About Hearts & Hands

Martha Spruce
RMT

Finding Reiki at a pivotal time of life is the kind of synchronicity that happened to Martha Spruce, founder of Hearts & Hands, and also what she intends to facilitate for others in private sessions and training workshops. The message she wants to convey is that Reiki can be transformational, providing a foundation of courage to follow one's dreams for health and happiness, and to actually live those dreams.

When Martha first learned Reiki in 1994, she was working as a family planning counselor in Belfast - stressed by ordinary life, trying to cope with memory problems from an old head injury, and completely out of touch with what might make her happy. Learning to receive and give Reiki felt like coming home: an oasis of peacefulness, with room to just BE. She learned to create and enjoy her life and is very grateful to her Reiki teachers Barbara Thomas and Terry Miller.

Many changes followed, including a mercifully short stint as a waitress while she was apprenticing for her master level in Reiki, a move to Bath, and a new idea to open a Reiki Clinic in Bath. The first few classes were held in a Brunswick church, but soon relocated to Front Street in Bath . A few years later, a move down the hall offered a suite of four rooms and a private bathroom. The larger space has enabled the clinic to expand service offerings and to invite several master-level former students to join as associates.

In addition to private sessions, training workshops, monthly introductory Reiki Clinics and Practitioner Shares, home visits, and operating room surgical support, Martha also has been providing Reiki since 2003 for patients at Greater Brunswick Physical Therapy, which she loves. She has additional training in hospice, hospital chaplaincy, craniosacral therapy, breathwork, Process Work, and is a facilitator for the nationally-based program "Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster"®. She enjoys being a mom to her son Spence, walking her dog, and making dreams come true.

Kathleen Soreide
RMT

Kathleen holds a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Technology from Drexel University, and is the mother of five children, the youngest two of which she has home schooled.

She found Reiki in 1999, and started studying with Martha and Diane as soon as they opened Hearts and Hands. Kathleen trained as a Master in 2000 and joined Hearts & Hands as a Reiki Master Teacher in 2001 and is a co-developer of the Usui Lost Techniques Workshop and teaches with us each year at the EMS conference.

After receiving her Master Teacher certification, Kathleen attuned her husband, son and daughters. While holding a "day job" and taking care of her family absorb much of Kathleen's energy, she is passionate about the importance of continued personal growth and the blessing of making Reiki a living daily practice. The Soreide family all enjoy treating each other with Reiki and have grown to incorporate Reiki into their everyday lives.

Sandra Carslick
RMT, R.T.(R)(T), Karuna® Reiki Master, Member IARP

Sandra received her Reiki Master Certification in 2004 and Karuna® Reiki Master Certification in 2005. She has completed Levels 1-6 of Dr. Mary Jo Bulbrook's Transform Your Life Through Energy Medicine program and CranioSacral 1 through the Upledger Institute.

Sandra has been a licensed Radiologic Technologist since 1977 and a licensed Radiation Therapist since 1981. She is a member of the International Association of Reiki Professionals, American Society of Radiologic Technology, New England Society of Radiologic Technologists, and a Palliative Care Volunteer at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick, Maine.

Sandra has personally experienced Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, and is passionate about helping those with challenging chronic conditions. An avid softball player for over 40 years, Sandra enjoys working with athletes, facilitating wellness and injury recovery.