Blair’s Herbals was founded about five years ago and is growing each year. I was called to start my own business when my experimentation with herbal crafting started to touch every corner of our home, was feeding my creative streak,…
Bringing Reiki Into Your Life through Sessions & Reiki Trainings
Awakening to the Reiki energy is a truly blessed path, and this path has two main entry points: energy healing sessions and Reiki trainings. I first experienced Reiki as a recipient of Reiki sessions with local Reiki practitioners. I had…
My Healing Journey (at least part of it!)
When I first moved to Boulder over 20 years ago, I felt a strong impulse to find a doctor–not just any doctor, but the top doctor–the one that most people recommended. After all, I reasoned, I needed one; where I grew up,…
Riding the Wave: Self Care Through the Seasons
“I resolve to get more exercise this year and eat better as ways of taking care of myself.” Sound like a familiar part of your New Year’s Resolutions? I’ve never had much luck with resolutions such as these, but not for the…
Making the Time for Self Care
Self care — not something I was ever taught to do. It has always been much easier for me to take care of others. To actually carve out time to be still, to go on a retreat, to take time…
Reiki & Herbs for Our Feathered Friends
This neighborhood duck, named Dolphin, was almost a duck dinner. She missed the group message recently to come in to the coop for safety. There was a ruckus outside that alerted the neighbors that all was not well at 11pm…
A Typical Reiki Session with Blair
What can you expect? Well, there is no “typical” session, and that is part of the beauty and mystery of Reiki. It is a experience that begins as soon as you arrive and it unfolds exactly as it is meant to unfold…
Sleeping and Dreaming Herbs
Hops (Humulus lupulus) I can’t think of hops without thinking beer! Hops is a known sedative (a sleeping aid). It grows happily in our yard, covering the chicken coop with its reaching tentacles, the flowers or pestles dangling from the vines. The flowers are green in late…
Happy, Healthy, Herbally Chickens!
Our family has raised chickens for a number of years, but I just learned that chickens can have worms. Yikes! Roundworms, hair worms, tape worms, gapeworms and caecal worms. They live on the ground, and can be transmitted by earthworms…
The Essence of Self Care
Self care is divine. It is our birthright. It is a loving action. What we put in and on our bodies reflect this. There is a vibrancy, a life force that is reflected when one is taking care of him/herself. It…