Reiki is healing energy drawn from the Universe and passed on to the recipient by channelling that energy through their hands. Energy healing has been used across the world for centuries and used to heal on a physical, mental and spiritual level. Reiki is not a religion and does not conform to any religious belief system. It is a form of healing that activates the body’s ability to heal itself by stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system { the part that controls the body’s ability to relax}.
When the body is in a relaxed state , healing can take place. Energy flows
through the Practitioner and is passed on by the gentle laying of hands, palms down or just
above the body over specific energy centres. This process is extremely gentle, non invasive and
safe for all beings of any age, including animals. Reiki can do no harm - it can only do good and
will flow wherever it is needed with positive effect.
Rei = Universal
Ki = Life force Energy
Usui Reiki Ryoho is a Japanese form of energy healing discovered by Mikao Usui during the early 1920s whilst he was on a 21 day retreat called Discipline of Prayer, on
Mount Kurama Yama, a sacred mountain north of Kyoto, Japan. At midnight on the 21st day, starving and near death, he was suddenly aware of a powerful light entering his mind through
the crown of his head, thinking he had been struck by lightning, he fell unconscious.
When he awoke the next morning, he found he was filled with an amazing new level of awareness and vitality.
He believed he was experiencing the energy and consciousness of the
Universe and that he had finally achieved the state of enlightenment he was seeking. As he hurried down the mountain, eager to tell his Zen Master all that had happened, he fell
and stubbed his toe. In pain, he held his throbbing, painful toe between his hands and felt the
healing energy flowing through his hands and the pain went away. His toe was healed.
It was at this point that Mikao Usui realised that he had been given the gift of healing and
realised that this was his purpose in life: to be a healer and to teach others to do the same and
over the following few years the practice of Usui Reiki Riyoho was developed.