Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

Hello,

This is the automatic monthly post of Reiki Workshops rules and list etiquette.
If you have not read it before, please read it. If you have already read it, you
can skip this message. If something in the rules changes, which is unlikely, I
will send a special notice informing everyone about the changes and why they
have taken place.

***1.  Use good "netiquette" in your posting. If you haven't run across this
term, you can learn more about it at the  Albion.com Netiquette Home Page (
http://www.albion.com/netiquette) under the article, "The Core Rules of
Netiquette" ( http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html ). Even if you
have been online for a long time, you'll find that page has good tips and is
interesting.

If you want a humorous look at exactly what not to do in posting to the
internet, see Dear Emily Postnews... at
(http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html ).

"Flaming" -- personal attacks, abusive, vulgar or inappropriate language,
demeaning comments, etc. -- directed toward list members, or the founders,
teachers, lineages or philosophies of various Reiki and other energy work
systems is never permitted. Please be polite, respectful and professional in
your posts to this list.

***2. Please stay on-topic for the purpose of this group -- workshops,
conferences, classes and events of interest to beginners and advanced Reiki
people and other energy work professionals.  If you offer courses in astrology,
or hypnosis, or modern dance, or whatever, then feel free to mention that in
your posts -- **as long as your post talks about ENERGY WORK courses that you
offer or clearly says why your non-energy work classes or events would be of
direct interest to Reiki and other energy workers.  Please remember that folks
are here primarily for energy work events and make certain that you are not
abusing their attention to your posts for general advertising that is not
related to our subject matter.

There are many, many groups at yahoogroups and elsewhere that focus on distant
healing, Reiki for world peace, distant attunements, state and national
legislation about the practice of Reiki, general chat about Reiki and healing,
etc., etc.  These are all very important topics, and very good things to be
involved in.  I belong to many of these groups myself.  However, there is no
other group that specifically focuses on helping people locate residential
workshops, conferences classes and other events.  Please avoid the temptation,
however worthy the cause, to try to devote entire posts to these other subjects
that have many groups devoted to them already and stick with our main purpose.

Of course, if you are offering a workshop on Reiki for world peace, legislation
info or business techniques for Reiki professionals, or something similar, then
that is obviously exactly what the members of this group want to hear about.  If
you are ever in doubt about whether to post a message to this group on a subject
that is near and dear to your heart or weighing on your mind, feel free to email
me privately at reikiquestions@... and ask for an opinion.  If it isn't
appropriate for posting here, I might be able to direct you to another group or
forum where you would get a better response.

***3.  Please  remember that we are here to help each other, so please try to
answer questions or offer advice about specific workshops, classes, seminars or
events when it would be helpful.

***4.   Please remember that the main focus of this group is on *residential*
workshops, classes, seminars and conferences, and on distance education NOT
simply on distance attunements.  There are many other places discussing
attunements.  We specialize in training and experience that comes either after
attunement or simulateous with it.  This is the only yahoogroups that focuses on
training in Reiki and other energy work.  Posts that are only concerned with
requests for attunements and not with training are off-topic and will not be
approved.

***5.  Please  do NOT post prices or costs for training in your messages to the
group.  Doing so will only lead to "price wars" and a focus on cost rather than
value.  Posts with price information in them will not be approved -- please
reserve price information for your website listings, and place a link to the
information in your post to the group. The same is true for saying that you
offer free training. Please keep your posts free of all price information.

***6.  On the other hand, please remember that this is an international list,
with members in many countries. It is VERY important that you remember to
include where a workshop or event is being held, when it will happen, and
contact information so that people can get in touch with you. You can post
either a web page link, or an email address, in your listing.

***7. Please remember that inclusion of a teacher on this discussion list
through a direct post, or in the Links, Calendar or Database sections, should
not be taken as an endorsement of their credentials, nor as a guarantee of their
qualifications to teach and certify. There is simply no way that I can check
everyone out with a list as large as this one has become. As with all things, if
you are seeking certification for professional practice or in order to teach,
ask questions and investigate before signing up for any course.

Some energy work systems, such as Karuna Reiki, Tera Mai, Lightarian, Australian
Sekhem, and others are trademarked in various countries and may only be taught
by licensed or authorized teachers -- who are often listed on the websites of
those groups. When in doubt, ask about credentials and check with the
authorizing body.

Other than those rules, please pay attention to these message basics:

If you want to contact me privately, email me at reikiquestions@...

To send a message to the entire list, email it to reikiworkshops@yahoogroups.com
If you mix up the two addresses, it won't be a major tragedy and I will probably
catch it and redirect the email appropriately.  However, please try to keep the
two addresses straight for your own peace of mind and to avoid embarassment.

Also -- and this is *very* important -- if you are set to the "digest" option
please make sure that your email software does NOT quote the entire message you
are replying to by turning this feature off in your email options.  If you need
help on this, email me and I'll be happy to explain it to you.  If you quote the
digest message, it will copy the *entire* digest of 20 to 25 messages back into
your reply and I will "bounce" the message back to you asking that you correct
it.

Another message reply basic:  Remember not to simply hit the reply button on
your email program if you want to ask for further information about a workshop. 
If you do that, your note will go to over 1,400 people automatically.  Click on
the email address of the person who posted the workshop to the list, and you
will send a private note just to them.  This is much more likely to quickly get
you the information that you need.  This is an international list, and please
remember that internet access is paid for by the minute in some countries so
message download time can be costly.  Please keep private messages off the
general list out of courtesy to others.

Also, please make certain that you have added mail from this group to your "no
spam" list in your email software or at the web email service you use or you
won't receive messages. If messages are rejected by your email address, the
yahoogroups program will "notice" it and you will be unsubscribed from the list.

Thanks for being a part of the group.

Blessings!

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner
Asheville, North Carolina
reikiquestions@...

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIST EMAIL OPTIONS TO RECEIVE LESS EMAIL

A lot of people who unsub from this list write a note saying that the amount of
email they receive is too large. With over 1400 members, the Reiki Workshops
list can generate several dozen messages per day. However, you have the option
to receive less email, or no email at all if you want to. You can still use the
web features such as the teacher database and calendar, and browse messages at
the website that are of interest to you.

When you join the group by email, you are automatically set to receive every
message posted to the list as an individual email message. You can change that
at any time.

First, at the bottom of every messsage sent out by this group is a signature
block that contains full information on resetting your email preferences by
simply sending one email to the yahoo list manager. Here is how it works:

If you want to receive only a single email message per day containing a "digest"
of all of the messages posted to the list that day, send a blank email message
to this address:

ReikiWorkshops-digest@yahoogroups.com

(On some days when a lot of things are posted to the list, or as we continue to
grow, you might receive two email digests per day. Each digest contains a
maximum of twenty or so messages.)

If you are on digest setting, *please* remember to set your email program so
that it does *not* quote the message you are replying to. Otherwise, you will
copy the entire digest -- all twenty odd messages -- back to the list with your
reply. If that happens, the message will be sent back to you with the request
that you edit out the extra material. (You might also want to copy the message
subject line of the message you are replying to into your subject line, and add
"Re:" at the beginning. Otherwise, your subject will read something like "Re:
[ReikiWorkshops] Digest No. 15" which is not very informative and may not get
noticed by the person you are writing to.

If you would like to receive no email at all from the group, but still be able
to view the ReikiWorkshops Calendar, the Teachers Database, the Links directory
and search messages posted to the list for events close to you or workshops on a
particular subject or by a particular teacher -- things that are only available
to group members -- then you can change your email setting to "No Email."

"No Email" means exactly what it says. You will receive no email messages at all
from the group, but will still be able to view everything you wish to see
through the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops To
set yourself to "No Email," send a blank email message to:

ReikiWorkshops-nomail@yahoogroups.com

As a group member, you can still see all of the messages posted, and reply to
any of them via the website by clicking "Post" while you have a message up in
your browser.

If you ever decide that you prefer receiving all messages as individual emails,
you can re-set yourself to that setting by sending a blank email to:

ReikiWorkshops-normal@yahoogroups.com

This information on how to reset your email settings is permanently linked on
the ReikiWorkshops home page just above where the most recent group messages
start to be displayed. You can also reset your group preferences via a web form
that is linked on the home page at the top of the page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reikiworkshops

Look at the top bar on the home page that has the group title "Reiki Workshops
and Classes." At the right side of that bar, there is a link called "Edit My
Membership." Clicking on that link will take you to a web form that allows you
to reset your email preferences, among other things.

If anyone has any questions about this, or needs any help in setting their group
membership the way that is most convenient for them, please email me directly
and I will be glad to help you.

Thank you for being a part of this growing Reiki community, and blessings to all
of you.

Will Beckwith
ReikiWorkshops Group Owner

June 18, 2005 11:00 am – 6:00 pm, Sacramento, California

Class includes:
· History of Reiki
· Lecture and Discussion
· Meditation
· Reiki Shoden Reiju (Attunements)
· Energy Work and Experience Discussion
· Practice Time: Giving and Receiving a Full Treatment and Self
Treatment

Class Size is Limited, So Please Call ASAP To Reserve Your Space
916-606-7388
Sacramento, CA

Lisa Chapman-Sorci
Is a Certified, Registered, Komyo Reiki Shihan (Teacher)
Liniage: Usui, Hayashi, Yamaguchi, Inamoto
And a member of the Animal Wellness Association

916-606-7388

http://www.Healing-Alternatives.org