Happy and Healthy with Anna is Back!

Hello!

Happy & Healthy with Anna is back.

Hey, how are you? It’s been a while. Actually it’s been three years according to the date of my last blog post! I wanted to share with you what’s been happening for me, what’s new for Happy and Healthy with Anna, and most importantly how I can be of service to you in 2023.

Since I last saw many of you we have been through a Global Pandemic, a life changing experience for most of us. I wonder what else has been happening for you during this time? I feel that for many of us there have been some big shifts and changes, as the Pandemic forced us to turn inward and contemplate life for a while.

There were some big changes for me too. I took my business online and continued to work during lock down. I gave birth to my second baby, another beautiful daughter. My husband quit his job and started his own business. We relocated our family from Sydney to the beautiful Thirroul on the South Coast, and since then we have moved house twice. There certainly has been a lot of change. Some highs and some, what felt like at the time, extreme lows.

Anna O’Keeffe Kinesiology Reiki Yoga Nidra

Highs and Lows

We all experience lows. I am no different. The work that I do has helped me to recognise when I am out of balance but it hasn't always stopped me from reaching that tipping point, into my stressed out, running on empty fight or flight mode. Just like many of you I have often waited until the very last moment to seek help, and bring back or implement my own self care practices. That's hard when you're sleep deprived. When you're a mum putting yourself first is hard. In fact most of the time it feels almost impossible. I'm learning.

I've been doing this work for almost nine years and I'm still learning. It will always be a journey. Whether you're a parent or not putting yourself first is hard. There is always someone or something else to divert your attention away from you. That's one of the reasons I love to do what I do. I love to give people that space for self care. I love to help you bring your attention back to you.

Here’s what my clients are saying:

Client testimonials Kinesiology Reiki Yoga Nidra

Here’s how I can help you…

Reiki Online & in person

Reiki quickly returns you to your natural state, or at least gets your body moving in the right direction. That means your breathing, heart rate and blood pressure improve. Reiki practice is balancing to your whole system. Addressing isolated symptoms is not enough to help you feel better. With Reiki there is an overall response as your system shifts into your body’s natural state of rest and digest. It is here that your own self-healing mechanisms function at their very best.

Here are the common benefits Reiki clients have reported:

• Improved sleep

• Less anxiety

• Improvement in depressive symptoms

• Less pain

• Mood stabilization

• Enhanced resilience to stress

• Improved self esteem

• Improved digestion

• Improved focus and memory

• Reduced side effects from medications and medical procedures

• Faster recovery from injuries and surgery

• Greater social ease and satisfaction

• Greater sense of meaning

Reiki sessions are available online and in person. Reply to this email or visit my website to find out more. You can book online here:

Kinesiology online & in person

Kinesiology allows us to speak directly to your body through muscle testing. This allows us to understand what is linked with your survival system/your fight or flight mode and why you might be spending too much time in this reactive sympathetic nervous system. Consciously you may be longing for freedom, to be free from ongoing physical symptoms or pain, anxiety, or insomnia for example, but your subconscious is saying “no it’s not safe!” Using Kinesiology we can then get feedback from your body to find out what is needed to bring you out of fight or flight and into a place of rest and digest. Helping your body find it's way back to balance.

Here are the common benefits my Kinesiology clients have reported:

• Feeling calm

• Improved energy

• Improved self esteem

• Improved ability to move forward in life

• Sense of renewal

• Improved strategies to help live a more balanced life

• Life changing

• Addressed deep underlying issues

• Improved sense of full potential

• Improved health, happiness and balance

• Feeling grounded

• Release of blocked emotion

Sessions are available online and in person. Reply to this email or visit my website to find out more. You can book online here:

Here’s what’s new in 2023…

Anna O’Keeffe Kinesiology Reiki Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra

After experiencing the powerful benefits of Yoga Nidra over the past four years, I decided to study this ancient and deeply healing practice so that I could include it in my offering to clients. I first came across Yoga nidra during Yoga classes, now and again teachers would end their class with a yoga nidra. After my first baby was born I was struggling to 'sleep when they sleep' during the day, I was feeling tired and unable to catch up on the rest I needed. A yoga teacher suggested trying yoga nidra and this is where my journey began. It wasn't until my second baby was born and my sleep deprivation hit new lows that Yoga nidra became a life line. Soon I will finish my Yoga nidra teacher certification.

I am already guiding groups online and working with clients one on one. Let me know if you'd like to join!

Yoga nidra, also known as yogic sleep or Non sleep deep rest (NSDR) is a powerful technique for controlling your body’s rest and digest response. Yoga nidra can be as restorative as sleep, while you remain fully conscious. Giving your mind and body an extra window, even just 10 minutes, of deep relaxation offers powerful benefits! Yoga Nidra works by guiding you down through the different levels of your brainwaves, which happens naturally as you fall asleep. This engages your parasympathetic nervous system (there's that term again), yes your body's natural place of rest and digest. It allows you to reside in a relaxed state and is associated with tissue regeneration, brain repair and healing of the body.

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Reiki training and Reiki self care courses

I am now teaching Reiki courses both in person and online. Reiki levels 1, 2 and 3 are all available but I primarily focus on Reiki level one / Self care training.

The focus of this training is how to practice daily self Reiki, and why this is important. I truly believe that when we take our own healing literally into our own hands we become empowered. You'll learn the history of Reiki and how to give yourself and others (friends and family) a full Reiki session.

What could be more accessible than your own hands? You will have your own ability to immediately engage the body's rest and digest response and bring your body back to balance.

If you are interested in learning how to practice self Reiki please contact me. I can work online with any time zone!

Anna O’Keeffe Kinesiology Reiki Yoga Nidra

I am delighted to be returning to service.

I truly believe, apart from being a mum, wife, daughter, sister, friend, I was put on this planet in this lifetime to do this work. To help restore balance. It starts with us. When we heal ourselves, when we become whole and balanced, a ripple effect on human consciousness begins. When we come from a place of love rather than fear and we begin to forgive, we invite in compassion for ourselves and our fellow humans. And so I invite you to do the same.

I invite you to let me help you find a way back to balance. When I begin working with clients they are often feeling stuck. Confused about making a decision, which way to turn next, or even paralysed with fear. After working together, whether it's online or in person they are able to take a step forward. Like a fog has lifted. It doesn't have to be a leap. Just one small, teeny tiny step is all it takes. I am here to help.

If you have made it to the end of this blog I am honoured that you have given me this time and attention, and grateful to have you here with me.

If you would like to say hi, I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to know what's been happening in your life.

Sending much love & light to you and yours. I look forward to hearing from you.

Anna x

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