But I’ve heard about other forms of Reiki
When my students ask about other forms of Reiki, I tell them something I read many years ago. Usui Reiki is the vanilla ice cream and all the other types are flavors that have things added to them just as you’d find in the twenty-eight flavors that use to exist in a famous restaurant.
What are those other names that one might hear?
Some practitioners have integrated their own methods into our vanilla ice cream Reiki. I’ve heard about “Rainbow Reiki” that pulls in the chakras and their colors. One famous Reiki Master has developed something called Karuna Reiki. I personally trained to be a Karuna Reiki Master and from my experience it had little difference to what I’d already learned. For this reason, I chose not to teach it. My thinking is why do students need to spend more time and money when they already have what they need to practice excellent healing?
What about Shamanic Reiki?
One of the most recent additions to Reiki world is called Shamanic Reiki. According to a Pamela Miles:
“Shamanic Reiki is an oxymoron, because while shamanism and Reiki are each valuable and useful, they are opposite approaches.”
Miles https://reikiinmedicine.org/communicating-reiki/shamanic-reiki-shamanism/
A final thought
Before wandering past Usui Reiki, ask yourself is it serving me and my clients and have I fully explored it?
I hope this article has cleared up confusion about Reiki and other names that have been trademarked using it.
[…] Many people become Reiki Masters because they want to teach Reiki. Others take the training for further self- empowerment and some even do so because they believe it gives them a valuable credential. Reiki Master training is a process of learning how to teach Reiki. It’s important for a Reiki Master to actively be treating people in Reiki sessions because this gives her the experience of using Reiki and knowing about it when teaching others. For those first considering becoming a Reiki Master, it would be helpful to think about your goals for doing so. Finding the right Reiki Master to learn from is crucial. I wrote about this is a previous article http://reikinewyork.com/kinds-of-reiki/ […]