Golden owl holistics
by Johanna McWeeney
Distance Reiki
Experience the calming energy of an hour-long reiki healing session from the comfort of your own home.Introductory offer: first session free.
Block of 4 sessions: £100 (normal
price £140).
Block of 8 sessions: £200 (normal price £240).
Scientific breath coaching
Personalised support to restore functional breathing. Improve your wellbeing, relax and focus your mind, and get the best sleep of your life.Weekly or fortnightly sessions: £65 per hour.
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About me
Hi, I'm Johanna,
I'm a certified Oxygen Advantage® Advanced Breathing Instructor, qualified Usui Reiki practitioner, Associate Member of the International Society of Reiki Professions, and wellness author. I'm passionate about using my skills to help you feel better, breathe better and live better.If you are:
• Struggling with physical, emotional or spiritual imbalance
• Finding it hard to sleep
• Often injured or in pain
• Living with chronic or acute anxiety
• Burned out, exhausted and run down
You're in the right place.
I'm not a doctor. I'll never diagnose or promise to "heal" you. But I can help you rebalance your nervous system with simple interventions that put your body in the best state to heal itself.The breath is very powerful. There's a huge weight of scientific evidence to support the fact that the way you breathe affects every system in your body. Reiki is less well studied. Nonetheless, research shows its effectiveness for relaxation and pain management and as a holistic support for traditional medicine.If you've been ignoring nagging health problems or living with a sense of disconnect or discomfort in your body...If you're ready to make positive changes in your self care and your health...
I'd love to help.
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
You can read more about me in this interview for Mystic Mag.
Or listen to my podcast for WomenKind Collective on the importance of nasal breathing.
What is reiki?
Reiki is a complementary therapy that is safe, non-intrusive and gentle. It is a kind of energy healing that helps balance and direct your energy to facilitate your healing response. In Japanese, the word reiki means "universal life-force energy".A reiki session can help:
• Relieve stress and anxiety
• Ease muscle tension and pain
• Strengthen your immune system
• Energise and balance your whole body
• Quicken your recovery from injury
• Promote peace of mind
• Support spiritual awareness and personal growthReiki is proven to be effective in reducing pain, anxiety and blood pressure and improving quality of life. While it is not a substitute for medical care, reiki supports the mind, body and spirit with your own healing process.Reiki can be sent across time and space, making distance healing possible. During a distance reiki session, you simply make yourself comfortable in your own space, ready to receive the healing. I connect with your energy, sending the reiki exactly as I would if we were in the same physical location. You may feel sensations including heat, cold, tingling and energy shifts, and you will enjoy a deep sense of relaxation.
HOW I WORK
Your distance reiki session will last for one hour. Once we have booked a time, I will ask you about your health and wellbeing. I then send the healing at the agreed time. After the session, I send some personal feedback by email. You're welcome to share your experience of the session and ask any questions.I recommend booking a block of sessions. While you'll feel the benefit from a single hour, one session can only do so much. If you're unsure how to move forward or have never had reiki before, I'd suggest starting with one session before deciding what's best for you.
What is Breath coaching?
The way you breathe affects every system, organ and cell in your body. And if you want to change the way you feel, mentally and physically, the breath is an incredibly powerful tool. You can use it to change your body's chemistry, to rebalance your nervous system, and to alter your mental state on demand.Breath coaching is a personalised process during which you have the space and time to explore what's going on with your health. I'll assess your breathing and teach you simple scientifically-proven exercises that make a profound difference. The process empowers you to make changes, build healthy habits, and restore functional breathing.After that, the sky is the limit. You can continue the process, using your breath to support optimal performance in any area. By the end of our time together, you will have a practice you can continue to use for the rest of your life.
HOW I WORK
We'll arrange a short Zoom call to go over your concerns, identify your goals and see if we're a good fit. If we decide to go ahead, we'll book our first session. I'll send you a short form to fill out, and then we hit the ground running with a 1:1 hour-long Zoom coaching call. Between our sessions, I'll give you a personalised programme of breathing exercises and show you how to integrate them into your day.
Success stories
"I’d been a World Cup athlete and had effortlessly had an ability to cope calmly and unconsciously with the demands of thirty years in war zones. However, I arrived at Johanna’s door ( Zoom screen!) tearful, frustrated at my inability to explain what had gone wrong, and with a loss of fitness plus the consequential weight gain. I did not believe in the diagnosis of asthma and severe allergies from several doctors who had not had the time to understand the whole me.Slowly, carefully and gently over a year Johanna unpacked what had gone wrong, then fixed it. She made some blindingly obvious observations that no one else, or even I, had connected with. She then planned and proved her initial declaration that she and I could return me to better health and beyond, through the foundation of breathing and a better understanding of my own relaxation, carbon dioxide tolerance and re-connection with my diaphragm.Johanna is one of the kindest, emotionally intelligent and visionary human beings acting in support of health I’ve met. She has welcomed me back to robust health in a great big way. I’m back to running 36k, back to correct anatomical posture, zero neck and shoulder pain and to my familiar old self who could maintain relaxation even when life around me was perpetually war zone chaos.Johanna has, seemingly effortlessly, metaphorically, held my hand, encouraged, listened, planned a robust programme (that included some of the most simple fixes!) and supported me to being back to showing up in the world as who I want to be.Kind and intuitive beyond measure I’ll only ever feel lucky and grateful for my year with Johanna. Although I had read the exercises within the Oxygen Advantage/Breathing Cure I cannot stress how much better having one on one support is - more efficient, bespoke and a huge psychological reassurance to just keep going.In short, Johanna has calmly and persistently brought me back to where I want, and need, through science, through kindness, through commitment and through an ability to communicate in a very empowering way. She is a beautifully articulate author too and, to me, one of life’s most shining lights.Thank you Johanna, you are amazing, one of the best human beings in my life in fact."Love, R. (war zones mostly, sometimes Cornwall)
Get in touch
privacy policy
Updated: November 11, 2023.Most privacy policies are impossible to understand. I know, because when I was writing this one, I spent a long time trying to adapt a template to use on this website.So, from one human being to another, here’s a run-down of how this website uses your data. If you have any questions or concerns, please email me at jomcweeney@gmail.comPrivacy policy summary for non-legal eagles:I’m Johanna McWeeney. I’m what’s known as the data controller for this site, goldenowlholistics.com.
My site uses HTTPS/SSL security.
The site also uses cookies. These don’t collect personally identifiable data, they just help the website run smoothly, and allow me to use Google Analytics to track how popular I am.When you book a reiki or breath session with me, I will only collect the necessary data for us to do business.I won’t send you spam emails, sell or share your personal data with anyone else.
General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
Remember the GDPR? The flurry of emails about data security that hit your inbox in May 2018? Well, since then, you can’t visit a website without dismissing a cookie banner, and I’ve been unable to access some really interesting bits of research because some US sites won’t let me view them from the UK.Irritations aside, GDPR is a good thing. It requires that businesses obtain your explicit consent before they can sign you up to receive marketing communications.GDPR also gives you the right to:- Know how your data is being used.
- Ask for your data to be deleted.
- Retrieve your data in a format you can read and re-use elsewhere.
What are cookies?
I’m wellness author. I shouldn’t be encouraging the use of cookies, should I?It’s okay. These cookies are sugar free. They’re just simple text files. Your web browser uses them to record settings for websites you visit.I also use Google Analytics. This allows me to see how many people visit different pages on my site, and to understand how they navigate my website. This also requires cookies.I never use cookies to collect any personally identifiable information about you. I’m not that clever.What personal information do I collect?I only collect the personal information I need in order to communicate with you for the purposes of planning and completing your project. You’ll find my contact form on Calendly, where I ask you to submit various details including your name and email address. You can also email me directly.I don’t sell, trade or share this information.
Data processing
I use Google Drive to store and manage data. Google is registered by Privacy Shield.I think that’s everythingBut again, if you have any questions, do ping me an email at jomcweeney@gmail.com. I can’t promise to know the answer.Thanks for dropping by.
