joY Mindfulness Training

for Educators and

School Staff

$150/hour 

 

 

We offer a number of formal sessions (typically one to two hours in length) designed to aid school staff members in understanding and practicing Mindfulness. Each program is informative, interactive, engaging, relaxing, inspiring.....and if we do no have one already designed to suit your needs, we can build one for you!

 

For beginning groups, we can start with the fundamentals of Mindfulness in a course titled: "Welcome to Mindfulness."  This program offers school staff members some basic education in Mindfulness, in addition to some simple practices. This session is considered self-care for the participants, and intended to make them more effective with students, colleagues, families and more. 

 

If your group is already practicing Mindfulness, we have programming that allows us to apply Mindfulness to other areas of your workplace and personal lives. For example, we have programs focused on:

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Using Mindfulness to Find More Rest

Using Mindfulness to Clean up Our Spaces

Using Mindfulness to Care for Challenging Kids 

Using Mindfulness for Eating and Health

Using Mindfulness to Heal Relationships

Using Mindfulness to Look at our Biases

Using Mindfulness to Find More Gratitude

Using Mindfulness to Heal Guilt and Shame

And more . . .

 

We can promise that all of our trainings are informative, interactive, engaging, relaxing, inspiring.....and if we do not have a training already designed that suits your needs, we can build one for you!

 

We also offer all of the following sessions to educational staff members and these types of sessions have received tremendous feedback over the last several years from those in the Fairport Central School District. 

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joY Reiki

$75/hour 

one-three guests

$10/hour each additional guest

                                           

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Reiki is an amazing energy therapy that offers powerful rest and healing, so that we are more likely to move through the world connected and Mindful.  It is challenging to put into words the power of this ancient mind-body-spirit practice, but read on . . . 

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Simply stated, Reiki is an old and transformative method of hands on (and/or hands hovering) rest and healing for the body, mind and spirit. As far as we know, it was developed in Japan during the early 1900s by a doctor who understood that your body, mind and spirit are all vital entities of your total being. 

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Body     Mind    Spirit

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Loosely translated, Reiki means “universal life force energy.” This energy, possessed by all of us, is transferred through the practitioner’s hands, and other energy fields, to the client, and often even back and forth between us. In addition, a Reiki practitioner has your best interest in mind, body and spirit when working with you and is transferring healing intentions to you at all times. Your practitioner may even silently speak purposeful and nurturing words during your session, improving the already well-meaning flow of energy. 

 

During a Reiki session, you will experience hands on your body or hovering above your body, and these placements will mostly align with each of your seven chakras. The chakras are believed to hold different forms of your life force energy. The Reiki touch is meant to help this energy flow in healthy ways throughout your body so that you can experience more of the peace and joY your life is meant to be.  

 

With a skilled practitioner, Reiki will, at the very least, bring you an intense level of relaxation that leads to a more calm body, mind and spirit. This relaxation can lead to tremendous physical benefits (limited list below) and can leave us more open to joYful experiences. At most, Reiki (and particularly regular treatments, monthly) can create lasting physical, mental, emotional and spiritual relief that can lead to noticeably improved well-being and quality of life. Reiki can allow you to test the beliefs and habits that might be restricting our success, connectedness, vitality, resilience, enjoYment and more, so that we can improve circumstances in our lives. Furthermore, Reiki can release trauma held in the body and mind and open the heart and soul to more joY . . . for yourself and others. 

 

SOME Benefits Achieved With Reiki Healing:

deep relaxation 

immediate stress reduction 

long-term stress relief over time

reduced blood pressure

improved heart rate

increased blood flow

better sleep

help processing grief

aids in chronic issues such as headaches, body aches, upset stomach, sleeplessness, anxiety, etc.

improved function of bodily systems (ie: endocrine, immune, digestive…) 

increased energy

aids in emotional clarity

supports spiritual growth 

provides opportunity for mindfulness leading to gratitude, joY, etc.

promotes release of regrets

assists in forgiveness for yourself and others

helps align values with actions

empowerment

creates connection between your human form and the universe/higher power

SO MUCH MORE!

 

Reiki sessions take place in a climate controlled area where recipients are fully clothed and lying on a treatment table or comfortable floor space. A blanket(s) is applied to your body in an effort toward nurturing, and a scented eye pillow is used for drawing you inward during the session. You can expect soothing music throughout and various forms of aromatherapy.

 

Reiki Healing Format: 

Approximately 60 minutes (never less, sometimes more)

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*about 10 minutes:     Discussion between practitioner and client to assess client needs

*about  5 minutes:      Guided, Seated Meditation with Healing Gemstones

*about 35 minutes:     Reiki Healing Session with Eye Pillow, Blanket, Aromatherapy and Music

*about   2 minutes:     Client left alone to transition privately out of Reiki session

*about 10 minutes:     Sacred conversation 

 

Following your Reiki healing session, drink plenty of water and try to provide time to care for yourself.  You may feel the need to rest or you may feel full of energy. As best you can, allow some attention to whatever you need. This will enhance the benefits of your session.

 

When should you plan a Reiki Healing Session?

When you are ill or injured

When you are anxious

When you are depressed

When you are tired/exhausted

When you feel grief

When you are confused or trying to make a difficult decision

When you are angry or frustrated over things that seem out of your control

When you are emotionally hurt or feeling unstable

When you need spiritual guidance, a deeper connection to a higher power

When you doubt yourself or your worth

When you are going through a difficult transition

When you need to let go of that which does not serve your well being

Under many other troubling circumstances and just....ANY TIME!

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Reiki treatments are perhaps best at our Canandaigua studio (for small groups), but can take place at your location. Remote sessions are not an option for Reiki.  Travel costs may apply.

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joY Meditation

$75/hour

one-three guests

$10/hour each additional guest

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Meditation is an ancient mental and spiritual practice that invites us to find a kind of quiet and stillness we cannot often find in the pace of our days.  It allows us space to more easily notice our thoughts and feelings and breathe with them, but not get carried away by them. Meditation provides the pause that is needed to perhaps find more intention and more meaning in this life. 

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Meditation is to Mindfulness what lifting weights is to muscle strength.  One does not strength train to get better at strength training. Likewise, one does not meditate to get better at meditating.  We build muscle to help us lift heavy things in our every day lives. We meditate to help us be more Mindful in our every day lives.  Meditation provides the pause we need to breathe and pay true attention to the present moment. It brings us to a kind of noticing of our minds and bodies that perhaps we cannot get any other way. Largely, it is a practice in stillness, quiet and awareness. It sounds easy, but it can be quite challenging. It also sounds like something we don't need in a culture that glorifies a fast-paced, achievement-oriented, highly-scheduled, consumer-driven lifestyle. Could it be though, that this is not the truth of who we are and that Meditation can offer us more truth?

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Here is what a session might look like with joY:

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Meditation Format: 

Approximately 60 minutes (never less, sometimes more)

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*about 10 minutes:   Discussion between practitioner and client to assess client needs

*about  5 minutes:    Gemstone Selection

*about  5 minutes:    Meditation Session 1 

*about  5 minutes:    Sacred Conversation and Journaling

*about  5 minutes:    Gentle, Restorative Yoga Movement Therapy

*about  5 minutes:    Meditation Session 2

*about  5 minutes:    Sacred Conversation and Journaling

*about  5 minutes:    Gentle, Restorative Yoga Movement Therapy

*about  5 minutes:    Meditation Session 3

*about  5 minutes:    Savasana Relaxation                                       

*about  5 minutes:    Closure

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Meditations are perhaps best at our Canandaigua studio (for small groups), but can take place at your location. Remote sessions are not ideal for meditation, but the program can be modified to suit remote sessions. Travel costs may apply.

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joY Yoga

$75/hour

one-three guests

$10/hour each additional guest

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Yoga is known best perhaps for it's physical components. However, in it's truest intention, Yoga is a mental and spiritual practice that uses asanas (poses) and flowing movements to give your mind and soul places within the body to focus in an attempt to bring you overall wellness. Does this sound complicated?  It's not!

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joYn us to find that as you move your body on the mat, your thoughts and feelings will move with you and everything will become more connected. Practicing joY Yoga offers you not only the physical, mental or spiritual benefits of the practice, but all three, EVERY single time.  What's more, you don't have to consider yourself physically fit to joYn us. Whatever your physical abilities, we can adjust our practice to fit every need and honor each unique body and experience. Regardless of what you can do physically, you will leave with improved body confidence and overall awareness of your needs and your strengths. You will also leave feeling valued, connected, inspired, nurtured, challenged, empowered . . . 

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We actually encourage you to practice Yoga elsewhere so that you can experience the difference with joY.

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Yoga Format: 

Approximately 60 minutes (never less, sometimes more)

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*about  5  minutes:  Transition to the Mat (with personally written spiritual meditation/poem to enhance your practice)

*about 20 minutes:  Gentle Poses and Flow (may include healing touch)

*about 20 minutes:  More Rigorous Poses and Flow (may include healing touch)

*about 10 minutes:  Transition back to the Mat with mixed Poses and Flow

*about 10 minutes:  Restorative Savasana (with Reiki healing touch and personally written spiritual meditation/poem to enhance your practice)

 

While you are resting with Reiki Healing touch, this beautiful ending rest also includes blankets, lavender eye cloths and weighted eye pillows.

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Our entire practice will also include intentional Mindfulness Messaging, Aromatherapy, Music, Candlelight and things like Gemstone Healing and Oracle Cards if you want them! 

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Yoga is perhaps best at our Canandaigua studio (for small groups), but can take place at your location. Remote sessions are not ideal, but the program can be modified to suit remote sessions. Travel costs may apply.

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joY Hybrid

$75/hour

one-three guests

$10/hour each additional guest

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This hybrid model has quickly become our most desired session. We welcome you to tell us what you need from Reiki, Meditation, Yoga and overall Mindfulness so that we can specially craft a program just for you!  

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Please remember that everything we offer can be made to fit every age, background, experience level and more. 

 

joY is for ALL!

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