Thank you for stopping by. This is the virtual home of
the community of Reiki practitioners trained through the Ajna Center for Reiki and at StoneWind Institute--and a place of welcome for those in the Reiki lineage of Beth Gray, and John Harvey and Lourdes Gray.. This is also the Fayetteville information site for activities at StoneWind Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Chester, AR. Please feel free to look around and email us with questions or comments. You will find information on Reiki, Meditation,Lineage, Earth healing with Reiki, and the DreamWeaver®, as well as links to our new facilities and programs.
Please note there are new phone numbers listed above, including a toll free number for StoneWind.
StoneWind Retreat, the first phase in a three stage development on our 160 acre mountain top campus at Chester, AR, 30 miles south of Fayetteville off I-540, was completed and opened to the public in September, 2007. The second phase, StoneWind Institute for Mind Body Medicine, located on the StoneWind Retreat campus, has now begun offering meditation and Reiki classes monthly and will have an extended schedule with new courses in the Fall of 2008. Initially I had planned to offer classes both in Fayetteville and in Chester, but the reality of time and travel (particularly in the light of the current fuel crisis) makes that impractical; therefore, all future classes will be offered at the facilities in Chester, which is a 30 to 45 minute drive from Fayetteville. We will help students from the surrounding area who wish to take classes connect for car pooling, and Institute attendees can stay in StoneWind Facilities at special Institute discounts.
The new space with its beautiful and energetic surroundings allows me to offer classes and healing retreats to visitors from Arkansas and elsewhere in a rural setting more conducive to learning and healing. StoneWind Institute's web site is now open with information on philosophy, offerings, and future plans, and there is a new Calendar listing Summer class offerings. Expanded information, new classes and Special Events are added regularly, so be sure to check regularly.
A New Approach to Learning/Healing
at Ajna Center and StoneWind
Beginning in May 2008, StoneWind Institute will offer Reiki, Meditation, new classes in subtle energy science, and workshops on subjects never taught here before--all with a central focus on healing with Energy and Intent that I call "context synergy healing." In the last fourteen years, my work with those suffering from chronic and life threatening illnesses and with those who were dying, has given me a different understanding of the contexts out of which illness arises and of the synergy needed for healing. The design for Context Synergy Healing comes out of those experiences coupled with my long standing interest in cross-cultural methods of healing.
There is no "new" modality here, no newly discovered magic bullet, and it will come as no surprise to my students that Traditional Reiki and Meditation are still the modalities I consider essential to healing anything. The "new" is a matter of emphasis and the inclusion of other highly effective modalities in an organized approach to healing that combines Reiki, Meditation, Qigong (Chi Kung), Johrei, BioConciousness Studies, the DreamWeaver™ and other ancient/modern modalities and technologies.
By seeing illness and wellness from a context perspective, and healing in terms of integrated approaches with synergistic effect, we will be able to apply the principles of Mind Body Medicine in a structured approach to "healing through Intent." From the synthesis of multiple healing arts, the creative merging of old and new traditions of healing from around the world, emerges a healing synergy, or a unique combination of healing skills more effective together than any one method is alone.
My goal at StoneWind is to help us all really believe everything we know, then build from there to know, believe, and use even more so we can move theory into practice, information into application quickly and effectively.
Training in the various modalities that are part of context synergy healing will be available at StoneWind in formats designed for different needs. For those with health challenges, there will be the potential for wellness intensives to jump start healing. For those focused on health maintenance, for practitioners wishing to expand their expertise, and for the uninsured or underinsured needing alternative health care packages, the courses will provide a range of configurations to meet interest and need. For those of you who have studied with me in the past, the new material may fill gaps in your energy awareness or provide a more coherent overview of all that you already know. For all of us there will be new "ahha" experiences, new levels of healing, and new joy in growth since that is the nature of synthesis and synergy. For more information see "Place and Concept" on the new web site.
Nurses and other health care professionals interested in continuing education hours can check the descriptions of First and Second Degree classes for relevant information.
