About Karen

About me

Reiki entered my life via a dear friend 8 years ago and I received my attunements through to Reiki teacher within 12 months. Although I was born in Devon in the UK, I ended up living in magical St Ives in Cornwall with my husband and 2 sons. However 10 years ago we moved to France, eventually buying a smallholding and raising animals. Here I have a healing and teaching centre where reiki shares are held and folk come to be treated with Reiki, Crystals, and Gemflower essences.

My Reiki lineage.

Dr Usui, Dr Hayashi, Hawayo Takata, Phyllis Lei Furumoto, Carol Farmer, Lea Smith, William Lee Rand, Simon Treselyan, John A Watson, Rod Parker, Karen Smith.

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Youthful days

At the age of 10 on my way to my first day at High School I met my life long friend Sandra and she wrote these snippets to celebrate our 'over 50' birthdays recently. They may strike a chord of 'youth' with

several of you :o)

A-Z of our life - Snippits by Sandra

A ....for your Acting, but here's a thing! Your very first line was 'rice poooo..ding'.!

B... is for Boyfriends and bouffant hairdo's - and hols spent at Butlins in stiletto shoes.

C.... is for Clubs, and those Coffee bar - chatting, and dancing, romancing for hours.

D.... is for Dam Busters -on the piano you'd play, Those lessons you gave me all ended that way.

E....stands for Exmouth and happy times spent, Your Gran's lovely stories, each time that we went.

F....Fairs at Easter, in big Central Park - Waltzers and dodgems and on Noah's Ark.

G.... thoughts of Guy Fawkes night, stood round the fir - And Geraldine Lamb's where my walzing was dire!

H....Hallow'een of course. ghostly hob-nobbin - Howling and haunting and then apple bobbing.

I....is for Image, when even at school - We knew we should have one, to show we were cool.

J.... well, it's Jeremy - Spencer by name. Our favourite 'star' - he'll always have fame!

(with us anyway)

K....is for knocking - our knees at a dance, - or even on windows, for someone to glance.

L....stands for Leaving your purse - what a folly! When we travelled to Butlin's for our holi-dolly.

Your Dad followed on though in his jolly way - Not one single word of reproach did he say!

M.... Well thats obvious, our Midnight feasts, - Sticky buns, chocolate and all sorts of treats.

But also Majestic, the Wednesday night dance. Jiving and twisting, Oh! what a prance!!

N....is for Net petticoats, made to impress, - and such an essential part of our dress.

O....is for 'oggies' - Cornish pasties by name - And 'ot dogs and sauce - now they don't taste the same.

P...P.H.S.- bless the old school? - For life, not school we learnt - that was the rule.

Q....is for Questions - did we have any? - As I remember, we had so many. But how we re-acted with laughter and scorn,when Diana found out how a baby was born!!

R.... recalls Rock'n Roll parties - we nursed - - excitement for weeks, until we thought we would burst.

Elvis, the Everly's, the Shadows and Dion - - flirting and dancing, how we would carry on!

S...thoughts of Shaugh Bridge, train trips with friends, - skating on roller skates where the stream bends

Keeping our towels on, in the school Showers. - The Stamp shop on North Hill after school hours.

T....Tartan trousers- fashions we'd follow - The tree in our back garden - notes in the hollow.

U...Understanding us - parents did care, - But what did we mean, when we said they were square!

V.. for our Very first cigarette smoke - in your Gran's bathroom, it just made us choke!!

W...'Winking' was our favourite game. - At rock 'n roll parties - it now seems quite tame!

Choosing the boy that you really did like - Always meant missing out poor Danny Flyte!!

X... stands for Xmas - and your Magic set - Haven't worked out the ink and water trick yet!

Y... is for youth - we still have it yet - We have all these memories so we'll never forget.

Z... stands for Zest for life - don't let it end - We're still only 16 - I'm told by a friend!!!

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