Why Take Reiki ... Twice?

For many people a Reiki class is a huge event in their life. It marks a major sea change in how they see the world, and how they see their life. It is an event worth repeating.

So much happens at once in a Reiki class. It is not a surprise that students can't absorb it all at once. Students are often experiencing the reality of "Ki" for the first time, they are trying to figure out how the reality of Reiki fits into their life, they are healing at a deep level, and to think in an entirely new way. A Reiki class is truly an amazing thing! There is no way to truly take it all in. For many people, the Reiki class becomes one of the great watershed weekends of their lives that affects everything they experience that comes after it.

So much happens, that repeating the class, even with the same teacher, can pay huge dividends in increased understanding, new techniques, and stronger Reiki energy. The hardest thing to develop in any class is confidence, and often repeating students surprise themselves on how much they do know, can do, and yet how much more they learn. Often, when they repeat the class they notice definite improvements and increases in the amount of energy in their hands, plus improvements in their sensitivity to perceiving energy.

Training with other teachers is also very helpful. Most Reiki students only ever talk to their teacher, and their fellow students. Training with other teachers is an excellent way to "cross-pollinate," to learn new ideas and approaches.

I joke that taking a class with me is like taking the class with many teachers at once. I have been doing Reiki since 1992, and I try to incorporate the best of what I have learned from different teachers and sources, and the best of the techniques I have developed in almost two decades of teaching.

I also take time at the International Reiki retreat to network with Reiki masters from all over the US and the world to talk shop Here I discuss the ways to do different things with Reiki. Both here and elsewhere, I have met lots of talented Reiki people who have taken a Reiki class, and assume they have learned all there is to the subject. Then they start talking to me and start finding out how many more ways there are to use Reiki, more potential they had never realized.