Reiki is not something easily explained and often simply just described as: energy healing. That description is vague enough to mean almost nothing, so let me say what it actually is in my hands as an experience: Reiki is a practice of relational attention taking place in ourselves, with the seen and unseen environment around us, and also towards someone else (if we choose). It is a particular quality of an attuned, unhurried, hands-on (or hands-near) presence, that is held long and steady, which our nervous systems can shift towards. This is real and physiological; our systems move toward parasympathetic—the state in which our bodies can stop being braced, contracted, and become able to rest, repair, and integrate. Inside this state, whatever needs tending—emotional, physical, and anything that sits inbetween these categories—is in the condition where it is gently tended.

What people experience in this state varies, and it’s a disservice to flatten that variability into a single explanation. Warmth, coolness, a current. Sinking down, floating, drifting. Colour, or no colour. Complete connection, complete void. Emotion that surfaces, or simply a deep, held quiet. There is no correct experience! The work that happens is in the attunement, not in performance towards a particular outcome. This counts both for when we are engaging in reiki for self, as well as with reiki with others.

As a modality to work with energy, reiki is used as a healing practice. It works as a regulation tool, one that soothes the nervous system of our self first. It then works as a co-regulation tool that soothes the receiver (when we work with others). Reiki has been effectively used in hospitals and palliative care. Whilst science hasn't—yet—been able to explain how and why reiki works, it has shown measurable benefits. 

~ Usui Shiki Ryoho is a specific form of Reiki practice passed down through a particular lineage from the founder of Reiki, Mikao Usui.

~ The practice of Usui Shiki Ryoho awakens greater awareness, and deeper experience, of our presence. 

~ This Initiation includes the held teachings, transmitted, carried within the lineage. You will hold the secret and unique teachings of your specific line of this closed practice.

~ This Initiation includes attunements (handed-down rituals) which will connect you to the energy of Reiki for a lifetime, allowing you to guide your self and others into states of healing. 

~ This training covers the first two levels of reiki attunements and teachings. Enabling you to work with reiki in-person and from a distance.

~ Why reiki 1 + 2 together?: over these years, almost all of my reiki 1 shoden students have continued on to reiki 2 okuden. I've come to realise that teaching the two levels together offers my students the most knowledge and allows them to engage more fully in this practice.