NEW SERVICE!- Raindrop Therapy Massage

Raindrop Therapy Massage

I have been researching essential oils extensively and have discovered and learned a wonderful new treatment.

When it comes to treating back pain – as well as knee pain, tight shoulders, and digestive system discomfort – it can be hard to find something that will bring the body’s systems into alignment. One aid to solving these problems and more is Raindrop Treatment, using essential oils that have been clinically tested to have antiviral, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties.

Raindrop has helped bring relief to chronic pain sufferers and has been known to cause visible improvement in scoliosis. It has also been used successfully on horses and other animals.

Raindrop was developed by D. Gary Young, founder of Young Living Essential Oils, based on techniques taught to him by a Lakota medicine man named Wallace Black Elk. In Lakota Native American healing practices, healers sweep a feather upwards along the spine in imitation of the Northern Lights, which are revered for their healing energy.

9 essential oils are used in raindrop: 7 single oils and 2 therapeutic blends. A person receiving raindrop lays facedown as oils are dropped up their back from a height of 6-12 inches. The oils are gently massaged in with the Lakota “feathering” motion. After the essential oils have been applied, a towel soaked in hot water may be applied to the back to drive the oils further into the body.

Vitaflex, a foot reflexology technique, is used to apply the same oils to the spine reflexology points at the beginning of the raindrop.

The usual Raindrop oils are:

* Valor – a blend that integrates the body’s energies and can help align the spine and muscles of the back
* Oregano*
* Thyme*
* Basil*
* Wintergreen (originally birch, when pure birch oil was available)
* Cypress
* Marjoram
* Peppermint
* Aroma Siez – a blend that helps ease cramping and muscle soreness/pain

The Power of the Oils

Raindrop requires almost no knowledge of, or skill in, massage. Most of the efficacy of the technique is due to the oils. In fact, practitioners are discouraged from using other techniques at the same time as raindrop. It is the profound natural “intelligence” of the oils which can heal where healing is needed.

The oils used in raindrop flush out toxins and kill dormant viruses and bacteria along the spine, restoring health to the entire system.


(from http://naturalmedicine.suite101.com/article.cfm/raindrop_technique)

For more information see my site www.intuitive-healing.massagetherapy.com.

New Years Resolution Time!

Happy Holidays everyone!

Now is the time to start thinking about those resolutions. What can you do to make 2009 your best year yet??

The resolutions that are easiest to keep are usually the ones that involve loving yourself (or someone else) better. For example, promising to regularly treat yourself to healthy sessions of bodywork, or to eat better, or to use essential oils, or to give yourself some personal/spiritual development time by reading or meditating, or by taking a class that interests you... these are all ways to give your life a positive boost!

So I challenge you to come up with a list in the next couple of weeks, and to post it somewhere that you'll be reminded of it. Make yourself some great promises this year!

Essential Oils have incredible energy...

A friend started me on 'Joy' essential oil and I have been using it once or twice daily for about two months. When she first gave me the sample I felt my heart open, as the oil worked its magic. The uplifted feeling lasted, and the following day I wanted more! When I finally got myself a bottle and applied the oil to my hands and heart, I could feel the energetic vibrations in my body! It was a very tangible sensation, almost like getting Reiki in a bottle!

Now I use a drop or two of oil on my clients when I feel moved to do so. I have expanded and joined Peace and Calming to my collection, among some others.

Valor is a good calibrating oil, so I can use that to initially open a client's system to being receptive to the oils.

I am so grateful to have found this new healing resource and am excited to add aromatherapy to my life and healing practice!