Reiki in Edinburgh - Enlighten Holistic Health
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Reiki Training Courses - About Learning Reiki
Reiki is a gentle and magical journey of self discovery, healing and personal transformation.
Are you ready for
a life changing adventure?
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom" -
Charles Dickens
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Our Deepest Fear - Nelson Mandela |
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The
full potential of Reiki to improve health and well-being is realised
when you learn how to use it yourself.
"Give
a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach him how to fish and you feed
him for a lifetime."
Lao Tzu
The founder of Usui Reiki Therapy, a highly respected and renowned Japanese spiritual teacher and healer called Dr Mikao Usui, who won a commendation from the Japanese Emperor himself for his healing work in the community, described it as "The secret method to invite happiness; the miracle medicine for all diseases; the way to improve your mind and body."
Light is energy; everything is energy. Gaining enlightenment is understanding that everything around us is energy. Our consciousness is also energy. And we, the living light energies, are constantly influencing the energies around us and being influenced by energies. When we learn to create thoughts and feelings based on joy, wisdom and love, that energy has a positive influence on everything and everyone around us. We become light-workers, living in the light and spreading light into the world.
Learning the practice of Reiki energy therapy can be a life changing experience for anyone who seriously commits to it. Reiki offers a very effective means of nurturing, supporting, relaxing and transforming yourself at every level, and the technique can be learnt by anyone who feels drawn to master it. No particular skill, gift or talent is required at the outset. With the right attitude of patience and a heartfelt desire to help oneself and others, anybody can practise Reiki, even young children (who are often better than adults at it!). Reiki therapy is completely safe and can be of great help not just to you yourself, but to anyone you care for or are concerned about, whether they be tiny babies or the frail and elderly. Even animals benefit, and indeed actively seek Reiki out when they need help. No specific knowledge, prior training or experience is needed for you to get started, other than an open mind, a desire to learn and grow. Then all it takes is commitment, time and regular practice to develop and hone your skill. You can begin to use Reiki after just two days' basic training, to bring deeper relaxation, balance and feeling of vitality and well-being to yourself, your family, friends and pets.
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Learning to practice Reiki could be one of the most life enhancing choices you ever make, bringing you new insights, deepening your self awareness, teaching you personal mastery and giving you a completely new understanding of life, health, happiness and relationships.
If you want a future different
from your past, then ...
Heal the past by learning to relax, let go and be
happy;
by doing so fully and lovingly live your
present;
and in that way create a better future.
The Reiki Path
Reiki is a truly magical journey to
inner peace, health & transformation.
Once you
commit to learning
Reiki, you will
gain a completely new perspective on health and happiness, and I can promise you
that if you practise it regularly, your life will
never be quite the same again!
As you start working with this loving and compassionate energy you will find it supporting you to grow, develop and change in all sorts of exciting and unexpected ways. Reiki is not just a tool for helping others; above all else Reiki enables us to find our true path in life and begin to fulfill the potential we were born with.
"If a man can put his own ego out of the way and believe without a doubt, then he can enter a state of consciousness where he has no limitations, except those he imposes on himself."
Life is full of change and challenge, and the secret to happiness and peace of mind is to learn to let go of the old and welcome the new without fear and resistance. Regular practice of Reiki lovingly and effectively supports us through these changes, giving us a positive outlook and helping us to make the most of them by seeing them as opportunities to develop our potential rather than as difficulties that hold us back.
"Happiness is not a matter of
good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude.
It
comes from appreciating what we have,
instead of being miserable about what we
don't have.
It's so simple - yet so hard for the human mind to
comprehend."
Nelson Mandela's vision captures for me the essence of the Reiki path:
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Our Deepest Fear Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Your playing small does not serve the world. We are all meant to shine as children do. And as we let our own light shine,
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This beautiful daily acceptance prayer (author unknown) also powerfully illustrates for me what the Reiki path is all about:
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Daily Acceptance Prayer I accept myself completely. |
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The Five Reiki Ideals/Principles
(As written by Dr Usui himself and translated from the Japanese)
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The Secret Method of
Inviting Happiness, Just for today, Think these in your mind
The founder, Mikao Usui |
The First Degree Level (Reiki I) will give you an awareness and understanding of life force energy, holistic health and the mind-body connection, and how to harness and use this energy in everyday life for health and happiness, through a series of specific energy, breathing, visualisation and meditation exercises and a mystical Reiki attunement. In just two days you will learn simple but amazingly powerful healing techniques for calming and revitalising your mind, body and spirit, for relieving stress and pain, for increasing your feeling of well-being and for bringing deeper insight, healing and balance to yourself, your family, friends and clients. This is an effective workshop for people who are wishing to change and who are interested in stress management, self healing and personal growth, with the added benefit of leaning how to channel healing energy to help others, too. The ability to channel Reiki is then with you for life and the more you work with it, the more skilled you will become with it and the more amazed you will be at its awe-inspiring power. The basic training takes place over one weekend, with subsequent work and reading to be completed in your own time before a certificate of completion is awarded. Everyone is welcome to learn, from young children to people in their senior years - no prior experience or training is needed, just an open and enquiring mind and the time and commitment to continue practising the techniques after the workshop.
The Second Degree Level (Reiki II) is the next step to take if you are interested in strengthening the energy you are channelling to help others and/or if you would like to focus on making more specific changes in any area of your life. This is a stimulating and comprehensive workshop which will give you a very thorough understanding of how to work with energy at this more advanced, professional level. You will also learn how to develop your intuition and give distant treatments, and a variety of effective new ways of using Reiki (if practised regularly) to improve every aspect of your life both at home and at work, as well as how to give more powerful and effective treatments to others. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and lots of time to practice the various different techniques on yourself and on others in a supportive environment, so that you can go home at the end of the course feeling confident in your ability to use what you have just learnt in the "real" world. You will learn how to use Reiki to support people and situations you are concerned about and connect with them as though you were actually there with them, even if they are hundreds of miles away. You will also learn how to focus Reiki energy in powerful new ways to help specific mental and emotional challenges / distress in yourself and others, to help clear negativity / trauma from the past and from your physical environment, to help change beliefs, habits and behaviour, to enhance relationships and personal / work circumstances (both yours and those of others), and to influence future concerns / plans / situations for good. More advanced breathing, visualisation and meditation techniques are taught, and how to use intuition and affirmations to support your Reiki treatments. The basic training takes place over one weekend, with subsequent work and reading to be completed in your own time before a certificate of completion is awarded.
The Advanced Reiki Level (Reiki III) The focus of this stimulating and thought-provoking course is to help you to become a much more effective Reiki practitioner. In addition to the fourth Reiki symbol, you will learn a variety of advanced tools and energy techniques to help you get even better results from your Reiki treatments, as well as exploring ways of developing your insight and your awareness of yourself and others to support your ongoing spiritual growth. This level of Reiki is usually only taken by students who are seriously committed to the practice of Reiki as a way of life and personal development. It helps you develop your confidence, knowledge and skill to work confidently with the more challenging problems people may come with and we look at energy work in a broader context than in Reiki II. This is Part I of the Reiki Master training, but can also stand alone in its own right, and takes place over one weekend, with subsequent work and reading to be completed in your own time before a certificate of completion is awarded.
The Reiki Master Level (Reiki IV) completes the Reiki Teaching Master training, enabling you to pass the attunements yourself and teach Reiki to others. A prerequisite for Master training with me is to have completed Reiki III with me, and acceptance onto the Reiki IV training is at my discretion, as it is important that students at this level demonstrate the necessary level of maturity, responsibility, knowledge and experience to guide others along the Reiki path. Working at this level requires students to be very balanced and grounded and able to achieve good rapport with people and put them completely at ease. Anyone looking to teach others must of course already be a skilled and competent energy practitioner who regularly treats others and gets effective results. The Reiki Master training is usually only undertaken by students wanting to become Reiki teachers themselves, although professional practitioners may want to study it either as a general revision or in order to complete their understanding of what they are practising. This workshop is the start of Part II of the Reiki Master training and the focus is on personal development as well as on learning how to give attunements and how to teach Reiki to others. There will also be a general revision of everything I teach in Reiki I and Reiki II. A certificate of completion will involve, amongst other things, creating your own Reiki workshop manuals at all levels, so that by the end of your training you are confident about what and how you want to teach Reiki to others. In addition to the specific training on the workshop, we will work closely together to help you achieve this, and once you have gained your certificate, I will be available for ongoing support and advice, should you need it.
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I am qualified to teach Reiki, in the Reiki tradition of learning from a Reiki Master, and I run weekend Reiki workshops throughout the year. Training includes a comprehensive manual and a certificate of completion that allows you to progress to the next level, either with me or with another teacher. Groups are limited to a maximum of eight participants (though the group size is usually four to six) to make sure you get the personal attention and practice you need during the course to develop your knowledge and confidence. The small group size also allows me to run the workshops in a lovely room in my home where I can create the safe, peaceful, comfortable, relaxed and nurturing atmosphere I feel is important so that everyone attending can have a personal, friendly and intimate experience of learning Reiki. I am also happy to give private, one-to-one, couple or group tuition at times to suit specific needs. I teach Reiki workshops at four levels; Reiki I, Reiki II, Advanced Reiki and Reiki Master Level. The ability to practise Reiki is passed on from Reiki Master to student and the training includes a simple ceremony using 'spiritual attunements' to give you a mystical experience of the energy. It is important to take time to integrate what you have learnt at one level so that you feel fully confident before moving on to the next level. How long that will take you will vary from individual to individual, depending on your health and state of mind and on how committed you are to regular meditation and practice, and may be just a few months or a year or more - there is no time limit, and I run refresher/booster workshops (Reiki Refresher Day) a couple of times a year for anyone who, for whatever reason, would like some revision. The best way to develop your knowledge and skill is to experiment with Reiki energy as much as possible and to give regular treatments to yourself and to others. I like to give prospective students the opportunity to meet me individually for a chat before they enrol on a Reiki workshop so that they can ask questions and make sure that the course is what they are looking for. If you would like to make changes in your life, or are looking for a powerful way of supporting others, and think that Reiki might be the way forward for you, I would be delighted to hear from you.
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