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✺ Welcome to Your Reiki Journey ✺

Thank you for choosing me as your trusted guide and teacher. It’s an honour to walk alongside you as you take your first step into the world of Reiki: a sacred, ancient practice and way of life that reconnects you with your natural intuition and innate ability to heal.

This guide was created to answer your questions, satisfy your curiosity, and help you feel grounded as you begin exploring this beautiful modality. Whether you’re here for self-healing, to support loved ones, or to deepen your spiritual practice, Reiki will meet you exactly where you are.

What to Expect:

Class sizes are intentionally kept small to medium so that every student feels supported, seen, and heard. I offer ongoing guidance beyond the course, because this is not just a one-time training - it’s the beginning of a lifelong connection to energy, awareness, and self-trust.

The course blends:

Theoretical teachings (history, principles, techniques, and scientific evidence) with practical, sensory-based exercises to reconnect you to your body’s innate wisdom. Together, we’ll move beyond the mind, creating space to: Strengthen your intuition, tune into your emotions, trust what you feel, sense, and see allowing you to reconnect to your inner knowing.

Your Attunement:

Receiving your Level I Reiki attunement is a deeply peaceful and empowering process. It gently opens your energy channels to Reiki, enabling you to practise on yourself, loved ones, pets, plants, and more. This is a gift that stays with you for life.

Final Words:

I’m here for any questions you may have. If this course resonates and feels aligned with your current season of life, I would be honoured to support you through your Level I Reiki journey.

What is Reiki:

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that is also believed to promote healing. Reiki was ‘discovered’ by Dr Mikao Usui in March 1922 and is applied by very gentle, static pressure from the practitioner's hands either directly on or with their hands hovering a few inches above the body. It is noted and recognised that similar hands on healing techniques have been practiced by many different cultures for thousands of years.

Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is made up of two Japanese characters Rei and Ki. The general meaning of Rei is ‘universal’ although there are many layers of interpretation which include spiritual consciousness, higher force or power. Ki means life energy and has the same meaning as ‘Chi’ in Chinese, ‘Prana’ in Sanskrit, ‘Ti’ or ‘Ki’ in Hawaiian, and science uses the term ‘biofield energy’. Together Reiki is commonly translated as universal life force energy.

Reiki is a non-invasive, gentle and safe technique that is modifiable for a wide variety of conditions. Infants, children, pregnant women, surgical patients, those with poor health and the elderly can all benefit from its use.

What are the benefits of Reiki?

There is an increasing body of scientific research which has demonstrated Reiki reduces pain, anxiety, depression and blood pressure in patients suffering across a wide variety of conditions including cancer, knee replacement, hysterectomy, haemodialysis, back pain and more. As an introduction and example, statistically significant reductions in pain were evidenced from a 2018 meta-analysis across 4 randomised controlled studies examining different medical conditions. A 2019 review concluded that ‘reiki therapy is useful for relieving pain, decreasing anxiety/depression, and improving quality of life in several conditions’. A 2022 randomised controlled study of reiki demonstrated statistically significant improvements in patient anxiety, stress, and comfort levels before gastrointestinal endoscopy.

Additionally there is reported and anecdotal evidence that Reiki promotes deep relaxation, improves fatigue and insomnia, supports the relief of muscle tension, aids the rate of recovery from injury, strengthens the immune system, energises and balances the body and chakras, promotes emotional healing and spiritual growth, and enhances overall wellbeing.

Where can I use Reiki?(level 1)

• Healing on self
• On your family, friends, loved ones, children
• Animals, and plants
• Your food
• Your morning coffee and beverages
• Technology
• For your home and work environments
• Your car

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