reiki. i’d heard of it, but it wasn’t until a friend told me about her experience did i get curious.
i’m a skeptic, a questioner. anyone close to me is often frustrated by my suspicious nature. so i found it difficult to believe that when someone placed their hands on a body the result would be better sleep, less stress and even headache elimination. how could that be?
how could someone use just their hands to heal?
when i heard about a friend’s experience, my intrigue quotient rose even higher. she said she had entered a dreamlike state, shed tears and later felt rejuvenated after her reiki session with practitioner nichole broadbent.
a few months later, i was in broadbent’s reiki space in sooke, on vancouver island.
yes, the west coast, where all manner of alternative healing and spiritual practices flourish. we’ve got wiccans and plant spirit medicine practitioners, elemental chanters and psilocybin microdosers.
a usui reiki master teacher, broadbent had me complete a client intake form, asked me general questions about my health and what my intention was for the session. soon, i was lying on her table, face up, clothed and wondering if i would get my
$90
worth.
what is reiki?
reiki is a spiritual healing practice where the practitioner places their hands in a prescribed fashion on defined body points — usually the seven chakras, our bodies’ energy centres: crown (top of the head), third eye (forehead between the eyes), throat, heart, solar plexus (upper abdomen), sacral (lower abdomen) and root (the base of the spine). other areas on the body, such as the knees and feet, are also used.