Ep 19 Lisa Talev – Reiki and Self Massage

Meet Lisa

Show Notes:

ABOUT LISA

• I am 43 years old
• I have been a massage therapist for 20 years, a reiki healer for about 8 years
• And I have been a self-care coach, wellness coach and a weight loss coach since 2011
• I work almost exclusively with women
• I did a lot of massage and stuff for my family growing up
• I did have a lot of chronic illness and chronic pain as a child
• I was on way too many antibiotics from age 2 to 17, so it really destroyed my health and immune system
• And I had a severe car accident in 1995, where I was hit by a truck and had a 4-time sideways impact of my head hitting the window frame
• So, I got a lot of damage on my neck and some head injuries
• That kind of pushed me down the road to massage and wellness
• The lead me going to massage school which just felt like a coming home to my heart and soul
• From there, I started learning about self-care, nutrition, all the back-end stuff
• I seem to be on this wonderful path to wellness, my health is getting better and all of these improvements
• And in my 30’s, I was hit suddenly with my father dying and a month after that, I have to take care of my mom who had Alzheimer’s and she was my best friend growing up, so that was pretty intense
• I moved her to Texas where I was living at the time and was really involved for her care for 8 and half years – very slow goodbye before she passed
• And at that time, I was starting my business, got married and got divorced, so it was just a really intense period of stress where everything I knew for self-care, it stopped being I should do or something I enjoyed doing and it started something mandatory so I could function
• As a result, both with my massage and with coaching, everything that I do for my clients or teach to my clients are specific things, techniques or rituals that I found super helpful in my own recoveries
• I love sharing the work with other people
• I became a Qigong instructor too during that time
• I studied it and I absolutely love Qigong
  
  
• Tai chi is a form of Qigong
• Qigong means energy practice or energy discipline
• And you are building energy, you are learning how to quickly tap into source energy and build it to your system
• There is medical Qigong which is similar to Reiki
• But with reiki, what I love about is, you are addressing the energy body, like the energy field that comes out from all of us
• For most of us living in the modern-day world, going through the course of the day, we can accumulate different stressors and we are sort of carrying it with us unconsciously
• If you struggle from anxiety or depression, the field around you is going to resonate with that vibration
• With reiki, you are going either into your own bubble or someone else’s and clearing it
• And also giving them an infusion of pure life force energy
• So, it’s like the energy coming off the sun or it’s this wonderful love feeling that can clear out the junk and just refresh for your presents ones again
• You can do distance healing with reiki too
• I have done it a few times with a friend who is living in Seattle, Delaware and thing like that
• But we are not on the same room, but you can send them energy in particular ways, clear it and the people receiving it can actually feel it and benefit
• I love reiki for self-care
• One of the is self-massage
• That’s a really big one especially for women
• When I was retraining myself to get out of those old patterns, instead of going to the kitchen and wash my hands, what if I go to the bathroom, wash my hands and feet and give myself a really yummy foot massage for 3 minutes
• When you massage your legs and feet, it is very grounding
• In the subject of reiki, it activates the root chakra that connects you to the most basic needs and comfort
• If you are dealing with financial stress, grounding into that first chakra can really help you
• Two, is aroma therapy
  
• Whether you will use essential oils directly on your skin or defuse them in the air
• You are actually getting from the plant extract and it can bypass the thinking brain and goes straight to the emotional center
• The essential oil can calm you down instantly without having to talk yourself down, you just suddenly feel better
• Exercise can also be a form of stress relief
• Exercise is yet another thing that we should do. We add into our chore list and it became this thing we feel guilty about because we did not do it
• In my world, exercise is something I reach for like a thirsty person reaching for water
  
• Exercise is the most effective anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medication
• You have to think exercise as the vacation from your stress or vacation from your life and focus on recycling your energy
• Something important to know about essential oil of citrus, is that if you are to put that straight on your skin and you go outside in the sun, they can actually make you burn
• If you are using really concentrated like cinnamon or oregano that’s really strong, it kind of burn your skin
• If you put it straight on your skin, you definitely want to mix
• You want to get some general books that have some guidelines
• Defusing is good
• For one in your bedroom, a lovely blend I recommend for sleepy time is that you mix chamomile and lavender
• It is very grounding, calming, slows your brain down and just get you ready for sleep
• You can also do chamomile and eucalyptus if you have allergies and prone to snoring
• In my office, I like doing lemon, rosemary and lavender
• Because it’s kind of perky and it helps me concentrate and stay focus
• Rosemary is wonderful for mental focus and clarity
• Lemon is uplifting and cheerful
• For self-massage, if you are still at the edge of your bathtub, get a yummy smelling body wash and massage it into your feet
• You can do an aroma therapy by blending the oil or a lotion that you like
• Peppermint lotion of your feet can be really nice
• When you massage your feet, even though you don’t know the reflexology point, you are still stimulating them
• The hands and the feet and ears, are really rich in reflex points where you can affect the entire body from rubbing hands, feet and ears
• When you are massaging your feet, your whole body is going to feel more relax when you are done

FAVORITE ACCOMPLISHMENT

• Before I was starting my career in wellness and massage, I was a singer/songwriter
• When I was in San Francisco, I got to record with a couple of guys and one of them took my song and remixed it
• I ended up being feature on his album and I got a vinyl and check on the mail from warner brothers as a royalty for my vocals

GUILTY PLEASURE

• I love my hot tub
• I had struggled with acne
• I had been vegan for how many years
• And yet my face was a disaster
• When I get rid of the gluten, my skin cleared up
• Gluten and soy, for me was a recipe for acne
• In addition to food triggers, the number 1 trigger is stress
• The chronic pain, chronic stress and injuries and all these things can wear you down
• And so, a lot of women by the time they have their second child is going to intersect with being the busiest time of your life
• A lot of women of that will have hypothyroid or hashimoto’s because they are keeping so much stress on themselves that a certain point, the body will just break down
• It doesn’t have the energy to keep up with the constant emergency signals being sent by the nervous system
• The body needs energy to heal itself

WHERE CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU

• Instagram: inspiredwellnesstucson
• Website: lisatalev.com
• Facebook: Inspired Wellness Tucson, LLC

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