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New Reiki Evening classes in London
Hi,
I have some exciting news, which is that one of our team of teachers, Tina Shaw, will be running Reiki evening classes – for First Degree – from her base in Loughton, Essex (on the Central line), starting in NOvember of this year. First Degree will consist of five weekly sessions lasting for 90 minutes each, and the ‘evening classes’ will also be running during the daytime.
Learning Reiki in this way is a lovely way of echoing more the original Japanese system, where you got to grips with Reiki over time.
To find out more, hop over to… Continue reading
A simple way with Reiki symbols
Why so complicated?
In the West we like to make things complicated, and the way that most of us now use symbols is a world away from the simple approach that Usui used.
So how can we work with symbols in a way that echoes more the way that Usui taught his students?
Well firstly, Usui taught symbols to a very small number of people, just in the last few years of his life. The vast majority of his students were taught in a very different way.
Most of his students were given meditations to use so that they could,… Continue reading
Reiki people come from all backgrounds
I think perhaps that when the ‘person on the street’ thinks about a Reiki practitioner or teacher, they will have an image come to mind of some New Age person, maybe in a kaftan, with incense, crystals, chanting something, and while this may be a valid description of some Reiki people (and I don’t have a problem with that, by the way), Reiki is actually something that is learned and practised by people from a whole load of different backgrounds. A while ago I asked people to let me have their occupations, so I could prepare a list, and I… Continue reading
Declutter your treatment rituals
Time for a Reiki spring clean?
Reiki treatments are carried out in a lot of different ways and many rituals have been developed and passed on in different lineages.
Reiki has also been affected by the belief systems of people who are involved in other energy practices and it’s natural for Reiki teachings to become ‘coloured’ by a teacher’s personal quirks and idiosyncrasies too.
Trouble is, these practices end up turning into “this is the way that you have to do it” as they are passed on from teacher to student, teacher to new teacher, and that’s unfortunate since some… Continue reading
Treating both sides: is this necessary?
An unnecessary Reiki rule?
In many Reiki lineages, students are taught that they need to treat both sides of a client, asking them to turn over half-way through a treatment so that student can gain access to the client’s back. But is this really necessary?
Might the treatment be just as effective if we left them where they were?
I think that most Reiki people would accept that when we treat someone, the energy is drawn according to the recipient’s need to the right places for them on that occasion, to do whatever they need to have done on that… Continue reading
When I treat, do I need to keep at least one hand touching the body at all times?
Keep touching or you’ll lose the ‘connection’?
In some lineages, students are taught that they always need to keep at least one hand resting on the body at all times because, if they do not, they will ‘lose their connection’ with the client, and then have to go through a ritual again in order to regain that lost connection.
But is this really necessary?
Do we have to have to touch the body every second, like a sort of Reiki tag-team, for fear of disconnecting, and is the Reiki ‘connection’ so fragile?
What’s the difference between hands-on and hands-off?
How long should I spend in each hand position?
Treat like clockwork?
In some Reiki lineages, students are taught to spend a set amount of time treating each hand position, no matter who they are working on, and some practitioners use audio CDs with little ‘bells’ that sound out every three minutes, say.
But isn’t this a bit mechanical, and everyone’s different, so why would we give essentially the same treatment to everyone that we work on?
Altering your treatments to suit the client
The energy needs of each person that we work on will be different, so it’s reasonable to expect each Reiki treatment that we give to… Continue reading
Reiki Distant healing, Oneness and Usui’s system
Distant healing in Usui’s time
Distant healing is an essential part of Reiki in the West. People on Second Degree courses are taught the ‘distant healing’ symbol and they learn how to ‘send’ Reiki to other people, in a way that transcends time and space.
But how was this done in Mikao Usui’s time?
Well, it seems that distant healing was not practised by Usui Sensei’s students, not in the way that we understand it, though they would have realised that such a thing was possible. And although we in the West are taught a ‘distant healing symbol’, these Reiki… Continue reading
New Distant Healing meditations for you
To help Reiki people who are experimenting with distant healing, and looking for a method that suits them best, I have put together a collection of six distant healing meditations that you can use, and they are suitable for Reiki people at all levels, including First Degree. You can download the meditations straight away, as MP3 files, and listen to them as you carry out your distant healing.
I have been writing a series of blog posts on the subject of distant healing and if you have read them then you will know that I don’t believe there is… Continue reading
Sending Reiki to the future
Using distant healing creatively
I suppose that most people who send practise healing will send the energy to a friend or a family member, but the energy can be used more creatively too and, since Reiki doesn’t seem greatly constrained by either time or space, some people will send Reiki to their future.
So how might this be done?
Well, imagine that you have a public speaking engagement or a job interview, or a musical performance or an exam, any event where you could do with a bit of Reiki contentment sparkling over you. What you do is to imagine… Continue reading
Attunements, empowerments & contact lenses!
Wait! Reiki can mess these up, apparently!
A Reiki Diary
Peter Handy has kindly agreed to share his Reiki story, including publishing a “Reiki Diary” that he kept during the first four weeks after learning Reiki. Here is what Peter has to say…
“Four years ago I took a Reiki course provided by my local carers association. I had been a full time at home carer for my wife for 14 years. She had suffered several strokes over the years, the first one 30 years previously, shortly after we were married. My daughter who was 22 at the time I did the course, was also suffering health problems and as… Continue reading
