Category: Health and Wellness
Energetic Eating| Facebook Video with Billie Topa Tate
Eating is a natural and healthy component to living life well. Eating for comfort or out of boredom currently plagues our culture producing a love-hate relationship with food. In this LIVE facebook broadcast, Billie Topa Tate will address the ancient methods of mindful eating to bring you to a stage of consuming a healthy amount of food and feeling great as a result!
In this video you will:
1. Learn the difference between mindful eating vs. dieting
2. Learn how to empower your food prior to eating
3. Learn how to eat with attention and intention
4. Learn specific foods to eat to increase fullness and health
Watch the LIVE Facebook Video, where I outline the steps to mindful eating.
So there you have a wonderful technique that will help you throughout the day. Namaste
Billie Topa Tate’
Native American Healer, Reiki Master Teacher
Billie Topa Tate’ is the founder of MSI (Mystical Sciences Institute) an earth friendly educational institute located in Evanston, Illinois. Billie is Mescalero Apache and is dedicated to presenting the sacred principles, doctrines, and teachings of her Native Culture and many ancient wisdom systems from around the world, creating synthesis through harmony of many lineages.
Billie is a traditional Native American healer and teacher of Mescalero Apache descent, trained and educated by numerous family Elders and extended family members. She is a Reiki Master Teacher Eighth Degree and licensed therapeutic massage therapist. Billie is an approved provider of continuing education programs for Massage Therapists and Illinois Nurses. Has written and lecturer extensively for more than 18 years. She is internationally recognized as a wonderful teacher, healer and advocate of Earth Friendly endeavors. Billie maintains a successful practice at her MSI center in Evanston, and with the expressed permission from her Native culture.
Learn more about Appointments with Billie Topa Tate by click here, https://msi-healing.com/healing
Sound Healing Technique’s for the Feet
A Tuning Fork Technique for the Feet
Sound is an intricate part of our world. While you probably already provide soothing music or background sounds during your massage sessions, incorporating sound therapy, such as tuning fork therapy, into your sessions can add a serene, spa-like element to a massage and leave your clients feeling even more relaxed and rejuvenated.
My first experience with sound:
I have been fascinated with sound since I was a little girl. I recall my first experience regarding sound, during a quiet school morning. I rushed into my second-grade classroom and observed a blind man very intently using a tuning fork to tune our classroom piano. As I watched how he took an old, broken-down piano and turned it into a wonderful-sounding instrument, an interesting thought came into my mind: If he could fine-tune an old piano using sound, I was sure sound could fine-tune our bodies. Many practitioners use the power of these vibrations to create custom tuning fork techniques.
Sound and healing practices:
I am Native American, and as in many indigenous cultures, sound and nature are often incorporated into healing practices. The combination of my being Mescalero Apache and a massage therapist and instructor has given me the opportunity to develop wonderful techniques that utilize the healing properties of sound.
I have developed training courses for massage therapists and bodyworkers involving sound therapy using tuning forks. Basic training is required; check your state and local laws to be sure you meet the requirements before offering any sound therapy technique.
A tuning fork session for feet:
Sound therapy with tuning forks is very relaxing for clients and allows you to provide an easy, practitioner-friendly therapy to specific areas of the client’s body. In a tuning fork session I designed for the feet, I focus on the sound of om, which is at frequency 136.1 hertz; I have found this sound to be successfully relaxing for my clients.
I start by using warm, moist towels to wrap the client’s feet for a few minutes, to relax the feet. I cover one foot and massage the other foot, using a slow, sweeping stroke. I strike a tuning fork on a rubber striker, and using light pressure, place the tuning fork on the ball of the foot. I continue on the tips of the toes, starting with the big toe and working my way to the baby toe, striking the fork on the striker before applying it to each toe tip. Then, after striking the fork again, using light pressure, I finish the routine by placing the tuning fork on several points of the heel of the foot, working from the left of the heel to the right of the heel. I then cover that foot and begin on the other foot.
Getting trained in tuning fork therapy is one way to add a simple, unique offering to your menu of spa services.
About the Author
Billie Topa Tate is founder of the MSI Healing Wellness Center (msi-healing.com) in Evanston, Illinois, and an eighth-degree reiki master. She teaches at hospitals, cancer centers and universities. MSI is a National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork-approved continuing education provider, teaching tuning fork training for the spine, face and feet, as well as other techniques.
Tuning Fork Basic Training with Romona Loniewski November 20, 2016
What is Oncology Reiki Training?
A beautifully designed training for patients and family members who are healing from cancer. Oncology Reiki uses the energy of Reiki to help facilitate the body’s own healing systems by promoting relaxation and deep meditative states. The techniques and applications can be done both chair and table.
This technique helps the body facilitate a great sense of balance and peacefulness. This balance and peacefulness has great potential to compliment the healing process. Billie Topa Tate, Reiki Master 8th Degree has designed unique Reiki techniques regarding self care and Reiki table sessions specifically for our cancer patients, family and friends.
Learn how to administer …
- Reiki during the chemo therapy session
- Reiki to ” Port ” locations
- Reiki to areas of pain from chemo treatments
- Oncology reiki to the emotional energy field to help infuse the qualities of hope, faith, and a general sense of well being
- Oncology reiki to the other energetic properties of cancer patients to help alleviate fear, stress, anxiety
- Oncology reiki to modify general thoughts which cause anxiety
Learn how to understand, help and use…
- Understand the energetic anatomy of cancer patients
- How to mentor cancer patients on reiki self care respective to their cancer and cancer treatments
- How to help with specific discomforts regarding cancer treatments
- How to use a Reiki blanket during treatments
- How to use oncology reiki breath during chemo treatments
- How to use oncology reiki to set energetic intentions during doctor visits and sleep time What will you be bringing back to your clients from this class?
Students will learn energetic philosophies regarding cancer patients which help focus healing positive energy.Students will learn energetic anatomy which helps oncology reiki practitioners to apply reiki to stress points within their clients to help alleviate pain and anxiety.
What specific techniques will you learn?
Students will learn Reiki hand placements and enhanced reiki techniques to facilitate soothing Reiki energy to alleviate pain, create comfort in areas such as ” Ports for chemotherapy ” digestive problems, chemo discomforts and sore areas from injections. Also, Oncology Reiki Practitioners will learn Reiki Dream time therapy to help cancer patients establish a wonderful healing energetic connection.
How would your patients benefit from this type of work?
Clients can experience relief within the following categories …
Helps alleviate physical and emotional discomforts, pain, fear, and other stress points related to their cancer and cancer treatments. Helps the cancer patient get more involved in their own energetic self care. In Billie Topa Tate’s field work, she has observed cancer patients feel empowered to facilitate more beneficial emotions toward their well being.
Cancer patients also are shown how to administer a set intention during their cancer treatments. Helping tap into their own healing energies to enhance their cancer treatments.
3 Continuing Education Hours with NCBTMB Approved Provider #419896-66. pre-requisite is to have a general knowledge of Reiki. Call for details 847-866-0505
3 Ways to Relieve Active Stress | Facebook Video with Billie Topa Tate
Many times we have within us a agitation which can cause us to have ” Active Stress”
In order to change our external universe, we much change our internal universe. We can do this by following some very simple steps to help us achieve a place of peace.
The first method I guide my students through is a breathing method following our breathing is a very effective way of getting the mind focused. this has many benefits, firstly, you can not change what you can not see, and focusing on the breath will allow for change to occur. this calms the nervous system, slows down the heart rate and clams the mind.
Watch my LIVE Facebook Video, where I outline the 3 Steps To Relieve Active Stress
Read on for Additional Steps:
Step 1 bring the attention to your breathing, observe the breath but don’t try to control your breathing, can you feel how your breathing is? is it intense or shallow ?
Step 2 Now start to deepen the breath by first expanding the heart area, then the ribs and last the belly area, then slowly exhale. the air should exit very calmly so there is not intensity to the breath. Do this again, in hale expanding the heart area, then the ribs and lastly the belly area,
Step 3 Go back to just relaxing the breath and see how the breath has changed
Step 4 Next I want you focus on things in your life that you are grateful for and to give thanks for.
Focus on all things that are positive in your life. think of anything that has been a great lesson to you, even if it has been difficult, think of any moment that has been of great value in your life, send love to all those around you, with your eyes close visualize them and say thank you to them for being on your journey. remember also to thank the people who have been great teachers to you and have shared valuable time and wisdom with you.
Step 5 Check your breath again and see how your breath has changed, observe how your mind has changed for the better. You will start to notice all active stress transform into a great sense of calmness, you will start to feel the Great Spirit in your heart once more. You will once again feel that life is wonderful remember everything in life is possible once you make it important enough, know that you have all that you need in this moment.
So there you have a wonderful technique that will help you throughout the day. Namaste
Billie Topa Tate’
Native American Healer, Reiki Master Teacher
Billie Topa Tate’ is the founder of MSI (Mystical Sciences Institute) an earth friendly educational institute located in Evanston, Illinois. Billie is Mescalero Apache and is dedicated to presenting the sacred principles, doctrines, and teachings of her Native Culture and many ancient wisdom systems from around the world, creating synthesis through harmony of many lineages.
Billie is a traditional Native American healer and teacher of Mescalero Apache descent, trained and educated by numerous family Elders and extended family members. She is a Reiki Master Teacher Eighth Degree and licensed therapeutic massage therapist. Billie is an approved provider of continuing education programs for Massage Therapists and Illinois Nurses. Has written and lecturer extensively for more than 18 years. She is internationally recognized as a wonderful teacher, healer and advocate of Earth Friendly endeavors. Billie maintains a successful practice at her MSI center in Evanston, and with the expressed permission from her Native culture.
The Loving Kindness Meditation – which is the first recording of prayers and ceremony done during the sun rise and sun set ceremony. This meditation is free and is done all around the world. It is also provided at MSI every Friday at 6:30pm just after a 10 minute native American drumming ceremony.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, please contact our MSI office at 847-866-0505.
5 Ways to Cultivate Gratitude
In this season of thankfulness, it is important to take a step back, look at your life, actions and mindset to consider how you can increase your personal gratitude and happiness. Gratitude is possessing the ability to recognize the sources of goodness and to return to that source with kindness.
Benefits of Gratitude:
- Helps us focus on what we already have instead of what we lack
- Reduces Stress
- Provides contentment which comes from being thankful for what you have
- Produces healthier mind and body
5 Ways To Possess Gratitude:
- Keep a Gratitude Journal each day. At the start of your day, write down one thing you are grateful for. This will help you begin your day with positive intentions.
- Give, Give, Give. Donate to charity. Give your time or money. By giving of yourself you will become grateful for all you have and also for all you are able to do for others in need.
- Smile and genuinely thank people for compliments. Taking a compliment can be difficult for some. Make sure to really listen when someone pays you a compliment, take it in and thank them in sincerity. Later, you can reflect on that compliment and return the favor to that person with a genuine compliment towards them!
- Meditate. Take time out of your day to meditate. This will help to keep focus and perspective on the good and calm.
- Find value in the negative. Remember, there is always positive even in the most unfortunate situations. Locate the positive and your gratitude will appear!
The word Gratitude is truly a verb, meaning it is a practice. It needs cultivating and is always developing. Begin today by sharing this blog with those your are grateful for having in your life!
