Unweave A Rainbow
Visionary painter Brigid Marlin interviewed by Natalie Dekel. Natalie Dekel: I understand that life has not been easy for you. Perhaps your painting has been akin to personal salvation or healing. Is that how you see it? Brigid: No. The situation is that the spiritual journey comes first. Suffering causes one to search for a deeper meaning in life, when this is found and one sets out on a...
Read MoreYoga Practice and Postures: Stretching with Light.
by Natalie Dekel (MPhil), Reiki Master/Teacher and Yoga practitioner. In this introduction to yoga basics I shall explore why yoga practice is needed, and what are its benefits. I have also included illustrations of some basic poses for beginners. With continuous advances in technology, people tend to find themselves these days trapped behind digitally automated machines, trading human...
Read MoreListening To The Heart of The Universe Through Colours and Shapes.
Argentinean painter Camilo Villanueva interviewed by Natalie Dekel. Natalie Dekel: Can you please share with us events that have influenced your decision to become a painter and your artwork? Camilo Villanueva: One day my acquaintance who was a music teacher and a very spiritual person asked me if I still kept my paintings from my school days. I have managed to find some that survived during...
Read More‘The Valley of Life’, Free Guided Meditation – Transcript and Video
Led by Natalie Dekel (MPhil), Reiki Master and Visionary artist, on Friday, 29 Oct 2010, 9.30pm GMT (#4) Good evening. I’m glad to meet you again tonight, and we will soon start the meditation. Please sit comfortably, and close your eyes [or imagining your eyes closed, if you are reading this]. Take a deep breath. As we all know, in our body there are many chakra centres; energy centres from...
Read More‘The Seven Falls’, Free Guided Meditation – Transcript and Video
Led by Natalie Dekel (MPhil), Reiki Master and Visionary artist, on Friday, 22 Oct 2010, 9.30pm GMT (#3) Good evening. I’m glad you’re sharing this meditation with us today. I hope you had a lovely week. I invite you to go on a meditation that will help us heal and release dis-comforts and dis-eases that we might have accumulated through the last month, maybe years, or even during this week...
Read More‘Reconstruction of Body Energy’, Free Guided Meditation – Transcript and Video
Led by Natalie Dekel (MPhil), Reiki Master and Visionary artist, on Friday, 15th Oct, 9.30pm GMT. (#2) Good evening. We are going to do another meditation today. I want you all to sit comfortably and try to relax. To do the meditation, I would like to ask you to close your eyes, take a deep breath, and start feeling your body… relaxing… It is very important that you become aware of...
Read MoreHealthy Mind and Body: can holistic treatments increase our wellbeing and self-awareness?
In a modern world tinged with debt worries, drab commutes and dieting plans, and in the wake of government talk over cuts to the NHS, more and more people are seeking alternatives to traditional Western medicine. In a series of interviews, nine practitioners of disciplines as diverse as Healing, Reiki, Tarot, and psychic art, shared their thoughts about their arts, aspirations, and both what...
Read MoreFree Reiki 1 Manual PDF for you to use in your class
Attached is our Reiki 1 Manual. You are free to download it, print it, and use the printed manual in your Reiki classes, as long as you: do not change anything in this document, do not add or remove pages, do not publish or sell it, and do not upload to the internet. For any questions feel free to contact us. Click this image/link to download and save the PDF: Free Reiki 1 Manual PDF, by Gil and...
Read MoreA Short History of Reiki.
By Gil Dekel (PhD) and Natalie Dekel (MPhil) – Reiki Masters/Teachers. There are two versions for the history of Reiki Healing: a traditional story and contemporary one. Western traditional Reiki story Reiki energy was ‘re-discovered’ by Dr Mikao Usui (born in 1865), a university principal in Japan. One day his students challenged him by asking how the biblical prophets healed. Dr...
Read MoreChakras and Dantien.
By Natalie and Gil Dekel, Reiki Masters/Teachers. Chakra is a Sanskrit word for a wheel or ‘turning’, representing energy ‘centre’ in the physical and ethereal body, which transmits life force (ki) to and from the body. Each Chakra has a specific colour, corresponding to a specific organ in the body as well as to the person’s emotions and thoughts. At perfect health each Chakra is clear...
Read MoreReiki Treatment and Hand Positions.
by Natalie and Gil Dekel, Reiki Masters/Teachers. Western-style self-treatment is based on resting your hands in a series of standard hand positions on your head, shoulders and torso, and letting Reiki flow: Hand Positions – Self treatment: In Reiki First Degree course we go through all the techniques and hand positions that are described here. [For free advice or guidance on Reiki, contact...
Read MoreRepresentation and Narrative in Popular Two-Dimensional Animation: A Critical and Practical Investigation.
by Natalie Dekel. Can self-observation of an artist/researcher on her work stand as an academic tool of investigation? I would argue that the process of moving from theoretical analysis to practical exploration of one’s own art work can challenge and enriche any academic research, and can establish better notion of authorship. I have conducted a research where the topic of hand-drawn...
Read MoreEngaged practice and authorship: Inquiry into the process of animation filmmaking as a practitioner and critical researcher.
by Natalie Dekel. I would argue that artistic ‘information’ is rushing through one’s body and mind, driving one to express in animated language of symbols and images what is ultimately a personal interpretation of subjective authorial nature. My research aims to explore this sense of authorship through my own artistic practice, by observing my experience as an animator in the...
Read MoreLines of the Self: artistic choices while creating art works.
In this paper I will reflect on the connection between lines in art works, the artist’s personality and the choices they make in the creative process. I will offer examples from my work as a painter/animator and a researcher.
Read MoreThe Silence of the Paper: Embodiment of ‘Artistic Personality’ in the Process of Art-making.
by Natalie Dekel. How artists embody their distinct personality, emotions and experiences, in the process of making an art work? The literature in art does not sufficiently discuss this point, where the literature often refers to the final product from which views about the artist are deduced, or it discusses the views of artists on their work as an afterthought. Either way, the actual process of...
Read More‘Please Tell Me’ – Guided Meditation to meet your own guides, with Natalie Dekel.
What lies inside our imagination?… healing forces that can help you meet your own spiritual...
Read MoreRe-Birth Meditation – with Natalie Dekel.
Parts 1 and 2: Re-Birth Meditation to remove the external layers and see what lies within ...
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