Usui Reiki is a unique way of healing that has been around for centuries. It was kept a secret for the select few for a long time and fortunately it is now available to be learned by anyone who is interested. Reiki is a powerful way of changing our lives gently and lovingly. It can be used for personal healing, as a stand alone system and for those working with people in the healing field it is a great adjunct to other modalities.

Reiki is a way of connecting with the Divine Source while opening up to and allowing yourself to be a channel for God’s unending flow of Love and Light to flow through you to your hands. We all have the capacity within us to allow this flow to pass through us, we just have to activate it, which is done through a set of attunements passed on from teacher to student.

As a Reiki practitioner, Reiki becomes way of life as one learns Reiki and incorporates the 5 spiritual principals of Reiki into one’s life. It helps one be more at peace in our daily life and allows us to pass on that peace to all we meet.

Reiki is thought to have been developed thousands of years ago in the Far East, however, it was lost for thousands of years until it was rediscovered in the mid 1800s by a Japanese theologist, Dr. Mikao Usui. Dr. Usui was on a journey of discovering the healing secrets of Jesus and the Buddha. Dr. Usui was intrigued by the stories found within the Bible and the Buddhist stories about the many extraordinary healings attributed to both Jesus and Buddha and remembered that both said that whatever they could do, everyone else could do as well. He went to a Buddhist monastery in India to study the original Sanskrit teachings about healing modalities that went back 2500 years. While he eventually found the formula for healing, he had no way of activating it and decided that he needed to do something to accomplish it. After 21 days of fasting and meditation he received the first attunement and each of the symbols and the information about each of them in a sacred initiation. He was also directed at how to activate it in others. From that point on Dr. Usui had the ability to transfer the Reiki energy and to assist others in doing the same. Dr. Usui then set out on a course to share this wonderful universal healing technique with everyone who he came into contact with and passed it on to practitioners in Japan and eventually it traveled through Hawaii before making its way to the mainland of the United States. Reiki is actually a Japanese word meaning “Universal Life Energy” and that is exactly what the entire technique is about: sharing Universal Life Energy with others.

FIRST DEGREE REIKI

The primary level consists of a simple attunement of the student using the first of the Reiki symbols. As a result of this attunement the student becomes able to actually do “hands on” Reiki treatment on family members and herself/himself. The student is instructed in basic hand positioning over the body to obtain the best results and is also instructed on the history and philosophy of Reiki. The majority of the day is dedicated to practicing the hand positions and giving and receiving Reiki energy.

A minimum of 21 days is required between attunements  as there is a 21 day cleansing cycle after each class.

SECOND DEGREE REIKI

Second Degree Reiki level requires that the primary level be completed first and practiced for a period of time so that the primary practitioner has become familiar with the hand positions and “stepping aside” while doing the process.

During the Second Degree Reiki class students will be attuned to two intermediate symbols which will assist them in providing even deeper healing abilities for themselves and for people they work with and it also provides them with the added ability to do distance healing. The secondary symbols actually “turn up the heat” and increases the flow of energy that flows through the practitioner. There will be hands-on practice using the new symbols and practicing them on each other until they have been perfected.

THIRD DEGREE REIKI
MASTER TEACHER

The most exciting part of this degree is as you take this class, you’ll actually learn how to pass the Reiki attunements on to others so that they can use it. As part of the class you will be taught the sacred attunement symbols, practice passing them on to others as well as learning other uses for the symbols. All of this happens in a sacred ceremony passed on over generations of Reiki Masters and practitioner The person who chooses to take the Third Degree Level also chooses to make a commitment to the Reiki way of life.

To build on your reiki skills, the next step after the Master Teacher level is Karuna Reiki.  To learn more about Karuna Reiki, click here.

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