Thank you for taking the time to visit my site. After two years of practicing Reiki on myself, family and friends, I felt guided to pursue it professionally. For a long time, I have felt a calling to help people, which has manifested in different ways - volunteer work with non-profit boards, mission work (local and international), and various hands-on projects. All of these were educational, eye-opening and advanced my spiritual awakening. However, the first time I received energy healing and experienced profound improvement in my health, I had a moment of sudden insight that this was the direction I needed to pursue further. I followed my instincts and here I am.
Becoming attuned to Reiki and receiving/practicing it has changed my life on physical, emotional and spiritual levels. Reiki has connected me more deeply to those around me, because it has heightened my natural empathic abilities. It has sharpened my intuition and confirmed my spiritual beliefs. I have more emotional clarity and have experienced healing - or at least acceptance - from old hurts. I no longer experience symptoms of a painful inflammatory disease that required several medications each day as well as regular doctor’s visits. Reiki also helped me recuperate from a near-fatal post-partum hemmorhage after my daughter was born last year.
Reiki has also led me to some incredibly gifted and spiritually inspiring people - other Reiki practitioners and teachers I’ve worked with, other energy healers, and more importantly, some of the people I’ve treated. Even though I’m a Level III (Reiki Master) practitioner, I feel I’m really at the beginning of my journey as an energy healer and appreciate all that I learn from the people I encounter along the way.
The reason I chose the dragonfly to represent my practice is that they symbolize powers of light and transformation. The dragonfly represents our ability to see beyond self-created illusions that limit our ability to grow and change. In the last two or so years, I have had dragonflies spontaneously appear in front of me at times when something significant was evolving in my life (whether or not I was immediately aware those changes were occurring) and Reiki helped guide me through those transformative events.
A local shaman, Tom Lake, told me that I had “praying mantis energy” - in other words, the mantis was my spirit guide or perhaps a totem. I seem to attract the insect realm! The praying mantis represents meditation, contemplation, stillness and patience (see What’s Your Sign.) These are complementary qualities for a Reiki practitioner, but the mantis seems representative of my basic nature or inclination, whereas I was drawn to the dragonfly as a way to represent the evolution of one’s highest self - for both me and those who receive Reiki through me.
Please feel free to contact me or leave a comment on my site if you have any questions or wish to share your experiences with Reiki.