Practitioner

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A Reiki practitioner is a person who has received attunement in one or more levels of Reiki training and practices energy healing through touch or proximity.

Practitioners are categorized by degree:

Level 1 (Shoden) — the practitioner can perform hands-on healing on themselves and others, using a standard set of hand positions
Level 2 (Okuden) — the practitioner learns symbols that are used to focus intention and can perform distance healing (sending energy to someone not physically present)
Level 3 / Master (Shinpiden) — the practitioner can perform attunements on others, initiating new practitioners into the practice

The training model is lineage-based: each practitioner traces their attunement through a chain of masters back to Mikao Usui. This lineage structure is significant within the tradition because attunement is understood not as the acquisition of a skill but as the activation of a capacity — the master does not teach the student to generate energy but opens a channel through which energy flows.

Reiki

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Reiki (Japanese: 霊気, literally “spiritual energy” or “universal life energy”) is a healing practice developed by Mikao Usui in Japan in the early 1920s. It centers on the idea that a practitioner can channel energy through their hands — by direct touch or proximity — to support healing in the recipient.

A reiki session typically involves the recipient lying down, clothed, while the practitioner places their hands on or near a series of positions on the body, each held for several minutes. The practitioner does not manipulate tissue (as in massage) or apply pressure (as in acupressure); the practice is based on energy transfer rather than physical intervention.

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