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Katalin is also a dedicated Reiki practitioner. She offers private Reiki healing session in the comfort of your own home. Please get in touch for an initial chat before you book your session should you have any questions about the treatment.

Individual treatment rates

Initial consultation and treatment £50

Subsequent treatments £45

What is Reiki Healing?

“Reiki” (ray-key) is Japanese for ‘universal life energy’ and is also a word used to describe a system of natural healing, This tradition was founded by Mikao Usui in the early 20th century and evolved as a result of his research, experience and dedication.

We live in a world of energy that nourishes and maintains all living things. When this energy flows uninterrupted there is balance and harmony within and around us, and we experience a sense of well-being. When we experience emotional or physical stress or trauma energy gets blocked. Universal energy is intelligent and will work with what your body needs. The therapist is only the channel for this energy.

Reiki is an oriental method of working with energy that you can use for your own benefit and for the benefit of other people. Reiki is now being classed as a sort of complementary therapy, so people might practise Reflexology, or Aromatherapy, or they might practise Reiki.

There are very many different ways of practising Reiki, with lots of different Reiki ‘variations’ having seen developed in the West over the years, but, whatever the variety, Reiki is something that you can use for yourself, for your own personal benefit, and it is something that you can also share with other people.

Reiki is not attached to any religion or any belief system, it does not conflict with an individual’s religious beliefs, or lack of religious beliefs.

Benefits of Reiki treatment:

aid relaxation
assist in the body’s natural healing processes
develop emotional, mental and spiritual well-being

Conditions that Reiki has been used to help treating include:

cancer
heart disease
anxiety
depression
chronic pain

Are there any risks or side effects?

Reiki is non-invasive and thought to be safe. It doesn’t have any known harmful side effects. For those with a past trauma, lying quietly in a dim room with someone close to you might feel uncomfortable.

Reiki is not intended to replace any doctor-approved treatment plan!

What happens during a Reiki session?

A typical reiki session lasts between 20 and 90 minutes. At your first appointment, you will meet me in person. You will have a short introduction or chat about the process and your expectations or intentions. Let me know about any symptoms you want addressed or if there are places in the body on which you would like me to focus on. Also, let me know if you have any injuries or places that are sensitive to touch.

You will be instructed to lie down on a treatment table or mat. They will cover you with a blanket. Usually soft, relaxing music will be playing in the background. For the most part there won’t be any talking during the session, but you can feel free to let me know if there is something you need to feel more comfortable or to share what you’re experiencing.

I will move my hands around your body. I may touch you lightly or have my hands just above your body.

You may experience sensations in the body such as heat or tingling. Some people report seeing visualizations such as colours or pictures or having memories appear. Try to allow whatever arises to pass without attaching too much meaning to it. Your experiences may become deeper the more you continue with Reiki.

How to prepare for your appointment?

Wear clean, loose-fitting, comfortable clothing. You may wish to wear natural fabrics such as cotton, linen, or silk. Remove your shoes, jewellery, and glasses before your session, and keep your phone switched off or leave it behind.

What to expect after your appointment?

Drink plenty of water after your session. Some people feel calm, peaceful, or energized. You may also feel relaxed and perhaps a little tired. This is your body entering into relaxation and healing. Avoiding alcohol consumption after your Reiki healing session for 24 hours is highly recommended.

Energy - Chi, ki and prana

To understand Reiki, you need to get your head around the idea that there is a subtle energy that permeates us and surrounds us, an energy which we can learn to experience and direct, an energy which we can move through our bodies and channel through us into other people. While this may seem to be a strange thing to believe from a Western perspective, it is a central belief in many Asian cultures and underlies many exercise systems, meditation practices and healing or treatment methods.

In China, for example, this energy is referred to as “chi”, which you may have heard of. Chi is used in a whole range of Oriental practices, for example:

Feng Shui (the art of placement)
Acupuncture
Tai Chi and Qi Gong
Martial arts

Feng shui is a way of arranging your living environment to allow for the smooth flow of chi through the rooms of your home, eliminating areas where ‘stagnant chi’ might accumulate, and slowing down the speed of fast-moving chi, for example. This chi is external to you.

When you visit an acupuncturist, they insert fine needles into various points to encourage your own chi to flow properly through a series of meridians or energy channels that run the length of your body. Tai Chi and Qi Gong are graceful Chinese exercise systems that are designed to build up, or cultivate, your personal reserves of chi and circulate this energy smoothly throughout your body, breaking down any blockages and bringing things into balance on all levels.

In Japan the energy is called “ki” and they have their own version of acupuncture – Shiatsu – which uses massage and finger-pressure on acupuncture points. Japanese Martial arts techniques like Karate and Aikido work with chi, with the practitioner building up their reserves of chi and focusing it in a martial context, and the Japanese version of Qi Gong – called kiko – also works through the practitioner cultivating and moving this energy through their body.

In India the same energy is referred to as ‘prana’ and breathing exercises, meditations and yoga techniques have been developed to bring your energy system into balance. In India they do not think in terms of meridians, but of chakras: energy centres running the length of your body from the crown of your head to the base of your spine. There are seven main chakras and further subsidiary ones in other locations, situated on energy channels known as ‘nadis’.

What is Reiki energy?

Reiki is something to do with this energy, this ‘chi’, but Reiki is different from Tai Chi and Yoga, and Reiki treatments are different from Shiatsu and Acupuncture treatments.

When I treat someone with Reiki I am allowing an unlimited external source of ‘energy’ to flow through myself into the client. The energy is drawn through me according to the client’s need on that occasion: I am not directing the energy, I am a conduit through which the energy flows, I am creating a ‘healing space’ that the client can use to bring their own energy system into balance, without conscious and deliberate intervention on your part.

When I treat someone with Reiki, I am not using and giving up my own personal energy reserves. I am not depleting myself. In fact treating someone benefits and invigorates the practitioner, as they benefit from the energy that they are channelling!

And when I am using Reiki for your own benefit, by carrying out energy meditations and self-treatments, visualisations and the like, I am doing this because I have been “attuned” to the energy, which gives me a strong and consistent connection to (experience of) this energy. So many people who practise Tai Chi, for example, and then go on to learn Reiki, find that they are able to experience the flow of energy through their bodies when they practise Tai Chi much more intensely than before.