Yes! You will lay on your back the massage table fully clothed, often with a cozy blanket and optional eye covering for additional comfort.

Yes, Reiki can involve the light laying on of hands where your body needs balancing. The practitioner may also hover their hands off of the body to help with energy flow as well. It is also common to feel a warm sensation as if there are hands on your body even when there is no physical contact. It is similar to other religious healings such as “Laying on of Hands” in Christianity, Judaism, and other local, native traditions.

Reiki feels like warmth or heat coming from the practitioner’s hands. It is common to feel heat or warm tingling in the areas being worked on, though can be felt anywhere. Afterwards, you may continue to feel warm. It is a similar feeling to having had a massage, gone to a sound bath or deep meditation. You will feel balanced, whole, and peaceful.

With any healing work, physical or energetic, it is important to stay hydrated with good quality water and electrolytes. Water is used to help continue flushing and moving energies and physical toxins out of the body over the coming days and weeks after your session. Sometimes you may feel energized and other times, you may want to rest afterwards. Generally, rest is recommended for integrating. This can look like taking a gentle walk in nature, going to bed earlier, taking an epsom salt bath, reading, laying in the sun, etc.! You can experience shifts even 1-2 weeks, or more, after your Reiki session. When you shift your energy, your environment responds around you, too, which means you may find yourself making decisions or changes in unexpected areas of your life (ex. Cleaning your closet, changing your diet, trying a new meditation or going back to a spiritual practice, etc.)

It’s not uncommon to receive images, visions, memories, words, etc. while receiving Reiki or afterwards. These can be from God, a guardian angel, a passed loved one, your Higher Self, etc. While I do not identify as a medium or psychic, it is also common for the practitioner to receive messages during a Reiki session which they may share as well.

Ultimately, this decision is truly yours and what you believe! I can share my experience with Reiki. Firstly, I do not ever intend to impose any religious or spiritual beliefs upon others. Frankly, I’ve spent the past 12 years regularly exploring my own spiritual beliefs and have no plans on stopping in the future! I believe that we are each entitled to experience a relationship with a Higher Power or the Divine in a way that makes sense to us, just as we get to choose our any relationship. Each of us has a beautiful, unique experience in this life even within the same families, communities, any structured system, including religious communities. With that said, I love to ask my clients if they have any religious or spiritual beliefs so that we can invite those spirits and energies into the session. Faith is an extremely powerful part of any healing journey with any belief. All forms of faith, including agnosticism and atheism, are very welcome in my practice. My intention is always for your Highest Healing Good and it always works :) My personal experience: I grew up attending Catholic schools and weekly masses (I even wanted to be a nun at one point!). As it happens in life, I started exploring the other major religions, and found myself drawn to Hinduism and Zen Buddhism during my college years. Somewhere along the way, I fell away from structured practices and kept doing my yoga, meditation, and spending lots of time outside. My spirituality is deeply personal, continues to evolve, and has no name, though I call upon God, Brahma, archangels and saints, Buddha, Jesus, Mary, spirit guides, animals, etc. often! Personally, the more help I can get, the better!