According to the founder of the International Center for Reiki Training, "Reiki is a Japanese form of stress reduction and relaxation that promotes deep healing." Mikao Usui developed reiki in the early 1900s, deriving the term from the Japanese words rei, meaning “universal,” and ki, which refers to the vital life force energy that flows through all living things.
How does reiki work? Energy smoothly flows through key energy centers (Charkas) from the client's body and through the hands of the practitioner. This energy flow helps to stimulate the body, mind, and spirit to release blocked areas where one holds their traumas, stresses, and past pain.
What happens during a reiki session? Reiki treatments typically last 60 minutes. During a session, you’ll lie on a massage table fully clothed, as your reiki practitioner gently places their hands, palms down, on or just above your body in specific energy locations. They use a series of 12 to 15 different hand positions.
What does reiki feel like?
You may experience the energy in the form of sensations like heat, tingling or pulsing where the Reiki practitioner has placed their hands. Sometimes, people feel sensations moving throughout the body, while other people do not perceive any change at all. Most people feel very relaxed and peaceful during reiki treatment, and many fall asleep during the process.
The release of this stuck energy feels like the weight they were carrying was lifted. The experience is usually a springboard to mental clarity and emotional ease.
In my Reiki sessions, I sometimes use drumming, crystals and tuning forks depending on the individual. My biggest joy happens when a client validates feeling lighter and/or when someone shares their unexpected spiritual experience.
MEET DIANA SMITH AND MARIA KING, REIKI PRACTITIONERS
ABOUT DIANA SMITH: REIKI MASTER, AKASHIC RECORDS HEALER, METATRON & VIOLET FLAME HEALER
I became certified to practice and teach all levels of the Usui/Holy Fire Reiki Ryoho System of healing. I am now an independent Reiki Master using other modalities during my sessions. I am attuned and certified to use Reiki Holy Fire III. The course was led by the founder and president of The International Center for Reiki Training.
I am so happy you have started your search for a connection and path to inner healing through Reiki!
2018: Reiki Level 1 training and attunement to the Usui System of Natural Healing in accordance with Usui Shiki Ryoho tradition.
2019: Level 2 & Level 3 Advanced Practitioner Training from the same Usui Shiki Ryoho Tradition.
2020: Received additional Reiki training from a Reiki Master certified with the ICRT to become a member of The International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT) organization.
2022: Level I - Akashic Records Practitioner Certification led by a member of the Linda Howe Center for Akashic Studies.
2023: Level II - Akashic Records Advanced Practitioner Certification led by a member of the Linda Howe Center for Akashic Studies.
2023: Metatron Healing Practitioner Certification - Healing within the Akashic Records - The Light of Healing
2024: Metatron Healing Teacher Trainer Certification - The Light of Healing
ABOUT MARIA LAURA:
I was born and raised for the 13 years of my life in Lima, Peru. Most people here in the U.S. call me Maria and most of my closest friends and family members call me Mari (ma-dee). I go by all these names and you are welcome to use any of them.
I was trained as a nurse. I practiced as a clinical nurse for 8 years; I currently have an active nursing license.
My Reiki journey started in 2016, this year I first received Reiki from a practitioner who would become a mentor and a teacher for the next 7 years. I believe in order to facilitate healing for others, one has to go on their own healing journey and for me that journey took 7 hard working years.
In October of 2021 I received my first Reiki degree, Usui/White light Reiki under the same practitioner who started my Reiki journey and in December of the same year I received my second Reiki degree. Due to unexpected circumstances my beloved teacher was unable to teach the last degree of Reiki at the time I was ready, so during a Reiki event I made a connection with a teacher from the same lineage who was ready to teach this level. In August 2024 I received my third and last Reiki degree, Usui Reiki Master/teacher level.
I believe in medicine as much as I believe in holistic practices such as Reiki. I believe we need both in order for the body/mind/soul to heal. I use my nursing career to assist me, and guide me through this practice, we are physical beings first after all. Connecting the physical body to the energetic body (feelings, emotions, spirit) has been a key to many of us in order to find balance, and I am proud to say that I bring that to every Reiki session I facilitate.
