Okuden – Reiki Level II
Deepen your experience of the energy and embrace intuitive working. The course materials consist of a comprehensive manual, audio files, and detailed course instruction handouts. With these comprehensive instructions, manual and files, we are happy that the course gives you as much as you would have had, had you attended one of our ‘live’ courses, and more. We think that distributed learning courses have some definite advantages, in fact: instead of having the time available to you limited by the length of a live course, you will have the opportunity to spend a lot longer working with the various exercises, really understanding and assimilating each stage before you move on at your own pace. This approach comes a lot closer to the way that Reiki’s founder – Mikao Usui – taught, with students working with him one-to-one and developing themselves over an extended period.
What is so important about Second Degree?
First Degree Shoden Reiki provides you with a solid foundation for your future practice, and provides you with important tools that you can use to help balance your energy system, and promote self-healing and spiritual development. But there is far more to Reiki than can be passed on – or assimilated – in just one course. Reiki Okuden ‘Second Degree’ provides you with ways of deepening your experience of the energy, furthering your self-healing and spiritual development, and providing you with approaches that will enhance your treatment of others, whether in person or at a distance. Second Degree moves your Reiki onto a new level.
The Course itself
The course will take approx. 8-10 weeks to complete, and is based on carrying out a series of graded ‘energy projects’ totaling 30+ hours of practical energy work, which constitutes far more energy work than students carry out in live Reiki training courses. You will be doing something with energy most days, and you will also be working regularly on other people. We will provide you with a series of distant empowerments.
What we do is to break the course down into a series of stages, or ‘projects’, where for each stage the student does some reading, listens to the audio commentary, carries out practical energy exercises and then sends us to let us know what they have done and what they have experienced. We can then gear our support to what the student has done and what they need.
Tune in to the Reiki energy
During your distributed learning course you will receive a flurry of distant ‘Reiju’ empowerments during the early stages of your course. These traditional Japanese empowerments help to open up further the channels through which Reiki flows, they emphasize to your system two important aspects of the energy that you will be working with, and they introduce you powerfully to a state of oneness. They are equivalent to Western-style Reiki ‘attunements’ but come closer to passing on what was intended by Reiki’s founder, Mikao Usui.
During the later stages of your course, you will ‘tune in’ to distant Reiju empowerments which we send out every week, on Sundays. Your Reiki potential will not lessen over time, so tuning into these empowerments is not essential, but doing so will make a difference to you and your Reiki practice and echoes the practice of Reiki’s founder, Mikao Usui, who empowered his students on a regular basis.
Further your self-healing and spiritual development
Our Second Degree course echoes the original system that Reiki’s founder taught by still rooting your practice in personal energy work. You will learn to enhance and deepen your self-healing by fully assimilating two important energies – two important aspects of the energy – referred to as Earth Ki and Heaven/Sky Ki. We will use symbols to represent these important energies and meditating on Earth Ki and Heaven Ki regularly will help to really move on you self-healing.
Make your Reiki treatments more intense
The energies of Earth Ki and Heaven/Sky Ki can also be used in a treatment context, and doing so allows treatments to become more intense, with the energy focusing strongly on physical healing, or mental/emotional/spiritual balancing. You will learn various ways of accessing these energies when you treat, through the use of a couple of symbols.
Practice distant healing
Distant healing is possible at First Degree level, of course, but we focus more on distant healing at Second Degree. However, we approach distant healing from a slightly different angle than most courses: distant healing is an expression of ‘oneness’, one of the goals of the original Reiki system taught by Mikao Usui in the 1920s in Japan. We explore oneness, its significance, and the way that this state can be expressed when working on others either in person or at a distance.
Explore the power of Intent and Intuition
Second Degree should be about moving beyond the basic guidelines of First Degree, to embrace intuitive working and to understand the importance of intent. A major part of this course involves using a Japanese approach to treating others that allows the energy to guide your hands to the right places to treat, so rather than following a prescribed set of hand positions, you will gear your hand combinations to the energy needs of each person you work on. Intuitive Reiki treatments are something special: deep and intense, a wonderful experience for both the giver and receiver.
Strengthen your connection to Reiki
‘Second Degree’ brings the student up to ‘practitioner’ level, and the three Japanese empowerments that we give you enable you to ‘hold’ and channel more energy than was possible at First Degree. The empowerments also connect you strongly to aspects of the energy that are represented by the three Reiki symbols. You will learn how to use the three Reiki symbols and mantras, which can be used as a basis for self-treatment, and which helps to make your treatments stronger and more effective, as well as some other simple and inspiring approaches from Japan.
The Audio Files
Our Reiki Second Degree distributed learning course uses audio files containing commentary summarizing the main themes of your course, and guided meditations that you use at First and Second Degree. By having in audio file the main things that are said to you at a live course, you really receive a version of ‘live’ training, but in the comfort of your living room, or your car, or on a walk or wherever you choose to listen. You can, in effect, ‘replay’ your teacher repeatedly!
The guided meditations for Second Degree talk you through a symbol meditation and a sample distant healing session. So instead of fumbling around trying to read the instructions in your manual while trying to keep in the flow of it, you can simply close your eyes, and follow the instructions.
The Course Manual
A comprehensive manual that covers everything we teach during your course and more besides accompanies each course. Our ‘Okuden’ manual provides you with a permanent record of your training and is a useful reference volume.
The Certificate
An attractive certificate written in Japanese kanji and Western text, displaying the seal of the Gozan Reiki Kyokai and signed by your teacher accompanies the Second Degree distributed learning course. In this case, your certificate confirms that you have received instruction and Reiju empowerments and have satisfied the requirements of the “Second Degree” of Reiki.
Course overview
Here is an overview of the way that the Distributed-learning course will work, showing in general terms what you will be doing during each of the seven stages of the course.
- Stage 1: This stage is all about familiarizing yourself with the course, doing some background reading and listening, doing some daily energy work, and starting to learn the three Reiki symbols.
- Stage 2: This stage is all about becoming familiar with the energy of Earth Ki, accessed using a symbol. You will be empowered with that energy and you will go through various exercises and meditations to fully experience this important energy.
- Stage 3: This stage is all about becoming familiar with the energy of Heaven Ki, accessed using a symbol. You will be empowered with that energy and you will go through various exercises and meditations to fully experience this important energy, and compare its energy with that of Earth Ki.
- Stage 4: This stage is all about using the energies of Earth Ki and Heaven Ki when treating others. You will access the energies in different ways and continue with your daily meditations, while also receiving an empowerment.
- Stage 5: This stage is all about becoming familiar with a state of ‘oneness’, accessed in part by using a symbol. You will be empowered with this state and you will put oneness into practice by carrying out distant healing on several people using a range of approaches. You will also learn another esoteric mikkyo meditation to help facilitate this process.
- Stage 6: This stage, which will last for at least two weeks, is all about learning to open yourself to intuitive working, so that the energy guides your hands to the right places to treat, different for each person you work on. You will practice the Japanese “Reiji ho” method on several people, several times, as well as continuing with you daily meditations and some further distant healing practice.
- Stage 7: This stage is all about experimenting with the power and versatility of intent, learning to exert effortless control over the flow of energy. You will be practicing various exercises on a number of people, while maintaining your Reiji ho practice. You will receive a distant empowerment, as in each week of your course.
Okuden – Reiki Level II – $200.00 USD