Reiki, pronounced ray-key, is a Japanese word meaning universal (rei) life energy (ki). Reiki is an ancient healing technique, rediscovered in the late 1800’s by Mikao Usui. Today, many styles and schools of Reiki exist. The Holistic Way offers treatments and courses in the traditional Usui method.

Reiki helps anything and everything! Whether you have physical pain, discomfort, illness, disease, or injury, emotional and/or mental imbalances, and/or spiritual disconnectedness, Reiki can work for you. Overall, Reiki:

• reduces stress
• is effective in balancing emotions related to depression, anxiety, and grief
• increases vitality
• alleviates physical pain and discomfort from injury, stress, illness, and fatigue
• aids your body with it’s own natural healing abilities
• assists in helping to reconnect with your true self
• aids in ‘self-help’ allowing  you to take control of your well-being
• compliments and helps the healing process of health care and medical treatments (including cancer, depression, and anxiety)

Reiki believes that when we are faced with stress, illness or crisis, our bodies’ natural flow of energy becomes blocked and distorted. Such blockages and distortion can lead to physical symptoms such as tension, pain and disease, mental/emotional disturbances such as anxiety, depression, or grief, or feelings of spiritual disconnectedness making one feel disconnected from their life and loved ones.

Through giving Reiki, or channeling life energy, the practitioner assists the client to re-balance their own flow of energy, thus, helping the client to open and heal any blockages or distortions that may be resulting in their experience of physical, mental, emotional or spiritual ailments.