[Body_Work] fw: Assault on Reiki in Florida???

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Carolyn:

 

I should think the best people to test this out would be other health

care practitioners, such as nurses, first. There is no way the massage

board can overrule their boards as far as practice issues (as we've

discussed for NY). I had heard a while back that ministerial licenses

did not support touch healing in Florida, a reactionary move on their

part that also affects lay healers who do anything from Therapeutic

Touch to Healing Touch to Reiki. In most other states, having a

ministerial license supports a healing ministry (which cannot charge

for services but takes " donations " ).

 

I am glad somebody " in the know " has passed this along; I hate to jump

at shadows. Is there anything anyone outside the state (particularly

Reiki Master Teachers like Man & I) can do to help in the process of

changing this?

 

Blessings,

Crow

" Look for Rainbows in the Darkness "

 

 

 

Carolyn Mudgette, LMT wrote:

>

> " Carolyn Mudgette, LMT " <cm

>

> <<I would like to hear from someone down there who might have some more

> direct information rather than the secondhand we are getting here,

> which is obviously misattributed and from a bulletin board?>>

>

> Dear Caroline & Roberto & all interested parties,

>

> It's true, the powers that be in Florida have in their infinite ignorance

> declared Reiki to be off limits to anyone except LMT's.

>

> <<I would like to hear from someone down there who might have some more

> direct information rather than the secondhand we are getting here,

> which is obviously misattributed and from a bulletin board?>>

>

> Dear Caroline & Roberto & all interested parties,

>

> It's true, the powers that be in Florida have in their infinite ignorance

> declared Reiki to be off limits to anyone except LMT's.

>

> Now, you know this is garbage, and I know it's garbage and you would think

> that the folks sitting on the board of massage who are supposed to be

> experienced in massage would know it's garbage, but they don't.

>

> I expect they might be trying to protect the public from unscrupulous

> con-men and con-women, but realistically, how many Reiki practitioners have

> you ever met are the type that would bilk little old ladies out of their

> hard earned dough? Is the public really being protected? I think not.

>

> http://www.doh.state.fl.us/ pull down menu to Medical Quality Assurance,

> click on info on regulated professions, click on massage

> therapists/establishments, then click on board and staff information. The

> following is at the bottom of the page under frequently asked questions.

> (Copied from the web site)

>

> Q: Is a massage therapy license required to perform reflexology and reiki?

> A: Yes.

>

> So there it is. Wolf got this info from me through someone else. I have

> never known of anyone to get busted on this, but hey, if I broke a law,

> whether it's

> " right or wrong " I'd get in trouble, so follow your own judgement.

>

> Carolyn Mudgette, LMT

> St. Augustine, FL

>