DominIque and her HALO
Friday 27 Sept- Sat 28 Sept
I have been helping Dominique during her training with weekly Reiki sessions.
Here is her testimonial:
YOU CAN DONATE, too!
I’ll be supporting and offering Chair Massages on Saturday morning, the idea is also to bring a chocolate cake for the team 29′s brekkie before the last and not the least kilometers!
100km: The Hawkesbury to the Harbour
OXFAM TRAILWALKER
To keep the walkers going, some listen to music with their HALO HEADPHONES IN A BAND
Here is Dominique’s testimonial:
Dear friends, family, entrepreneurs, futurists, fellow trekkers…
This is my final update on our endeavour to alleviate life threatening circumstances and hopelessness in the world through raising funds for Oxfam and ‘chafing for charity’ over a 100km Trailwalker in Sydney.
MAIN EVENT
We – Team 29: “Up Down Repeat” kick-off at 7am Friday 27 August (see time zone conversions at the end of email) and aim to finish in about 28 hrs – yup, walking through the night.
PREPARATION AND RECOVERY DURING TRAINING
Testimonial on Catherine’s reiki and massage
From April to August 2010 I was training for Oxfam Trailwalker. It is a 100km walk/hike through the Sydney bush. We formed teams of four people whom we trained with. The walk had to be finished in 48hrs or less.
As I had done my previous Trailwalker in 2004 I was a little rusty on the strenuous ups and downs that the trail imposes on us. My knees started to complain and in general my muscles were having a bit of a hard time to recover. Catherine is a friend and neighbour and offered to help. She does Reiki and massage professionally so the fact that joined on the journey was extremely generous and unique as she was looking to apply new skills and I was a willing candidate.
I have been a massage junkie for many years, mostly for my shoulder area but Reiki was known to me only by name. I must say I didn’t not fully comprehend it until I experienced it. One training event was particularly hard. I had neglected some stretches to help my ITBs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliotibial_band_syndrome and the muscles had gotten very tight and started pulling my knee. We had just finished a 55km training session and the pain was piercing.
The next day Catherine and I had a Reiki session and it was utterly relaxing and beneficial for me and very sweaty for Catherine. Why sweaty? In Reiki the therapist does not exert physical power on your muscle or other but energy power and this can, when the pain is important, produce a heat that the therapist feels most acutely, it is transferred. The impact this had on me was that I felt my knees get very hot and then suddenly cool down significantly. When I got off the table my knees felt very different. They felt nimble and painless and the swelling had gone down.
I am very grateful for Catherine’s help as with her help as well as the help of Chiropractic measures and my focused stretches the major knee issue was fixed in four weeks. Typically these problems can take six months. It was a just-in-time fix too as the event took place six weeks after the major pain. I had no problems what so ever during the 100km trailwalk.
Thank you Catherine for your skill and generosity
-Dominique Jaurola
STORIES AND A VIDEO OF OUR TRAINING
You can find stories and a video of our training here:
http://www2.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/Sydney/team/29
Thanks Ben for writing those!
SUPPORT DURING THE EVENT
An awesome group of people have volunteered to be in our support crew. Without these people we could not do it: Tim Purcell, Jane Tribe, Catherine and Hugues Brastel as well as Justine Chambers and Melanie Junghans. They will be there for us, including in the middle of the night, when we’re cold, in pain, hungry and suspiciously withdrawn(…)
Thank you all again for your support and interest. Without you this would not be possible(…)
If you would like to cheer me on or heckle or other you can send me direct text messages on +61414802208. I will not be offended or disturbed if you don’t – everyone has other things to do but I would not mind 
If you do however, please do not be offended if I do not respond immediately as I will be in really awkward places at times – without coverage or hanging from a piece of rock or busy getting food, drink or body fixes. Remote healing and energy transfer gratefully received
Kind regards- Dominique
