HEART AND SOUL MATTERS - HEARTFELT COUNSEL AND CEREMONIAL SERVICES For all life’s occasions, cycles, transitions, ages, lifestyles...

PERSONALIZED CEREMONY/RITUAL to creatively Celebrate, Bless, Welcome, Wed, Renew, Memorialize and Heal.

SUPPORTIVE HEALING ARTS for Psychotherapy, Counsel; Mind/Body/Spirit Integrated Therapy; Relational Counsel/Enhancement; Breathwork; Hypnotherapy, Visualization; Reiki Training; Presentations, LearnShops: Communication, Intentional Loving, Boundaries, Creating Ritual, Sacred Space, Reiki

"When Heart and Soul Matters, all things are possible."

Janice Arlene Rost, MSC, MSTh, MDW, RM, ACH Minister, Mind/Body Psychotherapist, Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master/ Trainer, ceremonial artist, writer, artist and storyteller…I draw from over 30 years of life experience gained through personal exploration, training, and apprenticeship with leaders in the healing and ceremonial arts. Throughout the years, I’ve had the opportunity to connect with, and often help, a diverse socio-economic population with a range of physical and mental wellness. In addition to creating ceremony and community, I’m an experienced and gifted facilitator of healing for individuals, couples, and groups. Using the healing arts of Mind/Body/Spirit Tapestry in a caring environment, I support individuals and couples along life's journey, especially during times of transition. My "listening" hands and heart combine with an intuitive, empathetic, eclectic approach to create an integrated and transformative experience.

Janice Arlene Rost, Mind/body Therapist and Minister of Spiritual Counseling and Divine Wisdom, holds a Master of Spiritual Therapy degree from an accredited Seminary of Interfaith Ministry and Counsel. Ordained June 1989 in Columbia University's St. Paul's Chapel, licensed in New York, and granted reciprocity in additional states. Work history includes a lengthy employment by Westchester County N.Y., in Social Services, Corrections, and the Medical Center - Behavioral Health, where served as community case manager for the seriously and persistently mentally ill.

I actively volunteer. My service has included: Parent Aide for child abuse prevention, facilitator of Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) workshops, Circle of Friends music events, and ushering at The Tarrytown Music Hall.

"When Heart and Soul Matters, all things are possible."

My offerings are for individuals, couples, and groups.

THE CEREMONIAL SERVICES are fully described on my website – www.HeartAndSoulMatters.com

THE HEALING ARTS… Within a non-judgmental environment where one can be deeply heard and responded to with empathy, insight and new possibilities, our sessions can include life coaching as well as in-depth journeying. My work with individuals and couples is progressive, powerful and integrated. I'm experienced in addressing many concerns and situations regarding the mind, body, emotions, and spirit. I see diverse populations of clients for a variety of reasons, from life-threatening illness to employment change, from the trauma of divorce to the joy of uniting. Clients come to me for low self-esteem, addictive patterns, health challenges, grief, depression, anxiety, abuse, seeking support on their next step in life…

I regard therapy/counsel as a gift to our self and to all our relationships. My action and process-oriented approach is personalized and creative, heart-centered, intuitive, occasionally humorous, and collaborative. I offer techniques that progress you quicker than talk alone. Together with you “inner child/inner family,” I'll help you build a healthy foundation of good will, self-care, awareness, compassion and acceptance. You can expect enhanced esteem, confidence, communication, intimacy, peace and harmony with yourself and others.We can all learn more about how to give and receive love. And, we all face challenges that become opportunities to learn and grow. I support your choice to live fully alive, alone and in partnership. It is my honor to walk beside you during the joyous times, as well as the most challenging of your life.

I love people, intrigued with how we think and feel and relate - alone and together. I believe the vital work we human beings have is about love…learning self-love, practicing intentional loving in all relationships, and creating partnerships that thrive. It is about our common human-ness, which includes our brokenness, and having the strength it takes to be vulnerable, to surrender fears and love unconditionally. We really do have freedom and choice, what we need are better transformative 'tools' and a supportive community of good role models in the art of relationship...

WHAT SOME HAVE SAID...

“Janice helped me to see a whole new way of looking at life…I became free of pain in both mind and body.” Carol, Croton-on-Hudson, NY

“My first healing session with Janice was miraculous…She turned my life around to where the true me has surfaced.” Mendy, Canada

“…I made more progress with Janice than in all the years with my psychotherapist…. I tried everything…chronic shoulder pain disappeared within a few sessions.” Laura, Katonah, NY

I usually schedule individuals during the week, and couples on weekends. Fees are reasonable, sometimes flexible, With respect to my experience and time. I like to say “yes” as often possible. I do not take insurance.

Please see my website for more on Ceremonies -

www.HeartAndSoulMatters.com

PERSONALIZED CEREMONY and RITUAL



For People, Pets, Homes, Boats...

For One or for Many…

To Welcome, Acknowledge/Commemorate, Unite, or Separate/Release…

To Celebrate, Bless, Welcome, Wed, Renew, Memorialize and Heal...

Creative, Meaningful HeartandSoul Support

For all of life’s transitions and cycles.

My services are for individuals, couples, and groups. Within a non-judgmental environment where one can be deeply heard and responded to with empathy, insight and new possibilities, our sessions can include life coaching as well as in-depth journeying. My work with individuals and couples is progressive and powerful. I'm experienced in addressing many concerns and situations regarding the mind, body, emotions, and spirit with an action and/or process oriented approach, always personalized and creative, heart-centered, intuitive, and collaborative. I’ll help you build a healthy foundation of good will, self-care, awareness, compassion and acceptance.

You can have verbal therapy sessions as long as you want, yet, with Body Centered sessions you can expect healing progress quicker than talk therapy alone - enhanced esteem, confidence, communication, intimacy, peace and harmony with yourself and others. Sometimes it is appropriate to use Breathwork or Hypnotherapy. Most often hands-on-healing will be used. My MindBodySpirit Tapestry technique will balance energy within and around with words, touch, sound, images, reiki, cranio-sacral and acu-pressure, release, etc. You remain clothed during the session. I often give ‘homework’ to empower and support you between sessions.

I see diverse populations of clients for a variety of reasons, from life-threatening illness to employment change, from the trauma of divorce to the joy of uniting. Clients come to me for low self-esteem, addictive patterns, health challenges, grief, depression, anxiety, abuse, seeking support on their next step in life, to get their creative juices flowing…

Reiki – Universal life force energy. A healing modality compatible with western medicine and other forms of complementary healing. It is especially effective when facilitated by a counselor/therapist/minister whose clients benefit from psychotherapeutic techniques.

Reiki is a healing energy. Within the Universal Laws of Spiritual Consciousness, it is Unconditional Love. No matter where the person may be at a certain point in their life, Reiki will harmonize and open the heart for expansion of our love consciousness and evolvement.

Reiki is a natural, non-invasive, soft touch hands-on-technique that is thousands of years old. In Japanese, “Rei” means Divine Intelligence, “Ki” is life force energy, that which animates all living creations. Reiki – is universal or spiritually guided life force energy used in healing the mind, body and spirit. The Reiki Ray is an extremely powerful healing energy. It is one of the few forms of healing that can be used to heal oneself.

The Reiki technique balances the physical organs and glands controlling the functions of the body and its emotions. The applied use of Reiki for healing can calm, heal and enliven both the giver and the recipient. It has been reported to release emotional and mental stress and toxins, reduce or eliminate pain, chronic and acute physical problems and maintain health. It can enhance spirituality, peace, balance, and create a general sense of well being.

Lineage of Rev. Janice Arlene Rost…

Reiki Plus™ I (1987)

Physio-Spiritual Etheric Body Healing (4/17/88)

Reiki Plus™ II (8/21/88)

David G Jarrell, (24th Master in Reiki lineage in lineage of

Master Barbara McCullough also by Takata’s first grandaughter)

Reiki Plus ®: Psycho-Therapeutic Reiki Healing @ Reiki Plus Institute

Reiki I and Reiki II Re-Attunements (2004), and Master Level (3/11/00) – @ Star Visions, Rev. Helen Celestine Escoffier (additionally attuned by Ethel Llombardi, one of 22 Reiki Masters attuned by Hawayo Takata, attuned by Dr. Mikao Usui, first Reiki Master.)

Additional Attunements I and II in Christ Consciousness by Rev. Ann Emerson (2003)

Re-Attunements in Christ Consciousness by Janice Thomas (2004)

Additional trainings in various healing modalities (1985 – present)

Living in this beautiful energy (at least since 1987)

In Buddhist and yogic traditions, people claim to have reached an enlightened state by doing nothing more than paying attention to the rising and falling of their breath. What easier way could there be to reach such a state? Especially since breathing - following the ebb and flow of your breath - is an intrinsic part of meditation. By paying attention to your breath, you will rapidly change your state of consciousness, begin to relax, and slowly detach from ordinary awareness.

Rebirthing- Take a Breath, Heal Your Life I have been trained in the technique called Rebirthing - a simple, gentle, yet powerful breathing technique, which can transform your mind, body, emotions and spirit. It can also transform how you perceive yourself, others and the world in general. It is common for us to hold our breath and/or breath in a shallow manner when we are stressed. Many of us have never learned how to breathe deeply and fully. Holding the breath causes unexpressed emotions to get pushed into the cells in the body. The body will often react by creating physical as well as emotional problems. When we inspire fully, we are more alive and in the moment because we are taking in the nourishing breath of life.

A Breathwork session can be transformative for anyone (my mother, while in her 70’s benefited!). I use Breathwork during some hands-on healing sessions, or alone, often in a series, for anyone uncomfortable with a hands-on approach. I encourage you to participate as much as you can during and in-between sessions. I serve as a facilitator and a breath coach. Helping to ensure that you breathe in a connected manner, and suggest changes to the breathing pattern to facilitate your process throughout the session. When breathing consciously, your body will relax. You release tension and negativity, and often access memories and unconscious thoughts, that don’t serve your conscious desires and goals, the ones that keep you stuck in unhealthy patterns. We will challenge the negative patterns by reframing the thoughts that create and perpetuate them.

I offer techniques that are successful in changing underlying thoughts. Incorporating new thoughts will allow you to change behavior patterns with less conscious effort. Breathwork, rebirthing is a true mind, body, spirit integrated experience, encouraging and supporting your true aliveness with a grounded sense of joy, inner peace, and harmony. The Rebirthing method is self–healing and will be taught during our sessions.

I am indebted to the many Rebirthers, especially Deborah Fay, MA, who supported and taught me in my journey during the mid 80’s.