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DESIGN & WELLNESS CENTER
Yoga and Reiki Therapy for Women's Wellness and Holistic Stress Management
(Dr. Melissa Knight, PHD, RN, MSN, CNE, RYT)
Are you a woman struggling with stress, anxiety, depression or a midlife-crisis? Are you seeking to find balance, calm and inner-peace? I specialize in helping women transform their lives by rediscovering their natural balance in mind, body and spirit while building resilience to life challenges and life transitions through the practices of Yoga, Meditation and Reiki. I am here to support you along your wellness journey. Book a private Reiki or Gentle Yoga session today.
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Powerful Tools to Help You Ease Stress and Rebalance Your Body, Mind and Spirit
My work as a Holistic Nurse, Yoga and Reiki therapist specializes in helping women process the stress and adversities of life challenges and life transitions - and to rediscover their inner peace and vitality again. Yoga and Reiki are energy practices and both supports the body's natural healing abilities and it's innate relaxation response bringing the mind and body back to it's natural calm and harmonious state.
A private Yoga and Energy Therapy program is an opportunity to explore your unique physical, emotional, spiritual and energetic needs while finding ease in your mind, body and spirit. Yoga and Reiki can be used in conjunction or in isolation of one another, however when these two practices are combined they can yield powerful transformations.
A simple, safe and natural method to move you out of the day to day stressors and to help heal the health of your mind, body and spirit.
Discover deep relaxation and calm
Find serenity and inner peace
Heal deep emotions and trauma
Lessen grief, suffering and loss
Build resilience to stress and burnout
Release negative thought patterns
Form new habits and perceptions
Eliminate toxins and free radicals
Reduce stress hormones of cortisol
Lower blood pressure and heart rate
Ease pain and muscle aches
Strengthen immune system
Boost vitality and energy levels
Improve sleep quality and rest
Enhance self-awareness and wisdom
Connect to your intuition
Deepen your spirituality and faith
Discover your life purpose
Live consciously and mindfully
Enhance self-contentment
Reach your highest potential
Dr. Melissa Knight, PHD, RN, MSN, CNE, RYT (Dr. K)- Holistic Nurse Researcher and University Professor, Certified Stress & Spiritual Life Coach, Certified-Registered Yoga & Meditation Teacher, Certified Energy Healer-Reiki Teacher/Master
Hello and I'm so thankful you are here!
I primarily work with women to help restore their natural calm, balance and wholeness particularly through the midlife transitional years. As a midlife woman myself, my daily practices including prayer, Reiki, Yoga, mindfulness and mediation have brought me through various hormonal imbalances and health issues including stress, burnout and anxiety. My daily practices have helped me find wholeness on all levels; mentally, spiritually, physically and emotionally. I am much more at peace and healthier now than I’ve ever been! For over 20 years as a holistic nurse and energy practitioner, I have had the privilege of sharing my tools and practices through classes, hands-on, and distant healing sessions.
For every private Yoga, healing Reiki session or training that I offer, it is done with the highest of love and best intentions for my clients and students well-being. I am here to share transformational tools and to help you create a newer and happier life for yourself while overcoming stress and anxiety that many experience during midlife and any other roadblocks that have been holding you back from living the best version of yourself.
No matter how you got here, you're ready to discover inner peace, calm, radiant health, and abundant energy! I blend health, science and spirituality to meet my clients right where they are and to help them balance their body and mind and break through unhealed and unhealthy mental-emotional patterns.
Yoga and Reiki are forms of energy healing that utilizes the Universal Life Force Energy—also called qi, prana, or mana—to bring energies back into alignment. Both practices can help heal imbalances ranging from the physical to the emotional and spiritual level. My Reiki and Gentle Yoga Therapies are holistic approaches to well-being and involves healing from the inside- out.
Reiki and gentle Yoga are ancient and holistic healing techniques that stimulates the relaxation response and the body's own capacity to heal physically and energetically by removing stagnant and blocked energy. The body's natural healing capacity is compromised through various environmental, psychological and physical process including chronic inflammation, sedentary lifestyles and a lack of movement, poor diet and sleep, illness, certain medications, stress, trauma, chemical and environmental toxins etc. During a healing Reiki and or gentle Yoga session, the energy goes where it is needed in the body and energy centers to promote balance, harmony and homeostasis in the mind, body and spirit.
Relaxation, Restoration and Rebalancing
Reiki gently sheds light and releases what needs to be restored in the mind, body and spirit including the chakras and energy centers. This may include issues such as un-healed emotions, past traumas, grief, fears, anxiety, phobias, addictions, negative belief patterns, depression, chronic stress, illness etc. All of these elements can significantly reduce the natural flow of Universal life force energy within one's body and energy fields and can lead to certain mental and physical illnesses and/or diseases. When this energy is free to move, one is in a greater state of health and well-being and generally feels a deeper connection to their true essence, life purpose, faith, spirituality and deeper wisdom.
Yoga is also a form of energy healing as it helps to move prana (life force energy) through the body and energy centers. Studies have shown that Yoga is effective in managing pain, anxiety, stress and has various benefits on the nervous system and physical body including mental, emotional and spiritual health. As a wellness and self-care practice, learn gentler forms of Yoga virtually in the comfort of your own home or in a private setting.
I offer Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Chair Yoga, Gentle Hatha Yoga Flow
Choose a private on-on-one guided class, self-paced online course or a live virtual Zoom class
Self- Healing Reiki Level 1 helps the practitioner connect more to the Vital Life Force Energy that we all have within. Simple yet profound, Reiki can help you deeply relax and discover more inner peace and serenity during your healing process. My Reiki Level 1 course is the foundation where you receive your first attunements and gets you on the path of practicing Reiki confidently on yourself and loved ones. Students also receive foundation education on how to balance the energy centers (chakras and biofield). These energy fields store our past traumas, emotions, beliefs, memories and life experiences. Energy healing helps to clear the conditioned programming that no longer serve us so that one can discover balance and harmony within their relationships, career, finances, health, level of happiness, personal creative power, and more!
Choose a private on-on-one guided class, self-paced online course or a live virtual Zoom class
My Professional Reiki Level 2 Training and Certification class builds upon the skills learned in Reiki Level 1 as one learns the practice on a deeper level. The practitioner learns symbols and specialized techniques to support themselves and others mentally, spiritually, physically and emotionally. After successfully completing our Reiki 2 certification and attunements, the Reiki practitioner will feel confident in applying Reiki professionally to others and/or their clients.
Choose a private on-on-one guided class, self-paced online course or a live virtual Zoom class
My Reiki Level 3 Training builds upon Reiki 1 and 2 and the practitioner is certified as a Master and Teacher of Reiki. At this level, you as the practitioner will learn about the master symbol and how to use it. You will also learn how to teach and attune others to Reiki at all levels. At this level your journey is just beginning and you will continue to grow in self-awareness.
"Dr. K is a wonderful instructor. This was a powerful and life transforming training experience. I love Dr. K's structure and professionalism"- Reiki Level 1 Student
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