Moonstone Sanctuary, Reiki Healing Art

29/01/2026

🌿 10 MINUTES REIKI. REAL RELIEF. MEASURABLE CHANGE.
Wellbeing doesn’t have to be time-intensive to be impactful. Emerging research from Chicago’s Reiki Brigade demonstrates that a single ten-minute Reiki session can significantly reduce stress and pain—even in high-stress community settings. For many participants, the shift is immediately felt in the body, not just understood intellectually.

✨This is the power of focused practice, and it can grow with consistency. Small, focused practices, repeated over time, create possibilities for lasting change. ✨

BackgroundReiki is a non-invasive modality that has shown significant promise in reducing stress and pain levels across diverse populations. Its use is expan...

26/01/2026

Dear Reiki friends, let us remember that personal practice is never only personal; it reaches beyond the self and strengthens the collective as an act of social responsibility. May we stand with ourselves and others in this commitment, for the benefit of all. 🙏

23/01/2026

💫 REIKI BOOKS! Some of my favorites, offering deep insights into the essence of Reiki through its Japanese roots. These titles are featured in the Reiki Book Club - check them out!

21/01/2026

💙 LITTLE FOX WISDOM: Embodying the Reiki Precepts in Uncertain Times ...

When the world grows cold and uncertain, our instinct is to seek protection and insulation - thicker coats, firmer beliefs, clearer answers. Snow offers something different. It slows, softens, and quiets. In such a landscape, Usui Reiki Ryōhō offers not escape, but a gentle invitation to remain Okay and fully present even when warmth cannot be guaranteed.

No coat, letting snow fall freely, I allow it to be my coat and companion.

This is not recklessness. It is radical intimacy with reality. The Reiki Precepts begin here, where resistance softens, where life is met directly with open attention.

“Just for today, do not anger” is the gentle release of tension. Snow falls without judgment. The sun shines without permission. Anger rises when we demand that conditions be other than they are. With no coat, there is no struggle with the cold, only awareness, presence,
and flow.

“Just for today, do not worry” unfolds into quiet stillness. Snow muffles sound, slows motion, and centers the breath. Worry lives in the imagined future, yet each step is already taken. Feet touch the ground. Breath fogs. The body knows what to do. Mindful presence replaces anxious anticipation.

Gratitude in Usui’s teaching is a quiet, luminous recognition. Snow smooths what is sharp and chaotic. To let snow be one’s coat is to accept its weight and hush—to recognize that even cold, even stillness, participates in life’s harmony.

Working/practicing diligently means moving through life - sun or snow - with care, honesty, and gentle persistence. Kindness grows naturally in winter’s quiet. Those who share the same exposure recognize one another without judgment. Together, we walk in the snowfall.

Usui Reiki Ryōhō does not promise to control and change the weather. It teaches how to stand calmly within it, letting life’s elements pass through without losing the warmth of the heart, and always returning to the essence of all things.

Just for today,
walk in the snow,
as the snow. 🙏

20/01/2026

🌎 REIKI II/OKUDEN CLASS - this weekend. Why is this training relevant now?

Reiki Okuden is deeply relevant today, helping us re-center in an age of distraction, tension, and disconnection:

• Deepening our relationship with ourselves cultivates clarity, resilience, commitment, and inner balance.

• Honoring our connection to others and the world nurtures empathy, responsibility, and conscious action.

• Practicing compassion transforms both our personal experience and our interactions with others.

Reiki Okuden is less about gaining mystical powers and more about living consciously, healing intentionally, and engaging with the world compassionately. We learn, we cultivate. This is why training matters: to remember and return to what is essential 🙏

A weekend class certification in the Japanese lineage "Usui Reiki Ryoho".

19/01/2026

🌿 NEW: A 7-Week Journey to Remember Who We Are, Re-center and align with Life as a Whole 🙏

The Reiki precepts are the heart of Usui Reiki Ryōho, helping us to recenter and guiding us toward greater presence, balance, clarity, and compassion.

This self-paced program offers an experiential journey to embody the wisdom of the Reiki principles through reflection, meditation, and hands-on healing, rooted in tradition and alive in daily life. Check it out. Begin anytime ✨

Link:
https://www.moonstonesanctuary.com/product-page/reiki-precepts-workbook-a-journey-of-healing-compassion-and-wellbeing

12/01/2026

🙏 CARING FOR OURSELVES and CARING FOR OTHERS are not opposite: they are partners. Self-care grounds us. Care for others gives us meaning.

What matters most is the quality of presence we bring to both.

For a time, the wellness pendulum swung toward hyper-individualized self-care. Yet research now echoes what contemplative traditions have long known: compassion does not deplete us—it nourishes us.

A large meta-analysis published in Scientific Reports (Oct 2025), reviewing 37 studies with over 16,000 adults, found that caring for others is linked with greater purpose, personal growth, and life satisfaction across cultures and stages of life.

In other words, care is not a battery drain. It’s a battery charger.

We rest to show up.
We give to remember.
In their meeting, we wake up to our essential nature.

May we practice care in both directions:
rooted in ourselves,
open to one another,
and fully present in the space where the two meet.

🙏💙

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-23460-7

09/01/2026

✨ CERCLE DE LECTURE ET D'ETUDE REIKI 2026 ✨

📖 Livre : La Voie du Reiki – Frans Stiene
🗓 Dates : 31 janvier – 27 juin, 16 hrs (Paris time)
🌿 Facilitation : Veronique Frede, Maître Enseignante Reiki
💌 Praticiens de Reiki RSVP (gratuit) : https://www.moonstonesanctuary.com/event-details/cercle-detude-la-voie-du-reiki

Une invitation pour tout praticien quelque soit le niveay oi la lignée, à découvrir le Reiki comme chemin intérieur : simplicité, présence, méditation, préceptes et transformation authentique. Reconnectez-vous à ses racines japonaises et à l’esprit du shugyō.

Ce que vous explorerez dans ce cercle :
• Retour à l’essence des enseignements d’Usui Mikao : simplicité, présence, discipline
• Les préceptes comme pratique quotidienne de transformation
• Méditation et respiration au cœur du Reiki traditionnel
• Le travail énergétique fondé sur l’expérience directe, non sur le dogme
• Cultiver clarté, compassion (jihi) et authenticité
• Reconnexion aux racines japonaises et à l’esprit du shugyō (pratique sincère)

À propos de Frans Stiene :
• Co-fondateur de l’International House of Reiki et figure majeure du Reiki traditionnel japonais
• Chercheur des origines historiques du Reiki et des pratiques d’Usui Mikao
• Formation continue auprès de maîtres japonais (Shintō, Bouddhisme Tendai, shugyō)
• Auteur de livres de référence : The Inner Heart of Reiki, The Way of Reiki, Reiki Insights, etc.
• Enseignement centré sur méditation, simplicité, présence et transformation intérieure

🍃 Rejoignez ce cercle pour explorer le Reiki en profondeur, partager vos expériences et nourrir votre pratique avec authenticité et inspiration.

À propos de Veronique Frede: https://www.moonstonesanctuary.com/about-veronique

Rencontres mensuelles pour discussion autour des enseignements de Frans Stiene a travers "La Voie du Reiki".

06/01/2026

Rain and sunshine today around the monasteries in Meteora (Greece) - walking, pausinc and letting the land speak 💫✨

05/01/2026

💫 REIKI WINTER STILLNESS – Opening to Possibilities 💫

🗓 Jan 31, 2026 | ⏰ 1–2 PM CST | 💻 Zoom�
🎟 RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reiki-winter-stillness-registration-1977522211167
Facilitated by Veronique Frede, Reiki Teacher�Hosted by The Japanese Culture Center, Chicago

Step into the quiet magic of winter. Through gentle Reiki, meditation, and the Japanese art of Ma—the space between moments—you’ll soften, breathe, and open to new possibilities and inner clarity.

All are welcome—no experience needed.

03/01/2026

🌕 Super full Wolf Moon over Athens tonight. ✨💫

Just arrived in Greece today from Chicago with my son, and as we walked around the Acropoli,s we noticed how bright it was …. we looked up and realized it was a super full moon - wow 😮 we sat and simply enjoyed the night ✨

02/01/2026

✨Reiki 2026 🌿 Practice. 🌿 Connection. 🌿 Simplicity. 🌿 Care.
Check my 2026 calendar for sessions, trainings, and new offerings: https://www.moonstonesanctuary.com/events

Looking forward to seeing you soon —Veronique 💙

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