12/10/2025
This weekend marks a big milestone for the Reiki Room. Since I started teaching in 2020 I have now attuned 54 people to Usui/Tibetan Reiki. OVER 50 PEOPLE! Me! Me? Not a bad way to celebrate my 50th birthday year.
I was never going to teach. I was never going to do level ll either and I certainly was not going to do level lll. I started to hear the voice in 2017, the same voice that prompted me to take my Reiki level ll in 2008. I managed to ignore it for a year. “You need to teach. We are waiting for you.” I thought I had fooled and swerved the voice by signing up to my Reiki level lll, confidently thinking. “I can do the training but I don’t actually have to teach if I don’t want to.” “Besides”, I thought, “I don’t have the time to write a manual for people to use”. I had young children and my chiropractic practice.
I was taught by my Reiki Master Linda Holmes, that with Reiki level lll, you don’t choose it, it chooses you. When you become a Reiki Master it doesn’t mean you have ‘Mastered’ Reiki, it means you allow the Reiki source (love and compassion) to Master the way you live your life. This is when the real work starts. The real trust begins. The main role of a Reiki Master is to attune others so that Reiki is available to more and more people.
Lock down in 2020 meant that I, like many others could not work in my practice, which gave me the time to write my first 2 manuals and to amalgamate the lineages of my own Masters. So with the manuals written and the certificates and logos designed I had no excuse. “No one will want to train with me, so don’t print many manuals.” I ordered 10.
The other thing that lock down did was see me record meditations for a few friends who were struggling with lock down life. Eventually it became a podcast. I would hide in the garden shed and send Reiki to the meditation I was preparing to do. I would ask spirit to use me to say what was needed. All of the meditations were unscripted and channelled from spirit. TRUST they would say, so trust I did. People would say “how did you know? That was just what I needed.”
That first teaching course I was so nervous, full of self doubt. I can’t present to others, I’m not wise enough, I’m not articulate enough. What if the attunement doesn’t work? Will I remember all I have to do? The word “trust” came up time and time again. As well as “you can only be you.” My dear friends Jill and Claire were my first students. I was exhausted after the 2 days but I had loved it and more importantly so did they.
A couple of months later i attuned 2 more and then a few months later another 2. I felt that keeping the groups small kept my students feeling safer and more nourished and cared for.
Last year an email came through about training in Holy Fire and Karuna Reiki with William Rand in Glastonbury. The voice started again. I ignored it but it kept on. “But I can’t afford it.” I said to the voice. A few days later 2 of my lovely patients and friends Lesley and Dave came in for chiropractic care and Lesley needed Reiki instead. She felt so much better for it and I told them about Glastonbury. Dave said “please can we pay for our next year’s worth of treatments upfront?” I have treated them for over 20 years regularly and i was so touched by their incredible offer but i said “you’re so incredibly kind and generous, may I think about it.” I accepted their offer and because of them and their kindness i did my training with William Rand last summer in 2024.
Holy fire and Karuna Reiki lit me up in a different way and my confidence grew. While I was there the voice told me to teach bigger groups and to write. I was told to continue with the Usui/Tibetan first and that the Karuna and Holy Fire teaching will follow afterwards.
Between 2020 and 2024 I attuned 30 Reiki souls and this year, 2025 I have attuned 24 more people to level l and level ll. I am following my calling and teaching as I have been asked.
I teach groups of 6 students and the energy has been wonderful. My students still feel nurtured and held and the energy and experience, so far has been just as they need it. 🙏🩷 Om Shanti xx
