27/04/2026
I love teaching Reiki so much, and I especially loved the group that brought all their big, open-hearted energy to Reiki 1 on Friday. You’d think that on these courses, especially the introduction, that we would focus on energy, how it moves through the body, what Reiki is and how to connect, and of course, we definitely cover that. But the other things we tend to talk about are really deeply necessary to bring awareness to for our own liberation, for healing to truly take root and flourish - the way we live out of alignment with our own truth, the conditioning that keeps our truth hidden, and especially for women, things we’ve been socialised to do - to take care of everybody but ourselves, to people please and stay small. And... to hold in our pain as if it was wrong, to not let our tears out lest we be perceived as too much.
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During the attunement ceremony, tears fell onto my hands from one of the students as I worked on her hands. It was so sacred, so intimate, and as natural to receive as falling rain. Then somehow, two students along in the circle, it happened again. As I shared this blessing of sacred life energy, I too quite literally received a blessing in return. Tears of beautiful healing, raining directly onto my hands from multiple people sharing a space of silence and pure connection.
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This course in particular was just so deep and so beautiful. We talked about self worth, relationships and codependency, the link between hypervigilance and empathy, discovering authenticity, what different parts of the body represent in terms of emotional pain, the language of the body, what the body is trying to tell us. We explored how to hold our emotions, how to personify our emotions so they appear more innocent, and so we can actually listen to them. There are so many gifts in Reiki, and in the groups that I work with - it is this deeply beautiful journey of becoming more and more human.
The more in touch with our soul that we are, the more human we’re allowed to be. I’m all for being human.