About Me

Joseph Modica,

Founder-Owner Covered Bridge Studio:School of Healing Arts (Reiki)

Usui/Tibetan Reiki Master Teacher

Karuna Reiki® Master Teacher

Hospice Volunteer-providing comfort to those in transition

Clergy Volunteer, Regional Catskill Hospital-Harris, NY

Ordained Inter Faith Minister

Animal Reiki Practitioner

Certified Advanced Theta/DNA Healer Practitioner

Certified Reiki Drumming® Practitioner/Teacher

Retired:

Army 25 years, 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. (5yrs) Paratrooper & NY Army National Guard(20yrs)

Law Enforcement 17 years:Combined-Sullivan County Sheriff's Dept. & NY State Court Officer- Monticello,NY

How I got here and why

We all find our paths eventually. Some of us are blessed and we find our paths before it is too late. My guides went by the names of Millie and Jerry Modica, my parents.

My father worked 7 days a week 12 hours a day. Oops, only worked 8 hours on Sunday. Still got up every morning worked his 12 hours, came home to a nice hot meal cooked by his partner of 58 years. There were no sick days, or long vacations. No long weekends. If he was sick, he went in regardless. He took 3 weeks vacation once a year, along with Thanksgiving, Easter and Christmas. Do the math, that adds up to 24 days off a year!!. He worked the other 341 days at 12 hours a day. I got my hard work ethic from pop along with other virtues.

Mom inspired me to follow my path from both here and beyond. My healing path started when we found out that mom was going in for a radical hysterectomy at age 79. We suspected that she had been suffering longbefore then. There was and is a history of cancer on both sides of my family, but especially on my mothers side. They found cancerous cells during the operation and later diagnosed it as Uterine Cancer. Uterine cancer is very aggressive and painful. I looked into Therapeutic Touch, a healing modality, in the hopes that I could help ease my mother's suffering. While I was studying TT, I heard about Reiki. I then went on to study and become both a Usui Reiki Master Teacher and Karuna Reiki® Master Teacher under the instruction of William Lee Rand of Michigan. I am also an ordained Minister with Universal Ministries, a non-denominational Spiritual Ministry.

Mom passed over at 7 am on October 3rd of 2006. I took a trip to England the following January. I had a reading and my mother came through telling me "to do what makes me happy, no matter what friends or family think or say." I came back to the states and thought long and hard. I asked myself "Do I stay at a job and make a very good living, or retire and work at what I love. I retired that April from both law enforcement of 17 years and the Army after 25 years of combined active and national guard duty. I made 45 parachute jumps while serving with the 82nd Airborne Division. So, you can see that my background may not be that of a typical "healer", but it helped me to experience the "real" world in many ways. My intention is to help as many "two and four leggeds" as possible in "THIS" lifetime. I also work with animals, large and small. Fur-Fin or Feather...

Namaste'

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