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Hi,

When putting together an outline for a Level I Reiki class, what would be a good order:

Or what order do you use?

All the intro stuff
Grounding
Chakras
Hand positions
Etc.

I can imagine about 5 different menus that will all do the same thing eventually. I just would like the most expedient and progressively understandable one.

I really don't consider chakras an add-on because it is such a useful tool when learning the hand positions. Plus the knowledge. I don't plan on doing a physiology class, the bum and guts of some classes. I can't believe all the things that can be tacked on. I would need to have a lot more education myself to be comfortable with some of it.

Smudging, music, meditations, hand positions, folders, hand outs...the list goes on and on and is swirling in a mad tornado fashion in my head.

I have some things. I will just copy what I think I need and then lay it out and decide what's missing.

Thanks!
Birdy
Birdy

ahhhhhhhh, birdy mine, the heart of thee.....you know...the only reason I learned the teaching part was to give it to folks that needed another tool for helping themselves...(forgive me, if I've already said all of this)
In a sterile medical type room in the center of the worst paper producing stuff you've ever seen and meetings up the zarooooo!!! (and I'm deaf to boot!!!! what do I care what they're carrying on about.... especially, if it keeps me from the folk!!!)
Sorry, got off the track there. You give your people what they need the most....and you do that by being you, which is more than most can offer, my dear. You're the best already, cause you care so much. We're so very proud of you, birdy.

Hello again Birdy

You asked for some practical help, so I shall try to help by telling you what I do.

I start the day by letting the participants speak of why they're there & what reiki means to them, also getting their details + email addresses for future reference. Then we do a meditation, usually involving the chakras & grounding.

Then I go through the traditional story of Dr Usui & how reiki arrived in the West. This I have all printed out in a manual, with pictures of all the relevant people - reiki students need to have this. Also have printed info on the chakras in the manual, along with my reiki lineage, visual pages on the self-healing & body positions, recommended reading. I give them a very nice certificate at the end of the day - this can be done on Publisher.

Before lunchtime, I do the attunements and after a break for food, the afternoon is spent on practice. I have chakra scarves that I put over the persons being reiki-ed, so that everyone will remember what colour is associated with each.

I don't give A&P either but do suggest that they all study up on where the main body organs are & which chakras they're related to - there are handouts you can give them on this too, if you like. You'd be amazed how many folks don't know where their liver is!! ;-)

Make sure you present your manual nicely - I do mine in coloured plastic folders.

Hope this helps - ask away if you have more questions!

L&L

Everything is very helpful at the moment.

When I took my level I class, I got a folder containing the class outline, my teachers lineage, 7 color coded pages for the notes on the chakras and a couple of extra pages for notes. I also bought a manual the teacher had preordered.

We learned the hand positions by sight with verbal explanations. We were expected to remember everything even as we were working on each other. All of our eyes were pretty glazed over just trying to remember what the positions were for self healing and others, etc. Much later we found the diagrams in the manual and had a mini class of our own.

What are some good reading lists for the class. I have read quite a few. Some were helpful and some were not. I also did a LOT of searching online. Searching and referencing and re-referencing to make sure what I found was was as accurate as possible.

The biggest influence was probably Diane Stein's Essential Reiki. I didn't agree with some of her philosophy, but in general it is a lot of good information. I almost freaked when I read you were supposed to hold your breath while giving an attunment. Thankfully, that's not how I was taught (sigh-wiping my forehead). I could see myself passing out I am so slow. Holding my breath for 2-4 minutes is not something I do every day.

Thank heavens for this site and all the info so freely offered on the web. I felt like a vacume, sucking in as much as I could and sorting it all out later. New Reiki students all tend to have similar questions. I see them now and smile. I was there once.

I am grateful for all of your suggestions.

Birdy

> I almost freaked when I read you were supposed to hold your breath while giving an attunement.

OMG! I've never heard this before!! You really read some wild stuff about reiki!! Sounds positively dangerous to me!! :-))

By the way, birdy....

Make sure you let your participants know that they may experience some kind of 'healing reaction' after their attunement! It's good for them to know this, or you'll have phone calls afterwards telling you they felt terrible for a few days afterwards...and what is wrong!! This is quite common. One lovely muslim man who did his reiki 1 with me, told me later that he was so overcome with flu-like symptoms afterwards that he had to take 2 days off work! However, as I had warned him, he knew what that was all about. And he felt great afterwards!

Thais, you sound like another fabulous teacher....thank you for sharing.

Hi,

I am keeping a running list of all of the suggestions, and that one is at the top of the list. I only had a few sniffles like my allergies were acting up, nothing awful.

Does anyone know why some are affected harder than others?

Birdy

birdy said on
>Does anyone know why some are affected harder than others?

Well...my theory..and mind you, it's only a theory...is that it probably depends on a person's level of spiritual development. People who are 'well onto the path' rarely have these symptoms or, if they do, have very minor ones, in my experience. People of all types are attracted to reiki & some have worked on themselves more than others. Not a criticism, just an observation.

birdy,

/*\ Namaste :-}}

- one view is that Reiki 1 needs to be about Reiki

- perhaps include a bit about the notion of ULE and accessing it thru Reiki practices

- add a bit of history and lineage stuff (only to point out the likely origins of what we are doing now)

- demonstrate the hand positions for working on others

- demopnstrate the hand positions for working on oneself

- then???? practice, practice, practice - as much as one can easily cram into a weekend

- then attunements

hope this helps

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

Hi,
I often wondered why I only got a few sniffles and others were definitely worse off. Sniffles and a little tired. I was happy with just that after 1 of our class said she spent a lot of time in the bathroom for a couple of days. Plus a few days of really raging PMS-like symptoms.

Does not having a lot of upheaval mean your entraining of Reiki did not require the closets be cleaned so to speak. Is this a good thing? I have no clue where I am on my path, but Reiki has never made me uncomfortable.

?????????? always questions@

Birdy

Otoharo!

This was my menu also.

finality

I was under the impression that one was cleansing, if they had ill affects after the attunement. As in other hands-on work, one can get worse before they get better. I also believe that one's belief system plays a big part.....the self-fulfilling prophecy syndrome. I don't mention possible ill affects to clients after craniosacral work, but I do tell them to talk to me, if they have any concerns and we'll work thru them.
I think you're soaring, birdy.