Reiki in San Luis Obispo
What is Reiki?
Reiki (pronounced ray-key), is a touch-therapy technique developed in Japan in the 1920’s by a Buddhist monk named Mikao Usui. It uses a sequence of hand placements that cover strategic points on the body. These correspond with acupressure points and meridian channels (as in traditional Chinese medicine). In the yogic and ayurvedic system, these points and channels are known as chakras and nadis. In physical terms, this type of healing touch can have an effective balancing effect, sending signals of relaxation and safety to the whole body-mind system. Your therapist offers reiki in San Luis Obispo, CA.
When you experience ongoing distress and overwhelm, this can disrupt normal nervous system functioning. Your body is supposed to be able to move flexibly in and out of fight, flight, and freeze states whenever needed. These are normal nervous system states that are meant to help you adapt and survive the challenges of life. However, these states can become stuck in patterns of over-activation or under-activation. This typically happens in times of chronic stress, crisis, or trauma when there is no time or support to unwind yourself in the aftermath.
Without the ability to reset your nervous system, dysregulated cycles of fight, flight, and freeze can result in problematic patterns that show up as physical and mental health symptoms. It is not uncommon to experience anxiety, depression, PTSD, dissociation, or other symptoms under these circumstances. Reiki is a powerful method to nourish your nervous system. It helps to clear and rejuvenate your energy on multiple levels, and it gives profound support to your mind, body, and spirit.
Mikao Usui, Reiki Founder
Reiki for Mental & Emotional Health
Your therapist is a mental health professional who integrates reiki with psychotherapy. She is a certified reiki master teacher and has 26 years of experience as a reiki therapist. This integrative approach is highly supportive for working through mental and emotional symptoms, including trauma. This is an opportunity to support your nervous system. It can allow your physical body to have a different experience of safety and rest, and it can help bring your mind back to its original state of calmness and clarity. Reiki makes it much easier for the mind turn inward and engage in deeper psychotherapeutic work.
What Does Reiki Feel Like?
Reiki can induce deep relaxation in a way that is difficult to achieve through talk-therapy alone. It can facilitate a renewed sense of feeling grounded, calm, focused, and energized. It is normal to experience various physical sensations, sensory fragments, thoughts, feelings, and memories during a session. These may be pleasant at times, or uncomfortable at other times. Either way, they are part of the process of healing.
Reiki also helps to produce an effortless meditative state, which is a very supportive and productive way to experience therapy. It makes it easier to observe your internal landscape and be fully present with whatever is arising. This therapy creates a healing container that expands your sense of calm and connection. In this environment, working through any difficult material that surfaces becomes easier and more efficient.
Sessions typically run 90 minutes. Please allow enough time in your schedule to accommodate the full session. We will begin by thoroughly discussing your issues and presenting concerns, along with your goals for treatment. Fees for session are the same as our other services, and you won’t be charged extra if we need to extend to 90 minutes.
The Kanji word “Reiki” holds profound healing symbolism
