Shamanism and Reiki

Are you ready to take your energy practice of the table and onto the Earth? Consider these principles for practicing Reiki with your ecosystem (and just living an interconnected life). Question your worldview. Most of us, especially descendants of white Europeans, were taught that humans are separate from the rest of nature and nature is a resource to be extracted…

Shamanic seeing is less about learning something new and more about remembering how to be present. It begins by softening the gaze—letting go of the habit of focusing so hard—and allowing awareness to expand. When I do this, my mind settles, my body relaxes, and I begin to sense the quiet energy that connects everyone around me. This way of…

Candles are lit for those crossing the veil, including a long-time Reiki client. The first time she got on my table she just wanted to relax and release the stress-related tension in her body. But last year she needed support after cancer returned to her body and spread. I worked with her between chemo and radiation sessions, after she had…

Can change as a transformative and healing process? A transformative process may start with an event that shakes you up so much you don’t feel like you will ever be in control again. For me, it was the sudden death of my father, which coincidentally happened during my Chiron return and a week before my 50th birthday. My dad was…

Years ago, when I was first starting out as a Shamanic Reiki practitioner and teacher, I wrote about change on my “about me” page. I recently revisited it and I realized that I seem to have written a challenge to future me, today’s me, to commit to working with change. I wrote that we humans are standing at a precipice.…

In my shamanic journey world, there is a large cave. The entrance looks like a crack in a cliff wall until I walk close. It is at the edge of the meadow where I find an old, twisting, and wise tree. The interior of the cave is wide and round. The ceiling domes but I can easily stand tall, even…

I had had fifteen years of Reiki experience already when I discovered Shamanic Reiki. I did not need more Reiki training to continue serving as I had been, but I was drawn to the aspects of shamanism that were incorporated into Shamanic Reiki. My first training weekend experience marked a pivotal point in my work – and my life. Here…

I’ve been following the coverage of the latest wildfires in California with a heavy heart. If you pay attention to the news, it seems like the whole world is on fire, literally and figuratively. To be alive at this time, especially for those of us who have been called to be healers, is no easy feat. There is just too…