What is a Reiki Session? with Karen Caig, LRMT

So I think that this race, Reiki Basics series is something that you can refer potential clients, family members, friends who wonder what you're doing to, if you wish. Feel free to do that. And also it may help you in describing and explaining Reiki to others. In this week's podcast, we're going to cover what is a Reiki session, what's involved in it, what to expect, and so on. And and this might help you better explain it to others as well. Welcome, Karen. Thank you. Thanks for having me.

We always have a good time. I think that we, help each other remember all the, important points so he knows, Yeah, sometimes we get too tangled up in some of the, higher end stuff and we forget some of the basics ourselves. Somebody just exactly what Reiki was the other day. And I tripped over my tongue and my husband said, You wrote a part of a chapter on that, and why, did you have trouble with that?

I said, Oh, just sometimes you just have trouble And I think it's important to come back to the basics. Even if you are a seasoned Reiki practitioner or a seasoned Reiki teacher, coming back to the basics is an important part of your growth because as you grow and practice more you, have a different perspective. So coming back to the basics is, I think good for everyone. I agree. Karen, I'm glad you're doing this. I'm glad we're do, we're doing this, series actually. It's a lot of fun.

Before we get too far in, I just wanna let you know that I have Animal Reiki one and two and Masters coming up in a, week or two, couple of weeks, I think from now. And those are both online and in person here at the farm. So please join us if you're guided in a few weeks after that, starting October 31st. I've got a Kaurna Reiki class. Kaurna Reiki is an advanced master class. It's for people who have been at the Usui Reiki master level for any lineage for at least six months.

And if you feel ready to take things a little further and go to Kaurna, I'm actually teaching it in an Australian friendly time zone, which means that it's evenings here in North America. And sometimes that works really well for people. In January, I have a full lineup of classes and in December I have six days of animal classes, level one and two Reiki animal communication and the animal Reiki. And it's all around a weekend. So if you really are into animals, join us in December.

But I also particularly wanted to let my Australian students know, or North American students who've always wanted to travel to Australia that I will be teaching in person in Australia, level one and two Masters and Animal Reiki one and two in March. So who please plan to join us for that. Karen, what have you get coming up? Very similar only I'm teaching Kaurna in December but I teach Reiki one and two, Reiki Master Animal one and two and Animal Master every month. And I try to very.

During the week and weekends. So now you have every other month. So just check my website, Reiki hyphen institute.com. You've got an interesting class coming up, Bo, Karen, and for students in Asia, do you not? I do. I forgot about that. Yes. This month, actually, the end of this month I'm teaching animal Reiki master over two weekends. So Friday for me it's Friday and Saturday morning. For those in Asia, it's from seven to 11.

Friday on Friday the 21st and Saturday the 22nd, and the following Friday the 28th and Saturday the 29th. And if you're in London, that would be same dates, but from noon till. So it would work really well for people who like getting up very early in North America or who are a little further east like I am for people in Europe. And it would also work really well for any of your Asian students or any, Asian students who are looking to do animal Reiki masters.

So I really encourage you if that speaks to you, taking it over two weekends is a lovely way to do. Some people do like to break it up that way since you do have four ignitions to the symbol. So you'll get an ignition and exercises, meditations, practice time, every and the master level is powerful. We're going to do in our Reiki basic series, we're gonna talk just about animal Reiki, but let me just say at this point it's powerful. Yeah. Thank you.

I'm be gonna also ask people before we get too far in, if you have Reiki, just to bring your hands together in Gassho and close your eyes. and just invite your Reiki energy to activate and all of your Reiki symbols to activate and join you today and just be part of our talk. And at the end of our talk today, I'm going to share with you a wonderful healing experience, which forms the basis of most of my Reiki classes, actually.

And so once your energy's activated, just place your hands on your body, wherever you feel guided. And Karen, let's just start with the very first question. What is a Reiki session and what can somebody expect if they book a Reiki session? What, does that usually look like? Do you wanna give that a shot? Sure. I'm doing only distance sessions now. Me too. But let me talk about. What an in-person session is like, people say, What should I expect? I say dress comfortably.

You're going to lie down on a massage table. If you're cold, nature dress, you know appropriately, but I cover people up with a blanket usually. And then sometimes they're like, I have to get out from under this blanket because the Reiki, my Reiki hands are hot. I may touch or not, I usually have a form for people to fill out where I ask things like, Are you sensitive to touch? Are you sensitive to smells? Sometimes I will ask clients if they would like me to use essential oils.

Pam, I know you have your own line of essential oils. They really help to move the energy sometimes. But I, always ask, some people are really sensitive to smells and they get on the table. And I, usually if I ask, Is this your first Reiki session? But I'll tell them a little bit about how I do my session. First of all, I'll ask do you on the form I asked, do you have any particular intention for this or are you just why are you here So that we can work together.

And then I'll explain that What I'm doing is I'm just doing a scan. And I tell them I talk constantly. The only time I am not talking is when I'm doing a Reiki session. I'm a real blabber mouth but I tell them if you have a question or you want to comment Oh, I feel something, or I, encourage people to, go ahead and comment. And I tell them also, it's completely fine if they fall asleep. I would say half, at least half of my clients fall asleep during the session because they get so relaxed.

But I'll tell 'em, Okay, so I'm just gonna scan and I'll do a BS and scan. And sometimes I'm moving my hands over their their face and they'll say, Oh, I feel that But I'll tell 'em like, I'm just feeling your energy feels just to see how your energy feels.

And I can tell where things are blocked and, not just because The, energies that they're flowing or it's not usually like people who are not talking about something that's bothering, bothering them, and they haven't been talking about it for a long time. I'll scan and I'll feel like, Ooh, it's what's going on here? And I'll tell them I, I may ask questions, but for the most part I'm quiet.

And so I'll tell 'em, I start at the top of the head usually, unless I'm guided to go somewhere else, can, I'll just work my way down. Ending with the feet. I also ask them if they have any trouble with their back. I'll tell 'em, because so many people fall asleep. I don't always turn people over and my backside because the goes where it needs to go. And the session up, How about you?

I never turn them over either Karen and I can shimmy my hands underneath of them if I need to, but one thing about it that is that some people might think because it's a massage table, you would get undressed the way you do for a massage, but you don't, you're fully clothed during a Reiki session. You might, you probably take your shoes off, but otherwise than that you, stay fully clothed and like Karen said, dressed to your level of comfort.

And there are different types of Reiki sessions, and I think it's important to know that every. Reiki practitioner has their own style. Some people use only hand positions. Some people you might guide you in a meditation and then use a few hand positions. Some people don't use any hand positions at all, but as a. Client, you get to direct the session.

One of the first things that I always ask a client, I use the form with the I C R T when we learn our level one and two Reiki, we have a, client information form. And I always, fill those in. And I think I always have, because otherwise from session to session, I might forget what took place. And and so I fill those in and like you, I find out if there was a particular issue that they want to work on.

But one of the first questions when I used to do in-person sessions, and I simply don't have time now, so I, have to see my clients at a distance now in order to fit everybody in that, that is wanting to book sessions and But I would ask, do you like touch or would you rather I beam? Because you don't have to touch your clients. So I've actually had clients who, for one reason, weren't comfortable with touch and it's absolutely no problem.

I could still do their Reiki session and just direct the energy above their body with my hands where it needed to go. I was just teaching a Reiki level one and two class today. And somebody asked a question like, If you, I'm clairvoyant, Karen, I know you're clairvoyant. What do you do with the information that you get? And I said that's really interesting because I asked Reiki I don't wanna see your private stuff I want. And so for me, a Reiki session is between you and the energy.

I want you to know that didn't know that your privacy remains private. And certainly as a Reiki teacher with the I C R T and our code of ethics, we don't discuss people's treatments with anybody without their express permission. And and that's even to, share a story in a class or something like I, you only share those stories if you have permission from the client. Their, session is private. And, even those of us with clairvoyant abilities, we don't like to pry into your. Private your privacy.

We, so we just connect you with the energy. We may observe some shapes or colors lifting from you, but we, but beyond that, we typically don't have a lot of information unless you wish to give it to us. What are some of the other things about a session? Are amazing. Yes. And at the end of the session, I always before I share any, anything that I feel like I need to share, I always ask the client, So what did you experience?

Did to see if they have any questions or if they so I, let them take the lead. What, do you want to know always or how, do you feel? Or and then if it's a distance session, it's a little different because I'm not there. Although I've had clients say, It feels like you're in the room with me. And I said I think I am energetically I am in the room. It's, really bizarre. I like to stay on the phone with clients especially nude clients on the phone.

If it's an international client, we'll use Zoom usually, but then I, still can't see 'em cuz I'll have them lie down, but I like to be connected because they may have a question sometimes I'll be giving a session and you know how when something releases, there's like a feeling even though I'm just using a pillow in addition session, I'll feel like a, sense shift. Yes. Okay. And I, like to be connected cuz sometimes the client will say Oh, that.

My foot just bumped or the, I think that they feel more connected that way so that, so the distance sessions are a little bit different Sometimes I have two clients who, are really busy and they're like, I want you to do a session on me and just type the notes and send them to me. And they so I do the session completely, even without. connect, verbal contact with them at all because I connect energetically with them. And, yeah. So there are lots of different ways you can do, the sessions.

There really are. I just wanna go back to the, in person, just for one thing that you said. You had said that that you stay quiet and I do too. And I find that's really important to just let the person be alone in their space and, in their, in the energy. And people often do get very relaxed and fall asleep. But yes. If any, if they ever have a question. But let's just go back a little bit about distance sessions, Karen, cuz we're, talking about them.

But I wanna share with you that I almost gave up Reiki because of distance sessions and because of the distance symbol. Because I simply couldn't wrap my head around the fact that they could be. And that somebody who wasn't even in the same room as me or who wasn't in, even in the same country as me or continent as me, could possibly give me a treatment.

And I actually, even though Reiki had already had a huge impact on my life with my level one class, when I did a level two class and learned that you could do Reiki at a distance, I looked at my hands and I said, I think I'm making this up. Even though I had healed myself with Reiki from, or I hadn't healed myself, Reiki had healed me with self sessions from debilitating health issues, even though my horses had Reiki, and I could see very physical evidence of. What Reiki did for them.

I was ready to give it up because I thought that's not possible to do something to send this energy at a distance is not possible. So did you ever have any Oh yeah. I, always considered the distance sessions like second best If you can't come to my office, we could do a distance session. Probably because I love touching and I love being with people. But when Covid forced me to, do all of my sessions distantly I, found that their act to me, they're better.

Yes. Because the, I don't know if it's because the client is at home and they, relax more, or maybe I'm just noticing things more. I'm, really easily distracted, squirrel, but because I'm just sitting there and just. Deeply connected and I'm I'm aware of quantum physics and that there really is no such thing as space and time, in space. I kind, but then there's, something probably about that from our academic training also going But how could this be okay? How could this possibly be?

But I've had so many experiences where there's no other way to explain what. You know what I pick up or what, they feel, or that they're you can hear the change in their breathing or, they'll just volunteer Wow, something, just, something just jerked or something. Just that, and I felt it in, It's just amazing. And the, benefit, you can hear the change in their voice.

Yes. I hear the change in their voice from like tension and stress to like harmony and health by, from the beginning to the end of the session. But so distance sessions are. Yeah, I think they're powerful. Yeah, they really are. But I, and I don't know, the people who were doubtful about it, then they're like, No, I, no this love this.

You know what I, what happened with me when, and I almost gave up Reiki, which I think goodness for, with all the blessings that Reiki has brought into my life and all the beautiful people that it's brought into my life, I just thank goodness that I didn't give up Reiki. But I'm a researcher. I'm a, I'm always looking for answer. And I thought, I don't I, was like, immediately after my Reiki level one, my level two class, I stopped doing Reiki for about a week.

As I was trying to get my head to sort out the possibility of this distance thing that I didn't believe in. And And I thought okay. And I felt miserable cuz I was doing, I was used to doing Reiki for a couple of hours for myself every day. Like I was just very loved doing Reiki. And so I spent a lot of time in the energy. And so a week of not doing Reiki was torture. And in the meantime, as I wasn't doing Reiki, I started doing tons of research.

And I finally happened upon someone who said, You're not going to understand how distance Reiki works because it's not linear and the human brain tends to like things to be linear. And I said, Okay, I understand that. And what she said was instead of wasting your time trying to figure out how it works, why don't you try it? And. If it works. And I thought, Oh, as a scientist, I can get behind that. That's one way to do an experiment, of course.

And so I tried it and I had absolutely phenomenal results and feedback both of, what happened. And so thankfully that helped me stick with Reiki. And then I did a lot more research and I found, wow, this really does follow a lot of Einstein's work and a lot of some of the higher level physics work that is out there. It really is supported scientifically as well. I started doing distance sessions only. during Covid as well.

But prior to that I had already been shifting quite a bit to just distance sessions. And what I was finding is that my practice was getting busier and that when you have people coming into your house and out of, and out, it was really difficult to keep an hour session to an hour or an hour and a half session to an hour and a half. They were always bleeding over and, then I was late for my next session and people were, and it was always a bit complicated and but.

I'm an intuitive empath and what I discovered, and I don't know if this is for you, but too, but my distance sessions were more powerful, not as powerful, more powerful than my in person sessions.

And I have a theory I don't know if it's correct, but I think it's because when I am in person with a client I, get a little muddled in the energy and yet when I'm have them on the phone and I like to be connected with them too, so I use the phone or zoom and when I have them on the phone, there's enough distance that I don't get confused with the energy. I can see with perfect clarity what needs to be done, and then the energy just gets in and does it.

So for me and, I also feel that my clients are able to be more comfortable and something. They have a lower environmental impact too. This is true. That's right. Yeah. People don't have to drive there. And and that's, a good point too, because sometimes people they're trying to get there on time and in traffic you have more factors that can mess up. You arriving on time and they would come in just so stressed.

Coming, doing a session where they're at home it eliminates that stress and better with the environment as you're saying. But it eliminates that. And it seems like they're, primed and ready to receive and it just they, just go oof right into that, that state really quickly. I agree. A distance session is really powerful and there are several ways to do distance sessions. Why don't you tell us about how to do a distance session that would be like a hands on session.

So I use I have a stuffed animal, but really I just use a little pillow. Yeah. I just use a little narrow pillow and use it as a proxy. But it's, as far as what I do it's, exactly the same as far as a quick chat at the beginning, like to check in if it's a repeat client okay, so like last time we were working on this and let me scan, see how you're feeling. And there'll be a little chit chat at the beginning and, then at the end.

But it's, pretty, pretty quiet that way unless I'm doing like a, holy fire healing session. Tell us about that. And we're gonna try, we're gonna do one of those today. And Holy Fire Healing session style is how I do all of my distance sessions. Yeah. So where, you get you involve the client.

So one thing about a Reiki session is we've talked, I think before in, in the previous podcast, that Reiki does not go where it's not wanted but if you can help get the client more like in to set their intention and to participate in their own healing that, I think that's an important part of Reiki is to for, people to realize just by showing up for Reiki session that you're already saying I, am I'm, in trouble or I need help.

So you're open there, but when the holy fire healing experience, for example, you can help the, person zero in on what it is and help them take responsibility for their own healing. It's not just Because sometimes I have had clients where they're like, Oh oh, I'm stressed. Like I have to go to Karen which is great and a lot. But a lot of times I'll tell 'em like, You need to take a class so you can do this. But even if they are a repeat client what's going on with you?

What are you, willing to let go of? What do you think it is that's causing this? Or to they're, they are it's a partnership. It really between the practitioner and the Reiki and the client. Yeah. And I think, and you, talked about taking ownership and I think you're right, Like something like the holy fire healing experience empowers the client. Yeah. And it's not you coming to me so I can heal you. Us healing us provide, getting you in the space.

The Reiki can provide the healing energy you need, and you are an equal participant in it. And yes, because we wanna empower. That's a big part of what Reiki is. It's not, it's helping people get clear, literally, like clearing their energy, but but also like clear about like, how did I get here a little bit to, so that once you clear a blockage and the, energy's flowing you want them to, usually the discussion is around I wonder what I wonder what, what could be going on in here?

Why do you think I'm feeling this. And then the, and it gets them to reflecting about their life and like how they can, how they might be able to do things differently. Because, yeah, I guess I of course I love my business, but ideally we wanna help our clients. Become self and better and get, yeah, get, get more on track so that they don't have to come, ideally they don't have to come, or if they're coming, it's just for maintenance to get a, clear off of whatever was going on this month.

Like how often do you recommend for people to get a session? That's a really good question and one of the things I tell my clients is that I get a Reiki session from somebody else at least once a month at least, and I just find for my own energy, I am an, I am empathic. I sometimes do pick up stuff from others, and it's just lovely to get a little bit of assistance from somebody to get that clear. What I find that does for me, once a month, getting a session, and I do myself sessions.

So once you have Reiki, ideally, and you talked about this, Karen a Reiki session is a great way to experience Reiki and see what it is and see if it resonates with you and see if you like it. And and then if you do like it, ideally we like to see our clients come and do a class so that they can do their own healing and don't need to rely on us. And, yet many of those clients will still maybe book a session with us every few weeks or every month or once a quarter. And I find that, my.

That do that, that have a regular, some clients find once a month is right for them. Some find once every two months, some find once a quarter, some find once a week, and some find once every two, you know where they are. Depend on where they're, I've got one client who's just such a strong empath and she works in the public and we find that really we need to see each other every three weeks or she gets in over her head.

And but I find that if you are preemptive, if you do book regular sessions and self care and you value yourself enough to do that, that you don't have to move into crisis. Like that's why I go once a month because I find that it just keeps me. On in a beautiful flow with the energy that, that keeps things effortless. And, sometimes if I can't get my session in, I may find things get a little more difficult. So that's what I do.

What do you recommend I'm listening to you and I'm recommending to myself I need to make sure that I get my Reiki sessions from other people, cuz I don't do that regularly enough. But with, I, I do it just on an individual basis, just based on. The client is feeling and cuz it's, it depends on where they are mentally, physically how dense the stuff is. Sometimes people come to me when, after they already have cancer and, so we'll set up like weekly sessions.

I had a, woman in Oklahoma that we did weekly sessions because she was recovering from cancer. So it just it, just varies how often do weekly sessions with people, especially if they have like a terminal diagnosis. And with Reiki has been able to turn those diagnoses around with, weekly sessions. But we also, I don't know if you find Karen, but one of the things that, that we sometimes recommend is if you have a kind of a significant issue, you might wanna do several treatments.

In a row, like 3, 4, 5, whatever, until you can really clear. That issue and that does seem to be very effective as well. Have you found that too? Yeah. Yes. Yeah. What could a person expect to pay for a Reiki session? Generally, like when I'm teaching my students It, they cost about the same as a massage in your area. That's what I tell them to use as a gauge.

And so the other thing about distance sessions, I have clients from California because in California a Reiki session is 150 hundred $75 per session. I charge a hundred cause I live in Arkansas. There you go. So for my clients in California, they're like, Whoa, you're cheap But in Arkansas, that's what a massage cost even 80 to hundred, I chose hundred 20, but it's Canadian, so it's probably two bucks. No kidding. It's about the same as a massage. So it's Yeah. And that, yeah.

And that is very, typical as well. And Different practitioners have different styles. And so if you try a Reiki session with somebody and it just, I don't know it didn't, you didn't love it, It's not a bad idea to try somebody else. And also everybody's energy feels a little bit different. And I was explaining to my class today, I was like, Yeah, so some people have really hot hands and I really like those.

And I went, Oh, and some people's energy is really soft and sweet, and I really like that. And they started laughing at me and I said, And I really like everything in between Yeah. I have never had a Reiki session that I didn't love And sometimes I, adjust to clients too, but like some clients. Like, when I did in person sessions, most of the time I was in a, an office where there were other people like maybe financial advisors and attorneys and I had this little office there.

And so I would play music partly just to drown that out. But then some people were like can we just have quiet? That's the other thing about a distant session is people can just be quiet or they can play their own music because sometimes the music I like my friend used to say, it's like, what is that, wind chime stuff? Turn that off. I love Native American flutes. And I have a friend used, it's just like, Oh gosh, that just all sounds the same. That's just getting on my last nerve.

I'm like, really? I thought it was really nice. Some, practitioners use music, some don't. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, if you have a, I would say if you have. An experience with a Reiki session where you're like yeah, maybe ask some questions when you book the next one, book somebody else and ask some questions. Yeah. Some questions to ask do you usually do hands on, Hands off? Do you play music? Is it only do distance I wanna swing back.

Karen, you were saying about distance sessions, that you usually do yours on the phone and such, and I do too, but sometimes if I'm working with somebody in Asia or another part of the world, sometimes their connection is not stable. And so they'll actually just text me, Hey, can you do this, and this? And you know what? Those sessions have been really powerful too. So I typically like to be connected, but it's not always possible. That's true. It still works.

Oh, and you know what else I, also have another client, I'm sorry, we talk at the beginning and she says, I know I'm gonna fall asleep, so let's hang up. You do the session and send me notes. Oh yeah. That I don't want you to I'll see what note, what you say in the notes, but I, know I'm gonna fall asleep and I don't want you to wake me up. That's, a very good way to do it and to know what you like.

And something, I have clients that it just feels like when our session time is up, that they're so comfortable in the energy that they're meant to stay in it. And usually we come back and we debrief, but in those instances, I'll say to my client, Do you wanna stay in the energy today? And inevitably they'll just go, Yes. And so I'll say, Great, I'll see you at our next session. And I hang up and I do have, I don't have a lot of one-offs. I, do have a lot of people that come for repeat sessions.

Yeah. So that's really neat too. What are some of the other questions people have? Oh what are some of the side effects of Reiki? Oh is I sleep really good sleep, happiness, peace does Reiki have any side effects? You know what, sometimes as energies are clearing out, it can feel uncomfortable. And even you were talking about the woman that didn't like the flute music. I had somebody in class today who's Ooh, I found the music a little jarring. And I said, Oh, isn't that funny?

That's the music that William Rand believes we uses for every placement because it's got a really it's got the frequency of God in it. And Julie, true music to volume one. And and, then I said, You know something though, sometimes we're supposed to be a little jarred because it brings the Energy's up to the surface.

And recently in a class, somebody got a distressing phone call and she couldn't get off the phone and we were trying to get the class started and we were ready to go into our ignition style attunement. And I, let her know cuz I was assisting, William last week in New York to teach a Kaurna Reiki class, William Rand.

And she was so upset when she came in just at the start of the ignition and I just stopped her for a minute and I said, Sometimes it's a really good thing for you to be upset like this cuz it's gonna shake stuff up to the surface to be released. And she just went, Oh my gosh, thank you. And she went on and had a wonderful experience. So usually it's very comfortable and very beautiful, but occasionally, It can be a little uncomfortable as energies shift and move out. Do you find that too?

Yeah. And this holy fire I think is such. Maybe a higher frequency or what? It's gentler it seems like, but I noticed a difference in how clients would respond. Sometimes what you're talking about. Sometimes I would tell clients when I did do soy Tibetan if you're clearing a lot energetically, you may find this, You're like runny nose or runny something else, for a day or two, but I've noticed that with the holy fire, I don't think I have that as much. Not as many side effects.

Yeah. And people usually they, one side effect besides falling asleep is they get up and they say, I feel light. I feel like just lighter and younger people say, I feel like a kid. Sometimes they look different. You look younger. It's amazing. They visibly you look at them and you're like, that person looks 10 years younger than they looked 45 minutes ago. I have a student because she gets permission and post them on Facebook.

But she takes before and after pictures of her clients and post them on social media. But I follow her on social media and every time I'm like what? I'm like, I can't believe that they let her do that And there's just, but there's just like the before and after is. It's, amazing. So I don't know what you Karen, but when I started doing my own Reiki when I I actually, when I started doing Reiki, I had a pretty significant health issue. And I went for a Reiki session every two weeks.

And I did that for about six months. Every two weeks we discovered it was one of my writing students, and we discovered that she charged for a Reiki session. What I charged for two lessons. So we traded and I could afford that way. I was a little, I didn't have a lot of money at the time, and I could afford to go every two weeks by trading her writing lessons. And so I did, I went every two weeks for six months.

But then after I studied Reiki and started doing myself treatments every day people started coming up to me and saying, Don't be offended, but you look 10 or 15 or 20 years younger. Then you used to look and you just look so much better and the, I don't know, the skin cleared up, like everything Yeah. Yeah. So the, I, yeah, those are all kinds of positive side effects. there's a lot of positive side effects and, occasionally a little bit of discomfort.

Now, I don't know if you found this, but after I learned animal Reiki, my sessions got more efficient and I was able, That's true because I always use, I use animal Reiki even on people. People are animals and Yeah, people are animals. And And I guess we'll talk about an animal session when we talk about the animal Reiki, but yeah, we're gonna do a whole podcast about animal Reiki, you guys, so you can learn what it is and, what to expect.

I know I, do regular sessions on my brother and I didn't tell him after I'd gotten the I took it from you, the animal Reiki master class. And so we usually did on Tuesday nights. And so I did a session on my brother and I said he said, So how you feel? And he goes, He said, I don't, I feel like I can't pick my arms up off the bed. I feel like he said, Why? He said, But he didn't know I had used the animal Reiki in that time, but he said, I just feel like I said really grounded.

He said, Yeah. He said it was. Heavy instead of light, but he needed the grounding because he had a lot going on. Yeah, I found my sessions shorter because they just got so efficient and so I didn't have to charge people as much and it worked out really well. Yeah, I loved it. How does somebody find the right practitioner for them?

I would encourage people to to talk on the phone, or I think both of us also have a it's about classes chat, follow them on social media, look and see, But even just a quick phone call yeah, I was thinking about doing a Reiki session. And you'll be able to connect and just feel ask them where they did their training, Ask them what a session is like. Ask them. I guess that's, the main thing, like what's easy? How much is it?

But just the voice, you should be able to, see if you resonate with this person or not. That's right. And a lot of people can, even just checking out a website and looking at somebody's photo, a lot of people often can feel an energy in the photo and know whether they want to work with a person or not. And I don't know. You and I, do a, free 15 minute consultation with people that they can book in my calendar if they have questions about rape. Yeah, I do too.

And because yeah, that's, And then they can a session at a hundred dollars, that's a lot of money to spent for me, It's like, what if you go Yeah, it can be. And so it's just an opportunity to to talk to somebody and see if you resonate with them. And another thing to do is just now it's so lovely because of the distance sessions being so easily accessible, you can work with a really Highly trained Reiki master from across the country or from a different content. Yeah. You probably will.

You said you can tell from the voice and, people tell me all the time that I heard your voice and I knew you, or I saw your picture. Yeah, From my teacher and or my practitioner or, whatever. You can also use recommendations like word of mouth. You can also ask Your friend group, almost everybody knows somebody who's a Reiki practitioner. And even just asking Hey, does anybody go to a Reiki practitioner? And who do you recommend? And most people find me that they just Google Reiki near me.

And then I've got some reviews on Google and some reviews on Facebook and it pops up and apparently I, mine is my Google is like not working at all So me, if they do Reiki near me, but my daughter's gonna try to help me fix that. And you never can tell. I think, honestly, I think that just connecting with the person will, because it's a. Like a massage.

Yeah. But in some ways I think this is even more, I feel more vulnerable with Reiki cuz it's not just it's have all my clothes on, but they're like in my energy fields, yeah. Yeah, they're, And I have trust issues. Yeah. And Reiki works like, whereas a massage is more physical, Reiki works mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally. So I think what you're saying is they're gonna be going deep into some of these layers and I wanna feel comfortable with the person, yeah. And you will too.

So just I, would really just strongly or just give, see if you can talk with them on the phone or, schedule like a, discovery call. Yeah. Or even an email. Like I have some people who said Oh, your email back to me was so sweet that I knew I had to work with you or whatever. Yeah. Or I get a lot of clients and students from Instagram, they'll just Instagram message me yeah. That's lovely. So there's all these ways to, just check out and just feel into something you might like to work with.

And one last thing, Karen, before we go into having people experience this themselves. If you already have Reiki. There's self sessions. Let's talk for a minute about that. So once you do a Reiki level one class, your hands have Reiki, Reiki flows through them. And so one of the most important things you can do with that is to give yourself a Reiki session every day. And there's just all kinds of different ways that you can do that.

And we, recommend every day, and it's, often something that you might do at the same time each day, but what do you do for a self session and, how do you fit that into your day? I always do one before I go to sleep. And usually fall asleep before I can get through the whole thing to, I start at depends if, I've had a really stressful day, sometimes I just put my hand, one hand on my, chest on my heart and one, like on my belly and just fall asleep, giving myself Reiki that way.

But most of the time I can, I start my day with Reiki as well and it, gives me a way to charge up if you will. Before I go out and face the day. Sorry, I'm holding my cat. If you're listening, That's, Can't see that I'm holding my cat. This is my cat is actually attuned to Reiki and is giving me Reiki now. And is Sam I am Sam. I am, yes. Are you gonna send Reiki to everybody? Go ahead. You can send Reiki, but yeah, generally it's, there's short sessions, maybe 15, 20 minutes and.

But then if I'm like sitting in a meeting on Zoom, you can guarantee I'm giving myself Reiki, like watching television, watching a movie, watch television. Yeah. I'm doing Reiki when I'm driving. Yeah. Riding my horse. Yeah. Reiki.

Yeah, one of the things I love to do is activate the symbols in the morning and there, then I just ask them to be with me for the whole day, and I ask the symbols to go out ahead of my day and just prepare things for me so that I just have to show up and it, it, makes things a lot more effortless, but really once you have a Reiki class, then you can do your own session.

And even still though, it is still nice to get a treat, even when you have Reiki, it's still nice to get a treatment from somebody else once in a while. Absolutely. Yeah. Karen, I think we're ready. Is there anything else that, anything we missed or, No, I think that's, that. Probably about it. Okay. Yeah, I think, yeah, Sam probably showed up because he knows we're about to do a fire healing experience. He always shows up for the energy.

So what I'd like to do is lead you all through a holy fire healing experience today so that you can get an actual session from us, from Karen and I will both be sending our Reiki energy to you today through this podcast, no matter when you listen to it. We use the distance symbol so that all of the meditations in the podcast happen in real time for you so that you receive the energy with any of the meditations in the podcast. So this healing experience will work for.

No matter when you listen and you can listen to it as often as you'd like, but I'd like to lead you through a typical holy fire healing experience. And I know that with my distance sessions I have become very adept at listening to Reiki guidance. And so I tend to offer these sometimes become personalized to my clients. They often do. The first session might be a holy fire healing experience, and after that, the meditation is normally individual for the client based on what I'm hearing come in.

But this would be how we would probably begin our sessions. So I'd like you to think of an energy that you'd like to release from your life or goal that you would like to achieve. And just to be aware that if there's a goal you would like to achieve but you haven't been able to achieve it, there's probably a block or an obstacle, a block of energy that's getting in the way of that. So in both of these cases, we are letting go of an energy that is holding you back in one form or another.

And so once you have something in mind that you'd like to heal today or to empower, I'd like you to think about it and to close your eyes and just meditate on the issue that you're working on or the goal that you're empowering. And I'd like you to think to yourself. If the obstacle that's preventing me from accomplishing my goal or the energy I wish to release, if that energy exists in a part of my body, where would it be?

And you just take the first thing that you think of, even if it doesn't make any sense, the first place in your body that comes up. And there's no wrong answer. You can't make a mistake on this. Okay? So just think to yourself, if the original cause of this issue existed in my body, where would it be? And then I'd like to ask you if the original cause of this issue had to shape, what shape would it have?

And it's usually just the very first shape you think of when I say that before you second guess it or overthink it. What's the very first shape? that comes to your mind. And it doesn't have to be a solid shape. It might be a moving energy, or it might be a blob or a cloud. Just whatever comes to your mind. And if this energy had a color, what color would it be? What's the first color that you think of? If it could make a sound, what sound would it make? If it had a temperature, what would it be?

Would it be hot or cold or body temperature? And if you were to run your hand along the surface of this energy, what would the surface texture be like? Would it be rough or smooth or bumpy? Slick. And the final question that I like to ask is, would you be willing to let this energy go completely today? And if your answer is yes, we'll begin. And if it's no, just pause the recording and just give a little thought to why you might not want to let that go.

And so I invite you to close your eyes now. This is the Holy Fire healing experience. And just take a deep breath and you can place your hands comfortably on your body if you wish, and I invite you to imagine that it's a beautiful, warm, sunny day. and that you're walking through a trail in a beautiful forest. And as you walk along and as you breathe into yourself, you breathe in the life essence of the forest.

And with each step that you take, the energy of the earth flows up through the bottoms of your feet. And as you continue to walk along, you notice that the trail up ahead goes off to the left and you decide to follow that trail to the left. You follow that trail until you come to a clearing in the forest. And in the middle of the clearing is a small hill covered with soft grass and beautiful wildflowers.

Imagine that you're climbing up the hill and that as you do, you can feel the grass and the wildflowers brushing against your legs. When you get to the top of the hill, I invite you to lie down, and as you do, you can feel the grass and the earth beneath your body as you gaze up into the sky, gazing up at the sky, a beautiful beam of light pierces the clouds and shines down directly upon you and all around you. It makes you feel very safe and warm, protected, and loved.

This beam of light seems to flow through you and around you. The beam of light begins to focus on that shape that you have identified. I invite you to focus on the shape yourself and simply be willing to let it go. You don't need to do anything to earn this. The Reiki energy comes from grace, which means it is a gift freely given, and so your willingness to let it go is enough, and we'll spend just a few minutes.

And now the beautiful beam of Reiki energy that comes from the highest heaven directly from source, begins to guide you. I invite you to follow the guidance and we'll stay here for several minutes. Yeah. And I'd like to invite you to stay in this energy and in this experience, as long as you feel guided, when you are ready, you can return. Although some folks are still in the experience often.

At the end of this, we ask people if there's been any change in the shape, and one of the things that I like to ask is if you look into that shape and ask what percentage of it remains, what's the very first number you think of, between zero and a hundred? And what that tells me is whether it's going to take another session for it to clear or whether it's already cleared.

And when a client tells me that they've got 30% or less, typically by the following day, that shape has and the original cause of the issue has cleared completely. If they have more than that, I invite them to listen again to the recorded meditation as long as they need. And if they find that's not enough I invite them to. Another session or, as they wish. And sometimes a client will say, gosh, the blue square is gone, but now there's a yellow triangle.

And when that happens, I know that we cleared one of the original causes of the issue, but there is more than one. So when they get a completely different shape when they look into that area, then I know, oh, we had better book another session to work on that next shape.

And Karen, I have found this has cleared really significant issues for people from terminal cancer to sexual abuse, to trauma, to to you name it, to obstacles that have prevented them from accomplishing things they wanted in their life and. I don't know if there's anything you'd like to add. Oh, I found the same. And it's it is a good way to, to start a session. Opens them up for healing of, all the other things.

Cuz usually there is one deep thing that's almost like pulling the stopper out to get things moving. Yeah. So I hope that the listeners were able to release. I hope so too. And I hope you enjoyed your session today. As always, thank you so much for listening and thank you for the beautiful light that you are spreading in the world. We appreciate you Yes, absolutely. Yeah. And thank you Karen. Thanks so much for, Thanks for having me. Thanks for, doing this and providing this. Series.

I think this is gonna be really helpful to a lot of people. I think so too. Blessings to all of you. Namaste