“Isn’t Reiki just the easy way out?” It’s a question that is often broached in wellness spaces, asked with curiosity or sometimes skepticism. In a culture that often glorifies struggle, sweat, and visible effort, a healing system that involves lying down, closing your eyes, and receiving gentle touch can seem… too simple.

One of the most beautiful parts of giving Reiki, and honestly one of the hardest, is learning to trust your intuition.

We recognise that Reiki is a gentle healing energy and a complementary therapy that is safe to be used alongside more formal medical treatments, including the treatment of cancer.

Using Reiki is a really powerful way of making connections - starting with ourselves. The Reiki 1 training is about us as individuals. Through regular self-healing, we start to bring our own bodies into balance, feeling and building our energy flow.

If you type ‘What is Reiki’ into a search engine, you will receive lots of definitions, all based around the same idea: ‘a form of energy healing that involves the gentle placement of hands on or near the body to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.’

Reiki might sound a little mysterious if you’re new to the world of energy healing — but at its heart, it’s beautifully simple, deeply soothing, and available to everyone. Let’s unravel it together.

One of the most powerful ways to cultivate self-love is by working with the heart chakra. The heart chakra is the centre of love, compassion and emotional balance, but when it is blocked, we may experience feelings of sadness, loneliness or self-criticism. 

Even if you have never tried Reiki before, you can still benefit from its principles. In this guide, we will explore what Reiki is, how it relates to self-love and how you can use Reiki-inspired techniques to transform your inner world and cultivate deep, radical self-love.

You will know the term ‘attunement’ from your Reiki training – no matter where you are in your Reiki journey. You may still wonder what an attunement is, how it works, and how it impacts your life but first, let’s remind ourselves of some history.

We know that practising Reiki reduces stress, promotes relaxation and spiritual growth, heals and increases physical energy, enhances the immune function and much more.

We can do the same with our Reiki practice. When we first receive our attunements we enter a period of 21 days of self-healing, creating great habits which help us as Reiki practitioners. We find ways to make self-healing work for us in our lives and it becomes a habit.

Energy is everywhere and in everything. We are all made up of energy. You are probably aware of the energy centres or chakras, energy channels (called meridians) and auras, the energy field around the body.

Learning Reiki can have a profound effect on your whole life; during your initial 21 days of self-healing, you may feel drawn to make some changes in your life, bringing balance not just to your body but to your environment, your relationships, career, finances… In fact to any area of your life and wellbeing.

Whatever our initial plans for Reiki, we can sometimes lose our way. We may put Reiki on hold for a while, not have time or the inclination to practise, or we just get out of the Reiki habit. So how do you get back to Reiki? This is a question we sometimes get asked, so here are some ideas you can try to re-ignite, or strengthen your Reiki.

Most of us use Reiki on ourselves, and with our family and friends, to clear and balance the energy. We are going to delve more deeply into using Reiki to clear, and enhance, the energy in your home.

Once you feel confident with your self-healing and have worked with those close to you, why not try some of these ideas!

By restoring the natural flow of energy, Reiki aims to harmonise the mind, body, and spirit, providing a pathway to inner peace and resilience.

Reiki healing is a complementary therapy that promotes relaxation, reduces stress and anxiety and uses universal energy to bring your body into balance: physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

You may have experienced a Reiki treatment and felt the benefits for yourself, maybe you know someone who has had Reiki and told you about the effects, or you might just be interested in finding out more. So here are some of the benefits of learning Reiki, or continuing your Reiki journey.

 In this blog, we'll explore how Reiki, a centuries-old energy healing practice, can be a gentle and nurturing companion for women undergoing the menopausal journey.