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Reiki for Beginners: The “First Degree” Course

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The secret art of inviting happiness
The miraculous medicine of all diseases
Just for today, do not anger
Do not worry and be filled with gratitude
Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people.
Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer.
Pray these words to your heart
and chant these words with your mouth
Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind
The founder,
Usui Mikao

First-Degree Course 

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Your Reiki First Degree training course lasts for 15-16 hours. You spend approximately nine hours working through a multimedia study pack, at your leisure, and then attend a single-day course at my location. During the live part of your training, you will focus on practical energy work, guided by me and possibly in the company of a few other students – no more than four.

This approach provides you with a complete training in the basic Reiki technique. You can learn in the comfort of your home, allowing all the information to sink in and allowing you to realise any questions that you might have, and you arrive on the course well prepared and already knowing a great deal about Reiki First Degree. Then, we spend the live part of your course working with energy and putting what you have learned into practice.

Your study pack comes to you as a download when you reserve a place on your course. You can order the printed version at an additional cost.

You will have the chance to go through your study pack for usually a few weeks before the course. This way your learning is much more effective than imparting loads of information on the day-course.

The downloadable study pack consists of a comprehensive 170-page PDF eManual, PDF handouts and instructions, and two hours of MP3 tracks.

If you choose to order a professionally printed Study Pack as well, you’ll receive a 170-page ‘Shoden’ manual, and two audio CDs, one containing 70 minutes of commentary and the other containing guided meditations that you will be introduced to on your course and which you will use subsequently.

Your pre-course reading and listening will focus you on these areas:

  • What Reiki is and where it comes from (the History, Background and Development)

  • What Reiki’s founder taught and how we can follow the original system in the modern world

  • The Reiki ‘precepts’, mindfulness, and the use of empowerments

  • How to benefit from daily energy exercises and self-treatments

  • How to use Reiki on other people

We will review this information briefly on the day of the course, but most of the training day concentrates on hands-on practice rather than theory.

First-Degree Class Schedule

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Arrive at 9.30am. Finish time no later than 5.00pm

 

  • General overview of the course, introductions

  • ‘Reiju’ spiritual empowerment (First of the three connections to Reiki)

  • Learn to work with energy: Simple exercises to feel your energy and that of other people

  • ‘Reiju’ spiritual empowerment (Second of three connections to Reiki)

  • Energy exercises: Learn the Japanese ‘Hatsu Rei Ho’ technique

  • ‘Reiju’ spiritual empowerment (The last of the three connections to Reiki)

  • Self-Treatments: Carry out a Japanese self-treatment ‘meditation’, and learn how self-treatments are done Western style

 

Lunch

 

  • ‘Treating Other People’: Demonstration and Explanation

  • Feeling the Energy Field: Practice

  • ‘Scanning’: Practice

  • Treat another student: Practice giving a Full Reiki treatment

  • Be treated by another student (Now see what it feels like for yourself

  • Final comments

 

The Reiki 1 Certificate

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You will receive a certificate confirms that you have received instructions and Reiju empowerments and have satisfied the requirements of the First Degree of Reiki

 

Reiki Course Fees

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First Degree costs £125, with an initial deposit of £50 paid in advance, and £75 to be paid on the day of your course.

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