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What is Reiki?

Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese word meaning universal life energy. This energy is the natural, vital healing force found in all life. The Western Usui System of Reiki Healing or Usui Shiki Ryoho is a hands on and distant healing practice that uses life's natural healing energy to balance body, mind, heart and spirit in a structured way through light, gentle, non-intrusive touch and compassionate intention and regard. Universal life energy is a only a very minimal description of Reiki's extraordinary benefit. In an early diary written by Hawayo Takata, the woman who first introduced the Usui System of Reiki to the her students in the West, stated: "This power (Reiki) is unfathomable, immeasurable, and being a universal life force, it is incomprehensible to man. Yet, every single living being is receiving its blessings daily, awake and asleep."

What does Reiki do?

The Usui System of Reiki can be a used as a personal tool for healing and growth, as a way to give supportive energy (to bless) family and friends, and as a  complementary therapy to holistic, naturopathic, alternative and conventional medicines among an almost unlimited number of beneficial purposes. A Reiki treatment simply supports the whole person physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Reiki is easy to learn and can be used in a home or clinical setting to enhance the health and emotional wellness of both self and others.

When a Reiki practitioner places hands on an area of their own or a client's clothed body, Reiki flows from the practitioner to the client and then back to the practitioner in a circle of compassionate energy that starts when the treatment begins and ends when the treatment stops usually an hour to an hour and a half later.  Although the experience of reiki treatment is completely individual --  experienced by both the client and the practitioner as a variety of sensations, including, heat, cold, vibration, tingling, unusual heaviness or lightness, or no sensation at all -- it is often reported as accompanied by a deep feeling of warmth, well-being, comfort, deep relaxation, and revitalization. Reiki relaxes muscles, stills the mind, and eases pain. Reiki treatment has been scientifically shown to accelerate healing. Many health professionals are effectively incorporating the use of Reiki into their individual practice. Those who learn Reiki find that it can be successfully administered very simply in all kinds of settings: home, clinic, hospital, or any place where people experience stressed muscles, accidents, exhaustion, or personal trauma. Many Reiki projects have been created for AIDS patients, victims of war, and hospice care settings, to name a few. On the physical level, Reiki can bring relaxation to stressed muscles, decrease pain, accelerate the healing time of bones and wounds, diminish the tissue involvement of burns and bruises, and much more. On a mental and emotional level, anxiety is reduced, a sense of well-being is increased and another level of relaxation can be felt. At this degree of deep relaxation, a rebalancing of energies can occur and the natural healing ability of the body is enhanced. On a spiritual level, people have stated they feel revitalized and newly awakened after a full-body session.

Where does the Usui System of Reiki Healing come from?

The Usui System of Reiki is named after its founder, Mikao Usui. Usui developed reiki in the 1920's in Japan. He began an investigation into the healing phenomena of history's greatest spiritual teachers. Through travel, study, research, and meditation, he developed the form of Reiki and spent the rest of his life applying and teaching this method. 

Usui died in 1926, but Usui's work continued in a pre World War II, Tokyo at a clinic run by Chujiro Hayashi. A patient, Mrs. Hawayo Takata of Hawaii, recovered from her serious ailments at Hayashi's Reiki clinic, and became his first known western student. She practiced and taught throughout the US, Canada and Puerto Rico from 1937 to her death in 1980. Her granddaughter, Phyllis Furumoto now carries on her work. Today millions of people practice Reiki throughout the world.

The Usui System of Reiki Healing has spread through an oral tradition of teaching, sharing information, and exchanging treatments. Reiki is not something that can be learned by reading a book—it is something to experience by receiving a treatment, taking a class, and talking with Reiki practitioners, students, and masters.

How Can I Learn More?

Reiki Treatments

Reiki treatments are given to the person fully clothed and generally lying on a massage table. The Reiki practitioner gently places his/her hands on the head, the abdomen, the back, and any particular areas of pain or discomfort. Treatments last between an hour to an hour
and a half.

Reiki Classes

The Usui System of Reiki is taught by Reiki Masters who are trained in the traditions of Reiki as passed through the spiritual lineage, and are committed to this healing art.

 A Reiki I class is usually taught in one to four sessions adding up to seven to twelve hours total. Each student is attuned to his/her own Reiki energy while also learning the history of Reiki, the basic hand positions for self-treatment and the treatment of others, and ways to use Reiki in their own lives.

 Reiki II is offered to students who have taken Reiki I, have had several months to one or more years of committed practice, and feel drawn to take this next step with Reiki.

We invite you to share reiki with us. Join us for reiki treatments, reiki training, and reiki circle. Emerald City Reiki Center offers
traditional reiki
treatment, reiki training and reiki community. Cal us at 206) 725-8591 for information.  

Who can the Usui System of Reiki Healing really help?

It happens to everyone—the unexpected, the "worst possible" scenario. You don’t know how to work through it (though you think you should), and the approaches you’ve used in the past aren’t working this time. You just want to feel better.

Although your specific situation may be a little different, there’s a common quality to our struggle and longing. Reiki has helped people in all of these situations.

Do you see yourself here?

Stress dominates your life.
The demands of your life seem greater than your ability to cope with them. Everybody needs something from you, and you feel like you'll never catch up. You've tried deep breathing and exercise, but that just adds more to your schedule. You're becoming increasingly irritable, your sleep is lousy, and you may feel anxious or depressed.

Challenged by illness.
You're in treatment right now for something pretty big. You're in good hands medically, but the side affects are troubling.
Maybe you're in pain. And good as your medical team might be, they can't treat the worry about what this could do to you in the long run. Furthermore, you worry that your worry is impeding the healing process.

Grieving the loss of someone you love.
Maybe it's a relationship gone sour or someone important to you has died. Either way, you feel lost and alone. You've tried support groups or talking to friends, but they can’t seem to soothe what feels like a big empty hole.

Career collapse
Through your choice or the boss's, the career is gone. Or maybe you've lost your focus in life. Work used to be the one place where you really felt in charge. You knew who you were and had a clear life purpose. But now, the industry has changed, or you've lost your job, or your youthful enthusiasm. No matter how many self-help articles you read, you're feeling more and more listless and useless.

Deepening your healing wisdom and spiritual connection.
Things are going okay, but you feel a nagging restlessness, a sense that there's more to life than meets the eye. You know there's a larger truth than the one we live day-to-day, but you don’t quite know where to look for it.

I highly recommend an introduction to Reiki on YouTube that author and fellow Reiki master Pamela Miles has produced recently. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ammo6-Vje6s.  (If you can't access it directly by clicking the link here you can copy and paste the link into your browser.) Do check it out!

No matter which of these circumstances you find yourself in, Reiki can help you!

Reiki Treatments and also Reiki workshops are typically offered on weekends at Stillpoint, 4110 Stone Way
N, Seattle, Washington. Feel free to call us at (206) 725-8591 for more information about Reiki workshops
or to make an appointment for a treatment.
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