by SharonHartnett | Nov 2, 2013 | Massage, Massage License in Ohio: 33.007505-H-K, mind body & spirit, thought for the day
Hakomi is a holistic approach to massage and bodywork:
Typically, a person comes into a Massage Establishment looking for a nice soothing and relaxing massage.The muscles are tight… they feel tense and are looking for some type of relief.
A Swedish massage may feel great and may be exactly what you need to relief your daily stresses, but when you find yourself feeling tight again in a day or two, why not decide to try a different method of bodywork: A Deeper and longer lasting Hakomi massage healing may be more helpful with its gentle intention of mindful touch and self-awareness.Hakomi methods may be helpful in helping you to find self-understanding and in letting go of past traumas.
Hakomi Massage
People who receive massage regularly realize that they feel much better after being touched and contacted on a physical level by a professional with caring and experienced hands.More than 34 million people have discussed massage therapy with their doctors according to the AMTA as a means to relief pain and feel healthier.Often Massage and bodywork helps people feel more balanced, relaxed and closer to their health and wellness goals.A good professional partnership between therapist and client can do wonders.
However, consider that massage can also benefit you on much deeper level if you are willing to try some self-reflective techniques to the arisings of your consciousness. It’s interesting to realize that the mind body & spirit connection acts as a whole.Have you ever noticed when you lie on the table that all your thoughts of the day keep your mind active and and how your feelings are attached to the beliefs? Have you wondered about why your thoughts go outward rather than nourishing the “Self”? These different flows of energy are creatively looking for expressing and integration. When a connection through bodywork touch happens, cells begin to respond in a whole new way. Cellular memory sends this new information to the brain and not only is the body processing, but the whole way in which we relate internally and externally begins to shift into a more open way of living. Hidden memories and beliefs may begin to surface. With Hakomi, this is done in a safe and confidential environment. Our intention is to help the client to build a strong foundation and then to observe and feel as all these things move through “the self” in a soft and meaningful session. Hakomi brings the client into a more unitive state of being with its mirroring and compassionate support.
As a Massage Therapist for 15 years, Sharon has mindfully worked with clients to help restore alignment, balance and structural integrity back to her clients. With respect, she meets her clients where they are and with whatever goals they agree upon. If you are looking for a basic massage, that is welcomed. However, if trauma has existed in your life and has not been released. It may be in your interest during your healing journey to receive mindful sensory input to help you move along on your path to wholeness.
*Hakomi in this setting is not replacing psychotherapy, but it is helpful in conjunction with talk therapy and will support you in your healing in any case.
If you have any questions please contact Sharon Hartnett LMT:
Call: 740 966-5153
Serving the Columbus, Ohio Area
Hakomi Therapy is a a system of body centered therapy developed by Ron Kurtz in the 1970s an which has evolved through the years through the work of the Hakomi Institute. It uses mindfulness, unity, and organicity to explore awareness and the core material that organizes our belief systems. Hakomi can be very helpful for massage and bodywork clients who have experienced past traumas and have not been able to process through the sensations and feelings with typical therapy alone.
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.
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
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
For more information check out below link:
by SharonHartnett | Sep 2, 2013 | Energy Healing, 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…http://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 740 966-5153
