Equine Therapy

by SharonHartnett | Oct 30, 2013 | animal therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K

Getting Ready for my Fourth Training in Coaching with Equine Therapy

It’s been an exciting journey learning how to work as a Coach for people interested in learning leadership skills by sharing space with horses. At the Spirit of Leadership https://www.spirit-of-leadership.com program, I have had the opportunity to find new ways to help shape my program that will be starting in Columbus Ohio in the summer of 2014 to support people wanting to move in the direction of self-discovery, deepening into healthier relationships, walking a spiritual path and wanting to integrate all of this into their daily lives. By experiencing and observing the “way of the horse”, we can be taught so much on how to embody our strengths and live by our values in a meaningful way.

In our last module we set up an obstacle course with the intention of finding a way to move through our own personal and group blocks in order to release whatever stood in our way. Each group set up their unique configuration and we all worked together to find a way to creatively use all of our qualities and efforts to transverse what was set in front of us. It was fun, spontaneous, and effortless when we dropped our judgments and learned to move together as a cohesive unit. Not only did we grow in our human relationships, but the wisdom of the horses mirrored back to us where we needed to go to make our objectives become real. We were able to gain insight in our minds, as well as with a full body inter-related sense of the movement.

As a licensed Massage Therapist, a dedicated healer facilitator and educator, and a Hakomi Practitioner, it has been wonderful to bring the aspect of Nature and Horses into the Healership. I have found that by working with either one horse or many, that a certain magic takes place in how healing information is brought into our full bodied consciousness. Nothing brings me more pleasure than to be in service to the evolution of each person, sentient being and every aspect of Nature. It is with the Sacred movement between earth and spirit that we find truth and meaning in our lives.

I am looking forward to the next summer to coach with some of the Tellington Touch work I have learned, and in helping individuals, and groups to trust and grow from the deeper intelligence of life through contact with the horses and their herd.

Wisdom of the Horse

Warmly,

Sharon Hartnett LMT

Johnstown and Worthington, Ohio

Nourish the Mind Body & Spirit

by SharonHartnett | Oct 12, 2013 | Massage, mind body & spirit

Massage Therapy can nourish the soul down to the Core.

When you take the time for self-care, think about calling Lighten Up Therapies to set up your ongoing sessions.

Read the following AMTA article for more information.

https://www.amtamassage.org/uploads/cms/documents/client_page_web.pdf

Whether you come in for a session to relax, to explore, or to find deeper peace, Massage can make all the difference!

Sharon Hartnett LMT

www.massageincolumbusohio.com

Stress is Your Reaction to Life… Want to Turn Things Around?

by SharonHartnett | Sep 8, 2013 | Massage, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, thought for the day

Often we believe that circumstances outside ourselves is what causes Stress. But nothing can really stress you out beside what you are thinking and feeling. If you want to let go of stress, begin with you:)

Massage can help relieve stress~

Turning Things Around:

1. One of the best ways to let go of stress is to learn how to be mindful about your experiences. Take the time to listen to your body and to feel deeply into the moment. Be curious about how you are relating to your environment and what triggers your stresses. Observation, Experiencing and being in Inquiry can be a powerful tool to change what is happening just in itself.

2. Set up time for Self-Care. Find and Do things that feel nourishing to you. This is not about looking outward for the answer, but rather noticing your relationship to pleasure and joy and indulging in it without becoming attached. Stay in the flow of harmony and kindness as all things pass. As you begin to touch into your own light, you create pathways to the Source Within. Once the door is open, it is easier to step into your essence.

3. Exercise. You will never know how much better you can feel until you dedicate yourself to an exercise routine. It doesn’t matter what you choose to do as long as you enjoy yourself and try different things. It’s important to move in various ways rather than in repetitions. Your sense of Self is intelligent, and if you listen carefully, you’ll find a way to move that feels healthy for you.

4. Choose Love first. When we move our attention to our heart rather than our brains, it’s easier to move more into compassion for ourselves and others. The sense of being right trails far behind regarding what benefits our health once you experience the shift of love. Love makes everything easier when we drop our negative thinking.

5. Massage, Craniosacral Therapy and Healing Work offers a great opportunity to reduce stress. When your body feels relaxed and you experience healthy relationship during your treatment time, stress seems to dissolve. Often people get off the table with a totally new outlook on life.

Stress may be inherent in your system, but you are empowered to change that all around. Your choices will make all the difference. Lead your life in a way that feels supportive and healthy to you. You deserve that!

For more about Craniosacral Therapy, Massage and Healing work, check out my website:

Learn more about my Energy Healing sessions in Columbus

Warmly,

Sharon Hartnett LMT

614 7653-8111

Sharing the Work of Dr. Barbara Brennan, by Sharon Hartnett LMT

by SharonHartnett | Sep 2, 2013 | Energy Healing, healing, healthy, Healthy Body, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit

Over the last few decades, Dr. Barbara Brennan has seen her healing techniques and teachings spread across the globe, touching the lives of many students, clients, and people who have attended her school and/or studied her books, “Hands of Light” and Light Emerging”.

Her four year program at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing” has continued to provide a sanctuary for people from all aspects of life in which to learn about healing and how their personal healership can support positive change in the world.There is no other setting quite like this school that can offer such a profound sense of community, bent in service to the Higher Purpose of Life. BBSH is a unique container of intentional movement toward the evolution of the human Spirit.

As a graduate of the school, I’d like to share some of my insights into the many benefits of attending this school:

A little bit about the school from a graduate’s perspective: The school is based on a four year curriculum, planned out to promote self awareness and energy transformation. In the most simple terms, the first year is very gentle and explorative in a nurturing sense. It is an opportunity to gain better understanding of Self, and how our Human Energy Field operates. As one approaches the second a year, a different template of energy is held to deepen into our whole sense of Self by further exploring our dualistic beliefs, wounding, defense systems and how we create conflict and resolve issues in our relationships. In my opinion, this year often opens us up to aspects of self where we dared not look in a long time. However, as we learn to listen to our Higher Selves, we gain insights from our darkness, and the light begins to shine brighter and brighter revealing our true natures. The third year takes us on another turn. This year challenges us to examine our relationship with God. Often authority issues are revealed and our limited thinking is dropped to open us to be more closely aligned with the Divine Mind. One learns to restructure chakras, to hold the 5th level of the energy field and so much more. Finally, when one enters the fourth and last year, the students take the time to write a research project and present a Case Study. This last year pulls the work together through working with the intention of Hara and rediscovering the Core Star connection we each have to the Divine.

To enter this portal of deep transformation and change, one has to be very committed. One has to learn to trust that by letting go of our old paradigms, that new wisdom and light will lead the way through our darkest trials. Students learn to recognize their strategies and defenses that no longer serve. With all pretenses dropping away, we have learned to become transparent and reconnected to the Whole. Even after graduation, we continue to question and explore in the dance of the Light , opening our hearts and our minds.

Most people who graduate, take the work they have learned from Barbara Brennan, her teachers and community out into their regular daily lives. But something integral to our way of Being has shifted. As we continue to use the skills, we weave our insights and essence into everything around us. We wake up to Source in everything we see with fresh eyes. Blocks that once held us frozen still dissolve easily, and the passage of life is easier to transverse.

I am not going to say that going the Barbara Brennan School of Healing is an easy journey. But it is a journey worth taking. The curriculum and support that show up at the school will help to heal your deepest wound. It will help you to navigate through life with more ease and grace. It will loosen your ties to the past and free you up to live more fully with Presence in the Moment.

Dr. Barbara Brennan dedicated her life to teaching and sharing her work. The Template of study and experience will dramatically change how you view life no matter how you look at it. If you are wanting to discover your True Essence, this is the place to start. If you want to look toward doing healing work with others out in the world, this school will give you the tools and Presence. Open up to your deepest longing and allow this community to support you in rediscovering your potential and True Self. Your beliefs are not you. You are so much more than you ever imagined yourself to be.

A Brennan Healing Science graduate Page… www.professionalbrennanenergyhealing.com.

For more information on Energy Healing, follow this thread the the bottom of the page…https://www.massageincolumbusohio.com/energy-therapy/

To learn more about the school, check out: www.barbarabrennan.com

Sharon Hartnett LMT, Brennan Healing Science Graduate, BIP, Supervisor and Former Faculty.

Columbus, Ohio (614) 653-8111

Craniosacral Therapy Dolphin Assisted Retreat

by SharonHartnett | May 11, 2013 | Craniosacral Therapy

I cut and pasted this Craniosacral Dolphin Therapy information off of the Upledger site. I have participated in the Beginner and Advanced Training with the Dolphins and can say that they are exceptional programs. Something to be put on the life bucket list for sure! I am new to the Columbus area, and would be thrilled to work with clients who are interested in Craniosacral Therapy, and support their transition to the program in the Bahamas. Maybe even jump on a plane to go assist!

Interspecies Learning

DATIP July 25-28, 2013 Freeport, Bahamas (New Dates for 2016 now available)

This four-day Comprehensive Therapy Program includes dolphins and their incredible ability to assist healing. We consistently find the dolphins to be active participants in the therapeutic process. This is combined with traditional CranioSacral Therapy (CST) in the beautiful and supportive environment of the Bahamas.

In the Integrative Intentions Dolphin Assisted Therapy program, we trust and facilitate the inclusion of our natural environment in the healing process. CST therapy is our primary modality and relies upon the innate healing capacities of our own nature. Dolphins offer their assistance in the healing process. We intend to facilitate, with their assistance, to bring holistic dimensions into your therapy. Dolphins frequently offer us their unique ability to facilitate healing. We will be respectfully asking them to participate and assist in your healing process. This brings some unique holistic dimensions into this work.

We have found that the uniqueness of each individual exchange with dolphins brings a very individualized, specific and universal dynamic to the process. Regardless of what you have read or been told by others and the images you might have, we invite you to come and experience for yourself.

Advance Preparation: Recommended Reading: Dolphins and Their Power to Heal. We also have some valuable information for you regarding your BioAquatic Exploration experience, available at https://www.upledger.com/seminar_info/Terms/BADAinfo.doc

Supplies: What to Bring:

Essential items:
– Swimsuit appropriate for Therapy
– Lip protection with sunblock
– Hat
– Windbreaker
– Light sweater or fleece top
– Clothing for layering, including a long-sleeve shirt that you don’t mind getting wet
– Waterproof bag for items that must remain dry
– Ear plugs – (if you choose to wear ear plugs while in the water)
– Sunscreen (Anything that says “faces” on it will not burn your eyes in the salt water)
– Water shoes
Shoes are worn in the ocean to protect feet from sharp rocks and shells; they need to have solid soles and sides. These would be necessary for work in the water in the afternoon, but are not necessary for the dolphin therapy.

Optional items:
– Snacks
– Cameras (Underwater photography is not allowed at the Dolphin Experience)
– Zinc Oxide
– Wetsuit (advised for those who may be concerned about their body temperature, infants and small children. The water temperature will probably be in the high 70’s to 80’s.) The shop at UNEXSO sells suits of various sizes and thicknesses to fit most people, however, there is less available for little ones.)

Attire: Please wear a bathing suit appropriate for therapy, under your clothes, bring a towel and clothes to change into later.

Times: The patients and therapists will meet each morning at 9:00 a.m. At that time each patient discusses his or her treatment experiences, any noticeable changes, asks questions and expresses themselves. Staff members will answer any questions or concerns participants may have and review a brief outline of the day’s schedule. We usually have a short time for table work after which the group will then walk a short distance to UNEXSO where we need to sign in and await the boat or bus which we will board and ride to the Dolphin Experience. Once we arrive at Sanctuary Bay, the location of the DAT portion of the CTP, we disembark and walk on a boardwalk which takes us up a ramp to the waiting area, then down a steep ramp to the dolphin area. We are at this location for approximately one hour.

After the Dolphin Experience, you will take a break for lunch. You may either return to your hotel, or explore The Lucayan Marketplace for lunch or shopping (across the street from The Radisson Hotel and the Reef Hotels and next to Pelican Bay). The remainder of the day will be spent in multi-therapist sessions in the conference therapy room on tables or in the water, as is appropriate for each client.

Program Location:
The non-water portion of the program will be held at
Pelican Bay at Lucaya
Sea Horse Road at Port Lucaya
Grand Bahama
Phone:242-373-9550
www.pelicanbayhotels.com
GROUP RATE, discount code 130619INTE, (2013 rates): $139.00 for single occupancy (with tax etc = $164.02/night)
$154.00 for double occupancy (with tax etc = $181.72/night)
Room rate includes breakfast each morning.

Meeting in the Coral Room in the Canal House of the Pelican Bay.

Directions to Program Location:
Upon your arrival in the Bahamas, taxi service is available and recommended from the airport to your hotel in Port Lucaya, Grand Bahama. When you are assigned a taxi, it is advisable to establish the fare before you embark. Small bills will be required for most trips. A taxi is available from the airport to your hotel. The rate is approximately $20.00 each way for the first 2 passengers and $8.00 for each additional passenger. Transportation prices are subject to change. It is best to confirm rates with the driver before departing the airport.

Car Rental:
Car rentals are available near the airport. We have listed a few with their
daily fees, they may have weekly fees available (rates subject to change):
Bahama Buggies – 242-352-8750/$65 per day
Gator’s Car Rental – 242-351-2639/$55 per day
KSR Rental Cars – 242-351-5737/$50 per day
M&K Car Rental – 242-351-3830/$50-$70 per day
Zulu’s Rentals – 242-351-5230/$50 per day

Cancellation/Refund Policy:
Tuition is fully transferable and refundable up until 90 days prior to the start date. Due to the unique expenses involved, a $600 fee is necessary for transfers or cancellations within 90 days of the course. Transfers or cancellations within 60 days of the start date are subject to a fee of 50% of the tuition. Refund requests must be made in writing within 12 months of registration and at least 90 days in advance of the course start date.

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Sharon Hartnett CST

haron Hartnett Craniosacral Therapist Columbus

614 653-8111

Serving the Columbus, Ohio Area

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