HOW REIKI WORKS

What is Reiki

Reiki is a gentle energy therapy that helps recipients lower stress levels and promotes relaxation.  In this state our bodies and minds are more equipped to heal; whether it is a physical, mental or emotional challenge.  Reiki can help even the most healthy person stay in balance.  Reiki is a complimentary therapy to medicine or other healing modalities and can facilitate the bodies innate ability to heal allowing prescribed treatments to potentially work better.
Reiki can be spiritually satisfying though it is not a religion and in no way conflicts or contradicts anyone's beliefs. It is energy drawn from the universe similar to the warmth we receive from the sun.

Benefits

  • Reduces Stress
  • Promotes Relaxations
  • Alleviates Aches and Pains
  • Works on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level
  • Can assist with anxiety and depression
  • Can improve quality of life
  • Facilitates the bodies innate ability to heal
  • Never causes harm
  • Works with treatments

How to Receive Reiki

Light Touch: The client will receive their Reiki treatment fully clothed lying on a massage table or sitting in a comfortable chair.  A session can last 30 minutes to an hour.  The Reiki practitioner places their hands at locations throughout the body generally starting with the head down to the feet.  The hands will either lightly touch the body or hover just above.  The body is not manipulated in any way.  During the session the Reiki energy - known as life force or universal energy - will flow from the practitioners hands into the client's body and energy field.  During a session the client may feel warmth,  a deep relaxed sensation, and a general sense of well being.  How the Reiki moves is actually up to the receiver as the Reiki practitioner is purely a conduit of the energy between the source and the receiver.  For in person sessions the client or recipient  should expect to arrive 15 minutes ahead to discuss the session and any expectations.

Distance Treatment: Distance Reiki is like the in person session except done from the comfort of the client's own home, or if traveling from the hotel.  We will start the session with a phone call and then once again at the end to recap.  The client finds a comfortable, quiet place to sit or lie down.  If desired play soft background music. As Reiki is an energy therapy it is equally effective remotely.
Animal Reiki:  Animals are very sensitive to Reiki.  This can be a helpful compliment to them during stressful times.  This can be done on location or remotely.  Animal Reiki sessions are entirely up to the animal and can't be forced.  They decide if they want it hands on, or from the opposite corner of the room.  Some sessions can be extremely short as well.  It must be entirely up to the animal.

Reiki is complimentary to medical and other professional health care and is not a substitute.

A Brief History

Mikao Usui

mikao usuiMikao Usui (1865 – 1926, commonly Usui Mikao in Japanese) was the founder of a form of spiritual practice known as Reiki,[1] used as a complementary therapy for the treatment of physical, emotional, and mental diseases. According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught Reiki to over 2000 people during his lifetime. Sixteen of these students continued their training to reach the Shinpiden level, a level equivalent to the Western third degree, or Master level.[2] Usui died on 9 March 1926 of a stroke.

During the early 1920s, Usui did a 21-day practice on Mount Kurama-yama called discipline of prayer and fasting, (according to translator Hyakuten Inamoto. Common belief dictates that it was during these 21 days that Usui developed Reiki. As Mount Hiei is the main Tendai complex in Japan, and is very close to Kyoto, it has been surmised that Usui would also have practiced there if he had been a lay priest. This teaching included self-discipline, fasting and prayer.

“In April of the 11th year of Taisho (1922 A.D.) he settled in Harajuku, Aoyama, Tokyo and set up the Gakkai to teach Reiki Ryoho and give treatments. Even outside of the building it was full of pairs of shoes of the visitors who had come from far and near.” –

“In September of the 12th year (1923 A.D.) there was a great earthquake and a conflagration broke out. Everywhere there were groans of pains from the wounded. Sensei, feeling pity for them, went out every morning to go around the town, and he cured and saved an innumerable number of people.

Chujiro Hayashi

chujiro hayashiChujiro Hayashi (1880 –  1940), a disciple of Mikao Usui, played a major role in the transmission of Reiki out of Japan and for turning it into a less mystical practice.

Hayashi was a naval physician and employed Reiki to treat his patients. He began studying with Usui in 1925. He made his branch, Hayashi Reiki Kenkyu-kai in Tokyo, Shinano-machi while his master Usui was still alive, and has kept the way of Usui's teaching.

Hayashi initiated and trained Hawayo Takata and helped her bring Reiki to Hawaii. As some of the popular history of Reiki consists of Takata's alleged fabrications,[1] Hayashi is often considered to be Usui's chief disciple and the second Grand Master of Reiki history.[

Hawayo Takata

Hawayo Hiromi Takata

Hawayo Hiromi Takata (December 24, 1900 - December 11, 1980), a Japanese-American born in Hanamaulu, Territory of Hawaii, who helped introduce the spiritual practice of Reiki to the Western World.

Mrs Takata was trained in Reiki by Dr Chujiro Hayashi in Tokyo, Japan and became a Master Practitioner by 1940. Her teacher, Dr Hayashi, learned from Dr Mikao Usui, the first teacher of Reiki, in the early 1900s. Identification of training lineage is common amongst Reiki practitioners. Within the 7 level system tradition, she is known as, Reiki Grand Master Teacher Hawayo Takata.