Many people are curious about Reiki and often ask me a variety of questions: What is Reiki? How does it work? What does it feel like? Do distance Reiki sessions really work? This post will serve as a brief guide to answer these questions and share testimonials from graduates of our Reiki classes to give you a sense of how Reiki can impact individual’s lives for the better.

What better place to begin than the fundamental question,

What is Reiki?

Reiki is a form of energy healing that promotes healing, relaxation, balance, and overall wellbeing. Reiki practitioners use their hands to deliver a gentle, beautiful energy flow that supports the body, heart, mind and spirit. Reiki originated in Japan and has become increasingly popular in the West.

In fact, it is used as a complimentary healing modality in hospitals and hospice facilities. It is sought by more and more individuals seeking Reiki sessions to facilitate body, mind, heart, spirit healing and optimize wellbeing. It is also done in group settings through Reiki shares and circles.

Reiki is used to reduce stress, enhance relaxation, and promote healing. It can be done in person or by distance. It is the use of universal life force energy to promote the highest and best good for self and others.

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Where does Reiki come from?

Usui Sensei

Founder of the Reiki Healing System

Mikao Usui, also known as Usui Sensei, founded the Reiki healing system in Japan in the early 1920’s. There are different versions of Reiki origin story, but they generally agree that Usui Sensei was dedicated to a spiritual path and was seeking spiritual enlightenment when he had a profoundly healing and awakening experience at Kurama yama, a sacred mountain near Kyoto.

A powerful jolt of light entered his body causing him to fall unconscious. He awoke the next day full of vitality and energy, experiencing himself as part of the universal consciousness. In excitement, he ran down the mountain, but stubbed his toe against a rock. He placed his hands over his toe and felt the healing energy of light flow from his hands into his toe. Thus, the healing gift of Reiki was discovered. Usui Sensei went on to become a renowned teacher and healer, spreading the powerful gift of Reiki.

What are the benefits of Reiki?

Here are just some of the benefits of Reiki:

1. Deep relaxation, restoration and rejuvenation. Reiki brings about a sense of inner peace and harmony and optimizes one’s overall health and well-being.

2. Reiki helps to bring balance to the mind and emotions. Provides relief from emotional distress and helps to clear stuck emotions.

3. Promotes physical and energetic healing, reduces stress and dis-ease, strengthens the immune system, relieves physical pain and speeds up recovery after surgery or illness.

4. Clears emotional blockages. Reiki helps open and heal the heart, allowing one to strengthen and heal personal relationships with self and others.

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Do distance Reiki sessions really work?

The amazing thing about Reiki is that it does not have to be done in-person. Because energetic or spiritual healing has no time and space limitations, we can send Reiki across vast distances and into the past or future. When we learn Reiki, we get a distance symbol that we use specifically to do distance or remote healing. Because I have extensive experience in both giving and receiving distance Reiki, I can confidently say that it’s very powerful and equally effective as when received in person. Click here to learn more about distance healing.

While I had done distance healing sessions for my clients for years, at the start of the pandemic was the first time I taught a remote Reiki session. In preparation, I took a special class in which I was trained to do distance attunements. I was stunned to find that I actually found the distance attunement I received to be even more powerful than the ones I had received in person.

This gave me the confidence to offer Reiki classes via Zoom, and much to my delight, the feedback from my students was very positive, and some even said that they preferred the Zoom class because they loved being in their own space and enjoyed being able to relax into the experience on an even deeper level. So, whether Reiki sessions or classes are done in-person or via distance, they are beautiful and powerful.

What do graduates of our Reiki program say about their experience?

Over the years, I have had the honor of guiding many students through Reiki classes. One of the most rewarding aspects of being a Reiki Master Teacher is seeing what a profound impact Reiki has on my students’ lives and how they use Reiki to benefit themselves, their families, their communities, and the world. I want to share some of their inspiring stories below.