Reiki

Reiki

History

Reiki is a formal system of healing originating in Japan based on the teachings of Dr Mikao Usui. While Reiki has Buddhist roots and can be seen as a form of spiritual healing it is not based on religion and honours the unique understanding of each individual. Brought to the West by the Hawaiian lady Hawayo Takata in the thirties Reiki did not begin to spread until she began teaching in the seventies. Today Reiki continues to be taught by Reiki masters who have been trained in the tradition passed from Master to student, shown by specific details of lineage back to Hawayo Takata and Dr Mikao Usui. In the thirty years since being brought to the west, it has spread to every country on earth and there are an estimated 600,000 people trained to Reiki level three or master level.

Treatment

Reiki is a very gentle therapy with no contraindications and yet it can be a profoundly powerful healing experience. Treatment simply involves the recipient lying down on a couch and relaxing while the practitioner places their hands non intrusively over the whole body in a sequence of specific positions. These positions have a relation to what are known as energy centres or chakras within the body. If you are not able to lie down, a treatment can be done in a sitting position, but the aim is for full relaxation to be able to take place.

Each individual will experience Reiki in a different way, some simply feel very relaxed 'on the edge of sleep', some feel specific sensations including heat or coldness, some visualise colours and others may experience a type of 'inner journey'. The same person’s experience of treatment may vary on different occasions. A good way to describe the overall feeling however, is that it is like going into deep meditation without effort or concentration. The practitioner will always close a session appropriately so the recipient is back to normal awareness.

The aim of Reiki is to relax, balance and promote an individual's innate self healing abilities through inner awareness. Sessions usually last about an hour and involve no disrobing.

Training

Reiki is the ultimate self healing tool and the basic techniques involved in first degree Reiki are taught in a weekend. This teaches you methods to work on yourself, friends and family. Anyone can learn Reiki and once the training is complete it is active and remains so, even if you don’t use it for many years. However, as with all things the more we practice with Reiki the better our skills with and understanding of it become. Reiki is a spiritual, (though not religious) practice which offers us the tools and a structure so we can easily work towards a more aware state of being. The learning never stops, as we delve deeper into ourselves our knowledge and understanding grows, we are able to face more complex challenges and we are drawn inexorably to learn and understand more of the true nature of our reality.

Please contact us or check our diary page to find out when our next course is running and to book your place.