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 http://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, Ohio
by SharonHartnett | Oct 12, 2013 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
Often people find themselves feeling tense and in pain.
The interesting thing about pain is that because it is a teacher, it tells us not to overdo it or to pay attention to our experience. However, once the initial message is sent to the brain, it is important to remember not to store away that pain for good. Once it makes its home in the body, it decides to live there in the cells, often creating more pain or perhaps even illness. So after some rest for a day or two, it’s time to bring your awareness back to the injury. Hold the intention to “be” with and relieve your pain. Keep the body subtle and restful with motion and harmony
I like to encourage my clients to feel into the discomfort and pain in a way that they can trust their own body’s reactions. It’s one small step at a time. This is called, “engaging the soft pain.” This should be an experience where you feel deeply with release but not enough that it puts you back into a defensive mode. This is not an exercise to test your limits, but rather a place to explore your sensations and feelings in a safe and healing way.
Each person if different. Some people heal better with light touch, and others with deeper contact. Communication and boundaries must be respected and appreciated for the body to unravel the layers of protection and pain. Dialoguing throughout a session is important at first to learn to understand what helps and what does not.
It also takes commitment to stay with your process as you work with a therapist. Whether physically, emotionally or spiritually, layers will reveal themselves that may be uncomfortable. But it is with perseverance and resiliency that you will pass through the temporary pain until the deeper wound is unlatched. Allow your healing process to help you to grow as a whole person. It is in allowing all of our experience to open that we find true meaning in life.
Remember: Pain does not need to run your life. It is only meant to be an indicator to bring mindfulness to the Self. If you want more freedom, vitality and joy, it is necessary to stand in your strengths and feel into all that you are.
Moving through the soft pain…
Nobody says that it is an easy to relieve pain and walk upon the road to wellness. But it is worth the journey. Give yourself commitment, patience, the room to have fallbacks as well as advancements, and the care that you deserve.
Sharon Hartnett LMT
www.massageincolumbusohio.com
(614) 372-6598
by SharonHartnett | Oct 12, 2013 | Energy Healing, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit, thought for the day
Do you want to live a happy life?
If you are not happy, what is stopping you? Do you think it is due to your job, a lack of something, an argument, or finding yourself in a place where you don’t want to be?
Trying to find happiness can become a difficult task. If you are chasing it, it will always elude you because you are ignoring what is right in front of you in exchange for a belief you hold closely.
Happiness is slippery and it can slide right through your fingers if you try too hard.
In my view, happiness is a taste of authentic joy. It is a dessert that reminds us of the sweetness of eternal joy that is possible.
So what does one do if he or she finds himself unhappy?
On some level of awareness, I believe we all want to live an authentic life where we can be transparent, full of life and in healthy relationship. Yet often our beliefs and the energy of the fears that live attached to those thoughts lead us to creating strategies from giving ourselves a real experience of life. If you want to reconnect into genuine joy and love, investigating the thoughts that block you from your deepest seat of joy. I am not suggested running after the negative, but rather softly exploring the places that feel stuck or non-supportive in your life. Opening the mind to exploration can give you a whole new perspective on life. It allows all that frozen energy to move and transform, releasing more energy to live a meaningful life.
Exploring your thoughts can be done either alone in meditation, walking outside connecting to nature, seeing a psychotherapist or a bodyworker who works with freeing any struggles in the mind body spirit connection. But one thing is for sure- if something doesn’t feel right or you aren’t feeling happy, the truth will set you free. The silence of listening and unfolding will awaken your life to the real joy which is you.
Finding Your Joy
For transformational healing work, check out: www.massageincolumbusohio.com
Sharon Hartnett 740 966-5153
Columbus, Ohio
by SharonHartnett | Oct 9, 2013 | Energy Healing, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit
How do you react to pain?
Do you try to avoid it? In order to release pain from the physical body, one has to become mindful of his/her internal environment. Because pain is a signal to help us understand that something is distorted, we must learn to listen to resolve deep underlying issues. Our bodies and the world we live in are constructed out of the creative energy pulse of the Universe. We are Energy Beings. When we allow things to flow, we are in health. When we resist, fight against harshly, we block ourselves from the Source of Life. Healing may help the body to recover from serious illnesses, and miracles do happen. But more importantly, the soul will come to peace much easier when we bring awareness to our sensations, feelings, hearts and minds. Sitting in the mystery of our humanity and living fully brings true peace and harmony.
Living in Columbus, Ohio
Have you been suffering? Nobody can fix that, but with help…we at Lighten Up Therapies in Columbus, Ohio, can support you on your journey to wellness and health. We facilitate your inner light to self-correct and enhance your body systems.
Sharon Hartnett LMT is a Professional Energy Healer. She studied 8 years at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and went on to teach at the school. Sharon loves working with and teaching healing work through mindfulness of the human energy field. She has also had a private practice with Structural Integration, as a Certified Advanced Craniosacral Therapist through the Upledger Institute. Call Sharon at 740 966-5153 for an in person appointment or for a long distance healing session.
Healing is actually evolving into your True Potential. More can be found in Self-Discovery than look outward for your answers. Yet relationships in the most positive sense will help you to embrace your experiences with more vitality and meaning. We are all part of the Source in its Creative Wave.
by SharonHartnett | Sep 29, 2013 | animal therapy, Energy Healing, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit
Horses… Equine Therapy is becoming more popular in Columbus, Ohio
Following a Dream for a Grassroots movement toward personal and community growth and healing…
- Opening Your heart and minds through inter-species communications.
For many years, I had a dream to move somewhere where there was land, open sky, green grass and a change of seasons. My husband and I looked up and down the east coast from Florida to Maine, and then considered going westward to our old stomping grounds near Denver. So we were very surprised when we discovered a nice little farm right outside of Columbus, Ohio that called to our hearts. This farm was very close to where I attended the Ohio State University, and only a few hours away from where we were born. As soon as we situated ourselves, and with horses already on the land, I started to realize how happy I felt in their presence. Whether with one horse at a time or walking within the herd, my heart began to open and I felt great. My appreciate for nature and all that it has been teaching me here on the farm is constantly bringing me more depth and growth on so many different levels.
So here I am, enjoying the early morning light pouring in and feeling at home with the tractor out in the fields and the gorgeous maple and walnut trees outside my windows. I am excited to spend part of this Sunday focusing on creating my new Integrative Equine Therapy Business that is being developed one step at a time. For the last 6 months, I have been researching Equine Therapy and have been thrilled to see that there has been some great success with these programs in the Columbus area. I have found that that there are programs lent towards personal discovery, mental and behavior issues, job skills, social team building, sensory impairment, terminal illness and so much more. Most of them are non-profit and based on utilizing the community resources for the betterment of individuals and groups. My hope is to add this farm to the list of successful businesses interested in making their homes, stables and communities a place where we can contribute and make this world a better place to live. My hope is to bring meaning into a world where so much is Unknown and Unexperienced.
With this new Equine Therapy Program, my dream is to create a grassroots program where local people get involved and use their talents to produce an experiential approach to health and wellbeing. We will hold an intention to learn about ourselves through interactions with our equine friends, the horses here on the property and with those that visit. My vision may be a little different than others. While I admire what is already in existence, I’d like to take a more holistic apporach. From a bodyworker perspective, I find that dialoguing with horses in a therapeutic setting can have a dramatic effect on how we feel in our bodies, as well as emotionally, in our thinking…hearts, and with our spirituality. So this program will be a Holistic model meant to enhance all those aspects of our lives for who participate. Included, we will offer integrative services such as education, bodywork, acupuncture, energy healing, psychotherapy, meditation, women’s groups, corporate leadership programs, 1:1 therapy work as we grow. These modalities will be part of the program to strengthen and educate people about the connection between humans and our equine friends. Indeed, with mutuality with animals and nature, we learn to live more consciously in harmony and unity.
In the last couple months, I have been studying with a very wonderful and insightful woman named Jackie Stevenson, the founder and CEO of “Spirit of Leadership LLC” about how to lead companies and individuals to coach and educate equine participants in individual and group dynamics”. It has been an enlightening experience and I am highly anticipating my future in sharing her work along with my other skills in the near future. I remember the first day I went there and she asked us to go out into the field and spend time with the herd. I thought to myself after standing there for an hour, “what the heck am I doing standing out here with these horses”. But then the land and the trees began to swallow me up and I felt myself grounding down and opening to so much more than my usual daily life. Ever since that first day, I have looked forward to the next class. My relationship with each horse and the group is awakening me to so many new possibilities and intimacies. I feel met in a comprehensive way. In the meantime, I have been questioning and implementing some of Jackie’s ideas and techniques into my already strong foundation in the field of Healing Education. For sure, the herd is based on inclusivity. However, in order for people to come together in an order that work, a learning process takes place. It often takes patience and observation to find out how to fit in and make something work successfully.
I am thrilled to be part of the Cleveland Community, and furthering the process of bringing something similar to the Columbus, Ohio area. Our equine friends, and also all other aspects of nature and inhabitants on this planet have something to offer. We live on a planet where mutual compassion and understanding can help us to find confidence and thrive in a land that is meant to be heaven. Earth is our home, and we all have each other.
I am planting seeds wherever I go with my ideas and enthusiasm. I am reaching out and asking for help and participation for whoever has a gift or a challenge that they would like to offer.
If this sounds good to you, give me a call upon this invitation, and let me know your interests and how you might want to participate.
Warmly,
Sharon Hartnett LMT
740 966-5153
Craniosacral Therapist
Structural Integration Therapist
Hakomi Practitioner
Former Faculty at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing
Group Leader and Facilitator
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by SharonHartnett | Sep 16, 2013 | Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K
Massage Therapy is an Artistic and Healing Expression of Touch ~
Release your tension and find your Inner Creativity
When I work with a client, I feel the artistic flow of life move through my hands. As I listen to your movement and vitality, my inner intelligence as a Creative Therapist, finds a way to make contact and awaken the life force. When two come into unity, something new is remembered. A spark lights up in the space of emptiness and creation redefines itself, if only for a moment before shifting again.
The tissues of the body respond well to Massage dialoguing.
I can feel the tension let go with my clients as they breath and feel more deeply into Self.
Are you ready to get more in touch with your Creative Force? Working together as a team can shift things by tapping into your unlimited healing potential!
Let Massage Therapy and Bodywork open you up into Deeper Relaxation and more Energy.
Integrating theThe Mind Body Spirit Connection
For more information, call:
Sharon Hartnett LMT
(740) 966-5153
http://www.massageincolumbusohio.com/energy-therapy/
