i'm currently a client of jennifer i highly recommend going to the front center hosted by new york road runners for events like yoga type she masters program book clubs one that you've already expert in so tell us how did you learn to run center and why did you book a session there actually i had never been there before i think it's great that the new york writing centers is open to different modalities and that they're starting to educate people on that but i actually got hooked up there through welby i'm a i'm an ambassador for them and part of their their and they asked me to go and speak at new york road runner and to speak about meditation and mindfulness but to also speak about reiki so and i was all for that i'm all for educating people on reiki because a lot of people don't know what it is so it was it was really really fun to go in and be able to do that yeah yes yes i went there i may have heard of reiki post didn't know too much about it other than i saw that it would help  being not only mindful but to harm to my new york city living after a while and your mind would be speeding away thousand miles an hour and you know my gosh i've got to catch my breath so i so so but maybe before we go into the proving aspect you can give us a short history or definition of what right so reiki is to break down the word re is energy from the universe the universal energy and universal is everything universal is energy is the energy that you and i share the energy that the skirts and share it's everything has energy and then force energy so that the earth so it's really the two coming together to help heal it but we don't we don't call ourselves healers really really what what reiki practitioners are here for are two because through time since we are all energy through time our energy gets stagnant for many reasons environmental trauma to the body and mind grief illness really you know anything and so we that's where we come in and we help to create a flow of energy because that's when we are at our most well and just to help stuck yeah yeah exactly because also our bodies we have a natural healing energy in our bodies but are we kind of lose sight of it or lose track of it over time we lose consciousness of it all of us do but that's where reiki is great too because we come in to help restore the natural healing  just we all reiki practitioners and all you know because i'm not the only reiki practitioner in the world and it's a beautiful community to be a part of i mean every reiki healer reiki practitioner has their you guys come in or where you would like to ideally come in all of it and we can be there through all of it because we're not also to make it clear that reiki healing is not here to replace any western medicine we're here to work with where western medicine  and we work with patients going through chemo radiation we work with them in the o r during surgery if the hospital and the doctors allow it and because it helps with the side effects of everything it helps with pain management and health with there have been many stories where when a reiki healers present during a surgery after the surgery the patient it's possible not every case but it's pace it's possible that the patient doesn't need as many pain medication as many pain meds afterwards and they just have a more graceful healing process interesting so i guess so some of the medical oncology at montefiore hospital in the bronx and he works closely with raven keyes who is the woman who created the medical reiki training so they work very closely together and i know he's working he's making his trying to make reiki available to all of his patients that come to him i also read i haven't talked to anyone at mt sinai but i read that reiki healing is part of their treatment plan for in fact one of the first things i learned early on is to make sure you predict it's not shallow to you know breathing over here right ideally in the running world you want to breathe so the body to wake up the entire body and also to calm yourself to calm anxiety and stress because that's one of the biggest things meditation and reiki is used for is for stress  and breathing is a huge part of that and it's a huge part of learning how to manage that is learning how to manage your stress and manager and society and there are different ways of breathing that are used for different things in life like you said like the way you breathe when you run is going to be different than the way you breathe when you're just trying to find a calm place in your mind and it's breathing all through your whole body i can tell you probably seventy five percent of the people that come on my table the first thing i have to do is teach them how to breathe because they're just stopping here and we want to go all the way down because when it goes all the way down then you're able to just connect with the rest of your body you're able to get grounded you and i talked about grounding the other day your able to get grounded and just more mindful activity people coming in and just talk this noise but that didn't faze you use fact he said let's take advantage of the noise by ignoring it yeah your first time there so moved up and then you work their way down to take a top of your head it may be restarted just scan our body we start from the top and i go through i try to get as details as i can that day it was my first day and there was a lot going on and so i probably missed the ears and i missed you know all the notes and i'm probably missed a couple things ok but i try to get as details as possible because we don't think about scanning our bodies we don't think about i mean how because grounding extremely important and running is particularly if you're a practiced their foot running yes where you want to be in touch with your feet on the ground in fact on your back i said most of the time line you back or you can do it on your stomach i've had a usually if someone has has been seeing me for a while i'll have sometimes i mean it depends on what the person needs but i'll do half the session use our hands as a gentle hands on or off and energy healing technique because we can do it hands off if the person is uncomfortable or or just doesn't like to be touched or some people like that some people are like that yeah and that's fine diagnose anything so what all do is i'll just ask a lot of questions you know i'll ask do you find that you hold the whole tension here do you find that you are experiencing this sensation sometimes here are you experiencing that you hold things here you do you have something wrong with your knee or something and most of the time i mean i don't know eighty percent of the time i'm right maybe eighty five and but yeah i mean you can kind of and that's where the intuition comes in and where the intuitive healing comes in is just being present with you and being present with your energy and how it's flowing and where it's flowing in your body and just being present with that to be able to say oh ok well we'll hold some some stress in his chest he holds you know he holds a little bit in his left shoulder you know maybe he injured his knee or something like that you know  i just kind of imagine like i'm swiping that stuff that you don't need off of you and sometimes it depends on what's going on in the person but sometimes after i do that i'll literally go like this afterwards like i'm just eyes open and you feel totally relaxed trying to make everything is gentle as a hostile and as low as possible because i'm not there to tell you what to do you know it's just i'm just there to help you relax and to help you heal anything i mean especially if there's something emotional that we're holding in our bodies you know usually distanced you know what happened so we got a family member to stick or you're taking care of an elderly parent you know we all is with maine which is right outside of portland and i spend all of my summers at my house in nova scotia canada so i like to i like to claim that i'm half canadian but you know not really but i wish i was yeah and i just grew up with a lot of nature and my family is very nautical my brother's a lobsterman and also my mother i think where a lot of this comes from exactly mother is a nurse practitioner but she comes at it from a very holistic stand point first for she comes from a wellness standpoint first she cares about the wellness of the person and not just you know making their pain go away she kind of incorporates all of it over for that and she and she also is very i grew up very spiritual and she had a lot to do with that too not necessarily religious you know being american musical and dramatic academy here in new york so i'm an actress too so yeah so i went there and did their conservatory program yeah and then three years after i graduated there i started doing all my and i wished i was at the restaurant and i started working with a friend of mine who actually a friend from back home and he moved back to the city and he was doing hands on energy healing which is a different technique personally i think it's all the same thing just because energy is universal but the way that he does it is different i guess so he was working with me because i was kind of going through a transition in my life and to new york so i thought well this is great this is i feel like this is something that i could do i was just kind of being called to look into it more but the program that he did was in san francisco and it was like for six months and i was like i can't do that so then i started looking into other things and just reiki kept coming up and coming up and coming up and they say that reiki comes to you so it did and i found the international reiki center here in new york because if i was going to get certified in something like this and if i was going to pursue this as a career alongside acting i wanted it be legit and they they train psychologists massage therapists nurses i mean i was in a classroom with all those people so i thought you know those are the people that i want to be surrounded by doing and they are supporting missed doing that you don't really get to do that a lot here in new york but i i would run in the woods and i felt like running in the woods is so different than running on a treadmill on a treadmill i mean i get to the a lot of original theater here in new york i've done full productions i've done one x i have done a lot of independent independent films i was in a film i had a very small role but last words for you just be mindful be well take care of yourself self care is really important especially if your run or and just i don't know many