Sally Sunshine Reiki

01/06/2026

I like to honour this process, it is so valuable in our sessions, and all part of the healing and relaxation journey. Sometimes it can be an hour or so before we've even begun on the table! It's why I prefer not to put an end time on sessions, that way we can honour exactly what is needed in the present moment for you. 🙏✨

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Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty their heart.

Thich Nhat Hanh
Artwork by Albena Vatcheva

01/06/2026

Emotional presence is not about fixing or forcing clarity. It is about staying with yourself long enough to feel what is true without rushing past it. When you stop abandoning your inner experience, you begin to rebuild trust with your own heart.

Listening to your emotions does not make you weak. It makes you honest. What you feel is information, and presence is how you learn to hear it without fear.

Your feelings are not the problem. They are the message.

01/02/2026

🌻 😀 If your self-care time includes a Reiki session, I'd love to connect with you! Available Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, either 10am or 1:30pm (ish, times can be tweaked to suit!) Come sit and share some words, wants & needs with me, and then lay down in a cocoon of warm soft blankets, gentle lighting, and soothing music, as we call in the healing energies of divine love. I look forward to sharing with you, thank you is our prayer. 🙏💜🌻
(and enjoy filling your bingo card!)

01/01/2026

🙏 Breathe into our endings and beginnings, no matter what that looks like, big or small. Thankful for all that was, is, and will be. 🙏

12/30/2025

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Good morning!
The year is waving its last goodbyes.
May your coffee be strong, your socks warm,
and your heart lighter than yesterday.
Notice the little triumphs, the tiny joys,
and laugh at how wonderfully unpredictable life can be.
Step into this day like it’s offering you a fresh pair of wings.
Rivers in the Ocean

12/29/2025

🙌 💜 💚 Through sacred, safe, and somatic touch, together we can help tap into your nervous system, and help you to relax, release, & remember the forgotten or discarded parts of you. If you'd like to receive and share energies and space with me, I'd love to connect with you, thank you. Available Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Times (ish) either 10:30am or 1:30pm. Please message me and we can arrange your session! 😊🙏

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Lately, the word somatic seems to be everywhere. It’s being used in captions, course titles, and conversations so often that it can feel like just another passing trend in the wellness world. But somatic work is not new, and it is certainly not a buzzword. For me, it is a remembering. Long before it had a name, the body already knew how to communicate through sensation, rhythm, and response. Somatic work brings us back to that language, inviting us to listen beneath the noise and honor the intelligence that has always lived within the body itself.

So, if you will indulge me with a few moments of your precious time, I would love to share the meaning behind this word.

Somatic work is the art of listening with the hands. It is an invitation for the body to speak in its own language, one that lives beneath words and stories. Rather than asking the body to perform or correct itself, somatic work creates a space where sensation becomes the guide and awareness becomes the medicine. We slow down enough to feel the subtle tides beneath the skin, the places where the body learned to brace, adapt, or go quiet in order to survive.

In this work, nothing is forced. The nervous system is met with patience, curiosity, and respect. As safety is reintroduced, tissues soften, breath deepens, and the body begins to remember its own rhythm. Movement returns not because it was demanded, but because it was invited.

Somatic work honors the body as an intelligent, living landscape. Every sensation is information. Every pause is meaningful. Healing unfolds not by fixing what is broken, but by restoring relationships, helping the body feel seen, heard, and safe enough to release what it has been holding.

Somatic awareness is what transforms technique into art. When we weave somatic principles into bodywork, our hands stop leading and begin listening. Each stroke, hold, and pause becomes a conversation with the nervous system, guided by breath, sensation, and subtle shifts rather than force or expectation. It is where skill meets presence, where science meets intuition, and where the body is given the space it needs to reorganize, release, and remember its own capacity for healing.

12/29/2025

You will inspire some and trigger others.
Both are medicine
-Unknown

Such is life…
With this knowing, use your discernment, guard your energy and remember it is medicine.
When you inspire someone, you can also heal any of your own untouched spaces as you show them just how beautiful it is to be a light.
When you trigger someone, it’s important to know, it is their stuff - and understanding this will also help you heal by not carrying a burden that was never yours to begin with.
This is all good stuff, and this is all medicine.
Deep soul work.
Breathe it in.
-debbie lynn

12/29/2025

“I will lead you to the river so you can remember how beautiful it feels to be moved by something that is out of your control.”
Emery Allen

Sometimes, something happens so profound, so poignant, it brings up an emotion we never knew we had; it has been dormant, waiting patiently. It moves us to tears and we drop to our knees as it takes over… we have no control and we find are in this space of surrender, beautiful surrender, not ruled by chaotic emotions, and we flow.
Lost words are found.
Buried feelings recovered.
Remember this ability. This is where acceptance gives us immeasurable faith. But not the kind found in books; it is fluid, worthy, and the kind conviction that sustains us. It cradles our doubt reminding us we are mostly water…
We are born to let go and flow.

Let your emotions flow through you so they don’t rule you…
-debbie lynn

12/22/2025

🌻May I, we, find grace and space, as another year waits around the corner for us... this was a tough year for many of us, including myself. Through grief and trauma, we learn to ride the rollercoaster of life and love and loss and joy, all of the things and more! Life is beautifully tragic, and tragically beautiful. All of it is a gift. Through the pain, and the grief, we learn resilience, we learn strength, softness, and vulnerability. May we be blessed with the abundance of dignity, sanity, goodness and grace this coming year, with open hearts and open arms. Trust the Path. Honour your truth. Tread lightly, but with purpose. And maybe throw in the odd goddamn twirl, and a "Hell Yeah!" With grace and humility and a side of joy. And sprinkles of love. K, bye! ###x🌻

Grace in the Turning Year

As a new year approaches,
may we pause to feel the year's gentle turning,
breathe in its quiet promise,
and greet the days ahead with open hearts.

May we welcome the blessings that lie ahead.
May we hold on to the good memories,
the laughter,
the warmth,
the moments that shaped us for the better.

May we let go of old hurts, regrets and fears that no longer serve us,
trusting that setting them down
creates space for brighter days to come.

May we remember those we have lost,
as their absence is felt in so many tender ways,
in traditions that feel different now,
in empty spaces at the table,
in the echo of voices
we still expect to hear.

We honor them through gratitude for all they shared,
by carrying forward the gifts they gave us:
their enduring love,
the lessons they taught us,
and the gentle reminder
that every connection matters
because it is so fragile.

The new year does not ask us to forget.
It asks us to walk ahead with gratitude for what was,
compassion for what is,
and hope for what can still be.

And so we step forward,
carrying the light of what has been,
the lessons learned,
the love shared,
into the blank pages of the days ahead,
open to surprises,
small joys,
and the extraordinary grace that awaits us in every moment.

~ Grace in the Turning Year by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Mila Marquis