What is Reiki

• Reiki is a technique involving the non-invasive placement of hands on the body to promote relaxation, decrease pain and nausea, reduce stress, and increase healing.
• Pronounced: ray' key.
• Rei - universal knowledge or spriritual intelligence
• Ki - life forec energy
• Life energy is in and around all things.
• Reiki connects the universal enery with the body's innate powers of healing.

How does Reiki work?

• Energy flows through pathways called chakras and meridians.
• Reiki practitioner is the conduit for which energy flows.
• When energy flows are blocked due to life stresses, the body experiences symptoms.
• When this energy is transferred to the client, it enhances his/her body's natural abiltiy to heal itself.
  
  

What does it feel like to receive a Reiki treatment? 

• Feel practitioners hands gently placed on his/her body.
• Senses a feeling of warmth, heat, tingling, or coolness.
• Feels a sense of deep relaxation.
• May sense Reiki energy flowing through body, arms, or legs.
  
  

Why Reiki is done on a Sound Table

• Sound massages cells gently - 60-70% of our body weight is fluids.
• Bathes the body with sound.
• Lowers stress and anxiety.
• Promotes harmony and balance for the mind, body, and spirit.
• Helps to reduce pain and nausea.
• Provides a safe vibrational massage to the whole spine and internal organs.
• Music is experienced in every cell, organ, and tissue.
  
  

What are some Reiki facts?

• A Reiki treatment is a pleasant and relaxing experience.
• Reiki is completely safe and there are no contraindications for treatment.
• Reiki allows the patient/client to participate in his/her body's own natural ability to heal.
• Reiki is not a substitute for medical treatment, but rather a complimentary therapy that enhances medical treatment.
• Reiki helps to maintain overall health.
• Reiki is not connected to any religion and does not contradict the individual's beliefs.
• Reiki is non-invasive and may be done anywhere and anytime.

What is the Philosophy of Reiki?

• All healing involves energy.
• The body retains the wisdom to significantly improve its own physical, mental, emotional, and spritual conditions.
• Reiki goes where it needs to go.
• Reiki is always used for the highest good.