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Dakini Reiki
Dakini Reiki
In the years 2004-5 I qualified as a Psychotherapist and also studied Kundalini & Usui
Reiki to master/ Teacher level. My Therapy work is usually with women who have
suffered abuse from men either in the home or on the streets. This would cover
Mental Abuse, Rape, Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence. I had worked in these
areas in the 1980s-90s so had a strong understanding of how these experiences
affected women in deeper ways than first thought. Many of the womens experiences
were akin to PTSD in their long term effects. I found that using Reiki in my practice
was having beneficial effects which aided the healing process as well as bringing a
deeper understanding to the women affected, as to how the body stores negative
energy and pain.
After reading a wonderful book by Keith Dowman called Skydancer, I took a great
interest in Buddhist Dakinis especially one named Yeshe Tsogyel who had suffered
abuse from men ever since she was a child and how she had overcome that pain and
turned it into a method of healing others.
Their weakness becomes their strength, and this strength will then empower them.
About
Rev. Lady Skydancer Iona Winton is a qualified and registered Teacher,
Psychotherapist & Reiki Master. After teaching in English schools and colleges in the
1970s- early 1980s, she then moved onto Counselling women & children in Refuges,
later setting up her own practice for Marital & Sexual Counselling in 1987. She
moved to Scotland in 1992, took a break from paid employment to study her Masters
Degree in Wicca, Mantic Arts, Tantra and Spirituality. After initiation into Gardnerian
Wica Clergy she ran a teaching coven named Ayrshire Wica with her Artist partner
and fellow High Priest, the late JU. The coven disbanded on his death and Lady
Skydancer now teaches Wicca on a one-to-one basis, and writes articles for magazines
and newspapers on all aspects of Spirituality. As an ordained Okomfo (Ancestral
African HPs) at The Fellowship of Isis for over 25yrs she now has her own Iseum
through which she takes on charity fundraising.