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Healing and Sacred Space

Over the years, many people have asked me how I handle all the trauma, heavy emotions, and ‘negative energy’ clients bring to my Healing and Breathwork sessions.

I do set the intention and focus of the sessions, but it is the sacred space that holds, transforms, balances, and allows my clients to self-heal.

Being in that high state of consciousness with another person is so life-affirming. My clients constantly inspire me. I am so profoundly grateful to be doing this work.

I don’t have any answers to all that is happening now, but I do have the space.

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 Session: A Good Thing To Do Even When You Think Are Too Stressed To Relax

There are times when you are so stressed you don’t feel like you can possibly relax. You think you must wait until the divorce/election/medical procedure is over before you can even think of feeling calm again.


Hypervigilance becomes habitual, and it may feel like it is keeping you from feeling vulnerable. Yet, what it is really doing is blocking your natural flow of life force energy.


By resetting your nervous system with a Reiki or Healing Touch session, you’re not just finding balance. You’re also opening up to new possibilities, ideas, and actions that can be more effective and stabilizing in all areas of your life. The best part is that everyone around you also benefits: the checkout clerk at Walgreens, your coworkers, friends, and especially your family.

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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An Image Of Healing

A client sent me this picture from Mexico. She said this is how she felt during her healing sessions.

🙂

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 From Cancer

I have been energetically supporting a very vibrant seventy-four-year-old woman who has healed herself of esophageal cancer. She decided to heal herself with six months of immunotherapy (one infusion every other week) to shrink the tumor, then laparoscopic surgery to remove it. After they removed the tumor, they found it was benign.

At one point toward the end of the immunotherapy, she texted me that she felt quite sick and depressed, especially because she wasn’t eating enough.

I did a short healing session using Healing Touch clearing techniques because that’s all the time I had that morning. I then had an entire session open up later in the day (funny how that happens), and I gave her a full distance healing. She sent me this text hours after the session: 

“Jeri, you are amazing. I am sitting here eating a two-egg omelet. I feel so much better. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. See you Friday.“

After her surgery, I received this text:

The surgery went well and I am recovering nicely.  Home from the hospital after only two days! 

The last update I received until her next session was:

“Just got the pathology report yesterday. I have no cancer. All the biopsies and tissue analyses are negative, and all margins are clear. Thank you for all that you do and did. Much love and gratitude.”

Healing Touch is a powerful support in healing from cancer and its treatments, especially on those low-energy hump days.

I visualize a day when everyone can access energetic support after an infusion or surgery. When Healing Touch is integrated seamlessly with conventional treatments to promote overall well-being and enhance recovery. I see a world where healing is truly multi-dimensional and accessible to all.

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: Covid, Intuition and Feeling Safe

I haven’t written much about COVID because my intention is to keep these blog posts more upbeat, as well as educational. Yet, COVID is not going away and for me has been quite an exercise in surrender and trusting my intuition.

Over these last few years, there have been many times that I have had to cancel five days of in-person clients because of a possible exposure. This is quite a financial hit, yet this is where I have learned to surrender to what is. The first few times, it was quite a stressful process, but I am happy to say I am much better at spontaneous vacations.

I still test for COVID at least once a week. I also test before every client with a compromised immune system and wear a mask with them. I happily take a COVID test and wear a mask for anyone who requests it.

I want everyone who comes for healing or a breath session to feel safe. My job as a healer is to create a safe place for my clients to relax and self-heal. To do this, COVID has to be addressed.

After I test, I usually send a photo. I try to make these photos as interesting as possible. While writing this post, I realized I have a LOT of test photos.

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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Nourish Your Spirit This October

Let’s face it. This is a challenging month. There is no need to list all the reasons why, especially if you follow the news. It is time to do whatever grounds, nourishes, and centers you. Self-care is more important now than ever.

It might be time to experience a Healing Touch session. Healing Touch is a gentle, energy-based approach to restoring balance, elevating mood, and connecting with your inner Guidance. For many of my clients even one session can be a game changer.

Are you ready to experience the transformative power of Healing Touch, deepen your spiritual connection, and find more peace in your life?

This October, give yourself the gift of spiritual alignment and holistic well-being by emailing or calling me for a session.

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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Join me at the Awakening Healing Axis Workshop in Bay Area, November 8th and 9th, 2024

Facilitators Tim McConville & Franny Harcey

I am super excited to attend this 2-Day Workshop at Pleasant Hill, California. I have been studying the Axis books for a few years now and have also been doing the Free Basic Frequency meditation: https://learning.awakeninghealingaxis.com/courses/BHFS

I feel this work combines the best energetic teachings of our times: The Healing Touch Program, Cyndi Dale, Barbara Brennan, Working with Guides, and Sacred Geometry. The Awakening Healing Axis skills have grounded my healing practice immensely, especially the deeper level of work with the Hara.

The workshop will be held at Hillcrest Congregational Church, 404 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill, California, 94523, on Friday, November 8th, and Saturday, November 9th, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Dive into the quantum reality of healing, track the subtilities of energy, and explore full alignment with all aspects of your multidimensional human and spiritual self!

Join us in raising frequency to support self-transformation, to live more and more from a place of joy, self-compassion, and love for self and others.

– From Awakening Healing Axis

It is an advanced workshop, so if you are brand new to energy work, you can call local ambassador Laurie Ratto at 510-381-3191 or email her at laurie@mindandbodymethod.com. She will be happy to answer any questions. Click here for more information.

The California Board of Registered Nursing approves Awakening Healing Axis. For 15 contact hours credit for this course use provider number CEP-3285.

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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The Healing Dog: Berkeley From Oakland

Over the last ten years, my dog Berkeley has attended almost every Healing and Breathwork session —unless he decides to visit his friends in the building. 

He loves going to work, and he loves coming home. He takes his job and routine as a healing dog very seriously. 

Someone once told me the secret to a good life is having a dog. I have to agree and add that having a dog and being able to take him to work is the secret to a great life.

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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Breathwork Retreat: Four Breath Sessions in Three Days

Doing a Breathwork session every day for three consecutive days is profoundly healing. I just finished facilitating a three-day Breathwork retreat in North Fork, California. This is the first long retreat I have done, and it reminded me of how transformational daily breathwork sessions can be. Witnessing people release and resolve trauma, heal their physical bodies, and experience greater consciousness is such a joy.

The retreat was at Little Yosemite Lodge on Hoyau Creek, near North Fork, California, 25 miles from Yosemite National Park. The land is sacred. I felt so supported and experienced tangible nurturing from the earth. I felt this energy in my own body and during the group sessions. I named this retreat ACCESSING YOUR HIGHEST WISDOM, and being grounded in a beautiful place like this makes connecting with higher guidance so much easier.

Even if you can’t get away to a beautiful place like Little Yosemite Lodge for a series of Breathwork sessions, you can open the space and time in your schedule for a personal retreat. You can book your home retreat sessions with me or another breathworker, breathe online, or use a CD.

Self-care on this level is a radical political act. Our connection to our inner guidance will navigate us through these challenging times.

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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Carol Kinney: A Legacy of Light

Carol and I During A Healing Touch Conference In 2015.

One of the many requirements for becoming a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner is a year-long mentorship with an experienced Practitioner. In 2000, that mentor also had to be a nurse. This mentoring process becomes a deep and uniquely special ongoing relationship. My Mentor was Carol Kinney, who made her transition from this world on June 8th, 2024.

Carol gave me so much time, encouragement, and healing in that first year. She was completely dedicated to the work and bringing healing to our medical culture and the world. Every time I give a healing, her teachings keep the session grounded and are a part of the sacred space I hold.

She took her first class with Healing Touch Founder Janet Mentgen in 1990 and was instrumental in the program’s early days and development. Carol was passionate about the work and taught hundreds of classes. She mentored many HT Practitioners in our community and around the world.

I could go on and on about Carol’s accomplishments and the other healing modalities she practiced and she taught, but for now, I will share with you her quote from The Magic Of Our Connections:

Those of us who have been in HT know we are here for the long haul. We are here to do this very important work we have come to love, we are here to keep our connections with colleagues and clients we have come to admire. We have come to rely on our HT communities that so beautifully support us, and on the members who are constantly co-creating more avenues for HT by spreading their creativity and integrating HT into the many facets of their lives. We have established incredible connections through this very heart-centered work. Healing Touch is the glue that bonds us together.

Carol Kinney RN, BSN, HNC, CHTP, HTCP/I

Carol’s obituary is here:

https://obituaries.neptune-society.com/obituaries/sacramento-ca/carolyn-kinney-11853871

Her Celebration of Life will be Saturday, September 14th, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the East Recreation Center, 7902 Oakmont Drive, Santa Rosa, CA, 95409. It is in the Oakmont retirement community.

If you are coiming, please RSVP to me, jerilawson@mac.com, so I can compile a list of attendees from of HT community for Carol’s partner of 49 years, Gail Turk.

I will be there to honor Carol, her huge legacy of light and celebrate all that she has given this world.

Thanks to Carol Kinney, 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