax. Her tight, hypervigilant muscles had been holding her together for many months – physically and emotionally.
As a healer, I honor this resistance. I witness every day how much emotion and energy our bodies hold and manage for us; I never try to override it, move it out, or release it.
I move my hands with great respect: my left hand on her hip and my right hand on her knee. There is no agenda, just deep respect for my client and the sacred space. I focus on holding the most calming, still, grounded space for all energy and emotions arising or not arising. I hold space for “no release.”
I move to the other side of the table and held her other ankle and knee. Suddenly everything released. My client’s whole body just exhaled all at once and let go into a very relaxed state.
Just like that. It was incredibly peaceful.
The space of not letting go is so healing.
Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork Monday through Friday.
510-601-9632
“Being grounded is the ability to feel safe. Feeling safe occurs when your heart has opened. An open heart is the end result of providing the kindness, care, support, and attention that only you were designed to offer yourself.”
-Matt Kahn Whatever Arises, LOVE That page 201
Reentering ‘normal’ life after a pandemic is overwhelming. I am surprised at how stressful this shift has been for everyone, including myself. Nothing feels normal anymore. For many people, nothing feels safe. It is so easy to emotionally shut down.
How can you stay safe, and keep your heart open, as you step back out into the world? As you enter into rooms with more than three people and attend public gatherings? When do you stop wearing your mask?
It is so inspiring to see Reiki, and Healing Touch gently, but profoundly, assist my clients as they navigate this transition. Energetic healing resets the nervous system. I know how essential receiving my own Healing Touch sessions have been for me during this shift.
Self-care is mandatory now. Things that we may have thought of as luxury expenses are now basic survival strategies for emotional and mental health. This may include massage, a long hot bath, acupuncture treatments, earthing, a walk on the beach, or an energetic healing session.
Take time to take care.
∞
Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork Monday through Friday.
510-601-9632
“I feel much less edgy and agitated”
These are the first words that my client spoke after her healing, before she even got up off the table.
I wrote it on her documentation form and I have not stopped thinking about how simple it was. It is such a seemingly small, nondramatic shift, yet it changes everything.
I realized this is what I often feel after my own Healing Touch sessions. I am more at peace in my body and in my life. I have more space for my clients, my friends, and my family. I don’t feel so busy. My thoughts are more positive and my mind is so much calmer.
So simple, yet so profound.
Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork Monday through Friday.
510-601-9632
I am now seeing clients in my healing space.
It is so wonderful.
After over a year of distance healing, space has become such an abstract concept and touch such a luxury. I will admit that distance healing is very effective, yet the physical connection is so calming, peaceful, and grounding.
Below is a description from one of my client’s first sessions back in the office:
“The beginning, with the stillness in my body and your hands on my legs—it was really emotional. But in a beautiful way. I could not name the emotion, but there was a LOT of beauty and there was joy (I was almost smiling) and there was this intensity of feeling that was incredible. And then the energy. The energy did not take long to start flowing… Your hands were amazing. To know they were there was amazing. Comforting. Grounding.”
Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork Monday through Friday.
510-601-9632