10/25/2026
💜 We spend much of our lives looking outside ourselves for peace, happiness, acceptance, and healing. Yet the deeper spiritual teachings remind us that peace is something we uncover within ourselves. Beneath our fears, judgments, worries, expectations, and emotional attachments exists a quieter awareness of compassion, love, and stillness.
✨ Okuden: The Inner Teachings
In Japanese, Okuden means inner teachings. Reiki Level II introduces symbols to use in meditation, distance Reiki, and techniques for mental and emotional healing. These practices are only part of the journey. The deeper invitation is a shift in consciousness. Rather than continually attempting to change the world around us, we begin to observe and transform our relationship with the world within us.
When we begin to release the need to control, judge, defend, or hold on, we create space for greater peace.
Healing is not always about fixing. Sometimes it is about allowing, accepting, and letting go.
At the heart of traditional Reiki are the Five Precepts: 🌿
Just for today,
Do not anger.
Do not worry.
Be grateful.
Work diligently and remain true to your way and your being.
Be kind and compassionate to yourself and others.
These teachings are invitations to become aware of our inner world.
Anger invites us to examine our expectations and attachments.
Worry reveals our desire to control an uncertain future.
Judgment creates separation, while compassion reminds us of our shared humanity.
Gratitude shifts our attention from what we believe is missing to what is already present.
Kindness allows us to meet ourselves and others without the constant need to criticize, resist, or change.
The purpose is not to suppress our emotions, but to become conscious of them, allow them to be felt, and gently release what no longer serves us.
🧘♀️ Meditation, Awareness, and the Art of Surrender
A meaningful part of our Level II class is devoted to meditation and the inner practices of Japanese Reiki. Through meditation, we begin to recognize that we are not every thought that passes through our minds, nor are we defined by every emotion we experience. We can observe anger without becoming anger.
We can experience fear without allowing fear to direct our lives.
We can acknowledge pain without making it our identity. As awareness deepens, we begin to respond to life with greater presence rather than reacting from unconscious patterns.
Together, we explore:
🌸 Quieting the mind and cultivating inner stillness
🌸 Recognizing emotional patterns and attachments
🌸 Allowing feelings without judgment or resistance
🌸 Developing intuition and inner awareness
🌸 Exploring the relationship between emotions, stress, and the nervous system
🌸 Practicing surrender, acceptance, and compassion
🌸 Embodying the Reiki Precepts in everyday life
Alongside our inner exploration, students will experience Reiki Level II symbols and their meanings, distance Reiki techniques, mental and emotional healing practices, traditional Reiki meditation techniques and deepening awareness and connection through Reiki, sharing Reiki through a group healing experience and Reiki Level II attunement and certification.
As we become more peaceful within ourselves, that peace naturally influences how we relate to others.
We cannot always choose what life brings us, but we can cultivate awareness of how we respond.
Reiki Level II
November 14
9:00 - 5:00
Prerequisite: Level 1 of any Reiki Lineage
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