Reiki is a form of Japanese spiritual healing, reiki has its foundations in ancient Tibetan
Buddhism, and was apparently forgotten until its rediscovery in the late 19th century.
Practitioners draw on "reiki energy", channeling it to areas in need in themselves and
their clients/patients. Terminology is borrowed from physics, claiming that reiki acts
at an atomic level, causing the body's molecules to vibrate with higher intensity and thus
dissolving energy blockages that lead to disharmony and disease. Reiki is becoming popular
in the West, with over 200,000 initiates in North America, Europe, and Australasia.
HISTORY
The Japanese word reiki is derived from rei ("universal") and ki ("life energy").
The ancient reiki healing practices of Tibetan Buddhism were believed to have been lost
over the centuries, until Dr. Usui rediscovered and reinterpreted them in the late 19th
century. One of his pupils, Dr. Chujiro Hayashi, passed on this knowledge to Hawaio
Takata, a Japanese woman living in Hawaii, who introduced reiki in the West in the 1970s. In
1981, her pupils formed the Reiki Alliance, which now has over 800 members worldwide. Today,
there are many reiki practitioners that have received their training and attunements outside
of the alliance and practice independently.
Reiki aims to promote health, maintain well-being, and help people attain a higher consciousness.
Practitioners need have their physical and spiritual (or etheric) bodies attuned according
to ancient and secret symbols revealed to initiates in three stages before acting as a
channel for reiki. Once the healing channel is opened, it is thought to remain active for life
and can be used when required.
When you are treated by a reiki practitioner, you will be asked to "formulate your intent"
(to say what you wish the practitioner to treat), but since it is thought that reiki "works
for the highest good", it may not necessarily offer a cure. Each treatment session lasts about
an hour. You lie, fully clothed, on a treatment table, sitting in a chair, or on your bed and
the practitioner holds his hands on or over your body in 12 basic positions for about five
minutes each; four are on the head, four on the front of the body and four on the back. Sometimes,
the front and backs of the knees are included and the feet. This is said to balance the
body's energy centers, or chakras. Some clients/patients may feel relaxed after treatment;
others feel invigorated. Reiki may also be practiced as a form of absent or distance healing.
Heat sensitive photographs of a practitioner's hands, taken before and during treatment,
show an intensification of heat during healing.
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MOONDRAGON REIKI THERAPY
REIKI is a form of "hands-on" energy healing that works with the clients major and minor
chakras (energy centers) and auric field using life force energy found in ourselves and our
environment, the earth, plants, and so forth. The Reiki therapist acts as a channel for
this energy, directing it into the client's body. The energy "recharges" the clients body
in areas in which extra energy may be required for healing and strengthening damaged tissue.
Reiki also helps the client with mental and emotional healing. Reiki helps the body to
heal faster, the mind to be calmer and more at ease and centered. Reiki is perfectly safe
and will not harm anyone. At worse, it will not do anything at all, but this is rare.
Reiki does not require conscious belief in it as a health-healing tool or in any
religious or cosmic belief in anything or anyone. It works well on humans,
including babies, animals, plants and any other life form that needs a bit of an energy
"boost". Reiki therapy has become known as a healing aid used by some midwives, nurses
and physicians in hospital, clinical, and home settings to help their clients/patients recover
faster and more fully from childbirth, surgeries and therapies.
Reiki Therapy is available at no charge to our established birthing and home health care
clients.
For non-established clients, drop-ins and those wishing only Reiki Therapy without the benefit
of our other services, these are our rates:
Partial or specific body region: $25 (average time about 30-45 minutes)
Full body: $45 (average time about 45-90 minutes)
Magick is energy in action!
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