An Experiment in Teaching Reiki (Part 1 of 5)
I’ve written here before about my Reiki Journey with Frans Stiene.
I had originally started teaching Usui Tibetan Reiki in late 2004. In early 2005, I received Komyo Reiki training, and within a month of practicing it, I stopped teaching Reiki altogether. For me, the miraculous life experiences with the practice of Reiki were proceeding way ahead of my intellectual understanding of the same, and I felt that I couldn’t really teach anyone the system of Reiki with integrity, as I myself didn’t know what the heck was going on with me.
After practicing the system of Reiki about seven years, I was fortunate enough that two wonderful friends and fellow practitioners were able to book Frans to teach in Cincinnati, Ohio where I live (what a dream come true for me). I read “The Japanese Art of Reiki” in 2007 and felt a stirring of some missing pieces fall into place.
I have taken the IHReiki Shinpiden course seven times now, with my eighth time coming up in a few months. This equates to once every year, with one year attending twice! I have the gift of having Frans Stiene come out to my area every year to teach Shinpiden.
In many spiritual traditions the 5 elements of earth, water, fire, air and space are taught and used. This 5 week teleclass by Frans Stiene will explore the Japanese aspects of these elements - an excellent understanding for any Reiki practitioner and teacher interested in the Japanese influences of their practice.
Recently, I was the keynote speaker at the 2012 New York Reiki Conference. The theme was Mainstreaming Reiki.
Great to see all your different ideas and comments on our last blog, A question for you about Reiki Treatments, where we posted a question about two different types of hands-on healing sessions. Some thought it too brain numbing, others too easy, and for some - just plain too different from what they’d been taught as Reiki practitioners. Why would we ask this question?
