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🌿 Reiki Outreach Clinic: An Inclusive Community of Care 🌿

Healing happens in community.
Our Reiki Outreach Clinic brings together practitioners from all teachers and lineages, united by a shared purpose: to support seniors at Active Ageing Centres with presence, warmth, and care.

Started since Sep 2023, this is the impact so far.

📍 4 Centres
👵 134 Seniors Reached
⏳ 201 Hours of Reiki sessions
💖 34 Active Volunteers

Through Reiki, we create a space where everyone—seniors, volunteers, and practitioners—can feel seen, supported, and connected.

A heartfelt thank you to our volunteers for embodying wisdom, courage, and compassion in every session. Your presence makes a difference, and together, we are building a kinder, more connected community.

And big thank you also to our volunteer admin team who tirelessly managed behind the scenes

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Private sessions are now open for booking!
Weekly on Tuesdays and one Saturday per month.
Location is at a puurfect space near Botanic Gardens.

See you soon.

Big thanks to all the volunteers and participants of the Reiki Clinic Outreach at Joo Chiat CC. So great to see your interest and enthusiasm for Reiki.

Other ongoing Reiki Clinic Outreach initiatives include centres in Geylang East and Compassvale.

This is part of our initiative ingrained within our ethos. The aim is to bring reiki, movement, breath & mindfulness to under-served communities in a sustainable and compassionate way.

Find out about our past projects here https://exhale.com.sg/encore-movement/

The word of the year is.....
courage ˈkə-rij: The strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger or difficulty

Origin: Middle English corage "the heart as a source of feelings, spirit, confidence,"
from Latin cor "heart"

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise …
- Rudyard Kipling, ‘If—’.

Wishing you the courage to dance to the beat of your own drums, to swim upstream, to laugh, to dance, to rest.

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We are now exhale. space
We hold space for people at crossroads to rest and reset
We empower you with different tools, spar with you on your reflections and help you connect with the wisdom of your body
BUT
You have to do the work and you have to find your way on your journey.

Same brand, louder voice.

"A bit of madness is key
To give us new colours to see
Who knows where it will lead us
And that's why they need us

So bring on the rebels
The ripples from pebbles
The painters, and poets and plays
And here's to the fools who dream
Crazy as they may seem
Here's to the hearts that break
Here's to the mess we make"

- The fools who dream, La la land

Join us in our first workshop of the year
New moon - sound healing & yin yoga
13 Jan, Sat 10.30am
Limited spots left
Book here https://exhale.com.sg/event/meditation/all/

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Are you ready to kickstart 2024 the right way ?
Do you want to learn breathing and meditation techniques that suit your lifestyle ?
Do group yoga classes intimidate you ?

Our personal classes are highly customised and adapted to meet your needs regardless of physical or mental health in order to achieve the desired benefits.
Based on your requirements, specific conscious breathing & meditation techniques may also be incorporated to support your mental & emotional health. Alternatively, we may also use a combination of practices to improve strength, flexibility, mobility or stability.

Swipe our post above for a beautiful client story that lighted our year.

To find out more, go to our website http://exhale.com.sg > Private Sessions > Yoga, breath & meditation.

From now till 8th Jan 2024, we have a special 3-session offer at 20% off for newcomers - with no additional GST increase.

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Celebrating women is not just about a single day of events to bring more awareness to gender equity. But constant concerted efforts to move the needle in uplifting the women around you.

Do you know any women who may be going through a challenging period, not getting enough rest, or generally just need some pick-me-up to rebalance their life?

Support them in reclaiming their rest, by gifting a private reiki therapy session. For the month of March, we are offering 20% off to help you, help others.

It takes a village to do this.

Link in IG stories.

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Usui Reiki Principles

The biggest standout of Usui Reiki is that the practice is imbibed with 5 key principles - so vital that they were engraved on Mikao Usui's memorial tombstone.

Simple, but not easy to practice and live by them.

Roughly translated as
“The secret method of summoning happiness, the miracle drug of all disease: Today only, do not anger, do not worry, be grateful, fulfil duties, be kind to people” 

Just for today:
🍀 I will live the attitude of gratitude 
🍀 I will not worry
🍀 I will not anger
🍀 I will do my work honestly
🍀 I will show kindness to others

If you're ready to take the next step to act and live mindfully
➕
bring balance into your life through energy work
👇🏼
Join us in our next Reiki One - Foundation in Self Care.
1-2 April 2023

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"Research now shows that even long periods of sufficient sleep don’t make up for sleep deficits"

https://www.independentri.com/arts_and_living/article_600cb150-65f1-11ed-ab69-8745f43c1289.html

Common Sense Health: Poor sleep can lead to a range of issues An old Irish proverb says, “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” But research suggests it would be wiser to think of

Paying attention to your indoor space as an act of self-care.
Agree ?

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221116-self-care-spaces-how-your-home-can-make-you-feel-good

How to sleep well and be happy at home A new approach to interior design is less about aesthetic trends and more about how our spaces make us feel. Daisy Woodward explores the feel-good home phenomenon.

Big thank you to the Tapestries of Grief team for the honour and privilege to hold space for the participants of the annual festival.

We introduced the importance of somatic movement and mindfulness to a group of bereaved mothers, highlighting the deep connection between unprocessed emotions and how they can sit in our bodies. https://www.tapestriesofgrief2022.com/workshops

One participant with chronic back pain remarked that she had seen a range of professionals for her issue, with little respite. However in this session where she finally understood the psycho-somatic connection, and allowed her body a full deliberate rest, her pain reduced considerably. It was a lightbulb moment for her in navigating her grief journey.

Another participant started having a bout of hiccups midway through the movements. While we advised that this can potentially be part of the release from the body, there is understandably some mild anxiety when the hiccups refused to abate. During the practice, we offered options to honour the release, and to allow the hiccups to run its course, which it did, right at the very end. The participant felt a sense of lightness, and surprise at the mode of release, as she thought that she had already processed most of her grief.

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Here's a snippet of the feedback we received.
"I have always thought that my body is injured. I learnt after the session that my body is just exhausted and tired from grieving. Attending this healing workshop taught me and made me realised that my body need to rest and to relax. Now I know how to stretch and relax my body to release the body tension."

"Compassion for self is important. Grief is physical as well as emotional."

Thank you all. Deep bows.

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Here's a montage of the full list of talks, workshops and events for the Tapestries of Grief 2022.

https://youtu.be/-Dt03MP32X4?t=72

Tapestries of Grief 2022 Montage In Tapestries of Grief, we invite everyone who has lost a loved one to explore and express their grief. We give the bereaved a voice in teaching us the best...

“There is no precise GPS for getting through grief”

- Sherry Walling PhD, Touching Two Worlds

Some reflections from grief - perhaps it may help you navigate this journey, or support someone else going through grief.

https://exhale.com.sg/lessons-from-grief/

Besides the constant yawning during the day, what are the other signs that you have not had a good nights' sleep ?

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https://thriveglobal.com/stories/unexpected-physical-signs-you-need-more-sleep-well-being/

8 Unexpected Signs You Need More Sleep If you’re feeling irritable, achy, clumsy or unfocused, your body might be telling you to get some rest.

So great to learn that DBS Group has an experimental wellness space with "...sleep pods where workers can take a short nap, a reading corner with relaxing music and yoga mats in front of a window with sweeping views of the city skyline"

This initiative to go beyond band-aid solutions in redesigning workplaces to cater to the emotional, and mental health of post-pandemic employees is definitely laudable. Incorporating specific opportunities for is THE way to go.

From a leadership perspective, what shifts in mindset are necessary to embrace this new movement away from the and ?

https://www.todayonline.com/big-read/office-spaces-future-work-big-changes-1978281

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The Big Read: Beyond redesigned office spaces, the future of work requires big changes in both heartware and hardware SINGAPORE — Whenever employees at DBS Bank’s office in Marina Bay Financial Centre feel like they need to take a break from work, they can head to the 42nd floor of the building, where, tucked in a corner away from plain sight, is a “wellness space”.

Many years ago, when I first heard that there was someone from Singapore attending an ongoing Forrest Yoga teachers' training, I s̶t̶a̶l̶k̶e̶d̶ tracked him down. *grin* We arranged to meet up the minute he returned because I was so excited that that our Forrest Yoga community is growing!

YJ has always been a huge supporter of exhale, always saying YES! to teaching in-studio and a solid rock during the pandemic, doing online classes to help spread the love of Forrest Yoga.

We both share similar values and Ana Forrest's vision of "Mending the hoop of the people", and have been spreading this in our own unique way to the community.

And so it's no surprise that we are teaming up for the first Forrest Yoga Immersion in years! This is a full practice (2.5hrs!) integrating breathwork, conscious movement followed by an extended meditation practice and reflection around the theme of...

Celebrate life!
29th Oct, Sat
2.30-5pm
https://exhale.com.sg/event/forrest-yoga-immersion/

Guess what, we are getting out of our comfort zone and planning to do an IG live on 9th Oct afternoon!!! Watch out for our IG stories and join us to ask any questions that you may have!

We can't wait to see all of you soon!

Aho!
Ming Li & YJ

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"Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.”
― Peter A. Levine

We are generally familiar with the fight/flight response, but did you know that there is also the freeze and fawn response ? Being aware of our knee-jerk responses, developed over time through is the start to working through these behaviours.

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https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/fight-flight-freeze-fawn-trauma-responses

Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn: Examining The 4 Trauma Responses It's more than just fight or flight.