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What Is Reiki?

Reiki (霊気) — “Rei” means divine or spirit; “Ki” means life force or breath. It’s a hands-on energy healing where a practitioner channels universal life energy to bring peace, balance, and harmony to the body. The experience feels like the quiet point in meditation, when the brain settles into relaxed alpha or theta waves and left and right hemispheres align. This shifts you out of fight-or-flight into deep calm, where inner healing and a sense of the Divine can arise.


How Does Reiki Work?

Reiki brings deep relaxation, bliss, and healing without years of meditation practice. It heals mind, body, and spirit at once. Gentle and guided by a higher intelligence, Reiki works for your highest good and supports personal growth. It can be sent remotely and isn’t limited by time, so healing can reach past, present, and future. Anyone open to it can receive Reiki, and anyone who wants to learn can be taught to self-heal and help others. It is pure light and cannot be used to harm.


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How Can you Benefit from Reiki?

Whether you are looking to achieve general well-being, relaxation, enhance treatment of any medical conditions, or for spiritual growth, Reiki can support and elevate you to:

  • Find deep relaxation to naturally bring about homeostasis and healing from within.

  • Cleanses the body from toxins and supports the immune system.

  • Heal infections, inflammation and can be a great addition to cancer treatments.

  • Compliment other medical treatments and therapies. Physical healing is supported and accelerated and a reduction in pain is often achieved.

  • Manage pain in acute and chronic conditions. Many people use regular reiki for back pain and muscle aches with great success. 

  • Compliment surgery recovery, hospice care, and special needs persons, as well as children.

  • Connect to an intelligent force. The energy of Reiki travels where it is needed the most, in the moment when healing takes place.

  • Aid with insomnia.

  • Heal emotional trauma, addiction, and depression

  • Elevate your vibration and promote higher self-awareness in connecting with your inner true self and with a higher spiritual power.


What Does Reiki Feel Like?

Reiki may feel different for everyone. You might notice some or all of the sensations listed below.

  • Tingling or other physical sensations in the area of the body being treated or being intelligently  healed.

  • Hot or cold spots where the practitioners hands are placed at that moment. 

  • Heating or Cooling on the entire body, like a flushing out sensation.

  • Seeing colors, spots, angels, past over loved ones, past lives, or other visions.

  • Hearing or knowing divine intelligent information or advice for healing.