What does inner happiness mean?Not relying on outer circumstances to make you feel happy. When we feel inner happiness we …
Discovering our Lineage
At a Reiki class, teachers often share their Reiki teaching lineage – who their teacher is and that teacher’s teachers …
Was Mikao Usui a Yamabushi?
First of all, what is a Yamabushi? A Yamabushi is an ascetic who roams the mountains in Japan seeking spiritual …
Usui-san and Reiki Practices for Mind Training
When we start to look deeply within the system of Reiki we begin to see that Usui-san is really teaching …
Reiki is Wisdom and Compassion
For we did not weave the web of life. We are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to …
Reiki and Kundalini
Are they different or the same? Many people who practice the system of Reiki have energetic experiences, some are very …
Becoming the Symbol and Mantra
Through Shinpiden I learned that the point of working with the symbols is to open to that energy within myself. …
Protection and Reiki
Within many Reiki classes and energy healing modalities there is a lot of talk about protecting yourself. Practitioners and teachers …
Hands-on healing, Exhaustion and More
A common complaint that many Reiki practitioners have is that they appear to have side effects from performing hands-on healing …
Review of Primordial Sounds for Healing CD
Frans Stiene’s new CD Primordial Sounds for healing resonates with me being a yoga teacher and practitioner. In yoga it …