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Reiki Certification
REIKI ("Ray-Key") means Universal Life
Force Energy. This Japanese healing technique is non-invasive and
gentle. Reiki heals on all levels - physical, emotional and spiritual.
Classes are held weekly and can be tailored to meet your individual
needs.
LEVEL 1
This one day class is designed to initiate you into the wonder and
amazement of the Universal life force energies. Upon completion
of this level you will be able to work on yourself and friends.
Cost for this course is $150.00
LEVEL 2
This one day class is designed to initiate you into the second level
power and supply you with the tools necessary to be certified as
a Reiki Practitioner. Reiki Level 1 is a pre-requisite.
Cost for this course is $250.00
LEVEL 3 (Master Level)
This is the level that works with you, attuning you to the fullness
of the Universe. This unique and wonderful experience will work
on the totality of who you are, revealing your passion and path
to self enlightenment and healing.
Cost for this level is $400.00
TEACHER TRAINING
Individually personalized classes for instruction for the Teacher
level. This will allow you to attune others to this wonderful gift.
Cost for this course is $400.00
REIKI
REIKI is pronounced "Ray-Key"
REI means universal, everything that is seen and unseen
KI means the vital life force energy that flows through all that
is alive
These Japanese characters, when combined, represent the concept
of universal life-force energy".
REIKI is not a religion. It holds no doctrines, creeds or contradictions
to the universal law of consciousness and love. The REIKI energy
embraces, harmonizes and enhances your philosophical point of view.
Once you are attuned to the REIKI energy, you are permanently linked,
without having to consciously alter the mind through meditation,
prayer, or visualization. Mentally calling on the REIKI energy and
placing your hands on yourself or another person, begins the flow.
The REIKI energy enters your body at the crown of your head and
then flows down and out through your hands. Once you place your
hands on yourself or another person you will experience the energy
as heat or tingling. This experience is unique to everyone, some
feel the heat, tingling or a pulsating vibration and with many variables
to the formula. Sometimes there is no physical feedback except a
magnetized feeling or a sense of being highly energized.
REIKI energy comes from the universal energy field. You become the
channel through which the healing energy flows, a vital link in
the healing process, and not the "healer". You will not
be using your own energy in a session, therefore you will experience
no energy drain. An exception to this is if you allow your ego to
get in the way, which can allow for an empathetic drain. Remember
to keep your ego out of the way allowing the highest good to be
the outcome of a REIKI session.
REIKI is a pure energy form. When it is combined with the sincere
desire of a recipient who is willing to receive for the highest
good a total healing can occur. You play an instrumental part as
a channel for the energy, ultimately it is up to the recipient to
manifest harmony and balance in Spirit, Mind and Body. REIKI works,
and even if it is imperceptible, the lasting effects are on going.
REIKI is a tool for use any time, anyplace, like meetings, in bed,
while being a passenger in a car, on-the-spot stress release, pain
relief, and emergencies. REIKI enhances and works with all other
health care. REIKI speeds the healing process and provides a source
of restoring energy during illness, medical treatment, and in recovery.
No special environment or equipment is needed and age makes no difference.
It is important to note that the one instance where using REIKI
is not recommended is in the case of unset broken bones. After the
bones are set is the appropriate time to administer Reiki, the bones
may begin to heal before they are in proper alignment.
The Attunement to the REIKI energy is a profound event. Over the
next three weeks I encourage you to be kind to yourself by drinking
lots of water and getting the rest you need.
The more you use the Reiki energy, the more it teaches you, increasing
your awareness and developing your technique.
THE HISTORY AND ORIGIN OF REIKI
REIKI can be traced back to ancient Tibet, hundreds of years ago
and the story is told that Esoteric Tantric Buddhism came to Japan
in the early ninth century through the Japanese monk Kukai and Saicho
who had studied in China. Kukai was a student of Huikuo, a student
of the Indian monk Amoghavajra who was in turn a student of the
famous Indian teacher Vajrabodhi. Both Indians lived in the Tahsingshan
Temple in Ch'angan, the current center fo the Shensi Buddhist associaton
in China. After the death of his teacher, Kukai returned to Japan
and taught what he had learned in China. He became the founder of
the Shingon Buddhism.
In brief, the goal of the esoteric Buddhism is Shunyata, emptiness.
This emptiness is not a negative state of absence; instead, it should
be understood as the transcendence of duality. At the moment in
which the self is no longer distinct from the other, the unity of
the whole has once again been restored. The Self only exists in
our imagination, in our mind. We create the ego and the world with
our thoughts. Our natural state of being is emptiness, not cluttered,
by the past and the future.
Dr. Usui was a Buddhist and incorporated many of the teachings that
you will learn about today. Through history, suppression and total
destruction we have been shown that many of the teachings of the
Buddhist community were lost or hidden only to be rediscovered and
shared with the world in the last century.
For many of us, the person of Dr.Usui is still that of fabled creature
shrouded in mystic fog. However, he was first of all a human being
like you and me! Unfortunately, we still know very little about
his life.
We know that he was born on August 15, 1865 in the Japanese province
of Gifu, married Sadako Suzuki, and had two children. On March 9,
1926, he died in Fukuyama as a result of cerebral apoplexy. Exactly
when Dr. Usui began to teach Reiki is still unclear.
We assume that it must have been around the year 1920, which means
relatively shortly before his death. In 1921, he opened a Reiki
practice in Harajuku, Tokya, close to the beautiful Meiji Jingu
(shrine).
His renown swept through the country like a whirlwind, and he moved
to a larger house in Nakano in 1925.
It is told that Dr. Usui went to Mount Kuri Yama. There he fasted
for 21 days, meditating, seeking the power to heal. The story goes
that Dr. Usui climbed to a level that was comfortable and a place
that faced east. Since he had no calendar, he gathered 21 stones
and placed them before him. Every morning he awakened before the
sun rose and threw away one of the 21 stones to keep count of the
days. Each day he meditated and fasted. On the 21st day, Dr. Usui
awakened and found his way to his meditation spot. He picked up
the last stone and before throwing it off the side of the mountain
he asked the Universe to show him how to heal and to give him the
knowledge of how to use it.
As he threw the stone off the side of the mountain, a light appeared
far off in the east. It grew brighter and came closer. Dr. Usui
was curious, and after he considered his many years of searching
and his long fast and meditation on the mountain, he quieted his
mind so that he could accept whatever the bright light had in store
for him.
The light became very bright and streamed across the heavens and
hit him right between his eyes. For a moment he thought he had died
and left this earth plane, as he had never before been in such a
euphoric state. He saw many, many layers of all the colours of the
rainbow. Then came the powerful, bright, white light followed by
golden symbols - the formula of the Universal Life Force and how
to use it. The symbols came to him one by one, memorizing and preserving
them within his being. Finally the light and the symbols were gone.
Dr. Usui felt rested, full of life and energy.
He jumped to his feet and started down the mountain. In his haste,
he stubbed his toe on a rock. He reached down to comfort the pain
and to stop the bleeding. As he touched his toe, he realized that
something was different about the energy passing through his hands.
Very soon, the pain and bleeding ceased. After this healing, Dr.
Usui continued on his way down the mountain.
Soon he began to feel hungry, so he stopped at a home that serviced
travellers and ordered a full meal. Recognizing that this was a
man who had been fasting on the mountain, the owner of the roadside
rest tried to talk Dr. Usui out of eating such a full meal, but
to no avail. He ate the entire meal with no ill effects.
He was served his meal by a girl with a bandage wrapped around her
jaw. She told Dr. Usui that her tooth had been aching for days.
Encouraged by his own phenomenal pain relief, Dr. Usui asked her
if may lay his hands on her. She accepted his offer gladly. He put
his hands around her jaw and in a short time the pain and swelling
started going down. She was so happy that she went and told her
father. When Dr. Usui went to pay for his meal the father refused
the money, declaring his gratitude for the healing of his daughter's
jaw. He asked Dr. Usui to accept the food in exchange for the healing.
He accepted.
Dr. Usui began calling attention to himself by carrying a lit torch
through the city of Kyoto. When people would stop him and ask why
he was carrying a lit torch in the middle of the day, he replied
that he was searching for people with hearts full of love, but who
were ill and oppressed and were searching for the true Light. He
invited the people to come and hear about REIKI. In this way, he
began teaching REIKI throughout Japan and gathered a following of
16 teachers. Over 2000 people learned REIKI from Dr. Usui. Dr. Usui
passed from his physical body after asking his beloved student Dr.
Chujiro Hayashi to see that the REIKI teachings were preserved.
Dr. Hayashi continued in Dr. Usui's tradition, travelling, teaching,
and dedicating his life to REIKI. He established a residential REIKI
clinic in Tokyo, where people could receive treatments for weeks
or even months at a time, often with several practitioners working
at once. It was to his clinic that Mrs. Hawayo Takata of Hawaii
came for healing. She was made a REIKI Master in 1938. At Dr. Hayashi's
death in 1941, Mrs. Takata succeeded him as the third Grand Master
of REIKI. Mrs. Takata was instrumental in spreading the teachings
of REIKI to the US and Canada, and in the last ten years or so of
her life initiated 22 of her students to the REIKI Master level.
With the arrival of the Reiki teachings to western society in 1938
by Mrs. Takata of Hawaii, it managed to change from the traditional
Japanese method to one with more of a distinct flavour of Christianity.
Through investigation and research over the last few years by Frank
Petter of Japan the first westerner to be a Reiki Master/Teacher,
the correct information is now being passed to us.
As your Reiki Master/Teacher I feel it is my obligation to bring
to you the information as it was taught by Dr. Usui and hundreds
of years prior to his rediscovering of it. I give thanks to the
spirit of Dr. Usui and the Red Dragon for being able to share with
you REIKI.
The Reiki energy and its teachings have covered just about every
country in the world and is growing in such leaps and bounds. Today
as you are attuned to this Universal life force energy I wish you
well and a great experience healing yourself and assisting others.
REIKI MASTER LINEAGE
Dr. Mikao Usui
Chujiro Hayashi
Hawayo Takata
Beth Gray
Rev. Fay Smith
Barbara Hampson
Susanne Proulx
Eveline Fleurman
Tony Travers
Nancy Stevens
Nada Alzerikly
Gisele Le Blanc
DB(Bruce) Whittier
THE 5 PRINCIPLES
Dr. Usui believed that a healthy body is followed by a healthy mind.
This is one reason he adopted the Meiji Emperor's five rules for
life. Along with building a solid foundation for REIKI. These five
principles created significant changes along with a focus for the
emptying of ones self allowing the Reiki energy to flow.
The Secret method of inviting happiness.
JUST TODAY
o Don't get angry
o Don't worry
o Show appreciation
o Work hard ( on yourself)
o Be kind to others
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