What is Reiki?

In a world that often pulls us in a thousand directions, many of us are awakening and seeking ways to reconnect with our inner peace and restore balance to our lives. One powerful healing modality that

continues to grow in popularity is Tibetan Usui Reiki—a gentle yet profound energy healing practice that supports the health triad of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness.

What is Tibetan Usui Reiki?

Tibetan Usui Reiki is a beautiful meld of two very powerful ancient spiritual lineages: Usui Reiki, developed by Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui in the early 20th century, and Tibetan monk healing techniques, which are rooted in ancient spiritual traditions deriving out of the peaks of the Himalayan Mountains. This blended system combines the traditional Reiki energy healing methods with sacred Tibetan symbols, visualization techniques, and the use of subtle energy channels and chakras.

At its core, Reiki is based on the principle that universal life force energy flows through all beings; plants, animals, humans, everything and everyone that lives and breathes. When this energy is strong and free-flowing, we experience health, vitality and emotional well-being. When it becomes blocked or depleted, dis-ease and emotional imbalances can occur, leaving us burnt out and ill.

Tibetan Usui Reiki practitioners act as channels for this healing energy, allowing it to flow through their hands and body and into the person receiving energy therapy. The recipient remains fully clothed, lying down or seated (whichever is most comfortable and feasible for that person), while the practitioner gently places their hands over or slightly above the body.

How Does It Support Healing?

Tibetan Usui Reiki works on multiple levels—physical, emotional, mental and spiritual—to promote a deep state of relaxation and self-healing. Here's how:

1. Physical Healing

Reiki can support the body's natural ability to heal itself by increasing the flow of energy and blood circulation, reducing tension, and stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system (the “rest and digest” state). Many people report relief from chronic pain, headaches, fatigue, and even faster recovery from illness or surgery. Hundreds of hospitals across the United States have a Reiki Master Practitioner on staff to offer complimentary healing sessions for these reasons. Studies show patients who receive Reiki energy healing before and after surgery have a decrease in stress hormone cortisol, an increase in relaxation hormone oxytocin, thus resulting in shorter timespans in healing from surgical wounds (International Association of Reiki Professionals).

2. Emotional & Mental Well-Being

Stress, anxiety, and unresolved trauma can be stored in the body, disrupting energy flow. Reiki gently helps to release emotional blockages, bringing a sense of calm, clarity and peace. It encourages emotional release and can even support mental health alongside other therapies. Due to the work reiki does to calm our nervous systems, many chiropractors and massage therapists receive their attunements (sacred traditional symbols branded into a person's code by a Reiki Master teacher that connect a practitioner to the healing channels used to access various reiki systems) and use reiki channeling to help promote calmness and health during chiropractic or massage therapy sessions as a complimentary service!

3. Spiritual Connection

Tibetan elements add a deeper spiritual dimension to the Reiki experience. Techniques such as breathwork, visualization, and sacred symbols connect the practitioner and client to a higher channel of consciousness, helping them tune into their intuition, release karmic patterns, and open themselves to deeper states of awareness, compassion and understanding of themselves and the Universe. The spiritual practice involved in this type of healing modality has been studied and used by monks for thousands of years; more recently, we are being brought in on these studies and uses given our newfound abilities to measure and track changes within ourselves through medicinal trials as well as through Quantum Physics. We are finding far more than just physical bodies and systems. We no longer have to follow blind faith that spiritualism is real, we no longer have to solely rely on a feeling that these things are legitimate; we can see it!

4. Chakra Balancing & Energy Clearing

Many practitioners of Tibetan Usui Reiki work with the chakra system—energy centers in the body that relate to various aspects of physical and emotional health. Sessions can help balance these chakras and clear stagnant energy that might be holding a person back from living a life well-deserved. Chakras are our mini-servers designed to help supply our many bodily systems with life force energy (Chi) to function smoothly, benefiting our overall wellness. When these become blocked, we may see a wide array of symptoms and even illnesses, some going unexplained by Doctors of Medicine. Clearing out these pools of energy allow flow from top to bottom throughout the energetic system, ultimately promoting health within the physical body's living systems as well.

Who Can Benefit from it?

The beauty of Tibetan Usui Reiki is that it is gentle, non-invasive, and safe for everyone, regardless of age or belief system. It can benefit:

• Individuals dealing with chronic pain and illness or undergoing surgery

• Those experiencing anxiety, depression or grief

• People undergoing life transitions

• Anyone seeking deeper spiritual growth or inner peace

• Healers, empaths and caregivers needing energetic replenishment

Tibetan-Usui Reiki provides more than just calm relaxation. It is a holistic practice that empowers individuals to reconnect with their own inner healer. Whether you're on a journey of emotional recovery, physical healing or spiritual exploration, this ancient energy healing system offers a sacred space for transformation.

If you're feeling curious, consider finding a free consultation or trying a session with a certified practitioner, or even exploring Reiki training yourself. Sometimes, the healing you’re seeking isn’t something you find out there—it’s something you awaken within.