Reiki healing

Energy healing is a powerful modality to shift energy and raise your vibration to allow self-healing to take place.

Reiki is an ancient healing technique that involves the practitioner using light touch or hovering hands to work within the body and human energy field and allow self healing to take place within every layer as needed: the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions.

What is Reiki Healing?

Reiki is a Japanese energy healing technique was founded by Master Mikao Usui in the 1920s in which universal life energy is channeled through the practitioner and directed into the body and energy field of the recipient. It is praised for its ability to promote healing and balance in the mind, body, and spirit.

This gentle therapy involves noninvasive, nonmanipulative touch or hovering of hands just above or on the clothed body. The client may be seated or reclining while the practitioner works slowly over the front of the body and sometimes the back using deliberate hand positions.

There is no religious doctrine affiliated or incongruence with Reiki and is it accepted by people of many cultures, backgrounds, and belief systems.

Reiki is rooted in the belief that the powerful, creative energy of the Universal Life Force present in all of creation and honored across most cultures (also known as Ki in Japanese, Qi in Chinese, Prana, in yogic traditions, Pneuma, in ancient Greece, Spiritus, in Latin, and Ruach in Hebrew) can be harmonized to allow self-healing to take place.

While Master Usui created the form of healing therapy we know to be Reiki, he did so after deep meditation in the mountains and connecting with this Universal Life Force. In this way, he learned to channel this eternal and ever-present Universal Life Force and heal others as other masters had done for millennia, but also shared the gift with his students, who have then passed the gift on to others.

The "gift" itself is received via an attunement process bestowed upon the student by a Reiki master. This means, anyone who seeks to become a Reiki practitioner may do so, as the ability is not unique to the person, but to the process of attunement. This process allows the practitioner to become an open channel to the Universal Life Force energy, which we experience as Divine healing love moving through us and into the recipient.

It is resoundingly evident that powerful and measurable shifts can take place with Reiki healing, allowing it to be used alongside traditional therapy and conventional medicine.

While it can take many sessions to shift big energy blockages that have been in place for some time, deep relaxation and grounding, stress reduction, and an uptick in well-being can be immediately felt.

What are the benefits of Reiki Healing?

The beauty of Reiki healing is that the Universal Life Force works in the ways in which it is needed most. Some of the documented benefits of Reiki healing include:

  • Improved stress experience, via induction of the parasympathetic nervous system and promoting;

    • Reduced heart rate

    • Muscle relaxation

    • Increased heart rate variability

    • Decreased blood pressure

  • Significant pain reduction

  • Decreases in depression and anxiety

  • Increases in self-esteem

  • Improved quality of life

Other reported benefits of Reiki healing include:

  • Enhanced mental clarity and focus

  • Accelerated physical recovery

  • Reduction in the side effects of medications

  • Improved immune system function

  • Clearing of emotional blockages and trauma release

  • Spiritual growth and chakral balancing

  • Increased self-awareness

  • Improved self-care and self-love

  • Complementary support for chronic medical conditions

What can I expect with a Reiki Healing?

Encompass Pathways does not have a physical location so both distance healing and in-person healing in your home, in a park setting (yes we can do that!), or even in my serene backyard by a gentle river (weather permitting) are all options!

For a distance healing, you don't need to do anything at all but grant me the permission to send you the healing. This concept may be hard for some to grasp when you exist very much on this physical plane. If you can suspend your disbelief for a moment, imagine that time and space is just an Earth plane illusion, and the language of energy is eternal, constant, and instant!

I need only to think of you and your energy field and send Reiki energy directly to your energy field for it to be effective. It might be helpful, however, for receptivity for us to schedule this time so that you are quiet and still. Certainly a video call is a great way to do this.

Alternatively, we can meet in person if you are local to the Richmond area, as described above. The effects of in-person therapy may be more salient because of our still "very human" expectations of time and space.

For in-person sessions, you may remain seated in a chair with support or lying down on a couch or bed (or my relaxing hammock chair!).

I may use essential oils to bolster the relaxing experience.

If there are any particular issues, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual that you would like me to focus on, I will ask you for this direction before I begin so that I can direct energy to where it is most desired. Most people remain still with eyes closed, but you are welcome to keep your eyes open if this is more fitting for you.

Once you are comfortable I will begin by centering myself and channeling in the healing energy, and will begin at your head with hand placements. If you are comfortable with touch, I will likely place my hands directly on your body in most areas, but will hover over more sensitive areas or use your own hand as a buffer between my own and your body.

I will remain in each placement for as long as I feel called to and will continue working towards your feet for the completion of the Reiki healing.

Once completed, the healing will conclude with a quick total body energy "raking" and "fluffing" of your chakra centers.

You are welcomed to remain in a relaxed position until you feel ready to open your eyes or move your body again.

A cleansing glass of Reiki-charged (OR infused with intention) water is highly recommended.