Treat Yourself to a Self-Care Spa Day Virtual Retreat! Here's How . . .

What’s a Self-Care Spa Day?

A Spa Day is meant to feel relaxing, supported and restorative. Self-Care is our participation, our practices that make this happen, and more importantly, to allow it to happen.

You don’t have to go to a spa to feel this way. You can create the feeling of luxurious indulgence in your own space with some mindful preparation. Everyone who registers will receive ideas for creating relaxing, sacred space wherever you are.

You’ll be practicing self-care your way, with guidance, and in the company of people who are doing it along with you, each in their own way. I’m Dawn Hancy, Reiki Master Teacher, and I’ll be leading the retreat with my wonderful Student Teachers and Reiki Masters, Diane Alves and Lindsey Warren.

This special Reiki-centered event will blend other delights like sound healing, herbal wisdom, meditation, movement and more. It’s a virtual retreat, but you won’t be staring at a screen the whole time. We’ll have breaks and a variety of practices and activities for you to enjoy as you please. And you'll leave with practices and support you can enjoy long after our time together.

Who is it for?

Everyone is welcome at this virtual community gathering, and a Reiki Attunement is required. If you’ve had an Attunement from another Reiki Teacher, or from me in the past, you don’t need one now, though you can receive another one to help renew and upgrade your energy field. It’s up to you.

A Quickening Reiki Starter Kit will provide you with an Attunement, personal guidance for your Reiki practice and Reiki Practice Circle membership. Bundle it with the Self-Care Spa Day Virtual Retreat and save 25% over 2 payments. Pay in full with one payment and save an extra 10%!

Some people are surprised to hear that Reiki is even done for self-practice. So many generous, caring souls learn Reiki so they can help other people and don’t realize, or forget, they can use it for themselves. 

I believe self-Reiki is the foundation of Reiki practice and a crucial element of wellbeing because it heightens all our natural abilities from healing to intuition and beyond. Everyone can do it!

How to take a day off

Why do I need to write an article about how to take a day off? Don’t you just call or email and say, “I’m not coming on Friday”?

It may be that simple, but sometimes it’s not, or doesn’t seem to be. So many things to do, expectations, schedules, the momentum you’ve built up through the week, plans, goals, deadlines . . .

But is that the real reason? Yes, those are real, and I won’t deny it. And something else is real too. Our “work” and our responsibilities may be more than we realize.

The fourth Reiki Precept is about working diligently or honestly, yet I feel people often miss the point of this teaching. If we’re not doing our inner work to sustain, reinvigorate and expand ourselves, the outer work is going to suffer and so are we.

What are some symptoms of stress, overwhelm or burnout you’ve experienced? Are they occasional, frequent, chronic, even debilitating?

There are times when we need to power through pain, fatigue and general ennui, it’s true. But how often should we really be in crisis mode, unable to even consider our own wellbeing?

The more we are expected to perform under pressure, the more rest, self-care and support we need, whether we’re parents of newborn twins or firefighters or on-call doctors.

When we equate busy-ness and crisis response with feeling valued, needed and important, even surviving, we’re reinforcing trauma responses to everyday life. I probably don’t need to tell you that this is exhausting! So why do we put ourselves through it?

There can actually be some really good reasons. I don’t mean to blame or fault people who are overworked and overwrought - that’s the last thing we need when we’re already at the end of our tether.

With as much compassion as we can muster, let’s take a breath and hold space for some clarity. Just by claiming the right and choice to take a good look at our reality, we’re already empowering ourselves.

This virtual retreat may not be the perfect opportunity for you right now, but just for a moment, I invite you to settle into your seat, and notice your breath entering your body, all the way down to your belly. Let it out slowly, perhaps with a sigh or gentle hiss.

Allow your mind to relax and ask inside, What would it take to claim this day for myself? It’s not even a full 24 hours, just a couple in the morning and a few in the afternoon.

What would it take? Perhaps child care or transportation, or caregiver respite. You’ve got a month to give people notice, line up support, and catch up on work.

You might take one healing day, with plenty of time to prepare, instead of ending up with a whole week of sick days when it’s even less convenient.

In the following blog posts, we’ll explore other ways you or your life circumstances may be holding you back from indulging in a wellness day for yourself, what self-care and optimal wellness mean for you, how your self-care can even help others and how to make the best choices for you.

Thank you for joining me today, and I look forward to meeting again in the next post, and hopefully at the retreat!

If you’re ready to find out more and reserve your Self-Care Spa Day Virtual Retreat spot now, just visit www.essentialarts.net. Questions? Email me at connect@essentialarts.net.