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Online Virtual Reiki Classes via ZOOM

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Online ZOOM Reiki Classes

We’re offering online virtual Reiki classes via ZOOM so you can send Reiki to help heal and support yourself, and help all those around the world affected by the current situation. Online Virtual Reiki classes are fun and easy. If you’re feeling like you want to do something to help the world situation, but you don’t know what to do, you can send Reiki to: scientists looking for treatments and vaccines, health care workers, patients in hospitals, people who are working to get food to the stores, and loved ones of those who are sick. Because many jobs have been affected, I’m now offering temporary Reduced Rates for my Reiki classes. (See my classes page above.)

Online Virtual Reiki Classes via ZOOM

  • Reiki concepts can easily be taught online without students having to travel.
  • The environment feels intimate with the ability to see each other on screen.
  • Classes can be kept small to allow for the teacher to listen to questions and respond one-to-one with students.
  • Online virtual Reiki attunements are just as effective as in-person attunements.

Online Virtual Reiki Attunements

Online Reiki Classes via ZOOMHere’s a little bit about Reiki attunements. A Reiki attunement is a transfer of energy from Higher Power through the Reiki Master Teacher to the student. This allows the student to work with Reiki at a specific degree or level, such as Reiki First Degree, or Reiki Second Degree, etc.

Whether it be virtual, distance, or in-person, Reiki is directed by Loving Source/Higher Power. For instance, we know that distance Reiki treatment sessions work just as well as in-person Reiki treatment sessions. (See my earlier blog post on Distance Reiki) So it’s the same concept with Reiki attunements. Once the Reiki Master Teacher calls upon Higher Power and sets the intention for the attunement, then it’s just as effective as an in-person attunement. Why? As a Reiki Master Teacher we’re setting our intention in alignment with Higher Power; and intention is the “motor” of Reiki. Higher Power knows what we’re intending to do and we always are supported by Higher Power which is all-loving, and all good.

Some students say they can actually feel the online virtual attunement more deeply than in-person. Just like some clients say they feel the distance Reiki treatment sessions more profoundly than in-person sessions. Each individual may feel it differently.

My Guidance to Teach Online ZOOM Reiki Classes

Online Reiki Training via ZOOM

Although I give myself Reiki daily, I also receive distance Reiki healing regularly from a practitioner/healer. During one of my sessions, I had an unusual experience. I was surprised to have a “visit” from Dr. Usui.
(Dr. Usui is the Reiki Master who discovered the Usui system of Reiki which students learn in our classes.) My practitioner and I both saw Dr. Usui, and she told me that Dr. Usui was giving me a special blessing for continuing to give Reiki classes online “as an adaptation to the shifting times”. During his blessing, I felt my hands get hot and tingly and I felt great gratitude in my heart. It was an unexpected experience. I had been wondering if I should offer classes online or just wait to give in-person classes after the world situation has improved. But after this experience and a personal blessing from Dr. Usui, I felt I really authentically needed to branch out and begin giving virtual Reiki classes.

I knew that now was the time to continue to help students learn this modality of support and healing to help everyone affected by the current world issues. Everyone who knows me, knows that I don’t go into important endeavors without being “called” to do them. After this experience it was no longer a question of should I? I was all in. And I was excited about it! I’m so glad I decided to honor the blessing I’d been given, because these online virtual classes have been so fun and my students have been so grateful!

Online Virtual Classes and Self-Reiki

During our online virtual Reiki First Degree Class, one of the concepts we learn and experience is to spend time giving self-Reiki. Self-Reiki is one of the most popular reasons students sign up for a Reiki class. Many of us already know that we need to help ourselves get balanced and centered, before we can really effectively reach out to others to help them heal and become balanced.

If you’re feeling drawn to participate in helping the world situation now, or if you’re looking for a way to help yourself, learning how to send Reiki via virtual online classes can be a wonderful way to do that.

So, what is the one thing we miss with online virtual classes? Hugs! We “Reiki people” love hugs. So, for now we give virtual hugs. It’s not the same, I know. But just like with sending Reiki, it works with our intention. And in our hearts we can feel it.

With blessings to all my Reiki students and clients as we adapt to the shifting times,

ZOOM Reiki Classes
Yvonne P. Gleason, RMT
Reiki Sanctuary of Northern Virginia

 

 

Distance Reiki to Help Others

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Distance Reiki

Sometimes it’s a good idea to send distance Reiki to help others, rather than give in-person Reiki. The following situation is just one example of this.

Distance Reiki from Any Place               Reiki Northern VA Distance Reiki

I was in an apothecary when I noticed an older woman talking to an employee. Immediately I saw the energy around the woman’s right leg was not flowing from her thigh to the calf. The energy flow cut off at the top of her knee. It was as if her lower leg didn’t exist energetically. I thought it amazing how she could even be up and around with her energy like that. My heart went out to her, knowing something wasn’t right.

I made a mental note to offer distance Reiki when I got home. Then I took my newly purchased item and headed for the door.

Suddenly, I heard a crashing sound behind me. I turned to find that same woman on the ground. She’d fallen and all of the vitamins on the shelves near her had tumbled to the floor. She tried to get up but her right leg wouldn’t work. A customer rushed to help her and she was soon back on her feet.

Then I turned to go once more when I heard another crashing sound. She had fallen again. More vitamin bottles spilled down in a cascade at her feet. People huddled around her. Clearly, her right knee kept giving out, though she repeatedly tried to stand. I heard her say, “I’m all right. I’m all right,” though she couldn’t stand. The crowd pressed in around her.

Since there were already way too many “helpers” around her, I made the decision to leave. Once back in my car, I pulled out of my parking spot and quickly found a parking spot in a quiet area near a tree. I was a bit shaken by what I’d just seen; and I wanted to help this woman. I decided this might be a good time for some distance Reiki.

I went through the required permissions and preparation process and began to hold the distance Reiki space for her highest good, if she was open to receiving it. Afterwards, I waited a few moments. Nobody came out of the store.

Although a part of me wanted to go back in and see how she was doing, I trusted the Reiki would go to where it needed to go for the highest good, if it was the right thing for her. Then, I drove away, thankful for the opportunity to be in “the Reiki moment”.

When to Send Distance Reiki                         Reiki Northern Virginia Distance Reiki

Distance Reiki is like a bridge connecting the Practitioner to the recipient, no matter how far apart they are from each other.

Distance Reiki can be sent to the recipient as far away as another country. The energy will travel and Higher Power will know where the practitioner is intending for the Reiki to go.

A practitioner always needs to get permission first, either directly from the recipient or from the recipient’s higher self. Practitioners sometimes send Reiki to themselves and just invite the recipient to come and partake of the Reiki if she wants to, for her well-being.

Distance Reiki Can Be Sent To:

  • Friends or family in hospitals or ICU if the practitioner can’t be there in-person
  • Pets who are in a kennel or vet overnight
  • A friend in another state or country
  • A neighbor in their own house, down the street

Those who have received distance Reiki can sometimes feel the energy and the comfort of the Reiki being sent to them. Sometimes there is a sense of simple peace. Still, sometimes, they find things start to go more smoothly in the days following a distance Reiki session.

Distance Reiki for Pets

Many practitioners, including myself, give distance Reiki to pets. I’ve found that the distance sessions are just as effective, if not more so, than in-person sessions. Animals are receptive, in general, to the Reiki and they don’t need to receive it in-person, or hands-on, in order for it to work.

Some pets may want a mix of hands-on and hands-off or distance Reiki. It is up to each unique animal.

Distance Reiki for Deceased Loved Ones

Practitioners can send Reiki to loved ones who have already transitioned to increase their bond and to send “good will”.

This also works for animals who have made their transition because, usually, animals are already so receptive and sensitive to energy in general.

Distance Reiki for Future Events

Reiki can be sent to any planned future event or appointment to help it go well. Practitioners send Reiki before events such as:

  • Business meetings
  • Speaking engagements
  • Doctor’s appointments
  • College mid-terms or finals
  • Business trips
  • Vacations

Distance Reiki can also go to events in the past to help people heal how they feel about a certain event. It might be a traumatic event or an event that left them feeling uncomfortable.

Distance Reiki to Higher Power

Once practitioners have gone through the training and they’ve learned how to give distance Reiki, although there are steps to the process, often they find that distance Reiki can be a very creative process with different ways of giving it.

Some practitioners also send Reiki to Higher Power or the angels and guides they work with, just as a way of saying “Thank you for being there!” So, distance Reiki can act as an “unconditional love note” to the Universe!

Many distance Reiki blessings to you!                                                                         Reiki Northern VA

Yvonne P. Gleason, RMT

Reiki Sanctuary of Northern Virginia

 

 

Reiki and Helping Others

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Reiki for the Greater GoodNo. VA Reiki Flowers

It’s amazing how challenging situations can become opportunities to turn things around and once again, lead me to Reiki and helping others.

Reiki and Receiving from Others

My husband and I had just come from a wellness center where I’d given a spiritual development workshop. We stopped off for a bite to eat. During dinner we talked about how everything felt so positive. Even the air itself held a charge of joy that evening. I felt like I was on my path and all things seemed in divine order. How quickly that feeling can change.

After dinner, we walked back to the garage where we had parked our car, only to find the garage door closed and locked, with no way to enter. Perhaps we had parked at a different garage? Maybe the one next door? But no. We were sure we had parked at the garage with the closed door. Suddenly, it began to rain. We walked around in the rain, looking for the magic mystery door. It wasn’t to be found. We ducked into a nearby restaurant to see if anyone working there might know of another garage entrance.

The nice man behind the counter smiled and said, “Only residents of the condo over there can access that garage.” Great. We’d parked in an unauthorized garage with no way to get our car out. Then he added, “The same thing happened last week to someone else. The door’s broken so it lets people in; but doesn’t let them out. Management thought they fixed it last week and they were going to put up a sign. But they haven’t put it up yet. So you have to wait for a car to come through and open it.”

Well, we had an umbrella. We waited. And we waited some more. No cars came to lift the door. Then we began to doubt ourselves. Maybe our car was in the garage next door? We decided to look. So we walked up and down the ramps and levels of the other garage until I began to feel like we were in a M. C. Escher drawing, the one with all the staircases going in different directions. The car wasn’t here. Or maybe it was here but we just missed it somehow.

Finally, we went into the condo lobby, hoping for help at the front desk. The front desk was closed. But, there was a sign that said “Call this number for help”. I figured by this time, we qualified for needing help. So my husband dialed the number while I sat down in the lobby to give myself Reiki and see if I could remember for sure which garage was the one with our car in it.

After a frustrating conversation with the condo management, we were clearly no closer to getting our car out. I went back outside in the rain to walk and to think. Then I saw a woman with a dog walking up to the condo lobby door.

“Ma’am?” I shouted.

She stopped and turned. I told her our predicament. She looked puzzled and wanted to know how we parked our car in the residential garage if we don’t have an access key.

I said, “The door was opened. Turns out this happened to someone else last week. They tried to fix the door but it’s still broken. And there’s no sign.”

She asked us if we were sure that was the garage we’d parked in, since the public garage was right next to it. My husband and I looked at each other and we both shrugged. We were tired. At this point we weren’t one hundred percent sure where we had put the car.

Still, the nice lady with the dog offered to help us. She led us into an elevator. While in the elevator, the woman’s dog looked up at us as if to say, “Did you humans do something silly again?” Then the elevator door opened and we walked down a ramp that led to the residential garage. Once again, we explored the different levels of the garage, looking for the car. We were back in the Escher drawing.

Then my husband pressed the button on his car key fob. A horn sounded. We followed it. There it was. Right next to the closed garage door where we had come in. All we had to do now was approach the door and it would open for us.

I turned to the woman and said, “Thank you so much. Is there any way we can repay you?”

She said, “Yes. Go home and get some sleep.”

That evening, before nodding off, I gave Reiki to the higher self of that woman and her dog, with great gratitude that she took time out to help us. While giving Reiki, I asked that Source let us pay it forward to another person who may need the same kind of help we had just received. Then I fell asleep.

Reiki and Helping OthersReiki No. VA Reiki and Helping Others

The next day, we needed to run an errand in another city. We had to park in a garage. This time we were careful to be sure it was a Public garage. We parked and took our ticket with us like the instructions read on the entrance sign. I made note of what floor we were on before taking the elevator to the street level.

We exited the garage to a bright sunny day. My husband began walking; but I followed slightly behind. An older couple had caught my eye. I thought I’d heard the woman say, “You mean we can’t get back in the garage to get our car?”

I stopped and watched them. They read the instructions on the door. They’d left their ticket in the car and now they were locked out of the garage.

I called for my husband who had stopped just ahead, once he’d noticed I wasn’t with him. He had our garage ticket.

He walked back towards me and I told him about the older couple. We walked up to where they were at the street entrance of the garage.

I said, “The same kind of thing happened to us just last night. We parked here too and we have our ticket. We’ll let you in.” My husband slid the ticket through the slot and the door opened for the couple.

Source had helped us to pay it forward, just as I had asked, while giving Reiki the night before. It felt so good to receive a good deed and then to pass it on.

Five Main Benefits of Reiki  

When we send Reiki, we connect with Higher Power or Source/the Universe. This connection can help us to:

  • open our intuition to help ourselves and others
  • know that we aren’t alone
  • get clarity in our daily life
  • move forward on our life purpose
  • have a more positive outlook

All of these benefits help to keep us in the flow with synchronous events that are divinely orchestrated. This quiet time of Reiki with connection to Higher Power, calms the mind. From a calm place, it’s easier to make decisions. It’s also easier to feel more connected to our authentic and intuitive selves. We can have an inner knowing about where to be and what to do on a daily basis. We can be in alignment with what brings us joy.

Reiki and Being Positive

When we give and receive Reiki it helps to lift the vibration of every cell in our bodies. This includes all aspects of us: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. It can turn a “down feeling” around by lifting sadness or depression. A situation that has been frustrating (like getting stuck in a parking garage) can become an opportunity to give to others. Reiki helps us to see things from the brighter side.

Now, whenever I think of that parking lot incident, I remember it gave me an opportunity to send Reiki to the woman who helped us, and then to pay it forward. Plus, I got to pet her dog.

May Reiki turn all of your challenging situations into opportunities to help yourself and others.Reiki No.VA Reiki path

Many Reiki blessings,

Yvonne P. Gleason

Reiki Sanctuary of Northern Virginia

Reiki for Relaxing Holidays

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Have a Relaxing Reiki Winter

Feeling stressed out this winter? Many people decide to take a relaxing “Reiki rest” to help them rejuvenate and find their calm center once again.

Holiday Gift: A Reiki SessionNorthern VA Reiki Relaxing Holiday

Two years ago, a snowstorm had been predicted. Everyone was flooding the stores for shovels and bags of “snow-melt”. Store parking lots were jammed, and car horns were honking. Impatience filled the air.

Like many others, I had begun to get caught up in the stress of not just the holidays, but end-of-year budgets with the added prospect of possibly needing a new car. The house needed some attention as well. And holiday time was upon us, yet I hadn’t even emailed or snail-mailed one Greeting card. I was starting to feel like a Grinch. What happened to that old childhood spirit of winter snow and fun? Catching snowflakes on my tongue? Making snow angels? Giving and receiving gifts? My joy was missing.

So, I turned to the one thing that re-balances all of me: mind, body, and soul. Reiki!

In a quiet room with the sound of a trickling water fountain, I lay on the Reiki table and felt the warm Reiki gently wafting into my energy fields and physical body. All that was important, was in the here and now. Just the state of “being” was enough. And not only was it enough; for me, it was vital for sustaining my inner strength and inner balance.

As the session progressed, I began to see the familiar colors of my own chakras streaming outward; something I realized I hadn’t seen for a couple of weeks. My stomach began to release tension, and other areas of my body relaxed where I’d been holding tension that I didn’t even consciously realize at the time.

The wind picked up just outside the window and I knew the temperature was falling, as predicted. Yet, I was ensconced in the warm sheltering of the Reiki itself. I drifted in and out of sleep. I felt safe and unconditionally loved by Source.

By the end of the session, I felt renewed and ready to return to “the world” again. Yet, I would not have to return to the state of being stressed. I had “recharged my battery”, or more precisely, re-ignited my inner light. It was just the winter gift I had needed.

As I stepped outside into the first falling snowflakes, for the first time that year, I felt the childhood excitement of a “winter wonderland” that would soon be upon us. Maybe this year I would even make snow angels.

Reiki Treatment Sessions

Winter is the time of year when many people schedule a Reiki treatment session to renew their energy and restore their inner calm. The trees let go of their leaves and a more barren landscape appears along with cold air. Friends and family take the chill off by receiving Reiki, which often feels like a warm blanket enfolding them. Many times, as they relax on the Reiki table, they fall asleep. Falling asleep while receiving Reiki, is good because it lets the immune system function at a deep level.

Relaxation is restorative and very natural. Sometimes we forget about this “natural” state of being and we forget to relax, as if relaxing was a chore. Relaxing is a gift we can give to ourselves, even in the midst of holiday stress. And one way of doing this is through Reiki.

So, as the trees’ canopies become sparse, and the outside temperature drops, allow yourself to enjoy the warmth of the season with some holiday Reiki; and Reiki all winter long!

Reiki Shares for Holiday PartiesRelaxing Reiki Share Northern VA

Some Reiki practitioners host a “Reiki Share” for their holiday party. The guests bring food, and just like a regular party, everyone eats and chats for a while. Then they all lie down on Reiki tables. If there are more people than tables, two or three practitioners can give Reiki to one recipient on the table.

Not only does healing and balancing take place during Reiki shares, but lots of learning can take place too! And of course, lots of relaxation, as the layers of stress dissolve under the gentle flow of Reiki. This is a gentle gathering of gratitude and giving.

Tips for a Great Reiki Share

  • Know who is coming so you can plan for how many tables you’ll need. (guests can bring tables)
  • Have a table or counter for food that guests will bring. (Give them some ideas of what to bring before the share.)
  • Keep an eye on the time so that once the eating part of the party is over, there is plenty of time left for everyone to receive Reiki.
  • Have a gentle alarm on hand to sound at intervals so that each person at the share has an opportunity to receive Reiki.
  • Put a sign on the door saying “Please do not disturb” so that once the Reiki part of the share begins, the doorbell won’t be ringing.
  • The host can prepare the room for everyone before the Reiki begins. Each practitioner can prepare their own body and set their intention.
  • Play relaxing music.

After the Reiki Share, everyone goes home much more relaxed and renewed!

Ten More Ways to Keep Calm

  • Choose which parties or party invitation you want to accept.
  • Bake Reiki cookies with some friends (give Reiki to the cookies before baking them).
  • Give Self-Reiki every day or every night before sleep.
  • Walk in nature or a relaxing place. As you walk, place your hand over the heart chakra or solar plexus, for grounding and feeling calm.
  • Surround yourself with calm pictures, or items from nature.
  • Have a “Reiki Retreat” room in your house or apartment where you go to relax.
  • Choose to spend time with someone instead of buying gifts for each other. Give them some Reiki as a gift. Giving Reiki can relax the “giver” too.
  • Spend time doing a creative hobby: i.e. meditative coloring books.
  • Listen to relaxing music.
  • Prepare food ahead of time and as you do, give it some Reiki with the intention that the nutrients fully support everyone who partakes of the food.

We have a choice as to how much or how little we want to do this season.

So, instead of winding up and spinning out into a vortex of stress, we can intentionally wind down and let Reiki help us enjoy an easy-paced winter.

Choose your pace with Reiki; choose your path to relaxation this season and all year through!

Happy Reiki Holidays and Many Reiki blessings,Reiki Northern VA Relaxing

Yvonne P. Gleason, RMT

Reiki Sanctuary of Northern Virginia

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