King's Touch Reiki

Welcome, Year of the Wood Hors e! Gong Xi Fa Cai - (Gong Hoy Fat choi )  May the Horse of Good Fortune run quickly, bringing many blessings of abundance, fortune, wealth & health! For several years, I 've en joyed following  my friend & Reiki student Gwyn ne Warner's suggestions for preparing for & celebrating the Chinese New Year, & other Feng Shui (rhymes with 'fun play') cures & cel e brations.  T o morrow, Thurs day January 30 is New Year's eve, in the Chinese Lu nar calendar , with Januar y 31 New Year 's day! Festivities continue for the next 15 days (New moon - f ull moon), G wynne has a lovely website & store and you can sign up for her newsletter which give suggest ions in greater detail! Here's a n article she wrote about welcoming the NY from 2013.  You can also f ind fun ideas, crafts & pictures for Chinese New Year  on Pinte rest . Incahoots has many of the items suggested for celebrating the NY.

When I was a little girl, we moved back from our 'Ranch' between Redmond & Bend (Deschutes Junction) to an acre 1 mile South of Redmond. My dad had added a cinder block garage to the house which had been built a few years before, & we had some half blocks lying about ... I'd go out to the pasture, & pick some soft leaves, yarrow, filaree .... & taking a stone, grind them on the broken block ... Knowing, not knowing that there was 'something more to do,' I'd roll little 'pills,' & dry them in the sun. I didn't really 'know' there were things like mortar & pestles, I just 'knew' one ground herbs ... Honey Bee on Artichoke We had chives by the garage, & mint grew in the ditches. Later, I found that my grandmother Mary had grown & used herbs, including Valerian (not exactly a cooking herb!) so realized that this ingrained sense of 'something more to do' had come down through our family ...

In the last post , I gave several exercise to increase the ability to sense Byosen. The word comes from "byo" - ill, stiffness, tumor; "sen" gland. In Usui's original training, the ability to sense byosen was necessary for the student to advance to Oku Den , the next level. Byosen can be felt as warmth, strong heat, tingling, pulsing sensations, or tension. In 'The Hayashi Reiki Manual,' Petters describes a session where he was holding the client's feet &  " perceived my client's whole body at once, the way you would feel the whole form of an apple if you wrap your hands around it. I felt not only the outside of his body but the inside as well. I could feel his feet, his legs, his inner organs, his back, his head, his hair .. I could feel where energy was moving freely and where it was obstructed. The problem areas felt like dark spots in a light body, like dark holes in the Milky Way." (p. 45) This brings to mind a time when

In The Hayashi Reiki Manual, Petters writes, "The Japanese and Western Reiki schools differ in one central way. In Western Reiki we are taught that Reiki is "intelligent' & that it will find its way to the areas in the body that need it the most. Of course this seems true but it is only half the truth. The other half is that the body wants Reiki and will let the practitioner know where and how it wants to be touched. This happens through what Japanese Reiki practitioners call ' Byosen .' " (P. 37)  The art of sensing the Boyden (blockages) is called  Hibiki   The five levels are described as: Warmth - heat slightly higher than body temperature. Strong heat Tingling - generally felt in the hands & fingers, it may ebb and flow several times over the course of the session. Pulse-like sensation - Hibiki or a pulse-like feeling 'indicates that you can actually feel the Reiki stimulating blood vessels. .. The blood circulation is activated and

What a wonderful time we had in class! There were six students, & five who came to 'Refresh' with Reiki; it was a wonderful experience! As we began, I asked each student to introduce themselves, speak a little to what brought them to the class, & share a concern or 'Worry.' Those Refreshing or 'Auditing' the class generally had felt a pull to reconnect with the Reiki energy, or felt a special need for it at this time of their lives. They all were delighted to have the opportunity both for themselves, & to encourage those just beginning. The new students were eager to learn, AND several expressed a concern that THEY couldn't learn it! One mentioned SEVERAL family members 'do' Reiki, but she tends to be more Left Brain/analytical. She wanted to learn, but just didn't know if she'd feel anything. That was a common concern "Everyone else is going to feel it, but I'm not." Another, an electrician, commented t

Tomorrow's the day - the beginning of the Reiki journey for 7-8 new students! What will they be learning? Basic 'hands-on' treatment Self-treatment options Attunement to Reiki - which is a lifelong tool!  History & traditions Reiki principles & Zen Funeral Simple practices which may be integrated into daily life Q & A time at both class sessions, with time between to practice How to treat yourself and loved ones (including pets) Treating injuries and accidents with Reiki Use of Reiki pre & post surgery to reduce tension and pain, and support the healing process Scan the person receiving treatment, 'Boysen,' and begin perceive areas of reduced vitality flow. Appreciate how attitudes can create dis-ease in the mind and emotions, and how the physical body might be affected. Energize food & liquids with Reiki Use Reiki as part of a spiritual practice Each student will receive Handouts & Heart & Hands of Healing Flower E

Only 3 days 'till we meet for our Reiki I class - are you ready? I've been working on the class materials, & printed the hand-outs, which I'll copy tomorrow. It's been fun putting some of the information I've been blogging about into document format, and deciding what to include in your packets. We are now up to 8 students, and at least 5 who intend to audit! I'll send a Group Message on Facebook, with the address. A couple of students have asked 'how to decide' where they fit on the sliding scale. Since I began teaching Reiki in the fall of 1991, I've wanted to make Reiki initiation available to anyone who felt called to do the work. I've also realized, like Hawayo Takata, that there needed to be an 'energy exchange' for students to value the teachings. In her stories about Reiki, Takata shared that as she began teaching Reiki (in the late 30s), she wanted to initiate friends & family at no charge, but was discourage