During a Reiki 1 workshop you learn everything you need to know to focus and transfer your own natural healing energy for your own benefit and for the benefit of others. Reiki 1 is the first level of Reiki. Reiki 1 is essentially a hands-on workshop where you receive basic instruction in the Reiki technique from the Reiki teacher and immediate hands-on practice using Reiki. Reiki 1 is the first practitioner level that teaches you everything you need to know to give yourself and others Reiki treatments.

During the Reiki 1 workshop, your own natural healing ability is awakened through Reiki initiations. This innate ability is reinforced through practicing Reiki on yourself and others. In each session, the Reiki teacher also shares personal knowledge and experience in Reiki with the students and encourages and mentors each student's practice of Reiki. I typically teach Reiki 1 in a two-day weekend day workshop with 8 hours of instruction, practice and 4 Reiki initiations with ample breaks for discussion, lunch and tea. I have been a traditional teacher in the Usui System of Natural Healing since 1988.

To join our next Reiki 1 workshop Saturday and Sunday, Aug 9 & 10, 2008, contact me at 206-725-8591 , by email, or by registering online. The fee for Reiki 1 is usually $150.00, but no one should ever be discouraged from participating Reiki 1 because of a current financial shortfall. Exchanges are welcome. Make a proposal! Cancer patients and cancer health care providers and staff are especially invited to any Emerald City Reiki Center Reiki 1 workshop. What is essential in Reiki 1 is the coming together at a Reiki 1 class of student intention and an initiating master capable of transmitting the energetic essence of Reiki 1.

How do you choose a reiki master for Reiki 1? We suggest that you can rely on traditional reiki masters who trace their lineage back to Hawayo Takata, masters who offer straight-forward, stand alone, single level no-nonsense, Reiki 1 classes, and whose commitment to reiki is long-standing. I have been a traditional master in the Usui System of Natural Healing, Usui Shiki Ryoho, since 1988. In Reiki 1 class, each student's own natural healing ability is awakened through four reiki initiations. This innate human healing ability is then reinforced through practicing reiki on self and others.  During each of the four reiki initiations, the primary role of the reiki master is providing a forum for sharing and opening up each student's innate ability to transmit healing energy. In each Reiki 1 session, the reiki master also shares her personal knowledge and years of experience in reiki with the students and encourages and mentors each student's practice of reiki.

Reiki 1 begins student and teacher sharing and with the first Reiki initiation. After the first initiation, the history of Reiki is discussed and the head to heart positions are taught. After the second Reiki initiation the remaining front of the body positions are taught along with their effects and uses. The students then practice giving and receiving Reiki using the traditional treatment positions. The back positions are usually taught in the third session after the third Reiki initiation. And after the fourth Reiki initiation, the basic self-healing hand positions are taught and the students practice self-treatment. By the end of the Reiki 1 training, each student receives four Reiki initiations, gives and receives at least one full traditional Reiki treatment, and is certified as a Reiki 1 practitioner by the Reiki teacher. By the end of the Reiki 1 training, each student receives four reiki initiations, gives and receives at least one full traditional reiki treatment, and is certified as a Reiki 1 practitioner by the reiki master.

See our Reiki 1 Class Schedule. The second level of Reiki is for those 1st Degree Reiki practitioners who wish to deepen their experience of and commitment to using Reiki in their lives. Typically in traditional Reiki there is a wide range of 1 month, 6 months, 1 year and even many years between Reiki 1 and Reiki 2 training, as readiness for Reiki 2 is individual. I myself took Reiki 2 training one month after my 1st Degree Reiki Class and I recommend the intensity of this particular timing for Reiki 2 to my students and generally schedule my Reiki 1 classes so that a Reiki 2 training is available one month after completion of 1st degree therefore I offer this Reiki 1 & Reiki 2 Intensive option. Call us or email us to schedule a reiki treatment  or to talk about Reiki 1, Reiki 2 or Reiki 1 & 2 Intensive training. Scholarships at a reduced class fee are available at all levels of Reiki training especially for cancer patients and cancer health care providers and administrative staff. Email us about scholarships!