Reiki Treatments & Classes |
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$ 125 USD |
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Aimie Halo has 19 years experience as a Reiki Practitioner. Reiki Attunements are $125 each. Reiki Treatments are $50 per session, by appointment only.
Reiki is a spiritual, vibrational healing practice used to promote balance throughout the human system. Reiki does not involve physical manipulation or the ingestion or application of any substances, but works with the subtle vibrational field thought to surround and penetrate the body. (Reiki is commonly translated from the Japanese as universal life energy.) Some people practice or receive Reiki to strengthen their wellness; others use it to help cope with symptoms, such as pain or fatigue, or to support their medical care, even in the case of chronic illness or at the end-of-life. How does it relate to other complementary therapies?
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) categorizes Reiki as "energy medicine." According to NCCAM, therapies in this category seek to "affect energy fields that purportedly surround and penetrate the human body" (also known as the biofield). Energy therapies, such as therapeutic touch and Healing Touch, are "believed to act by correcting imbalances in the internal biofield." Reiki practice is extremely passive. The Reiki practitioner's hands are still for most of the treatment, moving only to change hand placements. The Reiki practitioner is neutral, making no attempt to fix the recipient or to change the biofield. Additionally, the practitioner does not in any way control Reiki energy; she/he merely rests her hands lightly on the body (or just above the body if needed, for example, in the presence of an open wound or burn). Reiki energy in the practitioner's hands arises spontaneously in response to the individual recipient's need for balance at that particular time. In this way, each Reiki treatment is automatically customized to the immediate need of that particular recipient, even though the practitioner may use the same sequence of hand placements for each treatment. Where does it come from?Reiki, as it is practiced in the U.S. today, dates back to the teachings of Mikao Usui in Japan in the early 1920's. Usui was a lifelong spiritual aspirant, a lay monk with a wife and two children. In Usui's time, various lineages of Buddhist, Taoist, and Shinto practices coexisted as the dominant themes in Japanese spirituality and culture. References/Further ReadingPermission for use of Usui and Takata photos courtesy of Phyllis Lei Furumoto. Brown, F. (1992). Living Reiki. Mendocino, CA: LifeRhythm. Ringdahl, D. and Halcon, L. (2006). Reiki. In Synder, M. and Lindquist, R. (Eds.), Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Nursing (6th ed). New York, NY: Springer Publishing. Starr, B. (2007). Reiki: Learning to Do It. Retrieved March 21, 2007, fromhttp://www.religionandspirituality.com/view/post/11703128193100/Reiki_A_healing_touch Twan, A. (2005). Early Days of Reiki: Memories of Hawayo Takata. Hope, British Columbia, Canada: Morning Star Productions.
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