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Wednesday July 1, 2009
"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation." ~ Michael Jackson
What "Pay-What-You-Can" Means to Us...
Dear Friends,
It has been really exciting to offer all of our incredible healing services with experienced, compassionate and enthusiastic therapists on a "pay-what-you-can" basis. This model is completely new to us in the spa industry. Because Sensorielle's philosophy is giving back to our community, being environmentally conscious, and holding the space for deep healing and beautifying treatments, we thought that changing our pay model would be right in line. We want people to feel beautiful from the inside out. Everyone deserves equal treatment, and every human being is just as valuable as the next.
For our Community
Of course, a leap of faith like this one can be frightening to a company who is in a high rent district, and viewed as a high-end luxury spa with expensive organic products. Each of us had to review our perspective on what makes us feel valued as therapists. We each have spent time, effort and money to go to a carefully selected professional school; massage, acupuncture, esthetics, and have spent even more countless hours and dollars on continuing training to keep us up on the latest trends in healing, learning new modalities, and expanding our awareness of what we can offer our clients. Pay-what-you-can can be almost unfathomable when you think in terms of how much we put into our trades.
We took that leap, in a challenging economy, in the heart of giving back to our communities, with faith that our clients would be honest and truthful in what they can afford, and there would be a fair exchange between therapist, client, and facility. And we are grateful that we did! In the five months we have been fully in this model, our experience has been amazingly fruitful and rewarding in so many ways. Most of our clients are able to pay our suggested prices, a few have paid more who wanted to support us, and those who have paid less have generally felt like an honest and fair exchange. We would not have implemented a "pay-what-you-can" philosophy if our staff was not on board.
We Are Infinitely Grateful for Pay-What-You-Can
We have been blessed to help people who are going through major life changes, loss of a family member, chemotherapy, fighting chronic disease, and even helping clients pass on comfortably. Even something as simple as treating someone with a skin condition and seeing their skin clear up under our care is so rewarding. Feeling beautiful is important. When we have the opportunity to help people feel beautiful, happy, stress-free, and finding self-love once again, there really is no price that can match our feeling of gratitude.
Pay What I Want?
Naturally, there are 2 sides to every coin. On occasion, we have experienced instances where a client is obviously taking advantage of our model. A client may not pay all they can... or may not value our time in a fair way, being late and paying less because they were late. Feeling valued means more than just a fair monetary exchange; it is also time, energy, and genuine appreciation on all sides. Therapists often end up feeling drained when a client is obviously not valuing them in one or all of these ways. Clients have asked "it's pay whatever I want, right?". It really isn't pay what you want, it is truly about paying all that you can afford and feel is fair for your treatment. If you can only afford very little, it may not feel fair to choose the most expensive treatment on the menu when another treatment, with less expensive product, could serve the same purpose (ie. choose the abhayanga massage instead of the 2 hour samadhi package).
The Reality
The reality around this healing exchange is that if the client is dishonest in what is affordable to them, they will not feel 100% happy about their treatment. There may be a feeling of guilt, even subconsciously, which is not conducive to their wellness. Because our philosophy is about treating the whole being, this is an interesting situation where we do not feel we are treating someone fully when the client is not honest about what they can afford, and then it becomes energetically draining for all, and the opposite of the "healing oasis" atmosphere we strive to create.
A New Economy
In this new economy, we as a family of healing artists need to have a lot of faith, and also look at the big picture. It's a completely different way of doing business. We are redefining and learning from our experiences along the way. We are amazingly blessed to have the opportunity to treat all people equally. Most of all, THANK YOU for coming to see us, sending your friends and families to experience us, and for being present on this amazing planet in an amazing community!!!!
Thank you!
Namaste,
Jewl
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Take Care of Your Wellbeing... Let Us Do The Work
Monthly Memberships at Sensorielle...
You have a busy schedule. On a membership, you can come in as much as you want (4 different options) without having to worry about checking out. Especially in stressful times, we need as much wellbeing care as we can get, but time becomes an issue.
Let us help you make wellness a priority.
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Money comes and goes... jobs come and go... our bodies remain with us. We often forget how important our own well-being is. When receiving regular skin and body care, we are more able to see our challenges objectively, feel a sense of peace around our lives, be more efficient at our work, and raise our children with more attention and care.
All memberships are pay-what-you-can. Retail and all treatments outside your membership are 10% off if you pay suggested price!
Regular membership includes a classic or prema one hour massage, facial, or acupuncture treatment (please note initial acupuncture is 70-90 minutes, and will need to be scheduled outside of your membership).
1 per month (or 2 30-minute treatments) - $99
2 per month - $180
One per week - $330
Your credit card will be automatically charged each month on the day you signed up (ie. you signed up on the 3rd, you will be charged again on the 3rd next month). There is no obligation. You can cancel your membership any time!
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Let us come to you! Our corporate program can include your choice of short sessions in chair massage, mini facials, acupuncture, thai massage, reiki, craniosacral, and/or intuitive readings in your office! Schedule an employee appreciation party, or have us come monthly or weekly to your location. Contact Jewl for details, jewl@sensoriellespa.com, or 303-247-9932.
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Awakening
Why We're Under Pressure
The pressure we are experiencing on our mental level is being caused by the combination of Saturn and dwarf planet Ceres which are connecting the Crown Chakra to the Ajna or Brow Chakra. There is an intense download of information coming in through the Crown and putting pressure on the Ajna.
The download is activating the Pineal Gland. This pineal gland is activated by Light energy, and it controls the various bio-rhythms of the body. It works in harmony with the hypothalamus gland which directs the body's thirst, hunger, sexual desire and the biological clock that determines our aging process. When it awakens, we can feel a pressure at the base of the brain. The pineal gland is a link between our physical and spiritual aspects. It transmutes physical information and gives it a spiritual reality. It transmutes spiritual information and gives it a physical reality.
The pressure is coming partly from within, from our tendency to
believe we have to make sense of things right here and right now rather than allowing a flow of abstract, non-linear information to flood our system. There is no need to DO anything. No need to act. No need to find a solution, make plans, change your life in any way. Although the pressure may have you feeling like you should do something, that�s not the case.
Consciously relaxing the Crown Chakra and the Ajna Chakra will help. Take some time to ground yourself, and then imagine white light streaming down into your Crown Chakra. Be aware of any tightness, any resistance and breathe through it, allowing a relaxing and natural unforced opening to happen. Then gently allow the energy to flow down to the Ajna, again breathing through any resistance, allowing a relaxed and natural opening to occur.
Being grounded is even more important than usual when this sort of download is happening. Not engaging your rational mind in the process is crucial. This is a right brain, abstract, non-linear energy and your rational mind is simply getting in the way. Its turn will come later, when we get to the integrative stage. Engaging your rational mind at this stage only creates confusion.
Right now we are simply being imprinted. We need to be in receiving mode only at the mental level. With Mercury, Venus and Mars all at the Throat Chakra, there is a strong feeling that we should be
DOING. Unless it's effortless, don't! Sleep is good, because it allows the energy to come in without the personality filters that operate when we are in waking consciousness.
The inspiration coming through is about reinterpreting the past, to look at it with different eyes. It's about us seeing how the existing structures of humanity have not supported our nourishment and nurturance on a personal or global level. You'll find on a personal level that you'll be having experiences where you do something you've always done and go... omg! that feels terrible! I was talking to a friend this morning who told me she�s finding it almost impossible to
make herself go to work. "There's nothing in it that's about me." She was puzzled and confused because she�s always enjoyed working and it never mattered too much what the work was.
Our sensitivity has risen to a level where we can no longer engage in systems of work, play, relating, that are not truly nurturing for us at every level. This is a time to focus on what feels nurturing. Theres no need to dwell on the things that aren't working, that don't feel good, because they are leaving your life and that's the only reason why you are aware of them.
This is the Channel of Dreaming. So even if you usually don't, this week you probably will.
This transit will last till 6th July.
in love,
Kim Gould (edited)
www.LoveYourDesign.com
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Sensorielle has a vast array of natural and organic skin care products, jewelry, body care, and chakra balancing essentials oils.
We provide a variety of services based in nature, harmony, beauty, and healing. We specialize in holistic treatments including Massage, Ayurveda, Craniosacral Therapy, Thai Massage, Prenatal & Postpartum treatments, Reiki (energy work), Reflexology, Detoxifying, Beautifying treatments, Acutonics, Reflexology, Energy work, Facial Rejuvenation, Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine.
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