Maybe this sounds familiar
- Your mind keeps going long after the day is over.
- Stress has settled into your body, and rest does not seem to reach it.
- Sleep comes late, or it comes and goes.
- You are carrying grief, worry, or the care of someone you love.
- You have been curious about Reiki for a while and never knew where to start.
When life asks this much of you, your body and mind need a way to come back to rest, and most of us were never taught one.
A practice you can do on your own
Reiki Level 1, called Shoden in Japanese, is where every Reiki student begins. You learn a few simple practices: a breathing meditation that quiets the mind, five principles to guide your day, and self-healing with your own hands.
Each one takes a few minutes. Practiced most days, they help you feel calmer and more grounded, and they give you a steady place to stand when life gets hard.
I teach Reiki the way its founder, Mikao Usui, taught it in Japan. You learn to heal yourself first, and then to share Reiki with others.
What you will be able to do
Quiet a busy mind
With Joshin Kokyu Ho, the breathing meditation at the heart of the Japanese system, guided until you can do it on your own.
Give yourself Reiki
With the self-healing hand positions Usui focused on, starting with the head positions, which take only a few minutes.
Share Reiki with others
Hands-on with family and friends, and at a distance with the people you love, wherever they are.
Stay steady through hard days
A calm that holds when life does not go to plan, which is what this practice has given me.
How the course works
You learn by practicing along
The lessons are recordings of a small live class, so you hear real students ask the questions you will probably have too. You watch each practice, then do it with me.
You receive a Reiju in every module
Reiju is the empowerment that connects you with Reiki. In the West it is called an attunement and is usually given once, while Usui gave it to his students again and again. You receive six, one in each module.
You go at your own pace
A few minutes most days is enough to build the practice. Some students finish in six weeks and others take six months, and both are right. Your access never expires.
I offer each Reiju to everyone present and to everyone watching the recording. Every time you return to that lesson, the Reiju is offered to you again, which is why students come back to these lessons for years.
Six modules
Every module includes teaching, a guided meditation, a Reiju, and time to practice together.
Module One
Foundations of Original Reiki
Where Reiki comes from and how it changed on its way west. The Five Precepts, recited in English and Japanese, and why Usui said following them alone is enough. Your first meditation, your first Reiju, and the self-healing positions Usui himself focused on.
Module Two
Purification and Sharing Reiki with Others
Kenyoku ho, the dry bathing purification, and how to open and close a session properly. How Reiju differs from a Western attunement, why aiming Reiki at a problem gets in its way, and your first practice sharing with another person.
Module Three
The Precepts and New Ways to Heal Yourself
Chanting the precepts so you feel them in the hara. Joshin Kokyu Ho at your own pace, and a different way of healing yourself by picturing your own body in front of you. And the question almost everyone asks: what if I cannot feel anything?
Module Four
Seishin Toitsu and Reiki Beyond Your Hands
Byosen, the sense of where energy is needed, and how to tell it apart from your own. Keeping the energy flowing after your hands move away. Clearing water, food and objects, and sharing Reiki through your breath and your eyes.
Module Five
Sharing Reiki at a Distance
Every method people use to share at a distance, and the one I actually use. Crown to crown practice, and clearing negative energy wherever you happen to be. And why we never decide in advance what someone's healing should look like.
Module Six
Grounding, and Carrying Your Practice Forward
The Heaven and Earth connection through the three diamonds. Self-healing with no hands at all, the way the founder taught it. What the twenty-one days really mean, and how to keep this alive once the course is behind you.
Dr. Sally Littleton, PhD
I am a certified Shihan, a master teacher, in two Original Japanese Reiki traditions, and the founding owner of the Enlightenment Reiki Healing Association. I have been practicing for nearly thirty years and studying with some of the best known Reiki masters in the world for twenty-five of them.
I work hands-on with clients in Traverse City and at a distance with people around the world. Because I also spent decades as a psychotherapist, I know what a nervous system does under stress, and I know what to do about it from both sides.
My story
I was a PhD psychotherapist in private practice when my health began to fail. That is when I found Reiki. For years I studied with Western Reiki masters, and it helped me cope. When I found the Original Japanese practices, everything changed. After years of disability, the pain and stress I had carried for decades began to disappear.
These practices also held me steady. My husband has had five potentially fatal strokes. Through the first ones I trembled, my heart pounded, and I was paralyzed with fear. I could not imagine living without him.
By the fifth, and again a year later when my youngest daughter hemorrhaged and nearly died in childbirth, I stayed calm and present through all of it. I remained at peace, knowing I am always safe. I never even got a headache.
That is why I teach.
My promise to you is to give you all that I have learned, and to do all that I can to help you heal yourself and learn to practice the Reiki Way.
Six steps from Usui
Reiju carries a lineage. When you receive it from me, here is where it comes from.
Hiroshi Doi received his attunement from Kimiko Koyama, sixth President of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai, the society Usui founded in Tokyo in 1922. The line is unbroken.
What students say
I attended my first Reiki class because I was interested in Reiki as a self practice for physical and emotional healing. I didn't know anything about it other than what I had read. From the first class, I was immediately intrigued and wanted to learn more. Dr. Sally has a patient, kind manner and shares her enthusiasm wholeheartedly. She is very knowledgeable about traditional Japanese Reiki and freely shares her expertise. I was inspired to take more classes, and I completed my Reiki Master Practitioner class last year.
JulieRetired nurse · Michigan
Early in my training I expressed some concern about Reiki and my Christian beliefs. We talked it through, and I am comfortable in my understanding that there is no conflict. As a retired nurse, I believe Reiki is complementary to medical and nursing care in the treatment of disease and injury.
RuthRetired nurse · Michigan
Sally is a gifted Reiki practitioner. Her presence and intuition, accompanied by her lengthy training in energy healing and her former practice as a psychotherapist and counselor, give her a profound depth of understanding which sets her apart. Her sessions with me increase my experience of sacred light and help me to self-heal through the release of emotional and energetic blockages in my body.
FrancineCranial Sacral Therapist
Dr. Sally did a distance session for me that was loving, healing and revealing. I received messages from my Guides about areas in my life I have been working on for many years, so I can take my healing to a deeper level. Finding Sally has been a true blessing!
AngelaCoaching and Healing
What if I do not feel anything?
Most people feel very little the first few times, and that is normal. The sense wakes up with practice, and intending to connect is enough while it does. We look at this question closely in Module Three.
Everything you need
- Six modules, thirty-three lessons. Yours for life, at your own pace.
- Six Reiju empowerments. One in each module, offered again every time you return.
- The complete Shoden manual. Full color, covering Reiki history, principles and practices as taught by Hiroshi Doi. Yours to download and keep.
- Guided meditations for every session. Practice alongside me as often as you like.
- Every practice demonstrated. You watch it done, then do it with me.
No prior Reiki knowledge is needed, and experienced practitioners often find their personal practice renewed here.
This is for you if
- You want a practice you can do on your own, in a few minutes, most days
- You have taken Western Reiki and felt something was missing
- You are carrying stress, pain, sleeplessness or grief and want something you can pick up yourself
- You are willing to practice a little, most days, rather than a lot, once
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Start your trainingStart today and move at whatever pace suits your life.
You can return to any Reiju as often as you like.
Questions
Can I really receive an attunement through a recording?
Yes. Reiju is not bound by distance, which is one of the things that distinguishes it from a physical ritual. I give each Reiju to everyone present and to everyone watching the recording, whenever they watch it. Distance healing has been part of the Reiki system since Usui.
How much time will this take each day?
Less than you think. A few minutes of breathing meditation and a short self-healing is enough to build the practice. A full self-healing session with all twelve positions takes about an hour, but I teach the head positions as the core, and those take a fraction of that. On the days you have nothing at all, intending to connect still counts.
I have never meditated. Will I manage?
The meditations are guided from beginning to end, and you can slow the videos down or repeat them as often as you like. A scattered mind is the normal starting point, and the Reiki system was built to bring it back to balance.
I have already studied Reiki. Is this different?
Yes, in a few important ways. Most Reiki taught in the West begins with healing other people, works with the seven chakras and usually gives a single attunement. Original Japanese Reiki begins with healing yourself, works with three centers (Heaven, Heart and Hara), is built on the Five Precepts, and gives Reiju again and again.
Will this conflict with my religion?
Though Reiki is inherently spiritual, it is not a religion. It has no dogma, and there is nothing you have to believe in order to learn and use it. Reiki does not rely on belief and will work whether or not you believe in it. Most people find it intensifies and supports the spiritual tradition they already have.
Will I be able to work on other people?
Yes. At Level 1 you will learn to share Reiki hands-on and to send it at a distance. What you will not learn here are the symbols and the formal distance system, which belong to Level 2.
Do I have to buy anything else?
No. The Shoden manual is included. I recommend Hiroshi Doi's book, Modern Reiki Method for Healing, as further reading, but it is entirely optional.
Can Reiki replace my medical treatment?
No, and it is not meant to. Reiki is complementary. It sits alongside whatever care you are receiving and does not replace any of it.
I have another question
Write to me at drsally@enlightenmentreiki.com and I will answer you myself.
You can heal yourself, and receive whatever you need
I will be there to support your journey.
Reiki is a complementary practice. It does not replace medical or psychological treatment and is not a substitute for the care of a licensed professional. Nothing in this course is a diagnosis or a treatment plan. Dr. Littleton does not diagnose conditions or advise on medication.
