All About Reiki: My Journey

My Journey with Reiki…

May 2023: When I landed in Japan, the first of 9 total countries I’d travel to across Asia and Europe in the span of 4 months, I knew I was embarking on a whirlwind journey. One thing I didn’t know was just how integrated into my life Reiki would become, first as a part of that journey, and continuing and expanding when I returned to the States.

If you’re not familiar: Reiki, an alternative healing modality of Japanese origin, is used to enhance the natural healing abilities of the body through a balancing and redistribution of energy. It works across multiple levels—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—and can even pass through time and space, which is what makes distance healing possible. Cool, right?

Reiki, which roughly translates to “Spirit,” for Rei, and “Energy,” for Ki, refers to the universal life force energy at the heart of pretty much everything. And I mean everything; it’s called Universal for a reason.

Reiki’s healing properties were first discovered by founder Mikao Usui in 1922, when he entered into a 21-day fast and pilgrimage to Kyoto’s Mount Kurama. Not long after, he spread his teachings throughout the region.

Reiki first reached the United States by way of Hawaii after Usui’s death. It was passed on through a student of his lineage, the Japanese-American Reiki powerhouse, Hawayo Takata. She introduced the technique of using standardized hand placements to intuit and guide the flow of energy; what is now recognized as an integral part of Westernized Reiki.

You may be thinking: What does this have to do with you, Kimia? I’ll tell ya, sweet thing! In Tokyo, I worked with a Reiki Master Teacher who is linked to the lineage of Mikao Usui.

I have always been a deeply spiritual person; have always been in tune with messages from my spirit team, often finding myself astral projecting as a child and experiencing spirit visitations of all kinds throughout my life.

In recent years, prior to my journey with Reiki beginning, I had experienced multiple spiritual awakenings, made the foray into shadow work, and was actively stepping further into my spiritual practices and journey. 

But there remained the lingering sensation of something missing.

I went to sound baths and yoga classes, oh so many healing spaces where no matter how I tried,

I Still. Couldn’t. Escape.

the sounds of my own internal noise.

I just could never “calm down”, much less come back to a place of center! I now know that my nervous system was in a constant state of fight or flight. And, to make things worse, there was a nonstop internal chatter pounding in my head, often leading me down negative neural pathways and downward mental health spirals.

It’s almost like it worsened in healing spaces—because there was nothing else I could use, when lying on a yoga mat in the midst of a sound healing experience, to distract myself from it. My anxiety, and other issues stemming from deep-seated trauma I had experienced as a child and teenager, ran the (subconscious) show.

But when I made the decision to further my journey and practices with Reiki . . .

It became the catalyst for a deeper devotion and whole new kind of understanding.

Hand-in-hand with deeply transformative and devoted inner work, Reiki has changed everything for me.

It has been the singular most effective healing tool I’ve ever experienced.

Reiki has brought me calm when nothing else has. It has brought me stillness when nothing else could. Combined with this deep and devoted inner work, it has helped to change everything for me. I have been able to:

Heal paralyzing anxiety. ✔️

Shift out of cycles of self-harm through substance use. ✔️

Illuminate and process the emotions beneath deep-seated anger that stemmed from my grief over past traumas. ✔️

Heal self-hatred that manifested in various ways I could feel holding me back from becoming the Self I knew I could be. ✔️

and so. much. MORE.

Eight months after my adventure and new life path unfolded in Japan, I found myself in Peru, studying with another teacher from the Usui lineage.

In January 2024, I received the attunements for Reiki level III in the Sacred Valley, in the glorious—and yes, palpably sacred—mountains just outside of Pisac. This level is also known as third degree Reiki, commonly referred to as the level of a Reiki Master.

While I was in Peru, I launched this offering as a newfound soul-led business.

So that I can help others—so that I can help you, reading this right now—alchemize your pain and past trauma into healing and empowerment.

I love you already! And I’m so excited for us to work together.

Reiki has altered the course of my life path; there’s no question about it. I’m incredibly thankful for it, and for all I get to do with it. Thank you, thank you, thank you for choosing to embark on this path with me. ❤️‍🔥

Book a session with me now.

Sending so much love and gratitude your way!

Big hugs and deep belly breaths,

xx Kimia