Why I Teach Reiki From the moment I was given reiki ability, I knew I wanted to share this healing energy. I started by giving reiki to my family and friends. I knew that many practitioners chose the path of giving reiki treatments as a transactional service similar to massage, but something inside me felt that wasn’t my path. After taking the master level
My First Encounter with Energy It was the winter of 1998 and my mother and I had traveled to her home country of Japan to visit family and friends for a couple weeks. I had turned 20-years-old a few months earlier so it was my Coming-of-Age year. In Japan, on a particular day in January, all children who had turned
Discovering Reiki March 2000, I was home from university and wandering around my local library. As I walked by a cluster of small reading tables, something about one of the tables on the far side caught my attention. A large book lay open on it, and despite it being out of my way, I stopped, turned around, and walked over to examine
Migraines and Reiki One afternoon after lunch, I began to feel a small ache in my brain, a simmering pain that grew so imperceptibly that by the time I realized it was a migraine-in-the-making, a half-day of discomfort had already passed. I skipped dinner and went to bed early hoping to sleep it away, but woke in the middle of the night with an overwhelmingly
