Reiki is taught through transmission of Reiki healing energy from a Reiki Master to a Reiki student. Reiki transmission is done by a process called Reiki attunement that a Reiki Master or a Reiki Grandmaster performs on a Reiki student. And Reiki students are trained in Reiki classes that are divided into various Reiki Levels.

This post will clarify the various Reiki healing levels and how classes or workshops are conducted. I will also attempt to explain what will be taught in each Reiki Level and how Reiki courses are conducted. We will also cover the eligibility required for you to participate in each Reiki healing level.

Reiki Levels / Reiki Degrees Explained

There are various schools of Reiki and each follow a system of teaching and have their own Reiki classes laid out. These Reiki levels are usually decided by the lineage followed by the school of Reiki. Lineage is the way of tracing the line of Reiki masters back to Reiki Grandmaster and the founder of Reiki – Dr. Mikao Usui. And the current living Reiki Master in that lineage decides the Reiki healing levels to be set for any particular Reiki healing center or even set of Reiki schools.

So some Reiki schools follow 5 Levels of Reiki training classes and others follow 4 Reiki levels of teaching based on the Reiki lineage that they follow. At Purple Room Reiki Healing Center in Hyderabad we follow the William Lee Rand lineage. This is the lineage where our current living Reiki Master or, rather, Reiki Grandmaster is William Lee Rand. Therefore our Reiki training center in Hyderabad follows a 4 Reiki levels system of energy healing classes. They are Reiki Level 1, Reiki Level 2, Reiki Level 3 or Advanced Reiki Training and Reiki Master Course.

The terms Reiki levels and Reiki degrees are interchangeable. They mean one and the same thing. So a Reiki level 1 training is the same as a Reiki 1st degree class.

Below you will find what each Reiki level of training teaches and how our Reiki levels of energy healing courses in Hyderabad differ from Reiki levels of other Reiki healing schools. At our Hyderabad branch of Purple Room Healing Center, we simply use the term Reiki level.

Reiki Level 1 / Reiki 1st Degree

Since we follow the lineage and the recommendation of William Lee Rand school of Reiki, it is mandatory for students to attend both Reiki Level 1 class and Reiki Level 2 class together as a single Reiki course. This is a two day workshop where Reiki 1st Degree is taught on the first day, followed by Reiki 2nd Degree on the second day.

Reiki Level 1 taught at the Purple Room Reiki Healing Center in Hyderabad is the beginner level of training for anyone who is interested in learning Reiki sealing system. As I pointed out earlier, the ability to channel Reiki is transmitted by an Reiki attunement given by a Reiki Master to the Reiki student. This is precisely what happens in Reiki Level 1 class. The student is introduced to what Reiki is and what it’s basic principles are and then the Reiki Master performs an attunement on the student. After the attunement, the Reiki student is able to channel and use Reiki energies.

In Reiki Level 1 class, we also teach the student how to use Reiki for various healing purposes in a one-on-one setting. Reiki level 1 gives the student the ability to use Reiki on themselves and others in hands-on healing sessions. So the student is taught how the various hand positions for using Reiki on oneself. It is called a full body Reiki healing on self. The student is also taught the various hand positions for giving Reiki healing to others in a hands-on Reiki healing session. A hands-on Reiki healing session is a one-on-one session where the Reiki client is physically present with the Reiki healer to receive healing.

In Reiki Level 1 training, the student is also introduced to the Chakra system of the the energy body and how they relate to healing or sickness. The Reiki student is then taught how to scan the Chakra system with Reiki and channel Reiki to the chakras that are blocked or need healing. In Reiki Level 1 class, the student is also taken through a meditation method that is to be used by the student everyday, preferably in the morning, to help them increase their connection with Reiki healing energies and also to improve their intuitive abilities.

In order for the ability to channel Reiki healing energy to become very strong and permanent, the student must perform a full body Reiki healing on self everyday for a minimum of 21 days. This will strengthen the flow of Reiki healing energy in the Reiki healer, that is the student, and also make it a permanent flow for the Reiki healer.

Reiki’s healing energies do not deplete the Reiki healer of their energies nor do they bring back the client’s energies into the Reiki Healer. In fact, every Reiki healing session helps the Reiki healer heal themselves too. However, due to the nature of the client healer interaction, the personality of the healer, and how you may react/respond to the client when they open up and speak of their personal problems, there is a possibility that the Reiki healer connect at an emotional level with the client and thus form energetic cords or pick up energies from the client. In order to cut these cords and to clear up any energies that the Reiki healer may have picked up accidentally in their Reiki healing session with the client, we teach our students a simple but powerful technique that the Reiki healer needs to perform at the end of every full body, hands-on Reiki healing performed on others.

There are few other topics too discussed in the Reiki 1st Degree class, including a study on the history of Reiki, the ideals of Reiki as practiced by Dr. Mikao Usui, Byosen scanning method and, it time permits, a fun scanning method to find the size of the aura of a Reiki student.

After the successful completion of Reiki Level 1 training, the student becomes a Reiki healer and is eligible for starting a professional Reiki healing practice after their 21 self healing period is successfully completed.

Ghassho Meditation as was originally taught by Dr. Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki Healing System.

Reiki Level 2 / Reiki 2nd Degree

As I said earlier, we at the Purple Room Healing center in Hyderabad, teach Reiki Level 1 and Reiki Level 2 classes together in a two day workshop training.

Attending the Reiki Level 2 class gives the Reiki healer an ability to channel and send Reiki healing remotely. The clients need not be present physically at the Reiki healer’s place in order to receive a full Reiki healing. Reiki Level 2 training focuses on symbols. Symbols are used by Reiki healers to channel specific Reiki healing energies that work on specialized areas of healing. There are three symbols taught in Reiki 2nd degree course. These symbols, of course, are valueless to the Reiki student without an attunement performed by the Reiki Master. After receiving the attunement, the Reiki healer is able to channel the Reiki healing energies associated with each of the three symbols taught in the Reiki Level 2 workshop.

Each symbol has a specific set of functions and they are discussed in the Reiki training subsequently. The Reiki healer is taught when and how to channel the Reiki energies for each of these symbols. The Reiki Master also teaches the student how to perform a distance healing for others.

Cleansing spaces of negative energies and improving the vibes of the space are taught in Reiki 2nd Degree Class.

After learning Reiki 2nd Level healing, you will be able to cleanse spaces, send healing to animals and plants, and also send healing to situations. So the Reiki Master teaches how to scan a place, how to sense energies of the place and how to cleanse a place and rid the place of negative energies and fill the space with positive, healing energies. A discussion on the nature of energy attachments and spirit energies follows. It is but a brief introduction to a vast topic.

In Reiki Level 2 training, the Reiki Master also teaches the Reiki healer how to cleanse and program crystals for personal use and for manifestation purposes. A modification of the meditation taught in the Reiki Level 1 class is imparted that helps the Reiki healer use a powerful shielding and cleansing technique for themselves and also for others when the need arises.

With Reiki Level 2 workshop, the Reiki healer’s ability to channel Reiki increases tenfold and they will be able to harness the power of Reiki even better.

At our Hyderabad branch of Purple Room Reiki healing center, it is mandatory to complete both Reiki Level 1 and Reiki Level 2 together in a two-day workshop training.

Reiki Level 3 / Reiki 3rd Degree / Advanced Reiki Training – ART

A powerful grounding and cleansing mediation called Moving Meditation is taught in Advanced Reiki Training class.

Reiki Level 3 or Advanced Reiki Training (ART) is taught at our Purple Room Healing Hyderabad center to Reiki healers who have completed Reiki Level 1 and Reiki Level 2 training and have practiced a minimum of six months both on themselves as well as on others. It is not strictly necessary that the Reiki Healers must have practiced at a professional level in the six month period.

Reiki Level 3 class is an advanced training in Reiki healing systems with tools and techniques imparted by the Reiki Master that will vastly increase the healing and channeling abilities of Reiki healers in their daily and professional practice. A new symbol is attuned for the student and the student is also taught an advanced healing technique called psychic surgery. This helps deal with tough emotional wounds like heavy trauma from the past with effectiveness and ease.

An exercise is also taught in the Reiki 3rd degree class that lays foundation for Reiki Master level course. The student is expected to master the exercise before they come for the Reiki Master class. Also taught in the Reiki 3 level training is a powerful grounding meditation that both grounds the practitioner as well as cleanses the space they do the meditation in.

Reiki Master Course / Reiki Grandmaster Class / Reiki Level 4A / Reiki Level 4B

Reiki Mastership class is taken a minimum one year of rigorous practice by the Reiki student who has completed Reiki Level 3 training. They must have done Reiki healing sessions for people outside of their family and friend circle. It is good if the participant has had a professional exposure in Reiki healing practice.

In our Reiki Healing school in Hyderabad (Purple Room Healing), we teach Reiki Level 4a and Reiki Level 4b together in one class. And as such it is called Reiki Master course. So our school does not recognize the title of Reiki Grandmaster, rather reserves that term to someone who is a very experienced Reiki healer – someone like William Lee Rand. Some Reiki schools, the same Reiki course is taught in two workshops and are named Reiki Master Course and Reiki Grandmaster Course. In such case, a Reiki student is taught how to perform an attunement for Reiki Level 1, Reiki Level 2 and Reiki Level 3 in the Reiki Master Class training, while the knowledge on how to attune a Reiki Master is taught in the Reiki Grandmaster class. In our school, we train students in giving attunement for all levels of Reiki including Reiki Master in a one day Reiki Master training class.

Certificates of participation are provided for all Reiki training classes. Though these courses are not recognized by any government authorities, these certificates have been useful in the past for our Reiki students, Reiki healers and Reiki Masters who trained with our Purple Room Healing center in Hyderabad. Some organizations and health institutes appreciate an additional Reiki healing ability in their employees and as such these certificates have increased the chances of our Reiki Healers in securing occupations such places.

Reiki is a healing and relaxing energy that can be channeled through your chakras and the body to help oneself and others. As a Reiki channel, there is not limit as to how you use the energy you channel. Sure, you cannot use Reiki to harm others. It is inherently impossible to do that in Reiki, unlike some other forms of energy healing/channeling. But, that apart, you are just limited by your imagination as to how you use Reiki for your needs or other’s needs.

The reason why Reiki can be used for many needs is because of its inherent nature. Reiki is qi or prana energy that is being channeled from its divine source. You are channeling energy that is used for creation itself. So this energy has the power to create, not just heal.

Also, coming from a divine source, this energy has its own wisdom to decide the best resolution for any situation. A Reiki practitioner also has an intention on what Reiki should heal when they channel Reiki. These two intents – one divine and one mortal – together allow for endless creative possibilities.

These two qualities of Reiki make it the best suited energy for healing, guidance and manifestation. And those precisely are three major areas that we use Reiki for in our everyday life.

Reiki as a Healing Energy

Reiki heals in three stages – cleansing, energizing and shielding.

Being energy of healing, we can use Reiki to help heal our health issues – be it mental, spiritual or physical. So if any family member is feeling unwell, Reiki can help them relax and allow the body to speed up its natural healing. If someone is feeling upset or disturbed emotionally, Reiki can be channeled into them for easing the chakras of the pent up emotions and allow them to let go.

Reiki heals in three stages – cleansing, energizing and shielding.

Cleansing is where all the harmful energies present in various forms are removed from the situation or person. For instance, in a mentally disturbed person Reiki helps clear or reduce the intensity of disturbing or negative thoughts that are influencing the person or situation. Mal-intentions are removed. Similarly, with physical problems, Reiki helps cleanse the chakras that are disturbed and helps the body release toxins or other predatory agents out of the body.

Once cleansing is done, the person or situation is given nourishment needed to recover from the damage already done by the problem. Reiki flows into areas that need energy to help with the convalescence phase. It is not necessary that all of cleansing phase happens first and then followed by the energizing process. All the three stages of healing overlap each other or can happen in any order. Usually, energizing process is the one that takes significantly more time than cleansing or shielding process. But there will always be times when cleansing or shielding is more demanding than energizing.

The final process is shielding. This is to ensure that the person or situation receiving healing is not affected by harmful influences immediately and to make sure there is enough time for the person or the situation to improve without outside influences affecting them. As I mentioned before, sometimes shielding happens even before cleansing or healing.

Shielding trains and strengthens your natural aura.

In day to day living, there arise many situations where the healing ability of Reiki can be used. From problems like children being hurt from a fall or an adult hurting themselves in small accidents to helping with problems like headaches, body aches, or daily fatigue, Reiki becomes an indispensable tool for healing.

Since food can be infused with Reiki, several Reiki practitioners give Reiki to their food while cooking. This will help heal them and their family members receive daily healing effortlessly. Similarly water and even coffee and tea are given Reiki before being consumed. The intention of the Reiki practitioner in these uses is either specific for a cause or sometimes a general intent to heal all areas of life. In the latter case, Reiki uses its own wisdom to channel the healing to specific areas of life.

Reiki as a Guiding Force

Reiki carries its own wisdom that is both natural and divine in its nature. And it is not without its effect on a Reiki practitioner who channels Reiki every day. As Reiki passes through our own chakras, nadis and the body, we tend to pick up some of its wisdom and advice.

It is a very natural way of increases one’s own intuitive abilities. This can become very evident once our third eye becomes clear and active. Gassho meditation (see picture) is particularly useful to increase our intuitive, or even psychic, abilities through Reiki practice.

Gassho is a simple but
powerful meditation
that was taught by
Master Mikao Usui.

At Purple Room Healing,
we introduce this in our
Reiki First Level Course.

Reiki becomes our guide to get clarity in everyday issues. In everyday confusions or issues that need decisions, Reiki meditation can help us arrive at a conclusion. Being able to clear chakras, Reiki can help clear confusions in people’s minds and provide clarity for any situation.

There have been several instances in Reiki practitioners’ lives where a daily Reiki meditation or simply even asking Reiki for help has provided surprising insights into the problem. Right from providing timely advice to stop venting our frustrations on others to being guided to make huge decisions, Reiki has been a pathfinder for us several times across our journey.

Reiki is also particularly useful in helping people deal with their existential crisis. In terms of energy and chakras, we sometimes describe existential crisis as a blockage of Sahasrara (the Crown Chakra) which effectively cuts us off from being able to see the ‘big picture’ or lose faith in life. Sometimes it can also be a result of severely blocked Muladhara (the Root Chakra). In both cases, Reiki will ease the blockages or reconnect us back to our purpose in life.

And since Reiki inherently carries its own wisdom and consciousness, often times Reiki practitioners leave the end result to Reiki. In other spiritual practices, it is equivalent, to saying for the highest good. So there can be times when personal attachment to the person or the situation, a Reiki practitioner cannot decide what the best outcome is and in such cases they usually leave it to Reiki to decide the best course of healing or the outcome.

Reiki for Manifestation

Reiki is a creative energy. It can bring into reality that which is not already present. This makes Reiki one of the greatest sources for manifestation. Reiki manifestation is taught in any first level Reiki workshop. Once you are attuned to channel Reiki, you are already channeling energy to manifest.

Reiki is a powerful way to
fall in touch with
our real selves and
our real needs.

Of course, on knowing this, most of us plan to use it for achieving our greatest dreams. And yes, Reiki will certainly help you there – as long as your wishes are in alignment with your highest healing. Remember, Reiki has its own wisdom.

But there are also everyday opportunities to nudge our realities into directions we would want and this is where Reiki shines. Do you want your daughter to feel protected at her new school? Do you want to nail that interview for your dream job? Do you need that loan to be approved? Or do you simply need to find that key you’ve misplaced? The needs and possibilities for manifestation and Reiki are endless.

Daily worries and the nagging sense of helplessness is gone or significantly eased for a daily Reiki practitioner. There is a sense of control and destiny. It helps us master our fates even in its smallest details and get flowing in our lives.

Reiki is a powerful way to fall in touch with our real selves and our real needs. It helps us understand who we really are and what we are looking for. Once the intention is clear, manifestation begins. Reiki helps with both.

Again, you can also let Reiki decide what’s best for you and allow it to nudge you in the right direction.

For Reiki practitioners and Reiki masters, Reiki is that everyday tool and a way of life that helps us tide over the swells and ebbs of everyday life while, at the same time, helping us move closer to the reality we want to live in.

Reiki is not a blessing in disguise, it is the blessing. Every time you channel Reiki, either for yourself or for others, you are blessing yourself and sending out blessings to the world. It is the energy of Love – the one that connects and binds us. Reiki helps create new bonds and let go of old ones that have become restrictive, it helps us create, sustain and heal.

That is why we describe Reiki as a way of life even though it is not a religion nor does it impose any rules on our way of life. We evolve with Reiki and become a better version of ourselves with daily channeling.

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• Are you looking to heal yourself or improve your overall life?
• Are you open to accepting the Reiki energy in your life?
• Are you looking to remove the negative energy in your life?

If you answered yes to all these questions, Reiki is definitively for you.

Reiki is a Energy Healing Technique that was discovered in Japan by Dr. Mikao Usui in 1922. It is a simple technqiue that can be easily learned by anyone who is interested and willing.

The word Reiki comes from two words Rei and Ki. Rei means higher power or spirit and Ki means life force or vital energy. Put together Reiki means divinely guided vital energy.

Each of us are nourished with life force energy within our bodies. This energy is supplied to our physical body through the seven major chakras and hundreds of minor chakras. Just like there is a huge network of nerve system in our bodies, similarly energy from these chakras is circulated through our bodies through a large network of energy meridians and the three nadis in our spinal column.

A healthy person has a free flow of this life force energy. However, in an unhealthy person (unhealthy either in mind, body or emotions) the life force energy is either sluggish or the flow is blocked. When Reiki is administered, the Reiki energy transmutes the negative life force to positive and releases the blocks. The flow and vitality of the life force is restored to its natural health.

Our Reiki workshop Level 1 and 2 are conducted together for beginners over a course of 2 days. The workshop is conducted online so you can learn Reiki healing from the comfort of your home. We take no more than 6 people for each workshop.

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Note: We provide a PDF document of the Reiki healing positions required for Self Healing and One-on-one hands-on healing. No other course materials are provided. Please be prepared to take notes if you wish to. We do provide a digital certificate on completion of the full Level 1 & 2 course.

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Reiki is a natural, spiritual healing way used for self-improvement and healing others. Reiki is energy drawn from the universal qi or prana and can be directed to others through a Reiki Healer to promote healing and well-being.

Anybody can receive Reiki healing as long as they are willing and/or receptive. Likewise, anybody can become a Reiki Healer if they are willing to learn. A Reiki Healer is a channel or a medium who allows Reiki to flow through them and pass out of them to heal others. A person becomes a Reiki healer when they undergo a process called Attunement under a Reiki Master.

Attunement is the process through which a Reiki Master makes permanent the flow of Reiki energies into an another person and makes that person a Reiki Healer. Once attuned, the person can use the flow of Reiki through them to heal both themselves as well as others. A Reiki Healer (after Level II attunement) can channel Reiki even remotely. This means such Reiki Healers can send healing to people who are physically separated from them by many hundreds or thousands of miles.

When I attended my Reiki Mastership Workshop (where one is given the ability to attune others), I learnt to attune people only through one-on-one sessions. We did not even conduct group attunements. No matter how large the group, my wife and I attuned people only one by one. In fact, the question of a remote attunement (that is, attuning others over distance or online) was never under consideration then.

A few years later, a client of mine who lived in a another city asked if I could attune him online for Reiki Level 1 and 2. I was skeptical about it and eventually referred him to another Reiki Master in the same city as he was in. But with the onset of the global pandemic situation, the question of distance attunement became an all important question and, at times, even a necessary solution. The need for a healing tool in the hands of each person has become an immediate one. And Reiki, among others, has come to play a vital role in helping people cope with the pandemic itself as well as its various side-effects on both mental and emotional health across the globe.

During a meditation, I asked Reiki and my guides if I should do online initiations and I received guidance to go ahead. Interestingly around this time, I came across an article that spoke of Ms. Takata having done remote initiations for some students during her time. This gave me a lot of confidence to go ahead with online attunements.

My first online initiation gave me full understanding of how powerful Reiki is. My student not only started feeling Reiki flowing through her after the first level attunement, she was subsequently also able to use it to heal her issues. After that I had no hesitation in doing online Reiki classes and initiations.

To answer the first question, can one learn Reiki online – absolutely! Not only is it a boon to us in these times but also a necessary tool to improve ourselves, to help us heal and to live the quality of life we want to.

If you haven’t invited Reiki into your life yet, I’d say it’s time you did and discovered for yourself how wonderful the healing energies of Reiki are and what miracles you can achieve in your lives.

We at Purple Room Healing conduct online Reiki initiations and attunements over the weekends as well as personal one-on-one workshops at our center in Hyderabad. You can call us at our number 9394301400 for further details and queries.

Reiki is a healing and meditative practice that originated in Japan. It functions on the principle that there is life-sustaining energy (qi or chi) energy that permeates everything in the creation and we can learn to channel and use that energy to heal ourselves. Reiki is the art of channeling this qi into ourselves or others and bring about a shift in their state of being.

Everyday healing is better than occasional healing

There are two ways you can traditionally receive Reiki healing. The first is visiting a Reiki Healer and receiving a healing from them. In this method of healing, the Reiki healer diagnoses your problem and sends Reiki to the affected areas. A Reiki healer is one who has the ability to channel Reiki through them and is well practiced in the healing art.

The second way of experiencing Reiki healing is by learning to channel Reiki through you. You attend a level 1 Reiki class and receive an attunement from a Reiki master. Attunement is the process in which a Reiki master/grandmaster opens up, clears and prepares your chakras to receive and channel Reiki. After attunement you will have the ability to channel Reiki and give yourself healing. You can even start sending Reiki to others.

There are several advantages to learning Reiki yourself over attending Reiki healing sessions. Here are some important differences.

Everyday healing is better than occasional healing

Healing is the process of alleviating stress in the body, mind or spirit and allowing the stressed organs or functions to heal themselves. When we allow stress to accumulate over time then it can lead to acute dysfunctions of the body or mind and we may eventually need a stronger medical/healing intervention. We are creatures capable of self-healing if only we provide our bodies and mind the time and energy needed to repair itself.

A daily Reiki practice heals the body, mind and spirit on a regular basis and helps us keep tabs on our general well-being. It gives us an ability to manage daily stresses and also offers opportunity to address traumas of the past. The biggest healing I received from my early years of Reiki practice was that my personal fears and panics subsided and I became calmer in my daily routine.

Reiki practice is a meditative session

Meditation is something that most of us think about practicing but a very few of us actually end up making it a part of our daily practice. The most common reason I hear from clients who gave up meditation is because they are unable to concentrate or focus. The truth is that meditation is not single-pointed focus. In fact, the ability to focus or concentrated is a benefit of regular meditation, not the pre-requisite.

Meditation is a relaxed awareness; it is being in the moment. Meditation allows the natural healing processes within to work their magic. Reiki practice of self-healing requires you to place your palms over various chakras or organs in your body and send Reiki into those chakras or organs. This is a very powerful meditation session that allows our body and mind to open up to not only receiving Reiki but also to improve our intuitive awareness of self and the moment. We are in deep meditation when we practice the daily Reiki self-healing session.

Your family has a healer now

After you attend a Reiki level 1 session and receive an attunement, you become capable of giving Reiki to others. You are in effect a Reiki Healer. Having a Reiki healer in the family has several untold benefits. I have personally experienced the immense advantage of giving timely healing to my husband, child and others in my family with Reiki. Our well-being is affected by several aspects in our life including food, familial relationships, economic conditions, social interaction and several others. Reiki has become an invaluable aid to take care of several of these aspects in my family life. Right from managing the mood swings of my family members to taking care of emotional well-being of my child, Reiki has been the biggest resource for me ever.

You can address all the small daily headaches much more efficiently without resorting to outside healing sessions every time something crops up. For me, Reiki has personally been the go-to method to address several small issues that can crop up any day in my daily routine. The confidence that comes from being able to address issues which used to leave you helpless earlier is something to be felt and experienced.

Keep your house and workplace cleansed

Reiki can be used not only to heal our bodies and minds, it also helps with taking care of house energies and fearful situations in life. Every place has its energy fingerprint, so to speak. But it is not a static and permanent state of energy, rather it is a flux that is affected by and, in turn, influences the situations and the people that move through the space. So our houses can be affected by us and our family members, energies that we carry through it, people who visit our homes, events and situations that take place there. Learning Reiki gives us the ability to keep our places regularly cleansed and also, if necessary, intervene whenever there is a dynamic shift in the energies of the place.

You open up a huge metaphysical doorway

Reiki focusses on opening up and clearing energy pathways in ourselves. This wakes up a lot of our latent intuitive abilities. We become acutely aware of subtler connections between our bodies and minds. We learn of our own manifesting ability and understand how our external reality is intimately connected with our inner realities. We interact with energies that we haven’t even known existed before. We learn how to protect, heal and transform energies even before they manifest into our outer realities. Life becomes fuller and more meaningful.

Economic advantage of learning over receiving healing

Of course, there is an immense economic advantage of learning Reiki. You don’t have to consult a Reiki healer every time something crops up in your life. You are not paying for individual sessions. You simply sit down and start giving Reiki to the problem.

Of course, like I mentioned earlier, there are times when you may have to ask for help of a fellow Reiki healer. But those are extenuating circumstances rather than daily situations. For instance, a family emergency affects us very strongly and we may need the help of another Reiki healer because we are too occupied and exhausted by the care-giving process. But usually Reiki healers tend to be in touch with their Reiki masters or be a part of an online healers group, so getting outside help is quicker in case of emergencies.

Reiki is a way of life

Reiki is not a religious practice. Neither does it place restrictions over your lifestyle choices like food or occupation in order to practice it. It is a complementary practice which means you can use it with your other practices such as Yoga, Tai Chi, Pranic Healing, Zen, etc.

But Reiki is also more than a healing technique. It is a way of life. In that, with practice, you understanding the processes of mind-body connection, how stress can manifest itself, you understand mind and its workings, you realize the flow of energies in life and body, you understand the sources of your stresses better, and we understand ourselves better.

As a Reiki master, I’ve attuned several people into Reiki healing over the past decade. I have received a lot of feedback on how Reiki healing has helped all individuals including housewives, students, professionals, and the elderly. I have a been personal witness to healing through many trying times and situations in my family. As a central figure in my family, Reiki has helped me look at life from a new perspective that not only helped me heal but also helped me keep my family well and safe throughout our journey in life. So yeah, if you ask me, I’d say learn Reiki, practice well, heal yourself and heal others.

It’s like the air curtains you find in some malls…And just like that you are in an entirely different surroundings, leaving behind all the polluted and noisy environment.

It happened the next day too. I just sat in the lab for a few moments as if I put my entire schedule on pause including my mental activity. I was simply gazing at the keys on the board. Again within a few moments my mind became calm and alert. I even noticed that I could listen and comprehend better in the class. I started doing this everyday. I would just enter the lab for a few moments and sit quietly before I entered the classroom and greeted my friends. And every time I paused for a few moments without thinking of anything in particular and simply allowing my body and mind to just rest, my system was releasing out all stress and tensions of the previous experience and becoming calm and rested.

It was like the air curtains you find in some malls and showrooms, where there is an air blower mounted on top of the entrance door which is constantly blowing air downwards. And anyone who passes through it is hit by a gust of wind as if you are passing through a wall of air. And just like that you are in an entirely different surroundings, leaving behind all the polluted and noisy environment.

There is no expectation or direction in this act. You just let everything slide away from your mind and simply be.

The effect was similar, by pausing I could simply leave behind the stress, bad mood and tensions from the traffic and approach the class with a fresh and alert mind. Like I said, it even helped me focus and understand my class better. Though I couldn’t understand the process behind this technique of stress release, it had reminded me of an incident from my childhood. I was 9 around then and I was playing in the terrace of my apartment building with my friends when I suddenly tripped over a water-pipe and sprained my foot. I sat down in pain holding my foot. Somehow I knew instinctively then that I had to quieten down and observe. I do not know how I came to know that. Perhaps it was because I was still a child, and children usually are more in tune with their body wisdom than adults. I stopped crying, looked down at my foot and simply sat still. I wasn’t frozen, it was a relaxed sitting while watching my foot without any serious concentration. In a few minutes the pain subsided and sprain was healed too. The body did it for me. I was both surprised and not surprised at the same time.

Pausing creates this gap in the mental processes and allows the body and mind to return back to their state of rest. I think this allows natural healing to take place without interference and also bring the mind back to a state of instinctive calmness. It not only reduces stress and anxiety for us, but it also, I’ve noticed, promotes healing and boosts creativity. I could always perform the best when I paused just before starting a task. Several years later I could deepen this with the practice of mindfulness. In fact, I think both are the same, just that we call them with different names.

I have to make an important distinction here. The pausing I am talking about is not like the pause button of on a remote. It is not about freezing everything. Nor is it about waiting for something to happen. There is no expectation or direction in this act. You just let everything slide away from your mind and simply be. If gazing without concentration at objects can help you, you do it. That is all.

The most difficult aspect of this practice, I found, is in the beginning when you are trying to bring this into your daily routine. We forget, or we are busy, or we just don’t want to let our minds and thoughts down. You try to do it while still thinking about what you’ll be doing once it’s done. But that doesn’t work. It’s is not pausing. One needs to simply let everything slide for a few moments.

In any case, if you are inclined towards self-healing and improved well-being I’d really urge you to try pausing before and after you do anything in your daily routine. I found this to be more effective than a single long meditation once a day because this pausing is like many small meditations spread across the entire day and gives you, with enough practice, the ability to become composed and alert in almost any circumstance you might encounter in your daily routine.

The process of healing through full body healing takes time and effort on part of the Reiki healer. When you learn Reiki Level 2 course, you learn the method of distance healing, wherein Reiki healing can be sent to a person who is physically away from the healer. The person need not be present with the healer physically to receive Reiki in this process.

Reiki healing can be done either through touch or without touching the person.

Some healers stop doing full body healing on themselves once they learn distance healing in Level 2. But nothing can replace the healing power that a full body healing has. Distance healing is extremely effective and can be used for addressing all conditions that a full body Reiki can address, but one core difference between both is time. When we perform a full body healing, either to ourselves or to another person, we spend anywhere between 20 to 40 minutes for a healing session. That is a lot of Reiki sent. However, even the longest distance healing session lasts anywhere between 10 to 15 minutes, with always some exceptions of course. And that extra 5 to 25 minutes makes a HUGE difference in healing. Especially, when it comes to self healing.

I’ve had my Reiki students report healing major problems both physical, emotional and mental, sometimes even long standing issues in the beginning of their Reiki practice. But eventually, when they move on to distance practice, many give up on the full body self healing. And for some Reiki just becomes something that they apply externally or temporarily until the pain of the problem goes away. This is true sometimes even of Reiki Masters and Reiki Grandmasters.

Reiki puts us into the space of Nothingness. The space of Being. And that is a space where we become perceivers than thinkers.

No doubt, full body healing takes longer than distance. And a little bit more effort, but the results are equally fetching. Full body Reiki healing is one of the most powerful healing techniques that are available for us. We wouldn’t be using the full potential of Reiki if we’re not using it to the best of our abilities.

Here are 7 REASONS WHY FULL BODY REIKI IS MORE POWERFUL than Distance Healing as a daily healing tool:

1. You give healing to all the Major Chakras, as well as many essential minor chakras. With distance healing, we mostly tend to focus on the issue and send healing to overall healing of the issue which is necessary for problem specific healing. But with hands-on healing, we send healing on a daily basis to each of the Major Chakras and many of the minor chakras across the body. This helps in healing and aligning chakras together.
2. You send Reiki to all the vital organs in the body. Since full body healing involves hands-on healing in various positions across the body, we tend to give area-specific healing to all vital organs of the body. This can easily bring out various organ specific problems and heal them over a period of time.
3. It addresses many issues at once. With Full body healing you are spending enough time with each position that a each session can send healing to various issues in our lives at once. Though this tends to spread out full resolution of all issues across a longer time, it becomes the best method of healing from a Holistic healing perspective.
4. It is a best tool for stress and anxiety management. Every full body healing session helps in de-stressing us and in healing our anxieties away. In the long run, this is one of the best tools since it uniformly addresses all areas of our body to deal with various stresses stored in different parts of our bodies.
5. We develop and improve our intuitive abilities. Healing is an intuitive art. Especially with Reiki, where the healer (in spite of the name) is nothing but a channel, we need to rely on our ability to be intuitive to be able to find out causes of issues. Daily full body Reiki certainly heals and develops our third eye as well as other intuitive sense we are each gifted with.
6. We understand our minds better. This is something that comes only with regular practice. Reiki puts us into the space of Nothingness. The space of Being. And that is a space where we become perceivers than thinkers. We are able to watch our thoughts from a distance without being pulled into the thought process itself. From such a distance, we can easily understand and heal our deeper motivations and root causes of issues.
7. We become more grounded. Healing makes us sensitive to energies around us. In fact, it is the sensitive who are usually drawn to healing practices. We tend to perceive and absorb more than others do. Though Reiki by itself protects us from picking up issues from others while giving them healing, we also have a need to be grounded at all times. A daily practice of hands-on self healing keeps us from being swayed by thoughts, emotions and energies around us.

Learn Reiki Healing through our Reiki Beginner Level 1 & 2 Healing Workshop in Hyderabad on January 18, 19.

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Eligibility: Anybody interested in learning a healing method that can help heal their issues and heal others as well.

Date: 18, 19 Jan 2020 (Saturday and Sunday)

Place: Sankalpam, Madhuranagar, Hyderabad

Number of Seats: 6-8

Call at 9394301400 for details and registration.

We’re starting the Vedic Chanting monthly classes called Veda Adhyayanam at Sankalpam. These classes are a part of our Healing through Lifestyle Habits initiative where we aim to bring in awareness of everyday practices to heal and rejuvenate the body, mind and soul. These classes are being conducted by Shanti Mani, a Yoga Acarya (Yoga Teacher) trained in the tradition of Sri Krishnamacarya (more about her below).

Mantras heal at the physical, physiological and mental levels. Vedic Chanting calms the mind and makes it fit for deeper meditative practices.

Here’s a brief write up about the Vedic Chanting classes by Shanti Mani, Yoga Acarya:

Veda Adhyayanam refers to the ancient discipline of oral transmission of vedic mantras from teacher to student. The vedas were intuitively perceived by great seers or rsis in a state of deep meditation. These deep spiritual insights were then taught to their disciples through oral instructions. Such traditions of vedic chanting are among the oldest, unbroken oral traditions in the world today. In 2003, UNESCO proclaimed the tradition of Vedic Chanting as a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.”

The Vedas are not only the source of all spiritual knowledge, containing deep philosophical insights, but also guide a person on how to make each action a yajna or an offering. With the purification of the three karanas of kaya, vak and manas, the citta or the mind-body complex gets purified.
Sanskrit, the language of the Vedas, is highly scientific and every akshara – vowel and consonant, is considered to be a “Bija-akshara”, that possesses great potency.

“Manana traayate iti mantrah”. Mantras protect the chanter and the listener as they connect one to the divine. They energise the environment and create positive vibrations. Mantras heal at the physical, physiological and mental levels. Vedic Chanting calms the mind and makes it fit for deeper meditative practices.

Regular chanting is helpful in strengthening the breath capacity and is a boon for those with shortness of breath.

Sri Krishnamacarya opened the doors of Vedic Chanting to women as well, for the purpose of “Kamya Adhyayanam”.

I invite you all to experience this rich tradition of Vedic Chanting and discover its powerful healing potential. The classes will cover select portions of the Krishna Yajurveda and slokas on health and wellness, following the rules of chanting.

Sanskrit, the language of the Vedas, is highly scientific and every akshara – vowel and consonant, is considered to be a “Bija-akshara”, that possesses great potency.

About the teacher Shanti Mani:

Shanti Mani is a yoga acarya trained in the tradition of Sri Krishnamacarya and teaches Viniyoga and Vinyasa Yoga. The core belief of this tradition of Raja Yoga is that every individual is unique in his mind-body-spirit complex and should be given a practice accordingly. Encompassing all the limbs of yoga, she has been teaching since 2014.

She has also completed the Healing Chants Teachers Training Programme from Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram. Vedic chanting is an integral part of this system of yoga and when recited correctly, can confer innumerable benefits to the chanter and listener.

Integrating yoga asanas with theses chants or infusing the breath with these potent mantras can help heal at the physical, physiological and mental levels.

She has also taught the same to differently-abled children, the elderly and in charitable organisations.

For further details or clarifications, please contact
Shanti Mani 9391008302
Geetha Pallavi 9394301400

In one of the regressions sessions, he recollected a time when his mother scolded him for not being intelligent enough. She went to the extent of comparing him to a kid in the same class as her son and pointed out how smart the other kid was.

In the same session, my friend regressed to several such instances where his mother compared him to other kids, always pointing out the smartness of the other kids. Those incidents did not have the anticipated effect of the mother on her son. It almost never does. Largely in such instances, such comparisons have the opposite effect. The kids tend to neglect studies because they eventually come to believe they are not smart or as an act of rebellion.

But in my friend’s case a stranger change took place. He started being sloppy and very disheveled about his appearance. It was only in the regression, did he realize what happened as an effect of those comparisons his mother had made. In the kid’s mind the word smart got associated with the meaning of looking smart rather than thinking smart. Since the word smart was used in both contexts, the meaning that the mother had intended got miscommunicated. And believing that he was not smart because his mother always said so, he started neglecting his appearance. He would go to school in soiled clothes, dig his nose in front of teachers, never combed his hair, or cared to keep his shoes clean. Of course many kids do that, but his sloppiness was so extreme that he used to stand out in the class.

And years later, as he put efforts to start up a business and run it, he became obsessed with appearing smart. And hence his extreme care over his looks. For several years, he moved between phases of looking smart and appearing sloppy, depending on his inner motivations and his zeal for life.

I noticed this dual meaning of words in many cases with many other people who come to therapy. Words themselves always have dual meanings (if not more). And such inter-changed associations in mind is common.

In some cases, the meaning of the word is not drastically different as seen above but there is an eventual degradation in our use of them from one meaning to another. By eventual degradation, I mean how we start using the word for one meaning and then eventually move to mean a more insulting or derogatory meaning of it. And children experience this duality and eventual degradation of meaning from their parents and other elders.

Take the word naughty. Some parents start using the meaning as a word of affection with their child whenever the child does something cute but mildly disruptive. Perhaps the child keeps kicking over a mug and the parent laughs and call it “Naughty!”. Then as the child grows up, the same word may be used by the parents to express their genuine displeasure, like “Don’t be a naughty boy!“.

This duality of words and their eventual degradation of meaning can happen in any language. For instance, in Telugu the word donga means thief. It is used in the same context as the word naughty is used for kids. But again, when the child grows up and a does something deceptive, the same word is used to mean its actual meaning of being sly or thieving.

This is true not only in case of a child to adult communication, but also in adult to adult conversations. Best examples would be the meaning of words success and loser. Their meaning could be taken in context of a situation or can be applied to entire life. So, if someone is called a loser, it could be regarding the current context or define the person in general.

Therapy often reveals many such situations that have created an unnecessary belief or trait in a person just because the word was either associated with a different meaning or they experienced an eventual degradation of meaning. In either case, they could be worked upon in therapy provided the client is willing to heal through it.