Recently re-entering my daily life after the Washington, DC Shinpiden class, I was struck by the changes I’ve been able to embrace since I first started studying with the International House of Reiki 8 years ago. I’m more grounded and expanded, usually both at the same time! If you knew me well, you’d know what a miracle that is. I’m also more compassionate and strong in my own meditation and personal healing, clearer and more effective as a healer for others. Far from perfect, I am nonetheless more calmly and sanely me, in ways I couldn’t have guessed when I began this path.
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“The real secret of the system of Reiki is not the attunement or the symbols and mantras but your personal practice of the 5 elements of the system. These 5 elements are meditating on the precepts, meditating on the symbols/mantras, practicing the meditation techniques like hatsurei ho, performing the attunement and hands-on healing on yourself in a state of meditation.” Read more Reiki Quotes by Frans Stiene…
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The difference between the International House of Reiki teachings and other Reiki schools.
Many people ask what the difference is between what the International House of Reiki teaches as Usui Reiki Ryoho and other schools or branches of the system of Reiki. Sure, most schools teach the same elements of the system, but what is it that makes our students go ‘Wow! That was way more than I could have ever expected’?
There are quite a few differences. Today we’d like to discuss just one of these.
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Take a look at our beautiful bright lights from the Shinpiden Reiki Level III New York class 2011.
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Right from October 2007, I had a deep desire build in me to share Frans’ teachings with all those wonderful people in Cincinnati, where I live. Luckily for me, my friend Zeynep Yilmaz, is, among many many things, a gifted planner and organizer. She and I joined forces to systematically build up awareness, interest, and worked with Bronwen and Frans to set up a Shinpiden training class in Cincinnati, from July 1-3, 2011.
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From October 2007 through July 2010, I’ve had the privilege of being guided by Frans in my Reiki practice as it flowered, merged with, and became one and the same as my personal spiritual path. I looked over all the email exchanges and Skype chats with Frans over these many months, and I was shocked to find that I’ve bombarded Frans with dozens of emails. And these emails are no ordinary emails, they are each these massive, 1000+ word bombs (kind of like these posts I’m writing now), each laden with big questions. I’m shocked to see that Frans had replied to every single one of them, and often within 24 hours!
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Time: October 2007
Frans’ Shinpiden class in Oct 2007 in NYC was exactly what I needed. All those nagging questions were answered, every last one of them, and in a way that made a lot of logical sense (satisfying my left brain) and a lot of intuitive sense (satisfying my right brain) and just resonated in my heart (the only test that ever matters, in my experience).
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Time: July 2007
By July 2007, I had practiced Reiki for about 6 1/2 years.
My first Reiki teacher was an awesome person, Dr. Susan Verghis, a Reiki teacher in William Lee Rand’s lineage, who I first met in January 2001. I learned all three levels of Reiki from her in Bangalore, India, where she resides. She got me started with this awesome gift of regular Reiki practice, and I experienced amazing healing miracles and much more in my life from 2001 through 2004.
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