Hey Reiki Nerds! Hope you had a wonderful Samhain and powerful full moon last night too.

This week is Reiki-heavy at both ends of the spectrum for me. Today I am teaching one of my last Reiki 1 courses of the year – which is an excellent way to spend the day! I love being there fore the beginning bit. And this weekend I will be teaching Reiki Master Teacher level all weekend – the soul level healings! The weird visionary side of things that develop with Reiki! The karmic work and kotodama chanting! I love all that stuff.

(The only course with space left on this year is Reiki 2 on 22 November, by the way. If you’re thinking about joining, check out my post on why it’s awesome and worth doing!)

At Master Teacher level I always spend a little bit of time on tanden definition – ways to make the abdominal energy centre or hara stronger and easier to feel. The tanden is where we work from in Reiki, always, and yet I still meet Reiki people who haven’t been taught to find or strengthen it. People still refer to the chakras or work from the heart centre, when this kind of energy work must be grounded quite literally in the belly if we are to be strong. There was no seven chakra system in Japan – in Reiki, we work from the tanden.

Although I teach this technique at Master Teacher level, the Breath of Truth and tanden definition exercise are suitable for Reiki 1 and above. Truth be told, it is not actually a Reiki practice (we nicked it) – but it does build and strengthen the tanden so that we can be better Reiki practitioners.

Below is a Reiki Skills Lodge I offered in May 2024 to discuss working from the tanden, and to learn the Breath of Truth and tanden definition exercise. (This month’s Reiki Skills Lodge is on Monday 10 November at 7pm, we will be discussing some breath work techniques from traditional Japanese Reiki and my own shamanic work with it too. You can sign up here to come to the live or get notification of the recording.) Enjoy!

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