Shinpiden – Reiki Master Level

Move on to embrace the entire Reiki system, and being a new and wonderful journey. People move on to Shinpiden Master Teacher level for many reasons. Some wish to pass on the gift of Reiki to others, while others are focusing more on their own personal and spiritual development. Some take the courses because they want to see all that there is of Reiki, and then do with it what feels right for them. Moving on to this level does not mean that you are committing or dedicating yourself to becoming a Reiki teacher, though you never know quite where Reiki might lead you!

The distributed learning approach

Your distributed learning course is based on carrying out a great deal of practical energy work supported by quality training materials. We are happy that this course gives you as much as you would have had, had you attended one of our ‘live’ Reiki Master Teacher courses.

The course materials consist of:

• A manual that is extensive, comprehensive and easy to read
• detailed commentaries, guided meditations and real-time “let’s talk you through it” audio guides
• Videos demonstrating how to carry out attunements and empowerments
• Detailed course instructions guiding you step-by-step through your projects

During your training you will read text, look at images, and read summaries, you will be guided through energy exercises and watch demonstrations. In fact, we think that this distributed learning course has some definite advantages for you when compared with a ‘live’ course: instead of having the time available to you limited by the length of a two day course, you can now work by yourself for a much longer period, and you will have the opportunity to spend a lot longer working with the various exercises.

This is why Reiki distributed learning is so effective: you have the opportunity to work with the energy for far longer than is possible in any live courses, and you receive the undivided attention of your teacher.

Basic Themes of the Course

Reiki Mastership concentrates on a number of themes:

• The Original system that Mikao Usui taught
• The role of energy exercises and meditations in the original system
• Experiencing energies in different ways
• Using energies on yourself and others
• The use of Symbols
• The use of the Reiki Kotodama
• The power of Intent
• The potential of Intuition
• Western ‘attunements’
• Japanese ‘empowerments’
• Distant connections and self-empowerments

We think that it is very important to make sure that our distributed learning students have carried out all the practical exercises that they need to carry out in order to feel confident in what they are doing, and it is important that we are on hand to answer and questions or queries that our students have, and to advise them and support them as they progress through their course.

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 feedback 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 series of distant ‘Reiju’ empowerments which are there to support your work with sacred Shinto mantras called ‘Kotodama’ and to move you on to (or “attune” you to) Master level. These traditional Japanese empowerments help to open up further the channels through which Reiki flows, they emphasize to your system 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 your course, you will also receive some Western-style Reiki “attunements” at a distance, so you will have been initiated using both original Japanese and Western-style methods.

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 approach is to view Reiki as primarily a self-development, spiritual development and self-healing method and this is particularly so at Master Teacher level. While we do deal with the treatment of others comprehensively on this course, we do not lose sight of the fact that Reiki is about self-development first, and the treatment of others second.

So we echo the original system that Reiki’s founder taught by rooting your practice in personal energy work. You will learn to enhance and deepen your self-healing by fully assimilating the energies of the Kotodama, by working to develop your Hara and by learning to empower yourself regularly. By the end of your course you will know how to – in effect – give yourself a Master attunement every day. This powerful activity will really move you on spiritually and in terms of self-healing.

Experiencing Energies

We begin the course by considering the different ways that we can experience different aspects of the energy: using symbols, using sacred Shinto mantras called Kotodama, and using pure intent. We put this in the context of the original system that Mikao Usui taught and show how energies can be used when working on the self and when working on other people.

We also teach and transmit to you the esoteric “Mikkyo” meditations that Usui sensei would have practiced as a Tendai Buddhist priest – meditations designed to build up and enhance your own stores of Earth and Heaven Ki, surrounding you with a protective aura of health and healing.

Working with Symbols

Though we do not want to overemphasize the use of symbols, because we believe that they have assumed an unnecessary importance within the world of Western Reiki, we do cover them and their use. The symbols that you learn in the Master course allow you to send Reiki to heal at a deep level, produce balance in an instant, deal with aspects of karma, and focus energy intensely on the mind or the emotions.

In this course, the symbols are used primarily as tools to allow the student to experience different aspects of the energy, and students will be meditating for some time on the energies of the two ‘Master’ symbols.

The Reiki Kotodama

The Kotodama, or ‘jumon’, are sacred Shinto mantras used by Usui before the introduction of symbols into Reiki. We show how these mantras can be used when carrying out treatments, we become familiar with their characteristic energies, we discover how they can be used for self-healing and spiritual development, and we learn how they can be used in conjunction with Reiju empowerments.

During the course, the student will be chanting the Kotodama over an extended period to further their self-healing and spiritual development, to deepen their connection to and experience of these energies, and they will also be using these energies when treating others.

The Power of Intent

We spend some time working with Intent, and go through various exercises that help to ‘open our eyes’ to the simplicity and power of Reiki, and the importance and versatility of intent in terms of directing the energy and experiencing different energies.

To gain the most out of this course, the student will need to have to hand a group of friends and relatives that they can use a ‘guinea pigs’ to practice things on as they work through the various stages of their course. The course is mainly practical, you see: Reiki is a practical, hands-on activity, not just about book learning.

The Potential of Intuition

We spend some time talking about how to develop intuition and give some suggestions for moving beyond the basic “Reiji ho” approach. We will practice working intuitively in a number of different ways and introduce a method where we can directly perceive someone’s energy system, and we explore some “mind’s eye” visual shortcuts.

Again, students will practice various intuitive exercises on their group of friends and relatives, gaining facility through repetition.

Japanese ‘Empowerments’

The Western-style attunement process is not the only way to convey the Reiki ability to students. The Master Teacher course also includes training in the ‘Reiju’ empowerment process that has been passed to us by Usui Sensei’s surviving students. Reiju empowerments represent a wonderful, simple, elegant, powerful and inspiring method that can be used as alternatives to the Western-style attunements at all levels.

We also consider the use of distant attunements and empowerments, explore different methods that can be used to empower the self, and students will practice these variations as part of their training with us.

The Audio Files

Our Reiki Master Teacher course uses audio files that contain commentary, meditations, and instructions. The commentary summarizes the main themes of your course and the meditations contain various useful tracks, for example, two tracks which talk you through carrying out a Reiju empowerment and a Western-style Reiki attunement.

The Course Manual

Each course is accompanied by a comprehensive manual, which covers everything we deal with on the training days, and more besides.

Video

Our Master course is accompanied by video files demonstrating how to carry out Reiju empowerments and Western attunements.

The Certificate

An attractive certificate written in Japanese kanji and Western text, displaying the seal of the Gozan Reiki Kyokai School and signed by your teacher, accompanies all courses. In this case, your certificate confirms that you have received instruction and Reiju empowerments, have satisfied the requirements of the “Shinpiden” level of Reiki, and are certified as a Master and a Teacher of Reiki.

Shinpiden – Reiki Level III – $300.00 USD