Reiki Energy Healing

This is a course for anyone who would like to learn a simple hands on healing tool for themselves and to share with others. No belief in Reiki is required, just an open mind and heart, a spirit of curiosity.
It is not a course for only listening to, it is very practical, experiential and hands on.
You will be introduced to Reiki as an energy healing method and learn that one of its most unique features as a complementary therapy, is that the first thing you always learn is self-healing. This enables you to participate fully in your own wellbeing and gives you a strong foundation for helping others.
You will receive full guidance on the procedure and hand positions to practice Self-Reiki which includes the seven major chakras, and also the procedure and most practical ways for sharing Reiki with a family member or friend using a chair.

Two extra lessons give special attention to the heart chakra with Cardiac Coherence Training and the final lesson introduces Gassho which can be used as a spiritual practice and a way to prepare yourself as a channel for healing before you share Reiki.

At its simplest level, Reiki activates the relaxation response which gives your body the opportunity to access its own healing intelligence. At deeper levels it facilitates spiritual growth, restores energy imbalances, calms, deeply relaxes and can ease minor pain.

This course is ideal if you have a general interest in Reiki and want to find out more.
It is also helpful if you have already completed Reiki training, but haven’t used Reiki for a while and would like a refresher.
If you find meditation difficult and want a more ‘hands-on’ practice, Reiki is perfect for this.
It is very helpful for insomnia. A lot of people do their daily Self-Reiki at bedtime and find themselves falling asleep before they have even finished.
Journal prompts are included. You might like to consider having a specially designated Reiki journal, especially if this is the start of your journey with Reiki. In it you could record your impressions as you go along which will make for interesting reading later in your journey.

*Please note that if you want to complete the requirements for Reiki One Certification, the four energy attunements/initiations of Reiki One need to be obtained separately in real-time.
It isn’t a pre-requisite for this course but I recommend you receive a full Reiki treatment from any qualified Reiki practitioner in your own community location so that you know what Reiki feels like. This would ideally be someone with at least five years experience of giving treatments and who you have received a personal recommendation for.

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Lección 1: Your Hands Are All You Need

This first lesson is experiential. It introduces you to the uniqueness of Reiki as a complementary therapy, in that the first thing that is always learnt is how to give Reiki to yourself.
Self healing is especially helpful because care towards ourselves sometimes has to be re-learned.
Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki stressed the importance of building up sensitivity and awareness in our hands. This lesson begins your journey of listening to your body, hands, and intuition, so that you can develop the capacity to finely tune into your energy system.
You will be guided through a self Reiki with nine main positions with suggestions on how you might include a further three and introduced to the seven main chakras centres.

Lección 2: What Is Reiki ?

As part of our open and evolving exploration of Reiki, this lesson is an overview. It is delivered in the form of questions frequently asked by Reiki students with answers for you to reflect upon.
Included are questions like - What exactly is energy healing; What is meant by energy when it is discussed within the context of energy medicine and spiritual healing; What is Reiki; Do I have to believe in it to work; Can anyone learn to do Reiki; What if I don’t feel anything in my hands; What does Reiki feel like; What are the main benefits of Reiki; Can Reiki actually cure illness or alleviate pain? You are encouraged to make a note of any of your own questions that haven’t been asked or answered, if they arise so that you can bring them to the Insight Timer virtual classroom.

Lección 3: Your Chakra Energy Centres

In lesson three you will learn more about chakras, how they relate to the most important areas of your life and how Reiki brings them into balance.
You will be guided through an experiential Chakra meditation to learn their positions, colours, what they mean and which energy centre each governs.
The meditation aims to help your mind be relaxed and receptive to the information you will hear and assist you to tune into any intuitions you have about them.

Lección 4: Heart Chakra And Cardiac Coherence Training

In lesson four we give dedicated time and space to the heart chakra. Everything we experience is digested through our hearts. It is the middle chakra and in a very real way holds the key to the balance of the three below and the three above it.
You will be briefly introduced to the idea of the electromagnetic heart and then invited to experience a guided Heart chakra Self- Reiki with embedded elements of Cardiac Coherence Training to create more focus and depth.

Lección 5: Checklist For Sharing Reiki

Once you feel well established in Self-Reiki, you can prepare to share it with friends and family members. To achieve this there are several things to think about beforehand. Paying attention to detail is a way of instilling trust and communicating kindness.
In lesson five we will run through a checklist of practical considerations. Included will be how to set up the room you will use, how to prepare yourself, the pros and cons of working on a chair or bed and basic health and safety issues. Considerations around working in silence or using music and the reasons for not chatting during a Reiki share will also be explored. There are almost no situations in which Reiki should not be used, but I include a list of potential contraindications for when not to share it, so that no harm can be caused. I will offer suggestions for how to explain what is Reiki to people who don’t know anything about it.

Lección 6: Sharing Reiki Using A Chair

This is an experiential and experimental lesson to take you through the procedure
for sharing Reiki, traditionally called Chiryo. It is important to share Reiki in a careful way even though it is not a professional treatment so that you can gain confidence and the person receiving has a good experience, especially if it is their first one. With this in mind you are encouraged to begin with a Reiki share partner so that you can walk through the positions and try things out.
The lesson will will cover how you can make sure your body feels comfortable as you hold and move between hand positions and what to be aware of so that you can make the receiver feel safe and in control of the share.

Lección 7: Lesson 7 Going Forward And Gassho

In lesson seven you will be guided through a meditation practice Usui taught his students called Gassho which translates as two hands coming together in prayer. It will help you to deepen your relationship to the Universal life force energy that is Reiki as well as your relationship with Reiki as an energy healing method.
Gassho is also a simple way to prepare your mind and heart before you share Reiki. It enables you to pause, create your intention in an embodied way and remember that you are a channel for Reiki not in charge of it.
We will also recap what you have learnt in this part one of the course so and what content is included in part two.