A question for you about Hands-on Healing
Today we have a question for your about hands-on healing. Can you practice hands-on healing while watching the TV, talking or being other wise engaged?
Tomah Reiki Retreat Flora and Fauna
Check out the lovely flora and fauna that lives at the Tomah Reiki Retreat in the Blue Mountains in Australia. You can study Reiki Levels I, II and III at this gorgeous Retreat venue.
Win the NEW Reiki Relaxation CD by Bronwen Stiene
Reiki Relaxation: Guided Healing Meditations. Keep an eye on this spot as we publish your animal photos with captions here. You will soon be able to vote on your favourite photo.
Animal Reiki with Midnight the Kitten
Midnight the Kitten has really taken her Reiki practice to heart, helping out the other animals at the Tomah Reiki Retreat. We were thrilled to be able to capture her in action in a photograph or two. Here is what we caught her doing…
Our new friend at the Tomah Reiki Retreat - Midnight the Cat
We are blessed to have yet another animal join us at the Tomah Reiki Retreat. Midnight is a little black kitten whose mum arrived pregnant on a friend’s doorstep. We’re thrilled to be able to offer her a happy home.
Reiki Relaxation Double CD Now Available
Reiki Relaxation: Guided Healing Meditations a double CD of guided meditation to help you relax by Bronwen Stiene of the International House of Reiki [produced by Sounds True] is now available on Amazon.
Symbols
In Okuden level II and Shinpiden level III of the system of Reiki specific symbols are taught. Symbols play a large part in many spiritual traditions. Today we will be looking at some Chinese Taoist symbols on an old woodblock print. These look very similar to the first symbol taught in Okuden. What is interesting to note is that Taoist teachings were imported into Japan from as early as the 6th century. Some of the Chinese Taoist teachings were integrated into Japanese Shintoism and Buddhism, but also developed into a Japanese practice called Onmyodo, the Way of Yin and Yang.
To DKM or Not to DKM
Lately, there has been some discussion in the Reiki community questioning whether the founder of the system, Mikao Usui, actually taught the DKM mantra/symbol in the system of Reiki. DKM is encountered in the system’s final teachings of Shinpiden Reiki Level III. Most Reiki practitioners know of DKM through the teachings of Mrs Takata who, in the late 1930s, brought the system from Japan to the West. Mrs Takata taught the DKM mantra/symbol as the last of the system’s four mantras and symbols. Those questioning the DKM’s origins stem from the lineage of Mrs Yamaguchi.
