Have you ever wondered what the Chakras represent, or how they relate to the body? This is a little guide to help you along.
There are 7 Chakras in total. We’ll list their properties, meaning, and which crystals and emotions they act upon. You can view the document below to see how they are associated with each part of the body and emotions.
The 7 Chakras by Salon TemplatesA free gift for all our clients at their first appointment.
30 Day Mindful Meditation Journal that can be used on an iPad, by using a PDF Annotation app such as Goodnotes, and works with a finger, or by using a stylus. Perfect for keeping up with your mindfulness on the go.
Mindful Meditation Journal in Blue and White, perfect for keeping track of your daily life and goals, with a 30 day review. Download the PDF to print off the files again and again, or use a PDF Annotation app to allow you to use the file on an iPad/iPhone or more. Whatever suits your needs.
Edit on the go and keep your journal with you. Compatible with iPad stylus for easy filling in on your tablet.
At your first appointment, you will be given a QR code which will allow you to download one copy of the Mindful Meditation Journal.
Gorgeous 30 Day Mindful Meditation Journal.
If you use an iPad with Goodnotes, you can use highlighter, change colours of the text and highlighter pens, underline, make notes on the exercises and keep track of your own progress as the days go on.
*There is no physical product shipped. Framed images are for representation only.* This is a digital download PDF file, for printing or using with PDF annotation software. Many of us already have the ability with our iPads and iPhones, but ensure yours is compatible.
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There is a big difference between the quality of light therapy on the market nowadays.
Its easy for some manufacturers to create a product which can be marketed for home use, but actually only contains regular old led bulbs at the totally incorrect wavelengths, but shine bright when switched on. Some of these masks and canopies can be bought for as little as £20+. Sadly, there are very many which are very likely to be dupes, have fake CE certification and give no benefit whatsoever to the client.
At the cabin, you will find one of the market leading products, and the only salon quality LED device that has FDA certification for medical use by a British Brand.
The multi-award winning Dermalux brand is world leading technology, and brings professional LED Phototherapy into the modern age.
This is the gold standard. With medical CE certification and FDA approved, the flexibility allows for unique results for multiple skin applications. It’s comfortable, it doesn’t sit on your face, and can be used on other parts of the body, such as the neck, hands, back, arms and more. The flex is three times more powerful than any light therapy face mask, and is easily cleaned, helping maintain hygienic treatments in a salon environment. In independent testing, the Flex Medical Device ‘Flex MD’ delivered consistent performance when compared to other portable LED devices available.
With the Dermalux brand in salon, comes extensive and certified training for the therapist providing your treatment, and ongoing training in the use of LED Phototherapy from the Dermalux Flex.
As well as benefits for skin rejuvenation and anti ageing, the Flex itself, is:
MEDICALLY CE CERTIFIED FOR ACNE, PSORIASIS, WOUND HEALING AND PAIN RELIEF (MUSCULAR SKELETAL)
DermaluxLed
Using the same professional Tri Wave MD LED technology, the system allows higher power with ceramic LED technology to ensure safe performance and consistent results with treatments.
The Flex has been featured in the Sunday Telegraph, The Times, Vogue, Hello, Elle, Grazia and Marie Claire, as well as others. We can have standalone treatments with the Flex, or use as part of an ongoing skincare or acne treatment routine.
For rejuvenation, the Dermalux Flex is an outstanding choice to add to treatments. Amanda Holden uses this as part of her facial routine and has written about the benefits.
Free template to use for your own records. Simply click on the image to open it and print.
There are many different techniques to meditation, including guided and encouraging awareness, through to transcendal using our own mantra, sound, syllable or words repetitively to relax the mind. Zen meditation is a form of Buddhist meditation and focuses on clearing the mind and many others, which also include movement, and/or prayer. Personally, I like to chill out, relax and listen to soothing voices and focus on my breathing to help reduce stress of modern day life.
This can be as simple as lighting your candle, or waving about a sage smudge stick, but not everyone needs to do this. Clapping your hands before starting is enough. If you can, reduce the lighting in the room you plan to mediate in.
A little low music can help us relax when new to meditating. Soothing and calm, with no vocals. A smart speaker helps you to play a meditation mantra, and gives some lovely options.
Stretch your arms up high and if you can, then touch the floor. Choose where you will sit, lie down, or use cushions to prop you in a comfortable seating position with feet on the floor. If lying down, bend your knees to allow this and perhaps use a rolled up towel or bolster under your knees if needed. Try and keep your spine straight while you focus on around 10-15 minutes at the beginning, to learn how to get your head into the mindset of relaxing. I prefer to sit on the floor for this, with cushions at my back and under my knees, with a small table in front of me with my chosen candle.
We can bring in colour therapy with candle choice, for example:
For simple unguided meditation, begin to focus on your breathing patterns, and how shallow your breaths are. Concentrate to take slower, deeper breaths, concentrate on your breathing, breathe in and count to three, holding your breath and then slowly exhale, fully releasing that breath, pushing it out until you feel your abdomen contract.
Try to have your candle at a comfortable level for your eyes to gaze into. As you do your breathing exercises, begin to look into the flames, trying to keep your eyes on the flame at all times.
Look for:
Try to medicate for 10 minutes. Don’t worry, as it takes a little practice to get right. Before you are finished, it’s important to bring yourself back to reality and connecting with the physical life once again.
An easy way would be to:
Many of you will have seen some of the home devices in this field. Many are more related to skin scraping rather than being a multi functional ultrasonic device.
Benefits of Using an Ultrasonic Micro-Therapy Device
Ultrasonic Micro-Therapy Facial
To quote Eve Taylor:
“The Eve Taylor® Ultrasonic Micro-therapy Device is a handheld device created for the
professional therapist to use within their facial treatments. The supreme technology of the
device supercharges professional-use Eve Taylor® products and boosts treatment room
results for the ultimate client satisfaction.”
What this means, is that the newest form of the technology for use by therapists, pushes treatments to a new level. The technology uses sound waves which are in excess of 25,000hz, and creates a reaction in the tissues of the skin via vibrations and sound waves to oscillate the cells in the upper layer of the skin. There is a visible moisture mist as skin impurities and sebum are cleansed.
What Does an Ultrasonic Device Do?
The multi functional device allows a variety of treatments to be carried out, across a wide variety of skin types and conditions.
Exfoliates: assists in the removal of dead skin cells, and helps improve facial cleansing actions, for a more effective treatment.
Clarifies: deep clenasing, breaking down sebum and the skins acid mantle, to all for easier extractions and refreshes the skin.
Ionises: helps push active ingredients further into skin layers that massage alone, helping to increase absorption of products and increase their effectiveness, which allows for better results.
Is It Safe?
Yes, completely. A bit like a pressure washer for skin, but kinder, is the best way to describe how dirt and debris are loosened, removed and promotes collagen and elastin production to increase blood circulation, reduce puffiness and help with tightening the skin.
The treatment is gentle and safe for all skin types, and is especially good for acne or congested skin types, as well as ageing skin.
Who Can’t Have A Micro-Therapy Device Treatment?
We are sorry, but the following conditions mean we cannot use this device on your skin.
In the field of facial electricals, direct high frequency is sometimes forgotten in the scramble for muscle toning microcurrent, but it’s not one to be dismissed.
Direct High Frequency works right on the skin, in the surface, helping to resurface, tone and deal with breakouts and spots. Combine this with an LED near infrared and blue light treatment, it can be incredible for the skin.
Suitable for all skin types, but extra beneficial for oily spots and breakouts.
Benefits of Direct High Frequency
What Does It Feel Like?
Direct High Frequency treatments are relaxing and targeted for best effect, depending on your skin.
How Often to Have a Direct High Frequency Treatment
Best Homecare Aftercare
As always with targeted treatments, aftercare is important.
Treatment Procedure
Microcurrent treatments have been used by medical professionals and celebrities for years. Good results were achieved where facial muscles had been paralysed by Bells Palsy, and proved themselves able to relift sagging muscles in the face.
In the industry for therapy and beauty, microcurrent has become the leading beauty treatment for prevention and treatment of ageing skin, and is a more modern version than the older style Faradic electrical treatments.
The microcurrent we use is tiny. It is in the range of
As you can see, the shorter the waveform, the deeper the current can work to penetrate through the skin and improve skin appearance by toning the skin and help with muscles.
While your treatment is being performed, you may feel.
For best effect, an initial course of 10 treatments works best in the following order:
Tired, upset, feeling low, wanting to hide away and wishing the days away, yes we all feel like that sometimes. Some of it is down to our pesky hormones too. Who knew they were going to be so troublesome for us as we get older? It’s not fair, it really isn’t.
It is, however, sometimes down to the ever present challenge of ageing. Some people accept it gracefully, others feel down and miserable, and a few just want to hibernate and wish the world would go away.
Sometimes, knowing why we feel so bad, can help us get out groove back. Perhaps our bodies aren’t as good as they used to be, or the mirror shows an older face beaming back at us, but here’s a little reminder of what happens to us as we hit that mid life hormonal challenge.
It didn’t happen overnight. In our thirties and forties, our hormones start to ebb and flow, and the per-menopause can begin to bite. Yes, it can be as early as that. I entered peri-menopause in my early thirties and was fully menopausal before my mid thirties, so although it’s usually older, those pesky hormones can strike early as egg reserves dwindle. With eggs beginning to run out, our bodies may miss out a cycle of ovulation here and there, meaning that stress levels can rise and weight gain/inflammation can rear its’ ugly head.
In our later forties and early fifties, nobody bats an eyelid at a lady flushing and blushing, as it’s acknowledged silently, without as much as a wink or a blink, that a hormonal woman may be going through the ‘change.’
Thinking back to my own history, one day I remember vividly, still makes me cringe. In my thirties, early menopausal hot flushes rose from my toes to reach the top of my head in frequent rolling waves of unpleasantness. I used to be adept at excusing myself before it got past my stomach and elbows, heading up to my armpits.
In an office environment, it is often quite easy to sidestep for a few minutes and avoid being a sweaty betty in public, but at times, it can be quite an embarrassment. I was talking to a male colleague and with no escape route, I felt a hot flush begin to surf up and out. The colleague had a big issue that needed dealt with urgently, and I couldn’t concentrate on what was being said, for trying to hold my breath and attempt to mentally banish the hot flush back into my ground rooted boots.
The hot flush hit my cheeks with the force of a mini tsunami. With no escape, and two people manning the door behind, it got to my forehead, at which point, my colleague looked mildly horrified and stumbled over his words. He’d obviously thought I fancied him……. Bless!! The point is, that if I’d been in my late forties or fifties, he might have offered to get me a glass of water, open a window and understood what was going on. I gave up on decorum, reached for a few pieces of paper, swiftly folded them in half to fan my face, and apologised for the early menopausal heebiejeebies!!!!
That was the point I decided that honestly is the best policy when in a pickle where the menopause is concerned. There really is NO hiding it if hot flushes are your big go to symptom…
The pesky oestrogen and progesterone hormones causes loads of symptoms as they begin to get out of balance. Although symptoms differ from person to person and in intensity too, there are some common issues that can point towards our hormones making us enter a challenging phase.
Barrelling through the peri menopause is one thing, but living in full menopause is a totally different thing. There are opotions nowadays. HRT didn’t work for me, but it does help lots of people avoid being in the situation I found myself in with the hot flush above. To do that, you have to see a GP and have your hormone levels tested, to make sure your issues really are with your hormone levels. It was quite a blow so young in my thirties, to find out that I’d entered full menopause, but at least I had a reason for my symptoms.
Managing stress and learning to live with life changes is another way to help us cope. There will be times we will be on top of it, and times some of us aren’t. We know the goal is to exercise, eat well and take the right supplements, and sometimes we recognise mental health needs adjusting to reduce stress levels too.
If you are looking at reducing stress levels, treatment below can have a good effect on wellbeing, to relax the body and promote calm mood and relaxing sleep.
CPD has been around for a long time. It builds and lays the foundation for proof for good professional practice in any environment. The emergence of competency as standard has meant that the importance of CPD in the workforce has grown. CPD, in short, simply stands for those activities in which you carry out, that keep your skills, knowledge and experience up to date in your relevant industry.
There are many reasons for the growth of CPD in importance as a competency, including:
Speed of Change
It’s not enough to go to college or university, and expect that to be the end of learning. The theory we learn has an ever decreasing lifespan due to increases in technology, knowledge, and understanding. Many years ago, it was acceptable for therapists to use the same spatulas and wax for clients, simply straining the wax to use with a new client. Students today would hold their hands up in horror at the potential for cross contamination, yet for years, that was the norm. I can guarantee that even now, there are therapists out there who still double dip with spatulas and continue to strain wax between clients. They have not kept up with the trends in the industry, and have fallen behind with their skills and knowledge.
Quality Control
Industries now have a minimum level of quality assurance, whereby all staff are trained to the same base level in order to perform any particular role within an industry. They are also required to keep up to the same levels with ongoing training and development. Where the biggest change here has happened, is in the expectation for staff to manage their own levels of quality control, via meeting minimum standards. It is each persons own responsibility to ensure they are up to date.
Guild of Beauty Therapists CPD
Guild Members, Professional Development subscribers and subscribers to Guild Gazette magazine can earn free CPD points every issue by reading the Professional Development section and completing the Professional Development Module. Each issue of the magazine allows you to earn 2 CPD points which will be recorded in your own CPD Diary account on the GTi website. Look at the section in your Guild account to find the CPD area.
Legal Requirements
The law demands that standards of competence are met. The cost of insurance policies, and their recent rises, have been a determining factor in making organisations require personnel to take charge of their professional development to meet their standards. CPD as a core policy within an organisation can be a strong factor in determining minimum competence levels, and reducing the size of risk for legal indemnity.
Professional Standards
It’s been mentioned several times already. Each industry must maintain the minimum standards of competency required among their members. For the beauty and holistic industry, the Guild of Beauty Therapists decides which levels of qualification meet their standard for membership, and from then on, members are expected to continue their own development, to remain current and skilled.
Competition
If you don’t keep up to date with modern practices, you can be sure some of your competitors will. If the wax straining double dipper clients find out the new salon down the road has a more sanitary way of carrying out waxing treatments, and lets all their clients and their friends know, you can be sure the wax strainer is going to lose some of her clientele, until the point of no return, and not enough clients to remain in business.
Types of CPD
CPD comes in many forms. In years gone past, it would only be for courses, seminars or organised meetings. Savvy organisations now know that any activity that increases a skillset, broadens knowledge and promotes better safety and practice, is also a candidate for CPD.
Some forms are:
For CPD at work, it can be training carried out in-house, through the devolution or sharing of others knowledge, skills and expertise to others in the business. Each activity can be awarded a set number of points to add to your personal CPD total for the year.
For a minimum level, 10 points is accepted, however 30 points per year is expected as a satisfactory amount.
What is a CPD Point?
It’s a unit of measurement that shows you have improved your skills and knowledge by carrying out relevant Continuing Professional Development in your industry. You should keep a record of your CPD in a form of an evidence portfolio.
CPD Portfolio
Quite simply, a CPD portfolio could just be a piece of paper that you record what you did, when you did it, what the learning was that took place, what skills you learned and how you can put those into practice.
Record the following:
