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2024 marks 30 years since I began my journey as a Reiki Master/Teacher. I feel really fortunate to have received the traditional Usui Reiki training that I did and continue to embrace a traditional approach to teaching. Through the years I've had the honour of sharing those teachings with many students of Reiki.
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2024 marks 30 years since I began teaching Reiki. I had been in the practice for a few years prior to completing my Reiki Master/Teacher training in late 1993. It has been an amazing journey from two perspectives.
There is a lot of fast paced, hustle bustle activities in our daily lives. Reiki should not be one of them.  Lately I've noticed that people are in a hurry with their Reiki sessions, especially those that are providing one. I was discussing this with a colleague yesterday and she felt that in part it was that people, Reiki practitioners included, are often ungrounded, living in their heads and not taking time to get into their bodies and quiet their busy minds before engaging with others or with energy work. I think that she is on to something.
 Here is the part 2 that was promised in the January Enewsletter to my blog about Reiki, Intention Setting & the New Year.
Setting intention doesn't have to be a New Years event but can happen at any time. The reason that I focused on the New Year was because of Mercury being retrograde at the start of 2023...a perfect time for letting go!  It’s happened, Autumn is here and the days are shortening, will soon grow cooler, and the season to gather and harvest is upon us.
Trees will soon begin to release that which they no longer need and nature will become quieter and turn inward. Holidays ending, darker skies, school beginning, leaves changing colours and falling from their branches… a somewhat abrupt end to the laid back days of August, and a theme of busyness casts its shadow. As both a Reiki practitioner and teacher I am often asked about Reiki. This short clip will introduce you to Reiki, what it is, what to expect during a session and what to expect from classes. Below the video are links to more information.  REIKI is an ancient Japanese healing technique My connection with Reiki, from when I received my first session, through learning the practice of Reiki, sharing sessions with others, and also teaching, has been a journey filled with twists and turns and a lot of lessons. Not all of it easy, but I think those experiences have made me a better teacher and practitioner.
Reiki is about being open to and allowing yourself to receive a loving and healing energy. Deep seated self-esteem issues can raise their ugly heads as to whether or not we are worthy or deserving of receiving. This negative self-judgement is completely dissolved as we bask in the vibrations of Reiki's beautiful energy.  The trees teach us how to let go During the months of September the trees are a shining example of letting go. The leaves they've grown through Spring and Summer change colours as they begin to die and then drop from the branches. The tree becomes bare, only to begin the cycle again the following Spring. There's no thought to it, there is just no more need of these leaves and so the tree simply lets them go.
We often marvel at nature as her colours turn to the reds, oranges and browns of Fall. The crunch of leaves beneath our shoes or jumping in piles of leaves that have fallen bring joy. I think though we often don't make a connection with the lesson the trees are sharing with us in the art of letting go.  Reiki has so many benefits for new parents I'm not sure why it took this long for the penny to drop, after all I've been both a single mother and Reiki practitioner for years. However, today it dawned on me just how energy scattering it is to raise kids. Often during a Reiki session for a new parent I intuit their need for Chakra balancing during the session, today I had an "ah ha" moment.
A single parent when my son turned 16 months, my experience comes from the mother role, however I suspect the same diffusion of energy happens to every parent.  The ever typical peace keeper, despite best efforts not to be, I find myself slipping into that role time and again. Boundaries were never something I learned. Growing up in an alcoholic home they just didn't exist. I earned my gold medal in peacekeeping just to try to maintain some space between myself and the chaos that surrounded me. Unfortunately it's a tough role to break...but I will continue to make it a work in progress.
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Teresa Graham,
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