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William Lee Rand

Walk & Talk with WilliamWilliam will lead a meditation for the entire group, followed by a walk in the woods for those interested. The program will foster our Reiki connection with the forest's beauty and wisdom. The meditation will begin indoors and the walk will follow. The walk will depend on the weather and participants' mobility.

William Lee Rand is the founder and president of The International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT), The Center for Reiki Research and The Reiki Membership Association. He is also the publisher and editor in chief of the Reiki News Magazine. He has authored Reiki, The Healing Touch, The Reiki Touch Kit, Reiki for a New Millennium, The Spirit of Reiki and over 100 articles on the history, philosophy, and practice of Reiki. William has done extensive research on the origin and nature of Reiki and produced a pioneering work titled An Evidence Based History of Reiki. In addition, William also has a strong background in metaphysics and has previously been a professional astrologer, hypnotherapist, past life regression therapist, rebirther, and is certified in Neuro Linguistic Programing. William has dedicated his life to Reiki and has practiced and taught full time in classes around the world for 36 years. He encourages all Reiki practitioners to work together in harmony to bring peace to the Earth.

Carolyn Musial

Deep Connection through The Sufi GreetingThis is a ceremonial meditation that is wonderful for the beginning of a gathering. Participants work one-on-one as I guide them thru each step, then move on to the next person... and the next... Meditation is done is silence as you look deeply into the eyes of your partner. It is a true and joyful communion of our human/divine spirits.

Carolyn Musial is a licensed Reiki Master Teacher with The International Center for Reiki Training. She is a Mentor Teacher and the Director of Licensed Teachers with the ICRT. She has been working with Reiki since 1998, and has been a full-time teacher/practitioner for over 23 years.

Barbara Pastie

“Shake Your Soul®”: A Reiki Journey of Communion with Self and Community with Others
Through the joy of dance, we will come into communion with our higher self then move into a joyful community of Reiki dance. You will move at your own pace and based on your own range of motion. (A “Shake Your Soul®” class is a judgement free zone!) World music will play as we move and groove, share and care. And the Reiki will flow with our joy! No prior dance training is necessary. All you need is a love of music and movement.

Please bring a yoga mat or blanket to class. (Adaptations of all movements will be made
for people who use wheelchairs or prefer to participate in the class seated.)

Barbara Pastie is a certified “Shake Your Soul®” dance instructor. She received her training from the Leven Institute for Expressive Movement in the Berkshires of Western Mass where she has led regular classes for over 15 years. Barbara is also a Holy Fire® III World Peace and Holy Fire® III Karuna® Reiki Master. Nothing brings her more joy than combining the spirit of Reiki with the joy of dance.

Isabel Wells

Awakening to Spirit: An Introduction to Shamanic ReikiAre you ready to deepen your intuitive connection, expand your perspective of energy healing to one of balance and unity, and develop a more profound relationship with Nature and Spirit? In this 1-hour presentation, we’ll explore the Shamanic roots of Reiki—reuniting with our inherent connection to the elements, the natural world, and the universal life force that flows through all things. We’ll touch on the fundamentals of Shamanism, the significance of the three spirit realms and seven directions, and explore the power of symbolism and metaphor in our healing. You’ll also gain insight into the roles of Power Animals and Spirit Guides, and how to begin receiving intuitive messages and guidance. Whether you’re a Reiki practitioner or simply curious, this class offers a grounded and inspiring gateway into the sacred art of Shamanic Reiki.

Isabel Wells is the Founder of Gateway House of Healing and former Director of Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. She is a writer, mentor, and Shamanic Reiki Practitioner bridging the gap between science and spirituality. Her passion for quantum physics, mysticism, energy healing, psychology, and holistic health combine to create a unique perspective of the human journey. Her own journey has given her animist eyes, a psychologist’s mind, and a healer’s heart, and she hopes to offer everyone permission to live life with a little stillness, a little magic, and a whole lot of Soul.

Carol Scheg-Morissette

Frequency & Vibration Sound Healing WorkshopThis workshop is an introduction to the science of sound and the verified effects of Sound Healing. In this one-hour presentation we will explore the science of sound and how it affects the chakras. Learn how to incorporate sound into your Reiki practice as well as into your everyday life. I will provide documentation on how sound can regulate blood pressure, and how acoustic therapy affects tinnitus. I will demonstrate how sound can be applied in our everyday life to heal and help us with several kinds of physical, mental, and emotional disorders. You will learn how tuning forks, Crystal, Tibetan and Zen Bowls can improve your health. I will end the class by letting you experience a sound immersion with the life transforming healing power of sound.

Carol Scheg-Morissette is the founder of Healthy Alternatives Wellness Center. Carol has a full-time Reiki sound energy healing holistic practice located in Rochester, New York, in the town of Irondequoit. She is a pioneer in Sound Healing & certified Sound Healer. H.A.W.C. specializes in holistic energy treatments for stress reduction to promote greater health and well-being. Carol focuses on individuals with chronic pain, fibromyalgia, chemical sensitivity, depression and anxiety. She offers a variety of energy therapy services for body, mind & spirit to enhance your wellness journey. Carol Scheg Morissette co-authored the book, "The Art of Healing, energy-frequency-vibration". This book is about overcoming obstacles both physical and spiritual. It will help you change your attitude to one of gratitude to see the good within the turmoil. Carol is a Reiki master teacher and an IET master instructor. She is certified in sound healing and offers weekly guided meditations, sound immersions and provides a variety of different energy sessions, classes, events and workshops, she loves helping people take back their health naturally.

Arthur Collins, M.Ed.

The Forgiveness Prayer: Ancestral Healing, Collective Grace, and the Light of Humanity
In this profound and timely session, Reiki Master and global peace facilitator Arthur Collins shares how Reiki and The Forgiveness Prayer—offered publicly across continents—can be combined as a powerful tool for world peace and karmic healing. Drawing on decades of experience with Reiki, interfaith prayer, ancestral healing, and energetic systems, Arthur offers a deeply moving exploration of how personal and collective forgiveness dissolves the roots of division, trauma, and suffering.
The first 45 minutes of this session offer an inspiring talk on the metaphysical, ancestral, and energetic foundations of forgiveness, drawing upon systems theory, karma, and group field dynamics. Participants will learn how Reiki practitioners can use forgiveness to transmute generational wounds and balance planetary energy fields.
The final 15 minutes will be devoted to a group reading of The Forgiveness Prayer Modified for use with the Holy Fire Reiki—a unified meditation experience that invites the healing energies of Divine Grace into all levels of humanity and Mother Earth. This session is both practical and ceremonial, activating healing not only within participants but radiating outward through the Reiki field to bless the collective.

Arthur Collins, M.Ed. Reiki Master Teacher – Holy Fire® III NLP Trainer – Tad James Company Certified Holden Qigong Instructor Founder of the International Forgiveness Prayer Movement Arthur Collins, M.Ed. has trained extensively in India for the over 12 years with many of the great Masters including H.H. The Dalai Lama, H.H. The 17th Karmapa, H.H. Sai Maa, Sai Baba, and Shri Param. He has also studied and worked with many of the World’s Native Elders including Hopi and Mayan Elders sharing their messages of planetary healing and the current shifts humanity and Mother Earth are going Through. He Received his first Karuna Master Reiki Training with William Rand in December 1995.

Debra Raftery, MA CCH

Integrating Hypnosis & Reiki Activation for Energy GroundingThe focus of this session will be on facilitating a hypnotic experience integrated with Reiki to maximize energy clearing and grounding. Hypnosis is a state of deep concentration with an inward focus and increased openness to change and release work.
Following a hypnotic induction, participants will be guided using their subconscious mind to focus inward on the activation of the Sei He Ki symbol in conjunction with chakra grounding work. Grounding allows the release of energy that no longer serves and amplifies healing energy to promote balance and harmony within the mind and body. This Hypno-Reiki experience integrates deep mental relaxation, emotional release, and energy healing in one synergistic session.

Debra Raftery, MA CCH is the founder of Thrive With Hypnosis, a Certified Consulting Hypnotist, and a Reiki Practitioner since 1996. Debra provides health focused hypnosis services that facilitate habit change, performance improvement, emotional release, grief processing, pain reduction, and creating optimal health. Thrive With Hypnosis partners with community organizations, such as the American Cancer Society Hope Club and Albany Science of Mind Center, to offer education about the health benefits of hypnosis, as well as individual sessions, group hypnosis, and mindfulness sessions.
In addition to traditional hypnosis, Debra offers metaphysically focused hypnosis that integrates the use of Reiki to release and ground energy. Debra is passionate about the power of hypnosis and energy work to facilitate transformation in peoples’ lives for optimal health, wellness, and manifesting their greatest good.

Jennifer Dwyer

Qigong Mindful Movement and MeditationQigong, pronounced "Chee-gung", may be described as the skillful use of life force energy known as Qi, or Ki in Reiki. It combines breath, movement and mindful awareness to harmonize and balance the body, mind and spirit, and to promote healing and relaxation. Qigong pairs beautifully with Reiki to clear stagnant energy and increase vitality. Sessions are for all levels, beginner friendly, and designed to increase balance, clear tension and promote a restful sleep. Each 20 minute class is unique, and may include silk reeling joint mobility movements, healing sounds, 5 element flow, and inner smile meditation.

Jennifer Dwyer discovered Reiki 3 years ago at Fire and Spirit and it was the best decision ever to begin Reiki training. She is now an Usui/Holy Fire® III and Karuna Reiki® Master. She is also a Certified Holden Qigong, Meditation and Yoga Teacher. Jennifer loves to share these beautiful practices to empower individuals to access their healing power within, in a compassionate and enjoyable way. Jennifer has many years of health care experience as a critical care RN and is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist. It is her passion to bridge science and spirituality, and to promote peace and healing. She also loves to spend time in nature and is the organizer of the meetup group Mindful Hudson Valley hiking and more.

Jerry Mikutis

Threads of Eternal Light: An Ancestral Reiki JourneyBeneath the surface of your being flows a river of memory, a sacred lineage of light and love. In this guided Reiki meditation, we open the gateways of time to offer healing across the vast tapestry of existence—honoring the ancestors who dreamed us into being, blessing the sacred self we embody now, and sending ripples of light to the descendants who are yet to come. Bathed in Reiki’s infinite embrace, we journey beyond the veils of time and space, remembering that we are the living breath of all who came before, and the heartbeat of those who will one day walk this Earth. You are the bridge between past and future—the embodied love of thousands, and the living hope of all that is yet to be.

Jerry Mikutis is a Licensed Reiki Master Teacher with the International Center for Reiki Training. She loves painting, sunrises, crystals, yoga and chasing total solar eclipses and the Northern Lights. Jerry lives in Chicago with her 2 cats Milo and Chad and dozens of plants and she looks for the magic everywhere.

Jill Marie Kelly

Psychic Reiki
This presentation is about psychic ability and how it aides in performing reiki. It will go over and explain all the types of psychic ability including clairvoyance, clairaudience, claircognizance, clairsentience, clairgustance, clairalience, precognition, and postcognition. Not everyone has all of these clairs, and not all psychics are clairvoyant as society has led us to believe. Everyone is familiar with their intuition guiding them. But getting in touch with their psychic gifts is way more empowering than just "it felt right." I have seen several times people learning reiki and then all of the sudden their psychic gifts start pouring in, which can be overwhelming.
I will share a bit of my story and how I was led to performing and teaching Psychic Reiki. I was not given the option in my experience to open up safely. Talking and teaching about it releases the stigma of, "You'll think I'm crazy but this happened in my session." I am a medium which is conversing with the dearly departed. All too often I hear stories of reiki practitioners sensing spirit around them or channeling messages out of nowhere and not knowing what to do. We will discuss some of these happenings and reasons behind spirit communicating with us during our sessions. We will discuss boundaries as well, and the ethics of sharing what you are experiencing.
I will share about my mediumship ability but the main focus is psychic gifts and how they help us during reiki. Trusting yourself and delivering your messages or "psychic hits" is intimidating to some. Usually if we don't judge and just share what we are seeing, feeling, hearing, or knowing, the reiki client can really benefit. It is my goal to demystify psychic ability. Understanding that our abilities have labels and have been studied is so validating. I only knew of one clair, clairvoyanace, when I learned about all of them, I was so grateful because I could understand myself more. My goal is explaining that we are all capable of psychic ability, no matter how it shows up, if we open up safely and with intention. There will be time for people to share and ask questions at the end.

Jill Marie Kelly is a Psychic Medium and Reiki Master Teacher. She uses her unique skills to bring healing balance to your body while giving you messages from spirit for your greatest good. She practices Psychic Reiki using her psychic ability to guide a healing energy session. Her mentor is Lisa Campion who is the author of The Art of Psychic Reiki. She graduated from Lisa Campion's Master Psychic Healer academy in August of 2021 and has been working as a full time practitioner since October of 2021. She also does mediumship where she lovingly contacts the spirits of your dearly departed. She teaches all three levels of Reiki as well as psychic development. She believes that Energy has no geography and we are all psychic. She is a published author and poet. Her book, Things I Should Keep to Myself, is a compilation of her life's work. In her journey she has been a Montessori Preschool Teacher, Music teacher, Certified Nursing Assistant for the severly disabled and geriatric, Special Needs Nanny, and Daycare provider.

Sandy Brabeck

Reiki Yoga
Together we will practice exercises that awaken and strengthen our bodies, minds, and spirits. We will close with a guided meditation, and reiki.

Sandy Brabeck has a Bachelor’s degree in Science and is a 500 hour trained yoga instructor, reiki master, group fitness influencer, meditation coach, and lifelong dancer. Her work experience includes: A strong lifelong fitness background, hospital social work and behavioral health, working with the deaf, blind, and disabled population, elderly care, sales, yoga, meditation, and reiki.

Wanda Waverly

Protecting Your Light: Reiki, Burnout & Energy BoundariesIn the sacred work of Reiki, healers often give deeply but how do we stay radiant while holding space for others? This engaging and restorative presentation explores the impact of energetic burnout and the importance of setting clear, compassionate boundaries. Through experiential learning and reflection, participants will explore: • Burnout signs specific to energy work • Energetic hygiene rituals to restore and protect the aura • Tools for boundary-setting that honor both practitioner and recipientInteractive group exercises include: • Light Code Exchange – practicing non-absorbing Reiki transmission • Energetic Capacity Scale – standing in your current energetic truth • Cloak of Light Visualization – a meditative ritual for protection • Yes & No Ritual – exploring consent and energetic clarity • Burnout Story Circle – witnessing each other’s journeys with compassion • Light Inventory Journaling – uncovering where you leak or refill your lightAttendees will leave grounded, empowered, and equipped with rituals to stay connected to their own light while serving others.

Wanda Waverly is a Reiki Master Teacher Practitioner and the founder of Astro Glow by Wanda, a heart-led healing practice devoted to energy alignment, intuitive restoration, and spiritual renewal. Known for her calming presence and deeply intuitive care, Wanda helps others release what weighs them down and reconnect with their light. Trained in the traditional Usui Reiki lineage and grounded in years of hands-on experience, Wanda serves a diverse range of clients—from children navigating emotional stress to athletes in recovery and even beloved animal companions. Her sessions are uniquely tailored, blending energetic precision with compassionate intention. Beyond one-on-one healing, Wanda shares the transformative power of Reiki through corporate wellness programs, community workshops, and group experiences that bring people together in stillness and connection. She also offers Reiki at retreats, weddings, and special gatherings creating sacred space for relaxation, harmony, and heart awakening. As both a teacher and practitioner, Wanda empowers others to explore Reiki not only as a healing modality but as a way of life. Her work invites individuals and communities alike to release, recharge, and rise.

Unbounded

Songs from the HeartNicole and Mayleen captivate audiences with their heartfelt melodies of love and devotion. Step into a world of gratitude, lift your spirits, unwind, and uncover your inner peace. Kirtan encourages you to partake in a musical conversation through collective singing. Get ready to move to our original compositions and cherished chants from diverse cultures across the globe. Join us and immerse yourself in the enchanting magic of this timeless musical journey!

Nicole “Coli” Miele's musical journey was fueled with a deep passion, which ultimately led her to college to refine her talents. After being introduced to kirtan by Mayleen, she found a wellspring of spiritual inspiration, using music to express herself and forge a connection with the divine.
Mayleen Medina conveys her profound connection to the world through her music. Her songs carry strong messages of peace and unity, resonating deeply with listeners' hearts and souls. Her voice serves as a healing gift, illuminating hope & light for all who encounter it"

John & Heidi Kowalchyk

Drum CircleDrumming with others is an ancient practice that people have used for millennia all over the globe to connect, heal, learn and celebrate. Our drum circles are a safe space to be an individual while being an integral part of the group.
In a circle, there is an opportunity for each person to see and be heard by each other in a way that is beyond the typical, self-imposed boundaries such as economic status, sex, creed, race, politics or age. In the circle, we are all equal and vital components of the whole.

John & Heidi Kowalchyk are Alliance of Divine Love Interfaith Ministers, Reiki Masters, Sound Therapists and Drum Circle Facilitators who have been called to follow a spiritual path and guide others along their spiritual journey. It is their passion to offer opportunities and encouragement to people to open them selves to the Divine Love within. As ordained ministers, they are the Founders of Ripple Effect Spiritual Therapies, a ministry focused on energy-healing. They offer programs and retreats for people of all ages and backgrounds at their home retreat center and venues throughout the country.
Trained by Jim Donovan - renowned platinum recording artist, college professor, sound health expert and drum circle leadership facilitator trainer - John and Heidi lead drum circles for youth, seniors, special-needs groups, wellness programs, and community events. They love to share the exhilaration, joy, and health benefits of drumming.
As Reiki Masters and trained sound therapists, they combine Reiki and sound healing - using tuning forks - to create unique spiritual healing experiences in private sessions. John and Heidi teach Reiki classes and lead Reiki Shares and Reiki Retreats. This is their fifth year hosting the Northeast Reiki Retreat.