Red Pine Reiki

12/24/2025

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12/22/2025

The parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) is one branch of the autonomic nervous system and is primarily mediated by the vagus nerve. Its role is not simply “relaxation,” but restoration, repair, and integration.
From a neuroscience standpoint, healing occurs when the brain and body shift out of threat-based processing and into regulatory states that allow higher-order functions to come back online.

When the sympathetic nervous system (fight/flight) or dorsal shutdown (freeze) dominates, the brain prioritizes survival:

🌼 Blood flow shifts away from digestion, immunity, and tissue repair

🌼 The amygdala remains hyperactive
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) becomes less effective

🌼 Pain, inflammation, and emotional reactivity increase

In these states, healing is biologically deprioritized.

Activating the parasympathetic nervous system signals “I am safe enough”, allowing the brain to reallocate resources.

Parasympathetic activation increases vagal tone, which is associated with:

❤️ Better heart rate variability (HRV)

❤️ Improved communication between brain and body

❤️ Greater emotional flexibility and resilience

Higher vagal tone allows the nervous system to return to baseline more efficiently after stress, preventing chronic dysregulation that underlies many mental and physical conditions.

Chronic stress maintains elevated cortisol and inflammatory cytokines, which can cause:

🌿 Sensitized pain pathways (pain increases)

🌿 Impaired immune function

🌿 Disrupted sleep and mood regulation

Parasympathetic activation engages the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway, in which vagal signaling helps reduce excessive inflammatory responses—supporting recovery and tissue repair! Ah, this is good!

In parasympathetic states emotional and sensory information is processed with less reactivity.

Bottom-Up Healing (Why This Matters for Trauma)

Trauma often bypasses conscious cognition and is stored in subcortical and bodily systems. (Reptilian instant reactivity)

Parasympathetic activation works bottom-up, meaning:

🙏 The body experiences safety before the mind needs to explain it

🙏 Neural circuits recalibrate without requiring memory recall

🙏 Learning occurs through felt experience, not analysis

This is why non-verbal, regulation-based practices (like Reiki, breathwork, or safe touch) can be effective complements to top-down therapies.

Reiki is a wonderful complimentary therapy to EMDR, cognitive behavior therapies and modern medicines and medical treatments.

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12/22/2025

Are you ready for your next Reiki session?

Reiki is a technique for inviting happiness and comfort, the spiritual medicine for all diseases. Usui Reiki Therapy improves both body and mind and is effective in treating all kinds of illnesses both psychological and physical. It is useful for physical weakness and psychological problems, includi...

12/22/2025

Reiki Level I, II & Master classes available this January 2026!

Are you ready?

Embark on a Transformation This New Year!

Reiki Level I Shoden Class
Saturday. January 3
9:00 - 5:00
Fee $200

Reiki Level II Okuden Class
Saturday, January 10
9:00 - 5:00
Fee $209

Shinpiden Reiki Master Teacher/Practitioner Class
Saturday, January 17
9:00 - 5:00
Fee $500

Visit redpinereiki.com Services to reserve your spot in class. Move through the Reiki class journey at a pace that is best for you!

Release what no longer serves you and reconnect with your true self as
Reiki gently supports your nervous system, helping you reset, heal, and move forward with clarity and calm.

Reiki offers a grounded, restorative path to balance your mind, body, and spirit so you can step into the year feeling centered, resilient, and whole.
Let Reiki help you release stress and restore balance.

Healing doesn’t require force, reliving, or fixing yourself. Red Pine Reiki LLC offers tauma-informed Reiki, honoring your pace, your boundaries, and your body’s wisdom - supporting regulation, grounding, and a sense of safety.

This is a space where you remain in control, where nothing is demanded, and where your nervous system is invited, not pushed, into balance.
A calm, compassionate path toward healing begins in Red Pine Reiki’s classroom - your healing space in a peaceful forest setting.

WHAT IS REIKI?

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by the gentle laying of the hands in specific hand positions on and just above the body.

Reiki has been shown in scientific studies to positively influence the nervous system, particularly by supporting relaxation and activation of the parasympathetic (“rest-and-digest”) response.

Chronic health conditions often involve ongoing nervous system dysregulation, inflammation, pain sensitization, and stress-related hormonal imbalance. Reiki works by supporting the body’s self-regulatory systems, particularly the autonomic nervous system.

Trauma is held deep in our cellular structure and muscles. Reiki allows the body to unwind and release tension for optimal self-healing.

WHY PRACTICE REIKI?

Reiki is a Japanese healing art which leads to peace, spiritual healing, and satori - Enlightenment.

Whether you indulge in a Reiki session, learn self-treatment, or enroll in classes, you become freer, clearer, and whole. Reiki promotes compassion, reduces stress, and anxiety, and promotes a positive mental state.

If you are well, it is important to maintain your health. Reiki is an excellent preventative medicine and it aids in completing transitions and in making better decisions.

WHY REIKI CLASSES?

Reiki Classes are not just for those who want to become a practitioner.

Reiki is life changing for everyone who wants to experience a positive life transformation. Reiki class is a journey of rediscovering your True Authentic Self.

REIKI LEVEL I SHODEN CLASS

Level I - students learn the history and uses of Reiki, perform self-treatment and practice Reiki with a partner. Students learn the 7-year cycles of the Ancient Chakras and how personal life experiences impact their health today. Reiki is hands on healing, but it is also an invitation to learn how to meditate. Reiki supplements modern medical treatments and can help manage symptoms of chronic and acute illnesses.

Upon completion of Level 1, students can practice Reiki and co-regulation with family, friends, animals & within a profession or business.

REIKI LEVEL II OKUDEN CLASS

Level II - Reiki is more than hands-on healing, it is a lifestyle. Reiki techniques are enhanced, and we use intuition and Reiji-Ho for guidance in Reiki sessions. Class includes instruction in specific Buddhist meditations & an introduction to three Reiki Symbols. Students perform a distant and group healing & incorporate the Precepts into daily life. Reiki is a journey of wellness.

Level III - Shinpiden Master is for those wanting to continue to develop their personal journey within the system of Reiki. It is a path towards spiritual Enlightenment and brings forth continued physical healing. Students are taught how to perform and practice Reiju/attunements. Meditation is deepened through the mystical powers of kotodama chanting and Waka Poetry. Reiki's kanji are translated to understand the origins and mysteries of Reiki, Mikau Usui and Dr. Hayashi handbooks are reviewed for treatments of specific ailments and much much more! Master Level is for both Teacher and Practitioner and can also be a self-healing journey for self or family.

As Shinpiden Masters we practice spirituality daily and begin to mentor others in rediscovering their bright light.

MEET THE TEACHER - JANET PARENT

I am a certified Level III Shinpiden Reiki Master Teacher and a Certified Social Worker. I hold a Bachelors of Science Degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse.

I have 26 years professional experience working with adults, teens, and children with physical, intellectual and emotional disabilities including those with anxiety, depression, addictions, PTSD, special needs, elderly, caregivers, victims of abuse, veterans and those struggling with life’s transitions. My specialties are complex trauma, intimate partner violence support, anxiety, narcissistic abuse, and dementia care.

I have personal life experiences with complex life situations such as unexpected grief/loss and have experienced divorce, intimate partner violence & abuse, migraine, caregiving, and a car accident resulting in a mild traumatic brain injury.

In all of my experiences, I have found Reiki to be the most successful and profound in its self-healing capacities both professionally and personally. Reiki facilitates a positive transformation, regulates the nervous system, reduces stress, and ignites the mind, body and spirit's ability to become the calm in the chaos.

Visit redpinereiki.com to learn more

My heart is happy to share Reiki with you!

❤️ 💙 💜
Janet Parent
Shinpiden Reiki Master Teacher and Certified Social Worker
Redpinereiki@gmail.com
Red Pine Reiki LLC
4295 County Highway I, Sparta, WI
By appointment only

12/20/2025

I am loving Reiki sessions with Reiki kids, both those in CLTS with special needs and with children just need that extra support. Thank you moms, dads and guardians for trusting me sharing Reiki with your child. Co-regulation is so important and don't forget you can learn it too- ask me about how learning Reiki can assist in your child's health care and general well-being. I offer payment plans for parents of children who receive Reiki at Red Pine Reiki.

Benefits of Reiki for Parents Who Learn Reiki

When parents learn Reiki, they are not just learning a technique, they too are learning how to regulate their own nervous system, which directly impacts their child. Children co-regulate through the nervous system of their caregivers and can help lessen power struggles, anxiety, anger and stress. Reiki is Non-verbal and always available. It’s a gift to yourself that keeps on giving ✨️

BENEFITS FOR THE PARENT

1. Improved Nervous System Regulation

Learning Reiki helps parents shift out of chronic stress and into the parasympathetic (rest-and-repair) state:

Reduced anxiety and overwhelm, better emotional regulation during parenting challenges, improved patience and presence, and less reactivity and burnout.

A regulated parent responds instead of reacts.

We can all use a little help. I wish I had Reiki much sooner in life.

2. Reduced Parental Burnout

Reiki provides parents with a practical self-care tool they can use daily.
Reiki can improve sleep and stress recovery and provide relief from emotional and physical tension.
This is especially helpful for parents managing work, caregiving, and emotional labor.

3. Increased Emotional Awareness

Practicing Reiki increases body awareness and emotional insight.
Parents notice stress sooner and they recover more quickly from emotional spikes. Reiki parenting techniques model healthy emotional regulation
and children learn emotional safety by observation.

4. Confidence & Empowerment

Parents often report feeling more confident soothing their child and less helpless during illness, stress, or transitions. Feeling connected to their child is so important!

Reiki gives parents a tool they can use immediately, without equipment or medication.

BENEFITS FOR THE CHILD

1. Nervous System Co-Regulation

Children’s nervous systems are shaped by caregiver presence. Reiki supports:

Reduced anxiety and overstimulation

Improved emotional regulation

Greater sense of safety and calm

2. Emotional Safety & Attachment

Gentle, attuned touch (or calm presence) during Reiki strengthens secure attachment, increases oxytocin (bonding hormone) and helps children feel seen and safe.

This supports emotional development and trust.

3. Improved Sleep & Relaxation

Children who receive Reiki often experience easier transitions to sleep
and fewer night wakings. They may improved ability to self-soothe.

This is specially helpful for infants, toddlers, and sensitive children.

4. Support During Stress, Illness, or Transitions

Reiki can help children during an illness and in recovery, during medical or dental procedures and can soothe and aid school stress or big life changes. Reiki helps a child move out of fight or flight mode when experiencing emotional overwhelm or sensory overload.

First, help the child feel safe and transition out of overload or anger, Then later while the child returns to balance, out of fear, can those life lessons and coping skills can be taught.

Reiki offers comfort without forcing verbal processing.

When you learn Reiki, you’re learning how to calm your own nervous system. Children borrow regulation from their parents, so when you’re calmer, more settled, and secure they might co-regulate with you. Life presents challenges, there is no perfect human, but you got this!

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12/20/2025

Congratulations to Lisa Arndt, Rhonda Dalton and Maria Alicea! 🎊 Your names were drawn in the Red Pine Reiki raffle LIVE and you have each won a free 60-minute Reiki session gift card that you can use for yourself or gift to anyone for any reason.

Red Pine Reiki gift cards never expire!

When you or your loved one book your session you may reach out to me to schedule together or visit redpinereiki.com, select services, select 60-minute session, book now to select a day and time from the calender for the session. Click on pay in person and we will use the gift card when you arrive.

I've connected with Maria. Rhonda and Lisa, please look in your Facebook notifications where I've listed options for delivery message me or email redpinereiki@gmail.com and we can make arrangements for getting the gift card to you or keep it on file for your session.

Congratulations! Every person means the world 🌎 to me. Your kindness and support helps me be able to share Reiki with you and with others in our community. ❤️. My heart is happy to share Reiki with you!

12/20/2025

12/20/2025

RAFFLE DRAWING TODAY!

There is still time to enter to win a free 60-minute Reiki session. Follow the rules below by 1:45pm today and we will add your name to the 2:00 drawing to WIN a 60 - minute Reiki session gift card valued ar $70 for yourself or to be gifted to a loved one/friend.

Red Pine Reiki is raffling away 3 Reiki session gift cards = 3 winners 🏆

How to enter:

1 entry - Leave a comment about Reiki , ask a question about Reiki, or share/describe an experience with Reiki in the comment section below.

Enter Twice - Follow step 1 AND share the post and you will be entered twice into the raffle. Be sure to let me know you shared the post, not sure I'll be able to know in my end.

Enter thrice - Follow steps 1 and 2, AND share an experience highlighting an experience specifically with Red Pine Reiki LLC. You will be entered three times into the raffle.

Ken, Red Pine Reiki’s groundskeeper, will pick 3 names, blindfolded, and I will message the winners!

Raffle drawing will be on December 20th at 2:00pm.

(Comments that are harmful or harassment will be deleted and blocked and, of course, not entered into the raffle).

12/19/2025

This is what co-requlation looks like.
Many of us are reactive during difficult conversations. Our nervous system becomes dysregulated.

This causes our heart rate to speed up. We might start to sweat. We start shallow breathing.

All our bodies know is: we are in danger.

In this survival state we're reactive. Say things we don't mean, + end up in cycles of self shaming.

Co-reaulation occurs when one nervous svstem soothes another. This creates a communication between two people that sends the message of satety + security in the body.

We learn co-regulation in relationships as babies. Our parent figure gives us a loving look, their soothing voice, a hug, or a cuddle even though all of this communication is non verbal. The mother's nervous svstem is communicating. The babies nervous svstem is responding. With time, the baby learns: I'm safe with this person. I can trust this person + predict their behavior.

If we didn't experience co-regulation in childhood, we struggle with regulating our emotions as adults.

This can make relationship conflict overwhelming, confusing, or make us want to avoid it all together. The practice of co-regulation helps us have deeper relationships, more authentic connection, + empathy.