What is Reiki?

My interpretation:

Reiki is prayer on steroids! 💖

Reiki is a Japanese holistic healing technique that uses gentle touch or hands held just above the body to help restore balance and well-being. The practitioner channels healing energy into the recipient, which helps your body relax, release stress, and restore balance by releasing energy blockages, and support the body’s natural healing process. Many physical and emotional issues we deal with come from stuck energy and chronic stress, and Reiki helps get that energy flowing again. It’s deeply relaxing and leaves you with a sense of peace and calm. While it’s spiritually guided, Reiki isn’t a religion and works no matter what your personal beliefs are. It also complements traditional medicine beautifully.

*Per the International Association of Reiki Practitioners (IARP):

Reiki is a spiritual healing art. It is not massage nor is it based on belief or suggestion. A Reiki session usually is between 60 and 90 minutes in length. The session is performed by a Reiki Practitioner (RP or RMT) using specific Reiki hand positions. During a Reiki session, the client is fully clothed while comfortably reclining on a massage table or seated in a chair. A Reiki session aids in stress reduction and it is almost always a very relaxing experience. Reiki sessions or classes are a great investment in yourself.

Reiki is:

- A subtle and effective form of energy healing using spiritually guided life force energy (Rei-ki)

- Practiced in every country of the world

- Being used in many setting including hospitals, hospice, as well as in private practice

   and in self-care

- A wonderful complementary modality in a personal wellness or healing program

Reiki is not:

- Affiliated with any particular religion or religious practice

- New. Reiki energy itself is thousands of years old

Defining qualities of Reiki:

- A practice of transmitting healing energy through the hands

- Passed on through the attunement process

- The energy is not guided by the practitioner, but the energy has it's own innate wisdom

    to guide itself.

- Reiki energy is not based on belief, faith or suggestion.

A Reiki session may help ease tension and stress and may help support the body to facilitate an environment for healing on all levels- physical, emotional and spiritual. A session is pleasant and relaxing and is most often utilized for one's own personal wellness.