Reiki with Rachel Ellis
Kia ora I'm Rachel. I'm a mum, an early childhood and primary teacher, a cacao and meditation leader, and an angelic reiki master. I trained as a reiki master to add more tools to help me manage my own autoimmune disorder. The reiki has been key to my health over the past few years, helping me when my energy was low, supporting my body to bounce back after illness, and finding balance and uplifting energy during hard times. When I was first diagnosed with the immune disorder I was bedridden with a poor outlook for the future. I began receiving reiki healing alongside Western treatments, and within the year I was out of bed and taking steps towards a brighter future.
What is Reiki?
Reiki therapy is an energetic healing system in which a reiki master amplifies the life force energy within the recipient through hand position on and above the body. The amplification of life force energy promotes the recipients’ self-healing abilities, bringing a sensation of calmness within the mind and body while enhancing the flow of energy and stimulating internal systems within the body.
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While everyone has the ability to heal with their hands (think of a mother’s hand on a child’s brow soothing a headache, or the way we place our own hands on our body to relieve pain -like a sore back or period pain), a reiki master has been trained and attuned to amplify your innate healing abilities.
Reiki is a spiritual practice like meditation is a spiritual practice, it is not religious as it is not associated with a religious practice. You don’t need to have spiritual practices to benefit from reiki, and if you are embarking on growing your spiritual well-being reiki can be supportive in helping you tune into your subtle energy body. Reiki can be very soothing for emotional experiences including grief or trauma.
Reiki can:
Enhance energy
Support relaxation and stress relief Increase your creativity,
Provide insight
Promote emotional healing and spiritual growth
Relieve symptoms
Provide relief from chronic pain, anxiety and depression
Help you heal inflammation and infection
Aide in the repair and growth of bone, ligament, muscle, tissue, skin
Reiki is not a stand-alone treatment for ailments, but thousands of people have attested to the benefits when they have added reiki to the therapies they have used to heal ailments and diseases.
My own experience with energy healing came during a time when I had been diagnosed with an immune disorder and suffered immensely from post-viral malaise/fatigue, brain fog, myalgia (body aches/pains) digestion dysfunction, headaches, and more. The relief, clarity and energy I received from the sessions were so beneficial that I was able to return to a holistic level of health within half of the time suggested by Western doctors. I decided to train in reiki to further continue to support my own well-being and also to share this experience that helped me so much with others.
I have supported clients receiving chemotherapy and radiation - using reiki to gently support their immune systems and bodies to better utilise the treatment to achieve the desired effect. Babies with colic, children with anxiety, adults with depression, and people healing post-surgery or injury are among my clientele who have all experienced an increase in healing and energy and a reduction in symptoms, or an easier time dealing with the hard stuff in life.
What will our session look like?
Our sessions are between 60 - 90 minutes. Korero 10-20 mins, Reiki 30-40mins, Korero 10-20mins.
The first korero is for you to share why you wanted to come, and what your intention is. It may just be to experience reiki - or you may have a specific intention ie: you are experiencing post viral malaise (not bouncing back after being sick) and want to boost your immune system and energy levels. We will discuss if you would like to sit or lie, have a weighted blanket, and what you feel comfortable with in terms of touch. After the korero, you can choose to sit or lie to receive your reiki therapy which will flow for 30 - 40 minutes of deep relaxation time. The last part of the session is just a time to reorient yourself to the waking state, and we can share any insights over a cup of tea/ glass of water.
Things to note - Reiki is a clothed practice. It still works even if you don’t want to be touched - it can even be practised remotely.