Reiki practitioners, how can we be of service together in this time of great collective change and destabilization? Especially to our mother earth and the lands we occupy, the lands that hold the bones of our ancestors, and the rivers of the waters that connect us all?
Join Dra.Ana and Samantha Melitta, co-hosts of this monthly Reiki practice group with half a decade under its belt. This is an invitation to approach Reiki from an eco-somatic lens, grounding in the remembrance that earth is body and body is earth. During our time together, we root into the Reiki precepts, practice self-healing, collaborate in earth gridding, and explore a variety of guided meditations, visualizations, and practices from the various Reiki lineages (Usui, Holy Fire, etc.) We leave time for check-ins and community shares with like minded practitioners traveling the road together. Our practice group inspires us to reclaim and uphold our responsibility as earth stewards and future ancestors.
Dra. Ana Luna is a wellness practitioner with a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology (2014) and a Holy Fire Karuna ®Reiki Master Teacher (2012). She is currently the Founder & President of Luna y Sol Sanctuary (501c3), a nonprofit designed to provide holistic healing services to underserved communities. As a Xicana with Indigenous Chichimeca/Purépecha heritage, she devotes much of her time to working on land back and food sovereignty movements alongside Indigenous tribal communities that are returning to their role as original stewards of the land. She has undergone rites of passage in the Red Road tradition and carries the chanupa. She has also received the Munay Ki rites of the Q’ero traditions of the Andes. Her path with reiki, plant medicines, and her mentors nourishes her commitment to living a life of ceremony, prayer and deep communion with the natural elements in relation with the 4 sacred directions. Website: https://www.lunaysolsanctuary.org/reiki
Samantha is a practicing astrologer and ceremonialist providing personal and group offerings for deeper self-inquiry and earth-focused community healing. She began her journey with divinatory praxis at age 15 and has been studying Hellenistic and Modern Astrology since 2015. She is a Reiki master with attunements from her teachers at Santa Monica College and Minka Brooklyn (Her first attunements being with Dr. Ana in 2018!). She is a student and observer of the sacred Mayan Chol’qij count and I’xCacao under the guidance and initiation of Mayan wisdom keepers Tata Izaias and Nana Izabel of San Marcos La Laguna, Guatemala in 2022. Her work is devoted to bringing humans back to the natural cycles of time that earth, animals, and cosmos have shared with our ancestors. Website: https://www.handsofmercury.com/
