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From: cs colvin
To: reikicouncil@earthlink.net
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 1:28:27 PM
Subject: Fw: BBB Complaint Case#94145268(Ref#36-88256659-94145268-8-320)
FYI
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From: Better Business Bureau
To: Catherine S Colvin
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 12:30:51 PM
Subject: BBB Complaint Case#94145268(Ref#36-88256659-94145268-8-320)
Complaint ID#: 94145268
Business Name: The Sanctuary School of Therapeutic Massage and En
You recently requested our help concerning a problem with the company named above. The company has not responded to the Bureau to date. Please contact me or return this letter to the BBB by {\b November 28, 2007 } and inform us whether you have heard from the company or not. If you have not heard from the company, your complaint will be closed as unanswered, and it will be reflected as such in the company's reliability report. Additionally, you will receive written notification regarding the status of your complaint when it is closed.
We encourage you to use our ONLINE COMPLAINT system to keep up with the progress of this complaint. Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is a general e-mail address, please use the ONLINE COMPLAINT system. The URL (website address) below will take you directly to this complaint on our website:
Complaint Status Page
Sincerely,
Kimberly Mullen
Assistant Manager, Personal Services
kmullen@chicago.bbb.org
Resources
I thought I'd done my homework until I pursued help by filing a dispute with my credit card company. Then I realized I'd barely scratched the surface of information available. Still, I also have to say that the only thing I've found out so far that would have kept me from continuing with the Reiki Council and The Sanctuary School is that I should not have begun classes until I had payment information from TFC. Connie Vrenios had me using used books donated by a previous student for over a month, which was over half the time I was there. I had no business using their materials until they were "mine" and being paid for through the loan I thought was being submitted. Hopefully other would be students, from whom Rick Vrenios or Connie Vrenios request(s) a down payment from in order to submit a loan that doesn't end up submitted, may benefit from information provided in the resources below.
Illinois Legal Aid
Nolo
Illinois Pro Bono
Carol Stream Office of Praire State Legal Services provides free legal services in civil legal matters for persons who have incomes below 125% of the federal poverty guidelines and senior citizens age 60 and older regardless of income.
ISBE - Illinois State Board of Education In Illinois, a school's curriculum usually must be approved by the ISBE. As it happened for me, that may not apply to classes taken as a member even if you are a student or licensed.
Illinois Department of Finanical and Professional Regulation
Chicago Better Business Bureau
National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork
American Massage Therapy Association
American Massage Therapy Association Illinois Chapter
Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals
Illinois Legal Aid
Nolo
Illinois Pro Bono
Carol Stream Office of Praire State Legal Services provides free legal services in civil legal matters for persons who have incomes below 125% of the federal poverty guidelines and senior citizens age 60 and older regardless of income.
ISBE - Illinois State Board of Education In Illinois, a school's curriculum usually must be approved by the ISBE. As it happened for me, that may not apply to classes taken as a member even if you are a student or licensed.
Illinois Department of Finanical and Professional Regulation
Chicago Better Business Bureau
National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork
American Massage Therapy Association
American Massage Therapy Association Illinois Chapter
Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals
My Experience with Rick Vrenios, Connie Vrenios, Reiki Council and The Sanctuary School
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This blog details an attempt to complete a Reiki-based massage therapy program at The Sanctuary School which was cut short by Rick Vrenios and Connie Vrenios who chose not to submit the loan we agreed to in writing. A scan of that loan application dated June 13 2007 is chronologically entered near the bottom of this page.
This blog details an attempt to complete a Reiki-based massage therapy program at The Sanctuary School which was cut short by Rick Vrenios and Connie Vrenios who chose not to submit the loan we agreed to in writing. A scan of that loan application dated June 13 2007 is chronologically entered near the bottom of this page.
To clarify a point made by Connie Vrenios and Rick Vrenios' in their BBB response about me creating a "flurry of communications", 1) this began in pursuit of my $2000 downpayment; 2) it's unlikely attorneys are inclined to immerge themselves in dense, convoluted communications for issues like this. Surely most would glance at this mess and rightfully refuse involvement. Maybe Connie Vrenios and Rick Vrenios relied on offensively dense and convoluted communications to prevent legal pursuit. I can't speak for them, but I have a consistent history of being verbose, so again their accusation is baseless and unprovable.
This blog is intended to serve as a constructive outlet for this experience. Though I'll never know why this happened, I do want others to know Connie Vrenios and Rick Vrenios disappointed me to the core. I also want to believe someone else will be helped by not being similarly victimized. My biggest mistake with The Sanctuary School and the Reiki Council though was wanting to continue to trust after common sense said enough is enough. There could have been much more to say here, but I didn't journal as I should have. Much is already not posted here because it's mostly rambling while trying to organize where I went wrong.
Outside legal means, any representative for The Sanctuary School and Reiki Council who decides to contact me should email transparent and clear discussion and know it will all be posted here and backed up elsewhere. This blog will be edited for clarification, typos and updated to add evolving details, so it will remain a work in progress through the last communication.
This blog is intended to serve as a constructive outlet for this experience. Though I'll never know why this happened, I do want others to know Connie Vrenios and Rick Vrenios disappointed me to the core. I also want to believe someone else will be helped by not being similarly victimized. My biggest mistake with The Sanctuary School and the Reiki Council though was wanting to continue to trust after common sense said enough is enough. There could have been much more to say here, but I didn't journal as I should have. Much is already not posted here because it's mostly rambling while trying to organize where I went wrong.
Outside legal means, any representative for The Sanctuary School and Reiki Council who decides to contact me should email transparent and clear discussion and know it will all be posted here and backed up elsewhere. This blog will be edited for clarification, typos and updated to add evolving details, so it will remain a work in progress through the last communication.
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