Sue Ricks

Courses Available - Understanding Conditions to Building Better Relationships

Additional Subjects Available  In Short Courses
Reflexology Specific Courses
Gentle Touch™ Reflexology an Introduction	A first glimpse into the wonderful world of Gentle Touch™ Reflexology Includes - -          what it is -          a basic guide to how it works -          who benefits? A simple self help starter techniques	2 hours	£20
Understanding meanings of Illnesses and Conditions	Skeletal Issues -          Head -          Neck -          Shoulder -          Arms -          Hands -          Back -          Hips -          Knees -          Ankles -          Feet	½ day	£45
Gentle Touch™ Reflexology for people with back pain	Meanings and interpretations Spinal reflex treatments Practical routines Energy re balancing Clearing and alignment	½ day	£45
Gentle Touch™ Reflexology  for people with Neck and shoulder issues	Meanings and interpretations of neck and shoulders Neck and shoulder reflex treatments Practical routines Energy re balancing Clearing and alignment	½ day	£45
Gentle Touch™ Reflexology for people with intestine/ bowel challenges	Meanings and interpretations of bowels and associated conditions Gentle Touch™ Reflexology Practical routines to assist clients Energy re balancing and Clearing.	½ day	£45
Simple Hand Reflexology - self help techniques	Simple, easy and effective techniques for self help.  Can be used as an addition to other therapies as well. Covers main stress conditions that people may experience. Instruction on practical techniques	½ day	£45

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Other Courses
Understanding meanings of Illnesses and conditions Part One	Skeletal Issues -          Head -          Neck -          Shoulder -          Arms -          Hands -          Back -          Hips -          Knees -          Ankles -          Feet	½ day	£45
Understanding meanings of Illnesses and conditions Part Two	Health Challenges and Body locations & meanings -          Eyes -          Ears -          Lungs -          Heart -          Digestive system -          Kidneys -          Etc	½ day	£45
Chakras - an Introduction	-          An introduction to what chakras are, -          Where they are located, -          What colours relate. -          What do they link to? -          Why it’s useful to understand them. -          Linking People, conditions and chakras.	½ day	£45
Heart connections How to improve your relationship to anyone that you love	-          What is love? -          How does it influence our life? -          What we can easily do to get surprisingly pleasing results -          Enjoying your own space and acknowledging  theirs too -          The cycle of life - a magical tool to get life running smoothly.	½ day	£45
Small shifts to a better life and work	-          The “how to” for getting the life you desire. -          Quick and easy results guaranteed! -          Tested programme - instant results -          How to easily spot whatever you ate doing wrong and knowing how to get it right!	½ day	£45
Dream work shop (min five people	See your life in pictures. Design your life, discover your hidden thoughts and see the way forward. A picture says a thousand words!	3 hours

Complementary Therapy Mini Information Video

Here are some new video clips for you.

I love the fact that people learn in different ways. Some people like to read, some like to watch film clips and some like it explained. I have therefore had fun in creating some educational and awareness video clips for those who enjoy seeing tuition via visual methods.

I have been creating some mini training videos and have just started putting some of these clips onto this Blog site. I will be putting some onto the website www.suericks.com soon too.

The clips are below and also on the “How I Can Help You” section on the right hand side of this Blog page.

Each mini video is designed to give you some micro tuition aids and information on a variety of subjects. I hope that you like them and find something of use.

I hope that these will be useful to you if you are:

• Interested in the health of yourself or others
• Working with clients or patients
• Taking a responsibility for your own life and happiness
• Curious about making life even better or easier for yourself and others
• In media
• Writing and sharing knowledge with others
• Feel that there is more
• Enjoy life and learning more

All the videos can be accessed via clicking onto the relevsant link.  They make take some time to download (as they can take a few minutes). The videos are accessed by you but are help on the video server and so do not take up any space on your computer.

The first micro videos ones are:

Introduction to Chakras

Hopi Ear Candle Treatments

What is Gentle Touch™ Reflexology?

Will Reflexolgy help me?

Who can have Gentle Touch™ Reflexology?

I hope that these work on the site as they are the first that I have done!

Relaxation and New Courses.

I have enjoyed taking a break and spending time with my family. I have had chance to notice so many things and feel so grateful for my numerous blessings.

It's good to stop sometimes and take stock. I feel blessed that I have done that.

I have now released the dates for my next series of courses and these are listed below as well as on the main website.

There is also a little Google calendar with the latest dates on the left of this blog entry.

The next courses are the Energy and Chakra balancing (via the feet) on

Friday 22nd Feb '08, followed by Reflexology for Babies and Children

on Tuesday 26th Feb.

The Hopi Ear Candles course is on Tuesday 4th March with our full Gentle Touch

Reflexology course being held over the following weekend (8th/9th March).

Courses available:

(All courses are running in Loughborough)

February

Friday  22nd February - Energy and Vibrational Healing (also on 03/04 & 03/06)

Tuesday 26th February - Reflexology for Babies and Children

March

Wednesday 5th March - Hopi Ear Candles

Saturday/ Sunday 8^th/9^th March – Gentle Touch™ Reflexology – Full diploma course weekend

Saturday/ Sunday 15^th/16^th March – Reiki 1 (1^st degree)

Saturday / Sunday 29^th/30^th March – Indian Head Massage

April

Thursday 3^rd April – Energy and Vibrational Healing

Saturday/ Sunday 12^th/13^th April -– Gentle Touch™ Reflexology – Full diploma course weekend

May

Thursday 8^th May – Hand Reflexology

Wednesday 21^st May – Foot Reading

Thursday 22^nd May – Advanced Foot Reading

June

Tuesday 3^rd June – Energy and Vibrational Healing

Wednesday/ Thursday - 11^th/12^th June – Reiki 11 (2^nd Degree)

Wednesday – Friday - 18^th – 20^th June – Gentle Touch™ Reflexology Three day course

July

Thursday/ Friday 3^rd/4^th July – Reiki Master

Since Christmas I have been enjoying working less hours as I realised that I had done

too much and was not finding time for me or my family. My rebalancing time has been invaluable.  It's hard when you love the clinic and teaching as much as I do!  I was

tempted to over book myself and have now decided to work at a much more relaxed

pace.

I apologise to anyone who has sent me an email that I have not answered. I get so

many emails that it is physically impossible to answer them all.  I often wish I had a

magic fairy who could rattle off replies to everyone. I love it!  I now am working

and spending lots of time with family and friends. I can recommend it!

I have also enjoyed making a few mini micro teaching videos.I intend to have these

available on the website in the future. I have found them very helpful when

explaining points to people as I am quite a visual person and find video works well

for me and others like me.  I will keep you posted.

Although I have not been teaching since Christmas, I have been working in the clinic

and have been continually reminded of how easy it can be release the pressure that

people are finding themselves in. Sometimes just simple reflexology technique or a

simple energetic exercise can work wonders. Obviously it is not all that "easy" but I

have seen so many great examples over the recent weeks that it has been good for

my to be reminded of the phrase "sometimes the simplest is the best".  Since cutting

back on my hours I have found so many simple pleasures and had time for some life

enhancing realisations. All have been simple shifts but profound in their effect. 

Sometimes our world seems to be moving so fast and it is good to stop and do the

simple stuff.  My new work schedule allows for lots of that!  On the Energy course on

Friday (also available on the 3rd April and 3rd June) we will be going through a number

of techniques that look as if they are "nothing" and yet they are so powerful. 

Nothing is an interesting word "no" "thing". In appreciation of music is said that the

music is actually in the spaces between the notes. In quantum physics the spaces

between the particles is the "energy" that is the potent force.  The "no" thing is

the "real" thing.

The importance lies in the spaces.  As Echkart Tolle (author of the power of Now),

says in his lecture all life happens in the dash between the dates between our birth

and death, i.e. 1926 - 2001!  It is the moment that counts and how we utilises that!

I have now idea how frequent or infrequent my blog entries will be as I am just

going with the flow! 

Love and best wishes. Enjoy all moments of stillness..........

Wonderful News!

Wonderful news!

So much has happened over the past few days.  We have had Hopi, NLP and Susanne Enzer doing Maternity Reflexology, I have spent three days filming and most importantly…….   I have a grandson!!!   Oscar arrived last night and everyone is doing well.  I can’t wait to see him!  I have seen a photo and he looks gorgeous.  What an amazing coincidence that he arrived during our Maternity weekend as I booked for Susanne Enzer to come to Leicestershire last January!

I feel so lucky to be in this career.  What a great life we have!  As a practitioner we get to meet some great people and work with like-minded individuals. Recently the courses have gone well and I have worked with some fabulous people; how great that they have also had some super results too.  After the Hopi Course one lady emailed to say that her Husband could now hear properly for the first time in ages and another one rang to say her best friends tinnitus had almost gone!  During the NLP course we did loads of things and one particular exercise revealed a whole new way for one lady to achieve what she really wants.  NLP can be so simple and yet amazing effective. Check out some great NLP tips on http://www.nlp-now.co.uk/tips-n-tech.htm I highly recommend anyone and everyone to either learn NLP or book a session with an NLP practitioner, as it can be so incredibly helpful in our everyday lives.

It is the energy and chakra-balancing course on Friday. We will be going through the meanings of information receive from the feet, ie the energy. Discussing chakras and where they are located on the feet, how to use these energy techniques for certain types of people and if they have different conditions, plus how to release trauma from events that have past that still can impact on us now.  This can have a profound impact on someone’s life when they feel safe enough to release the past.  We all find our own ways and our own time and for some it is via the feet! For others it is though NLP and for others it may be something quite different. The only thing that matters is that we are open to finding the best treatment and therapies for ourselves. Each therapy provides it’s own blessing and each person who does the therapy brings his or her own special blend of skills to the treatment. Luckily that means that there is someone out there who may be just perfect for us and we may be the right person for a specific client. This is why we can have some excellent results one day and more usual results another day.  Maybe the time and place are just right for both the client and the practitioner.

If you do it with love – the rest follows!

Thought for the day: "It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing."

Hopi Ear Candles and EFT (Emotional Freeedom Technique)

It’s our Hopi Ear Candle Course in Loughborough this weekend. I have been using Hopi ear candles for about seventeen years now and wonder just what we would do without them!   I remember one particular day when my son came home from school and said he really could not hear the teacher that day. He asked for a treatment and “bingo” he could hear! 

Did you know that Hopi Ear Candles treatment is as good for you if you are singer as they are for you if you have a full feeling in your head?  They work so effectively and frequently get great results. Over the years that I have been teaching the use of Hopi Ear Candles I have heard more and more people say how effective they have been. In my own personal and professional experiences, it a never ceases to be amaze me with the scope and results of their use.

Some of the conditions that they can work really well for are:

·         Ear wax build up

·         Hearing problems

·         Sinusitis

·         Sinus congestion

·         Catarrh

·         Glue ear

·         Hay fever

·         Rhinitis

·         Headaches & Migraines

·         Tinnitus

·         Stress & Anxiety

I have just been speaking to a gentleman in Dubai who has heard about Hopi Ear Candles and wanted to know more – so the word is spreading! 

It is great for anyone who gets a pressure build up in his or her ears especially if you are flying or scuba diving.  One of my most memorable experiences was doing Hopi Ear Candle treatments with a man who had had to stop scuba diving due the pain in his ears.  He came for Hopi Ear Candles Treatments and now is happily back diving.  He very kindly got a superb set of photographs done for me as a thank you. The photos were of brilliantly coloured fish that he had been able to see again and that meant so much to me that he could do that again and clearly gained so much joy from his diving.  He actually said that when he was underwater it was the only time that his "chatterbox" brain switched off as he just focused on his equipment and surroundings and therefore gained total peace and tranquillity.  So now we know – if anyone wants peace and quiet, maybe its time to learn to scuba dive (if you don’t already do it!)

Click here to read more about the Course.

Emotional Freedom Technique – EFT in Loughborough

I have been using EFT with great results recently.  EFT seems to have such a fabulous way of helping people (including myself) to release emotional issues that are having an impact on current life.  It is like acupuncture without the needles.  Here is how Gary Craig describes it:

EFT is based on a new discovery that has provided thousands with relief from pain, diseases and emotional issues. Simply stated, it is an emotional version of acupuncture except needles aren't necessary. Instead, you stimulate well established energy meridian points on your body by tapping on them with your fingertips. The process is easy to memorize and is portable so you can do it anywhere. It launches off the EFT Discovery Statement which says...

"The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system."

And because our physical pains and diseases are so obviously connected with our emotions the following statement has also proven to be true...

"Our unresolved negative emotions are major contributors to most physical pains and diseases."

Click here to watch a video about EFT

A few Months ago I ran a course with Sally Canning on EFT and we had some incredible results.  These ranged from one participant releasing a really big emotional trauma that she did not remember or even realise was currently holding her back, to another lady who overcame her phobia that prevented her from swimming in the sea.  I did some EFT too and had an amazing experience that released something that had been deep seated (buried) and now it’s gone! Fantastic!  What I love about EFT is that you can reduce the emotional impact of what ever it is, either a memory, a habit or maybe you do not even know what it is about. What ever the situation or issue, you can either reduce or remove it.

I use EFT in the clinic for times when people clearly want to do or achieve something and cannot seem to get around to it. It can be great for big things or little things. It was very useful when a client felt overwhelmed with the clutter in her house.  I initially explained the Feng Shui way of removing the things she did not need, I then went through a simple energy clearance exercise with her and finally did some EFT to help her overcome her apparent interest but actual reluctance to start. She sent me an email two days later to say that her garage was now sorted and she had now begun the house too and felt confident that she would be fine to get it done this time.

You can use EFT to help you over come pain, fears, blocks, be more focussed, relaxed, happier and so much more.

If you would like to know more about EFT then I suggest that you visit Gary Craig’s website. 

If you would like to receive EFT then have a look out for an EFT practitioner.  I know of some excellent ones in the Midlands area. If you would like to come to the clinic then call me or email me.

Please contact me if you would like to learn how to do EFT for yourself.

Next Spring Sally and I will be running another EFT course in Loughborough and the dates will be here on the Blog and on the website soon.

Wishing you a happy and peaceful day.  Look out for the magic in your life and maybe you will see something new today that makes you smile!  I do this regularly and love it! Enjoy..........