First Degree Reiki Course - 21st March 2025

First Degree Reiki Course, Isle of Mull, Scotland

It was such beautiful weather celebrating the Spring Equinox during our First Degree Reiki course in Dervaig. Jo & Tom were the venue hosts at Cill-Mhoire Lodges, thank you!

The course started on the Friday evening for introductions to the course, some goal setting and some calming energetic exercises before bed. We continued the next day at 9:30am on the Saturday learning all about Reiki; what it is, how it works with our energetic body systems and doing some energetic balancing and lymphatic exercises.

Facilitating the sacred four attunements are a deep honour as always and this enables the students to practise Reiki at any time, locking and sealing it in their system forever. The attunements take two years to learn and are poweful to both the teacher and student, cleansing and clearing chi stagnations (lower vibrational patterns of energy that can become stagnant whatever the root cause), raising the vibration of the student, promoting balance, health, inner peace and joy. The attunements take three weeks to complete after the course and is a time for self-nurture and honouring of what your body and mind needs.

 After some nourishing homemade soup we covered the Reiki main hand positions, some of their benefits physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually before enjoying some self Reiki for the first time, noting how we notice the energy, which will of course develop over time. There are many tips to incorporate Reiki into everyday living, whether completely focused or not, the more the better and it is always important to put our own health first before we can think about helping others. Reiki is completely safe and our energy will not drain as we are using 'Universal Energy' to flow through us, so we all benefit, but our own energy healing must take priority so that we can be the best version of ourselves and in a grounded place where we can then give to others.

We also shared some green living ideas, again helping us to raise our vibration followed by abundance manifesting on all levels. Vision boards and affirmations help here, but also the deeper healing as to why we might not be manifesting things that would support our journey forward.

After dinner was story time! We explored some of the deeper research behind the story of Reiki that has been discovered within our lineage. This was shared as a narration play. In larger groups, this is acted out and both ways are really effective in remembering the main points of where Reiki orignates and how it came to the West.

This ran nicely into a full hour of self Reiki to soothing music before slipping of to bed for some quality sleep.

On the Sunday, refreshed and energised, we took a lovely walk to Dervaig standing stones and explored how we can bless nature with Reiki, from flowers and trees to standing stones and sacred sites and beyond.

After a warming cup of tea, we learnt more about Reiki positions for certain ailments, also for when a body pain is not from an obvious physical injury, exploring emotional and mental imbalances and also emergency positions for shock and trauma release.

This leads on to how we can assist others with death, and their transition process and also for ourselves in honouring our grief process. It is important to release emotions so that they do not stagnate and potentially cause unecessary imbalances at a later date. We are emotional beings and sometimes we try and stifle an emotion, but all are to be experienced and wtinessed, knowing that we are always supported and with the gift of Reiki, enables processing and healing to be as harmonious and as swift as possible.

We then explored what other things you can Reiki, some might be surprising, but Reiki can support you in everything as it is the highest vibration of what we all already made of - everything is energy. We were then ready to move on to giving Reiki to friends and family, whether one to one or in a group.