The Power of Stones

Healing stones are a holistic, natural approach to maintaining harmony within the body mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally. For thousands of years, ancient civilizations have used the structure, wavelength, and frequency of these naturally formed stones to match the different frequencies of the various parts of our body.

Combining nature's natural healing stones with the energy centers in our body is important to cleanse, revitalize, and balance our health. 

We carry many of these stones in our boutiques in Roseville & Folsom, so please stop by and pick up a few after your next yoga class or spa treatment!

Pick A Chakra, Then A Stone

Source: http://infographicjournal.com/the-power-of-stones/

Healing With Reiki

Reiki, pronounced ray-key and is a Japanese term that translates to universal (rei) and life force energy (ki).  This is an energy-centric healing technique with Japanese roots that has only officially been around since the 1920s. Reiki is a simple and natural healing method that reduces stress, induces relaxation and promotes deep healing within oneself.

When you experience illness, depression, anxiety or any other sickness, it's because your life force energies are off balance. Reiki Masters can work with you to tune into those energies and re-balance the body so it can heal itself.  This is done by placing their hands on, or slightly over the head, torso and legs in a series of positions near the body's major energy meridians and centers. Energy is then transferred through these centers allowing your body to self-heal. 

Reiki's Roots

Reiki was created by the Japanese scholar Mikao Usui who developed it after a 21-day fasting meditation trip to Mount Kurama.  Following this spiritual revelation, he returned to develop the practice. He worked with locals, healed his neighbors and "gave away" his energy.

During this time, he trained reiki's next grand master: Chujiro Hayashi, a naval officer and physician. Hayashi then opened a reiki clinic in Tokyo, where he worked with many sick individuals, including Hawayo Takata, a Japanese-American woman from Hawaii. She became the third grand master and is credited with introducing the practice to the Western world in Hawaii in the early 1940s. Over the last 70 years Reiki has become more common, with countless certified students and masters.

Managing Misconceptions

It's important to understand what reiki isn't. reiki is different from massage because it is the movement of energy, not tissue or muscle.  Also, reiki practitioners don't diagnose or treat medical or psychiatric conditions. They simply offer supportive therapy that can promote balance, comfort and pain relief during treatment but is not to be a primary source of care for health concerns.

Book a Reiki Ritual Today!

The Sun Goddess Ritual

Calling all sun gods and goddesses! At Serenity Spa, we're offering a lovely summer special.

The sacred practice of sun worshiping reawakens the spirit and enlivens the mind, but our skin’s delicate composition is affected by the sun’s damaging rays. Experience cooling mint, hydrating goji berry extract, and soothing rose essential oil to renew skin’s vitality, revive luminosity, and restore elasticity for youthful, glowing skin that is ready to worship the sun. Follow this cooling facial with a peppermint, eucalyptus and rose essential oil massage: detoxifying the body, settling the mind and awakening the spirit.

  

60 minute essential oil massage & 60 minute rose mint facial-$199
Add a 60 minute rosemary mint awakening body treatment-$299

Book your treatment today by visiting our website or calling (916) 797-8550.

Lomi Lomi Massage

Photo via Pinterest.

Have you ever heard of a Lomi Lomi massage?

You may be familiar with traditional Swedish techniques, or maybe you like Deep Tissue work. If you're interested in experiencing a wonderful, unique and energizing massage, you will want to book a Lomi Lomi!

Lomilomi practitioners use the palms, forearms, fingers, knuckles, elbows, knees, feet, even sticks and stones. Lomilomi practices varied by family, Atahualpaʻa (traditional region) and island.

Traditionally in ancient Hawaii lomilomi was practiced in four contexts:

1. As a healing practice of native healers -- kahuna lāʻau lapaʻau (healers) and kahuna hāhā (diagnosticians)
2. As a luxury and an aid to digestion, especially by the ruling chiefs (aliʻi)
3. As restorative massage within the family
4. By ʻōlohe lua (masters of the Hawaiian martial arts)

When you book a Lomi Lomi massage with one of our specialists, you will experience a deep sense of balance and harmony inspired by the ancient Hawaiian “dance of massage." We use energy flow combined with fluid, fast-paced, rhythmic motion to achieve an energizing, rejuvenating experience.

Book yours today!

The Law of Intention and Desire

You exist, but do you live?

Today we are inspired by the Law of Intention and Desire: Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. Intention and desire in the field of pure potentiality have infinite organizing power. When we introduce an intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.

In order to move toward fully realizing your intentions and desires, be present with them. Meditate. Visualize your dreams becoming reality.

You are Beautiful

Photo via Alive in the Fire.

Today, remind yourself of the power of simply being instead of doing. Quiet the mind. Feel into your inner beauty. Hold onto that.

Youthful Yoga Workshop

Youthful Yoga Workshop

Introduce your teenager to the practice of yoga! This 2 hour workshop was created for teens and children ages 8 to 17 and will not only define the meaning of what yoga is but will encourage the self exploration of postures. By engaging in the practice of yoga, the student will gain a greater sense of body awareness, which increases coordination, strength and flexibility while building self-esteem. Included in the Course: Workshop-Meaning of Yoga Sun Salutations-12 asanas, sanskrit mantras, english translation, take home worksheet Knowledge of basic postures, which organs are directly affected and Savasana  Group Activities Guided Meditation

Monday, June 10, 2013 1:00pm-3:00pm

$35 per student Register Today 916-797-8550 www.serenityspaonline.com 3984 Douglas Blvd. #150 Roseville CA 95661

Online Resources for Yoga, Meditation and Wellness

Photos via I Can Read on Tumblr.

Are you looking for resources and tools to help guide your journey toward physical, mental and spiritual health? Here are a few links from around the web that we find inspiring.

http://www.chopracenterhealingwisdom.com/
A Chopra Center blog with scientific and spiritual findings.

http://www.yogajournal.com/
A leading publication in the yoga world offering insight from master teachers and healers.

http://kripalu.org/blog/thrive/
A blog from the Kripalu Center which focuses on yoga, health and wellness.

http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/
A site to help you learn how to sit in stillness for a few minutes during your busy day.

http://www.dailyom.com/
Daily inspiration for achieving self-fulfillment 

http://www.elephantjournal.com/
Elephant Journal covers quite the mix: yoga, sustainability, politics and spirituality.

http://www.spiritualnow.com
Articles on topics such as enlightenment, compassion, wisdom, relationships and strength. 

Celebrate Dads, Grads and Grooms

Have you thought about celebrating Father's Day, upcoming graduations, and weddings this summer?

Here at Serenity Spa, we're offering an amazing deal to celebrate dads, grads and grooms!

Gift Certificates Available 90 minutes of bliss $139  Drench him in our indigenous therapies that will take him where the sun fires the SOUL while the sea settles the MIND. Relax with a Hot Stone Balinese FOOT SCRUB with the citrus of the sun & the salt of the sea. Flow into a 30 minute TANDEM MASSAGE with two therapists working in synchronicity on the neck, head, face, shoulders, legs and feet. This is followed by 45 minutes of DEEP TISSUE THERAPY, with attention to the back. All infused with camphor, clove, and cardamom oils to soothe and restore tired muscles.

serenity spa 3984 Douglas Blvd. #150 Roseville, California 95661 916-797-8550 www.serenityspaonline.com

Thoughts on Yoga

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.